Minecraft Minecraft Snapshot 20w06a is out!

Minecraft Snapshot 20w06a is out!
1.16 vs 1.15
Made a custom shaped portal with all new blocks
made a short water fountain animation with a lot of command blocks.
Netherite Armour in Java Edition 1.16
All of the new Netherite materials, armor, tools, and weapons.
The new wood types are absolutely gorgeous!
The new Nether is absolutely beautiful!
This is all I've ever wanted in my life
Ice spikes biome art I spent a few hours on
Been keeping track of the years I've been playing my Creative World, hard to believe I've been playing it for 7 years
I made a wine cellar beneath my town. Loved it >:)
I made a bed where you can sleep under the covers
New Netherite armor! Slightly more powerful than diamond and knockback resistant. (Also floats in lava!)
My underground bee farm.
Pixel art doors because why not
The new soul sand valley is absolutely spooktacular!
I took a basic plains village and did a bit of DIY on it. What do you think?
The new nether biome specific blocks
Wall ideas using the new crimson blocks and others from 20w06a.
2 Houses
New snapshot got released. Thoughts?
Netherite will rule them all! #1.16_Snapshot
So ancient debris is very very rare which makes sense
This is what global warming is doing to our hoglins people!
The new Netherite armor and tools are awesome!

Posted: 05 Feb 2020 08:40 AM PST

The first snapshot for 1.16, the "Nether Update" is here, and we're very exited to share it with you! This snapshot contains new biomes, blocks and a fancy new ore called "ancient debris".

This update can also be found on minecraft.net.

If you find any bugs, please report them on the official Minecraft Issue Tracker.

Features in 20w06a

Added new Nether blocks!
Knockback resistance is now a scale instead of a probability
Added Crimson Forest biome to the Nether
Added Hoglins - they don't do much yet, but they have cute flappy ears!
Patrols no longer spawn when the player is close to any village
Added Netherite!
Added Soulsand Valley biome to the Nether
Walls do not have gaps anymore when stacked vertically
Added Warped Forest biome to the Nether

Blocks

Many new block types have been added!

Two new wood-like materials - Crimson Stems and Warped Stems
Basalt blocks - you can find them as pillars but they can be placed in any direction
New ground surface blocks: Crimson Nylium and Warped Nylium
New vegetation: Nether Sprouts, Crimson Roots and Warped Roots
Two types of Fungi: Crimson and Warped - try using bone meal to grow them!
Warped Wart blocks
Weeping Vines that grow from the bottom of a block downwards!
A new natural light source: Shroomlights
Added Soul Soil! Whenever fire burns on Soul Soil, it burns with a blue flame!
Soul Soil can be used to craft Soul Torches - and those can be crafted into Soul Lanterns!
Using bone meal on Netherrack can now spread Nylium

Crimson Forest

Crimson Forests can now be found in the Nether!

Crimson nylium carpets the cave floor with all kinds of strange new vegetation
Huge Crimson Fungi make up the "trees" of this forest, with Shroomlights lighting up the forest floor
Weeping Vines grow from the cave ceilings and fungi
Hoglins wander these Forests
Crimson spores swirl through the air

Netherite

A new high level material found in the Nether. Use it to upgrade your diamond gear!

How to make Netherite

Mine Ancient Debris in the lower depths of the Nether. At own risk. No insurance coverage for that.
Refine it into Netherite Scrap in a furnace (although that's kind of slow so you might want a Blast Furnace).
Combine 4 Nether Scrap with 4 Gold Ingots in a crafting table to make a Netherite Ingot.

Netherite effects

Netherite items float in lava. So you don't lose all your gear after that unplanned lava bath.
Netherite items have higher enchantment value than diamond (but not as high as gold).
Netherite tools work faster and last longer than diamond.
Netherite weapons do more damage than diamond.
Netherite armor have higher toughness and durability than diamond.
Netherite armor gives you knockback resistance, so you barely get knocked back at all when hit by arrows and such.
And it looks cool!

Soulsand Valley

Soulsand Valleys can now be found in the Nether!

An open space made mostly of Soul Sand and Soul Soil
Basalt pillars span from floor to ceiling
Fossil remains of unknown creatures from the past litter the valley
Ash falls through the air
A light blue glow envelopes the valley
Beware of Skeletons here

Sounds

Ghasts sounds are now heard at shorter range
Updated block sounds for Bone Blocks, Netherrack, Soul Sand, Netherwart, Nether Bricks and Quartz Ore

Warped Forest

Warped Forests can now be found in the Nether!

