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Minecraft 1.16-pre3

Feature-complete; only bug fixes land between here and release. Full source data for this version is extracted and browsable below.

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Contents (7)
  1. What changed in 1.16-pre3
  2. New in-game text
  3. Reworded text
  4. Fixes
  5. Development cycle
  6. Browse this version
  7. Neighbouring versions

Java What changed in 1.16-pre3

Everything below is measured by comparing the game files of 1.16-pre2 with 1.16-pre3 — not copied from patch notes.

New in-game text 3

KeyText
createWorld.preparingPreparing for world creation...
key.swapOffhandSwap Item With Offhand
selectWorld.data_readReading world data...

Reworded text 12

Wording Mojang changed in this version.

KeyBeforeAfter
chat.copy.clickClick to copy to ClipboardClick to Copy to Clipboard
dataPack.validation.backGo backGo Back
dataPack.validation.resetReset to defaultReset to Default
datapackFailure.safeModeSafe modeSafe Mode
debug.creative_spectator.helpF3 + N = Cycle creative <-> spectatorF3 + N = Cycle previous gamemode <-> spectator
editGamerule.titleEdit game rulesEdit Game Rules
generator.single_biome_floating_islandsFloating islandsFloating Islands
options.graphics.fabulous.tooltip"Fabulous" graphics enables screen shaders to draw translucent objects per-pixel. This may severely impact performance for portable devices and 4k displays."Fabulous" graphics uses screen shaders for drawing weather, clouds and particles behind translucent blocks and water. This may severely impact performance for portable devices and 4K displays.
options.graphics.fancy.tooltip"Fancy" graphics balances performance and quality for the majority of machines."Fancy" graphics balances performance and quality for the majority of machines. Weather, clouds and particles may not appear behind translucent blocks or water.
selectWorld.backupJoinConfirmButtonCreate backup and loadCreate Backup and Load
selectWorld.import_worldgen_settingsImport settingsImport Settings
sign.editEdit sign messageEdit Sign Message

Fixes 126

Read from Mojang’s own release notes for Minecraft 1.16 Pre-Release 3, published 2020-06-10. Every entry keeps its original bug ID.

126 issues fixed, read from Mojang’s own patch notes. Each entry keeps its original bug ID.

