Minecraft Snapshot 20w19a

This snapshot contains another round of tweaks and bugfixes, but also quality of life features such as strider distancing. It might not be as important as social distancing, but we hope you'll like it. Stay safe and wash your hands!

New Features in 20w19a#

• Added "distance by strider" statistic
• Patches of blackstone and gravel now generate in all Nether biomes, and patches of soul sand now generate in Soul Sand Valleys

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Changes in 20w19a#

• Villagers can now spawn iron golems regardless of their profession status or latest working time
• Bastions are now a bit less common
• Lowered the amount that Weeping and Twisting vines grow when bonemealed
• You now need to use shears to get an item when breaking Nether Sprouts
• Tweaked spawning of mobs to more closely adhere to mob caps
• Biome distribution in the Nether has been tweaked

Technical Changes in 20w19a#

• Fish now have their own mob category and mob cap

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Fixed bugs in 20w19a#

• MC-87949 The shield use statistic is not working
• MC-89956 Levitation has no effect if gliding with elytra
• MC-116293 Functioning clock and compass in recipe book
• MC-125613 Datapack tag "stairs" does not use #wooden_stairs
• MC-145862 Villagers try to sleep in occupied beds
• MC-152084 Villagers occasionally stand up out of beds at night, then can never sleep in that bed again
• MC-152170 When a villager takes the bed of another villager then the bed's previous owner will not look for a new bed
• MC-157077 Villagers will not sleep in beds at night
• MC-158542 Iron Golems don't stop spawning
• MC-160250 Naturally generated villagers are not pathfinding towards their POI; POI detection range is too small
• MC-166764 Villagers spawned on world generation have a lower follow range than villagers spawned by other means
• MC-170612 Villagers spawned by meeting points have frozen AI and do not move when that chunk is freshly generated
• MC-172107 Piglins and Hoglins don't get zombified in the end
• MC-172524 Letters of name tag render inconsistently when sneaking (within the same name tag)
• MC-172899 Piglins with blocks (pumpkins) equipped on their heads show z-fighting
• MC-173015 Crimson roots, Warped roots, and Nether sprouts are not randomly offset
• MC-173115 Mobs can spawn inside of wither roses
• MC-174568 Rail updates are 3-4x times laggier since 1.13
• MC-174909 Endermen don't teleport when on magma blocks
• MC-175251 Fish are spawning in with extremely high numbers. Over 200 different entities of cod every five minutes