Minecraft Snapshot 22w45a is now out and about. This snapshot introduces the new default skins for offline players, bamboo blocks, and a visual refresh for the Vex. On top of that, there’s some additional creative inventory tweaks.

Happy mining!

New Features in 22w45a

Added new default skins for offline players
Added Block of Bamboo and Stripped Block of Bamboo
- Block of Bamboo can be crafted from 9 Bamboo and can be stripped like other wood logs
- Bamboo Planks crafted from Block of Bamboo yield only 2 planks compared to 4 for wood logs

Changes in 22w45a

The Vex now has a new look
The Wild update music has been tweaked to be slightly less loud
When opening, Shulker Boxes will pop off blocks which are attached to opened faces (such as Torches)
- Blocks that require support cannot be placed on these open faces while the Shulker Box is open
"Teleport to Team Member" option in spectator menu now only shows up for teams with viable target players
Added Operator Items Tab option in the Controls menu which is off by default
Creative Inventory changes

Vex

Changes to Vex model and textures
- The Vex retains a slightly oversized hitbox to make it easier to fight

Creative Inventory changes

Operator-only items now appear in a new Operator Utilities tab if you have both:
- Operator Items Tab option in Controls menu set to ON
- The required operator permissions
- The tab is hidden if operator permissions are lost while inventory is open
- Now also includes Structure Blocks and all light levels of Light Blocks
Added a Colored Blocks tab
- Contains all blocks with 16 color variants
- Moved all colored blocks from Building Blocks tab to this tab instead to make that tab less sizeable
Consumables tab has been renamed to Food & Drinks tab to have a more straightforward name
Crafting tab has been renamed to Ingredients tab since not all items are used in crafting
Reordered
- Natural Blocks
  - More consistency between types for the top section
  - Moved eggs to be between seeds and single-block plants
  - Placed climbable plants above double-block plants
- Food & Drinks
  - Cooked versions of raw food are now right next to each other
- Redstone Blocks
  - Less cluttered
  - Higher importance items up the top
  - Removed variants of Doors, Trapdoors, Buttons and Boats that don't have any functional difference
- Ingredients
  - Placed Lapis in the same order as ore blocks
Moved
- Bottle o' Experience from the Tools & Utilities tab to the Ingredients tab next to enchanting books
Added
- All axes to the Combat tab (they still remain in the Tools & Utilities tab as well)
- All possible Suspicious Stews to the Consumables tab
  - The tooltip will show the effect of a stew before it's picked up from the Creative Inventory
  - Only stews with effects available via crafting or Mooshrooms are listed
- Pressure Plates and Buttons of each type to the Building Blocks tab
- Almost all lighting blocks to the top of the Functional Blocks tab
- All 3 flight durations of Fireworks to Tools & Utilities tab, and the Combat tab next to Crossbow
- Eye of Ender next to End Portal Frame block in Functional tab for better ease of use
Tooltips for all items in Creative Menu outside single-category tabs will show categories where this item can be found
- Previously this only happened on the search tab

Technical Changes in 22w45a

The /publish command has new arguments to enable commands and set the default gamemode
- New syntax: /publish [allowCommands] [gamemode] [port]
Changes to the Open to LAN screen
- The screen now allows selecting the port on which to host the LAN world
- The game mode and allow cheats buttons are now initialized with the default values of the world
The Resource Pack version is now 12

Fixed bugs in 22w45a

MC-80032 Horses can suffocate when going through nether portals
MC-118140 Result map tooltip when zooming out a map shows previous zoom value instead of new one
MC-127110 You can't empty water buckets into waterlogged blocks
MC-177523 Enderman angry/screaming sound event subtitled identically to idle sound
MC-193360 Inconsistent eye level between piglins or zombified piglins and piglin brutes
MC-200000 Merchant trade select packet (C2S) does not check for negative indices
MC-235414 Player desynchronization with Nether Portals
MC-244550 Empty Tags match Empty Slots in Shaped Recipes
MC-255370 Chat hover & click events are offset if "Line Spacing" chat setting is used
MC-255743 Bees' path finding system may cause performance issues
MC-256461 Camel's back of neck is visible during the sit down animation
MC-256511 Non-controlling passengers can make camels dash
MC-256516 Inconsistent textures with jungle hanging signs
MC-256532 Sounds for Bamboo, Crimson and Warped hanging signs use the generic wood sound
MC-256616 Weighted pressure plates make incorrect sounds
MC-256674 FileAlreadyExistsException if the resourcepacks directory is a symbolic link
MC-256765 References to chat reporting in singleplayer
MC-256854 Error in any model file causes resource reload fail now
MC-256884 Mobs don't shoot correctly from crossbows
MC-256885 The word "messages" within the "gui.chatSelection.fold" string is always pluralized
MC-256888 New network protocols prevent logging into offline servers
MC-256903 Lodestone compass's enchantment glint is scaled incorrectly
MC-256917 Death message from explosions by TNT and TNT minecarts that are not the cause of a player or another mob has changed
MC-256951 TNT Minecarts don't record what caused its explosion
MC-256961 Multishot shoots projectiles backwards
MC-256990 Superflat Worlds can use Disabled Blocks as part of their layers
MC-257102 Missing Structure Block in creative tab
MC-257104 "Lava" in gamerule.lavaSourceConversion is misspelled as "Lave"
MC-257118 Buttons are placed different than pressure plates in Creative Inventory
MC-257234 Applying bone meal to warped or crimson fungus crashes client on multiplayer