Minecraft Java Edition 1.16.2 - All the News!
Here’s everything you need to know about today’s Minecraft Java Edition Update! (1.16.2)
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ITEMS
- Added the Piglin Brute spawn egg.
MOBS
- A new stronger variant of piglins that wield golden axes.
- Are always hostile towards players, unlike piglins.
- Have 50 × 25 health.
- Only spawn during world generation in bastion remnants.
- Do not respawn once killed, like elder guardians and shulkers.
- Do not count towards the hostile mob cap.
GENERAL
- Added
mushroom_grow_blockblock tag.- Contains mycelium, podzol, crimson nylium, and warped nylium.
- Used to determine which blocks mushrooms can be placed on and which blocks huge mushrooms can grow on, even if the light level is high.
- Added the
base_stone_netherblock tag.- Contains netherrack, basalt, and blackstone.
- Used to determine what blocks ancient debris can replace when generated as a mineral vein in the Nether.
- Added the
base_stone_overworldblock tag.- Contains stone, granite, diorite, and andesite.
- Used to determine what blocks dirt, gravel, granite, diorite, andesite, coal ore, iron ore, gold ore, redstone ore, diamond ore, lapis lazuli ore, and infested stone can replace when generated as mineral veins in the Overworld.
- Added the
stone_crafting_materialsitem tag.- Contains cobblestone and blackstone.
- Used in the
furnace.jsonadvancement and recipe files. - Used in the
brewing_stand.jsonrecipe file.
CHANGES
Blocks
- Can now be crafted with blackstone.
- Determined by the
stone_crafting_materialsitem tag.
- Determined by the
- Can now be placed in all orientations
- The crafting recipe and recipe book unlock now use the
stone_crafting_materialsitem tag.- This change is not noticeable in-game as this tag has the same contents as the old
furnace_materialsitem tag.
- This change is not noticeable in-game as this tag has the same contents as the old
- Can now be waterlogged.
- Also applies to soul lanterns.
- Nether vegetation
- No longer catches fire.
- Model now uses a cullface for the top.
- Now no longer has a hole in the bottom
Items
- Can now be placed on mycelium.
- Will still only grow into a huge fungus on the respective nylium.
- Now gives Nausea I instead of Nausea II when eaten.
- This has no practical effect in-game as the level of the Nausea effect does not change anything.
- Now gives Fire Resistance for 40 seconds (800 game ticks) when activated.
Mobs
- Will no longer place their held blocks onto bedrock blocks.
- Become angry with players who open or destroy chest minecarts.
- Pillagers, vexes and vindicators
- The attack animations of unarmed pillagers, vexes and vindicators have been changed.
- Now emit green particles when joining a village, setting a home bed, or acquiring a job site or profession to match Bedrock Edition.
- Now lose their job sites when changing dimension.
- They don’t get off the minecart when they change into zombie villagers and vice versa.
- Mobs now suffocate when their head is inside soul sand, farmland, and grass paths.
World generation
- Now spawn piglin brutes on world generation.
- Normal piglins may still spawn.
- Now have gilded blackstone under most chests.
- Custom worlds now support custom biomes and custom noise settings.
GAMEPLAY
- Piglin brutes can be killed for the “Monster Hunter” advancement and count toward the “Monsters Hunted” advancement.
- Various weights and item amounts have been changed.
- Blackstone, spectral arrows, and water bottles can now be obtained through bartering.
- Glowstone dust and magma cream can no longer be obtained from bartering.
General
- Menu
- Dropping resource packs into the menu now updates the list of resource packs without needing a reload.
- Data packs can now have a
pack.pngin the root folder, and will display it in the data pack menu.
