Another Wednesday, another snapshot. This week's snapshot introduces a few new game rules and a few gameplay changes which include another round of inventory tweaks. As usual, there are a few bugfixes as well.

Happy Mining!

CHANGES IN 22W44A

Bamboo Mosaic can now be used as fuel
Chiseled Bookshelves now works with Hoppers
More changes to the Creative Inventory
Monster Spawner changes
Spawn Egg changes
Step sound changes

CREATIVE INVENTORY CHANGES

A (hopefully) final round of changes has been made to the Creative Tab orderings to address feedback:

Operator-only blocks and items can now be found in the Redstone Blocks tab if you have the required permissions
Functional Blocks
- Added:
  - Tinted Glass
  - Bee Nest
- Moved Respawn Anchor before Beds
- Reordered Pressure Plates by functionality
- Moved End Portal Frame & Infested blocks into this tab from Natural Blocks tab
Redstone Blocks
- Added:
  - Chest
  - Barrel
  - Cauldron
  - Furnace
  - Composter
Building Blocks
- Added:
  - Chain
  - Block of Amethyst
- Moved Block of Redstone and Block of Coal into this tab from the Natural Blocks tab
Crafting
- Added:
  - Ancient Debris
Reordered the following tabs for better consistency
- Building Blocks
- Natural Blocks
- Consumables
Reordered ore materials and blocks to be more consistent across tabs

MONSTER SPAWNERS

Spawners no longer have a default mob spawn type when placed by a player (previously was the Pig)
Will not emit fire particles when a mob spawn type has not been defined
Renamed to Monster Spawner to match Bedrock, and removed purple text color
Pick-block now works for Spawner blocks
The mob type is now displayed in the hover description of a Spawner item stack
- If a mob type has not been defined yet, the hover description will describe how to set it

SPAWN EGGS

Added new Spawn Egg items for Ender Dragon, Iron Golem, Snow Golem and Wither mobs to Creative mode
- Ender Dragon and Wither Spawn Eggs will only be available through commands to prevent accidental destruction of player builds
Polar Bear Spawn Egg colors have changed to distinguish it from the Ghast Spawn Egg

SOUNDS

Step sounds can now be heard when walking on:
- Carpets
- Lily Pads
- Small Amethyst Buds
Step sounds can now be heard when walking through:
- Nether Sprouts
- Glow Lichen
- Crimson Roots
- Warped Roots

TECHNICAL CHANGES IN 22W44A

Added new game rules

GAME RULES

Added blockExplosionDropDecay, mobExplosionDropDecay and tntExplosionDropDecay game rules
- When set to false, all blocks drop loot
- When set to true, blocks drop loot randomly depending on how far from the explosion center
- Defaults to false for TNT, true for block and mob
Added snowAccumulationHeight game rule
- When it is snowing, this game rule determines the maximum number of Snow Layers that can be accumulated in each block
- Defaults to 1
- Set to 0 makes no Snow form at all
- Set to 8 or above lets snow form up to the level of a full block
Added waterSourceConversion and lavaSourceConversion game rules
- When set to true, allows new sources of that fluid to form
- Defaults to true for Water and false for Lava
Added globalSoundEvents game rule, controlling whether certain gameplay moments are heard by all players regardless of location
- Defaults to true

FIXED BUGS IN 22W44A

MC-30403 - Sprinting isn’t canceled when dismounting rideable entities while sprinting
MC-137136 - Lily Pads use incorrect sound
MC-137306 - Turtles don’t have breeding delay
MC-191790 - Re-creating a world doesn’t allow a blank seed and uses recreated world’s seed instead of random
MC-195780 - “Data mode” and “Load mode” aren’t capitalized while “Save Mode” and “Corner Mode” are
MC-244721 - “Erase cached data” is not capitalized
MC-253387 - Frog walking animation is slowed down when applied with slow falling
MC-254435 - Neither the secure chat warning toast nor the chat preview warning screen is presented to the player when joining a server using the --server argument
MC-255115 - Lily pads do not produce sounds when walking on them
MC-256463 - Camels will not pathfind over 1.5 high blocks
MC-256480 - Non Flammable Wood Item tag contains 1.20 content even when disabled
MC-256526 - Bamboo Fence Gate has missing textures / culling issues
MC-256606 - Camel walking animation is slowed down when applied with slow falling
MC-256623 - Bamboo mosaic slabs aren’t flammable
MC-256637 - Some bamboo blocks can’t be used as furnace fuel
MC-256647 - Mobs face south even with a given rotation value
MC-256768 - Entities no longer have random rotations upon being summoned from spawn eggs
MC-256879 - Weighted pressure plates are placed wrong in creative inventory
MC-256881 - The game crashes when pressing the ESC key while having draft chat reports saved
MC-256887 - Tinted glass is not considered a ‘Functional Block’
MC-256934 - You aren’t prompted to save your chat reports as drafts while only having report categories inputted
MC-257058 - Cactus is not grouped with sugar cane in Creative inventory
MC-257059 - Mushroom stem comes after nether fungus stems in Creative inventory, but mushroom blocks come before wart blocks
MC-257060 - Bee nest is absent from Functional Blocks