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Let's talk about the Minecraft Snapshot 20W13A, 20W14A, 20W15A AND 20W16A | The Nether Update!chat_bubble
Over the course of a month, Minecraft introduced some new features to be included in the upcoming Minecraft Nether Update and released some snapshots including 20W13A, 14A, 15A, and this week , 20W16A which added even more cool things to the Nether. New blocks, new tunes, new structures, mobs and more! Feel free to share screenshots and your experiences if you've played any of them. We are excited to hear what the community thinks!
🌳A NEW BIOME! BASALT DELTAS The volcanic biome called Basalt Deltas were added to the Nether, for a total of 4 different, dark, and dazzling depths to explore! Composed mostly of basalt and blackstone mountains, you'll find lava lakes magma blocks, and basalt columns along your travels through this lilac hazed biome. You'll encounter fortresses and caves filled with quartz ore, and see ghasts and striders wandering through the fog! The falling white ashes and purple fog may seem a bit more inviting that other Nether Biomes, but don't be fooled; basalt deltas are challenging biomes! | Basalt Deltas |
NEW BRICKS & BLOCKS!
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Blackstone | Polished Blackstone | Chiseled Polished Blackstone | Gilded Blackstone |
Press play before reading about the Bastions!
pigstep [music disc exclusively found in bastion remnants]
BASTION REMNANTS These new structures can be found in all Nether biomes with the exception of Basalt Deltas! Think of them as nether castles that generate 4 types of structures. They include:
Bastion remnants are the only place where the Pigstep music disc, the piglin banner pattern, chains, and netherite gear can be found naturally. | crafting recipe for chain. Chain can be found in bastions. |
RUINED PORTALS These mysterious structures can be found in all biomes, underground as well as underwater. They generate as partial portals and with a chest that contain golden items alongside other items tused to build portals. There are 13 variants; 10 normal size and 3 larger. | Ruined Portal in the Nether |
SOUL FIRE A variant of the campfire with flames of souls! Crafted similarly to the original campfire, but instead of coal or charcoal, you'll be using should sand or soul soil. Soul fire burns forever and doesn't smother in the rain. You can use soulfire to craft torches and lanterns Also note: original campfires can be crafted using stems and hyphae, a 1.16 20W13A update. | soulfire |
MOBS! Snapshot 20W13A added the Strider Mob! Striders can walk on the top surface of lava and be saddled. They're keen on the smell of warped fungi. As of 20W14A, Strider features were balanced out for better user experience. 20W14A added the Zoglin, a zombigified Hoglin that can't be fed or bred unlike their Hoglin counterpart.
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🎶 NEW MUSIC Who doesn't love a good tune?!
Lena Raine is the composer of these spoopy sounds, and you can read more about her and her process for creating music for Minecraft in this article. |
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Here's a visual of all new blocks in the 1.16 Nether Update as of Snapshot 20W16A! MEMBER REVIEWS SORTED BY SNAPSHOT 20W13A Snapshot Reviews Minecraft Snapshot 20w13a | New Strider Nether Mob and Lodestone Block! by Shireen 20W14A Snapshot Reviews Minecraft 20w14a Out Now! New 1.16 Java Edition Snapshot Released! a video review by Jed Nemch 20W15A Snapshot Reviews 20w15a Out Now! Minecraft 1.16 Snapshot Out! BASALT DELTAS BIOME a video review by Jed Nemch 20W16A Snapshot Reviews Bastion Remnants & Ruined Portals! a blog review by Hipercreative Minecraft Snapshot 20w16a | Bastion Remnants & Ruined Portals a video review by Shireen | source |
assignment IS THAT IT?!
Nope, there is so much more to this update than we can put into this post. Feel free to read Mojang's full release notes here!
You can also check out all of the new additions and specifics about almost everything in the 1.16 Update by visiting the Minecraft Wiki!
