Minecraft 1.21.6 Pre-Release 4

We are now releasing Pre-Release 4 for Minecraft 1.21.6, with a few minor bug fixes.

Happy crafting!

Fixed bugs in 1.21.6 Pre-Release 4

• MC-279417 – Luring mobs onto blocks at Y=-64 will instead make them pathfind to the highest elevation
• MC-298446 – The “Thunder roars” sound is no longer affected by the master volume
• MC-298510 – Happy ghasts stay still for a few seconds when you get off them
• MC-298653 – Master volume slider no longer affects /playsoud sounds with high volume

Minecraft 1.21.6 Pre-Release 3

We’ve got another pre-release coming in hot! This time with a new advancement trigger and sound category but most importantly some much needed bug fixes.

New Features

Music and Sound

• Added new sound volume category called “UI” for sounds played by UI elements, like button clicks

Technical Changes

• The Data Pack version is now 80

Data Pack Version 80

• Added player_sheared_equipment trigger

New Triggers

Added minecraft:player_sheared_equipment

• Can Trigger when a player shears off a shearable equipment from an Entity
• Conditions:
  • item – Item that is sheared
  • entity – The entity that was sheared

Commands

Modified playsound

• Added new category ui
  • Sounds in this category will continue playing when paused, similarly to music

Fixed bugs in 1.21.6 Pre-Release 3

• MC-296371 – The entity shadows of happy ghasts are too small in relation to the size of their models
• MC-296374 – The entity shadows of ghastlings are too small in relation to the size of their models
• MC-296853 – The “Shear Brilliance” advancement is incorrectly given by shearing a lead off a wolf
• MC-297113 – Hotbar shown in loading terrain screen
• MC-297497 – The “Connection Lost” title isn’t displayed when being kicked from realms due to idle timeout
• MC-297972 – Dialog body content is misaligned
• MC-298353 – Ridden entities won’t make the lead breaking sound when attached to a fence
• MC-298412 – Subtitles are no longer shown when the master volume is set to zero
• MC-298466 – When clicking the “yes” button to confirm command execution in a dialog, if the player is put into another dialog, the click sound from the “yes” button will not be played until it is closed
• MC-298492 – Disconnecting through dialog in configuration phase causes the client to crash.
• MC-298516 – While running /dialog clear and /dialog show every tick, pressing the warning button just after joining the world can crash the game
• MC-298520 – Items in slots now render behind the container title, mismatching 1.21.5 behavior

Minecraft 1.21.6 Pre-Release 2

We’re kicking the week off with another pre-release, including some music and happy ghast bug fixes. The Chase the Skies drop is getting closer and the pre-release schedule might include more than one pre-release per week.

Changes

Music and Sound

• The following sound categories have been renamed:
  • Friendly Creatures -> Friendly Mobs
  • Hostile Creatures -> Hostile Mobs

Technical Changes

Dialogs

Dialog Description Format

Input Control Types

minecraft:text

• Output values:
  • As template substitution: contents with special characters escaped to fit in a SNBT literal (note: both ‘ and “ are escaped)
• For multiline field:
  • If height field is omitted, but max_lines is present, the height that will be chosen to fit the maximum number of lines can’t exceed 512

Fixed bugs in 1.21.6 Pre-Release 2

• MC-217887 – Unsigned books written in 1.9-pre1 or earlier don’t upgrade properly
• MC-297575 – Happy Ghast with nbt NoAI set to true can’t be controlled by player
• MC-297591 – Ender pearls can unexpectedly come to a halt
• MC-298104 – The max_lines field of multiline text input control is unrestricted, lagging the game
• MC-298144 – The initial value of minecraft:text input type is limited to 32 characters, regardless of max_length field
• MC-298155 – Dialog command_template using a multiline text input causes player to be kicked out of the server due to illegal characters in chat (which is \n)
• MC-298209 – Player cannot move while touching a happy ghast’s body
• MC-298301 – Blinking the cursor shifts all characters to the right of a multilines text field input in Dialogs
• MC-298307 – Entering and exiting a pale garden while in Creative mode causes the current music track to remain silent
• MC-298358 – Riding a mob into powder snow no longer affects the player properly
• MC-298361 – Happy ghast with player riding, teleports back and forth when exiting nether portal
• MC-298368 – “music_notes.png.mcmeta” has an extra index that does not exist, causing a warning
• MC-298394 – Freezing in Powdered Snow is very inconsistent and jittery
• MC-298422 – Ghasts and happy ghasts do not take damage from harmful blocks under some circumstances

