PRE-RELEASE 7 | Minecraft Java Edition 1.16 Nether Update

1.16 Pre-release 7 (known as 1.16-pre7 in the launcher) is the seventh pre-release for Java Edition 1.16, released on June 16, 2020,^[1] which fixes some bugs.

Changes[edit]

Mobs[edit]

Striders

• Each leg can now be textured individually.

World generation[edit]

Soul sand valleys

• Skeletons now have a weight of 20 instead of 10.
• The biome has a total spawning energy of 0.7 instead of 1.0.

General[edit]

Font

• Many new characters have been added.^{[more information needed]}
  • Examples include several remaining Latin and Armenian-language ligatures^[2] and the Georgian alphabet.

Fixes[edit]

23 issues fixed

From released versions before 1.16

• MC-30814 – Chat text is too close together.
• MC-60933 – Creative: player is sporadically and momentarily lit on fire.
• MC-144107 – Miscalculation of camera position in windowed mode on Linux.
• MC-156442 – Some Latin and Armenian ligatures are not included in the Minecraft font.

From the 1.16 development versions

• MC-176447 – Strider left and right legs use the same texture.
• MC-180283 – Inconsistent font json file structure.
• MC-180467 – The world border is no longer fully solid.
• MC-183673 – Skeletons do not spawn frequently in soul sand valley.
• MC-185126 – Unable to jump one block high from flowing lava that has level 3 or lower.
• MC-186228 – Zombified piglins' sleeve layers are not held upwards like their arms.
• MC-188552 – Zombified piglins drop less XP than before.
• MC-188838 – Heads and skulls on a wall cause z-fighting.
• MC-189824 – Overworld/general gameplay music can play in the nether in creative mode.
• MC-189846 – Turtle eggs hatching broken, game checking for sand one block too deep.

From the previous development version

• MC-189856 – Unable to set nether portal block with /setblock or /fill.
• MC-189867 – Cannot use /setblock and /fill to place blocks in positions they cannot normally be in.
• MC-189868 – Player gets set on fire and extinguished continuously when standing in fire in creative mode.
• MC-189895 – Redstone in jungle temple/pyramid no longer connects to blocks and redstone components properly.
• MC-189903 – Turtle home beach detection looking one block too deep.
• MC-189905 – The player can get stuck inside of the world border.
• MC-189968 – Mobs suffocate when touching the world border.
• MC-189971 – Clicking the "Take me back" button causes translucent blocks to stop rendering.
• MC-190010 – The game crashes when using a mouse button to swap item in hands while inside of an inventory but not hovering over a slot.

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