Java Edition 23w17a

Minecraft 23w17a
Edition	Java Edition
Release date	April 26, 2023
Type	Snapshot
Snapshot for	1.20
Downloads	Client (.json); Server
Obfuscation maps	Client; Server
Protocol version	dec: 1073741956; hex: 40000084
Data version	3452
Resource pack format	15
Data pack format	14
Minimum Java version	Java SE 17

23w17a is the fifth snapshot for Java Edition 1.20, released on April 26, 2023^[1], which adds a new music disc, new advancements, new music, and fixes bugs.

Additions

Items

Music disc

Added a new music disc by Aaron Cherof titled "Relic".
- Can only be obtained when brushing suspicious gravels within trail ruins, with ¹⁄₁₂ chance appeared as a rare loot.
- Gives a comparator output signal strength of 14 when in a Jukebox.

Gameplay

Advancements

Added seven new advancements:
- Smells interesting
  - Obtain a Sniffer Egg
- Little sniffs
  - Feed a Snifflet
- Planting the past
  - Plant any Sniffer seed
- Crafting a new look
  - Craft a trimmed armor at a Smithing Table
- Smithing with style
  - Apply these smithing templates at least once: Spire, Snout, Rib, Ward, Silence, Vex, Tide, Wayfinder
- Respecting the remnants
  - Brush a Suspicious block to obtain a Pottery Sherd
- Careful restoration
  - Make a Decorated Pot out of 4 Pottery Sherds

General

Font

Added unihex glyph provider.
- A new glyph provider for reading Unifont HEX files.
  - HEX format describes bitmap font glyphs.
    - Height of every glyph is 16 pixels.
    - Width of glyph can be 8, 16, 24 or 32 pixels.
  - Every line is made of two hexadecimal numbers separated by :.
  - First value describes codepoint - it must have 4, 5 or 6 hex digits.
  - Second value describes glyph as a stream of bits, line by line.
- When rendering, empty columns on left and right side of glyph are removed.
  - Custom glyph widths can be set with size_overrides.
- Provider requires two fields:
  - hex_file: Path to ZIP archive containing one or more *.hex files (files in archive with different extensions are ignored).
  - size_overrides: List of codepoint ranges that should have width different that auto-detected (based on empty space in glyph). Fields:
    - from, to: Start and end of codepoint range (inclusive).
    - left, right: Integers describing position of left-most and right-most columns of glyph in range.
      - Any bits in columns outside this range are discarded.
Added reference glyph provider.
- New glyph provider can be used to include providers from other fonts.
  - Providers are guaranteed to be loaded only once, no matter how many times they are included.
- Provider has one field id, that describes other font to be included in currently loaded one.
  - Inclusion is performed after all fonts are loaded, so it includes all providers for a given font defined in all resource packs.

Loot tables

Added sniffer_digging: contains torchflower_seeds and pitcher_pod.
- Controls what can be found by sniffers when digging.

Music

Added new ambient soundtracks, all by Aaron Cherof.^{[note 1]}
- "A Familiar Room" plays in Survival mode (all biomes without biome-specific music), as well as the title screens.
- "Bromeliad" plays in bamboo jungle, cherry grove, flower forest, forest, jungle, sparse jungle, as well as the menu screens.
- "Crescent Dunes" plays in desert, all types of badlands, as well as the menu screens.
- "Echo in the Wind" plays in cherry grove, flower forest, lush caves, all types of badlands, as well as the menu screens.

Tags

Added following item tag:
- #decorated_pot_ingredients: contains brick and #decorated_pot_sherds.

Changes

Blocks

Calibrated sculk sensor

Now lasts 10 game ticks when in active phase instead of 20.
Now lasts 10 game ticks when in cooldown phase instead of 1.

Decorated pot

The materials used in crafting are displayed on the tooltip now.

Sculk sensor

Now lasts 30 game ticks when in active phase instead of 40.
Now lasts 10 game ticks when in cooldown phase instead of 1.