Minecraft 1.21.6 Pre-Release 1

Changes

• The Dried Ghast Block now emits a vibration frequency of 11 when its block state changes
• Shearing Saddles, Horse Armor, and Carpets now emits a vibration frequency of 6, along with the Unequip frequency of 4
• The Ambient Dried Ghast sounds are now adjusted under the Blocks sound option instead of the Ambient/Environment option
• A player riding a Happy Ghast can no longer completely fly through a Happy Ghast ridden by another player

Technical Changes

• The Data Pack version is now 79
• The Resource Pack version is now 63

Data Pack Version 79

• Dialogs can now configure if they pause the game and if they close after an action is taken
• Every dialog can now have inputs and can submit information
  • The definition of actions has been changed to accommodate that
  • The dedicated input dialog types have been removed, since they are redundant now
  • The order of elements is:
    • Body
    • Inputs
    • Actions
• The minecraft:custom click event has been expanded to carry full a NBT tag
• A new keybind called “Quick Actions” has been added to allow accessing content-configured dialogs

Quick Actions Keybind

• A new keybind has been addded that allows users to access a set of dialogs
• Default key: G
• This feature is configured by minecraft:quick_actions dialog tag
  • If this tag is empty, the keybind does nothing
  • If this tag has a single element, the keybind will open this dialog
  • If this tag has multiple elements, the keybind will lead to minecraft:quick_actions dialog which (by default) lets user select one of the tag elements
    • If this dialog is removed, the keybind does nothing
• This option is intended to be used in custom content and by servers, so this tag is empty by default

Common Dialog fields

New fields:

• pause – if the dialog screen should pause the game in single-player mode, default: true
• after_action – an additional operation performed on the dialog after click or submit actions, default: close
  • close – closes the dialog and returns to the previous non-dialog screen (if any)
  • none – does nothing, i.e. keeps the current dialog screen open
    • only available if pause is false to avoid locking the game in single-player mode
  • wait_for_response – replace the current dialog with a “Waiting for Response” screen
    • this option is intended to prevent users from sending multiple actions on slow connections
      • servers are expected to eventually replace this screen with a new dialog
    • to avoid accidental locking, a “Back” button will become active after 5 seconds
      • clicking this button will continue as if the dialog was closed (i.e. the game returns to the previous non-dialog screen, if any)
    • The “Waiting for Response” screen will unpause the game in single-player mode to avoid locking the game

Dialog Types

Changed minecraft:multi_action, minecraft:server_links, minecraft:dialog_list

• Replaced field on_cancel with exit_action, holding an optional action
  • If exit_action is present, a button for it will appear in footer, otherwise the footer is not present
  • exit_action is also used for the Escape action

Removed minecraft:simple_input_form

• Since any dialog can now have inputs, this dialog can be replaced by minecraft:notice

Removed minecraft:multi_action_input_form

• Since any dialog can now have inputs, this dialog can be replaced by minecraft:multi_action (without any specified exit_action)

Input Control Types

• To accomodate the new minecraft:custom click event, all inputs will now return either a string or an NBT tag, depending on context

minecraft:text

• Output values:
  • As template substitution: contents without modification
  • As tag: a string tag with contents without modification

minecraft:boolean

• Output values:
  • As template substitution: on_true when checked, on_false when unchecked
  • As tag: 1b when checked, 0b when unchecked

minecraft:number_range

• Output values:
  • As template substitution: text representation of current value
    • Whole numbers will be sent without decimal point
  • As tag: a float tag with current value

Dialog Body Types

Hover and click events on text components within bodies now work as expected

• Click events are handled by the dialog screen like any other action – that means it will also run the after_action

Actions

• The format of actions has been changed due to the merging of plain and input dialogs
• After every action the dialog will always evaluate the contents of the after_action field (see above)

Fields:

• Kept fields: label, tooltip, width
• New field: action (replaces on_click and on_submit) – an action to perform when button is clicked, optional object with fields:
  • type – value from minecraft:dialog_action_type registry
  • <type-specific> – see below, depends on type

Static Dialog Action Types

All existing click_event actions (except for open_file) are included as dialog action types.

