Java Edition 20w11a

20w11a is the sixth snapshot for Java Edition 1.16, released on March 11, 2020,^[1] which adds nether gold ore, twisting vines and the Soul Speed enchantment.

Nether gold ore

• Found in the Nether, at any height.
• Behaves exactly like normal gold ore.

Twisting vines

• Another variant of vines found in warped forests.
• Grows upward, unlike weeping vines.
• Can be climbed.

Enchanting

• Added Soul Speed enchantment.
  • A new treasure enchantment only obtainable via bartering with piglins. However if obtained through bartering the book cannot be applied to boots due to a bug.^[2]
  • Only available on boots.
  • Allows faster walking on soul sand and soul soil.
    • There is a 4% chance that the durability of the boots goes down for each soul sand or soul soil block stepped on.
  • Cannot be obtained from enchanting tables, fishing, or trading. However, can be found in chest loot in this snapshot due to a bug.^[3]

Particles

• Added a new particle type: soul.
  • Used when walking on Soul Sand or Soul Soil when wearing boots with the new Soul Speed enchantment

Tags

• Added the gold_ores block and item tags.
  • Contains gold ore and nether gold ore.
  • Blocks in this tag require an iron pickaxe or better to be mined.
  • Many recipes use this tag.
• Added the piglin_repellents item tag.
  • Already existed in the prior snapshots as a block tag, but now extends to items.
  • Contains soul fire torches and lanterns.
  • Piglins don't attempt to pick up items in this tag.
• Added the soul_speed_blocks block tag.
  • Contains soul sand and soul soil.
  • The Soul Speed enchantment uses this tag to test for which blocks increase speed.

Bells

• Now rings when hit by any projectile.

Campfires

• Now ignites when hit by any burning projectile.

Crying obsidian

• Can no longer be pushed by pistons.
• Can no longer be destroyed by the ender dragon.
• Now requires a diamond or netherite pickaxe to be mined.

Fire and soul fire

• No longer has a breaking animation.
• No longer sounds like wool when broken.
• Now have loot tables.

Potted bamboo

• Model change to remove a useless face at the bottom that caused z-fighting.^[4]
• Before:
• After:

Smithing table

• Now plays a sound when used.

Snow

• Doors, rails, buttons, torches, pressure plates and redstone can now be placed on a full-block of snow layers.

Soul sand

• Doors, rails, buttons, torches, pressure plates and redstone can be placed on it once again.
• Soul sand with a rail on top no longer slows down minecarts.

TNT

• Now ignites when hit by any burning projectile.

Vines

• Now play a sound when climbed.

Weeping vines

• Now have a ¹⁄₃ chance to drop 1 item, with the maximum increased by 2 per level of Fortune.
• Now play a sound when climbed.

Bone meal

• Can now be used to grow kelp, weeping vines, and twisting vines.

Hoe

• Are now the appropriate tools for mining targets, dried kelp blocks, and shroomlights.
  • Due to a bug, axes still mine shroomlights faster.^[5]

Bartering

• Piglins can now offer iron boots and enchanted books with the Soul Speed enchantment.

Commands

• /locate can now be used to locate nether fossils.

Tags

• Added twisting vines to the climbable block tag.
• Added crying obsidian to the dragon_immune block tag.
• Added potted warped fungus to the hoglin_repellents block tag.

47 issues fixed

From released versions before 1.16

• MC-81659 – Fireball and witherskull hitboxes are frequently invisible for some seconds.
• MC-104900 – Skeletons, illusioners and piglins with crossbows have broken agility reaction when hit or walking on certain blocks when provoked.
• MC-104949 – Mobs cannot jump shorter than half of the blocks.
• MC-128247 – Dolphins can jump way too far causing them to hit on land.
• MC-134900 – server.properties generator-settings for level-type FLAT not implemented; property is stored in ignored flat_world_options NBT.
• MC-145140 – Fireballs cannot be interacted with when summoned.
• MC-146928 – Cannot place doors, rails, buttons, pressure plate, redstone, etc. on soul sand.
• MC-148935 – Zombies with no AI still convert into drowned.
• MC-170836 – Cannot set the top of soul sand on fire.
• MC-173732 – Fire and soul fire do not have loot tables

From the 1.16 development versions

• MC-171079 – Comparators no longer work as expected reading containers through powered blocks.
• MC-171213 – Blocks that are affected by gravity do not destroy Nether sprouts when dropped from above.
• MC-171589 – Fire makes block burned noise before the block disappears.
• MC-171756 – Weird fire bug.
• MC-171860 – Nether fossils have code implying an unimplemented /locate function.
• MC-172266 – Crossbow wielding piglins do not properly walk backwards to target the player when very close.
• MC-172323 – Game crashes when summoning a hoglin with the attack damage attribute set to 0 or giving a hoglin Weakness with a very high level (255).
• MC-172374 – Can teleport to invalid y coordinates and crash the game.
• MC-172428 – Piglins and hoglins do not look at their target.
• MC-172470 – When the piglin holds the bow, it will try to attack and follow the enemy eventually stood there not moving.
• MC-172530 – Piglins indefinitely stand around dropped golden items if mobGriefing is disabled.
• MC-172903 – Piglins which convert into zombified piglins delete armor if equipped.
• MC-173050 – Hoglins cannot hit some mobs with large hitboxes.
• MC-173156 – Z-fighting at bottom of potted bamboo; bottom texture of bamboo is exposed.
• MC-173160 – Weeping vines plants can be replaced by weeping vines "sapling" (small block) by just right-clicking.
• MC-173167 – Netherite sword/tools not sorted with other swords/tools.
• MC-173180 – Hoglins are not scared of warped fungus in flower pots.
• MC-173219 – No sound when climbing weeping vines.
• MC-173243 – Crying obsidian is movable by pistons.
• MC-173283 – Piglin admiring held gold ingot does not drop it when killed.
• MC-173302 – Crying obsidian can be harvested with any pickaxe.
• MC-173384 – Crying obsidian can be destroyed by the ender dragon.
• MC-173433 – Killing a baby hoglin does not yield experience.
• MC-173462 – Baby piglins can hold soul fire torches.
• MC-173467 – Piglins admiring bartering gold ingot drop nothing when converting to zombified piglin.
• MC-173484 – Death message from falling off a trapdoor does not mention it by name.
• MC-173485 – Death message from falling off scaffolding does not mention it by name.
• MC-173706 – NullPointerException in server tick loop when trying to load a flatland world with Nether biome.

From the previous development version

• MC-173725 – Anvil name field does not automatically receive focus anymore and is unclickable.
• MC-173731 – Fire and soul fire play a sound and produce particles when extinguished.
• MC-173739 – Missing sound for event: minecraft:block.smithing_table.use.
• MC-173766 – Thrown tridents disappear after hitting and damaging a mob or entity.
• MC-173776 – Hoes do not mine targets faster.
• MC-173792 – End gateways do not work using ender pearls.
• MC-173829 – Lava and fire randomly make extinguishing sound.
• MC-173858 – Unable to set LeftHanded to 1b for piglins.
• MC-174326 – Mobs do not spawn on soul sand, causing weird mob spawning in soul sand valleys.