Ever since the Nether Update, the Piglins have seen players sneaking in and having a peek in their chests - well no more! With 1.16.2, we’re introducing the Piglin Brute – a Piglin so focused on guarding the Bastion Remnants' chests that even gold can’t distract them.

Features in 1.16.2

Accessibility

Two new accessibility settings have been added to help with visual comfort

Distortion effects such as nausea and the Nether portal overlay can now be reduced
At lower values, the nausea effect is replaced with a green overlay as an alternative visualization
Field of view effects, shown after speed modifiers are applied, can now be reduced

Chat Delay

Chat delay has been added to the Chat Settings screen
Pressing F3+D now clears the pending chat messages

Bastion Remnants

Tweaked the Bastion Remnant chest loot
Chests in Bastion Remnants are now more likely to be positioned on top of gilded blackstone

Blocks

Brewing stands can now be crafted with blackstone
Lanterns and Soul Lanterns can now be waterlogged
Crimson and warped fungus can now be placed on mycelium
Chains can now be placed in all orientations

Items

Tools are now sorted based on material in the creative inventory
Totems of undying now give the fire resistance status affect for 40 seconds when activated

Mobs

Endermen will no longer place their held block onto bedrock blocks
Zoglins can now be leashed
When a Zombified Piglin is spawned riding a Strider, it will now be holding a Warped Fungi on a Stick
Removed Herobrine

Piglins

Added Piglin Brutes!
Piglins now become angry with players who open or destroy a Chest Minecart
Tweaked bartering loot

Piglin Brute

Piglin Brutes are stronger versions of Piglins that live in bastions and protect the treasures there
Unlike the their cowardly and greedy counterparts, the Piglin Brutes cannot be distracted by gold and aren't afraid of anything
Piglin Brutes attack players on sight, no matter how the player is dressed
Piglin Brutes wield axes and don't need any armor, because they're just that tough

Respawn Block Positions

Modified how respawn positions are chosen for beds and respawn anchors
Respawn anchors will prioritize cardinal directions over corners
Beds will prioritize the side of the bed the player entered from and then spaces circling around the foot of the bed up to the head of the bed
Respawning players will now face the block that they respawned at
Placing players onto dangerous blocks is now avoided when possible

Villagers

Villagers now emit green particles when joining a village, setting a home bed, or acquiring a job site / profession
Villagers now lose their job sites when changing dimension

Technical Changes in 1.16.2

Custom worlds now support custom biomes
Sign edit screen will now intialize from existing sign text (should have no noticeable impact on vanilla)
Small improvements to data and resource pack selection screens
Tags can now have optional entries

Commands

Execute

execute in now respects dimension scaling

spawnpoint & setworldspawn

Added an angle parameter for setting the default facing angle of a respawning player Syntax: spawnpoint [<targets>] [<pos>] [<angle>]
Syntax: setworldspawn [<pos>] [<angle>] New parameters:

angle - Floating point angle in degrees. Supports the relative ~ modifier

Customized world generation

Custom world generation and dimension settings now use the same folder pattern in data packs as other resources (namespace/<type>/resource.json)
There is now experimental support for a worldgen folder in data packs
worldgen/biome can contain biome definitions
worldgen/configured_carver can contain definitions for world carver settings
worldgen/configured_feature can contain definitions for feature placements
worldgen/configured_structure_feature can contain definitions for structure placements
worldgen/configured_surface_builder can contain definitions for surfaces
worldgen/noise_settings can now contain noise configurations
worldgen/processor_list can contain sets of block processors
worldgen/template_pool can contain pool definitions for jigsaw structures
Custom biomes can now be used in the single biome/caves/floating islands world types (add the data pack containing the biome first)
Custom biomes can now be used in custom dimension generators

Dedicated server packet limit

Dedicated servers can now kick clients that consistently send too many packets within a second
Controlled with the rate-limit settings in server.properties
The default rate limit of 0 means "no limit"

Pack selection screens

While screen is open, it will automatically update when pack directory contents change
Both pack selection screen will now display contents of pack.png as pack icon

Pack version

Resource pack version raised to 6

Bugs

A total of more than 150 bugs have also been fixed in this release!

Minecraft: Java Edition 1.16.2