Minecraft Snapshot 20w15a

It's a wonderful day here in Sweden today! The sun is shining and spring is in the air, and when I say "spring" I mean pollen. Let's remedy that by 1) Staying indoors and 2) Introduce an all new biome with a grain of basalt, blackstone, and magma cubes! To spice it up, we also have some new fine tunes for you to listen to while traversing the Nether. Enjoy the snapshot!

New Features in 20w15a

• Accessibility improvements
• Added a piglin banner pattern
• Added Basalt Deltas biome to the Nether
• Added soul campfires. Warm your buns with the heat of one thousand souls!
• Added three new tracks of Nether music
• Added chiseled nether bricks, cracked nether bricks, and quartz bricks!
• Added a new set of stone blocks called Blackstone with regular, polished, and polished brick variants!
• Added Gilded Blackstone - Blackstone which has been imbued with gold and has a chance of dropping gold nuggets when broken
• Blackstone can be used to craft furnaces and stone tools

Accessibility

• Added "Line Spacing" chat and accessibility option
• Added "Chat Delay" accessibility option

Basalt Deltas

Basalt Deltas can now be found in the Nether!

• Remnants of volcanic eruptions, this biome sports a high concentration of Basalt columns and lava deltas
• Walking through, you will be surrounded by flakes of flowing white ash
• Magma Cubes finally have a place to call home, spawning very frequently
• A new block, Blackstone, can be found in large patches here

Nether Music

We're happy to announce that we've added three new tracks for the upcoming Nether Update, all composed by the very talented Lena Raine.

• Rubedo will be played in the Nether Wastes
• So Below will be played in Soul Sand Valleys and in Basalt Deltas
• Chrysopoeia will be played in Crimson Forests

Some words from Lena:

• "One of the primary instruments in Minecraft is the piano, and so one of my challenges to myself was to see how far I could push the sound of the piano until it resembled other things entirely–again, that alchemical process."
• "I wanted each piece to feel like a progression of emotions, or a journey from place to place within this other world. There's a degree of beauty to the Nether, but it is also terrifying in both its details and scale."

Take a portal to the Nether, and stay awhile and listen...

Changes in 20w15a

• Dispenser changes
• Soul sand can now be used to craft soul torches
• Nether vegetation blocks (sprouts, roots, vines, fungus, wart and wart blocks) are now compostable
• Walls will now connect to more things! (like iron bars, panes and even pickles!)
• Hoes are now the appropriate tool for mining leaves
• Mobs now avoid walking on magma blocks and lit campfires

Dispensers

• Dispensers can now saddle pigs and horses
• Dispensers can now put horse armor on horses
• Dispensers can now put carpets on llamas
• Dispensers can now put chests on llamas, donkeys and mules
• Dispensers can now shear a Mooshroom
• Dispensers can shear snow golems

Technical Changes in 20w15a

• Tab completion for resource location will match any part after an _
• Mob and pathfinding-related optimizations

Fixed bugs in 20w15a

• MC-171463 Iron Bars don't fully connect to walls
• MC-172120 Hoglins don't try to avoid fire
• MC-172209 Non-fire resistant mobs don't try to avoid walking into fire
• MC-172226 Baby animals, villagers, and zombie villagers spawned with a spawn egg on an adult entity always are of the same variant
• MC-172268 Bartering with a piglin by right-clicking does not display hand animation
• MC-174542 Killing baby hoglins drops leather and porkchop
• MC-174559 Baby hoglins/zoglins uses the same attack damage as an adult when spawned in some cases
• MC-175030 Curse of Binding doesn't affect Piglins
• MC-175169 Respawn Anchor can create ghost blocks when it explodes
• MC-175176 Using return portal in The End softlocks the game if /spawnpoint was used in The End
• MC-175256 Screen is overlayed with a grey opaque texture when inside of a transparent block
• MC-175274 "Quartz pillar" is translated as "White wool" ("Lana blanca" instead of "Pilar de cuarzo") in Spanish (Spain)
• MC-175356 Piglins and hoglins do not avoid magma blocks
• MC-175538 Fish/Swimming sounds are louder than they should be
• MC-175566 Piglins with full inventories drop the items they received
• MC-176095 Striders have an unused fin in the strider.png texture file
• MC-176384 CompassItem checks twice if LodestonePos tag exists
• MC-176517 striders spawn in underground lava pockets
• MC-176633 Lime carpets are named "acacia slab" in Spanish (Spain)
• MC-177069 Dispenser will not drop glowstone as item when not connected to a respawn anchor
• MC-177085 Missing UUID field in attributes crash the game
• MC-177102 Zoglins aren't considered an undead mob
• MC-177225 Tag minecraft:water used before it was bound