🔗 Caves & Cliffs: Part II out today on Java

🆕 New Features
- Added an “Allow Server Listings” option to opt out of having your name displayed in server listings
- Added an Online options screen where you can now find the Realms Notifications option
- Added new Overworld biomes
- Added noise caves and aquifers
- Added world autosave indicator for single-player worlds

⚙️ Technical Changes
- Added an accessibility option to stop the sky from flashing during thunderstorms
- Added fall_from_height and ride_entity_distance advancement triggers
- Changed nether_travel to match other similar triggers
- Added an option to specify the audio device used by the game
- Replaced light and barrier particles with block_marker

🔗 Minecraft 1.18.1 Pre-Release 1

⚙️ Technical Changes
- Fixed an issue that would cause players on low-bandwidth connections to get timeout errors when connecting to a server
- World fog now starts further away from the player, to make distant terrain more visible
- Instead of applying fog as a spherical volume it is now applied as a cylindrical volume

🐛 Fixed Bugs
- MC-219507: Beacon’s power reverts back to previous one on world reload
- MC-242729: Observer activating without any updates nearby, caused by /clone
- MC-243216: Chunk render distance on servers seems shorter than in 1.17.1

🔗 Minecraft 1.18.1 Release Candidate 1

🐛 Fixed Bugs
- MC-229321: Bees inside of bee hives / nests sometimes despawn when the world is reloaded
- MC-243796: Random non fatal exceptions in console: Failed to store chunk ConcurrentModificationException
- MC-244190: Entity fog doesn’t match the fog of blocks around them

🔗 Minecraft Java Edition 1.18.1

⚙️ Technical Changes
- Fixed an issue that would cause players on low-bandwidth connections to get timeout errors when connecting to a server
- World fog now starts further away from the player, to make distant terrain more visible
- Instead of applying fog as a spherical volume it is now applied as a cylindrical volume

🐛 Fixed Bugs
- MC-152198: Actual render distance is 2 chunks lower than render distance setting
- MC-219507: Beacon’s power reverts back to previous one on world reload
- MC-229321: Bees inside of bee hives / nests sometimes despawn when the world is reloaded
- MC-242729: “Observer activating without any updates nearby, caused by /clone”
- MC-243216: Chunk render distance on servers seems shorter than in 1.17.1

🔗 Minecraft Snapshot 22w03a

🔃 Changes
- A seed of the number zero is no longer handled as a special case
- Any spaces before/after an inputted seed will now be trimmed
- Ender chests are no longer gift wrapped around Christmas

⚙️ Technical Changes
- The locate command now uses a namespaced id parameter
- Added command: placefeature

🐛 Fixed Bugs
- MC-83938: Standing on entities with solid collision boxes (shulkers, boats) kicks you for flying
- MC-98727: Server: Entering a boat/minecart/horse while going upwards from jumping causes a kick for flying
- MC-111082: Riding a boat with NoGravity on a server without flight enabled causes kick for flying
- MC-126772: Underwater fog doesn’t hide edge of chunks correctly at low render distances
- MC-135989: Kicked for flying using trident with Riptide enchantment

🔗 Minecraft Snapshot 22w05a

🔃 Changes
- A change in 22w03a that re-arranged Badlands biome layouts has been reverted to avoid causing generation changes and chunk borders. This change will be re-introduced later.

🐛 Fixed Bugs
- MC-4533: Water graphical glitch when connecting diagonally
- MC-70848: Water looks like it flows up
- MC-105317: Structure blocks do not rotate entities correctly when loading
- MC-214289: Pointed dripstone can replace blocks when generating
- MC-216004: Wood pillars from mineshafts are generating on pointed dripstones

🔗 Minecraft Snapshot 22w06a

⚙️ Technical Changes
- Any type present in registries (blocks, items, biomes, etc.) can now have tags

🐛 Fixed Bugs
- MC-105317: Structure blocks do not rotate entities correctly when loading
- MC-239708: Superflat world “Water World” preset settings are obsolete for the 1.18 update
- MC-245937: Flashing particles when boosting upwards with firework rockets
- MC-248106: Parrot dying while using Riptide enchantment

🔗 Minecraft Snapshot 22w07a

⚙️ Technical Changes
- Biome tags are now used to determine which biomes a structure can generate in

🐛 Fixed Bugs
- MC-237110: Grass blocks can generate underwater
- MC-238977: Glow squids spawn in villager farms and wells in superflat worlds
- MC-243190: Rooted dirt can replace cave vines
- MC-244683: Tropical Fish in lush caves spawn in bubble columns
- MC-245857: Enchanting table registers block diagonally above the bookshelves as blocking said bookshelf

🔗 Minecraft 1.18.2 Pre-Release 1

🔃 Changes
- Users running Minecraft in a 32-bit environment will receive a warning in the main menu about the upcoming end of 32-bit environment support

