🧱 Experimental Blocks and Items: The update introduces new variants of tuff blocks and a fresh set of copper blocks. To access these blocks, players must enable the update_1_21 experiment when creating a world. Tuff blocks now come in stair, slab, wall, and chiseled versions. They can be polished using a 2×2 crafting pattern or a stone cutter. Polished tuff can be crafted into tuff bricks, which also have various forms like stairs, slabs, walls, and chiseled variants.
Copper blocks come in four stages of oxidization and can be waxed to halt the process or scraped to continue it. The update adds chiseled copper, copper grates, and copper bulbs. Chiseled copper is crafted from two cut copper slabs or by using a stone cutter. Copper grates are transparent blocks that can be crafted using four copper blocks in a diamond pattern. Copper bulbs, a new light block and redstone mechanism, can be crafted from three copper blocks, a blaze rod, and redstone dust. They function as redstone-sensitive lamps, changing state when they receive a redstone signal.
🦇 Mobs: The bat receives a makeover in this snapshot. It now has a new model, texture, and animations. However, its gameplay properties remain the same, with no changes to its hitbox, behavior, or drops upon death.
🎮 Gameplay: Arrow projectiles now retain their named form when shot and picked back up again. This means that named arrows will keep their names throughout their journey.
🌐 Realms: A bug that caused the game to take a long time to process when leaving realms or accepting/declining an invitation has been fixed. Additionally, several user interface bugs within the realms menus have been addressed, including the Operator buttons intersecting the scroll bar in the player list. Grammar and text fixes have also been implemented.
💻 User Interface: More grammar and text fixes have been made in the new level recovery screen. The Telemetry Data Collection Screen has undergone some user interface tweaks, with the opt-in button now transformed into a checkbox. The list of events now always displays all events, with optional ones marked as disabled when not opted in.
🔊 Sounds: Using an ender pearl now plays the teleportation sound when it lands, accompanied by the subtitle “player teleports.” In the experimental update_1_21 pack, new sounds have been added for placing and breaking copper bulbs, walking on them, toggling them on and off, placing and breaking copper grates, walking on them, opening and closing copper doors, and opening and closing copper trapdoors.
🔧 Technical News: Resource pack version 19 accounts for the new format of the bat texture, as well as the added block models and textures. The data pack version is now 22, featuring new jigsaw block options, new arrow data, and a new tick command that will be familiar to users of carpetmod.
That wraps up the highlights of Minecraft Snapshot 23w43a. With its new blocks, bat makeover, and various improvements, this update brings fresh content and enhancements to the game. Stay tuned for more technical details in slicedlime’s upcoming video. Enjoy exploring and creating in Minecraft 1.21!
