Java Edition 23w07a

Minecraft 23w07a
Edition	Java Edition
Release date	February 15, 2023
Type	Snapshot
Snapshot for	1.19.4
Downloads	Client (.json); Server
Obfuscation maps	Client; Server
Protocol version	dec: 1073741943; hex: 40000077
Data version	3329
Resource pack format	12
Data pack format	12
Minimum Java version	Java SE 17

23w07a is the fifth and final snapshot for Java Edition 1.19.4, released on February 15, 2023,^[1] which adds the sniffer, cherry groves, and archaeology under experimental features, and fixes bugs.

Additions

Non-mob entities

Interaction

A new type of entity that records attacks and interactions. Interactions (interaction) are invisible and of a custom size, with following fields:
- width: Width of the entity's bounding box (default is 1).
- height: Height of the entity's bounding box (default is 1).
- attack: An action object, records the last attack action on the entity.
- interaction: An action object, records the last interaction action on the entity.
- response: Boolean specifying if interacting should trigger a response (arm swing, sound effects, etc - default false).
Introduced action object accordingly. When an action is stored, it always has two fields:
- player: The UUID (in standard integer array format) of the player performing the action.
- timestamp: The timestamp of the game tick when the event happened (stored as a long).
This made following command usage possible:
- Execute command as the last player who attacked the entity when using /execute on attacker.
- Execute command as the last player who interacted with the entity when using /execute on target.
Advancement triggers also got triggered, when:
- Interacting with an interaction entity: player_interacted_with_entity.
- Attacking an interaction entity: player_hurt_entity.

General

Recipe

Added a new recipe serializer crafting_decorated_pot for the new decorated pot recipe.
Added show_notification field to recipes.
- Accepts a boolean which determines if a notification is shown when unlocking this recipe.
- Defaults to true if isn't specified.

Tags

Added following item tags:
- #axes: contains diamond_axe, stone_axe, golden_axe, netherite_axe, wooden_axe, and iron_axe.
- #breaks_decorated_pots: contains #tools.
- #hoes: contains diamond_hoe, stone_hoe, golden_hoe, netherite_hoe, wooden_hoe, and iron_hoe.
- #pickaxes: contains diamond_pickaxe, stone_pickaxe, golden_pickaxe, netherite_pickaxe, wooden_pickaxe, and iron_pickaxe.
- #shovels: contains diamond_shovel, stone_shovel, golden_shovel, netherite_shovel, wooden_shovel, and iron_shovel.
- #swords: contains diamond_sword, stone_sword, golden_sword, netherite_sword, wooden_sword, and iron_sword.
- #tools: contains #axes, #hoes, #pickaxes, #shovels, #swords, and trident.

Changes

Blocks

Jukebox

Now emits a redstone signal of 15 while playing a music disc.
Droppers and hoppers can now interact with it.

Gameplay

Horse breeding

When breeding horses and the like, the babies' speed, jump height and health are no longer biased toward the average.
- This change is intended to make horse breeding a viable way of getting great horses, if a player starts with good parents and puts in enough time and golden carrots.

General

Realms

Updated the "Realms" screen to be more in line with the "Singleplayer" and "Multiplayer" screens.

Recipe

The crafting table recipe is unlocked immediately on creating a new world.
The crossbow and soul campfire recipes are no longer unlocked by sticks.

Resource pack

The vanilla resource pack en_us language file is now sorted alphanumerically by key.

Experimental

These additions and changes only take effect when the 1.20 experimental data pack is enabled.

Additions

Blocks

Cherry leaves

A new type of leaves.
Have pink particles falling underneath.

Cherry log

A new type of log, as well as a stripped variant.
Can be used to craft cherry woods and planks.
The stripped variant can be used to craft cherry hanging sign.

Cherry planks

A new type of plank.
Can be used to craft cherry buttons, doors, fences, fence gates, pressure plates, signs, slabs, stairs, and trapdoors.

Cherry sapling

A new type of sapling.
Can be placed in flower pots.

Cherry wood

A new type of wood, as well as a stripped variant.
Can be used to craft cherry planks.

