Minecraft 1.16 Pre-Release 3

Another pre-release is now available for Minecraft: Java Edition! This pre-release fixes a bunch of bugs, but we also made a few minor tweaks. The Nether Update is closing in and we aim to release the update within a couple of weeks.

Changes in 1.16 Pre-release 3

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• Food can now be placed on unlit campfires
• Made Nether Fortresses slightly more common
• Visibility under lava is now slightly better when under the effect of fire resistance
• Piglins now hear you break a chest or block of gold (or similar) even if your are our of line of sight, and will assume you are stealing
• Game rule descriptions now span multiple lines if needed on the game rules screen
• A loading screen is now displayed while the game is reading world data for loading, creating or re-creating a world
• The game will now attempt to recover worlds broken in 1.16 Pre-release 1

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Technical changes in 1.16 Pre-release 3

​ Region files are now only opened in synchronous mode on Windows, not on other operating systems. Status of this feature can be manually controlled by following options:

• For dedicated servers: sync-chunk-writes within server.properties
• For clients: syncChunkWrites within options.txt

Fixed Bugs in 1.16 Pre-Release 3

• MC-13823 Leads are incorrectly positioned on certain entities
• MC-14680 Lead is shifted upwards or downwards based on leashed entity height
• MC-27535 Mobs can sometimes still despawn, even if named with a name tag
• MC-84610 Off-hand hotkey doesn't work in inventories
• MC-131286 Attack will use right hand instead of left hand when swimming (main hand: left)
• MC-134608 Certain Spawner Tag Conditions Induce Game Crash
• MC-143473 Teleporting a mob while it is pathfinding will make it navigate back to where it was originally going
• MC-152157 "Marie Stålkrantz" is not the right color in game credits
• MC-159371 Leads are incorrectly positioned on bees
• MC-159502 Bees don't avoid water; killing themselves
• MC-160520 Bee's wandering AI tries to go through three-way corners
• MC-163921 Placing a block while looking at redstone ore plays no sound
• MC-166346 Transparent blocks do not render properly with tripwire above
• MC-166880 Pufferfish spikes model seems to be broken
• MC-167043 Enchantment glint does only apply to the handle of shields with banners
• MC-169008 Using End portal in the Nether teleports the player to the End, but at the same coordinates the player was in the Nether
• MC-171618 Players wearing armor take less damage from burning when standing in fire under certain conditions
• MC-171810 Some Mojang employees are not mentioned in the credits
• MC-171969 Fall damage is negated when stepping up after falling
• MC-172053 Nether particles get stuck on the bottom of blocks
• MC-172105 When a piglin is dancing, targeting or looking at an item, the chestplate the piglin is wearing does not adjust to the piglin's pose
• MC-172110 Texture of turtle shells is missing when worn by a piglin or zombified piglin
• MC-172871 Unable to spawn wither in horizontal arrangement below y level 2
• MC-173310 Observer powered texture doesn't match unpowered
• MC-173404 Desync when mounting an entity while sneaking
• MC-173825 Bats break turtle eggs
• MC-176094 Baby zombified piglin chicken jockeys can spawn riding striders
• MC-177336 'Failed to access level' when opening a world from a CIFS mount on Ubuntu
• MC-177530 The new minecraft:attributes registry is plural, while all the others are singular
• MC-177542 Chunk loading and saving is extremely slow when sync-chunk-writes=true
• MC-177626 Spruce generation is broken
• MC-177694 Zombified Piglin Spawn Egg is placed before Zombie Villager Spawn Egg in the creative inventory
• MC-177712 Nether portal blocks do not have loot tables
• MC-177795 Overworld music can start playing in the Nether
• MC-177863 Shroomlights cannot be composted
• MC-177876 Striders are now much rarer
• MC-178010 Lena Raine does not appear in credits
• MC-178338 Striders only get warm when lava touches their legs
• MC-179140 Sea guardians have an odd swimming behavior
• MC-180603 Wrong structures are generated in superflat worlds
• MC-181630 Advancement trigger "minecraft:tick" does not support standard "player" predicate
• MC-181813 Edit "g"ame "r"ules are not capitalized in the Game Rules menu title
• MC-181884 Falling quickly/Flying with Elytra/Swimming with Riptide Trident and throwing a projectile will cause it to hit the player
• MC-182076 Horse jumping sound is unused
• MC-182249 Problems with potted_cactus.json block model file
• MC-182766 Recipe book search function does not work if recipe book was not open before
• MC-182909 Esc from Customised World's Biome selection screen kicks us back to main menu
• MC-183018 When sneaking while flying underwater in Creative, the player exits flying mode after a few seconds
• MC-183402 Tutorial doesn't advance when breaking nether tree
• MC-183554 Ruined portals generated in lava lakes unnaturally displace lava, resulting in weird borders
• MC-183588 Stray emerald block in structure bastion/treasure/big_air_full
• MC-183594 The 5th large inner and outer hoglin stables do not generate in bastions
• MC-183599 Some hoglin stable stair structures do not generate
• MC-183762 Description of F3+N in help menu still describes the old functionality
• MC-183809 Large Oak Trees replace blocks
• MC-183880 Distracting baby piglins with gold grants the 'Oh Shiny' advancement
• MC-183915 Wall Heads & Skulls are slightly offset from block selection outline
