Minecraft 1.20 Pre-Release 2

We are now releasing the second pre-release for Minecraft 1.20. This pre-release contains bug fixes.

Happy Mining!

Technical Changes

• Game will now display message box on startup if user enabled text-to-speech functionality, but it is not available
• "item": "minecraft:air" can now be used in datapack recipes to denote an ingredient that will match an empty slot.
  • The following recipe types, however, do not allow for an empty ingredient:
    • minecraft:crafting_shaped
    • minecraft:crafting_shapeless
    • minecraft:smelting
    • minecraft:blasting
    • minecraft:smoking
    • minecraft:campfire_cooking
    • minecraft:stonecutting

Fixed bugs in 1.20 Pre-release 2

• MC-1310 Dispensed boats and rafts get stuck inside of dispensers used to place them
• MC-124327 Changing the name of an item and then emptying the text field in an anvil doesn't make the rename unavailable, keeps last non-empty name on output item
• MC-132076 Lowercase Letters in controls menu + "Not Bound" is missing
• MC-159633 Command feedback messages are unnecessarily created during function execution
• MC-165562 Command suggestion report "incorrect argument" when cursor is at the start of a node without suggestions
• MC-175504 Single quotation marks are not supported in NBT paths
• MC-220096 Graphics warning button(s) improperly capitalized
• MC-224976 NativeImage.setPixelRGBA throws exception with message getPixelRGBA
• MC-226344 Changing the "Owner" tag of a projectile doesn't affect the outcome of the projectile unless the world is reloaded
• MC-237960 New potion effect GUI doesn't work when using Programmer Art
• MC-250197 Glass bottles are inconsistently referred to throughout some advancement description strings
• MC-252216 65540: Invalid scancode -1 logged in key bind menu when an option is unbound
• MC-252408 Chat restriction strings consist of inconsistent concluding punctuation
• MC-256833 Ridable entities that can be steered build up fall damage when on climbable blocks
• MC-257052 You cannot double-click on languages within the "Language" menu to select them
• MC-257370 Buckets of fish are not sorted in the same order as the fish items
• MC-257512 Dead tube coral in creative inventory is in wrong order
• MC-258360 Horse armor loses its NBT data when equipped on horses via right-clicking
• MC-258461 The "Detect structure size and position:" string displayed within the structure block GUI is improperly capitalized
• MC-260468 Wither rose is not grouped with other small flowers in the creative inventory
• MC-260602 'data modify from string' index failure does not return 0 for 'execute store success'
• MC-260711 Some words within "/datapack list" command feedback messages are always pluralized
• MC-260712 Some words within "/scoreboard" command feedback messages are always pluralized
• MC-260713 Some words within "/team" command feedback messages are always pluralized
• MC-260715 Some words within "/bossbar" command feedback messages are always pluralized
• MC-260716 Some words within "/fill", "/fillbiome", and "/clone" command feedback messages are always pluralized
• MC-261024 /execute if loaded does not guarantee entities are loaded
• MC-261080 Player can fall through scaffolding when loading a world
• MC-261233 Minecart movement is not reliably detected by sculk sensors
• MC-261349 Chiseled Bookshelf won't rotate when placed as part of a structure
• MC-261433 Shield doesn't block TNT explosion
• MC-261816 Most two block tall flowers do not block enchanting tables / are part of #minecraft:replaceable
• MC-261988 Inconsistency with Mangrove Roots and Leaves in the Creative Tab
• MC-262033 The command block GUI remains open when the said command block is destroyed
• MC-262106 Smithing recipe must have template to work
• MC-262135 Recipe book GUI is positioned incorrectly
• MC-262181 NBSP is a valid invisible character that can be used to rename items to have blank names
• MC-262213 Baby sniffer's head is smaller on the first frame of existing
• MC-262310 Telemetry description strings consist of inconsistent concluding punctuation
• MC-262311 The "telemetry.event.game_load_times.description" string is missing an article before the word "execution"
• MC-262355 Death messages for falling from climbable blocks do not work
• MC-262440 Sniffers can sniff while in love and pathfinding to their lover
• MC-262441 Baby sniffers stand a bit too far away from players that are tempting them
• MC-262445 The text cursor no longer renders above text
• MC-262446 Text within buttons renders above the semi-transparent black lines at the edges of menus
• MC-262471 Random skylight underwater where it shouldn't be, that cuts off at the chunk border
• MC-262506 Parts of beds render through the alternative recipe GUI in the recipe book
• MC-262508 Torchflower_crop causes the game to crash and locks the world when pollinated by bees
• MC-262518 The "mco.configure.world.uninvite.player" string contains an unnecessary space before the question mark
• MC-262531 "death.attack.genericKill.player" displays raw translation string (is untranslated)