Minecraft 1.16.2-pre2

Everything below is measured by comparing the game files of 1.16.2-pre1 with 1.16.2-pre2 — not copied from patch notes.

Read from Mojang’s own release notes for Minecraft 1.16.2 Pre-Release 2, published 2020-08-05. Every entry keeps its original bug ID.

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

Fixed bugs in 1.16.2 Pre-release 2 25

• 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 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

This build was part of the run-up to 1.16.2. Everything tested here landed in that release.