⚙️ Technical Changes
- The data pack version is now 9
- It is now possible to add custom structures in experimental datapacks
- locate and locatebiome commands now support tags (prefix with # to distinguish from normal ids)
- The locate command parameter is now a configured structure rather than a structure type. For instance, you can now use /locate village_desert or /locate shipwreck_beached
- A lot of the cave generation is now configurable through data packs

🐛 Fixed Bugs
- MC-3524: Structure related mobs do not spawn in flat type world generation
- MC-146854: Player movement favors x axis when in a corner
- MC-179315: Ruined portals never generate in superflat worlds by default
- MC-210612: Strongholds do not generate in certain customized worlds despite /locate saying otherwise
- MC-241288: Support for custom structures has been removed

🔗 Minecraft 1.18.2 Pre-Release 2

⚙️ Technical Changes
- Added spline density function: general-purpose building block that allows you to express almost any function using a cubic spline

🐛 Fixed Bugs
- MC-243766: Unable to put focus on “Copyright Mojang AB. Do not distribute” using Tab key
- MC-248638: Strongholds can generate in The Void biome
- MC-248681: Superflat worlds cannot be created without using presets
- MC-248694: An empty generator-settings string crashes the server when starting up
- MC-248717: Fortress mobs can spawn outside of fortresses

🔗 Minecraft 1.18.2 Release Candidate 1

🐛 Fixed Bugs
- MC-244682: Some custom dimensions settings can cause the server to stop running, but not crash
- MC-248764: Some worldgen datapacks can kill the internal server (possibly related to density functions)

🔗 Minecraft Java Edition 1.18.2

🔃 Changes
- Users running Minecraft in a 32-bit environment will receive a warning in the main menu about the upcoming end of 32-bit environment support
- If you’re playing in South Korea, we added gameplay timers and notices in compliance with gaming laws to help remind players to take occasional breaks from gameplay
- A seed of the number zero is no longer handled as a special case
- Any spaces before/after an inputted seed will now be trimmed
- Dolphins will now more accurately pick the closest structure regardless of type

⚙️ Technical Changes
- Added command: placefeature
- The locate command now uses a namespaced id parameter
- The locate command parameter is now a configured structure rather than a structure type. For instance, you can now use /locate village_desert or /locate shipwreck_beached
- locate and locatebiome commands now support tags (prefix with # to distinguish from normal ids)
- It is now possible to add custom structures in experimental datapacks

🔗 Minecraft Snapshot 22w11a

🆕 New Features
- Added the Deep Dark biome

- Added Frogs & Tadpoles
- Added mangrove blocks
- Added mud and mud brick blocks
- Added Sculk, Sculk Veins, Sculk Shrieker and Sculk Catalyst blocks

⚙️ Technical Changes
- The data pack format is now 10
- The resource pack format is now 9
- Added 3D Blending
- Added new font glyph provider for spaces
- Added estimated GPU utilization percentage to performance profiling metrics and F3 debug screen
This is only available for graphics devices that support GPU timer queries



🐛 Fixed Bugs
- MC-67308: Door top and side textures flip illogically when opened and closed
- MC-95103: Shield item rendering not adjusted to the center
- MC-99930: Brewing stand extends arms and inverts its texture when bottles are placed
- MC-106510: Long structure names (over 64 characters) do not fit in the Structure Block GUI
- MC-109055: Large Cocoa Pod texture is inconsistent

🔗 Minecraft Snapshot 22w12a

🆕 New Features
- Added Darkness mob effect
- Added Sculk Shrieker functionality
- Added the Warden mob
- Added boat with chest
- Added the Swift Sneak enchantment

🔃 Changes
- The Deep Dark biome is now less flooded than surrounding areas
- Leaves are now waterloggable
- Removed debug hotkey cycling render distance

🐛 Fixed Bugs
- MC-149805: While editing a book, you cannot use Ctrl+Home or Ctrl+End to jump to the beginning or end of the text
- MC-165503: Fence gates (between walls) aren’t affected by ambient occlusion/smooth lighting
- MC-176081: Striders with NoAI still get cold
- MC-177321: Soul sand doesn’t have smooth lighting / ambient occlusion
- MC-179916: Foxes path towards origin (0,0) during a thunderstorm

🔗 Minecraft Snapshot 22w13a

🆕 New Features
- Added Allay mob
- Added Ancient Cities

🔃 Changes
- The recipes for minecart with chest/furnace/tnt/hopper are now shapeless
- When broken each minecart variant drops itself as an item, instead of splitting into two items (such as chest and minecart)
- Only wool and wool carpets now block the sounds coming from noteblocks

⚙️ Technical Changes
- Added kill_mob_near_sculk_catalyst advancement trigger
- Sculk shrieker block state changes
- Renamed some game events

