Minecraft Snapshot 22w44a

Another Wednesday, another snapshot. This week's snapshot introduces a few new game rules and a few gameplay changes which include another round of inventory tweaks. As usual, there are a few bugfixes as well.

Happy Mining!

Changes in 22w44a#

• Bamboo Mosaic can now be used as fuel
• Chiseled Bookshelves now works with Hoppers
• More changes to the Creative Inventory
• Monster Spawner changes
• Spawn Egg changes
• Step sound changes

Creative Inventory changes#

A (hopefully) final round of changes have been made to the Creative Tab orderings to address feedback:

• Operator-only blocks and items can now be found in the Redstone Blocks tab if you have the required permissions
• Functional Blocks
  • Added:
    • Tinted Glass
    • Bee Nest
  • Moved Respawn Anchor before Beds
  • Reordered Pressure Plates by functionality
  • Moved End Portal Frame & Infested blocks into this tab from Natural Blocks tab
• Redstone Blocks
  • Added:
    • Chest
    • Barrel
    • Cauldron
    • Furnace
    • Composter
• Building Blocks
  • Added:
    • Chain
    • Block of Amethyst
  • Moved Block of Redstone and Block of Coal into this tab from Natural Blocks tab
• Crafting
  • Added:
    • Ancient Debris
• Reordered the following tabs for better consistency
  • Building Blocks
  • Natural Blocks
  • Consumables
• Reordered ore materials and blocks to be more consistent across tabs

Monster Spawners#

• Spawners no longer have a default mob spawn type when placed by a player (previously was the Pig)
• Will not emit fire particles when a mob spawn type has not been defined
• Renamed to Monster Spawner to match Bedrock, and removed purple text color
• Pick-block now works for Spawner blocks
• The mob type is now displayed in the hover description of a Spawner item stack
  • If a mob type has not been defined yet, the hover description will describe how to set it

Spawn Eggs#

• Added new Spawn Egg items for Ender Dragon, Iron Golem, Snow Golem and Wither mobs to Creative mode
  • Ender Dragon and Wither Spawn Eggs will only be available through commands to prevent accidental destruction of player builds
• Polar Bear Spawn Egg colors have changed to distinguish it from the Ghast Spawn Egg

Sounds#

• Step sounds can now be heard when walking on:
  • Carpets
  • Lily Pads
  • Small Amethyst Buds
• Step sounds can now be heard when walking through:
  • Nether Sprouts
  • Glow Lichen
  • Crimson Roots
  • Warped Roots

Technical Changes in 22w44a#

• Added new game rules

Game Rules#

• Added blockExplosionDropDecay, mobExplosionDropDecay and tntExplosionDropDecay game rules
  • When set to false, all blocks drop loot
  • When set to true, blocks drop loot randomly depending on how far from the explosion center
  • Defaults to false for TNT, true for block and mob
• Added snowAccumulationHeight game rule
  • When it is snowing, this game rule determines the maximum number of Sniow Layers that can be accumulated in each block
  • Defaults to 1
  • Set to 0 makes no Snow form at all
  • Set to 8 or above lets Snow form up to the level of a full block
• Added waterSourceConversion and lavaSourceConversion game rules
  • When set to true, allows new sources of that fluid to form
  • Defaults to true for Water and false for lava
• Added globalSoundEvents game rule, controlling whether certain gameplay moments are heard by all players regardless of location
  • Defaults to true

Fixed bugs in 22w44#

• MC-30403 Sprinting isn't canceled when dismounting rideable entities while sprinting
• MC-137136 Lily Pads use incorrect sound
• MC-137306 Turtles don't have breeding delay
• MC-191790 Re-creating a world doesn't allow a blank seed and uses recreated world's seed instead of random
• MC-195780 "Data mode" and "Load mode" aren't capitalized while "Save Mode" and "Corner Mode" are
• MC-244721 "Erase cached data" is not capitalized
• MC-253387 Frog walking animation is slowed down when applied with slow falling
• MC-254435 Neither the secure chat warning toast nor the chat preview warning screen is presented to the player when joining a server using the --server argument
• MC-255115 Lily pads do not produce sounds when walking on them
• MC-256463 Camels will not pathfind over 1.5 high blocks
• MC-256480 Non Flammable Wood Item tag contains 1.20 content even when disabled
• MC-256526 Bamboo Fence Gate has missing textures / culling issues
• MC-256606 Camel walking animation is slowed down when applied with slow falling
• MC-256623 Bamboo mosaic slabs aren't flammable
• MC-256637 Some bamboo blocks can't be used as furnace fuel
• MC-256647 Mobs face south even with a given rotation value
• MC-256768 Entities no longer have random rotations upon being summoned from spawn eggs
• MC-256879 Weighted pressure plates are placed wrong in creative inventory
• MC-256881 The game crashes when pressing the ESC key while having draft chat reports saved
• MC-256887 Tinted glass is not considered a 'Functional Block'
• MC-256934 You aren't prompted to save your chat reports as drafts while only having report categories inputted
• MC-257058 Cactus is not grouped with sugar cane in Creative inventory
• MC-257059 Mushroom stem comes after nether fungus stems in Creative inventory, but mushroom blocks come before wart blocks
• MC-257060 Bee nest is absent from Functional Blocks