Today we are shipping the second Pre-Release for 1.21.2 with some more bug fixes and Pale Hanging Moss changes. During this stabilization phase before the full release of Minecraft Java Edition 1.21.2 we are focusing on fixing bugs and don't follow the regular snapshot cadence of releasing on Wednesdays, so keep an eye out for the next pre-release.

Experimental Features

Winter Drop

Pale Moss

• Pale Hanging Moss now only drops when cut with Shears or destroyed using tool with Silk Touch
• Pale Moss Carpet is now more efficient to destroy with Sword
• Pale Moss Carpet now plays the correct step sound when walking over it

Fixed bugs in 1.21.2 Pre-Release 2

• MC-54532 Sneaking while falling on Slime Blocks inflicts fall damage
• MC-160810 Some items are held sideways in left hand
• MC-266480 Breeze can jump on top of honey blocks
• MC-266494 Jump Boost does not affect the breeze's jump
• MC-269851 Breeze idle animations are different than Bedrock Edition
• MC-275834 Jumping when falling onto a slime block no longer cancels the bounce effect
• MC-275941 Consumable item components with inlined sound event definitions cause undefined behavior
• MC-276072 Tridents enchanted with Loyalty fly around drowned upon returning to them
• MC-276605 Throwing an ender pearl through a portal or gateway often results in the player being placed slightly too low
• MC-276624 Nether portal can send you back when your ender pearl land in the portal
• MC-276716 Thrown ender pearl teleport position is inconsistent
• MC-276813 Minecraft no longer prints an error to the game log when trying to render a character without a defined glyph in the loaded fonts
• MC-276825 Transmute recipes allow air as output
• MC-276906 Specifying a block tag in an item's can_place_on or can_break component in a recipe or loot table causes validation error
• MC-276954 Ender pearl interaction with bubble columns is still broken
• MC-276963 Mobs standing inside both lava and water produce the fire extinguishing sound every tick
• MC-276978 Mobs produce the fire extinguishing sound every tick while standing in lava in rain
• MC-277000 Entities can be damaged by fire without being ignited
• MC-277073 Pale moss and pale moss carpets cannot be broken faster using hoes
• MC-277091 Pale oak boats are in the chest boats tag in place of pale oak chest boats
• MC-277096 When selecting a biome in the single biome world type, there is no translation for the pale garden
• MC-277135 Entity collision order is now locational
• MC-277165 Particles produced upon creakings spawning are spawned one block too far to the east
• MC-277175 #overworld_natural_logs block tag contains #pale_oak_logs instead of pale_oak_log
• MC-277212 The "options.accessibility.high_contrast_block_outline.tooltip" string is missing an article before the word "targeted"
• MC-277309 Missing translations for Pale Oak Wall (Hanging) Signs
• MC-277376 Consumable block animation inherits shield behaviors
• MC-277389 Armor stand in the smithing table interface no longer render armor when appropriate
• MC-277392 The realms description text and the game mode text within the realms menu can intersect one another
• MC-277398 The horse armor equipping sound is unusually loud
• MC-277402 Horse armor doesn't render properly in horse inventory again
• MC-277404 Entities' limbs are incorrectly positioned for a brief second when entities are damaged while riding entities
• MC-277405 Mounts no longer receive damage when riding them through sweet berry bushes
• MC-277409 Text on glowing signs no longer looks different to text on normal signs
• MC-277417 /tp no longer works when run from a command block without context from "execute as"
• MC-277424 The pale garden can prevent trial chambers from spawning
• MC-277438 Wolf Armor no longer shows cracks when damaged
• MC-277452 Player idle timeout does not kick players