Minecraft 1.20 Snapshot 23W16A – Sherds & New Trail Structures

Hello everyone and welcome back to another Minecraft update video This is 23w16a for Minecraft 1.20 and the big news is here Pottery shards are no longer a thing yes that’s right they shall hence be fourth known as shirts all of these have been renamed this surprised me greatly at first but it

Turns out this is a legitimate archeology term yes I looked this up on the internet that means it’s 100 True right that’s how that works I think but yes this is actually a correct term for fragments of pottery and before we get to the big stuff let’s go through a few

Smaller changes like the icon for the snapshot is now going to be a dirt block that appears in both the taskbar and the icon for the games window and it is said to be a grass block for full and proper releases of the game whereas down here

You might have seen it’s currently a crafting bench so I think the grass block icon change will come when 1.20 is released in the Minecraft launcher there’s now this fancy green outline around boxes and it’s very noticeable if you go ahead and edit an installation when you select one of these it turns

White and you probably won’t miss it but the April Fool’s fires joke has been removed from the launcher now next up we may have a big performance fix for feeling lag spikes when you go over chunk boundaries something that you might have experienced in your Minecraft

World in the bug fixes there are these four bugs related to lag spikes at chunk borders and it’s related to light Maps this is interesting because I use a mod in 1.19.4 that deals with this exact issue it’s called forget me chunk and it prevents light map unloads on the client

And here is an example that I recorded on the hermitcraft server of this issue in action you can reliably walk over this chunk boundary and get a noticeable lag Spike I believe this is patched in this version of Minecraft so of course I wanted to take a backup of the

Hermitcraft Season 9 well world come to the same spot in this snapshot and actually flying here and flying around in this area the lag spikes are gone I think they finally fixed this issue which is just terrific moving on to the sniffer mob it can now be lured using

The torch flower seeds so when I hold some it comes towards me the sniffer will now fit inside a minecart which it couldn’t previously do come on buddy don’t be shy there we go sniffer in a minecart and interestingly I think its entire hitbox is bigger than that of the

Minecart they will also now be able to dig for seeds in mud something they previously could not do and their name tag height value has been raised so you can actually see it above wait it just disappeared is that the regular view distance for a name tag right there

Anyway it’s been wait it’s gone again I think this might still be a little bit bugged out but it’s been raised and uh certainly made the point with the old subscribe plug right so if you click that button thank you for doing so and the last three videos I made didn’t get

Pushed out to as many people if you want to see some Redstone Engineering in hermitcraft I’ve got two episodes of that for you and if you’re curious about the April fools update and how it was put together we have a video on that too maybe have a watch after you’re done

With this video but next up some changes to villagers there are two new tag lists that change their behavior villager plantable seeds represents the seeds that villagers can farm and maintains Farmland are a list of items which when harvested will keep the Farmland there instead of turning it into dirt and here

Is that list any of these items when harvested won’t turn the Farmland into dirt you’ll notice that the pitcher crop and torch flowers here and they are also featured in villager plantable seeds this means that the farming villager can both do the torch flower seeds and the

Pitcher pods and plant them in your village I should also mention that the hitbox shape for the pitcher plant has been changed for each stage of its growth and that this plant and the torch flower are now flammable they used to be flame resistant so they can be set on

Fire when the Flames spread next up the skulk sensor and you might detect a change here on the left side of the screen we’re in the latest snapshot and the previous one is on the other side you can see a clear difference to its shape yes the calibrated sculpt sensors

Texture and shape has been updated to better match the amethyst cluster both in saturation and the size of the amethyst cluster in the middle the way in which these blocks work has also been subtly adjusted for better performance I believe that these changes are related to the breaking of Contraptions when

Chunks are loaded and unloaded of course the skulk sensor can have multiple States and as the game loads and unloads them they can break Contraptions but this braking should no longer occur in this latest snapshot another recent change to the skulk sensor is its ability to now chain frequencies using

The the amethyst block this now extends to a skulk Shrieker now this means that it can be activated at a distance aha there we go we can see its particle effects this essentially means you can now summon the warden using a skulk Streaker from even further away the

Calibrated skulk sensor also now glows when it’s activating emitting a tiny amount of light and the calibrated skulk sensor can now receive a signal strength through a block which means it can work like normal when it’s got blocks on all sides around it allowing you to waterlog

It okay next up we have the trail structures part of archeology for Minecraft 1.20 and behind me you’ll see some of the structures that we generated in a previous Snapshot video we also got to see all of the individual structures in that video too and the reason I’m

Telling you this is because there’s been a ton of tweaks and changes and this video won’t be quite as comprehensive as the last time let’s start by placing a brand new Trail Rune structure and straight away you might get a sense that this looks a little bigger than the

Previous ones and you’ll also notice a change of materials as you can see sand is no longer a part of these it’s just going to be dirt coarse dirt gravel and of course suspicious gravel and these now have two types of loot tables which I don’t think you can tell which one it

Has just by looking at it using F3 so when you use the brush you’re going to get loot from one of two categories we have common Loot and rare loot so if you find common suspicious gravel it’s only these items and if you get a rare one

It’ll be one of these that you draw out and those are the easier changes for me to show and demonstrate to you what’s a lot trickier is that they’ve reworked lots of the structures based on community feedback and added more structure variants and this was done

With a lot of file name changes and also changes to their content that just made it kind of tricky to try track every single change but here’s what we’re gonna do we will try and get more of a feel through this through generating structures in the world and using an

External tool too first of all my biggest takeaway from looking at these is that the structures generally feel bigger and it feels like more of them have been linked together with a familiar pattern you have the tower in the middle big rooms on the side then a path leading out with several other

Rooms attached to it and that is quite similar to what we have before but the shapes of these rooms feel inheritantly different a little bulkier maybe circular around the edges and there are less of these very small rooms like these two here so to get a better feel

For this we’re going to use this tool made by jochen Jacobs and yes it’s very likely that I’m absolutely butchering their name I do apologize this is a structure generator and every time we click Trail runes over here on the left it’s going to generate a new structure

In the area to the right the issue with this though is that it tends to generate them in one of four different directions so sometimes it’s not quite as clear what you’re looking at but you can of course go ahead move the camera rotate around all that good stuff and if we

Have a look at it from this top down view you can see that it’s pretty much doing the same thing whatever Direction it generates in and so to me these structures do tend to look a little more interesting and larger in general what I will probably do in the next Snapshot

Video is get this world updated with the new and changed structures side by side with the old ones so we can kind of gleam where the biggest differences are but for now we’re going to Blitz through the technical changes of all you map makers and command tinkerers the data

Pack version has now been updated to 14 and this is because of the display entity being updated if you need the technical info this article is linked down below there is also a return command which I’m told is going to be a godsend for map makers and not being a

Programmer I didn’t really understand this but it’s all explained one thing I did understand is that you can now trigger an advancement using a crafted recipe so that covers this snapshot was there anything I missed please do let me know with a comment down below and if

You are looking for something else to watch those episodes of hermitcraft and that behind the scenes on April Fool’s snapshot is waiting for you so go check them out if you haven’t done so already that’s it thanks for watching I’ll see you later bye-bye