Minecraft Snapshot 22w46a
We are now releasing snapshot 22w46a for Minecraft 1.19.3 with playable mob sounds added as an experimental feature, improvements for telemetry data and several technical improvements.
Happy mining!
New Experimental Features in 22w46a#
- Books in Chiseled Bookshelf can be added or removed from any slot by targeting the specific slot
Mob Heads on Note Blocks interaction#
- When placing a Mob Head on a Note Block, that Note Block will now play one of the ambient sounds of that mob when played by a player or powered by Redstone
Piglin Mob Head#
- Piglins will now drop their heads when killed by a charged Creeper
- Placing the Piglin head on a Note Block will play one of the Piglin's ambient sounds
- The Piglin head will flap its ears when powered by Redstone, or when worn by a player while walking
Changes in 22w46a#
- In the Nether dimension Endermen, Skeletons and Wither Skeletons now only spawn at light level 7 and below (instead of 11 and below)
- This is intended to nerf certain portal-based mob farms
- We welcome feedback on this
- Added new top textures for Block of Bamboo and Block of Stripped Bamboo
- Bamboo Plank texture has been tweaked to match the same tiling pattern as other plank variants
Creative Inventory changes#
- Reordered Redstone tab based on feedback
- Added Rails to the Tools & Utilities tab next to Minecarts
Technical Changes in 22w46a#
- Blocks carried by Endermen now use loot tables to generate drops when killed
- Changes to texture loading and stitching
- Translation files and
pack.mcmetaare now including non-ASCII characters (encoded as UTF-8) directly instead of using escape sequences - Added new Telemetry Events
Telemetry#
This release includes the WorldUnloaded event, a required event, as well as several opt-in events. Diagnostic tracking is a tool that helps us understand what you like about Minecraft, which allows us to make those things better.
The reason that WorldUnloaded, along with WorldLoaded, is a required event is that the information we’re looking at is, well, required. As a part of Xbox, we all need to follow a standard of practice, you can find a detailed description of it here. The parameters for what data we consider to be critical to our work are set by our team at Mojang Studios in alignment with Xbox.
What we want to find out is how fun you think Minecraft is. There are lots of ways to figure that out, like feedback, playtests, experience, and magic. We want to add data to that mix, which is where WorldLoaded and WorldUnloaded come in. WorldLoaded measures when you boot a session up, and WorldUnloaded measures when you shut it down. Together, they will measure how fun Minecraft is, using metrics such as playtime and the game modes that players choose to play. That’s it. All the data we collect, whether it’s required or opt-in, follows GDPR and CCPA best practices to keep your information safe.
The rest of the current telemetry events are opt-in, which means that you can choose whether or not you want to send us additional data. The only players that can’t opt-in are Microsoft child accounts, but everyone can still send in all of their feedback to feedback.minecraft.net.
Just like all the thoughts and comments we get from you on our feedback site, this is something that greatly helps us improve Minecraft. We want to make a game that you want to play, so we want to know what that game needs. Even if it’s more lava.
Telemetry transparency#
- Added Telemetry Data Collection Screen
- This screen displays information about the type of data that is sent
- The level of data sent can be controlled between "Minimal" and "All"
- "Minimal" sends only the required data
- "All" sends the required data, as well as optional data
- The default data level is "Minimal" (only the required data)
- Every telemetry event sent from the client is now logged to disk
- Old log files are removed after 7 days
- These can be found under the
logs/telemetrydirectory- A shortcut to this directory is available via the "Open My Data" button on the Telemetry Data Collection screen
Required telemetry events#
- Added WorldUnloaded event
- Removed client Java version from the WorldLoaded event
WorldLoaded & WorldUnloaded#
Understanding how Minecraft is played allows us to focus game updates and improvements on the areas that are most relevant to players. The data that tells us this includes game mode, client or server modded status, and game version.
WorldLoaded & WorldUnloaded are two paired events that calculate how long the world session has lasted (in seconds and ticks). Data from WorldLoaded is sent when a world is launched, and data from WorldUnloaded is sent when a world is shut down (quitting to title, disconnecting from a server).
Optional telemetry events#
- Added PerformanceMetrics and WorldLoadTimes events
PerformanceMetrics#
Knowing the overall performance profile of Minecraft helps us tune and optimize the game for a wide range of machine specifications and operating systems.
The periodic performance metrics includes data such as frame-rates, rendering performance, memory usage, operating system, and the modded status of the client and server.
Game version is included to help us compare the performance profile for new versions of Minecraft.
WorldLoadTimes#
It’s important for us to understand how long it takes to join a world, and how that changes over time. For example, when we add new features or do larger technical changes, we need to see what impact that had on load times.
This event includes the total time in milliseconds for the world to load, whether this was a new world, as well as game version and platform details.
Texture loading changes#
- Context: When the game loads all textures used by block and item models need to be stitched (merged) into a single image, called the "atlas"
- Individual textures that are stitched onto the atlas are called "sprites"
- To improve loading performance, block and item textures are now loaded before they are processed by block and item models
- By default, textures not in the
textures/itemandtextures/blockdirectories will no longer be automatically recognized and will fail to load
- By default, textures not in the
- Resource packs can now have configuration files, located in
atlasesdirectory, that control which images are included in the atlases
Atlas configuration files#
- New directory
atlasesis now present for resource packs - This directory contains JSON entries for configuring atlases:
blocks- textures used by block and item modelsbanner_patterns,beds,chests,shield_patterns, , - used to render some special-case models
Commands#
- New command:
fillbiome - New execute sub-command:
execute if|unless biome
fillbiome#
Changes biome entries for an area. Note that biomes are not stored per-block, so affected positions may not match input precisely.
Syntax:
fillbiome <from> <to> <biome>
Parameters:
from: One corner of the area to fillto: The other corner of the area to fillbiome: The biome to set
execute#
Execute commands can now be conditional on biomes.
Syntax:
execute if|unless biome <pos> <biome>
Fixed bugs in 22w46a#
- MC-121865 High potion effect durations being displayed as : is misleading
- MC-147605 Text cursors can exist in multiple fields
- MC-151412 "Edit Server Info" window does not focus "Server Name" text field automatically
- MC-187539 "tick" function tag runs before "load" instead of the other way around
- MC-205563 Endermen holding powder snow drop a powder snow bucket when killed
- MC-209621 Endermen holding potted plants do not drop the pot nor the plant
- MC-221722 Squids use the new texture when using Programmer Art
- MC-222099 Endermen holding candle cakes do not drop the candle or the cake upon being killed
- MC-233042 Server Address field isn't focused when Direct Connection menu is opened
- MC-234029 You cannot hold any key to rapidly navigate between elements quickly after opening the inventory
- MC-234161 You cannot hold the TAB key to navigate between buttons quickly in the "Optimize World" menu
- MC-234240 You cannot hold the TAB key to navigate between buttons quickly in the "Superflat Customization" menu
- MC-234408 You cannot hold the TAB key to navigate between buttons quickly in the "Reset world" realms menu
- MC-234409 You cannot hold any key to rapidly execute the same function in the "World options" realms menu
- MC-234572 You cannot hold the TAB key to navigate between buttons quickly in the "Delete Server" menu
- MC-234621 You cannot hold the TAB key to navigate between buttons quickly in the "remove player" realms menu
- MC-234782 You cannot hold the TAB key to navigate between buttons quickly in the "Close realm" realms menu
- MC-234846 You cannot hold the TAB key to navigate between buttons quickly in the "switch world" realms menu