Minecraft 25w42a

Everything below is measured by comparing the game files of 25w41a with 25w42a — not copied from patch notes.

Sound events +1

New in-game text 7

Reworded text 2

Wording Mojang changed in this version.

Read from Mojang’s own release notes for Minecraft Snapshot 25w42a, published 2025-10-14. Every entry keeps its original bug ID.

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

Fixed bugs in 25w42a 37

• MC-263562 World types in Realms backup info screen are untranslatable
• MC-298405 Text components in the "label" of input controls in dialogs don't support "hover_event"
• MC-299876 Labels for booleans within dialogs are rendered in a slightly different shade of white than normal
• MC-301271 Object text components do not render in some places unless there are text glyphs on the same line
• MC-301518 The mouse cursor doesn’t change to the hand shape when hovering over checkboxes
• MC-301520 The mouse cursor doesn’t change to the hand shape when hovering over the difficulty lock button
• MC-301557 The shading direction of the bolts on single and large copper chests does not match
• MC-301879 Double weathered and waxed weathered copper chests' bottom texture looks off compared to the other variants
• MC-302071 Single and double copper chests have inconsistent side textures
• MC-302246 Sprite object component does not render in server list depending on component tree
• MC-302409 Lightning that strikes waxed lightning rods do not deoxidize nearby unwaxed copper blocks
• MC-302656 Skeleton horses burn in the sunlight
• MC-302657 The "subtitles.entity.nautilus.eat" string misspells the word “Nautilus” as “Nauilus”
• MC-302664 Piglins aren't attracted to golden nautilus armor
• MC-302672 "Invalid player data" error when loading a world in which you have an effect applied
• MC-302680 Zombie horses and zombie nautiluses cannot be spawned in Peaceful difficulty
• MC-302683 The "Confirm Command Execution" dialog is popped up for commands with a permission level of 0
• MC-302729 Blast furnaces do not smelt nautilus armor
• MC-302732 Performing a charge attack with a spear in your off hand applies the effects from the enchantments present on the item held in the main hand
• MC-302743 Repeatedly using a spear keeps performing charge attacks every 10 ticks
• MC-302767 Holding a spear in Spectator mode and performing a jab attack plays the jab sound
• MC-302783 Baby nautiluses use #minecraft:nautilus_taming_items instead of #minecraft:nautilus_food for growing up
• MC-302802 Spear charge attack breaks item frames when still
• MC-302813 Zombified piglins no longer appear to sprint or make any angry noises when angry
• MC-302816 When running NBT to SNBT conversion, the program waits for 1 minute after completion
• MC-302817 Spears with Fire Aspect can ignite victims even when the attacks are blocked
• MC-302818 Zombie horsemen can occasionally spawn holding something other than an iron spear
• MC-302827 Spears can jab through walls
• MC-302834 Wolves' eyes don't turn red when angry
• MC-302838 Extreme TPS lag when using high Lunge levels with Unbreaking
• MC-302842 Nautiluses and zombie nautiluses never despawn
• MC-302920 "scoreboard players display" settings sometimes reset on world load
• MC-302924 Players can no longer be invited to realms
• MC-302984 Holding a spear in the off hand and attacking an entity adds the spear's attack damage to the attack
• MC-302988 Bees no longer get angry at players or mobs
• MC-303083 Searching in the resource/data pack selection screens doesn't properly scroll to the results
• MC-303089 Level 3 operators cannot use client-side operator features

This build was part of the run-up to 1.21.11. Everything tested here landed in that release.