The highly anticipated first pre-release of Minecraft 1.20, dubbed “The Trails and Tales update,” is now officially accessible to players. Following this pre-release, the Minecraft community can look forward to a focus on bug fixes rather than new feature introductions, deviating from the typical Wednesday snapshot cadence.
Significant changes in this update include the ability to dye colored wool, carpets, and beds to any color of choice. This addition is sure to open up new avenues for creativity and customization within the game.
On the technical front, two new damage types have been introduced: ‘outside_border’ and ‘generic_kill.’ Players outside the world border will now experience ‘outside_border’ damage, as opposed to the previous ‘in_wall.’ Also, forcibly removing an entity using commands such as /kill will now use ‘generic_kill’ damage, replacing the old ‘out_of_world.’
Loot table random sequences have also seen a revamp. Now, the game uses named random sequences to produce loot deterministically for loot tables, with each random sequence producing a unique sequence based on the world seed and sequence ID. This change means a loot table will yield the same results when run with identical parameters in the same world.
Server.properties encoding has seen changes as well. The file is now initially read in UTF-8, with ISO 8859-1/Latin 1 as a fallback, and is written in UTF-8 encoding.
String data sources for the data command now accept negative boundaries, which are interpreted as an index counted from the end of the string, providing greater flexibility.
The 1.20 pre-release 1 also includes a host of bug fixes addressing issues such as encoding errors in server.properties, several untranslatable realms strings, inconsistencies and misspellings in various string and text elements, and more.
Among the corrected issues are problems like the nether portal animation playing indefinitely until stepped out of, the breaking animation being one frame off, the inability to spawn the Ender Dragon when placing an end crystal upon entering The End, and many more.
To see some of this update in action, check out the following video:
You can see the full details on the update via the Minecraft 1.20 Pre-Release 1 Patch Notes.
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