General

Credits

Updated to add some Mojang employees.
Can be scrolled upwards by pressing ↑ now.

Debug screen

Font textures are included in debug texture dump (F3 + S).

Music

The places where the following existing music can be played are changed:^{[note 2]}
- "Aerie", "Firebugs", and "Labyrinthine" can no longer be played in the menu screens, and all types of jungle biomes.

Resource packs

Version is now 15, accounting for the font and credits update.
- legacy_unicode glyph provider has been removed.
- Bitmaps used by uniform font have been removed.
- uniform font has been updated to use Unifont 15.0.01.
  - That changes shape of multiple characters, while also adding support for new ones.
  - Combining characters no longer include circle overlayed over them.
- Added second level of organization of entries in credits.json on top of titles, called disciplines.

Tags

Removed brick from #decorated_pot_sherds item tag.
Added music_disc_relic to #music_discs item tag.

General

Improved performance of the light engine.

Fixes

32 issues fixed

From released versions before 1.20

MC-30939 – Nether portal continues emitting light, even if portal is broken.
MC-108045 – Minecraft not using latest unifont unicode chart; characters are missing.
MC-127394 – Minecraft does not render characters in Unicode mb4 range.
MC-166260 – Light from fire that has gone out lingers at the border of chunks.
MC-172980 – Block light updates don't cross chunk borders properly when updated.
MC-179867 – Unicode Characters swapped in Minecraft.
MC-197772 – Missing textures in minecraft:uniform font.
MC-199446 – Characters ︗ (U+FE17) and ︘ (U+FE18) are swapped in game.
MC-213712 – "Ideographic Space" Unicode character is not displayed correctly.
MC-225742 – When light emitting blocks generate as ores, they do not emit light.
MC-234681 – Tai Viet characters are not supported.
MC-241725 – In the credits, an opening parenthesis is missing for Riley Manns.
MC-241730 – In the credits, a closing parenthesis is missing for Konrad Jówko.
MC-241732 – In the credits, "Lionbridge" is misspelt in one place.
MC-241733 – In the credits, "Insight" is misspelt in one place.
MC-241741 – Certain names are listed twice in the credits.
MC-241803 – credits.json: Line 2632 has typo in (C instead of O).
MC-245819 – Lighting can still occasionally lag behind world generation.
MC-249341 – Some Mojang employees are not mentioned in the credits.
MC-249508 – Light emitted from cave vines and glow lichens upon world generation still sometimes doesn't propagate across chunk borders.
MC-254506 – Font file of some Korean completed font area is wrong.
MC-258926 – Space is no longer treated as padding in fonts.
MC-260307 – Cherry Grove biome has empty music sound event.
MC-261626 – Reversed Comma doesn't render properly when using the Unicode font.
MC-261900 – Sniffers cannot properly pathfind into water while burning.

From the 1.20 development versions

MC-261413 – Particles spawned by brushes held by left-handed players move in the wrong direction.
MC-261938 – Sniffer animation is not smooth on slime blocks.

From the previous development version

MC-261997 – Game crashes when generating new chunk / java.lang.IllegalStateException: Asking for biomes before we have biomes.
MC-262012 – Telemetry Tooltip out of screen.
MC-262022 – Tooltips get cut off at the bottom of the screen.
MC-262024 – Sniffer eggs are sometimes spawned in the ground when sniffers breed.
MC-262030 – Sniffers stand a bit too close to players that are tempting them.

Video

Video made by Slicedlime:

Notes

↑ Released to all 1.20 snapshots from 23w14a.
↑ Changed to all 1.20 snapshots from 23w14a.

References

↑ "Minecraft Snapshot 23w17a" – Minecraft.net, April 26, 2023.

Navigation

[2] Released to all 1.20 snapshots from 23w14a.

[3] Changed to all 1.20 snapshots from 23w14a.

[1] "Minecraft Snapshot 23w17a" – Minecraft.net, April 26, 2023.

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