PRE-RELEASE 2 | Minecraft Java Edition 1.16.2

5 August 2020

We have now brought out the second pre-release for Minecraft 1.16.2, in which another round of bugs has been squished!

CHANGES IN 1.16.2 PRE-RELEASE 2

• Crimson and Warped Roots no longer require shears when mined

TECHNICAL CHANGES IN 1.16.2 PRE-RELEASE 2

EXECUTE COMMAND

• execute in now respects dimension scaling

FIXED BUGS IN 1.16.2 PRE-RELEASE 2

• MC-69876 - Pistons at Y=1 do not push downwards / at Y=254 do not push upwards
• MC-124320 - Endermen can pick up and place snowless snowy grass blocks
• MC-130558 - Item frames cannot be emptied if gamerule doEntityDrops is set to false
• MC-134084 - If gamerule sendCommandFeedback is disabled, /msg or /tell don’t display the message to the sender
• MC-136553 - Dyes in creative inventory are in reverse order
• MC-152037 - Powered, activator, and detector rails are deleted when pushed/pulled onto a block they cannot be placed on
• MC-187357 - Strongholds will not generate in floating_islands or caves preset
• MC-189736 - “distance” within predicate no longer works
• MC-190552 - Demo mode resets position and inventory upon launch
• MC-190859 - floating_islands or caves buffet worlds no longer generate strongholds and ender eyes do not locate previously generated strongholds after upgrading to 1.16
• MC-192136 - Lava damage works differently than in previous versions
• MC-192236 - Endermen can place blocks on top of item frames on the floor
• MC-192371 - Paintings in the same block space pop off when chunk loads
• MC-192845 - Block Event Lag in 1.16 is excessive
• MC-194217 - Lava sets Nether vegetation on fire despite it being fire resistant
• MC-194867 - Minecarts come out the wrong side of a Nether portal and lose momentum when coming back to the Overworld
• MC-194953 - Custom Biomes are not useable in Predicates
• MC-195803 - Mob kill statistics are formatted in reverse: “N killed you <mob> times”
• MC-195851 - “Hat” layer on helmets detaches from Piglins’ heads while bartering
• MC-196245 - Charged Creeper does not always drop skull if zombie variants are nearby
• MC-196441 - Stonecutter/Smithing Table recipes are not given after crafting a stack of more than one
• MC-196469 - F1 hides the nausea green tint
• MC-196473 - Pufferfish gives Nausea II instead of the maximum of Nausea I
• MC-196653 - Creating multiple datapack dimensions that reference the same dimension_type string causes “unregistered dimension” crash
• MC-196743 - Custom/modified biomes don’t work in the Overworld

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