• MC-183931 nether fortress mobs no longer spawn in extended bounding box
• MC-183933 show_text tellraw hover events don't work for components that need resolving (nbt, score, selector)
• MC-184093 Using an end gateway teleports the player half a block too high
• MC-184250 Font of the enchantments displayed in the enchanting table is italic
• MC-184608 "Unknown biome, defaulting to plains" error upon launching the game
• MC-184612 Import Settings "s" isn't capitalized
• MC-184613 End Stone generates in Floating Islands setting
• MC-184644 Cave buffet generator generates with netherrack, even if using a non-nether biome
• MC-184653 [Crash] "java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: value already present:" Game crashes when worldgen dimension type presets are not unique
• MC-184675 Superflat void preset doesn't have a starting platform again
• MC-184699 '/spreadplayers under' does not prevent invalid values
• MC-184723 The "i" in "World Type: Floating islands" is not capitalized
• MC-184757 [Crash] "java.lang.NullPointerException: Ticking memory connection" on loading a dimension with debug chunk generator
• MC-184887 You can spawn in the bedrock ceiling of a Caves world
• MC-184900 Newline in tellraw adds a space at the beginning of the new line
• MC-184984 Game crashes after generating multiple worlds in succession
• MC-185004 [Crash] java.lang.NullPointerException Crash on entering end/nether portal when dimension is removed in worldgen settings
• MC-185164 Bottom half of icebergs always generate at y=62 regardless of sea_level
• MC-185285 Entering the End or the Nether after creating and reentering a debug world crashes the game
• MC-185299 Villagers cannot be summoned with a specific type unless you also specify a profession
• MC-185363 sync-chunk-writes often takes over a minute to close a world
• MC-185417 Maps reset on upgrade
• MC-185616 Turtle eggs can't hatch on red sand
• MC-185949 Copy "C" in Click to Copy to Clipboard isn't capitalized
• MC-186078 Transparent items render in front of transparent blocks on some graphics cards when graphics setting is set to fabulous
• MC-186084 Piglin head and torso floats and detaches during celebration dance
• MC-186085 Player is unable to interact with the world after dismounting a boat while it's moving
• MC-186091 When you stop swimming, "diving underwater" sound occurs and vision flashes
• MC-186092 The head of a piglin becomes offset after performing their celebration dance
• MC-186097 Pigs are moving very slowly
• MC-186248 "m" in Safe Mode button isn't capitalized
• MC-186263 "b" & "l" in Create Backup & Load isn't capitalized
• MC-186337 The lighting of the "Client" doesn't correspond to that of the "Server"
• MC-186353 The "s" and "m" in "Edit sign message" are uncapitalized
• MC-186403 Swimming up on the side of flowing water no longer prevents the player from drowning
• MC-186492 Lily pad placement in creative mode causes item on hotbar to flicker/vanish
• MC-186905 "Superflat Customization" screen resets every time you open it and does not show previously saved settings
• MC-187363 Charged respawn anchors no longer light up blocks around them
• MC-187367 Netherite recipes show up in crafting table despite requiring a smithing table to use
• MC-187371 Game crashes when attempting to change cloud settings on some graphics cards
• MC-187392 Items in waterlogged stairs don't float up high enough to be caught by a water stream above the stair
• MC-187394 Dying Ender dragons are rendered completely white when using Fabulous graphics
• MC-187402 Lighting in the End dimension is much darker when on a server
• MC-187405 /seed is no longer available without cheats enabled
• MC-187411 Particles and clouds not rendering properly behind stained glass and solid blocks
• MC-187437 Held item is invisible in inventory menu
• MC-187449 Zombie Pigmen/Zombified Piglins do not drop XP and rare drops anymore if killed by anything other than the player while in angered state
• MC-187466 Mobs killed in creative mode don't drop experience
• MC-187468 Enchantment glint does not render for certain things on "Fabulous" setting
• MC-187483 The advancement "Two by Two" can be achieved by just breeding turtles
• MC-187504 Mobs do not drop rare drop items when killed by a player in Creative Mode
• MC-187552 Piglins and Hoglins shake in the nether on servers
• MC-187585 Dolphins with NoAI:1b can drown
• MC-187592 Piglins constantly picking up gold nuggets and dropping them
• MC-187611 White squares when in first person with fabulous video settings and F1
• MC-187618 Demo world not saving after saving and quitting then quiting out of minecraft
• MC-187673 [Crash] "java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unregistered dimension type"
• MC-187676 "d" in Reset to default isn't capitalized
• MC-187677 "b" in Go back isn't capitalized
• MC-187679 Bees stay angry far longer
• MC-187730 Newly spawned Zombified Piglins do not pick up the aggro of older spawned aggravated Zombified Piglins
• MC-187739 NeutralMob.playerDied(Player) does not return if forgiveDeadPlayers = false
• MC-187796 Wolves only use their hostile appearance after being attacked
• MC-187811 Ender dragon death animation suddenly flashes right after it has ended
• MC-187978 /seed availiable to all players on multiplayer server
• MC-188070 Glitched skin while swimming (left hand)
• MC-188088 Overworld superflat preset no longer generates with terrain decorations
• MC-188216 Superflat biome selection overrides block selection on "Create New World" screen
• MC-188393 K in "4k" should be capitalized