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New Features and Bug Fixes in Snapshot 24w18a

Patch1.21 Snapshot (24w18a)
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1.21 Snapshot (24w18a) introduces new paintings, music, and music discs, along with changes to the mace, trial chambers, and more.

  • New: Added 5 new paintings by Sarah Boeving and 15 by Kristoffer Zetterstrand.
  • New: Added 9 new music tracks and 3 new music discs.
  • Updated: Mace durability raised to 500, base damage reduced to 5, attack speed lowered, density damage adjusted.
  • Updated: Trial chambers have new layouts, trap dispensers, entrance variations, and bug fixes.
  • Updated: Copper doors and trapdoors now crafted from copper ingots; oxidized variants no longer craftable.
  • Updated: Ominous trial spawners spawn double mobs for non-equippable mobs; bottle o' enchanting removed as projectile.

New Features

  • All Features from the experimental 1.21 pack have been moved to vanilla
  • Added 5 new paintings by artist Sarah Boeving
  • Added 15 new paintings by artist Kristoffer Zetterstrand
  • Added 9 new music tracks
  • Added 3 new music discs

Music

  • Added 9 new background music tracks which will all play in the main menu
  • Some of these new songs play in specific biomes in-game:
    • featherfall – Badlands, Cherry Grove, Flower Forest, Lush Caves
    • deeper – Deep Dark, Dripstone Caves
    • eld_unknown – Dripstone Caves, Grove, Jagged Peaks, Stony Peaks
    • endless – Dripstone Caves, Grove, Jagged Peaks, Stony Peaks
    • pokopoko – Dripstone Caves, Grove, Jagged Peaks, Snow Slopes
  • The following have been added to the pool of songs which play in Overworld biomes that do not have biome-specific music:
    • featherfall
    • komorebi
    • puzzlebox
    • watcher
    • yakusoku

Music Discs

  • Added 3 new music discs
  • Aaron Cherof – Precipice can be found rarely in standard Vaults
  • Lena Raine – Creator can be found rarely in Ominous Vaults
  • Lena Raine – Creator (Music Box) can be found rarely in Decorated Pots broken in Trial Chambers

Paintings

  • Added five new paintings by artist Sarah Boeving:
    • baroque
    • humble
    • meditative
    • prairie_ride
    • unpacked
  • Added fifteen new paintings by artist Kristoffer Zetterstrand:
    • backyard
    • bouquet
    • cavebird
    • changing
    • cotan
    • fern
    • endboss
    • finding
    • lowmist
    • orb
    • owlemons
    • passage
    • pond
    • sunflowers
    • tides

Changes

  • Rotten flesh has been removed as a possible item for Trial Spawners to eject
  • Mace enchantments are slightly more common in Ominous Vaults
  • Projectile knockback is no longer dependent on the shooters position
    • Projectiles such as Arrows and Fireballs knock back in the direction they travel
    • Projectiles such as Splash Potions and Fireworks knock back away from themselves
    • Projectiles shot by a Dispenser will also knock back
  • Updated the confirmation-screens in Realms to show as popups
  • Changes to the Mace

Mace

  • Raised Mace durability from 250 to 500
  • Reduced Mace base damage to 5
  • Lower the Mace attack speed from -2.4 to -3.5
  • Reduced Density damage per level per block to 0.5
  • Mace Smash attack damage now has a fall off:
    • First 3 blocks fallen give 4 damage per block
    • Next 5 blocks fallen give 2 damage per block
    • Any block fallen after that give 1 damage per block
  • Density and Breach are now incompatible with each other and the other damage enchantments (Smite and Bane of Arthropods)

Trial Chambers

  • Spider spawners have been moved to the "melee" category
  • Slime spawners have been moved to the "small melee" category
  • Made various layout changes in intersections and corridors
  • Added new trap dispenser style to chambers
  • Fixed various broken jigsaw connections in the corridors
  • Made seams match in corridors
  • Added new entrance variations
  • Fixed various broken or incorrect jigsaw data
  • Added empty Chests to chamber entrances

Ominous Trial Spawner

  • Ominous Trial Spawners with mobs that are unable to wear equipment now spawn double the total mob count over the course of the challenge
  • These spawners will also have an additional mob out at once during its challenge
  • Bottle o' Enchanting is no longer a possible projectile for Ominous Trial Spawners

Copper Doors and Trapdoors

  • Copper Doors and Trapdoors are now crafted from Copper Ingots instead of Copper Blocks
  • Oxidized variants of Copper Doors and Copper Trapdoors can no longer be crafted
  • Waxed variants can still be crafted with Honeycomb

Technical Changes

  • Resource Pack version is now 33
  • Data Pack version is now 42
  • Removed the update_1_21 feature flag and built-in datapack
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