Minecraft 1.16 Pre-Release 3

Another pre-release is now available for Minecraft: Java Edition! This pre-release fixes a bunch of bugs, but we also made a few minor tweaks. The Nether Update is closing in and we aim to release the update within a couple of weeks.

Changes in 1.16 Pre-release 3#

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• Food can now be placed on unlit campfires
• Made Nether Fortresses slightly more common
• Visibility under lava is now slightly better when under the effect of fire resistance
• Piglins now hear you break a chest or block of gold (or similar) even if your are our of line of sight, and will assume you are stealing
• Game rule descriptions now span multiple lines if needed on the game rules screen
• A loading screen is now displayed while the game is reading world data for loading, creating or re-creating a world
• The game will now attempt to recover worlds broken in 1.16 Pre-release 1

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Technical changes in 1.16 Pre-release 3#

​ Region files are now only opened in synchronous mode on Windows, not on other operating systems. Status of this feature can be manually controlled by following options:

• For dedicated servers: sync-chunk-writes within server.properties
• For clients: syncChunkWrites within options.txt

Fixed Bugs in 1.16 Pre-Release 3#

• MC-13823 Leads are incorrectly positioned on certain entities
• MC-14680 Lead is shifted upwards or downwards based on leashed entity height
• MC-27535 Mobs can sometimes still despawn, even if named with a name tag
• MC-84610 Off-hand hotkey doesn't work in inventories
• MC-131286 Attack will use right hand instead of left hand when swimming (main hand: left)
• MC-134608 Certain Spawner Tag Conditions Induce Game Crash
• MC-143473 Teleporting a mob while it is pathfinding will make it navigate back to where it was originally going
• MC-152157 "Marie Stålkrantz" is not the right color in game credits
• MC-159371 Leads are incorrectly positioned on bees
• MC-159502 Bees don't avoid water; killing themselves
• MC-160520 Bee's wandering AI tries to go through three-way corners
• MC-163921 Placing a block while looking at redstone ore plays no sound
• MC-166346 Transparent blocks do not render properly with tripwire above
• MC-166880 Pufferfish spikes model seems to be broken
• MC-167043 Enchantment glint does only apply to the handle of shields with banners
• MC-169008 Using End portal in the Nether teleports the player to the End, but at the same coordinates the player was in the Nether
• MC-171618 Players wearing armor take less damage from burning when standing in fire under certain conditions
• MC-171810 Some Mojang employees are not mentioned in the credits
• MC-171969 Fall damage is negated when stepping up after falling
• MC-172053 Nether particles get stuck on the bottom of blocks