Minecraft Snapshot 24w11a

Oh look, it's a rare case of snapshot Thursday! This week we're expanding your arsenal with a smashing new weapon, the Mace! Use this weapon's special smash attack while leaping from a high place and watch your enemies get knocked back. The longer you fall, the harder you hit – but make sure you time it right! Your fall damage is only negated if you land the blow. Craft this new weapon by combining a Breeze Rod with the Heavy Core, a new item you can find by unlocking Trial Chamber Vaults.

As usual, we invite you to share your thoughts about this new feature over at the feedback site: Let's talk about the Mace!

Alongside this hefty new mob swatter, we're also bringing you new chambers and variations to Trial Chambers, updated loot tables for Vaults, new Pottery Sherds, Armor Trims and Banner Patterns—as well as the usual slew of bug fixes and polish.

Happy mace-ing!

Experimental Features#

• Added the Mace
• Added Breeze Rod
• Added Heavy Core
• Added 2 new Armor Trims
• Added 3 new Pottery Sherds
• Added 2 new Banner Patterns
• Updated Vault loot table
• Updated Trial Chambers

Blocks#

Heavy Core#

• A mysterious, dense block which can be combined with a Breeze Rod to craft a brand-new weapon: the Mace!

Items#

Breeze Rod#

• An item dropped by the Breeze that can be crafted into 4 Wind Charges, or used with the Heavy Core to craft the Mace

Mace#

• A new heavy weapon to smash your enemies!
• Leverage the weight of this new weapon to deal additional damage the farther you fall before hitting your target
  • Try it out by jumping down toward your target, and hit them before you hit the ground
  • Successfully striking a target in this way will negate any damage accumulated from the fall, similar to how a Wind Charge works
  • Other entities near the struck enemy will be knocked back by the immense force of the Mace
• Using a Mace will decrease its durability like any other weapon; repair it with Breeze Rods at an anvil
• Players can use a Mace in combination with Wind Charges to launch up and deliver devastating smash attacks on their enemies

Mobs#

Breeze#

• Drops 1-2 Breeze Rods when killed by a player
  • The number of Breeze Rods dropped is affected by looting enchantments

Pottery Sherds#

• Added Flow, Guster, and Scrape Pottery Sherds

Banner Patterns#

• Added Flow and Guster Banner Patterns

Armor Trims#

• Added Bolt and Flow Armor Trims and Smithing Templates
• Bolt can be duplicated using a Copper Block or Waxed Copper
• Flow can be duplicated using a Breeze Rod

Trial Chambers#

• Added new chambers and variations, with new challenges
  • Remade chamber_9, and renamed it to "slanted"
  • Remade chamber_3, and renamed it to "pedestal"
• Added Flow, Guster, and Scrape Pottery Sherds to the Decorated Pots in the decor structure pool
• Trial Spawners will now appear more frequently in the corridors
• Changed the layout of the blocks around the Vaults
• The loot tables of Vaults in Trial Chambers have been updated to address some inventory management issues
  • You will now get no more than 1 unstackable item per Vault
  • You will more often get rewards which can stack together
  • Horse Armor and Saddles have been removed from the loot table
• Vaults in Trial Chambers can now eject:
  • Wind Charges
  • Bolt Armor Trim Smithing Template
  • Flow Armor Trim Smithing Template
  • Flow Banner Pattern
  • Guster Banner Pattern
  • Heavy Core

Changes#

• Adjusted flying behaviour for Bees and Parrot to keep them from overshooting their position when flying up and down
• Status effect particle colors are no longer blended into one particle color
  • All active visible status effect particles are now rendered separately
  • The frequency of emitting status effect particles has been lowered to clutter the screen less
• Updated the wolf armor crack textures
• Menu background blur has been updated to look better and be more performant

Wolf variants#

When summon in other ways (e.g. using the Spawn Egg or using the summon command), the variant selection follows the natural spawning biome rules with the following extensions:

• Rusty Wolf: will be selected in all Jungle biomes, including Jungle and Bamboo Jungle Biomes
• Spotted Wolf: will be selected in all Savanna biomes, including Savanna and Windswept Savanna Biomes
• Striped Wolf: will be selected in all Badlands biomes, including Badlands and Eroded Badlands Biomes

Technical Changes#

• The Data Pack version is now 35
• The Resource Pack version is now 29

Data Pack Version 35#

• Removed any entity sub-predicate
• Component-specific item predicate properties have been moved to separate field predicates
• Added slot name contents for single-slot entities like item frames and item displays
• Contents of item entity can now be accessed through contents slot name
• Added new loot functions

