Minecraft: Java Edition Snapshot 21w13a adds goats from 'Caves and Cliffs Update' and more

Minecraft is all about swapping features in the latest batch of betas and snapshots today. Minecraft: Boulder Edition got axolotl and deepslate, which had already been tested in a previous Minecraft: Java Edition snapshot. On the other hand, Minecraft: Java Edition Snapshot 21w13a has just arrived on scene with the new goat mob, which appeared in a past Minecraft: Bedrock Edition beta.

The latest Minecraft: Java Edition snapshot is now bachelor to Minecraft: Coffee Edition snapshot players, and features a new mob and more tweaks from the upcoming Caves and Cliffs Update. Players can also find a ton of tweaks and changes to existing features and previously-tested additions, a new accessibility option, and the usual batch of problems fixes and general improvements. The highlight for this snapshot is certainly the goats, a new neutral mob that resides in Minecraft'due south mountains and boasts of some impressive jumping ability.

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The full changelog for Minecraft: Java Edition Snapshot 21w13a includes:

New features

Added the goat! Added an accessibility option

Goat

Goats spawn in Mountains
Goats can scale the sides of mountains with their incredible jumps!
Goats can be tempted and bred using Wheat
Goats are some other source of milk!

Accessibility

Added an culling solid black background color for the Mojang Studios loading screen, toggleable with the "Monochrome Logo" accessibility pick

Changes

Tweaks to Caves
Tweaks to Ore Distribution
Tweaks to Powdered Snow
Dripstone clusters can at present be establish rarely in normal caves
Deepslate blobs can now exist found between heights 0 and sixteen
Axolotls and glow squids now spawn in cloak-and-dagger water sources
Axolotls volition now ever hunt afterwards and assault squids, glow squids, tropical fish, cod, salmon, pufferfish, drowned, guardians, and elder guardians
Axolotls now have a two-minute cooldown afterwards hunting non-hostile targets such as fish, squids, etc.
They volition prioritize targeting hostile mobs outset before hunting.
Bees now see Flowering Azalea (and Flowering Azalea Leaves) as flowers
Additions to Wandering Trader and Bricklayer trades
Additions to chest boodle tables

Caves

Mineshaft tweak: increased the max length of pillars and chains.
Carver tweaks: fabricated carvers less probable to be too flat to walk through.
Noise cavern tweaks:
- Increased likelihood of megacaves (large cheese caves)
- Reduced likelihood of toothpick pillars (tall 1-block sparse pillars)
- Other tweaks to brand the cheese caves more than varied and interesting

Ore distribution

Slightly more fe
Larger diamond blobs sometimes form

Powdered snow

Pulverisation snow's immovability / hardness was slightly increased
Freeze time has decreased to 7 seconds and hurt frequency has decreased to 2 seconds
Entities on burn now melt Pulverization Snow when colliding
Increment vertical movement speed inside Pulverisation Snowfall
Strays, Polar Bears, and Snow Golems are now allowed to freezing
Mobs at present milk shake when they are fully frozen
Skeletons converting to strays now only require the 7 seconds it takes for an entity to be fully frozen to begin converting, instead of the thirty seconds information technology took before
Leather horse armor now protects horses from freeze damage
Mobs that bask the heat (Blazes, Magma Cubes, and Striders) take increased freeze damage

Trade & loot tables

Added the following trades to Bricklayer:
- Will sell iv Dripstone blocks for ane emerald
Added the following trades to Wandering Trader:
- Will sell 2 Pointed Dripstones for one emerald
- Will sell ii Rooted Dirt for i emerald
- Will sell 2 Moss Blocks for 1 emerald
Moss blocks can be found in Shipwreck chests
Glow Berries can be institute in Mineshaft chest minecarts

Technical changes

Added metric cube of light!
Unused parts of code are no longer removed

Light cake

Op-only (/give) air-like waterloggable cake
Emits light at a level determined by block state
Visible and targetable just when the item is held (similar to barrier)
Right-click cycles light level

