After some recent irregularities in our Snapshot schedule (public holidays, we're looking at you!) we're back to shipping on a Wednesday! Among other things, 24w20a includes a buff to the amount of Redstone Dust dropped by Witches, as well as a long requested change to make Piston sounds a tad more pleasing to the ear. We're also throwing 41 new bug fixes into the mix, because we like squashing bugs.

Happy mining!

Changes

Witches now always drop 4-8 redstone dust on death
- This is to improve the viability of farms that utilize Witch Huts to obtain Redstone Dust
Improved player attribute and effect handling
- Custom set base attributes are now kept when respawning
- Active effects and modifiers are kept when changing dimension or winning the game
Updated credits

Sounds

Updated Piston sounds to lower volume and attenuation
- This was done to address the long-received feedback on the old sounds being too harsh and loud, creating very noisy redstone builds

Technical Changes

Data Pack version is now 44

Data Pack Version 44

dimension_padding jigsaw structure NBT tag was changed
- Now it is an object with fields:
  - bottom the vertical padding at the bottom of the dimension, non-negative integer
  - top the vertical padding at the top of the dimension, non-negative integer
- Can be written as a single non-negative integer instead to be applied to both top and bottom fields
  - e.g. both dimension_padding: 10 or dimension_padding: { bottom: 10, top: 5 } are valid
Data-driven enchantment field weight now has an upper bound of 1024
Data-driven enchantment field max_level now has an upper bound of 255

Predicates

Entity Predicate

New option: movement_affected_by - optional Location Predicate
- When present, adds requirements on a block at most 0.5 blocks below the entity which can affect its movement

Fixed bugs in 24w20a

MC-6431 Status effects are lost when returning to the overworld from the exit end portal
MC-83590 Armor attributes list can be too long
MC-137719 The player's horizontal motion doesn't affect fired projectiles in certain situations
MC-179940 Player's attributes reset back to default values upon respawning
MC-181604 Exiting the end portal resets player attributes to their default values
MC-267230 Hangul fonts are rendered with missing pixels
MC-268113 the minecraft:generic.scale attribute is desynchronized when the player leaves the End dimension via an End portal
MC-268370 Japanese CJK variants use the same diacritic
MC-268598 The "weight" of skeletons in swamp biomes is too high causing less bogged spawns
MC-269036 Bogged do not drop mushrooms when sheared with doMobLoot false
MC-269147 Shearing a bogged spawns mushrooms at the bogged's feet
MC-269951 When the gamerule "doImmediateRespawn" is set to true, the Wind Charged, Oozing or Weaving effects don't function for players
MC-270052 Blur levels below 10% do not appear to actually work
MC-270301 The fire protection enchantment applied to horse armor no longer decreases the duration of time the horse remains ablaze
MC-270539 The blast protection enchantment, when applied to horse armor, no longer diminishes the knockback effect from explosions on horse
MC-270637 maxentityCramming set to 0 prevents slime spawning from oozing effect
MC-271034 List entries in the Social interaction menu are rendered over the background
MC-271168 Demo timer does not respect "Text Background" setting
MC-271244 Auto-save text does not respect "Text Background" setting in accessibility settings
MC-271360 Horse armor and wolf armor are deleted when used on an armor stand
MC-271414 Damage command at position applies knockback in random direction
MC-271462 Buttons make the deactivation sound when pressed
MC-271468 Game crashes with custom enchantment's "rotated_block_provider"
MC-271532 Mace only loses durability during smash attacks
MC-271547 Can't immediately sprint jump into a 2 block ceiling when standing next to it since 24w18a
MC-271566 Game crash on insufficient "ammo_use" amount
MC-271574 Inlining a painting variant causes players to disconnect when receiving entity data
MC-271583 Soul speed no longer works through partial blocks
MC-271629 Channeling doesn't work / "post_attack" effect requires enchanted item to be in the mainhand
MC-271636 Attempting to modify NBT of killer rabbit throws unexpected error
MC-271678 damage_item enchantment entity effect doesn't break items
MC-271715 Crash when the sum of enchantments' weights overflow
MC-271716 Fraction value provider allows division by zero
MC-271803 Custom enchantment with very large max level causes game to hang after opening Creative inventory
MC-271853 Random "Failed to store chunk" error
MC-271854 Trying to generate new chunks crashes the server
MC-271863 Crafter recipe gets stuck on an item with a similar recipe
MC-271881 Soul speed doesn't soul make particles.
MC-271896 Using Shift+F3+I on a villager crashes the game
MC-271937 Strike a villager with channeling trident in thunder doesn't obtain the advancement "Very Very Frightening"
MC-271948 Entering the Nether breaks the game

Minecraft Snapshot 24w20a