Fixed Bugs in 1.16 Pre-Release 3 126

  • MC-13823 Leads are incorrectly positioned on certain entities
  • MC-14680 Lead is shifted upwards or downwards based on leashed entity height
  • MC-27535 Mobs can sometimes still despawn, even if named with a name tag
  • MC-84610 Off-hand hotkey doesn't work in inventories
  • MC-131286 Attack will use right hand instead of left hand when swimming (main hand: left
  • MC-134608 Certain Spawner Tag Conditions Induce Game Crash
  • MC-143473 Teleporting a mob while it is pathfinding will make it navigate back to where it was originally going
  • MC-152157 "Marie Stålkrantz" is not the right color in game credits
  • MC-159371 Leads are incorrectly positioned on bees
  • MC-159502 Bees don't avoid water; killing themselves
  • MC-160520 Bee's wandering AI tries to go through three-way corners
  • MC-163921 Placing a block while looking at redstone ore plays no sound
  • MC-166346 Transparent blocks do not render properly with tripwire above
  • MC-166880 Pufferfish spikes model seems to be broken
  • MC-167043 Enchantment glint does only apply to the handle of shields with banners
  • MC-169008 Using End portal in the Nether teleports the player to the End, but at the same coordinates the player was in the Nether
  • MC-171618 Players wearing armor take less damage from burning when standing in fire under certain conditions
  • MC-171810 Some Mojang employees are not mentioned in the credits
  • MC-171969 Fall damage is negated when stepping up after falling
  • MC-172053 Nether particles get stuck on the bottom of blocks
  • MC-172105 When a piglin is dancing, targeting or looking at an item, the chestplate the piglin is wearing does not adjust to the piglin's pose
  • MC-172110 Texture of turtle shells is missing when worn by a piglin or zombified piglin
  • MC-172871 Unable to spawn wither in horizontal arrangement below y level 2
  • MC-173310 Observer powered texture doesn't match unpowered
  • MC-173404 Desync when mounting an entity while sneaking
  • MC-173825 Bats break turtle eggs
  • MC-176094 Baby zombified piglin chicken jockeys can spawn riding striders
  • MC-177336 'Failed to access level' when opening a world from a CIFS mount on Ubuntu
  • MC-177530 The new minecraft:attributes registry is plural, while all the others are singular
  • MC-177542 Chunk loading and saving is extremely slow when sync-chunk-writes=true
  • MC-177626 Spruce generation is broken
  • MC-177694 Zombified Piglin Spawn Egg is placed before Zombie Villager Spawn Egg in the creative inventory
  • MC-177712 Nether portal blocks do not have loot tables
  • MC-177795 Overworld music can start playing in the Nether
  • MC-177863 Shroomlights cannot be composted
  • MC-177876 Striders are now much rarer
  • MC-178010 Lena Raine does not appear in credits
  • MC-178338 Striders only get warm when lava touches their legs
  • MC-179140 Sea guardians have an odd swimming behavior
  • MC-180603 Wrong structures are generated in superflat worlds
  • MC-181630 Advancement trigger "minecraft:tick" does not support standard "player" predicate
  • MC-181813 Edit "g"ame "r"ules are not capitalized in the Game Rules menu title
  • MC-181884 Falling quickly/Flying with Elytra/Swimming with Riptide Trident and throwing a projectile will cause it to hit the player
  • MC-182076 Horse jumping sound is unused
  • MC-182249 Problems with potted_cactus.json block model file
  • MC-182766 Recipe book search function does not work if recipe book was not open before
  • MC-182909 Esc from Customised World's Biome selection screen kicks us back to main menu
  • MC-183018 When sneaking while flying underwater in Creative, the player exits flying mode after a few seconds
  • MC-183402 Tutorial doesn't advance when breaking nether tree
  • MC-183554 Ruined portals generated in lava lakes unnaturally displace lava, resulting in weird borders
  • MC-183588 Stray emerald block in structure bastion/treasure/big_air_full
  • MC-183594 The 5th large inner and outer hoglin stables do not generate in bastions
  • MC-183599 Some hoglin stable stair structures do not generate
  • MC-183762 Description of F3+N in help menu still describes the old functionality
  • MC-183809 Large Oak Trees replace blocks
  • MC-183880 Distracting baby piglins with gold grants the 'Oh Shiny' advancement
  • MC-183915 Wall Heads & Skulls are slightly offset from block selection outline
  • MC-183931 nether fortress mobs no longer spawn in extended bounding box
  • MC-183933 show_text tellraw hover events don't work for components that need resolving (nbt, score, selector
  • MC-184093 Using an end gateway teleports the player half a block too high
  • MC-184250 Font of the enchantments displayed in the enchanting table is italic
  • MC-184608 "Unknown biome, defaulting to plains" error upon launching the game
  • MC-184612 Import Settings "s" isn't capitalized
  • MC-184613 End Stone generates in Floating Islands setting
  • MC-184644 Cave buffet generator generates with netherrack, even if using a non-nether biome
  • MC-184653 [Crash] "java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: value already present:" Game crashes when worldgen dimension type presets are not unique
