It's time for another snapshot cycle as we make our way towards 1.16.2! This snapshot introduces the Piglin Brutes, and you might have heard about them in a Bedrock beta already.

The Piglin Brutes will be the only feature addition of 1.16.2, the rest of these snapshots will be focused on fixing bugs.

New Features in 20w27a

Added Piglin Brutes!

Piglin Brute

Piglin Brutes are stronger versions of Piglins that live in bastions and protect the treasures there
Unlike 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

Changes in 20w27a

Zoglins can now be leashed
Crimson and warped fungus can now be placed on mycelium

Technical Changes in 20w27a

Small improvements to data and resource pack selection screens

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

Fixed bugs in 20w27a

MC-1058 A dragon head is invisible if the entity wearing it is not in view
MC-2404 Stepping down while sneaking allows falling off of blocks
MC-49476 NBT "HideFlags" does not hide "Dyed" on leather armor
MC-68487 Player heads of the same player always have the same skin texture, even if the saved texture data is different
MC-97507 Using item which modifies the held item shows "Gear equips" subtitle
MC-145691 Binding "Open/Close Inventory" to Tab only opens inventory
MC-150417 Some items get stuck in soul sand when there is liquid above the soul sand
MC-167285 Travelling into an end gateway with a platform on the other side while on a boat would instantly teleport you back
MC-171739 Weeping and twisting vines, bamboo, and kelp can be replaced by "saplings" by breaking and placing the block at the same time
MC-173526 All Minecarts can survive in lava
MC-178729 Inconsistency: Red and brown mushrooms can't be grown into huge mushrooms on nylium, while they can on all other "grass" blocks
MC-182652 Ruined portals don't always spawn with chest
MC-183663 Farmer villagers don't compost correctly
MC-183743 Iron golem overpopulation
MC-185274 Subtitles are still showing ''Gear equips'' when eating in snapshot 20w21a or newer.
MC-188473 Resource pack screen no longer updates when adding or removing resource packs
MC-188969 Having a suspicious stew in inventory prevents all types of suspicious stew from going into your inventory when milking brown mooshroom
MC-189909 player_interacted_with_entity does not trigger if there is only one item and the item gets consumed
MC-190021 Trying to mount a pig or strider while sneaking plays hand animation
MC-190266 Players and other entities can catch on fire after logging on while riding a Strider in lava
MC-190274 Collecting liquids in bottles on Creative mode is inconsistent with the new creative bucket mechanics
MC-190849 Slime blocks can only push entities 5 blocks high instead of 6 blocks high as in 1.15.2
MC-191915 While in a boat the elytra does not show as enchanted
MC-192894 Transparency layers lose their auxiliary depth buffer ID when resized

Get the Snapshot

Snapshots are available for Minecraft Java Edition. To install the snapshot, open up the Minecraft Launcher and enable snapshots in the "Installations" tab.

Testing versions can corrupt your world, please backup and/or run them in a different folder from your main worlds.

Cross-platform server jar:

Minecraft server jar

Minecraft Snapshot 20w27a