Java Edition 24w35a

24w35a is the third snapshot for Java Edition 1.21.2, released on August 28, 2024.^[1] It contains improvements to bundle interactions, as well as some technical changes and bug fixes.

Bee nests and beehives

• Now show information about their level of honey and number of bees.
• Now use their "full" texture when held or in the inventory, and they are at max level of honey.

Raids

• Raiders must find a place to spawn no more than 96 blocks vertically above or below the village center, or a raid cannot start.
• It is now much less likely for raiders to not find a valid place to spawn when raiding.

Data packs

• The pack format version is now 51.
  • Trial spawner configurations in fields normal_config and ominous_config are now defined in registry trial_spawner.
    • This allows for easier customization of trial spawner configurations in data packs.
    • Inlined configuration data is still supported.
  • Entities' rotation on the x axis is now clamped between -90 and 90.
  • /loot command now returns an error when trying to drop from a block without a loot table (like air).
  • The cooldownGroup field in food item stack component has been renamed to cooldown_group.

Loot tables

• Special loot table empty has been removed and is no longer defined in vanilla data pack.
• Sheep now always uses a single loot table entities/sheep.
• Wool drops are still defined in sub-tables in entities/sheep/<color>, but they are now just dispatched from the main table.
  • Note: mutton drop is now controlled by the main table, while sub-tables are responsible only for wool drop.
• Sheep shearing is now controlled by loot table found as shearing/sheep.
• Mooshroom shearing is now controlled by loot table found as shearing/mooshroom.

Predicate

• New entity sub-predicate for testing sheep wool.
  • Fields:
    • sheared - optional boolean.
    • color - optional wool dye color.

Bundles

• The number keys can no longer be used to select items in a bundle.
• The bundle fullness bar and its fill color now have new separate textures that can be overridden in a resource pack.

45 issues fixed

From released versions before 1.21

• MC-124331 – Redstone lamps do not show on maps.
• MC-129298 – Drowned don't chase the player if they are in 1 block deep water.
• MC-146805 – Trader Llamas don't attack zombies, drowned, husks, zombie villager and illagers.
• MC-148982 – Map color for wheat is incorrect.
• MC-167906 – Beehive items at full honey level do not appear with honey in inventory/as item/in hand.
• MC-168329 – Bees do not leave their hives in the Nether/End in some cases.
• MC-168546 – Bee nest/hive items have no lore.
• MC-270113 – Trial spawner ominous_config doesn't save setting values to default.
• MC-270742 – Displays don't rotate properly between 179 and 180.

From 1.21

• MC-272345 – Some trial spawners don't have an extra breeze out at once when ominous.
• MC-273601 – The Channeling enchantment no longer functions on tridents without an owner.
• MC-273745 – Soul Speed momentum resets when jumping on soul sand.

From the 1.21.2 development versions

• MC-275204 – Coast armor trim has generic "Smithing Template" name.
• MC-275208 – The player cannot move bundles into or around the inventory using hotkeys.
• MC-275220 – Picking up a salmon in a bucket doesn't keep its size.
• MC-275222 – Salmons always have the same hitbox regardless of their size.
• MC-275256 – Snow golem shoots to the sky/floor instead of at mobs.
• MC-275275 – Footsteps on monster spawners create missing subtitle.
• MC-275279 – Raiders do not spawn on small islands even though there are close enough places around the village.
• MC-275322 – "Subspace Bubble" is granted when exiting and entering some nether portals.
• MC-275353 – Item frame/glow item frame "Fixed" tag behaving strangely since 24w33a.
• MC-275358 – Renamed bundle's contents are not centered.
• MC-275409 – Stuffing too many items into a bundle through commands will cause the capacity bar to overflow.
• MC-275410 – Flying in Creative mode no longer resists the thrust of the bubble column.
• MC-275417 – Creepers can destroy vehicles even if mobGriefing is set to false.
• MC-275521 – Tall seagrass can now generate when bone mealing one-high water.
• MC-275523 – Reduced shield glint applies to the shield's item appearance.
• MC-275586 – Renamed items highlighted in the bundle are not in italics.
• MC-275612 – Items with rarity values highlighted in bundles do not display their rarity colors.
• MC-275838 – Drowned holds trident upside down.

From the previous development version

• MC-275752 – Villagers indefinitely stand around items when their "CanPickUpLoot" tag is set to "0b".
• MC-275754 – Random stack trace sometimes appears.
• MC-275755 – Attempting to swap armor by right-clicking deletes it.
• MC-275757 – Using a bucket deletes the bucket in most cases.
• MC-275774 – Observers no longer detect redstone dust powering/unpowering.
• MC-275778 – Bundle fullness bar texture and color are hardcoded.
• MC-275800 – Translucency sorting is broken.
• MC-275801 – Use cooldown triggers without item consumption.
• MC-275828 – Game crashes when there is an invalid shader path.
• MC-275837 – The use_cooldown component uses field cooldownGroup instead of cooldown_group.
• MC-275843 – Using an empty map (single item in stack) doesn't create a filled map in Survival mode.
• MC-275851 – diameter in teleport_randomly consume effect is ignored.
• MC-275958 – Selected item in inventory drops at target dimension's nether portal's coordinates when travelling through them without delay.
• MC-275959 – Drowned no longer raise their arms to attack.
• MC-276053 – Glass bottles are deleted when used on a water source block.