Prepare to drop some sick bleats in the latest Minecraft: Java Edition snapshot! We're bringing in the sweet sounds of the goat horn. There are also some changes to the warden and the allay.

If the technical aspects of chatting is where it's at for you, make sure to check out the changes to chat signing.

Enjoy!

New Features in 22w17a

Added Goat Horn!

Goat Horn

A Goat Horn drops when a Goat rams a tree or any other hard block that occurs naturally where Goats spawn (Logs, Stone, Packed Ice, Iron Ore, copper Ore, or Emerald Ore)
- Other solid blocks are unfamiliar to the Goat, so it won't ram them
Use the horn to play a loud sound that can be heard from afar
Each horn has its own sound based on the Goat it originated from
There are 8 Goat Horn variants, 4 of them exclusive to screaming Goats
Goat Horns can sometimes be found in Pillager Outposts

Changes in 22w17a

The Allay connecting with Note Blocks is now better visualized by the vibration particle
The Allay connecting with Note Blocks can now be blocked by Wool Blocks again
Replaced realms subtle selected world highlight with a clear green checkmark
Updated the Brewing Stand's base UVs and texture to match a graphical fix in Bedrock Edition
Explosions caused by player-ignited TNT now cause experience to drop from broken blocks (such as ore blocks and sculk)
- We will be keeping an eye on feedback for this change, it might change in a future update
Sculk blocks now have very low blast resistance
Warden balancing

Warden

Their ranged attack will now:
- Bypass shields and armor
- Deal 10 damage instead of 30 damage, and the cooldown has been reduced from 5 seconds to 2 seconds
- Display a custom death message
Wardens now drop a single Sculk Catalyst upon death

Technical Changes in 22w17a

Signed Chat
Removed dampenable_vibrations game event tag

Multiplayer Secure Chat Signing

This is the first step in a process to provide more security and player safety features for in-game chat. We'd love to hear your thoughts, but keep in mind that many features such as server-driven styling of chat messages are still missing.

Chat messages between players are now cryptographically signed
Players are given a Mojang provided key-pair on startup
Servers can require players to have a Mojang-signed public key by setting enforce-secure-profile=true in server.properties
- Enforcing secure profiles will prevent players without a Mojang-signed public key from connecting
- By default this is set to false, allowing players to connect without a Mojang-signed public key
Chat styling is now handled via server resource packs with the translation key chat.type.text

Fixed bugs in 22w17a

MC-13103 Texture Z-Fighting at Wolf/Dog/Cat snout
MC-53312 Illager/(zombie) villager/witch robes don't render the last two rows of pixels
MC-106627 Leather cap texture overlay doesn't align correctly
MC-141064 Cleric collar z-fighting
MC-176840 Ores no longer drop experience when blown up
MC-207309 Landing entities such as minecarts and armor stands trigger sculk sensors but boats do not
MC-208597 Boats ridden over wool are detected by sculk sensor
MC-208771 Projectiles landing on wool trigger sculk sensors
MC-210712 Sculk sensors are not activated upon backwards movement in a boat
MC-210901 Sculk sensors are not activated upon entities sliding on ice
MC-248161 Weaponsmith zombie villager texture has leftover pixels from the regular weaponsmith texture
MC-248292 Llama uses pre-1.14 chest texture
MC-248555 Mismatches within (zombie) villager textures
MC-248556 Savanna Zombie Villager missing a body texture
MC-248557 Savanna villager body defines pixels identical to base villager texture
MC-248561 Vindicator's crossed arms element has miscolored pixels on the faces touching the other arm elements
MC-248562 Iron golem has unused pixels in the texture
MC-249032 Fence item model's bars inconsistent with placed block
MC-249039 "Half" armor bar icon texture is incorrect
MC-249190 Sculk blocks don't drop experience orbs when blown up
MC-249262 Sculk cannot replace soul sand or mud when mobs die on top of them
MC-249669 tadpole.png has unused frog egg texture
MC-249745 If allay is holding an item, it can be equipped with armor using a dispenser
MC-249780 Blocks that require support can generate floating in ancient cities
MC-249919 Pillar in Ancient City can generate with waterlogged stairs
MC-250000 Allays and villagers create ghost items when they take items from a stack and cannot fit the whole stack in their inventory
MC-250027 Allays ignore the dimension when checking for liked note blocks
MC-250075 The inner two planes in mangrove roots are smaller than they should be
MC-250076 Shading is disabled for the two inner planes in mangrove roots, even though it isn't for all the other planes
MC-250165 Doing /locate stronghold in some single biomes causes an unexpected error
MC-250240 Z-fighting can be seen around the backs of frogs when they open their mouths
MC-250288 Some blocks in Ancient City structures can only be covered by sculk veins and can't be converted into a sculk block
MC-250321 Flying and aquatic mobs pathfinding in certain blocks cause crash || The game crashed whilst ticking entity Error: java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "dnm.a()" because "$$1" is null
MC-250331 Chunk rendering is glitchy / incorrect when redrawing
MC-250339 Paintings are off-centered in multiplayer servers
MC-250379 Teleporting armor stands results in visual desync and abnormal behavior
MC-250400 Blocks and items can cause the world to render invisibly
MC-250411 Sculk can spread in ancient city structures and replace soul sand with fire on top, extinguishing fires
MC-250429 Narrator improperly narrates chat
MC-250460 The rendering of players is delayed for others

Minecraft Snapshot 22w17a