Issues fixes

End portal appears transparent from beneath
Killing guardian with lava does non requite cooked fish
Polar bears drop raw fish instead of cooked fish when killed with fire or lava
There are a number of unused texture files
Kicked from the game when reaching y levels over 30,000,000
Air tin can exist used in custom recipes, causing a crash
Servers able to bypass EULA blacklist
Some NBT tags are not kept when fish or axolotl mobs are caught in h2o buckets
Observer doesn't discover when a grass block changes to dirt if a tree grows on top
Leash knot audio result plays when loading singleplayer world
'Cover Me With Diamonds' advocacy improperly capitalized
Stonecutter saw spins both ways simultaneously
Some experience points exercise non go towards Mending repair, even if the Mending gear is not fully repaired
Suspicious stew inedible with total hunger
Turtles laying eggs on reddish sand produce normal sand particles
Zombies that die while on burn down do not drop baked potatoes
Back of ladder is incorrectly mirrored
Vines appear incorrectly mirrored when viewed from behind
Texture planes of crop models announced incorrectly mirrored from backside
Chain model planes are incorrectly mirrored on the rear
Concatenation section on lanterns is incorrectly mirrored from behind
Sea pickle green peak sections do not render correctly from behind
Water bottle doesn't extinguish candles
Lightning rod bottom texture is mapped incorrectly
Tin can't "Choice Block" cauldrons with liquid or powdered snow inside
Aiming a spyglass with a loaded crossbow in offhand creates weird 3rd person effect
Waterlogged candles can exist lit
Candle extinguishing particle appears offset from the candle
Cauldrons filled with water, lava or pulverization snow cannot be used as a workstation for villagers
Powder snow does not cause underlying grass, mycelium or podzol to appear snowy
Mobs wearing leather boots spin around when walking on powder snowfall
Mobs that become damaged by powder snowfall can spawn inside powder snow
Landing on pulverization snow while wearing leather boots inflicts fall damage on Java, but not on Boulder
The particles produced when extinguishing a campfire are misplaced
Powder snow inside textures are not correctly mirrored
Mobs don't path find across pulverization snow blocks when not wandering
Using /setblock to place a structure block defaults to save fashion, unlike placing one by paw
Skeletons in powder snowfall spin when aiming at the player
Endermen holding h2o, lava or powder snow cauldrons don't drop cauldrons
Placing turtle egg / sea pickle onto turtle egg/sea pickle while sneaking doesn't identify it next to information technology, although placing candle onto candle does
Experience orb stacks that were used in the mending process lose their experience amount, even if the stack is yet larger than one
Copper slabs and stairs are non included in the #minecraft:slabs and #minecraft:stairs tags
Axolotls modify colour when released from bucket / axolotl entity data isn't stored in the bucket item
Axolotls aren't required for the "Two Past Two" advancement
Axolotls don't attack elder guardians
Semi-transparent pixels on axolotl textures
Axolotls don't give regeneration or remove mining fatigue
Explorer maps & filled maps plough blank after entering the nether or finish
Can't cut stacks in one-half in furnace output
Tab exploit packet abuse tin can crash servers
Glow detail frames are rendered dark when a light source is nearby
Back face of glow lichen is not correctly mirrored from behind
Some world border faces are rendered mirrored, resulting in incorrect corners
Shulker hitbox does non immediately rotate after the shulker visually rotates
Rooted clay is far from other dirt variants in the Creative inventory
Rooted dirt is in decorations tab
Certain faces of azalea are not culled by other blocks
Azalea and flowering azalea z-fight when placed next to blocks
Water behaves equally if moss blocks were air
Grass, ferns, flowers, bushes, saplings and bamboo cannot be placed on peak of rooted dirt
Can't pick block big dripleaf stem
Signs, banners, paintings & item frames cannot be placed on moss
Farmland / clay path don't convert to clay when moss is placed above
Cannot plough Rooted Dirt into a Dirt Path
Using bone repast on a small dripleaf shows breaking particles
Big Dripleaf can be rotated incorrectly past breaking and replacing it
Skeletons don't accept a shaking blitheness while converting to strays
Azalea bushes connect to walls and fences
Mining rooted dirt is slightly faster than mining other dirt blocks
The azalea'due south side textures are partially cut off
Block cannot be placed on pinnacle of a moss cake
Converted moss blocks practise not update redstone
Rooted dirt cannot be picked upwardly by endermen
Redstone doesn't connect vertically on moss blocks
Rooted Dirt has no assigned tool
Terminate gateway exit portals can be ready to loftier coordinates, kicking the player
Rooted dirt is not randomly rotated
Tripwire texture is not mirrored correctly from backside
Tripwire which is part of a tripwire hook is not mirrored correctly from backside
Big dripleaf texture mirrored incorrectly from underneath
Small dripleaf texture mirrored incorrectly from underneath
Azalea top texture is mirrored incorrectly
Waterlogged pointed stalagmites don't drop when their support block is broken
Powered big dripleaf play tilting sounds when blocks are changed nearby
Selecting nothing and pressing Ctrl+C clears clipboard
Rain passes through moss blocks
Maximum building tiptop is 319, only warning message says 320
Players are able to locate other players with the lightning/thunder audio
Cobbled Deepslate Slab uses the stone sounds instead of the deepslate sounds
Small Dripleaf can't be placed on Rooted Dirt while waterlogged
Shift Clicking items into inventory prevents the relevant advancement from triggering
Tin blazon text into anvil text field without putting an item in it, preventing you from closing the UI with E
The eyes of some entities can be seen through powder snow/lava
Mineshaft support legs can generate in lava
Inconsistency: cobbled deepslate does not take longer to mine than deepslate
In that location is no sound when defrosting from fire / lava (vanilla parity)
Spyglass overlay broken while in water with fast graphics
There is no sound or subtitle for applying / removing / scraping wax or oxidation
Opening a UI darkens the groundwork less than it used to
Minecraft crashes when spectating an entity submerged in water
Amethyst Blocks can no longer be gained by mining them
Shulker heads do not flash carmine when taking harm / when killed
Parity issue: Clouds are at y=192
Hanging Roots takes about a second to be mined
Big Dripleaf takes nigh a second to be mined
Experience orbs are no longer afflicted by the fog from pulverisation snowfall/lava
Wither / creeper armor is no longer afflicted by the fog from pulverisation snowfall / lava
Lightning is not affected past the fog from powder snow / lava
String is not affected by light levels
With graphics ready to Fabulous!, blocks such equally honey, slime and stained drinking glass announced lit upward in tertiary person manner
Shader texture coordinate wrapping mode causes screen effects like glowing to wrap where they shouldn't
Buoy beam is non affected by the fog from powder snowfall / lava
Water fog nevertheless very subtle making water appear as well articulate in the altitude

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