Minecraft Snapshot 20w11a

In this snapshot you can be on your merry way across the beautiful Soulsand Valleys with your freshly enchanted boots. It's a bit scary to be fair, so these boots will help you out with that bit...

Before we dive into this snapshot, a word about Redstone

Redstone is one of the coolest things in Minecraft and many of you are members of communities that focus on building mind-blowing redstone contraptions, farms, computing machines and 256x256 piston doors.

A lot of redstone behaviour is currently categorized as “undefined”. This is when the behaviour of the block is not the result of intentional code but is a side-effect of unaccounted edge cases or quirks in the game code.​

We know that many players consider undefined behaviour as a very interesting aspect of redstone and enjoy experimenting with and using undefined behaviour to build unique contraptions to share with the rest of the community.​

However, the quirks of undefined behaviour can be quite surprising - even when building simple contraptions. This quirkiness can be a negative experience for players new to redstone and may turn them away from this very unique and exciting aspect of Minecraft as well as the vast redstone community behind it.​

Our goal is to bring all redstone components up to a level of quality that we are happy with and we will be making adjustments where it makes the most sense for redstone going forward.

Any changes we make will be communicated in the snapshot changelogs and as always we will be reading your feedback and comments.

New Features in 20w11a

• Added Soul Speed enchantment
• Added Twisting Vines that grow upwards
• Nether gold ore can now be found in the nether - it is just like gold ore, but more Nether-y

Soul Speed

Never suffer again drudging through Soul Sand Valleys - Soul Speed has you covered!

• Shine your boots of choice with this soul-sucking enchantment to speed around on Soul Sand and Soul Soil!
• There's a downside, however: enchantments will slowly degrade your boots each Soul block you walk on
• Can only be obtained by bartering with those pesky Piglins

Changes in 20w11a

• Bell blocks will now ring when hit by any projectile
• TNT and Campfires will now ignite when hit by any burning projectile
• Bone meal can now be used to grow kelp, weeping vines and twisting vines
• Hoes are now the appropriate tools for mining Hay, Targets, Dried Kelp Blocks, Shroomlights, Nether Wart Blocks and Warped Wart Blocks
• Doors, rails, buttons, pressure plates, redstone and more can now be placed on soulsand and full-block of snow layers
• Soul sand with a rail on top will no longer slow-down minecarts

Technical Changes in 20w11a

• minecraft:soul_speed_blocks is any block that the Soul Speed enchantment increases speed on
• New particle type: soul

Fixed bugs in 20w11a

• MC-81659 Fireball and witherskull hitboxes are frequently invisible for some seconds
• MC-134900 server.properties generator-settings for level-type FLAT not implemented; property is stored in ignored flat_world_options NBT
• MC-145140 Fireballs cannot be interacted with when summoned
• MC-146928 Can't place doors, rails, buttons, pressure plate, redstone, etc. on soul sand
• MC-148935 Zombies with no AI still convert into drowned
• MC-171079 Comparators no longer work as expected reading containers through powered blocks
• MC-171860 Nether fossils have code implying an unimplemented /locate function
• MC-172266 Crossbow wielding piglins do not properly walk backwards to target the player when very close
• MC-172323 Game crashes when summoning a hoglin with the attack damage attribute set to 0 or giving a hoglin weakness with a very high level (255)
• MC-172374 Can teleport to invalid y coordinates and crash the game
• MC-172428 Piglins and hoglins don't look at their target
• MC-172470 When the piglin holds the bow, it will try to attack and follow the enemy eventually stood there not moving
• MC-172530 Piglins indefinitely stand around dropped golden items if mobGriefing is disabled
• MC-172903 Piglins which convert into zombified piglins delete armor if equipped
• MC-173156 Z-fighting at bottom of potted bamboo; bottom texture of bamboo is exposed
• MC-173167 Netherite sword/tools not sorted with other swords/tools
• MC-173180 Hoglins are not scared of Warped Fungus in flower pots
• MC-173219 No sound when climbing weeping vines
• MC-173243 Crying obsidian is movable by pistons
• MC-173283 Piglin admiring held gold ingot doesn't drop it when killed
• MC-173302 Crying Obsidian can be harvested with any pickaxe
• MC-173384 Crying obsidian can be destroyed by the Ender Dragon
• MC-173433 Killing a baby Hoglin doesn't yield experience
• MC-173462 Baby piglins can hold soul fire torches
• MC-173467 Piglins admiring bartering gold ingot drop nothing when converting to Zombified Piglin
• MC-173484 Death message from falling off a trapdoor does not mention it by name
• MC-173485 Death message from falling off scaffolding does not mention it by name
• MC-173706 NullPointerException in server tick loop when trying to load a flatland world with Nether biome
• MC-173725 Anvil name field doesn't automatically receive focus anymore and is unclickable
• MC-173731 Fire and soul fire play a sound and produce particles when extinguished
• MC-173732 Fire and soul fire do not have loot tables
• MC-173739 Missing sound for event: minecraft:block.smithing_table.use
• MC-173766 Thrown tridents disappear after hitting and damaging a mob or entity
• MC-173776 Hoes do not mine targets faster
• MC-173792 End gateways don't work using enderpearls
• MC-173858 Unable to set "LeftHanded" to "1b" for piglins