Monday, June 2, 2025 at 2:30 PM

Minecraft 1.21.6 Pre-Release 2

We're kicking the week off with another pre-release, including some music and happy ghast bug fixes. The Chase the Skies drop is getting closer and the pre-release schedule might include more than one pre-release per week.

Changes#

Music and Sound#

  • The following sound categories have been renamed:
    • Friendly Creatures -> Friendly Mobs
    • Hostile Creatures -> Hostile Mobs

Technical Changes#

Dialogs#

Dialog Description Format#

Input Control Types#
minecraft:text#
  • Output values:

    • As template substitution: contents with special characters escaped to fit in a SNBT literal (note: both ' and " are escaped)
  • For multiline field:

    • If height field is omitted, but max_lines is present, the height that will be chosen to fit the maximum number of lines can't exceed 512

Fixed bugs in 1.21.6 Pre-Release 2#

  • MC-217887 Unsigned books written in 1.9-pre1 or earlier don't upgrade properly
  • MC-297575 Happy Ghast with nbt NoAI set to true can't be controlled by player
  • MC-297591 Ender pearls can unexpectedly come to a halt
  • MC-298104 The max_lines field of multiline text input control is unrestricted, lagging the game
  • MC-298144 The initial value of minecraft:text input type is limited to 32 characters, regardless of max_length field
  • MC-298155 Dialog command_template using a multiline text input causes player to be kicked out of the server due to illegal characters in chat (which is \n)
  • MC-298209 Player cannot move while touching a happy ghast's body
  • MC-298301 Blinking the cursor shifts all characters to the right of a multilines text field input in Dialogs
  • MC-298307 Entering and exiting a pale garden while in Creative mode causes the current music track to remain silent
  • MC-298358 Riding a mob into powder snow no longer affects the player properly
  • MC-298361 Happy ghast with player riding, teleports back and forth when exiting nether portal
  • MC-298368 "music_notes.png.mcmeta" has an extra index that does not exist, causing a warning
  • MC-298394 Freezing in Powdered Snow is very inconsistent and jittery
  • MC-298422 Ghasts and happy ghasts do not take damage from harmful blocks under some circumstances