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20w48a is the third snapshot for Java Edition 1.17, released on November 25, 2020,[1] which adds dripstone blocks and pointed dripstone.

Additions[]

Blocks[]

Dripstone Block
  • Decoration block.
  • Does not generate anywhere currently, is only available from the creative inventory.
Pointed Dripstone
  • Can be placed on the floor or ceiling, creating stalagmites or stalactites respectively.
    • Can be combined to form longer stalactites and stalagmites.
  • Stalagmites break if not attached to something below, and hurt entities which fall on top of them.
    • Enemies that fall on the stalagmites deal three times more fall damage
  • Stalactites fall if unsupported, and hurt entities they fall on.
    • Damage is relative to height: For example, one falling from 2 blocks deals 2♥ of damage, and one falling from 3 blocks deal 4♥♥ of damage.
    • They drip water or lava into cauldrons if a source block is placed above the stalactite, and gradually fill the cauldron. Water drips even without any water above the block, but does not fill the cauldron.
  • Thrown tridents break pointed dripstone.

Command format[]

Gamerules
  • freezeDamage
    • Whether entities take damage from freezing inside of powder snow.

General[]

Tags
  • Added new freeze_immune_wearables item tag.
    • Contains leather boots, leather pants, leather tunic, and leather cap.
    • Having an item in this tag in an armor slot prevents players from freezing.
Particles
  • Added new particle types: dripping_dripstone_lava, dripping_dripstone_water, falling_dripstone_lava, and falling_drip_water.

Changes[]

Blocks[]

Budding Amethyst
  • The texture has been changed. Has a more prominent "X" in its center.
Block of Amethyst
  • The texture has been changed. It is now slightly less busy, striking a middle ground between the 20w45a and 20w46a textures.
Candles
  • Can now only be placed on solid surfaces.
    • If the block a candle is placed on is broken, the candle stays floating.
Cut Copper Slabs
  • Crafting all variants of cut copper into slabs now gives 6 slabs instead of 4.
Powder Snow
  • Players in creative mode can now freeze.

Items[]

Bundle
  • Now show fullness as a number when advanced tooltips are enabled.
  • Right-clicking a bundle in the inventory now empties one item from the bundle.
  • Using a bundle now throws out its entire content into the world.
Candle
  • The item textures have been changed to only have one candle.
Clock
  • The texture has been changed. The gold is now more vibrant and better matches other instances of gold in the Texture Update texture.
Compass and Lodestone Compass
  • The texture has been changed. The iron is now more vibrant and better matches other instances of iron in the Texture Update texture.
Leather armor
  • Wearing any piece of leather armor now prevents freezing entirely.
Spyglass
  • The spyglass is now a 3D model instead of a flat sprite.
  • Using the spyglass now better anchors it to the player's "eye" when viewed in 3rd person.

Gameplay[]

Recipe Book
  • Some recipe-unlocking advancements had criteria names changed.
  • The chiseled nether bricks recipe is now unlocked by having a nether brick slab instead of a nether bricks block.

General[]

Tags
  • The snow_step_sound_blocks block tag was renamed to inside_step_sound_block.

Fixes[]

30 issues fixed
From released versions before 1.17
  • MC-3615 – Lava and water are completely transparent at certain height levels.
  • MC-8017 – Arrows and tridents are not being slowed down by webs but eggs and snowballs are.
  • MC-173745 – Lower part of end gateway block beam renders incorrectly.
  • MC-176614 – Swimming and doing certain actions make the player look very odd/does not have animations for swimming + doing certain actions.
  • MC-189885 – New byte previousGamemode is read incorrectly.
  • MC-198864 – World border does not render below y0 / above y255.
  • MC-200696 – Clock's texture does not match the new gold color pallete.
From the 1.17 development versions
  • MC-203602 – Spyglass animation is wrong when swimming.
  • MC-203645 – Spyglass wobbles when walking while in use.
  • MC-203824 – Weird Hand animation when attacking and using spyglass at the same time.
  • MC-203925 – Items inside of a bundle disappear if you empty the bundle in the inventory when in Creative mode while the inventory is full.
  • MC-203951 – The elder guardian particle moves when an elder guardian moves.
  • MC-204323 – Inconsistency: Crafting copper blocks into slabs only yields 4 slabs instead of 6.
  • MC-204424 – Using a spyglass while gliding with an elytra points the spyglass down in third person view.
From the previous development version
  • MC-205041 – Full leather armour does not prevent freezing damage.
  • MC-205069 – Powdered snow doesn't give you frozen effect in creative mode.
  • MC-205072 – Snow Ambient Effect sometimes don't show correctly on the edge of a Powder Snow Block.
  • MC-205145 – Compass with nothing to point to will spin very rapidly when in bundle.
  • MC-205197 – Creating a map from an empty map no longer plays a sound.
  • MC-205220 – Cannot manipulate horse.saddle using /item command.
  • MC-205228 – Player arms still move when using a spyglass while flying.
  • MC-205269 – Chest closing sounds desynced with closing animations.
  • MC-205321 – Item modifiers that change the item type don't work on entities.
  • MC-205445 – The Fabulous graphics warning is shown at the wrong time.
  • MC-205454 – Bundles can be used to duplicate items in the crafting grid.
  • MC-205455 – Bundles cannot pick up items in certain slots.
  • MC-205492 – The 'Include entities' option in the structure block UI is the opposite of the actual behavior.
  • MC-205567 – TNT flashes are translucent once again.
  • MC-205627 – Item modifiers that change the count to 0 don't completely remove the item.
  • MC-206058 – /item modify doesn't visually update the model of an item in an item frame.

Video[]

Video made by Slicedlime:

References[]

  1. "Minecraft Snapshot 20w48a" – Minecraft.net, November 25, 2020
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