Minecraft 1.20.5

Everything below is measured by comparing the game files of 1.20.4 with 1.20.5 — not copied from patch notes.

1.20.5 block and item additions

19 new blocks and items. Hover a slot for the name; click to open its page.

Blocks +2

Heavy CoreVault

Items +19 · −1

Armadillo ScuteArmadillo Spawn EggBogged Spawn EggBolt Armor Trim Smithing TemplateBreeze RodFlow Armor Trim Smithing TemplateFlow Banner PatternFlow Pottery SherdGuster Banner PatternGuster Pottery SherdHeavy CoreMaceOminous BottleOminous Trial KeyScrape Pottery SherdTurtle ScuteVaultWind ChargeWolf Armor

Removed: minecraft:scute

Mobs and entities +4

ArmadilloBoggedBreeze Wind ChargeOminous Item Spawner

How to make the new things 1

Hover a slot to see what goes in it.

Result	Made in	Recipe
Wolf Armor	Crafting

Status effects +6

Potions +4 · −1

Removed: minecraft:empty

Enchantments +4 · −1

Removed: minecraft:sweeping

Block entities +1

Particles +11 · −3

Removed: minecraft:ambient_entity_effect, minecraft:gust_dust, minecraft:gust_emitter

Sound events +69 · −1

Removed: minecraft:entity.generic.wind_burst

Block states changed

New in-game text 230

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Reworded text 25

Wording Mojang changed in this version.

Read from Mojang’s own release notes for Minecraft: Java Edition 1.20.5, published 2024-04-23. Every entry keeps its original bug ID.

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

Fixed bugs in 1.20.5 242

• MC-19893 options_background.png is incorrectly displayed upside down in the credits after beating the dragon
• MC-71977 Changing generic.attack_damage of tamed wolf has no effect / taming wolf removes custom generic.attack_damage
• MC-72151 Snow Golem's snowballs damage wolves instead of pushing them
• MC-94413 Breaking, placing and walking in tripwire (string) or cobweb play stone sounds
• MC-96609 Pick block on player head does not use BlockEntityTag
• MC-100016 Singleplayer world selection screen is shown incorrectly when light_dirt_background.png and/or options_background.png are transparent
• MC-100994 Items in hot bar appear on top of tab menu
• MC-107353 Ghast fireballs move incorrectly when hit with knockback enchantment
• MC-108350 Totem of undying animation is rendered above hotbar, but underneath items and xp, hunger and health displays
• MC-109286 Default dirt page background not aligned properly
• MC-117637 World is visible for short moment after credits before respawn
• MC-117955 Player teleports to the top when crushed by a piston head
• MC-117977 Advancement GUI doesn't have a close button
• MC-118857 Effect amplifier is read/written as byte from NBT despite being stored as an integer
• MC-118890 Tipped arrows stuck in the ground never lose their effect
• MC-121621 Pick block on shulker boxes doesn't find placed and mined shulker boxes in inventory
• MC-122703 You can craft a stack of non-stackable items using data packs
• MC-123804 Explorer map and Ominous banner names appear in item frames, draw in italics, and can be removed with an anvil
• MC-130244 When opening chat in F1 mode, previous messages aren't visible
• MC-131636 One additional character at the end is allowed in JSON text components
• MC-132380 The "Joining world..." message shows up when you enter a nether/end portal
• MC-140397 When combining two enchanted unbreakable items, the result will be two stacked items
• MC-140565 Patrol leaders with banners can drop 2 different types of banners which don't stack
• MC-142372 Ctrl + Pick block on a campfire with food cooking updates the nbt during cook time
• MC-143614 Campfire item with "cooking" NBT heavily shakes in hand/off-screen, when CTRL+pick-blocked
• MC-147710 Some long mob names are occluded by the scroll bar in the Statistics page
• MC-148057 Ominous banners generated in outposts show the pattern list
• MC-148480 Putting two identical enchanted books in a grindstone will output one book
• MC-149457 Updating "Force Unicode" setting resets selected language in the language selection menu
• MC-151793 Various Ominous Banner stacking issues
• MC-153329 Leashing an iron golem breaks its pathfinding until reloading the world
• MC-153643 Debug overlay is rendered behind hotbar items
• MC-153879 Raiders ignore ominous banners that was saved in the Saved Toolbars from a different version
• MC-155857 Team command doesn't affect illagers and witches' AI
• MC-157133 Enchanted books with curses can be stacked using a grindstone
• MC-162453 Custom heads do not show skin in hand
• MC-164298 Applying the texture to player heads is inconsistent
• MC-165435 Can't trigger flying mode in creative while standing in the middle of 2×2 magma block bubble column
• MC-165948 Bees can be lured into dangerous blocks
• MC-166361 GUI scale does not visually update when the option is changed using the keyboard and without the mouse
• MC-167324 Multiple UI buttons can be highlighted at the same time
• MC-167375 Baby turtle subtitles are grammatically incorrect
• MC-168407 Bees can get stuck in a lantern
• MC-169187 Hand animation plays when trying to use a spawn egg 5 blocks away from the player's reach
• MC-169389 End portals sometimes teleport the player to overworld coordinates
• MC-170000 Hand lighting / lighting of held items changes drastically in first-person mode when looking around
• MC-171177 You can enter nether portals in creative mode by running against the frame of the portal
• MC-171981 Map of fuel times is created anew every time an item is placed in a furnace, instead of being cached
• MC-172047 Wolves try to attack armor stands
• MC-172447 Leaving The End shows loading screen with overlapping text
• MC-172898 Equiping armor in creative via right click causes it to disappear from the hotbar for a frame
• MC-173303 Leashed pets teleport to the player when reloaded
• MC-173672 Title text renders in front of player names in player list
• MC-174496 Player heads lose their name after being placed
• MC-175437 Fullscreen resolution isn't applied when exiting Video Settings with Esc
• MC-175622 Wolf's tail will spin 360 degrees if max health is increased
• MC-178410 Banners don't support the HideFlags tag when placed down as blocks
• MC-179817 Lead drop when modifying it with /data
• MC-184066 Respawn anchors don't produce an ambient sound
• MC-184622 Sound for exiting a portal/travelling to another dimension does not use its subtitle string despite it existing in en_us.json
• MC-185379 Baby polar bear subtitle does not explicitly mention it comes from a baby polar bear
• MC-185955 When your eye level is up to 2 pixels above water, you count as being underwater as if it would be a full block
• MC-186626 /weather not working in custom dimensions
• MC-187267 Title text renders in front of sidebar
• MC-187372 There is no space between fps limit/vsync and graphics level in the debug screen
• MC-187616 Totems rendered too dark for a second after being used
• MC-187746 Game rule buttons on "Edit game rules" screen are highlighted despite being covered
• MC-188497 AngerTime and AngryAt cannot be set on summon
• MC-189211 Water Taken from Cauldron statistic is slightly covered by the bottom of the screen's overlay
• MC-189484 Statistics screen Tab selection is not centered
• MC-193202 Tamed wolf health resets when NBT is loaded (e.g. relog
• MC-193460 Inconsistent layering of sidebar and debug screen (F3) text
• MC-193511 Title text renders in front of narrator text
• MC-193515 Boss bar text renders in front of narrator text
• MC-193517 Boss bar text renders in front of sidebar
• MC-193521 Boss bar text renders in front of F3
• MC-193524 Boss bar text strikethough/underline renders on tab list
• MC-193656 Banners' breaking texture is displaced and/or repeatedly flips horizontally, depending on the banner's rotation
• MC-193753 Respawn anchor ambient sound subtitle refers to it as a portal
• MC-194948 Block breaking subtitle inconsistent with painting, item frame and lead breaking subtitles
• MC-195572 The fog from lava is much denser when having the Fire Resistance effect active compared to Bedrock Edition
• MC-198492 Players can be pushed into danger in situations where they wouldn't normally be damaged
• MC-198787 Inefficient streams in GoalSelector
• MC-198963 Chat text renders in front of player names in player list
• MC-199973 Wet wolf is rendered too dark compared to past versions
• MC-200947 Large amount of unused space in map_icons.png texture file
• MC-200987 Title in bossbar breaks HUD opacity
• MC-201722 Summon command ignores stacking restrictions
• MC-204947 Ctrl + Pick Block on placed ominous banners is not the same as Pick Block
• MC-206854 Multiplayer warning and Chat Preview warning are off center
• MC-207353 Ghast fireballs and wind charges can't be redirected in melee if the attack does 0 damage
• MC-208528 Feeding tamed baby wolves and cats causes them to sit down/stand up
• MC-209906 Sculk sensors are not activated upon attaching equipment to entities through their inventories
• MC-213104 Statistics tab resets when resizing the Minecraft window
• MC-216071 Splash text resets if you hit escape on the Multiplayer menu, but not the Singleplayer menu
• MC-217084 Player head NBT "ExtraType" is no longer saved but doesn't use DataFixerUpper upgrade path
• MC-218811 Big dripleaves tilt when touched from the side
• MC-219899 Bone meal used on rooted dirt causes the particles to appear above it, despite the growth being below it
• MC-219967 IndexOutOfBoundsException occurs instead of a "Bad packet id" message
• MC-221754 Leashed wolves no longer attack when unleashed
• MC-224343 Books don't stack after being placed on a lectern
• MC-225170 Normal matrix scaling broken in some situations
• MC-226775 Extinguishing candle shows inaccurate subtitle
• MC-228486 Cannot switch to other windows using Cmd+Tab on macOS
• MC-229209 Loot table function set_count doesn't work with unstackable items anymore
• MC-229680 Chest, Trapped Chest, Ender Chest and Barrels stop functioning when moving far away whilst in the GUI
• MC-229919 Bees don't recognize beehives or bee nests with a campfire directly below and a block on top
• MC-230256 NBT "HideFlags" does not hide "Slot" on minecraft:bundle
• MC-231466 Minecraft crashes with message 'Index 335550507 out of bounds for length 8000' / java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: Index 335550507 out of bounds for length 8000
• MC-232104 Minecarts cause chunks to be corrupted/reset when loading worlds from before 1.5 (13w02a
• MC-232489 Retrieving a plant from a flower pot ignores inventory contents
• MC-232560 Tamed wolf movement speed decreases when unleashed from a fence
• MC-234406 The dirt background changes its position when interacting with the "Players" button in the realms menu
• MC-234558 There is no title in the "Invite player" realms menu
• MC-234889 Potion effect icons displayed within the HUD can overlap boss bars
• MC-238242 There is an unnecessary black pixel in the upper right corner of small potion UI icons in the inventory
• MC-239084 Item pickup animation is darker than the actual item model
• MC-248076 Specific type of Firework Rockets won't stack with each other after use
• MC-248689 Fog on falling blocks happens too early
• MC-248961 takenDamage for achievement criteria is calculated wrongly when the player has equipped a helmet
• MC-249136 Freeze/server-side lag spike sometimes occurs when attempting to locate a buried treasure or opening/breaking a chest containing a map
• MC-249335 Using bone meal on mangrove leaves spawns growth particles at the center of the block instead of below it
• MC-250432 Esc key always unpauses the game in Demo mode
• MC-251027 Wearing a helmet doesn't reduce the damage of falling anvils or stalactites by 1⁄4
• MC-251042 Third-party warning buttons are not positioned well in non-English languages
• MC-251303 Transparent boss bars break when more than one is on screen
• MC-251509 Patterned banners not stacking properly / banner loses "banner" ID when mined
• MC-252409 Memory statistics within the debug menu contain some unnecessary spaces
• MC-253881 The screen repetitively flashes for other players when the host of a LAN world changes the render distance
• MC-259142 Hoppers with barrel facing downwards on top picking up item
• MC-259355 Game crashes because /place sometimes does not check whether position is loaded and out of world
• MC-259587 Negative item durability causes the durability bar to render incorrectly
• MC-260099 Sniffer's snout shading changes during sniffing
• MC-260867 Cannot focus entries on the pack selection screen using the mouse
• MC-260889 Players can use water buckets and lava buckets on blocks that are out of reach
• MC-260921 Data is focused last on the statistics screen when using keyboard navigation
• MC-261577 The nether portal overlay is rendered completely opaque when using spyglasses while standing inside of nether portals
• MC-261596 Crafting Table search keyboard shortcut not working
• MC-261749 Tamed cats don't emit mob interaction vibrations for entering sitting/standing mode
• MC-261846 Japanese language uses a Chinese font
• MC-262503 light_dirt_background.png and header_separator.png does not match options_background.png
• MC-263256 Chat renders on top of TAB, blocking information
• MC-263315 Attack Target of hoglins/zoglins can't be detected by /execute on target
• MC-263641 Boss bar text no longer renders behind potion effect icons
• MC-263872 The "Scanning for games on your local network" element in the multiplayer menu cannot be selected via the mouse cursor
• MC-263873 Elements within the statistics menu are not selected in order when using the TAB key
• MC-263874 Elements in lists within the statistics menu cannot be selected via the mouse cursor
• MC-264456 Entity targeted by frogs and axolotls can't be detected by /execute on target
• MC-264597 F3 debug menu underlined text renders over subtitles
• MC-264637 Text shaders resource packs cause subtitles to flicker
• MC-264684 Too long macro silently fails
• MC-264821 The fog on armor worn by entities occurs too early
• MC-265273 The tab list in create world screen does not indicate it's tab-focused by highlight or rendering borders
• MC-265390 Forceload Command provides wrong output
• MC-265520 Switching connection protocols sometimes produces errors
• MC-265541 player.dat_old won't be read even if player.dat doesn't exist
• MC-265585 Waterlogged barriers do not diffuse sky light
• MC-265661 Dirt background appears to overlap back button on experimental feature requirements datapack screen for some window sizes
• MC-265669 Hotbar text renders above subtitle background but under subtitle text
• MC-265698 Skeleton Horse's head covers player's screen when jumping
• MC-265709 Stonecutter outputs are broken past the 32nd row in the GUI (server only
• MC-265741 Waterlogged barriers don't show up on maps
• MC-265749 Tooltips flash when the values of buttons or fields are changed
• MC-265835 The freezing effect is rendered totally opaque when using a spyglass
• MC-266032 Attempting to copy a "Copy of a copy" book in a Crafter behaves incorrectly
• MC-266055 Opening or closing a copper door or trapdoor while holding an axe / honeycomb grants wax-related advancement
• MC-266135 Cached macro commands ignore permission level, allowing limited permission escalation
• MC-266136 Macro commands ignore function-permisson-level server setting, including when lower than default
• MC-266144 Copper Doors are not part of the #doors item tag
• MC-266145 Copper Trapdoors are not part of the #trapdoors item tag
• MC-266308 Copper Bulbs have unused "turn_off" sound
• MC-266334 Shulker bullets destroy armor stands
• MC-266389 Glow berry particles are barely visible when bonemealed
• MC-266430 Breeze on top of a non-full block produces particles of the block below it
• MC-266432 Exposed, weathered and oxidised copper bulbs are unwaxed in trial chambers
• MC-266449 Breeze doesn't attack or retaliate against mob on sight
• MC-266467 Wind charges stutter when flying through the air
• MC-266469 When attacked, breezes sometimes stop pathfinding, jumping, or firing wind charges
• MC-266532 Breezes can be hit by some projectiles
• MC-266533 Breeze's AI has serious flaws in open terrain
• MC-266557 The breeze sometimes moves around while attacking, interrupting its attack animation
• MC-266570 Wind charges can't go through non solid blocks
• MC-266577 Some trial spawners in trial chambers spawn mobs without persistence
• MC-266589 Armor durability is changed when swapping on creative
• MC-266628 High polling rate causing stuttering
• MC-266680 The glowing outline isn't applied to the eyes or eyebrows of breezes
• MC-266685 The entity shadows of breezes are too large in relation to the size of their models
• MC-266688 Breeze model's glowing eyes are not resource pack-friendly
• MC-266707 Trial spawners ignore custom_spawn_rules
• MC-266738 Subtitles string "subtitles.block.trial_spawner.spawn_mob" is misleading and inconsistent
• MC-266879 Clouds, entity hitboxes, block outlines, specially rendered blocks, and enchantment glints, render through the insides of breezes' eyes and eyebrows
• MC-266909 Breezes don't have smooth transitions to their idle states when they stop moving
• MC-266960 Bossbar text renders in front of player list background and player icons
• MC-266990 Maps with the same 'map' tag value, but different 'display' tag data can cause markers to disappear
• MC-266997 Sky light doesn't update when breaking a shulker box while its (closing) animation is playing
• MC-266999 Crafter's tooltip buttons can still be visible to players on spectator mode
• MC-267044 Tick status strings contain inconsistent word usage
• MC-267045 Some tick strings are missing articles and are unclear
• MC-267086 Compass does not indicate spawn point correctly when game is frozen with /tick
• MC-267103 Client crashes when receiving inconsistent network registries
• MC-267104 The bottom face textures of breezes' rods are incorrect and don't match with surrounding colors
• MC-267133 Breezes can't attack or move when there is no land around them and they are on the same height block as the player
• MC-267149 Crafter top face has an inverted UV texture map
• MC-267193 A function with /return fail run in chat doesn't indicate failure
• MC-267194 /return run function in combination with a fork and a function that doesn't return has inconsistent behavior
• MC-267273 Second beacon power for level 4 beacon flickers when player hovers the mouse pointer over it
• MC-267352 Singleplayer worlds don't load the player.dat when the "Player" tag is absent from level.dat
• MC-267366 You cannot use Spider Eyes on Baby Armadillos to age them up
• MC-267367 Wolf armor flashes red when the wolf takes damage
• MC-267371 Shulkers hitbox doesn't scale with generic.scale
• MC-267377 Applying bone meal to mangrove leaves no longer produces any particles
• MC-267378 Armor stand interaction points do not change with scale
• MC-267379 Applying bone meal to rooted dirt no longer produces any particles
• MC-267380 Cannot open inventories beyond default block reach
• MC-267381 Moving while sneaking is impossible with high generic.step_height attribute
• MC-267433 Shift double-clicking while holding the same item on your cursor doesn't transfer items
• MC-267451 Items named with an anvil on 1.20.4 don't stack with items named prior
• MC-267456 Changes to item_used_on_block advancement criteria breaks previous functionality
• MC-267465 Realms world upload error: "Cannot invoke "ctt.c()" because "this.b" is null"
• MC-267500 Attribute modifier on an item with the first and/or last 2 integers of the UUID being 0 are non-functional
• MC-267732 /place jigsaw still caps max depth at 7
• MC-267742 Opening a written book makes it unstackable with identical unopened books
• MC-267747 Click and hover events don't work when viewing chat while F1 is enabled
• MC-267809 The word "armor" within the Wolf Armor subtitle strings is improperly capitalized
• MC-267866 Panda slimeball drop is hardcoded
• MC-267975 The realms player list is rendered larger than its visual size
• MC-267976 The scroll bar in the realms player list can no longer be dragged using the mouse cursor
• MC-268000 The client crashes when using /give to give players a skull
• MC-268011 Hoppers leak the last world they sucked item on
• MC-268022 Elements within the list in the "Experimental feature requirements" menu cannot be selected via the mouse cursor
• MC-268110 Deleting world results in a file directory error
• MC-268236 Search field in the social interactions menu not focused by default
• MC-268353 Tick Freeze randomizes next AI tick type
• MC-268597 Hitting a breeze with a player reflected/dispensed wind charge causes it to become trapped within the breeze until it moves
• MC-268624 "Saving world" message is rendered behind pause menu background, instead of on top
• MC-269083 Effect background texture in inventory renders translucent pixels as opaque
• MC-269085 Experience bar and jump bar render translucent pixels as opaque
• MC-269279 The "Normal user" button within the realms player menu is improperly capitalized
• MC-269472 Crash when table_bonus loot condition has empty chances list
• MC-269496 You don't get any damage if you fight against the breeze in a minecart or in a boat
• MC-269755 Scroller in Report Player screen renders translucent pixels as opaque, unlike elsewhere
• MC-269763 Scroller in Realms screen renders translucent pixels as opaque, unlike elsewhere

Every build Mojang published on the way to 1.20.5, in order.

1. Snapshot

   15

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

   23w51a23w51b24w03a24w03b24w04a24w05a24w05b24w06a24w07a24w09a24w10a24w11a24w12a24w13a24w14a

2. Pre-release

   4

   Feature-complete; only bug fixes land between here and release.

   1.20.5-pre11.20.5-pre21.20.5-pre31.20.5-pre4

3. Release candidate

   3

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

   1.20.5-rc11.20.5-rc21.20.5-rc3

4. Release

   1.20.5

   The build that shipped. Everything above led here.