🔗 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

🔗 Minecraft Snapshot 22w19a

🔃 Changes
- Warden and Iron Golems now make sure to spawn above something solid

⚙️ Technical Changes
- Servers can now enable Chat Preview, which displays a server-controlled preview above the chat edit box
- Changes to the locate and place commands
- Point of Interest tags

🐛 Fixed Bugs
- MC-197647: Players cannot jump off the edge of blocks when sneaking if they have a block above
- MC-231600: Sculk sensor continuously receives vibrations when next to a powered big dripleaf
- MC-249130: Tadpoles hatch inside of adjacent blocks, causing them to suffocate and die
- MC-249161: Frogs frequently get stuck below lily pads
- MC-249634: Warden’s sniffing behavior continues after being distracted

🔗 Minecraft 1.19 Pre-Release 1

🔃 Changes
- Slightly reduced the number of Mangrove trees in Mangrove Swamps
- Endermen, Skeletons, Wither Skeletons, and Piglins now spawn in a wider range of light levels in the Nether (from light level 0 to 11)
- Item interaction vibrations are now emitted when you start or finish "using" an item with a start and finish state (such as Bows, Crossbows, Goat Horns, Shields, Food)
- Item interaction vibrations are now ignored when sneaking
- Placing items that aren’t armor (such as Pumpkins and Skulls) in your headwear slot now plays a generic equip sound

⚙️ Technical Changes
- Auto-completion is now available for the template argument to place template
- Custom servers can now enable or disable chat preview for certain clients by sending a new network packet
- Now, a chat preview is also shown for chat-related commands, such as /say and /msg
- test-rainbow-chat has been removed from server.properties

🐛 Fixed Bugs
- MC-94060: Equipping armor/elytra through inventory or dispenser doesn’t play sounds
- MC-134892: PacketBuffer.writeString’s max length is in bytes, while readString is in characters
- MC-209222: Attempting to open the Minecraft Realms menu claims that the client is outdated, even if the snapshot may be newer than the release
- MC-210279: Sculk sensors are not activated upon entities being summoned by a spawner
- MC-213915: Equipping armor through the inventory does not count as a vibration

🔗 Minecraft 1.19 Pre-Release 2

🔃 Changes
- If the Warden is stuck in a liquid, it will angrily despawn instead of digging

- Reverted using generic equip sound when equipping blocks in the head slot

⚙️ Technical Changes
- Added game event teleport with a vibration frequency of 5

🐛 Fixed Bugs
- MC-186148: “death.attack.witherSkull.item” displays raw translation string (is untranslated)
- MC-186851: “death.attack.sting.item” displays raw translation string (is untranslated)
- MC-207268: Sculk sensors don’t detect stripping logs, tilling dirt, or pathing grass
- MC-208759: Sculk Sensor’s ‘block placed’ doesn’t trigger with villagers placing crops
- MC-208760: Sculk Sensor’s ‘block placed’ doesn’t trigger when snow golems place snow layers

🔗 Minecraft 1.19 Pre-Release 4

🐛 Fixed Bugs
- MC-220067: Chunk corruption with command block full of certain Unicode characters
- MC-245504: Touchscreen mode crash // java.lang.ClassCastException: class eec$a cannot be cast to class eec$c (eec$a and eec$c are in unnamed module of loader ‘app’)
- MC-249831: Aquifers can cut themselves off at chunk borders
- MC-251840: Game crash whilst getting block state: cwj: Missing Palette entry for index 8
- MC-251859: Gear equipping sound plays every time armor/elytra durability changes while equipped

🔗 Minecraft 1.19 Release Candidate 1

🐛 Fixed Bugs
- MC-252398: Darkness effect fading in death screen causes subtle flashing

🔗 Minecraft 1.19

🆕 New Features
- Added Mangrove Swamp biome
- Added Mangrove Trees
- Added Mangrove Blocks
- Added Mud and Mud Brick Blocks
- Added Clay renewability

⚙️ Technical Changes
- The data pack format is now 10
- The resource pack format is now 9
- Added the ability for data and resource packs to selectively hide files from packs below them
- Added kill_mob_near_sculk_catalyst advancement trigger
- Added thrown_item_picked_up_by_player advancement trigger

🐛 Fixed Bugs
- View the entire list on the issue tracker: .

