Minecraft: Java Edition 1.16.2

Ever since the Nether Update, the Piglins have seen players sneaking in and having a peek in their chests - well no more! With 1.16.2, we’re introducing the Piglin Brute – a Piglin so focused on guarding the Bastion Remnants' chests that even gold can’t distract them.

Features in 1.16.2#

Accessibility#

Two new accessibility settings have been added to help with visual comfort

• Distortion effects such as nausea and the Nether portal overlay can now be reduced
• At lower values, the nausea effect is replaced with a green overlay as an alternative visualization
• Field of view effects, shown after speed modifiers are applied, can now be reduced

Chat Delay#

• Chat delay has been added to the Chat Settings screen
• Pressing F3+D now clears the pending chat messages

Bastion Remnants#

• Tweaked the Bastion Remnant chest loot
• Chests in Bastion Remnants are now more likely to be positioned on top of gilded blackstone

Blocks#

• Brewing stands can now be crafted with blackstone
• Lanterns and Soul Lanterns can now be waterlogged
• Crimson and warped fungus can now be placed on mycelium
• Chains can now be placed in all orientations

Items#

• Tools are now sorted based on material in the creative inventory
• Totems of undying now give the fire resistance status affect for 40 seconds when activated

Mobs#

• Endermen will no longer place their held block onto bedrock blocks
• Zoglins can now be leashed
• When a Zombified Piglin is spawned riding a Strider, it will now be holding a Warped Fungi on a Stick
• Removed Herobrine

Piglins#

• Added Piglin Brutes!
• Piglins now become angry with players who open or destroy a Chest Minecart
• Tweaked bartering loot

Piglin Brute#

• Piglin Brutes are stronger versions of Piglins that live in bastions and protect the treasures there
• Unlike the their cowardly and greedy counterparts, the Piglin Brutes cannot be distracted by gold and aren't afraid of anything
• Piglin Brutes attack players on sight, no matter how the player is dressed
• Piglin Brutes wield axes and don't need any armor, because they're just that tough

Respawn Block Positions#

• Modified how respawn positions are chosen for beds and respawn anchors
• Respawn anchors will prioritize cardinal directions over corners
• Beds will prioritize the side of the bed the player entered from and then spaces circling around the foot of the bed up to the head of the bed
• Respawning players will now face the block that they respawned at
• Placing players onto dangerous blocks is now avoided when possible

Villagers#

• Villagers now emit green particles when joining a village, setting a home bed, or acquiring a job site / profession
• Villagers now lose their job sites when changing dimension

Technical Changes in 1.16.2#

• Custom worlds now support custom biomes
• Sign edit screen will now intialize from existing sign text (should have no noticeable impact on vanilla)
• Small improvements to data and resource pack selection screens
• Tags can now have optional entries

Commands#

Execute#

• execute in now respects dimension scaling

spawnpoint & setworldspawn#

Added an angle parameter for setting the default facing angle of a respawning player Syntax: spawnpoint [<targets>] [<pos>] [<angle>]
Syntax: setworldspawn [<pos>] [<angle>] New parameters:

• angle - Floating point angle in degrees. Supports the relative ~ modifier

Customized world generation#

• Custom world generation and dimension settings now use the same folder pattern in data packs as other resources (namespace/<type>/resource.json)
• There is now experimental support for a worldgen folder in data packs
• worldgen/biome can contain biome definitions
• worldgen/configured_carver can contain definitions for world carver settings
• worldgen/configured_feature can contain definitions for feature placements
• worldgen/configured_structure_feature can contain definitions for structure placements
• worldgen/configured_surface_builder can contain definitions for surfaces
• worldgen/noise_settings can now contain noise configurations
• worldgen/processor_list can contain sets of block processors
• worldgen/template_pool can contain pool definitions for jigsaw structures
• Custom biomes can now be used in the single biome/caves/floating islands world types (add the data pack containing the biome first)
• Custom biomes can now be used in custom dimension generators

Dedicated server packet limit#

• Dedicated servers can now kick clients that consistently send too many packets within a second
• Controlled with the rate-limit settings in server.properties
• The default rate limit of 0 means "no limit"

Pack selection screens#

• While screen is open, it will automatically update when pack directory contents change
• Both pack selection screen will now display contents of pack.png as pack icon

Pack version#

• Resource pack version raised to 6

Tags#

Optional entries#

Entries in tags can now be marked as optional. Failure to resolve optional entries does not prevent the whole tag from loading. Example:

{
  "replace": false,
  "values": [
    "#minecraft:beds", // existing syntax
    { "id":"#missing:tag", "required": false }, // optional sub-tag entry
    "minecraft:anvil", // existing syntax
    { "id":"minecraft:stone_button", "required": true }, // new syntax for required tags
    { "id":"missing:block", "required": false } // optional single-element entry
  ]
}

Bugs#

A total of more than 150 bugs have also been fixed in this release!