Minecraft 1.21.2 Pre-Release 1

Experimental Features

Winter Drop

Creaking mob

• Creaking will not activate or freeze around players in Creative mode
• Creaking summoned from the Creaking Heart cannot be named with a Nametag

Creaking Heart

• Comparators attached to the Creaking Heart block will output a signal strength dependent on the distance to the connected Creaking

Changes

• Tweaked air bubbles UI
  • Added an empty state for air bubbles along with a wobble when the player is drowning
  • Added a popping sound when the bubbles pop in the UI

Technical Changes

• The Data Pack version is now 57
• Resource Pack version is now 41

Data Pack Version 57

• Added disablePlayerMovementCheck game rule (default: false) that disables player movement speed restriction
  • This behaves the same as the disableElytraMovementCheck rule, but applies irrespective of flying with Elytra

Item Components

minecraft:equippable

• Added field camera_overlay (optional): namespaced ID of the overlay texture to use when equipped
  • If not specified, no overlay is used
  • The ID will address a texture under the textures/ folder and automatically assumed to be .png
    • For instance, misc/pumpkinblur addresses textures/misc/pumpkinblur.png

Particles

• Format of color fields in particle options is now more standardized:
  • RGB fields can always be encoded either as a vector of floats (order: [R,G,B]) or as a single packed integer (order: RGB)
  • ARGB fields can always be encoded either as a vector of floats (order: [R,G,B,A] or as a single packed integer (order: ARGB)
  • Changed fields:
    • minecraft:trail.color (previously accepted only integer)
    • minecraft:dust.color (previously accepted only vector of floats)
    • minecraft:dust_color_transition.from_color (previously accepted only vector of floats)
    • minecraft:dust_color_transition.to_color (previously accepted only vector of floats)

Resource Pack Version 41

• Added texture and sound for tweaked air bubble UI
  • New texture added for empty air bubble
  • Sound added for when air bubble pops

Fixed bugs in 1.21.2 Pre-Release 1

• MC-276360 Repeating command block data is often lost when moving it around in inventory
• MC-276604 Horse Armor no longer has enchantment glint
• MC-276815 Dyed bundles are missing the "filled" predicate
• MC-276965 Post shader ColorModulate uniform not reset properly after spectating spiders
• MC-276979 Lock field on containers and minecraft:lock data component do not get datafixed correctly when a \ is present
• MC-277017 Flaming arrows no longer extinguish when water or powder snow is placed in its location
• MC-277019 Execute command teleporting across dimensions does not use correct relative coordinates
• MC-277027 Shapeless recipes accept anything if one of their ingredients is an empty tag
• MC-277028 Bundles do not empty smoothly
• MC-277067 The high contrast and programmer art resource packs are displayed as being incompatible
• MC-277078 Trim advancements use recipe registry key
• MC-277108 The "below_name" scoreboard display mode renders with dark parts when custom colors are set
• MC-277111 Wandering traders can sell pale oak saplings even when they're disabled
• MC-277118 Creakings can spawn with doMobSpawning set to false
• MC-277131 Pale garden missing from #minecraft:is_overworld biome tag
• MC-277141 /rotate command is not restricted to permission level 2
• MC-277143 Horse armor has damage-related components
• MC-277144 Furnaces, blast furnaces, and smokers delete all of their contents inside them once reloaded after smelting items
• MC-277148 Pack filters removing recipes that the player has unlocked causes data pack loading to fail
• MC-277160 Pale hanging moss is often immediately destroyed when placed using the "/fill" command
• MC-277163 Map color for pale oak saplings is incorrect
• MC-277176 Team affixes have dark lines between them and the username in player name tags
• MC-277215 The game crashes when attempting to accept or reject already accepted or rejected realm invitations
• MC-277301 The enchantment glint isn't visible on thrown tridents that are enchanted or held in the hand in third person when using Fabulous graphics
• MC-277302 The enchantment glint isn't visible on shields that are enchanted in third person when using Fabulous graphics