Wednesday, March 31, 2021 at 4:17 PM
Minecraft Snapshot 21w13a
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Another snapshot hits the streets, and it's dropping some sick bleats. That's right, Goats are leaping into this snapshot!
New Features in 21w13a#
- Added the goat!
- Added an accessibility option
Goat#
- Goats spawn in mountains
- Goats can scale the sides of mountains with their incredible jumps!
- Goats can be tempted and bred using wheat
- Goats are another source of milk!
Accessibility#
Added an alternative solid black background color for the Mojang Studios loading screen, toggleable with the "Monochrome Logo" accessibility option
Changes in 21w13a#
- Tweaks to Caves
- Tweaks to Ore Distribution
- Tweaks to Powdered Snow
- Dripstone clusters can now be found rarely in normal caves
- Deepslate blobs can now be found between heights 0 and 16
- Axolotls and glow squids now spawn in underground water sources
- Axolotls will now always chase after and attack squids, glow squids, tropical fish, cod, salmon, pufferfish, drowned, guardians, and elder guardians
- Axolotls now have a 2 minute cooldown after hunting non-hostile targets such as fish, squids, etc.
- They will prioritise targeting hostile mobs first before hunting.
- Bees now see Flowering Azalea (and Flowering Azalea Leaves) as flowers
- Additions to Wandering Trader and Mason trades
- Additions to chest loot tables
Cave Tweaks#
- Mineshaft tweak: increased the max length of pillars and chains.
- Carver tweaks: made carvers less likely to be too flat to walk through.
- Noise cave tweaks:
- Increased likelihood of megacaves (large cheese caves)
- Reduced likelihood of toothpick pillars (tall 1-block thin pillars)
- Other tweaks to make the cheese caves more varied and interesting.
Ore Distribution Tweaks#
- Slightly more iron
- Larger diamond blobs sometimes form
Powdered Snow#
- Powder snow's durability/hardness was slightly increased
- Freeze time has decreased to 7 seconds and hurt frequency has decreased to 2 seconds
- Entities on fire now melt powder snow when colliding
- Increase vertical movement speed within powder snow
- Strays, polar bears, and snow golems are now immune to freezing
- Mobs now shake when they are fully frozen
- Skeletons converting to strays now only require the 7 seconds it takes for an entity to be fully frozen to begin converting, instead of the 30 seconds it took before
- Leather horse armor now protects horses from freeze damage
- Mobs that enjoy the heat (Blazes, Magma Cubes, and Striders) take increased freeze damage
Trade & Loot Table Additions#
- Added the following trades to Mason:
- Will sell 4 Dripstone blocks for 1 emerald
- Added the following trades to Wandering Trader:
- Will sell 2 Pointed Dripstones for 1 emerald
- Will sell 2 Rooted Dirt for 1 emerald
- Will sell 2 Moss Blocks for 1 emerald
- Moss blocks can be found in Shipwreck chests
- Glow Berries can be found in Mineshaft chest minecarts
Technical Changes in 21w13a#
- Added metric cube of light!
- Unused parts of code are no longer removed
Light block#
- Op-only (
/give) air-like waterloggable block - Emits light at level determined by block state
- Visible and targetable only when item is held (similar to barrier)
- Right click cycles light level
Bugs fixed in 21w13a#
- MC-3366 End portal appears transparent from below
- MC-70738 Killing guardian with lava does not give cooked fish
- MC-102269 Polar bears drop raw fish instead of cooked fish when killed with fire or lava
- MC-108636 There are a number of unused texture files
- MC-123587 Kicked from the game when reaching y levels over 30,000,000
- MC-124667 Air can be used in custom recipes, causing a crash
- MC-136776 Some NBT tags are not kept when fish or axolotl mobs are caught in water buckets
- MC-167853 Observer doesn't detect when a grass block changes to dirt if a tree grows on top
- MC-174701 Leash knot sound effect plays when loading singleplayer world
- MC-187544 'Cover Me With Diamonds' advancement improperly capitalized
- MC-190774 Stonecutter saw spins both ways simultaneously
- MC-194183 Some experience points do not go towards Mending repair, even if the Mending gear is not fully repaired
- MC-195640 Suspicious stew inedible with full hunger
- MC-197073 Turtles laying eggs on red sand produce normal sand particles
- MC-199065 Zombies that die while on fire do not drop baked potatoes
- MC-199237 Back of ladder is incorrectly mirrored
- MC-199239 Vines appear incorrectly mirrored when viewed from behind
- MC-199242 Texture planes of crop models appear incorrectly mirrored from behind
- MC-201748 Chain model planes are incorrectly mirrored on the rear
- MC-201751 Chain section on lanterns is incorrectly mirrored from behind