In this snapshot you can be on your merry way across the beautiful Soulsand Valleys with your freshly enchanted boots. It's a bit scary to be fair, so these boots will help you out with that bit...

This update can also be found on minecraft.net.

If you find any bugs, please report them on the official Minecraft Issue Tracker.

New Features in 20w12a

Added the respawn anchor that can set your respawn point in the Nether. Use while holding Glowstone to charge to a maximum of four charges - each respawn depletes one charge
Added polished basalt! Smelt your basalt to make it clean and shiny!
Warped and crimson nylium can now be bonemealed to get more of the strange new vegetation
Hoes are now the appropriate tool to mine sponges and wet sponges

Changes in 20w12a

When fishing, treasure loot can now only be obtained by fishing in open waters
Reduced the maximum distance a bee can wander away from its home hive when randomly wandering to around 22 blocks
Nether gold ore can now be mined with any type of pickaxe and drops a few gold nuggets
Parrots imitate hostile mobs less often
Parrots do not randomly imitate hostile mobs when gamemode is on peaceful
New mood detection algorithm for cave sounds

Technical Changes in 20w12a

Commands

spawnpoint

The spawnpoint command now supports being run in any dimension.

UUIDs in NBT

UUIDs stored in NBT are now represented as an array of four integers. Example: {UUID:[I;1498693494,1027158888,1898994005,860320107]} Along with that a couple of fields have been renamed:

OwnerUUID of tamed animals, area effect clouds, evoker fangs and projectiles is now simply Owner
TrustedUUIDs of foxes is now Trusted
target_uuid of conduits is now Target

Loot Tables

Entity Predicate

Added fishing_hook sub-predicate

`fishing_hook`

Check properties of the fishing hook

Parameters

to be open water if there are no blocks above water and no solid underwater blocks around, all water blocks are source blocks and there are no bubble columns.

in_open_water - Matches whether the fishing location is open water fishing or not. A fishing location is considered

Fixed bugs in 20w11a

MC-3328 Dismounting an entity places riding entity / player half block too high
MC-64242 Silent tag is not working for some entities
MC-100342 Several Non-Ticking blocks are marked as ticking forcing the growth-algorithm to check chunks needlessly
MC-113809 Chorus Flower plant, Bamboo, Sugarcane, Cactus and other plants grow instantly when supporting block is replaced with same block type
MC-114000 Mouse click in cat hissing sounds
MC-122128 Recipe book resets itself to closed state after death
MC-129137 Parrots imitating hostile mobs in peaceful is not that peaceful
MC-130137 Grass and mycelium don't decay underwater
MC-140545 Pathfinding prefers North (negative Z) direction
MC-148936 Parrot summoned with negative Age has smaller hitbox
MC-149375 Camera can be positioned inside of snow layers
MC-160959 Clicking onto a bed in daytime doesn't grant the advancement "Sweet Dreams"
MC-161754 Item duplication with chested donkeys, mules and llamas
MC-163918 Bees not animating their pollen gathering
MC-166980 Bees become stuck wandering to the north-west after completing a task, or randomly in large numbers
MC-168384 NBT-Tag "Silent:1b" doesn't work for bees.
MC-169965 Potion effect timers for higher levels can remain at 0:00 after the higher level has run out if multiple levels of the same effect were applied in descending order
MC-170584 Structure taiga_meeting_point_2 from zombie villages has 1 misrotated log
MC-170591 Misrotated floor blocks in desert_tool_smith_1 basement
MC-170773 Recipe book and filtering craftable do not stay open for blast furnace and smoker when (re)loading the world
MC-170940 Netherite ingot recipes are not grouped
MC-171133 Camera can be positioned inside of soul sand
MC-172188 Hoglins are not required by 'Two by Two' advancement
MC-172690 Smelting netherite scraps doesn't provide the right amount of experience
MC-172820 Piglins can turn into adult chicken jockeys in the overworld
MC-173199 Fossils in the nether cause caves / floating islands to generate and can break through the nether roof
MC-173220 Dismounting passenger moves to a nearby block when ridden entity dies
MC-173420 Sign crafting recipes of various wood types are not grouped
MC-173487 Falling out of water death message still does not seem to appear
MC-173552 Nether Fossile support islands cut off at chunk borders
MC-173791 Mobs dismount vehicles only in front of the boat, even if there is danger ahead
MC-173828 Village church entrance does not generate correctly
MC-173832 Crimson and Warped Hyphae and Stripped Hyphae are switched in Creative inventory
MC-173837 Removing fire and soul fire with shears will reduce the shears' durability
MC-174049 Fireworks shot from a crossbow do not explode instantly when hitting a solid block
MC-174071 Roof of savanna_mason_1 is cut off
MC-174072 Structure savanna_temple_2 contains one misrotated block
MC-174073 Two misrotated blocks in savanna_small_house_5
MC-174075 Misrotated block in savanna_butchers_shop_1
MC-174076 Inconsistent rotation of logs under windows in savanna_small_house_4
MC-174077 Structure snowy_library_1 no longer has snow under the roof
MC-174078 Three misrotated blocks in snowy_armorer_house_2
MC-174079 Misrotated block at snowy_weapon_smith_1
MC-174082 Three misrotated blocks in snowy_small_house_2
MC-174083 Three misrotated blocks in snowy_butchers_shop_1
MC-174174 Arrow animation stuck on loop when a flame bow is used to detonate TNT
MC-174234 Village structure snowy_masons_house_1 has two misrotated blocks
MC-174258 Fixed item frames do not take void damage
MC-174391 Several misrotated blocks at snowy_medium_house_2
MC-174429 Chorus flowers remove arrow and trident velocity
MC-174464 Soul speed decreases durability on boots in creative mode
MC-174466 Soul speed particles are generated in spectator mode
MC-174467 Placing fire on soul sand does not place soul fire
MC-174476 Soul fire torch is in the piglin_repellents item tag twice
MC-174480 Piglins are not attracted to Nether gold ore
MC-174489 Shroomlight preferred tool is now both Axe and Hoe
MC-174502 Soul Speed 3 on Soul Soil in water keeps and increases player momentum
MC-174513 Soul Speed Enchanted Books from bartering with piglins do not work in an anvil
MC-174522 Soul Speed doesn't break boots
MC-174690 Soul speed enchantment books can be found in chests
MC-174785 Mining speed of crimson and warped wall signs is not affected by an axe

Minecraft Snapshot 20w12a