It's the start of a new week and we're coming right out of the gate with another pre-release for Minecraft: Java Edition 1.20.5! Apart from upping our pun-game in the Advancements department, this pre-release also fixes a slew of bugs and crashes.

Happy mining!

New Features

Advancements

• Snip it! advancement is renamed to Shear Brilliance

Changes

• Using ctrl+pick block no longer lists "(+NBT)" in the item tooltip

UI

• The animated Nether Portal texture is displayed when changing dimension to or from The Nether
• The animated End Portal effect is displayed when changing dimension to or from The End

Technical Changes

• The Data Pack version is now 40
• Invalid data in packets sent from a server will now cause the game client to disconnect

Data Pack Version 40

Modified loot functions

set_fireworks

Fields explosions and mode have been grouped together as a sub-object

• { "explosions": <list>, "mode": <mode>, <mode-dependent fields>} becomes {"explosions": {"values": <list>, "mode": <mode>, <mode-dependent fields>}}
• New explosions field is now optional, while values field inside it is now mandatory

Fixed bugs in 1.20.5 Pre-Release 2

• MC-199973 Wet wolf is rendered too dark compared to past versions
• MC-259355 Game crashes because /place sometimes does not check whether position is loaded and out of world
• MC-265585 Waterlogged barriers do not diffuse sky light
• MC-265709 Stonecutter outputs are broken past the 32nd row in the GUI (server only)
• MC-265741 Waterlogged barriers don't show up on maps
• MC-266997 Sky light doesn't update when breaking a shulker box while its (closing) animation is playing
• MC-267352 Singleplayer worlds don't load the player.dat when the "Player" tag is absent from level.dat
• MC-267381 Moving while sneaking is impossible with high generic.step_height attribute
• MC-267414 Scale attribute causes extreme TPS loss with the ender dragon
• MC-267441 When a player's generic.step_height attribute is set to more than two, attempting to step atop of more than two blocks may fail if there are blocks higher up
• MC-268015 Shulker bullets shot from shulkers don't account for the scale attribute
• MC-268035 True Type Font when changing Language causes error with Rendering overlay
• MC-268064 Armadillos that aren't rolled up can roll up during their death animation
• MC-268257 Equipping a carpet on a Llama doesn't play a sound
• MC-268347 Setting gravity higher than 0.84 allows you to jump up a block
• MC-268804 Wolves attacked while wearing wolf armor resets eating timer despite being at full health
• MC-268810 Ctrl+Picking chests still says (+NBT) even though NBT is replaced by components
• MC-268854 Firework explosions in items without a Type field are not correctly upgraded
• MC-268858 Buttons to enchant become enabled when placing wolf armor in an enchanting table
• MC-268984 Running /give command throws EncoderException
• MC-269123 Enabling or disabling a resource pack that changes a shader will not affect that shader until the resource pack is reloaded
• MC-269161 Stonecutter does not support multiple recipes with the same result item type
• MC-269171 The client is disconnected when receiving the system_chat packet containing deeply nested NBT data
• MC-269173 The server cannot send the client the system_chat packet containing deeply nested NBT data
• MC-269300 The "Alternatively, here's some we made earlier!" text is positioned too close to the header separator
• MC-269304 Horse armor renders incorrectly when worn by wolves
• MC-269415 set_fireworks "mode" is required even when "explosions" is optional
• MC-269472 Crash when table_bonus loot condition has empty chances list
• MC-269619 Scroller in Telemetry Data screen renders translucent pixels as opaque, unlike elsewhere
• MC-269660 arguments.item.predicate.unknown quotes are different
• MC-269802 Selecting a villager trade merges items with different components
• MC-269932 Item disappears when trying to trade using items with lower max stack count
• MC-270003 Ominous banners are not "pick block"-ed properly
• MC-270049 Enchanting table buttons and level icons render translucent pixels as opaque
• MC-270116 The minecraft:generic.fall_damage_multiplier attribute does not function for many mobs with nonstandard fall damage behaviour
• MC-270117 The calculation of fall damage for horses, donkeys, mules, zombie horses, skeleton horses, camels, llamas, trader llamas, and foxes disregards the minecraft:generic.safe_fall_distance
• MC-270262 You can see the world loading while in the process of entering it
• MC-270265 Blur slider does not say "OFF" when set to 0%
• MC-270413 A nbt copy of a block is ABSOLUTELY the same as the first nbt copy of the original and n (+nbt) display for tooltip of (a copy of)×n a block have an "Items" block data
• MC-270559 FreeType error: Unrecognized error: 0x62 (Loading glyph)
• MC-270590 Dropped items from creative mode get deleted when inventory is open
• MC-270603 Crash updating world: ClassCastException: RegularImmutableList cannot be cast to class com.mojang.datafixers.util.Pair
• MC-270610 Some new advancement titles are incorrectly capitalized
• MC-270648 Wolf armor with the curse of binding enchantment cannot be removed from wolves using shears in creative mode
• MC-270679 Clicking on text with run_command can cause EncoderException and will exit to multiplayer menu
• MC-270712 Cannot move while sneaking if attribute generic.step_height is set to 0
• MC-270767 Leather horse armor no longer prevents horses from freezing in powder snow