Minecraft 1.16.5

Everything below is measured by comparing the game files of 1.16.4 with 1.16.5 — not copied from patch notes.

Read from Mojang’s own release notes for Minecraft: Java Edition 1.16.5, published 2021-01-14. Every entry keeps its original bug ID.

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

Fixed bugs in 20w45a 42

• MC-98219 Experience orbs follow dead players
• MC-108469 Chunk-wise entity lists often don't get updated correctly (Entities disappear
• MC-112147 Lava burning items or XP orbs sound muted when "Friendly Creatures" slider is turned off
• MC-127201 /replaceitem makes quite an obnoxious sound, which is not heard by the person whose items are being replaced.
• MC-127692 Experience build up in furnace when using a hopper which can cause severe lag
• MC-130449 Cartographer villager freezes or crashes the game when unlocking explorer maps
• MC-130584 When a structure loads, water sources in the structure spread into waterloggable blocks
• MC-133691 Blocks can't be placed normally on a full cauldron
• MC-135552 Dead Entities are saved to chunk
• MC-136497 XP orbs causing severe lag
• MC-141034 taiga_fisher_cottage_1 is filled with water
• MC-169900 Incorrect jigsaw setting in snowy_small_house_8
• MC-169945 Skeletons don't burn in minecarts while being exposed to daylight
• MC-171852 Putting item in a spectator's hand plays sound "Gear equips" for other players
• MC-174685 Drowned arm texture is reversed by the model
• MC-175959 One door is open in taiga_shepherds_house_1
• MC-177622 One log in taiga_butcher_shop_1 seems to be misrotated causing the side roof to look asymmetrical
• MC-177624 Entrance in snowy_medium_house_2 is asymmetrical
• MC-181889 Equipping sound plays when mobs picking up non-armor items
• MC-185357 Removing a plant from a flower pot still plays generic armor equipping sound/shows Gear equips in subtitles
• MC-185359 Using a bucket in Survival mode still plays generic armor equipping sound/shows Gear equips in subtitles
• MC-185360 Milking a mooshroom for stew still plays armor equip sound/shows Gear equips subtitle
• MC-189565 Some entities do not render inside of spawners and producing error log spam in console, potentially causing lag
• MC-190896 Lag when opening a shipwreck chest containing buried treasure map
• MC-192594 plains_stable_1 misplaced blocks
• MC-192629 plains_stable_2 misplaced blocks
• MC-192876 Misplaced trapdoor on taiga_decoration_6
• MC-192879 Wall incorrectly placed on certain taiga houses
• MC-192930 Zombies picking up items play the gear equipping sound and subtitle
• MC-193071 Eating food items that return empty containers still play gear equipping sound
• MC-195125 plains_animal_pen_1 misplaced block
• MC-195126 plains_animal_pen_3 misplaced blocks
• MC-195351 Comparator in compare mode can schedule unneeded tileticks
• MC-196542 Small cleanup for skylight propagation code
• MC-197009 Referencing empty item tag in recipe can crash client
• MC-197140 Jack o'Lantern doesn't come after Carved Pumpkin in Creative Inventory
• MC-197179 Baby piglins that pick up leather don't despawn, cluttering the Nether with unnecessary baby piglins
• MC-197524 Border chunks do not enforce neighbors to be loaded, causing light updates to get stuck
• MC-198129 ReplaceBlobsFeature changed from 1.16.1 to 1.16.2, affecting Basalt Delta generation
• MC-198414 if the angle in /spawnpoint is set to +-infinity, and the player dies, it will kick the player, and upon rejoin will crash the game
• MC-198807 Making piglins and piglin brutes angry at certain entities (like dropped items) crashes the game
• MC-202246 Drowned navigation causes memory leak/performance degredation

Fixed bugs in 20w46a 29

• MC-2490 TNT animation ends at 80 ticks, ignores fuse length changes
• MC-53518 Endermen don't attack endermites spawned using spawn eggs or /summon
• MC-80468 Inconsistency between block names
• MC-99259 As of 1.9, the wither health bar doesn't go up during spawn
• MC-110903 Cannot remove horse saddle using /replaceitem
• MC-143821 Using empty map in creative mode can create additional map with ID 0
• MC-147729 Crafting via the recipe book can delete items if picking up items while crafting
• MC-162910 Additional map is created when using an empty map in Creative in a newly created world
• MC-182954 "block.minecraft.banner.base." displays raw translation string (is untranslated
• MC-183771 Gamemode switcher icons in the F3+F4 menu are not centered
• MC-183917 Min and max are both required in entity_scores condition
• MC-185605 Kelp generates on top of Magma Blocks
• MC-188448 Food pops off of campfire when extinguished
• MC-189482 LAN World screen buttons are selected in the wrong order when using Tab
• MC-196425 "Off" is not completely capitalized for the Distortion Effects and FOV Effects sliders, which is inconsistent with other sliders
• MC-197276 Pufferfish gives poison IV instead of II
• MC-198514 Creating a superflat world with nothing but air crashes the game
• MC-198725 Crash when clicking "Presets" after setting the superflat preset with a non-existent biome
• MC-203562 Shulker boxes animate when shulkers do
• MC-203574 Decorations don't generate in the Nether
• MC-203621 Unable to pick up experience orbs
• MC-203622 Arm when using Spyglass aligned wrong on Multiplayer
• MC-203631 Amethyst buds do not drop themselves with silk touch
• MC-203643 Command modified bundle has a bigger progress bar than a slot
• MC-203644 Cats & Ocelots are missing one of their legs
• MC-203646 Some mobs won't despawn when switched to peaceful
• MC-203648 The armour stand model floats above its base
• MC-203746 Levitation particles go on forever when killed by a levitating creeper
• MC-203880 Floating creepers / creeper with no AI