Predicates#

Item sub-predicate#

• Some fields from item predicate have been moved to a map in an optional field predicates
• The new field is similar to the components field on item stacks
• This was done to simplify addition for future predicates and to allow sub-predicates to more closely resemble names of components they match
• The following fields have been moved:
  • enchantments - field moved to sub-predicate minecraft:enchantments
  • stored_enchantments - field moved to sub-predicate

Example:#

Before:

"item": {
  "enchantments": [
    {
      "enchantment": "minecraft:silk_touch",
      "levels": {
        "min": 1
      }
    }
  ]
}

After:

"item": {
  "predicates": {
    "minecraft:enchantments": [
        {
          "enchantment": "minecraft:silk_touch",
          "levels": {
            "min": 1
          }
        }

Loot Functions#

set_fireworks#

New function for setting the details of the minecraft:fireworks component.

Fields:

• conditions: list of conditions (default: []):
  • Conditions to check before applying the function
• flight_duration: Optional integer, 0-255:
  • The flight duration measured in number of gunpowder
  • If omitted, the flight duration of the item is left untouched - or set to 0 if the component did not exist before
• explosions: List of firework_explosion data - same format as the field in the component:

set_firework_explosion#

New function for setting the details of the minecraft:firework_explosion component.

Fields:

• conditions: list of conditions (default: []):
  • Conditions to check before applying the function
• shape: optional Explosion Shape:
  • The explosion shape to set
  • If omitted, the original shape is kept (or small_ball is used if there was no component)
• colors: optional integer array, RGB values:
  • List of initial particle colors to replace the ones on the existing explosion with
  • If omitted, the original colors are kept (or is used if there was no component)

set_book_cover#

New function for setting the cover details of the minecraft:written_book_content component. If present, any pages in the book are left untouched.

Fields:

• conditions: list of conditions (default: []):
  • Conditions to check before applying the function
• title: optional Filterable text (same format as title on the minecraft:written_book_content component):
  • The title to set
  • If omitted, the original title is kept (or an empty string is used if there was no component)
• : optional string:

set_writable_book_pages#

New function for manipulating the pages of the minecraft:writable_book_content component.

Fields:

• conditions: list of conditions (default: []):
  • Conditions to check before applying the function
• pages: list of Filterable strings (same format as pages on the minecraft:writable_book_content component):
  • The pages to apply
• : enumerated value deciding function:

set_written_book_pages#

New function for manipulating the pages of the minecraft:written_book_content component. Same format as set_writable_book_content but the pages field contains filterable Components instead of Strings (same format as pages on the minecraft:writable_book_content component).

Any cover data is left untouched, and the page content components are set to resolve next time a player opens the book.

Resource Pack Version 29#

• Added gui/inworld_menu_background, gui/inworld_menu_list_background, gui/inworld_header_separator, gui/inworld_footer_separator textures to allow menus accessed from the Pause Menu to look different from menus accessed from the Title Screen
• Added gui/tab_header_background texture, which is rendered behind the tab buttons in the Create World Screen

Fixed bugs in Snapshot 24w11a#

• MC-153329 Leashing an iron golem breaks its pathfinding until reloading the world
• MC-165948 Bees can be lured into dangerous blocks
• MC-168407 Bees can get stuck in a lantern
• MC-170000 Hand lighting / lighting of held items changes drastically in first-person mode when looking around
• MC-172047 Wolves try to attack armor stands
• MC-173303 Leashed pets teleport to the player when reloaded
• MC-186626 /weather not working in custom dimensions
• MC-208528 Feeding tamed baby wolves and cats causes them to sit down/stand up
• MC-221754 Leashed wolves no longer attack when unleashed
• MC-229919 Bees don't recognize beehives or bee nests with a campfire directly below and a block on top
• MC-232560 Tamed wolf movement speed decreases when unleashed from a fence
• MC-260921 Data is focused last on the statistics screen when using keyboard navigation
• MC-267923 The "Done" button doesn't always deselect when you close out of a Sign UI, making typing spaces difficult
• MC-267930 No element is focused when opening the statistics screen using keyboard navigation
• MC-268110 Deleting world results in a file directory error
• MC-268282 Picking up lava, powder snow or water using a bucket can be desynced
• MC-268405 Wind charges can move in unusual ways
• MC-268408 Game crashes when a wind charge hits an entity after disabling update_1_21 data pack
• MC-268582 Facing direction no longer affects shading of the first person arm
• MC-268796 "Saving world" text is blurred when pausing