This snapshot contains another round of tweaks and bugfixes, but also quality of life features such as strider distancing. It might not be as important as social distancing, but we hope you'll like it. Stay safe and wash your hands!

New Features in 20w19a

Added "distance by strider" statistic
Patches of blackstone and gravel now generate in all Nether biomes, and patches of soul sand now generate in Soul Sand Valleys

Changes in 20w19a

Villagers can now spawn iron golems regardless of their profession status or latest working time
Bastions are now a bit less common
Lowered the amount that Weeping and Twisting vines grow when bonemealed
You now need to use shears to get an item when breaking Nether Sprouts
Tweaked spawning of mobs to more closely adhere to mob caps
Biome distribution in the Nether has been tweaked

Technical Changes in 20w19a

Fish now have their own mob category and mob cap

Fixed bugs in 20w19a

MC-87949 The shield use statistic is not working
MC-89956 Levitation has no effect if gliding with elytra
MC-116293 Functioning clock and compass in recipe book
MC-125613 Datapack tag "stairs" does not use #wooden_stairs
MC-145862 Villagers try to sleep in occupied beds
MC-152084 Villagers occasionally stand up out of beds at night, then can never sleep in that bed again
MC-152170 When a villager takes the bed of another villager then the bed's previous owner will not look for a new bed
MC-157077 Villagers will not sleep in beds at night
MC-158542 Iron Golems don't stop spawning
MC-160250 Naturally generated villagers are not pathfinding towards their POI; POI detection range is too small
MC-166764 Villagers spawned on world generation have a lower follow range than villagers spawned by other means
MC-170612 Villagers spawned by meeting points have frozen AI and do not move when that chunk is freshly generated
MC-172107 Piglins and Hoglins don't get zombified in the end
MC-172524 Letters of name tag render inconsistently when sneaking (within the same name tag)
MC-172899 Piglins with blocks (pumpkins) equipped on their heads show z-fighting
MC-173015 Crimson roots, Warped roots, and Nether sprouts are not randomly offset
MC-173115 Mobs can spawn inside of wither roses
MC-174568 Rail updates are 3-4x times laggier since 1.13
MC-174909 Endermen don't teleport when on magma blocks
MC-175251 Fish are spawning in with extremely high numbers. Over 200 different entities of cod every five minutes
MC-177839 Blackstone and blackstone walls use the blackstone side face on the bottom, while blackstone stairs and slabs use the blackstone top face on the bottom
MC-178487 Saddles on untamed horses no longer render
MC-179989 Smithing Table and Anvil UI does not have "Inventory" title above player inventory
MC-180064 Piglins would rather use an unenchanted crossbow instead of an enchanted crossbow
MC-180297 Player name color in list appears too dark
MC-180407 Piglin bartering is limited to dropping a single item stack from the loot table
MC-180410 Enderman spawn rate seems very low on upgraded worlds
MC-180575 Dispensers now always plays "dispenser failed" when dispensing glowstone
MC-181353 Warped and Crimson Doors have no hinges
MC-181418 Entity names can no longer be colored
MC-181424 Fish (and other items from fishing) cannot be caught with a fishing rod
MC-181461 Enchantement glint doesn't render on shields, tridents and elytra
MC-181479 Map marker labels do not render properly
MC-181524 Redstone does not visually connect when going up soul sand
MC-181566 Powered redstone dust only generates particles at the center of the block
MC-181944 Font of category/section text in creative mode item selection screen is much thicker than in 1.15.2
MC-182595 Parity issue: Blackstone doesn't generate in ore veins in nether wastes

Minecraft Snapshot 20w19a