Decorated pot

Can be crafted with any 4 pottery shards or brick items, shaped rhombic.
- The type of crafting material decides which picture would occur on each side of the crafted decorated pot.
  - The possible pictures are decided by the type of pottery shard which is used to craft.
  - The brick item doesn't have a picture.
Very fragile, and easy to break.
- Break apart into its crafting materials when broken using any block-breaking tool.
- Drop itself when broken using an empty hand or an block-breaking tool with Silk Touch, or when moved by pistons.

Pink petals

A new type of a flower, which generates naturally in cherry groves.
Renewable when applying a bone meal to an existing one or to the ground of cherry groves.
Similar to sea pickle, can be placed up to 4 in one dirt-related block.
Can be placed directionally.
Can be crafted into a pink dye.

Suspicious sand

Looks like sand, but rougher.
Affected by gravity, vanishes when landing.
Drops nothing when mined or moved, even if mining with Silk Touch.
Generates naturally in desert pyramids and desert wells, with different archaeological loot tables.
Brushing the suspicious sand with a brush extracts objects.
- Has 4 stages of extracting, recovers gradually when stop brushing.
- Turns to regular sand when extraction is done.
- An item can be extracted only from suspicious sand with a valid archaeological loot table.

Torchflower

A new type of flower, grows from torchflower seeds after 2 stages (3 stages in total).
Doesn't emit light.
If grown fully, it drops itself only when broken, otherwise drop the seed.
Can be crafted into an orange dye.
Can be planted in a flower pot.

Items

Brush

A tool which can be used to brush things.
Can be crafted with 3 string and 2 sticks, like the shape of crafting pickaxes.
Consumes 1 durability when extracting an item from a suspicious sand successfully.
Does nothing when brushing anything other than suspicious sand.

Pottery shards

Have pictures on them.
Cannot be crafted and are only found by brushing suspicious sand.

Spawn eggs

Sniffer spawn egg

Torchflower seeds

A new type of seed, which can be planted on farmland and grows into a torchflower.
Can only be obtained if a sniffer it digs up.

Mobs

Sniffers

A new passive friendly mob, which is the mob vote winner of Minecraft Live 2022, and considered as the first "ancient" mob.
Very large (2×2 full blocks).
Have 14HP × 7 points of health.
Cannot spawn naturally.
Cannot be tempted or tamed.
Often sniff in the air and occasionally dig for torchflower seeds.
- The digging has a cooldown of 8 minutes.
- The last 20 dug blocks are remembered with a sniffer_explored_positions memory, and are not eligible for digging again.
Can be bred with torchflower seeds.
Drop moss block when killed.

Non-mob entities

Cherry boat

A new type of boat, crafted with cherry planks.

Cherry boat with chest

A new type of boat with chest, crafted with a cherry boat and a chest.

World generation

Cherry tree

A new type of tree which can be grown from cherry saplings.
Occasionally generated with a bee nest.
Tree trunks fork or bend high up, and are then covered up in large, round canopies of cherry leaves.

Cherry grove

A new biome which contains pretty cherry blossom trees.
Located in the mountains, like meadows.
Sheep, donkeys, and bees can spawn here.

General

Particles

Added dripping_cherry_leaves, falling_cherry_leaves, and landing_cherry_leaves, which appear underneath the cherry leaves.

Tags

Added following block tags:
- #cherry_logs: contains cherry_log, cherry_wood, stripped_cherry_log, and stripped_cherry_wood.
- #sniffer_diggable_block: contains dirt, grass_block, podzol, coarse_dirt, rooted_dirt, moss_block, mud, and muddy_mangrove_roots.
Added following item tags:
- #cherry_logs: contains cherry_log, cherry_wood, stripped_cherry_log, and stripped_cherry_wood.
- #decorated_pot_shards: contains brick, pottery_shard_archer, pottery_shard_prize, pottery_shard_arms_up, and pottery_shard_skull.
- #sniffer_food: contains torchflower_seeds.

Changes

World generation

Desert pyramid

Now includes a new room filled with sand and suspicious sand.
- Some sand appear exposed, and can be found at the same height as blue terracotta.

Desert well

Now includes suspicious sand underwater.

Gameplay

Advancement

The cherry grove is now required to be visited for the "Adventuring Time" advancement.