🔗 Minecraft Snapshot 22w24a

🆕 New Features
- Added Allay duplication
- Added Player Chat Reporting

🐛 Fixed Bugs
- MC-144043: Trader llamas continue to spit after their target died
- MC-146891: Nitwit villager can have a profession
- MC-177505: Cured Villager can work at wrong workstation
- MC-249523: Sky color is visible for a brief moment after applying Night Vision under Darkness effect
- MC-250261: Frogs can lay spawn on flowing water

🔗 Minecraft 1.19.1 Pre-Release 1

🔃 Changes
- Allay duplication now has a 5-minute cooldown
- Along with the support for reporting chat, reported players can now be banned from online play and Realms after moderator review
- The game will show a notice screen on startup if you have been banned from online play
The reason for the ban is shown as well as how long the ban is valid for



🐛 Fixed Bugs
- MC-249973: Loading resource packs is significantly slower in 1.19
- MC-252327: World list fails to load after restarting game and deleting a world
- MC-252508: Realms worldgen type missing language string
- MC-253055: Resource packs causing each WeighedSoundEvents to duplicate Sounds
- MC-253102: Chat reporting uses “Messages” for one message

🔗 Minecraft 1.19.1 Release Candidate 1

🔃 Changes
- Updated the categories for chat reporting
The “Profanity”, “Nudity or pornography” and “Extreme violence or gore” categories have been removed
The description for the “Drugs and alcohol” category has been updated to “Someone is encouraging others to partake in illegal drug related activities or encouraging underage drinking”
The description of the “Harassment and bullying” category has been extended with the following: or posting private personal information about you or someone else without consent (“doxing”).


- Increased the amount of chat context sent with each chat report

⚙️ Technical Changes
- The run_command click event for text components no longer supports sending chat messages directly
Only commands are supported, so a command such as /say should be used instead
This means values now always need to be ‘/’-prefixed



🐛 Fixed Bugs
- MC-250020: Allay doesn’t ignore items when mobGriefing is set to false
- MC-252511: Bedrock not generating on the new blending border between old and new blending
- MC-252987: Illegal character ‘\n’ in text component clickEvent
- MC-253114: Selection boxes within the “Select Chat Messages to Report” menu don’t disappear when deselecting fields after reentering the menu
- MC-253188: Selection boxes within the “Select Chat Messages to Report” menu differ in size ever so slightly depending on how they’re selected

🔗 Minecraft 1.19.1 Pre-Release 2

🐛 Fixed Bugs
- MC-253112: The game output console is logged with warnings regarding chat packets with invalid signatures when using entity selectors within commands
- MC-253121: Entities and other non-player chat message sources appear as players on the Select Chat Messages to Report screen
- MC-253493: The descriptions of report categories can once again overlap the “Description:” subtitle
- MC-253495: Selection boxes of fields within the “Select Report Category” menu list don’t contain white outlines when selected using the TAB key
- MC-253497: Entities and other non-player chat message sources appear in the Social Interactions menu

🔗 Minecraft 1.19.1 Pre-Release 3

🔃 Changes
- Moved the chat scrollbar to the right of the chat window
- System message are now displayed with a gray color indicator

⚙️ Technical Changes
- Custom servers can set their own auto-completion options for regular chat via a new network packet

- The list of players on the Social Interactions screen now places entries for players with recently seen messages at the top of the list
- The msg_command chat type has been split apart into msg_command_incoming and msg_command_outgoing
- The team_name chat type parameter has been renamed to target
This chat type parameter is now used by msg_command_outgoing



🐛 Fixed Bugs
- MC-253182: The second instance of a reflexive pronoun is used incorrectly within the “gui.abuseReport.reason.self_harm_or_suicide.description” string
- MC-253214: Tooltips will become offset in certain cases
- MC-253223: A preposition is incorrectly used within the “gui.abuseReport.reason.terrorism_or_violent_extremism.description” string
- MC-253496: /execute as {player} run say counts to the report system
- MC-253742: The chat scroll bar overlaps the colored indicators used to show the trust status of messages

🔗 Minecraft 1.19.1 Pre-Release 5

⚙️ Technical Changes
- The team_msg_command chat type has been split apart into team_msg_command_incoming and team_msg_command_outgoing