Technical Changes & Bug Fixes in 20W13A
Technical Changes in 20w13a
- Jigsaw Block
- A fishing location is now considered to be open water if the fishing hook
is in water, there are no blocks besides lily pads above water and all
water blocks are source blocks with no solid underwater blocks around
Farmer Villagers
- Farmers can now put excess seeds in the composter to create bone meal
- Bone meal is used by the farmers to grow crops
- Farmers share excess wheat to other farmers, so more farmers can make bread
Jigsaw Block
- Jigsaw can now have one of 12 orientations
- Added new property Joint type to describe if attached piece can be rotated (rollable) or not (aligned)
- NBT field target_pool has been renamed to pool
- - attachement_type has been split into name (on parent block) and target (on child block)
Fixed bugs in 20w13a
- MC-118080 - Bows without pulling predicate animate when other bows are pulled back
- MC-154427 - Villagers only pick up four stacks of items
- MC-171003 - Crimson and Warped stairs, planks and slabs can be used as fuel in a furnace
- MC-171286 - Warped fences and Crimson fences don’t connect with other fences
- MC-171484 - Shields, crossbows, bows, and fishing rods don’t show their proper animations in first person mode after certain actions
- MC-171526 - en_us.json issue: weeping_vines and weeping_vines_plant have the same name
- MC-171830 - Smokers cannot be crafted using crimson or warped stems
- MC-172123 - Using a spawn egg on a mob without a baby variant spawns an adult mob of the same type without a weapon
- MC-172279 - Can’t craft campfire with nether stems or hyphae
- MC-172307 - All loaded tileticks instantly run in the first tick after loading the chunk
- MC-173258 - Back of zombified piglin heads has very different texture/shading compared to the other sides
- MC-173367 - Arrows are floating in midair after being pushed by piston
- MC-173791 - Mobs dismount vehicles only in front of the boat, even if there is danger ahead
- MC-174368 - Minecarts can no longer eject entities into an open trap door
- MC-174428 - Nylium can be bonemealed underwater with seagrass above it
- MC-174434 - Sugar Cane, Kelp and Bamboo are in the incorrect creative inventory tab
- MC-174481 - en_us.json issue: twisting_vines and twisting_vines_plant have the same name
- MC-174510 - Stems, Hyphae, and variants do not use the Nether Wood material
- MC-174537 - Zombie Pigman hooves are still visible on Zombified Piglin texture
- MC-174547 - Kelp, Weeping Vines, and Twisted Vines can be bonemealed at age 25
- MC-174642 - Hitbox of twisting vine is incorrect
- MC-174731 - Modifying “soul.json” (inside of “particles” folder) causes crash
- MC-174787 - Arrow physics don’t work correctly when in a target that is moved
- MC-174823 - Sprinting and walking scoreboards don’t update properly
- MC-174988 - Bee nests are brown on maps
- MC-175165 - Using glowstone on a respawn anchor doesn’t consume it
- MC-175171 - Fishing bobber can get stuck on a ledge when being reeled in
- MC-175174 - Respawn anchor is considered obstructed if all its sides are covered or air
- MC-175178 - Anchor uses up the glowstone charge even though it didn’t respawn you
- MC-175185 - No datafixer for item AttributeModifiers UUIDs
- MC-175191 - Respawn Anchor charging cannot be heard by other players
- MC-175193 - Using glowstone in the offhand does not charge respawn anchor
- MC-175199 - In snowy_medium_house_2, some blocks are still misrotated
- MC-175204 - Four misrotated blocks in snowy_masons_house_1
- MC-175208 - Incorrect grammar “Your have no home bed or respawn anchor, or it was obstructed.”
- MC-175209 - Dying in a different dimension than your respawn anchor will cause the anchor to not play the depletion sound
- MC-175210 - Respawn anchor uses a charge after leaving the end dimension through the end portal
- MC-175218 - Looking at a map of an area with spruce sign, jungle sign or dark oak sign in it crashes the game
- MC-175219 - Respawn Anchor plays the “Respawn Point set” sound when right-clicked even when its already your respawn point
- MC-175224 - Nether gold ore does not yield any experience when mined
- MC-175239 - Villagers are generated very rarely in villages
- MC-175278 - Fishing near lily pads prevents players from receiving treasure loot table
- MC-175289 - Respawn anchor isn’t in the #dragon_immune tag
- MC-175322 - Clicking on a fully charged respawn anchor with a glowstone block doesn’t activate it
- MC-175327 - The crafting recipe of Polished Basalt is inconsistent
- MC-175514 - Villager Gossips still use old UUID NBT format (TargetMost and TargetLeast)
- MC-175827 - Entities not loading in structure blocks (duplicate UUID)
- MC-175830 - F3 + I copies UUID
Technical Changes & Bug Fixes in 20W14A
To be added
Technical Changes & Bug Fixes in 20W15A
To be added
Technical Changes & Bug Fixes in 20W16A
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To install any of these snapshots, open up the Minecraft Launcher and enable snapshots in the "Installations" tab.
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the new nether update is..... i cant even describe how awesome it is. its my fav update
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Why are piglins so mean? I know your supposed to wear gold armor and not mine gold but why are they even meaner in Bastion Remnants?
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Its coming in 4 days
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I really like the Basalt Deltas because it has the dust thingies in the air and it adds a really cool atmosphere. It also feels lonely and mysterious.
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Today's new snapshot!!!!!!!?!!?!?!😅
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I read Mojang decided to nerf Twisted Vines today. I got kinda scared, so I decided to test it. It's not much of a nerf. 1.25 stacks of bonemeal was enough to go from y1 to y255. Ladders remain obsolete!
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So Below sounds AMAZING!!
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I really, really love all the new blacktone and basalt blocks. My favorite color is black, after all
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I just fell in love with the Twisted Vine. It can be put on almost anything, if not everything, and less than 1 stack of bonemeal can grow it from y1 to y255.
Good by ladders and vines. It was nice knowing you!
Good by ladders and vines. It was nice knowing you!
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Wow bro this looks pretty cool I gotta say!
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Yeah the pigmen are cool but overall the whole update is awesome!
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gamer time
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After so many years its going to be fun to come back to the nether and actually enjoy the time i spend there !
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I am excited for this update! Minecraft has continued to better and better itself with each update, and now the Nether, one of Minecraft's earliest features, is becoming more fleshed out and up to date. Mojang is truly outdoing itself.
