It is now time for the first Pre-release for Minecraft 1.20: The Trails and Tales update!

From now on, you should mostly see bugs being fixed. In addition to that, pre-releases don't follow the regular snapshot cadence of releasing on Wednesdays, so keep an eye out for the next pre-release.

As always, a big thank you to the community for your feedback, bugs reported, and awesome ideas throughout the snapshot series. Let the pre-releases commence!

CHANGES

Colored Wool, Carpets and Beds can now be dyed to any other color

TECHNICAL CHANGES

Added new damage types: outside_border and generic_kill
Random sequences for loot tables are now deterministic
Changes in server.properties encoding
string data sources for the data command now accept negative boundaries, which are interpreted as index counted from the end of the string

DAMAGE TYPES

Players outside the world border are now hurt by the damage type outside_border instead of in_wall
Forcibly removing an entity using i.e. the /kill command now uses damage type generic_kill instead of out_of_world

LOOT TABLE RANDOM SEQUENCES

The game now uses named random sequences to deterministically produce loot for loot tables. Each random sequence produces a unique sequence based on the world seed and sequence ID, which means a loot table will produce the same results when ran with the same parameters in the same world.

The ID of the random sequence to use for a loot table is specified in a new field called random_sequence.

SERVER.PROPERTIES

File is now read in UTF-8 initially, with previous encoding (ISO 8859-1/Latin 1) as a fallback
File is now written with UTF-8 encoding

FIXED BUGS IN 1.20 PRE-RELEASE 1

MC-180 - When reaching the other side of a nether portal the animation plays forever until stepped out of
MC-2215 - Encoding errors in server.properties
MC-18060 - Several realms strings are untranslatable
MC-35078 - Breaking animation is one frame off
MC-123081 - Placing an end crystal when entering The End prevents Ender Dragon from spawning
MC-146582 - When entering spectator mode while standing on the ground, the player moves down by 0.19051 blocks, which makes you fall down
MC-195781 - The "Include entities:" string displayed within the structure block GUI is improperly capitalized
MC-195825 - "datapacks" string is inconsistent with "data pack" string in "datapackFailure.title" text
MC-198202 - Options background texture does not match dirt texture
MC-203039 - Incorrect use of colon in options.hideMatchedNames.tooltip
MC-206548 - Leash knot subtitles are not properly capitalized
MC-226454 - The "Light as a Rabbit" advancement description has no space after the ellipsis
MC-236606 - Lightning bolt related string lacks capitalization
MC-241736 - Company names are still inconsistent and partly misspelled in the credits
MC-250571 - Gamerule description strings within the world creation menu consist of inconsistent concluding punctuation
MC-256424 - Game mode is sometimes referred to as "gamemode"
MC-257336 - Some chiseled bookshelf interaction subtitles are improperly capitalized
MC-262006 - Melon and Pumpkin are in the default '#maintains_farmland' tag despite not maintain farmland
MC-262208 - In the credits, "Lionbridge" is misspelt in one place (no "g")
MC-262253 - Music composers not listed in credits
MC-262265 - Changing resource pack that overrides a font crashes JVM
MC-262296 - Rabbits are no longer affected by jump boost
MC-262300 - Menu text is now rendered in front of the Mojang Studios loading screen fade animation
MC-262304 - The stepping_on predicate condition does not correctly succeed on trapdoors
MC-262308 - Entities do not stick to honey blocks pushed by pistons if their center isn't over the honey block
MC-262313 - Nether won't load in upgraded worlds
MC-262317 - Items don't respect properties of the block they are supported on
MC-262351 - Worldgen deadlock caused by supporting block checks
MC-262363 - Player can still gain a normal jump off of a honey block with precise timing
MC-262424 - Sprinting particles on the edges of blocks are still incorrect

GET THE PRE-RELEASE

Pre-release are available for Minecraft: Java Edition. To install the Pre-release, open up the Minecraft Launcher and enable snapshots in the "Installations" tab.

Testing versions can corrupt your world, so please backup and/or run them in a different folder from your main worlds.

Cross-platform server jar:

Minecraft server jar

Report bugs here:

Minecraft issue tracker!

Want to give feedback?

For any feedback and suggestions on our upcoming 1.20 features, head over to the dedicated Feedback site category. If you're feeling chatty, join us over at the official Minecraft Discord.

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