Minecraft 1.16.220.50 Changelog

Mountains

• Introducing the new mountain sub biomes: Lofty Peaks, Snow Capped Peaks, Snowy Slopes, Mountain Grove, and Mountain Meadow!
• To accommodate the new Mountains we are raising the world height from 256 to 320 blocks with new Mountain generation up to a maximum of 256 blocks height
• For true alpinists: Iron, Coal and Emerald ores are generated in mountains
• Updated textures for Iron, Coal, Emerald, Diamond, Gold, Lapis, Copper, and Redstone ores
• Mountain terrain will now generate as part of Overworld world generation
• Move goat spawn from Extreme Hills to Snowy Slopes and allow rabbits to spawn in Mountain Grove

Glow Squid

• The glow squid has been reintroduced to the beta!
• Glow Squid now emits glow colored ink particles when hurt
• Players can now use dye to color sign text
• Squid's model is no longer offset in the -Y direction
• Added Glow Squid, Glow Ink Sacs and Glow Item Frames

Bug Fixes

Dripstone Fixes:

• Placing Pointed Dripstone blocks in water no longer results in the water being removed
• When hanging Pointed Dripstones start falling their position now has the correct offset
• Tweaked the visual shape of Pointed Dripstone to match Java
• Crouching while placing pointed dripstone prevents the opposing stalactite and stalagmite to merge
• Standing on a Stalagmite and jumping will cause half heart fall damage when landing
• Pointed Dripstone now has the correct hitbox
• Pointed Dripstone blocks are no longer destroyed by flowing lava
• Pointed Dripstone now has the correct size and rotation when held in hand
• Stalactite death message is no longer ending with a dot
• Falling stalactite now deals correct fall damage
• Pointed Dripstone drips only lava in the Nether
• Being killed by dripstone now displays correct death message
• Correct sounds are now played for Dripstone and Pointed Dripstone blocks
• Added Large Dripstone feature for Dripstone Caves biome
• Clusters of Pointed Dripstone columns in the ceiling and on the floors of caves are placed out during world-gen
• Cauldrons can now fill up with water or lava when below stalactites that are dripping one of those liquids
• Throwing a trident on a pointed dripstone block breaks it
• Small Pointed Dripstone columns along with patches of Dripstone blocks are placed out during world-gen
• Added Dripstone block. It can be crafted from four Pointed Dripstones

Performance and Stability:

• Fixed several crashes that could occur during gameplay
• Fixed a crash that could occur when trying to rename a map on anvil while having its second slot occupied

General:

• Powder Snow can no longer be placed in positions that already contain other blocks, such as Fence Posts or Iron Bars
• Glow signs are no longer unlit on DX11 and Mobile platforms
• Actor selectors no longer allow self selection with cheats disabled
• Projectiles now pass through Structure Void blocks
• Zombie, Zombie Villager, Husk, Pillager, Vindicator use correct bone to attach shields
• Mobs that pick up Shield now place it to their off-hand
• Visitors now drop inventory on death
• Improved placement rules for placing blocks on sides of Stair, Slab and Top Snow block
• Controllers are now able to select the "Button Mode" toggle in the Advanced Settings NPC screen in the Jurassic World pack

Commands

• Command block in a command block chain will list the correct amount of ticking areas when a new ticking area is added before listing
• Title command no longer duplicates % symbols in message
• Using teleport with execute command now uses the dimension of the origin for its operations

Marketplace

• The "Results" field for search within the marketplace inventory now updates properly between different sections within the screen

Accessibility

• Enabled screen narration with touch input on the new achievements screen
• Fixed a bug where Text-to-speech read the wrong text while using VR

Villages

• Villagers are no longer able to go through walls to sleep in a bed if the bed is adjacent to them

Technical Fixes and Changes

Various updates to GameTest Framework:

• Updated Blocks shorthand helpers to be camelCase
• Updated Blocks shorthand to only include vanilla blocks
• Added Blocks.get to fetch a block and return null if it doesn't exist
• Added BlockStates to enumerate all block states
• Added setState to Block to update its block state
• Added BlockPos class
• Added ItemStack class GameTest Module:
• Added Tags to enumerate all built-in tags
• Updated all methods that took x, y, z position to take a BlockPos
• Exposed padding when registering game test
• Fixed issue where previous failed GameTest markers still show up in new worlds

Movement prediction

• Fixed projectiles on 3rd-party servers ignoring server movement packets
• The server will adjust the player's fall distance to take into account the client player's position when a player movement correction or anomaly is detected

Other:

• Changed the way GameTest packs are loaded. Additional files are referenced by the primary file as specified by the 'entry' field in the manifest.json
• A black screen no longer covers the player icon in the pause menu in some worlds. Content creators no longer need to override both focus_border_frame.png and pause_screen_border.png for correct behavior
• Assertion is changed to content log error for the missing textures caused by the outdated resource packs of the Marketplace world templates
• Items can now have the "transparentattachable" tag applied to make attachable items not render for the player wearing them in the first person perspective
• Fixed an issue where V2 Villagers were not properly updating their molang variables on initialization

Network Packets

• Changed cipher algorithm to AESGCM256 for UDP stream