General

Tags

Added cherry_boat into the #boats item tag.
Added cherry_button into the #wooden_buttons block and item tags.
Added cherry_chest_boat into the #chest_boats item tag.
Added cherry_door into the #wooden_doors block and item tags.
Added cherry_fence_gate into the #fence_gates block and item tags.
Added cherry_fence into the #wooden_fences block and item tags.
Added cherry_grove into the #is_mountain biome tag.
Added cherry_hanging_sign into the #ceiling_hanging_signs block tag and #hanging_signs item tag.
Added cherry_leaves into the #leaves block tag.
Added cherry_leaves and pink_petals into the #flowers and #mineable/hoe block tags.
Added cherry_log into the #overworld_natural_logs block tag.
Added #cherry_logs into the #logs_that_burn block tag.
Added cherry_planks into the #planks block and item tags.
Added cherry_pressure_plate into the #wooden_pressure_plates block and item tags.
Added cherry_sapling into the #saplings block tag.
Added cherry_sign into the #standing_signs block tag and #signs item tag.
Added cherry_slab into the #wooden_slabs block and item tags.
Added cherry_stairs into the #wooden_stairs block and item tags.
Added cherry_trapdoor into the #wooden_trapdoors block and item tags.
Added cherry_wall_hanging_sign into the #wall_hanging_signs block tag.
Added cherry_wall_sign into the #wall_signs block tag.
Added pink_petals into the #inside_step_sound_blocks block tag.
Added suspicious_sand into the #sand block tag.

Fixes

36 issues fixed

From released versions before 1.19

MC-16533 – Horse Breeding never exceeds egg/spawn horse attributes.
MC-64522 – Server show as "Old" in server list while starting.
MC-84633 – Resource packs: ambientocclusion flag only respects topmost parent.
MC-134448 – Drowned animation glitch.
MC-181412 – Removing a jukebox with a command while it's playing a music disc won't stop playing the music disc.
MC-194080 – Elytra model stutters by flying and turning.
MC-209409 – Sitting cats sink in water.
MC-226729 – Memory leakage problem in native operations.
MC-238920 – Soul campfire recipe unlocks when obtaining a stick.
MC-248249 – minecraft:forest_rock feature does not work correctly when used with /place.

From 1.19.3

MC-256465 – Baby camels can enter boats despite adult camels not being able to.
MC-257282 – Allays sometimes have a several-second delay before deciding to follow the player.
MC-258457 – Resource Pack won't load if it contains reference to non-existing particles.
MC-258459 – Invalid forced resource pack can cause infinite reload loop on client.
MC-258580 – Player is kicked from a server for flying in death screen when dying on a Horse or Camel.
MC-258624 – The Title Screen Warning menu doesn't disappear after the player respawns.
MC-258697 – Invalid translation of translationKey=narration.suggestion in command block GUI.
MC-258902 – Opening a lectern on Adventure mode and closing it causes inventory desyncs.
MC-258907 – Advancement trigger player_interacted_with_entity doesn't work with area_effect_cloud entity when used glass_bottle item on it.
MC-259107 – Opening the crafting recipe book selects the recipe that appears under the mouse cursor.
MC-259241 – Turtles can spawn inside each other causing them to get stuck and play constant sounds.
MC-259797 – Z-fighting occurs on the bottom of boots.

From the 1.19.4 development versions

MC-259218 – Onboarding isn't resumed after restarting Minecraft.
MC-259240 – The game crashes when navigating with arrow keys after changing key binds.
MC-259489 – Experimental "disabled items" can still be suggested as fuel by the recipe book.
MC-259573 – Blast Protection does not reduce explosion knockback in creative game mode.
MC-259675 – Capes occasionally jitter when moving and adjusting your rotation.
MC-259691 – Drowned that are swimming render outside of their hitboxes when looking up or down.
MC-259729 – "Falling Block" can appear in death messages.

From the previous development version

MC-259796 – Creeper does not flash white and expand before exploding.
MC-259805 – Players cannot dismount when riding item_display, block_display, and text_display using the /ride command.
MC-259808 – Allay wing animation skips frames/loops incorrectly as of 23w06a.
MC-259816 – Odd behavior when an item_display, block_display, or text_display entity mounts another entity.
MC-259819 – Z-fighting on the text of text displays.
MC-259999 – Entities mounted on display entities do not visually update until after resync.
MC-260000 – Saved Y Pos of entities mounted on display entities does not update internally in NBT.

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References

↑ "Minecraft Snapshot 23w07a" – Minecraft.net, February 15, 2023.

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