Warped nylium carpets the cave floor with all kinds of strange new vegetation
Huge Warped Fungi make up the "trees" of this forest, with Shroomlights lighting up the forest floor
A dark blue fog covers the forest!
Warped spores swirl through the air
The Warped Forests are strange, but also the least hostile place of Nether

World Generation

The old Nether biome is now called Nether Wastes
Made shipwrecks and ocean ruins a bit less common, so you get more excited when you find one!

Technical Changes in 20w06a

Added a locatebiome command

Commands

locatebiome

New command that locates a specified biome. Useful in creative mode when you're looking for a specific biome and don't want to fly around randomly searching for it. Syntax: locatebiome <biome> Parameters:

biome - The id of the biome to find

Particles

New particle types: ash, crimson_spore, soul_fire_flame and warped_spore

Rendering

Nailed Entity shadows to the ground.

Fixed Bugs in 20w06a

MC-17431 - Shift-clicking stacked items with a data tag into the enchanting table GUI removes data tags from the moved item
MC-45619 - Water, Signs, Vines, Torches etc. in the same block as item frame break item frame's redstone signal
MC-52178 - Cape doesn't move down while sneaking / Cape detaches from body while sneaking
MC-59363 - Items in item frames are deleted if both mouse buttons are used simultaneously
MC-82235 - Baby pigs turn into adult zombie pigmen when struck by lightning
MC-92889 - Mending doesn't always consume experience if the player wears items with mending that are already fully repaired
MC-93198 - Throwing potions / throwable projectiles causes both hands to bob up and down
MC-93631 - Pistons pop off blocks attached to their back when retracting
MC-96436 - Eggs/snowballs/xp-bottles break instantly when thrown while riding a horse
MC-97958 - Small slime has no jump or squish sound
MC-103655 - Cats don't stand up when using right click on them while they're sitting on chests or beds
MC-109370 - Bottom face of column blocks are rotated 180 degrees
MC-109844 - en_us.json contains unused strings
MC-109850 - Redstone wire doesn't have a bottom texture
MC-112630 - Carrot on a stick cannot be broken
MC-113381 - Falling dust particles of anvil and concrete powder blocks are black
MC-120335 - Flower pot bottom texture is not rendered because of incorrect "uv" values in the model file
MC-131440 - The message for trying to sleep at the wrong time implies that you can only sleep at night during a thunderstorm
MC-131770 - Rain particles appear one block below the water or lava surface
MC-132607 - Splitting slimes and magma cubes do not copy NoAI value
MC-134162 - Item entities can break turtle eggs
MC-136868 - Ignited TNT, arrow or trident turns black when it falls on soul sand or snow layers
MC-138600 - Cats don't bring gifts if they have already decided to sit on your bed
MC-140544 - Pickaxes don't speed up piston breaking
MC-148474 - Sloped powered detector rails break when pushed or pulled by a piston
MC-149052 - Stonecutter recipe list doesn't show item tooltips
MC-149776 - Cartography Table requires string for the recipe to show up in the recipe book
MC-150020 - Composter is in the "Miscellaneous" category instead of "Decoration" like the other workstation blocks
MC-154867 - Tamed cats remain sitting if the world is reloaded while the cat is sitting on a chest
MC-158807 - You can remove cursed enchantments on items by repairing them in inventory
MC-159300 - Villagers that have been infected by a zombie can despawn, even if they have been traded with
MC-159773 - Shulkers can teleport to non-solid faces, and don't teleport to some solid faces
MC-159918 - Foxes don't run from polar bears
MC-159963 - Minecarts can break turtle eggs
MC-160897 - Dropping an item using the drop key displays the hand animation but dropping items from within the inventory does not
MC-160902 - Arm swings when right-clicking on full minecart
MC-161156 - Silverfish and endermites appear black on soul sand
MC-161259 - Using the carrot on a stick while riding a pig plays no hand animation
MC-162881 - Composter doesn't display particles when being fed composting items through a hopper
MC-163286 - /setblock ~ ~ ~ air destroy does not destroy liquids
MC-164184 - Breaking a shulker box with contents in Creative mode drops the block at an incorrect location
MC-164948 - Entity shadow renders through transparent blocks
MC-167077 - Foxes sleep on top of honey blocks, even in broad daylight
MC-167512 - Glass in the hand is rendered differently depending on the "Clouds" setting
MC-167989 - Spawn point is not set when monsters are nearby
MC-168540 - Threads created by net.minecraft.Util.backgroundExecutor() have misleading names
MC-168772 - Experience orbs can crush turtle eggs
MC-169679 - Composters do not make sounds when fed by hoppers
MC-169692 - Entity shadow floats slightly above the ground
MC-169832 - Transparent item models have inconsistent rendering when a glowing entity is present
MC-170128 - Cannot build an EntityType without a datafixer due to an IllegalArgumentException