It's a wonderful day in Sweden today! The sun is shining and spring is in the air. When I say "spring" I'm referring to pollen. Let's remedy that by 1.) Staying indoors and 2)) Introducing a new biome with a grain basalt, blackstone and magma cubes. We also have some fresh songs to listen to while you're exploring the Nether. Enjoy the snap!
New Features in 20w15a
Accessibility improvements - added Piglin banner patterns and Basalt Deltas biome to the Nether and soul campfires. Warm your buns with the heat of a thousand souls! Three new tracks have been added to the collection of Nether music. - Added chiseled nether bricks, cracked nether bricks, as well as quartz bricks! - A new set of stone blocks, Blackstone, has been added to the game. It comes in regular, polished, or polished brick varieties. Addition of Gilded Blackstone- This is a Blackstone that has been imbued with gold and may drop gold nuggets if broken. Blackstone can be used to create furnaces and stone tools.
Accessibility
- Addition of "Line Spacing", chat and accessibility options. - Added the "Chat Delay", accessibility option
Basalt Deltas
Basalt Deltas are now found in the Nether!
This biome is a relic of volcanic eruptions. It has a high concentration in basalt columns and lava deltas. - As you walk through the biome, you'll find ash flakes flowing in the air. Magma Cubes finally have an area to call home. Large patches of Blackstone can be found in this area.
Nether Music
We're pleased to announce that we've added three new tracks for the coming Nether Update, all composed by the extremely talented Lena Raine.
Rubedo will be played in the Nether Wastes Chrysopoeiawill be played in Crimson Forests
So Belowwill be played in Soulsand Valleys and in Basalt Deltas
Lena has two words to say about the music. More information will be available in a separate blog post.
"One of the most important instruments in Minecraft is the piano, and one of my goals for myself was to see how I could push the sound of the piano until it resembled other things entirely-again, that alchemical process." "I wanted each piece to feel like a progression , or a journey through a different world. There's a degree of beauty to the Nether however, it's equally terrifying in its details and scale."
You can access a portal to the Nether and then sit for a while to listen...
Changes in 20w15a
Dispenser modifications - Soul sand can now be used to craft soul torches. Nether vegetation blocks (sprouts, roots vines, fungus, wart and wart blocks) are now compostable . minecraftservers Walls can now be connected to more things! (like iron bars, panes and even pickles!) Hoes are now the most appropriate tool to break leaves - Mobs avoid walking on magma blocks or lit campfires
Dispenser Changes
- Dispensers can now saddle horses and pigs Dispensers are now able to put horse armor on horses . Dispensers can now put carpets on llamas - Dispensers can now put chests on llamas, mules and donkeys. Dispensers can now shear a Mooshroom - Dispensers can cut snow golems
Technical Changes in 20w15a
Tab completion for resource loc will match any part after a _____ - Mob or pathfinding-related optimizations
Fixed bugs in 20w15a
MC-171463 Iron Bars do not fully connect to walls MC-172120 - Hoglins don't attempt to stay clear of fire MC-172209 - Fire-resistant mobs aren't trying to avoid getting caught in fire MC-172226 - Baby animals villagers, zombies, and villagers that spawn from eggs that spawn on an adult entity are of the same variant MC-172268 - Bartering with a piglin through right-clicking doesn't display hand animation MC-174542 Killing baby hoglins results in dropping porkchop and leather MC-174559 Baby hoglins/zoglins take the same attack damage as an adult when they are spawned in some cases MC-175030 - Curse of Binding doesn't affect Piglins Respawn Anchor MC-175169. It can create ghost blocks when it explodes MC-175176 - Using return portal in The End softlocks the game when /spawnpoint was utilized in The End MC-175256 - Screen is overlayed with an opaque grey texture when inside the transparent block MC-175274 "Quartz pillar" is translated as "White wool" ("Lana blanca" instead of "Pilar de cuarzo") in Spanish (Spain) (MC-175356). Piglins and hoglins don't avoid magma blocks MC-175538 - The sounds of swimming and fish are louder than they should be MC-175566 - Piglins who have full inventories do not drop the items they received MC-176095 Striders do not have a fin in the strider.png texture file MC-176384 CompassItem checks twice to see if LodestonePos tag exists MC-176517 - Striders are spawned in lava pockets that are underground MC-176633 Lime carpets are known as "acacia slab" in Spanish (Spain) MC-177069 - Dispenser cannot drop glowstone as item when not connected to an anchor to respawn MC-177085 Missing UUID field in attributes causes crashes in the game MC-177102 - Zoglins don't count as an undead mob MC-17225 Tag minecraft:water that was used before it was bound