Minecraft Anchor Yourself to the Nether - Snapshot 20w12a is out!

Anchor Yourself to the Nether - Snapshot 20w12a is out!
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Prismarine Mountain is finally finished!
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A train runs over a valley
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I found a natural cobblestone genarator
I finally died on after 319 days of Hardcore
Forget Zoom, today we had a functional programming lecture in minecraft.
My castle so far
[PixelArt] - Vincent van Gogh's Starry Night
The new Polished Basalt Block
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The Aether fan art
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New Respawn Anchor! To use, right click with glowstone and it will charge up to a maximum of four charges. Then right click to set your spawn point. Pretty neat stuff!
Cars Mcqueen and Sally take a ride

Anchor Yourself to the Nether - Snapshot 20w12a is out!

Posted: 18 Mar 2020 10:21 AM PDT

Ever wanted to take a quick nap in a biome full of lava and with dangers lurking around every corner? Good news! We've just added the Respawn Anchor that let's you set your spawn point in the Nether. Just make sure that you have enough charges.

This update can also be found on minecraft.net.

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

New Features in 20w12a

Added the respawn anchor that can set your respawn point in the Nether. Use while holding Glowstone to charge to a maximum of four charges - each respawn depletes one charge
Added polished basalt! Smelt your basalt to make it clean and shiny!
Warped and crimson nylium can now be bonemealed to get more of the strange new vegetation
Hoes are now the appropriate tool to mine sponges and wet sponges
Baby piglins have learned some new acrobatic moves when riding baby hoglins

Changes in 20w12a

When fishing, treasure loot can now only be obtained by fishing in open waters
Reduced the maximum distance a bee can wander away from its home hive when randomly wandering to around 22 blocks
Nether gold ore can now be mined with any type of pickaxe and drops a few gold nuggets
Parrots imitate hostile mobs less often
Parrots do not randomly imitate hostile mobs when gamemode is on peaceful
New mood detection algorithm for cave sounds

Technical Changes in 20w12a

Commands

spawnpoint

The spawnpoint command now supports being run in any dimension.

UUIDs in NBT

UUIDs stored in NBT are now represented as an array of four integers. Example: {UUID:[I;1498693494,1027158888,1898994005,860320107]} Along with that a couple of fields have been renamed:

OwnerUUID of tamed animals, area effect clouds, evoker fangs and projectiles is now simply Owner
TrustedUUIDs of foxes is now Trusted
target_uuid of conduits is now Target

Loot Tables

Entity Predicate

Added fishing_hook sub-predicate

`fishing_hook`

Check properties of the fishing hook

Parameter

in_open_water - Matches whether the fishing location is open water fishing or not. A fishing location is considered to be open water if there are no blocks above water and no solid underwater blocks around, all water blocks are source blocks and there are no bubble columns.

Fixed bugs in 20w12a

MC-3328 - Dismounting an entity places riding entity / player half block too high
MC-64242 - Silent tag is not working for some entities
MC-100342 - Several Non-Ticking blocks are marked as ticking forcing the growth-algorithm to check chunks needlessly
MC-113809 - Chorus Flower plant, Bamboo, Sugarcane, Cactus and other plants grow instantly when supporting block is replaced with same block type
MC-114000 - Mouse click in cat hissing sounds
MC-122128 - Recipe book resets itself to closed state after death
MC-129137 - Parrots imitating hostile mobs in peaceful is not that peaceful
MC-130137 - Grass and mycelium don't decay underwater
MC-140545 - Pathfinding prefers North (negative Z) direction
MC-148936 - Parrot summoned with negative Age has smaller hitbox
MC-149375 - Camera can be positioned inside of snow layers
MC-160959 - Clicking onto a bed in daytime doesn't grant the advancement "Sweet Dreams"
MC-161754 - Item duplication with chested donkeys, mules and llamas
MC-163918 - Bees not animating their pollen gathering
MC-166980 - Bees become stuck wandering to the north-west after completing a task, or randomly in large numbers
MC-168384 - NBT-Tag "Silent:1b" doesn't work for bees.
MC-169965 - Potion effect timers for higher levels can remain at 0:00 after the higher level has run out if multiple levels of the same effect were applied in descending order
MC-170584 - Structure taiga_meeting_point_2 from zombie villages has 1 misrotated log
MC-170591 - Misrotated floor blocks in desert_tool_smith_1 basement
MC-170773 - Recipe book and filtering craftable do not stay open for blast furnace and smoker when (re)loading the world
MC-170940 - Netherite ingot recipes are not grouped
MC-171133 - Camera can be positioned inside of soul sand
MC-172188 - Hoglins are not required by 'Two by Two' advancement
MC-172690 - Smelting netherite scraps doesn't provide the right amount of experience
MC-172820 - Piglins can turn into adult chicken jockeys in the overworld
MC-173199 - Fossils in the nether cause caves / floating islands to generate and can break through the nether roof
MC-173220 - Dismounting passenger moves to a nearby block when ridden entity dies
MC-173420 - Sign crafting recipes of various wood types are not grouped
MC-173487 - Falling out of water death message still does not seem to appear
MC-173552 - Nether Fossile support islands cut off at chunk borders
MC-173791 - Mobs dismount vehicles only in front of the boat, even if there is danger ahead
MC-173828 - Village church entrance does not generate correctly
MC-173832 - Crimson and Warped Hyphae and Stripped Hyphae are switched in Creative inventory
MC-173837 - Removing fire and soul fire with shears will reduce the shears' durability
MC-174049 - Fireworks shot from a crossbow do not explode instantly when hitting a solid block
MC-174071 - Roof of savanna_mason_1 is cut off
MC-174072 - Structure savanna_temple_2 contains one misrotated block
MC-174073 - Two misrotated blocks in savanna_small_house_5
MC-174075 - Misrotated block in savanna_butchers_shop_1
MC-174076 - Inconsistent rotation of logs under windows in savanna_small_house_4
MC-174077 - Structure snowy_library_1 no longer has snow under the roof
MC-174078 - Three misrotated blocks in snowy_armorer_house_2
MC-174079 - Misrotated block at snowy_weapon_smith_1
MC-174082 - Three misrotated blocks in snowy_small_house_2
MC-174083 - Three misrotated blocks in snowy_butchers_shop_1
MC-174174 - Arrow animation stuck on loop when a flame bow is used to detonate TNT
MC-174234 - Village structure snowy_masons_house_1 has two misrotated blocks
MC-174258 - Fixed item frames do not take void damage
MC-174391 - Several misrotated blocks at snowy_medium_house_2
MC-174429 - Chorus flowers remove arrow and trident velocity
MC-174464 - Soul speed decreases durability on boots in creative mode
MC-174466 - Soul speed particles are generated in spectator mode
MC-174467 - Placing fire on soul sand does not place soul fire
MC-174476 - Soul fire torch is in the piglin_repellents item tag twice
MC-174480 - Piglins are not attracted to Nether gold ore
MC-174489 - Shroomlight preferred tool is now both Axe and Hoe
MC-174502 - Soul Speed 3 on Soul Soil in water keeps and increases player momentum
MC-174513 - Soul Speed Enchanted Books from bartering with piglins do not work in an anvil
MC-174522 - Soul Speed doesn't break boots
MC-174690 - Soul speed enchantment books can be found in chests
MC-174785 - Mining speed of crimson and warped wall signs is not affected by an axe

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.

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

Cross-platform server jar: