On this new Wednesday, the snapshot 20w18a of the 1.16 of Minecraft is now available in your launcher. It fixes about seventy bugs. We are certainly coming to the very last stage of the Nether Update: corrections and adjustments of all kinds. The very first pre-release should be coming soon.

Additions and modifications :

Changes to the rendering, blockstate and behavior of the Redstone Wire.
- A single Redstone Thread is now represented as a cross.
- A thread above a block, which is redirected down, will feed the sides to which it is redirected. For example, a barrier above the redirected wire will be fed.
- Wires redirected to another wire above non-conducting blocks were previously redirected only visually. From now on, this redirection also applies to their behavior.
- From now on, a wire redirected to pass over a block will always provide power to the block. This is more visible when the wire has a signal strength of 1.

The Target now conducts the Redstone signal.
The Chain can now be waterlogged.
Added an “enable-status” option to the “server.properties” file which, if set to “false”, will suppress responses to client status queries. This makes the server appear offline in the multiplayer screen.
Changes to the Progress system.
- Added “player” to watch all triggers (except “impossible”).
- Entity checks in triggers can now use the condition syntax of a loot table.

Fixed bugs in 20w18a

MC-11211 – Unable to perform many right click actions when targeting the top face of blocks placed at y=255
MC-111381 – Rendering rotations for shulkers are set in onInitialSpawn method
MC-143904 – Adding a non-rail block to the “rails” block tag will crash the game when placing a minecart on it
MC-147255 – Beds in the overworld will explode if in a nether wastes biome
MC-162385 – The background of the title text does not fade with the text
MC-166269 – Wet wolves become black for an instant after shaking off water
MC-166296 – Mobs picking up and equipping items does not play the equipping sound
MC-170840 – Broken spawn rates in soul sand valleys and warped forests
MC-170944 – /locatebiome messages do not fit for all biome names
MC-171523 – Inconsistent strings for warped and crimson wall signs
MC-172172 – Adult piglins spin around while following the player
MC-172253 – Equip sound doesn’t play when Piglins equip items
MC-173067 – NullPointerException when a structure containing a campfire is placed during world generation
MC-173198 – Target blocks are transparent and do not transfer redstone signals
MC-173385 – New Nether lighting system doesn’t affect fluids, entity-like blocks (chests, etc.) and entities
MC-173747 – Armor enchantment glint doesn’t render
MC-174573 – Nether vines can drop multiple copies with fortune (free duplication)
MC-174593 – Inconsistent pluralisation in “fell off a scaffolding”
MC-174811 – Zombified piglins are able to spawn on top of nether wart blocks
MC-175107 – It’s possible to get Bad Omen VI in Survival mode
MC-175740 – Game crashes when dispenser is used on non-beehive block in #beehives tag
MC-175741 – Game crashes when a cat attempts to sleep in a non-bed in the #beds tag
MC-176028 – Striders can spawn in stacks of three or more
MC-176032 – Striders can float
MC-176054 – Baby strider passengers float / passenger offset is too high
MC-176135 – Striders riding other entities are not cold
MC-176203 – Striders with Levitation walking on Lava don’t levitate
MC-176459 – Baby striders can spawn with saddles
MC-176468 – Adult striders can spawn with saddles
MC-177105 – Piglins, hoglins, zoglins and villagers look at their target’s feet instead of its head
MC-177127 – Unnecessary exclamation point in subtitle “End Portal opens!”
MC-177173 – Baby Zoglin age status value is not stored in the NBT tag.
MC-177561 – Compasses used on the top of lodestone at y=255 do not break when the lodestone is destroyed
MC-177771 – “death.attack.fireworks.item” displays raw translation string (is untranslated)
MC-177790 – Piglin Banners are named block.minecraft.banner.piglin.[<colour>]
MC-177794 – Globe Banner Pattern is not required to add the globe to a banner
MC-177816 – Failed to access/delete level should be “world”
MC-177911 – Cave generator doesn’t cut through blackstone
MC-177951 – Game crashes when fire starters are used on a non-campfire in the #campfires tag
MC-177976 – Baby piglins can pick up soul campfires
MC-178013 – Zombified Piglins riding striders can despawn, leaving saddled striders
MC-178129 – Entity conversion subtitles use inconsistent tenses
MC-178336 – The message “You have no home bed or respawn anchor, or it was obstructed” doesn’t make it clear that your respawn anchor might have been depleted
MC-178817 – “Chain Blocks” don’t have a “waterlogged” state
MC-178943 – Piglins/hoglins spawned in bastion remnants can outrun players
MC-178949 – Bastion Remnants cannot be generated in in superflat worlds
MC-179839 – Chat text renders behind the armor bar
MC-179841 – Game crashes when you optimize your world
MC-179845 – Rain falls through any blocks in some spots
MC-179847 – Hoglins and Piglins spin around
MC-179850 – There is no difference between Entity Distance 100% and 500%
MC-179858 – Maps show stone-like pattern despite it not being there
MC-179863 – Setting attribute minecraft:generic.max_health value to 0 or lower causes an infinite death loop after dying
MC-179866 – In some spots, it is raining even if it should be snowing
MC-179868 – Crash when going to a previous page of writable books
MC-179883 – Raw JSON text duplicates components in “extra” in entity names
MC-179886 – Play button overlay doesn’t appear in worldsave selection GUI
MC-179905 – Caption of game rule screen is missing
MC-179952 – Height map data doesn’t get converted
MC-179954 – Keybindings are not correctly inserted into the demo info box text
MC-180030 – Adult hoglins zombified into an adult zoglin deals the same damage as a baby
MC-180100 – Rain particles appear black under certain conditions
MC-180110 – Underline and strikethrough in JSON text don’t always render correctly
MC-180125 – Incorrect font spacing on non-BMP characters
MC-180135 – Empty chat messages are not displayed
MC-180138 – Long messages in chat no longer have hanging indention
MC-180246 – The “r” in “Game rules” is not capitalized
MC-180248 – The “g” in “Upgrade gear” is not capitalized
MC-180299 – “Elytra” in “Disable Elytra movement check” is inconsistently capitalized
MC-180353 – Chat background renders in front of the Debug Menu but chat text renders behind it
MC-181296 – Panorama has wrong overlay when using Programmer Art

Get the snapshot

Snapshots are available for Minecraft: Java Edition. To install the snapshot, open up the Minecraft Launcher and enable snapshots in the “Installations” tab.

Snapshots can corrupt your world, so please backup and/or run them in a different folder from your main worlds.

Cross-platform server jar: