Minecraft update out today (version 1.16.20), patch notes

A new 1.16.20 update is expected later today for Minecraft. It’ll include new features along with plenty of fixes.

Below are the full patch notes:

New Features:
Piglin Brute

• Piglin Brutes are stronger versions of Piglins that live in bastion remnants and protect the treasures there
• Unlike their cowardly and greedy counterparts, the Piglin Brutes cannot be distracted by gold and aren’t afraid of anything
• Piglin Brutes attack players on sight, no matter how the player is dressed
• Piglin Brutes wield axes and don’t need any armor because they’re just that tough!

Crafting Interface Changes:

• Recipe Select button prompt shows when hovering over a non-craftable recipe book item using controller (MCPE-79725)
• Recipe selected items put in crafting input grid can now be hovered over with controller to see their tooltip names
• On controller, hovering over recipes will show them in the crafting grid when no recipe is selected
• On controller, you can deselect a selected recipe when hovering above that selection in the recipe book. You can also clear the crafting grid by clicking the right thumbstick

Fixes:

• Performance / Stability
  • Fixed a crash that occurred on PlayStation 4 due to other players using custom skins
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when pressing the Manage Account button in Profile settings
  • Loom blocks no longer cause an out of memory crash when using high resolution resource packs (MCPE-69848)

• General
  • Worlds can once again be uploaded to Realms on Nintendo Switch (REALMS-474)
  • Players can once again host 8 max player worlds on PlayStation 4 (MCPE-85009)
  • Fixed an issue where the Hot Tourist Destination trophy would not unlock after visiting the last required Nether biome on PlayStation 4 (MCPE-85496)
  • Meeting requirements for some achievements offline will now unlock it after reconnecting
  • Custom skins once again work properly in multiplayer (MCPE-48207)
  • Emotes can no longer be equipped before unlocking them (MCPE-84810)
  • Fixed notifications not appearing on iOS

• Gameplay
  • Breaking a Furnace will now drop the stored experience from smelting (MCPE-71651)
  • Boats are no longer slowed down by objects with no collision (MCPE-81316)
  • Legacy chunk upgrades will no longer cause chunks to become 100% air (MCPE-58514)
  • New Nether biomes, blocks, and structures no longer generates into worlds with a fixed version (MCPE-66357)
  • Parity: Fixed chests with loot tables not generating loot until opened or destroyed
  • Local split-screen players can once again see the Ender Dragon and Ender Crystal (MCPE-67596)
  • The bounding box of the player used for spawning is now the correct size, so we don’t think a player is in a dangerous spot when they are actually safe

• Mobs
  • Mobs max spawn radius is now 44 blocks at sim distance 4 (MCPE-79359)
  • Zombies can spawn underground again (MCPE-52743)
  • Dolphins, fish, and squid now spawn in bubble columns again (MCPE-73967)
  • Baby pigs now despawn properly (MCPE-76373)
  • Hoglins no longer attack on Peaceful mode when too close (MCPE-71939)
  • Piglins and Brutes can now spawn with enchanted weapons (MCPE-83536)
  • Piglins now spawn on Peaceful difficulty
  • Piglins no longer naturally spawn on Shroomlights
  • Piglin arms are now behaving more like the players arms and less like zombie arms (MCPE-74089)
  • Piglins killed with a single blow while admiring Gold Ingots now drop the admired the Gold Ingot 🙁
  • Gold Ingots given to baby Piglins are no longer consumed
  • Piglins no longer drop up to a full stack of Gold Ingots upon giving them one by right-clicking and reloading a world while they are admiring it, instead it drops something from its loot table
  • Piglins no longer pick up entire stacks of Gold (MCPE-76080)
  • Piglins no longer spawn with enchanted gear
  • Tweaked arm animation for mobs that have their weapons removed (MCPE-83581)
  • Tamed wolves no longer disappear when returning to overworld through a Nether portal
  • Husks now prefer iron armor over chain armor
    

• Blocks
  • Walls now connect to open trapdoors (MCPE-79490)
  • Walls now connect to glass blocks (MCPE-79483)
  • Pressure plates have been fixed to have no collision again (MCPE-80276)
  • Melon and pumpkin stems now break again when the block below them is destroyed (MCPE-79577)
  • Slime blocks pushed by pistons launch players correctly again (MCPE-62419)
  • Fixed an issue that prevented players from being able to place beehives or bee nests from their inventory after an update (MCPE-62067)
  • Soul Campfires now emit the correct light level (MCPE-73890)
  • Hyphae blocks now take as long as stem blocks to destroy (MCPE-72045)
  • Quartz Block can no longer be created from Chiseled Quartz Block and Pillar Quartz Block in a Furnace
  • Fixed recipes when crafting a Barrel from Warped or Crimson Slabs
  • Quartz Bricks can no longer be crafted from anything but Quartz Blocks on the Stonecutter
  • Target Block’s zones for particular redstone signal strength are no longer misplaced because of old Arrow geometry
  • Setting Soul Sand on fire no longer produces a placeholder Soul Fire block on pre-Nether version locked content

• Items
  • Netherite items no longer bounce on lava (MCPE-65372)
  • Using Bone Meal on flowers or grass blocks no longer consumes the item if nothing can grow (MCPE-73889)
  • Fixed issues around duplicating items when reloading a world while Piglin is admiring an item

• Audio
  • Zoglins now have sounds distinct from pigs (MCPE-73220)
  • Netherite armor now has a unique sound when equipped MCPE-69047)
  • Climbing vines now plays sound (MCPE-69741)
  • Corrected sound for placing Nether Wart
  • Placing or stepping on Warped or Crimson processed materials or planks now make wood sounds (MCPE-69029)
  • Ambient cave sounds are no longer played in Marketplace content prior to 1.16

• User Interface
  • Wither health bar no longer depletes to zero after half of the health is gone (MCPE-79661)
  • Wither health bar now reappears when returning from another dimension
  • The ‘Open’ tooltip is no longer displayed when looking at Piglins (MCPE-79376)
  • Speed of credits roll is no longer dependent on framerate

• Commands
  • Fixed an issue with several commands being used while cheats were disabled (MCPE-92557)
  • Made using the ‘/fill’ command more efficient, improving performance
  • Using the ‘/locate’ command to find a Ruined Portal will no longer return placeholder text (MCPE-79323)
  • The ‘/clear’ command now correctly removes all blocks with the same block name when no data argument is passed in
  • Making command selectors use the current position of an actor rather than the previous position of an actor
  • Fixed an issue that could cause Command Blocks to stop working unexpectedly

• Add-Ons
  • Updated Piglin geometry and entity files: Fixed issue with scaling carried item for baby humanoid mobs
  • Accessing a Beacon no longer spams the content log with warnings (MCPE-66357)
  • The ‘rider_can_interact’ field on ‘minecraft:rideable’ is now used again
  • Behavior animation components will no longer try to reload after a suspend resume and a mob/player rides something
  • Drowned geometry is no longer broken in content packs

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