Minecraft 1.17 Pre-Release 3

Time for another pre-release, this time with some final tweaks to candles and more fixes for bugs and crashes!

Note that a bug has snuck into this pre-release making the game warn about every world as if it was experimental. This will be fixed in the next pre-release.

Changes in 1.17 Pre-release 3

• Tweaked the textures of lit candles
• Mobs rammed by goats will no longer retaliate
• Axolotls and Glow Squids now only spawn in total darkness and where there's a natural stone block less than 5 blocks below the spawning space

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Fixed Bugs in 1.17 Pre-Release 3

• MC-203773 Lightning rod is floating when held in third-person
• MC-215946 Game fatally crashed while exploring chunks (IllegalStateException: Accessing PalettedContainer from multiple threads)
• MC-222223 Baby axolotls despawn
• MC-223147 Vines aren't rendered with /setblock
• MC-223227 Floating water caves in caves under the ocean
• MC-224893 Replacing Chunk Futures causes several issues
• MC-225077 Vines can spread upward to non-full blocks
• MC-225344 Cave generation seems to be broken at seemingly random chunk borders
• MC-226441 Lit candle texture doesn't change when on cake
• MC-226514 Crash trying to start a world: Error: java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot read field "u" because "☃" is null
• MC-226660 "Double closing program" warnings upon closing the game
• MC-226874 Player's owned player_head on mobs are flashing
• MC-226956 Gravity blocks do not break when doEntityDrops is set to false
• MC-226970 Stars are occluded by render fog
• MC-227018 Changing or reloading resource packs does not reload core shaders until reloading a second time