Minecraft 1.20.2 Snapshot 23W31A – The Villager Update?

Hello everyone and welcome to another Minecraft update for Minecraft 1.20 .2 not 1.21 this is the update where finally you can see the bottom two pixels of the Hotbar I am not joking the bottom two pixels were not rendered on the screen for the longest time and I

Actually used a mod to fix this for my hermitcraft series anyways real talk this snapshot is absolutely massive it’s full of tons of changes and big changes to villager trading and wandering Traders is actually hidden behind the experimental option this means when you’re creating a new world you need to

Enable this by going into experiments and enabling the Villager trade rebalance so that’s what we’re going to talk about first because these changes may not actually be for 1.20 or 1.20.1 they’re currently just experimental and this means that moyang want your feedback they want to hear your thoughts

And there’s a link that I’ll provide in the description box down below to the feedback website where you can give them your thoughts about the rebalanced Villager trade but now let’s find out what’s actually changed so librarian book trading has been changed in a rather big way a lot of players

Considered the previous system to be broken because it worked on giving you a random enchantment from each trade so you wouldn’t have to do any work to get like mending or a powerful enchantment and you could abuse this have a ton of librarians and farm all the best in

Charts in the game so to address this there are now enchantments that you can’t get from Trading with the Librarians Soul speed and Swift sneak were already unavailable of course Soul speed you get from bartering with piglens and the Swiss sneak from the deep dark enchantments related to

Phishing have been removed as well as the Trident and the crossbow so you’ll have to go back to getting Enchanted drops from mobs or use the good old enchanting table and let’s not forget that you can enchant books directly as well as the item with the intended enchantment so less books are available

From The Librarians but the books that you will get that will be biome dependent and there are actually only four different enchantments you can unlock per buy and we’ve got phones fire protection infinity and then the top tier one which is efficiency Mo Yang have kindly provided us with this

Spreadsheet to clearly communicate what’s available in each biome type there is Desert jungle Plains Savannah snow swamp and tiger and the special book is the top tier trade efficiency and braking protection sharpness silk touch mending and Fortune these are the trades that you only get when your

Villager is at the top level with the diamond badge that is the Master Level and note that this is efficiency free and not efficiency 5. this could make things rather expensive as you have to combine those books together to get the higher levels the other free trades are

Actually randomized and I did this with five different villagers just to kind of confirm the information that we had been given so of all of these normal books you can get them up to their fullest level I’d also note that looting is a really good enchantment not lock behind

That special book category and there does seem to be a little bit of theming with frostwalker and aqua infinity being for snow and then in the desert you can get fire protection now it’s really important to note that two of those biomes one of them being the jungle do

Indeed have their own villager types with their custom skins but this might not be intuitive to a lot of players as villagers do not actually generate in the swamp or the jungle biome for the most part I think this rebalance is actually really quite good it gives

Value to some of the other systems like enchanting and getting your enchants from drops it encourages the player to explore the world and find different biomes but when it comes to creating your own village and getting villagers to breed and creating a librarian it feels like it gets a little bit

Technical at this point when it comes to the enchantments that you would get from the jungle and swamp biome so maybe just maybe this could be a great opportunity to add two new Village types to the game so what do you think leave a comment down below and let’s not forget that

Making the best tools and web with these books may not be the way to do it moving forward because of XP so when we combine these together you’re going to see that the XP cost will rack up quicker than before so Fortune 2 is the highest level

You can get for that enchantment same goes for I’m breaking as well and in order to keep these costs low we want to put that one first and mending second do you know what it looks like this might actually be doable yeah kind of pricey 17 it’s more than before but

It’s still possible oh wait yeah it goes up another level 31 yikes and you can rename it for another level and you can indeed create that in survival and if that was intentional to make it that many levels I think that’s actually really well balanced next up we need an

Igloo and it just happens to be next to the new cherry blossom biome it’s down here that you can find the tutorial for curing a zombie villager and if you ask me there should be more things like this in the game where you can discover the

Items that you need to do the activity at the location now what you may not know when you cure a zombie villager you’ll actually bring its trading prices down so you can get a discount on trades each time that you do this and the problem was you could do this over and

Over again this is because once a villager is cured you can reinfect it using another zombie and then you repeat the process and this leads to trades like a mending book for just a book and a single emerald and I think it’s pretty hard to argue that that’s not abusing

The system when it comes to getting your hands on these books and I think the last piece of the puzzle is now just to get rid of those overpowered raid Farms that let you get a stupid amount of emeralds to hand and next up in villager rebalancing it’s the turn of the

Wandering Trader there’s a bunch of them around here because I’ve just been confirming the trades that have been communicated to us so you can now sell things to the wandering Trader all of these items here will be traded for these amount of emeralds and they can

All be traded once there is an exception logs can be traded four times one Emerald for eight and that’s actually any type of log for example this one has both the oak log and the Cherry log in between 6 and 20 emeralds you can get an

Iron pickaxe with a random in chance and lastly you can buy the invisibility potion which makes a lot of sense that’s because they drink these potions at night time and then I guess they drink milk buckets in the day the other thing to mention is all of their previous

Trades are still intact and the prices of them have actually been reduced so the wandering Traders are now a little bit more useful I mentioned it before but I’ll remind you moyang are looking for feedback on all of this you can find the link to the website in the

Description box down below well okay then it’s that part of the video where I encourage you to subscribe to the channel if you’re enjoying the snapshot coverage because there’ll be more snapshots in the future and I’m of course going to be covering them and right now you’re probably wondering what

On Earth am I up to we are removing blocks at the bottom of the world and what you’ll probably notice is that there is a lot more diamond ore down here as it says here on the website the amount of diamond ore has been increased at the deepest parts of the world they

Want to make mining for diamonds at the Deep slate level more rewarding and looking into the game code I found this new entry for how Diamond all be generated into the world but I couldn’t really make heads or tail of this to give you an actual number on how much

This is increased by but just by flying around here and having a look at the diamonds compared to Redstone it almost feels like there’s more of them than Redstone or it’s pretty even either way it’s very clear that this has had a big buff and I think this is going to be a

Change that most of us will be happy with who’s going to say no to more diamond ore so now for some changes that will affect your survival gameplay shulker boxes can have Redstone power running through them but when you open the box this actually stops the power running through the changes that this

Didn’t update an observer so now you’ll see that the Observer actually updates twice both when we open this thing and when we close it the camel sniffer frog and goat could be attacked by the player and then nerfed with a lead to stop them panicking so the frog is punched it goes

Into Panic Behavior normally a lead would Nerf that but now it won’t but chorus flower plant found in the end Dimension will no longer support hanging signs used to be able to place this off the side of these blocks but that is no longer possible pink pedals have

Received a change to their hitbox size what you’ll notice is it’s now a quarter of a block and as you increase the amount of petals the size of the hitbox goes up too when it comes to crafting recipes fences and fence gates of the bamboo type were not grouped with the

Other wood types there were also some issues with the texture of the bamboo fence gate which have been fixed so this is slightly different than before and hitboxes have a new addition specifically for when one mob is riding another if I activate this you can see

This now this yellow little box here at the point of contact this is known as the attachment point do you notice something different about me here yes my character render no longer goes outside of the black box in the past it was entirely possible to do silly things

Like this now you will be contained to the black box there is a new attribute in the game known as generic Max absorption this relates to the absorption hearts that you can get from eating a golden apple it will allow an entity to have its own definition of the

Maximum amount of Hearts it can have here next up skulk sensors they are now going to be set off by turtles that are clearing away sand there we go it’s being activated by this action it’s also known as Turtle shambles other sculpt sensor additions include when a camel

Sits up or sits down on the ground their ability to dash will also set the skulk sensor off a witch drinking a potion will also activate the skulk Center and last of all a totem of undying being activated all these events Now activate the skull Center creative mode changes

Include the ability to waterlog a barrier block it should be noted though that survival interactions like a dispenser cannot interact with the barrier block let’s just double check that yep doesn’t work decorated pots did not have creative mode tool tips so now you can see exactly what makes this

Decorated pot you’re also not able to control middle click this block which enables you to take the contents of it along with the block itself so now when you do this on a decorated pot you will take the design and you’ll be able to place it like it’s already been placed

In the world the pig step record is apparently incorrectly placed in this list maybe because it’s obtained from the never it’s now at the end of the list the game rule random tick speed will now affect the accumulation of snow layers when it’s snowing as well as

Water freezing into ice in a snowy biome so if this is set to zero neither of those events will happen there are a bunch of new blog tags as well for various parts of the game and lastly in the Telemetry data screen there is now a link to the Microsoft privacy statement

This next change isn’t exclusive to the snapshot but I wanted to include it we have a Minecraft launcher change regarding Realms so for both the Bedrock Edition and the Java edition of Minecraft there is a new tab inside of the launcher for Realms and when you go

Over here you’re actually able to see the Realms that you have linked to your account and you can click on play and launch straight into the Realms from the launcher itself this will boot up the game as you might expect and take you directly into your realm obviously I

Haven’t actually set mine up yet I was just gifted this realm so I could show you it in a video with that out of the way let’s get back to the snapshot because once again it’s an absolutely massive one but a lot of these changes are indeed very technical under the hood

Of the game stuff so I’m going to explain these things in a way that’s relative to the average player and if you’re one of the people who really gets into the weeds of the technical changes then you know where to go the article is linked in the description box down below

So let’s go ahead and actually log back into this world because I just logged out and then I’m going to open up my chat and press upwards to see what were the last commands that I actually typed into the chat as you may know this stuff

Is usually lost when you exit a world so it’s here inside of your game folder that you can find this new file command history and this has the last 50 commands that you’ve typed into chat the thing is I don’t know how it knows what world this is linked to so I’m quickly

Just going to go ahead and create a new world oh that’s interesting look it carries across multiple worlds I could see that being both very useful and occasionally confusing especially if you’re like trying to teleport around the wrong world next we have chunk sending optimization again under the

Hood stuff that should make performance better for players who have weaker internet connections so fingers crossed you’ll see a difference in the future vanilla server operators are going to be able to log the IP addresses of players that Connect using a new option available in server.properties and if

You are a network administrator there is new network protocols that you may want to read about odds highlight that there’s been more safety features when it comes to symbolic links found inside of data packs if you wish to know more about what symbolic links are and how

They relate to Minecraft it’s in this video here that I explained it in detail a new command has been added which is called slash random and it is a random number generator and this is no simple random number generator this appears to be very powerful and flexible and I’m

Told it’s going to be really useful in data packs in the future and if you do make data packs once again a ton of changes that you’ll want to read up on most importantly though both data packs and resource packs can now be multi-version packs this means they can

Tell you if they support different versions of Minecraft they also have a built-in overlaying system meaning that different functions for different versions of the game can run if you’re running that version of the game so both data packs and resource packs can preserve their functionality across multiple versions of Minecraft which I

Think is really really good and if you are a resource pack maker a lot of those images that contain lots of Sprites and GUI elements have been separate rated into individual images like here is a brief example of all the new assets that have been created because of this

Because there’s so many little variations these used to be in one image file they’re now all separated out into their own ones and because of that moying have provided us with a slicer tool that will automate the process of creating all of those textures out of your existing texture pack last of all

Some crazy technical stuff that’s totally going over my head macros have been added and told these are going to be great for functions and data packs and there’s a whole bunch of changes to display entities again so on the technical level this one really is a

Banger it’s always good to see the under the hood stuff getting some love and attention but I also think this survival changes to villagers are going in the right direction let me know your thoughts of a comment down below while you’re down there leave a like subscribe

To catch future snapshots and I’ll see you soon with another video bye-bye