  • MC-184675 Superflat void preset doesn't have a starting platform again
  • MC-184699 '/spreadplayers under' does not prevent invalid values
  • MC-184723 The "i" in "World Type: Floating islands" is not capitalized
  • MC-184757 [Crash] "java.lang.NullPointerException: Ticking memory connection" on loading a dimension with debug chunk generator
  • MC-184887 You can spawn in the bedrock ceiling of a Caves world
  • MC-184900 Newline in tellraw adds a space at the beginning of the new line
  • MC-184984 Game crashes after generating multiple worlds in succession
  • MC-185004 [Crash] java.lang.NullPointerException Crash on entering end/nether portal when dimension is removed in worldgen settings
  • MC-185164 Bottom half of icebergs always generate at y=62 regardless of sea_level
  • MC-185285 Entering the End or the Nether after creating and reentering a debug world crashes the game
  • MC-185299 Villagers cannot be summoned with a specific type unless you also specify a profession
  • MC-185363 sync-chunk-writes often takes over a minute to close a world
  • MC-185417 Maps reset on upgrade
  • MC-185616 Turtle eggs can't hatch on red sand
  • MC-185949 Copy "C" in Click to Copy to Clipboard isn't capitalized
  • MC-186078 Transparent items render in front of transparent blocks on some graphics cards when graphics setting is set to fabulous
  • MC-186084 Piglin head and torso floats and detaches during celebration dance
  • MC-186085 Player is unable to interact with the world after dismounting a boat while it's moving
  • MC-186091 When you stop swimming, "diving underwater" sound occurs and vision flashes
  • MC-186092 The head of a piglin becomes offset after performing their celebration dance
  • MC-186097 Pigs are moving very slowly
  • MC-186248 "m" in Safe Mode button isn't capitalized
  • MC-186263 "b" & "l" in Create Backup & Load isn't capitalized
  • MC-186337 The lighting of the "Client" doesn't correspond to that of the "Server"
  • MC-186353 The "s" and "m" in "Edit sign message" are uncapitalized
  • MC-186403 Swimming up on the side of flowing water no longer prevents the player from drowning
  • MC-186492 Lily pad placement in creative mode causes item on hotbar to flicker/vanish
  • MC-186905 "Superflat Customization" screen resets every time you open it and does not show previously saved settings
  • MC-187363 Charged respawn anchors no longer light up blocks around them
  • MC-187367 Netherite recipes show up in crafting table despite requiring a smithing table to use
  • MC-187371 Game crashes when attempting to change cloud settings on some graphics cards
  • MC-187392 Items in waterlogged stairs don't float up high enough to be caught by a water stream above the stair
  • MC-187394 Dying Ender dragons are rendered completely white when using Fabulous graphics
  • MC-187402 Lighting in the End dimension is much darker when on a server
  • MC-187405 /seed is no longer available without cheats enabled
  • MC-187411 Particles and clouds not rendering properly behind stained glass and solid blocks
  • MC-187437 Held item is invisible in inventory menu
  • MC-187449 Zombie Pigmen/Zombified Piglins do not drop XP and rare drops anymore if killed by anything other than the player while in angered state
  • MC-187466 Mobs killed in creative mode don't drop experience
  • MC-187468 Enchantment glint does not render for certain things on "Fabulous" setting
  • MC-187483 The advancement "Two by Two" can be achieved by just breeding turtles
  • MC-187504 Mobs do not drop rare drop items when killed by a player in Creative Mode
  • MC-187552 Piglins and Hoglins shake in the nether on servers
  • MC-187585 Dolphins with NoAI:1b can drown
  • MC-187592 Piglins constantly picking up gold nuggets and dropping them
  • MC-187611 White squares when in first person with fabulous video settings and F1
  • MC-187618 Demo world not saving after saving and quitting then quiting out of minecraft
  • MC-187673 [Crash] "java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unregistered dimension type"
  • MC-187676 "d" in Reset to default isn't capitalized
  • MC-187677 "b" in Go back isn't capitalized
  • MC-187679 Bees stay angry far longer
  • MC-187730 Newly spawned Zombified Piglins do not pick up the aggro of older spawned aggravated Zombified Piglins
  • MC-187739 NeutralMob.playerDied(Player) does not return if forgiveDeadPlayers = false
  • MC-187796 Wolves only use their hostile appearance after being attacked
  • MC-187811 Ender dragon death animation suddenly flashes right after it has ended
  • MC-187978 /seed availiable to all players on multiplayer server
  • MC-188070 Glitched skin while swimming (left hand
  • MC-188088 Overworld superflat preset no longer generates with terrain decorations
  • MC-188216 Superflat biome selection overrides block selection on "Create New World" screen
  • MC-188393 K in "4k" should be capitalized

Development cycle

This build was part of the run-up to 1.16. Everything tested here landed in that release.

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