It is now time for the first Pre-release for Minecraft 1.21.2: Bundles of Bravery drop!

Moving into pre-releases means that, you won't see any significant changes besides bug fixes and tweaks until the next snapshot cycle. It also means that we will be releasing more frequently than just Wednesdays, so keep an eye out for the next pre-release.

Happy mining!

Experimental Features

Winter Drop

Creaking mob

• Creaking will not activate or freeze around players in Creative mode
• Creaking summoned from the Creaking Heart cannot be named with a Nametag

Creaking Heart

• Comparators attached to the Creaking Heart block will output a signal strength dependent on the distance to the connected Creaking

Changes

• Tweaked air bubbles UI
  • Added an empty state for air bubbles along with a wobble when the player is drowning
  • Added a popping sound when the bubbles pop in the UI

Technical Changes

• The Data Pack version is now 57
• Resource Pack version is now 41

Data Pack Version 57

• Added disablePlayerMovementCheck game rule (default: false) that disables player movement speed restriction
  • This behaves the same as the disableElytraMovementCheck rule, but applies irrespective of flying with Elytra

Item Components

minecraft:equippable

• Added field camera_overlay (optional): namespaced ID of the overlay texture to use when equipped
  • If not specified, no overlay is used
  • The ID will address a texture under the textures/ folder and automatically assumed to be .png
    • For instance, misc/pumpkinblur addresses textures/misc/pumpkinblur.png

Particles

• Format of color fields in particle options is now more standardized:
  • RGB fields can always be encoded either as a vector of floats (order: [R,G,B]) or as a single packed integer (order: RGB)
  • ARGB fields can always be encoded either as a vector of floats (order: [R,G,B,A] or as a single packed integer (order: ARGB)
  • Changed fields:
    • minecraft:trail.color (previously accepted only integer)
    • minecraft:dust.color (previously accepted only vector of floats)
    • minecraft:dust_color_transition.from_color (previously accepted only vector of floats)
    • minecraft:dust_color_transition.to_color (previously accepted only vector of floats)

Resource Pack Version 41

• Added texture and sound for tweaked air bubble UI
  • New texture added for empty air bubble
  • Sound added for when air bubble pops

Fixed bugs in 1.21.2 Pre-Release 1

• MC-276360 Repeating command block data is often lost when moving it around in inventory
• MC-276604 Horse Armor no longer has enchantment glint
• MC-276815 Dyed bundles are missing the "filled" predicate
• MC-276965 Post shader ColorModulate uniform not reset properly after spectating spiders
• MC-276979 Lock field on containers and minecraft:lock data component do not get datafixed correctly when a \ is present
• MC-277017 Flaming arrows no longer extinguish when water or powder snow is placed in its location
• MC-277019 Execute command teleporting across dimensions does not use correct relative coordinates
• MC-277027 Shapeless recipes accept anything if one of their ingredients is an empty tag
• MC-277028 Bundles do not empty smoothly
• MC-277067 The high contrast and programmer art resource packs are displayed as being incompatible
• MC-277078 Trim advancements use recipe registry key
• MC-277108 The "below_name" scoreboard display mode renders with dark parts when custom colors are set
• MC-277111 Wandering traders can sell pale oak saplings even when they're disabled
• MC-277118 Creakings can spawn with doMobSpawning set to false
• MC-277131 Pale garden missing from #minecraft:is_overworld biome tag
• MC-277141 /rotate command is not restricted to permission level 2
• MC-277143 Horse armor has damage-related components
• MC-277144 Furnaces, blast furnaces, and smokers delete all of their contents inside them once reloaded after smelting items
• MC-277148 Pack filters removing recipes that the player has unlocked causes data pack loading to fail
• MC-277160 Pale hanging moss is often immediately destroyed when placed using the "/fill" command
• MC-277163 Map color for pale oak saplings is incorrect
• MC-277176 Team affixes have dark lines between them and the username in player name tags
• MC-277215 The game crashes when attempting to accept or reject already accepted or rejected realm invitations
• MC-277301 The enchantment glint isn't visible on thrown tridents that are enchanted or held in the hand in third person when using Fabulous graphics
• MC-277302 The enchantment glint isn't visible on shields that are enchanted in third person when using Fabulous graphics