Changes

  • Splash Potions effect strength is now based on the distance of the hitboxes
  • The Slime Ball in the Lead recipe has been replaced with a String
  • Piglins can now give Dried Ghast Blocks when bartered with
  • The recipe for the Dried Ghast Block has been updated to now require a Soul Sand Block rather than a Bone Block

Splash Potions

  • Splash Potions distance to affected entities now depends on the closest distance between the entity hitbox and the splash potion hitbox where it landed
    • This means that if an entity is hit directly by the splash potion, it will receive the full effect of the potion
    • If the entities are grouped together, they will receive the same effect strength

Technical Changes

  • The Data Pack version is now 75
  • The Resource Pack version is now 59
  • All JSON files (in worlds, packs, configuration, etc.) are now parsed in strict mode

Data Pack Version 75

Entity Data

  • Added home_pos and home_radius fields to all mobs
    • Mobs with set home position will limit their pathfinding to stay within the indicated area
    • Some mobs, like Bats, Slimes, Magma Cubes, Phantoms and Ender Dragons may ignore it
    • Interacting with leashes or riding may change the home position of the mob

Entity Tags

  • Updated #followable_friendly_mobs to include the Happy Ghast

Resource Pack Version 59

  • Updated Unifont to 16.0.03

UI Sprites

  • The hud/locator_bar_arrow_up and hud/locator_bar_arrow_down sprites are now animated with a standard animation definition in the corresponding .mcmeta files

Font

Unifont

  • Updated Unifont to 16.0.03
  • Added previously omitted Unifont glyphs for Private Use Areas
    • Those glyphs are loaded as a separate sub-font minecraft:include/unifont_pua and are not included in any normally used font
    • Characters in those areas are managed by Under-CSUR (Under-ConScript Unicode Registry), which adds various scripts not present in official Unicode set, like Tengwar or Sitelen Pona

unihex Font Provider

  • Field size_overrides is now optional (defaults to empty list)

Fixed bugs in 25w18a

  • MC-200925 – Ghasts are not affected by potions thrown on their head
  • MC-262268 – Keyboard navigation does not work in the book and quill GUI
  • MC-264431 – #minecraft:sand tag has two minecraft:suspicious_sand
  • MC-278459 – unifont.json contains trailing comma
  • MC-279284 – Experience orbs from thrown bottles o’ enchanting are very prone to getting stuck inside blocks
  • MC-279875 – Cannot diagonally climb slab through suspended scaffolding
  • MC-280281 – Fishing bobbers rapidly jitter when attached to entities that are moving
  • MC-280502 – Translation key snbt.parser.undescore_not_allowed has a typo
  • MC-295879 – Sprint-hitting boats and then getting in them causes the boat to fall through the block underneath
  • MC-295914 – Loot table files accept invalid JSON
  • MC-296354 – Happy ghasts aren’t affected by potions thrown on their heads
  • MC-296784 – The “Welcome to Minecraft” screen is missing its fade out
  • MC-296866 – Predicates of particular namespaces failed to be accessed on /execute
  • MC-296898 – Happy ghasts’ home slightly drift over time
  • MC-297112 – You cannot use CTRL+NUM to navigate to tabs within the configure realms menu
  • MC-297114 – The realms menu incorrectly claims that realms are expiring soon
  • MC-297115 – The “This is a Snapshot Realm…” box no longer renders with a black background
  • MC-297184 – ‘Realms’ is lowercase in mco.errorMessage.realmsService.configurationError.