🐛 Fixed Bugs
- MC-249103: Z-fighting can be seen on the underside of frogs’ feet
- MC-249110: Z-fighting textures inside the frog’s mouth
- MC-249115: Frogs spawn with wrong color in some biomes
- MC-249132: Frogs are not required to be bred for the Two by Two advancement
- MC-249349: Dispensing a Bucket of Tadpole dispenses the item, instead of water with a tadpole

🔗 Minecraft Snapshot 22w14a

🆕 New Features
- Added Clay renewability
- Added Mangrove Trees
- Added Mangrove Swamp biome
- Added Echo Shard and Recovery Compass

🔃 Changes
- The Warden will now get angry at ALL living mobs that bump into it, not just players

⚙️ Technical Changes
- CatType fields on enitites with type minecraft:cat have been replaced with variant, with numeric values being replaced with string ids (so, for example, 5 becomes minecraft:calico)
- Some mutually exclusive tests in entity predicate (player, fishing_hook, lightning_bolt and catType) have been collapsed to type_specific field
- Added item_delivered_to_player advancement trigger
- Added allay_drop_item_on_block advancement trigger

🐛 Fixed Bugs
- MC-207289: Sculk sensor wool occlusion has directional bias
- MC-207635: Sculk sensors react differently to wool occlusion depending on the global direction.
- MC-249075: Sculk shrieker isn’t grouped with other sculk related blocks in the decorations tab of creative inventory
- MC-249122: block.sculk_catalyst.bloom has no subtitle
- MC-249254: Frogs eating named slimes or magma cubes isn’t logged in console

🔗 Minecraft Snapshot 22w15a

🆕 New Features
- Added advancement “When the Squad Hops into Town” for getting each Frog variant on a Lead
- Added advancement “Sneak 100” for sneaking near a Sculk Sensor or Warden to prevent it hearing you
- Added a new ranged attack to the Warden

🔃 Changes
- Added Darkness effect to “How Did We Get Here?” advancement
- Allays have a natural health regen of 2 health per second
- The main menu background now shows a Wild Update panorama
- Mud generates all the way from the surface down to stone in Mangrove Swamps
- Tall Mangroves are far more common than Short Mangroves in Mangrove Swamps

⚙️ Technical Changes
- Removed item_delivered_to_player advancement trigger
- Added thrown_item_picked_up_by_player advancement trigger
- Added avoid_vibration advancement trigger
- Added sonic_explosion particle

🐛 Fixed Bugs
- MC-36783: Item frames/Glow item frames don’t change their hitbox if they contain a map
- MC-147686: Joining a world that uses custom resources shows default resources until fully loaded
- MC-183520: Phantoms with NoAI can go through blocks
- MC-212610: Glow lichens cannot be put on soul sand
- MC-212629: Leashes from two or more invisible entities connect to each other

🔗 Minecraft Snapshot 22w17a

🆕 New Features
- Added Goat Horn!

🔃 Changes
- The Allay connecting with Note Blocks is now better visualized by the vibration particle

- The Allay connecting with Note Blocks can now be blocked by Wool Blocks again
- Replaced realms subtle selected world highlight with a clear green checkmark
- Updated the Brewing Stand’s base UVs and texture to match a graphical fix in Bedrock Edition
- Explosions caused by player-ignited TNT now cause experience to drop from broken blocks (such as ore blocks and sculk)
We will be keeping an eye on feedback for this change, it might change in a future update



⚙️ Technical Changes
- Signed Chat
- Removed dampenable_vibrations game event tag

🐛 Fixed Bugs
- MC-13103: Texture Z-Fighting at Wolf/Dog/Cat snout
- MC-53312: Illager/(zombie) villager/witch robes don’t render the last two rows of pixels
- MC-106627: Leather cap texture overlay doesn’t align correctly
- MC-141064: Cleric collar z-fighting
- MC-176840: Ores no longer drop experience when blown up

🔗 Minecraft Snapshot 22w18a

🔃 Changes
- Allays now follow their liked player even if they can’t see them
- Allays will only lose track of a player if they are more than 64 blocks away
- The texture of the sonic boom particle has been updated
- Vibration listeners such as Sculk Sensors, Sculk Shriekers and Wardens now listen to the closest vibration instead of the first vibration in the tick

⚙️ Technical Changes
- Banner patterns available in the Loom can now be controlled with tags (banner_pattern/no_item_required for no pattern item and banner_pattern/pattern_item/* for specific banner pattern items)
- Servers can now define different chat style formats for clients
- Removed the placefeature command
- Added the place command
- The bundled Java runtime has been upgraded to 17.0.3

🐛 Fixed Bugs
- MC-207935: Simultaneous vibrations don’t trigger as expected
- MC-232009: Minecraft does not resolve SRV records correctly
- MC-249021: The invitation and news buttons aren’t consistently displayed within the realms menu
- MC-249129: The walking animation of frogs doesn’t change in relation to their movement speed
- MC-249175: Only one sculk vein drops when using a Silk Touch hoe on multiple in a single block space