Minecraft To Shear or Not To Shear - Minecraft 1.16.2 Pre-release 2 is out!

To Shear or Not To Shear - Minecraft 1.16.2 Pre-release 2 is out!
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To Shear or Not To Shear - Minecraft 1.16.2 Pre-release 2 is out!

Posted: 05 Aug 2020 09:05 AM PDT

We have now released the second pre-release for Minecraft 1.16.2, in which another round of bugs have been squished!

This update can also be found on minecraft.net.

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

Changes in 1.16.2 Pre-release 2

Crimson and Warped Roots no longer require shears when mined

Technical Changes in 1.16.2 Pre-release 2

Execute Command

execute in now respects dimension scaling

Fixed bugs in 1.16.2 Pre-release 2

MC-69876 - Pistons at Y=1 do not push downwards / at Y=254 do not push upwards
MC-124320 - Endermen can pick up and place snowless snowy grass blocks
MC-130558 - Item frames cannot be emptied if gamerule doEntityDrops is set to false
MC-134084 - If gamerule sendCommandFeedback is disabled, /msg or /tell don't display the message to the sender
MC-136553 - Dyes in creative inventory are in reverse order
MC-152037 - Powered, activator and detector rails are deleted when pushed/pulled onto a block they cannot be placed on
MC-187357 - Strongholds will not generate in floating_islands or caves preset
MC-189736 - "distance" within predicate no longer works
MC-190552 - Demo mode resets position and inventory upon launch
MC-190859 - floating_islands or caves buffet worlds no longer generate strongholds and ender eyes do not locate previously generated strongholds after upgrading to 1.16
MC-192136 - Lava damage works differently than in previous versions
MC-192236 - Endermen can place blocks on top of item frames on the floor
MC-192371 - Paintings in the same block space pop off when chunk loads
MC-192845 - Block Event Lag in 1.16 is excessive
MC-194217 - Lava sets nether vegetation on fire despite it being fire resistant
MC-194867 - Minecarts come out the wrong side of a nether portal and lose momentum when coming back to overworld
MC-194953 - Custom Biomes are not useable in Predicates
MC-195803 - Mob kill statistics are formatted in reverse: "N killed you <mob> times"
MC-195851 - "Hat" layer on helmets detaches from Piglins' heads while bartering
MC-196245 - Charged creeper does not always drop skull if zombie variants are nearby
MC-196441 - Stonecutter/Smithing Table recipes are not given after crafting a stack of more than one
MC-196469 - F1 hides the nausea green tint
MC-196473 - Pufferfish gives Nausea II instead of the maximum of Nausea I
MC-196653 - Creating multiple datapack dimensions which reference the same dimension_type string causes "unregistered dimension" crash
MC-196743 - Custom/modified biomes don't work in the overworld

Get the Pre-release

Pre-releases are available for Minecraft Java Edition. To install the pre-release, 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: