After some recent irregularities in our Snapshot schedule (public holidays, we're looking at you!) we're back to shipping on a Wednesday! Among other things, 24w20a includes a buff to the amount of Redstone Dust dropped by Witches, as well as a long requested change to make Piston sounds a tad more pleasing to the ear. We're also throwing 41 new bug fixes into the mix, because we like squashing bugs.

Happy mining!

Changes

• Witches now always drop 4-8 redstone dust on death
  • This is to improve the viability of farms that utilize Witch Huts to obtain Redstone Dust
• Improved player attribute and effect handling
  • Custom set base attributes are now kept when respawning
  • Active effects and modifiers are kept when changing dimension or winning the game
• Updated credits

Sounds

• Updated Piston sounds to lower volume and attenuation
  • This was done to address the long-received feedback on the old sounds being too harsh and loud, creating very noisy redstone builds

Technical Changes

• Data Pack version is now 44

Data Pack Version 44

• dimension_padding jigsaw structure NBT tag was changed
  • Now it is an object with fields:
    • bottom the vertical padding at the bottom of the dimension, non-negative integer
    • top the vertical padding at the top of the dimension, non-negative integer
  • Can be written as a single non-negative integer instead to be applied to both top and bottom fields
    • e.g. both dimension_padding: 10 or dimension_padding: { bottom: 10, top: 5 } are valid
• Data-driven enchantment field weight now has an upper bound of 1024
• Data-driven enchantment field max_level now has an upper bound of 255

Predicates

Entity Predicate

• New option: movement_affected_by - optional Location Predicate
  • When present, adds requirements on a block at most 0.5 blocks below the entity which can affect its movement

Fixed bugs in 24w20a

• MC-6431 Status effects are lost when returning to the overworld from the exit end portal
• MC-83590 Armor attributes list can be too long
• MC-137719 The player's horizontal motion doesn't affect fired projectiles in certain situations
• MC-179940 Player's attributes reset back to default values upon respawning
• MC-181604 Exiting the end portal resets player attributes to their default values
• MC-267230 Hangul fonts are rendered with missing pixels
• MC-268113 the minecraft:generic.scale attribute is desynchronized when the player leaves the End dimension via an End portal
• MC-268370 Japanese CJK variants use the same diacritic
• MC-268598 The "weight" of skeletons in swamp biomes is too high causing less bogged spawns
• MC-269036 Bogged do not drop mushrooms when sheared with doMobLoot false
• MC-269147 Shearing a bogged spawns mushrooms at the bogged's feet
• MC-269951 When the gamerule "doImmediateRespawn" is set to true, the Wind Charged, Oozing or Weaving effects don't function for players
• MC-270052 Blur levels below 10% do not appear to actually work
• MC-270301 The fire protection enchantment applied to horse armor no longer decreases the duration of time the horse remains ablaze
• MC-270539 The blast protection enchantment, when applied to horse armor, no longer diminishes the knockback effect from explosions on horse
• MC-270637 maxentityCramming set to 0 prevents slime spawning from oozing effect
• MC-271034 List entries in the Social interaction menu are rendered over the background
• MC-271168 Demo timer does not respect "Text Background" setting
• MC-271244 Auto-save text does not respect "Text Background" setting in accessibility settings
• MC-271360 Horse armor and wolf armor are deleted when used on an armor stand
• MC-271414 Damage command at position applies knockback in random direction
• MC-271462 Buttons make the deactivation sound when pressed
• MC-271468 Game crashes with custom enchantment's "rotated_block_provider"
• MC-271532 Mace only loses durability during smash attacks
• MC-271547 Can't immediately sprint jump into a 2 block ceiling when standing next to it since 24w18a
• MC-271566 Game crash on insufficient "ammo_use" amount
• MC-271574 Inlining a painting variant causes players to disconnect when receiving entity data
• MC-271583 Soul speed no longer works through partial blocks
• MC-271629 Channeling doesn't work / "post_attack" effect requires enchanted item to be in the mainhand
• MC-271636 Attempting to modify NBT of killer rabbit throws unexpected error
• MC-271678 damage_item enchantment entity effect doesn't break items
• MC-271715 Crash when the sum of enchantments' weights overflow
• MC-271716 Fraction value provider allows division by zero
• MC-271803 Custom enchantment with very large max level causes game to hang after opening Creative inventory
• MC-271853 Random "Failed to store chunk" error
• MC-271854 Trying to generate new chunks crashes the server
• MC-271863 Crafter recipe gets stuck on an item with a similar recipe
• MC-271881 Soul speed doesn't soul make particles.
• MC-271896 Using Shift+F3+I on a villager crashes the game
• MC-271937 Strike a villager with channeling trident in thunder doesn't obtain the advancement "Very Very Frightening"
• MC-271948 Entering the Nether breaks the game