1.18 Release Candidate 4 — release journal
What 1.18-rc4 changed for data packs, measured against 1.18-rc3, the build before it. Released 2021-11-29; development build — not a release.
💡 No measured change
Same data pack format, same registries. That is the strongest safe-for-data-packs signal a diff can give, and it is still not proof — behaviour changes and bug fixes are invisible to it.
Formats
| 1.18-rc3 | 1.18-rc4 | |
|---|---|---|
| Data pack format | 8.0 | 8.0 |
| Resource pack format | 8.0 | 8.0 |
| Data version | 2858 | 2859 |
Registries
No registry gained, lost or changed an entry.
The official notes
Read the Minecraft 1.18 Release Candidate 4 article on minecraft.net. It lives at an earlier build's address: minecraft.net updated that article in place and retitled it for 1.18-rc4.
The article has no technical-changes section — it lists bug fixes only, or predates that heading.
Minecraft Wiki page for 1.18-rc4.
In the journal
← 1.18-rc3 · All builds · 1.18 →
Sources
- misode/mcmeta — 1.18-rc4 summary — formats and registries, generated from the game’s own data.
- minecraft.net — Minecraft 1.18 Release Candidate 4 — section names only.