Fixed bugs in 20w48a 23

• MC-3615 Lava and water are completely transparent at certain height levels
• MC-176614 Swimming and doing certain actions make the player look very odd/does not have animations for swimming + doing certain actions
• MC-198864 World border does not render below y=0 / above y=255
• MC-203602 Spyglass animation is wrong when swimming
• MC-203645 Spyglass wobbles when walking while in use
• MC-203824 Weird Hand animation when attacking and using spyglass at the same time
• MC-203925 Items inside of a bundle disappear if you empty the bundle in the inventory when in Creative mode while the inventory is full
• MC-203951 The elder guardian particle moves when an elder guardian moves
• MC-204323 Inconsistency: Crafting copper blocks into slabs only yields 4 slabs instead of 6
• MC-204424 Using a spyglass while gliding with an elytra points the spyglass down in third person view
• MC-205041 Full leather armour does not prevent freezing damage
• MC-205069 Powdered snow doesn't give you frozen effect in creative mode
• MC-205072 Snow Ambient Effect sometimes don't show correctly on the edge of a Powder Snow Block
• MC-205145 Compass with nothing to point to will spin very rapidly when in bundle.
• MC-205197 Creating a map from an empty map no longer plays a sound
• MC-205220 Cannot manipulate horse.saddle using /item command
• MC-205269 Chest closing sounds desynced with closing animations
• MC-205321 Item modifiers that change the item type don't work on entities
• MC-205445 The Fabulous graphics warning is shown at the wrong time
• MC-205492 The 'Include entities' option in the structure block UI is the opposite of the actual behavior
• MC-205567 TNT flashes are translucent once again
• MC-205627 Item modifiers that change the count to 0 don't completely remove the item
• MC-206058 /item modify doesn't visually update the model of an item in an item frame

Fixed bugs in 20w49a 26

• MC-18880 The Absorption effect has no texture for poison/wither hearts (appears empty instead
• MC-201840 Optional function tags sometimes don't run even when the tag exists
• MC-203797 Placing or removing a block over the void causes a DecoderException on servers
• MC-204314 Double copper slabs only drop a single slab when mined
• MC-205043 Absorption hearts appear broken when taking freezing damage
• MC-205096 Hardcore hearts lose all color when player is taking freeze damage
• MC-205391 Waxing cut copper doesn’t prevent it from oxidising
• MC-205629 Unused sign cache when rendering signs
• MC-206553 Pointed Dripstone creates water particles in the Nether
• MC-206563 Pointed dripstone is not connected to the player's hand
• MC-206578 Large pillars of stalactites don't fall when the block above is removed
• MC-206583 Cauldrons below stalactites at least 2 blocks tall won't fill up
• MC-206591 Setting any floating block to a pointed dripstone, causes the replaced block to drop as an item
• MC-206594 Large stalactites falling occasionally don't drop all of their pointed dripstone items
• MC-206599 Pointed dripstone can be placed atop each other, even if a player would be inside the hitbox of the lower dripstone
• MC-206606 Frustum stage of stalactites negates fall damage
• MC-206613 Pointed Dripstone duplicates when the block it was attached to is removed
• MC-206615 Pointed dripstone's hitbox can extend further than a block, causing nearby stalactites to not be able to fall
• MC-206642 Stalactites destroy items they fall on, however stalagmites don't
• MC-206643 When a dripstone's hitbox extends into the space of another block, the area that extends into said block cannot be targeted
• MC-206669 Inconsistency between dripstone and non-mob entities
• MC-206682 Floating dripstone tips are sometimes left behind from large dripstone pillars
• MC-206691 Pointed dripstone replaces items with pointed dripstone items
• MC-206711 Coding error at net.minecraft.world.entity.Entity.resetPos
• MC-206790 Waterlogged dripstone does not update
• MC-206878 Pointed dripstone attached to a piston is not removed as the piston extends

Fixed bugs in 20w51a 10

• MC-149799 When a crossbow is loaded and in the offhand, you do not see it anymore if you carry an item in the main hand
• MC-176615 It is possible to destroy netherite items with lava by putting them inside a container
• MC-203563 Cake appears eaten for a split second when putting a candle on it
• MC-203568 Trying to put a candle onto a candle cake duplicates the candle
• MC-204058 Placing a candle on a cake causes hunger display desync
• MC-204146 Netherite can burn whilst inside of a bundle
• MC-205057 Bundle inventory preview is off-center inside of the tooltip box
• MC-205212 Desync when putting a candle on a cake in Survival mode
• MC-207405 Nether stars can be blown up while being inside of a bundle/shulker box
• MC-208082 Game stalls when any message is displayed in chat while playing with an expired session

Every build Mojang published on the way to 1.16.5, in order.

1. Snapshot

   5

   Weekly work-in-progress build. Things break and get removed again.

   20w45a20w46a20w48a20w49a20w51a

2. Release candidate

   1

   The build Mojang intends to ship unless a blocking bug turns up.

   1.16.5-rc1

3. Release

   1.16.5

   The build that shipped. Everything above led here.