Minecraft 1.17 Pre-Release 2

It's Monday and it's time for another pre-release! This one fixed a few bugs and crashes.

In case you missed our recent news, we just announced that we're releasing Caves & Cliffs Part I on June 8th. That's soon!

Bugs fixed in 1.17 Pre-release 2

• MC-68129 Smooth lighting doesn't work properly underwater
• MC-196298 Arrows fired into the side of bamboo or pointed dripstone never despawn
• MC-205840 Smooth lighting behaves oddly on blocks covered with tinted glass
• MC-213767 Flowering azalea leaves ID is unintuitive
• MC-220698 The ExplosionPower of ghast fireballs is uncapped, causing a freeze / crash
• MC-223602 Glowing translucent entities often don't merge their outlines with other glowing entities
• MC-225190 Tnt can be pushed with enchanted sword with knockback
• MC-225911 Slimes and Magma Cubes not interacting with player
• MC-226470 Nether Fossils generate on the nether roof above bedrock in soul sand valleys
• MC-226561 Facing away from signs with glowing text makes the text disappear or z-fight
• MC-226576 Unknown CPU on Debug menu.
• MC-226782 /debug start does not work as described