Happy New Year! It's time for the first snapshot of 2022 to hit the shelves. This snapshot series will be leading up to the release of 1.18.2. With this release we aim to address a few issues before moving on and starting with the Wild Update snapshots.

This snapshot contains tweaks to the world seed input and adds a new placefeature command. On top of that, it also fixes a bunch of bugs.

Happy mining!

CHANGES IN 22W03A

A seed of the number zero is no longer handled as a special case
Any spaces before/after an inputted seed will now be trimmed
Ender chests are no longer gift wrapped around Christmas

TECHNICAL CHANGES IN 22W03A

The locate command now uses a namespaced id parameter
Added command: placefeature

placefeature

New command that places a configured feature at a given location. Syntax: placefeature <id> [pos]

Parameters:

id: The namespaced id of a configured feature to place
pos: The position to use as the origin for the feature placement (if omitted, ~ ~ ~ is used)

FIXED BUGS IN 22W03A

MC-83938 - Standing on entities with solid collision boxes (shulkers, boats) kicks you for flying
MC-98727 - Server: Entering a boat/minecart/horse while going upwards from jumping causes a kick for flying
MC-111082 - Riding a boat with NoGravity on a server without flight enabled causes kick for flying
MC-126772 - Underwater fog doesn’t hide edge of chunks correctly at low render distances
MC-135989 - Kicked for flying using trident with Riptide enchantment
MC-167763 - Blindness does not work underwater for certain graphics cards
MC-185545 - Knockback Resistance on players is still affected by chance
MC-185695 - Twisting vines don’t reliably protect the player from fall damage
MC-205232 - Player can see farther in powder snow with blindness effect
MC-223834 - Pointed dripstone can form below some non-full (non-solid) blocks
MC-226359 - The Zero-Width Non-Joiner shows as a “ZWNJ” box
MC-229313 - Some blocks that negate fall damage don’t reliably protect mobs at certain heights
MC-230905 - Sky background is visible on certain reduced fog situations
MC-233599 - /spreadplayers command does not allow for negative “under” values
MC-235574 - Game crashes when replacing a block with a wall with blockstate up:false
MC-236693 - “Done” button in controls submenu is very low
MC-237262 - Crash report and tick profiling causes “Failed to find module info for _” spam to log
MC-238114 - Meadow trees can spawn without bee nests
MC-238866 - Snow / powder snow can generate underwater
MC-239031 - Glitchy chunk rendering persists since 21w41a
MC-239436 - Broken culling in very long caves
MC-240559 - JFR JSON report’s bytesPerSecond is incorrectly calculated
MC-241152 - Powder snow is part of #goat_spawnable_on block tag / Goats can spawn on powder snow
MC-241205 - Sandstone generates 2-5 layers instead of 3-8 layers
MC-242010 - Snow Blocks, Powder Snow aren’t a part of #azalea_root_replaceable / Rooted dirt can’t replace Snow Blocks & Powder Snow
MC-242331 - Entities are displayed faster than chunks
MC-242543 - Suffocation always uses the entity head center position for predicate and collision box
MC-242709 - Pointed dripstone clusters create holes in the ground when generating in aquifers
MC-243015 - Falling blocks at chunk generation cause tons of entities and (client-side) lag
MC-243196 - Driver view angle resets when another player enters or exits boat
MC-243245 - Unable to select “What is Realms?” button using Tab
MC-243489 - Console spam: Skipping update for removed player
MC-243619 - Raid waves can spawn outside of simulation distance
MC-244164 - Upgrade to 1.18 makes chests invisible and empty
MC-244174 - Fog effect for void, blindness, water, lava & powder snow is cylindrical
MC-245345 - Crash when reloading chunks
MC-245347 - Flying with an elytra and colliding with floating flowing water sometimes doesn’t reset fall damage
MC-245406 - Memory leak leading to crashes when loading pre-1.18 chunks
MC-245416 - Baby turtles suffocate on soul sand
MC-246445 - Game crashes when dispenser with shears is used on non-beehive block in #beehives tag
MC-246449 - Game crashes when villager tries to open non-door in #wooden_doors tag
MC-246464 - Game crashes when dispensing a bone meal in a warm ocean and there is a block with no facing block state in #wall_corals
MC-247415 - Game crashes if coral related block tags are empty during coral reef generation