Uses same format as click_event on text components (but with action replaced with type) For example, when using show_dialog, entry for action button will look like:

{
    "label": "some label",
    "action": {
        "type": "show_dialog",
        "dialog": "some:id"
    }
}

minecraft:dynamic/run_command Action Type

• This action will build a run_command event using a provided macro template
• The macro will be expanded with string values from all inputs
  • For example, if the macro template is some_command $(some_input), the string value from the input with key of some_input will be used for the template expansion
  • Inputs not used in macro will be ignored, while macro parameters not matching any inputs will be replaced with an empty string

Fields:

• template – a string with a macro template to be interpreted as a command

minecraft:dynamic/custom Action Type

• This method will build a minecraft:custom event using all input values
• All input contents will be sent together inside a compound tag, with tag value of each input put under id from key field of that input
• Additional static fields can be added to payload

Fields:

• additions – fields to be added to payload, optional compound tag
• id – namespaced ID

Resource Pack version 63

• Added oversized_in_gui item model field
• Introduced new player head special model type

Item Models

• Item model definitions now have a boolean field oversized_in_gui which is false by default
  • If true, the item model will be allowed to be bigger than its item slot
  • If false, the item model will be clipped to the item slot size when being rendered in gui
  • This ability of items being rendered outside their slots should not be considered officially supported, it was temporarily restored as an exception since many servers are relying on it
  • At some point in the future we hope to replace it with an officially supported way of achieving similar functionality
• Introduced new item model minecraft:player_head to handle player profile texture loading and rendering
• Removed support for minecraft:profile from minecraft:head

minecraft:player_head special model type

• Renders a player head
• Uses profile from the minecraft:profile component to load a texture. Renders a default texture until the profile texture is fully loaded
• No fields

minecraft:head special model type

• No longer supports profile from minecraft:profile component to load a player texture
• Renders a default player texture when kind is player and no texture override is supplied
• Fields remain unchanged

Fixed bugs in 1.21.6 Pre-Release 1

• MC-94800 – URL shown in open URL dialog is not shortened
• MC-140819 – Lectern model extends past inventory slot
• MC-200092 – /setworldspawn seems to ignore the ‘angle’ parameter
• MC-272825 – Custom filled maps from 23w31a and earlier do not upgrade properly in later versions
• MC-280276 – Some item models can still clip into the block below when hovering on the ground
• MC-296420 – ‘/datapack create’ can create directories with illegal names
• MC-296431 – Clipping item sprites to stay in slot makes it impossible to hide the slot for resource packs
• MC-296458 – Player heads in the inventory don’t show the right skin
• MC-297275 – Players can desync from their mounts when jumping on a happy ghast
• MC-297550 – Happy ghasts don’t remain stationary correctly when players dismount them while other players are still controlling them
• MC-297807 – Clicking “Save and Quit to Title” in the dialog warning menu takes you to the server list even if the world is singleplayer or locally-hosted LAN
• MC-297817 – Newly placed paintings sometimes appear at a different position
• MC-297848 – The menu background is not shown for a short amount of time when leaving a world from a dialog
• MC-297868 – Items in the armor.body and saddle slots are not kept when dying while the game rule keepInventory is set to true
• MC-297893 – prevent_equipment_drop enchantment effect does not work with armor.body and saddle slots
• MC-297894 – /clear command does not clear armor.body and saddle slots
• MC-297897 – Players can fall through happy ghasts
• MC-297899 – FPS drops due to clouds
• MC-297906 – Running a command with a large output whilst on a dedicated server causes a kick and no logged output
• MC-297915 – The name plates of entities with an empty custom name are now rendered incorrectly
• MC-298071 – All naturally spawned zombie villagers are professionless since 25w16a
• MC-298101 – Sniffers now show the digging animation instead of the walking animation
• MC-298116 – The warning text in the confirm link screen is no longer visible
• MC-298117 – All buttons at the bottom of the Realms screen are clickable when no realm is selected
• MC-298139 – Items bigger than the size of a slot incorrectly bleed over onto other items
• MC-298146 – GUI items disappear at high screen resolutions