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A youtuber xisumavoid just stated his speculation that 20w17a might be the last snapshot before 1.16 release. I still am a little bit upset that they renamed the zombie pigman to zombified piglin instead of zombie piglin.
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Bit weird. But zombified piglin sounds sort of scientific if you know what I mean!
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I'd be rather surprised. There's at least one nasty bug in 20w17a that corrupts older worlds (rain underground, maps messed up). I guess they could do a bugfix version and call it a release candidate, and not do any more "snapshots" with added features or anything. But 20w17a makes a ton of changes under the hood and I suspect it's going to get some time to get them all verified working smoothly
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That is terrifying. Backward compatibility is important because I want to keep my stuff in the older map.
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I mean, I like the update but I’m going to miss the pigmen
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truth
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When Grian posted his Video on YouTube in wich he said, he´d love to see broken portals in minecraft, I thought that this never will be added :-) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE72KSMOSDM)
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is it not supposed to be out today
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I like alot of the new blocks, they did a great job!
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Oh, also, besides what I said previously about Bastions, I absolutely LOVE the /locatebiome command! It's a great quality of life command which makes it easy to find a mushroom island or any other rare biome without using a mapping tool like Amidst. It's really overlooked and underrated, and I wanted you to bring your attention to it.
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Yes, that is so underrated. Only the majority of players requested that for years.
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just in case anyone's seen Grian's video on suggestions for the nether update, they actually took most of his suggestions (probably because he's on Hermitcraft haha), including the ruined portals. i'm looking forward to nether geysers!
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Grian isn't the first to suggest it. Many other players suggested it before the Nether Update was announced. Most players justified their suggestion with, "There's nothing in the game that hints Nether Portals exist."
Honestly, I'm surprised Mojang finally added it despite the fact this is the "Nether Update".
I'm also greatly surprised that there is a Nether Update.
Honestly, I'm surprised Mojang finally added it despite the fact this is the "Nether Update".
I'm also greatly surprised that there is a Nether Update.
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Tp Makers are so hyped !
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I like most of it so far, but the thing i don't really like is the bastions, they are just blackstone chuncks with tunnels carved into them.
It would be nice if Mojang fixed them up to be better and cleaner
It would be nice if Mojang fixed them up to be better and cleaner
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So the nether until now just not netherack
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haha, wait, i don't rly get it
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I've been absolutely loving the nether update so far, really happy we finally have a nice black block to build with, and It'll be fun returning to the nether and enslaving hanging out with the new piglin inhabitants
also netherite just looks badass af, really happy we have something that isn't garish to look at as the end tier, and hopefully this'll meant future diamond upgrades too
also netherite just looks badass af, really happy we have something that isn't garish to look at as the end tier, and hopefully this'll meant future diamond upgrades too
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Pigstep is so cool!
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Ruined portals and chains are just a good idea! Think, chains will let me use lanterns as ceiling lamps, and ruined portals, don't need to bring obsidian anymore!
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"All too easy." - Darth Vader
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🤣🤣🤣
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deep quotes
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yup
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new music
because they all sound spooky to me
my favourite is probably chrysopoeia
because they all sound spooky to me
my favourite is probably chrysopoeia
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The music is so cool!
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Wow. Finally took some time to look into this. It looks amazing, cant wait for all those new blocks!
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I love my motherland
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i love this! so excited for this. the nether is getting more ''life'' lets say it like that. also i loved pigstep.
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wut r ruined portals?
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they're portals... but ruined!
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well, yeah
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GUYS PIGLINS DANCE IN BEDROCK EDITION I NEVER KNEW THIS ITS OS CUTE AHHHH
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Here's my opinion on this update (As I said, this is an opinion. No hate please, ty. <3)
The nether has needed an update for quite a long time now, and it's good that we are getting one now and not later.
I love the new biomes, ambient noises, chains, ruined nether portals, and some of the new blocks. Those are my favorite things that I am looking forward too. However, I am not too excited about everything else. The new music, maybe. But it isn't the same knowing that Daniel Rosenfeld didn't compose it.
I'm not a person who is against change, but if it's a change that somehow violates my nostalgia... then that is a different circumstance lol.
It's good that most fans are accepting the update, but this update has ups and downs in my opinion.
If anyone has some input about this statement, feel free to reply! I'm open to see what everyone else thinks about it. :)
The nether has needed an update for quite a long time now, and it's good that we are getting one now and not later.
I love the new biomes, ambient noises, chains, ruined nether portals, and some of the new blocks. Those are my favorite things that I am looking forward too. However, I am not too excited about everything else. The new music, maybe. But it isn't the same knowing that Daniel Rosenfeld didn't compose it.
I'm not a person who is against change, but if it's a change that somehow violates my nostalgia... then that is a different circumstance lol.
It's good that most fans are accepting the update, but this update has ups and downs in my opinion.
If anyone has some input about this statement, feel free to reply! I'm open to see what everyone else thinks about it. :)
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I hope they improve music in game, because there is moments when music just needed (Long Adventure, Farming mobs, Building) and you just can't turn music ON, you must only wait when it comes by random.
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