Goats can scale the sides of mountains with their incredible jumps!
Goats can be tempted and bred using wheat
Goats are another source of milk!
Accessibility
Added an alternative solid black background color for the Mojang Studios loading screen, toggleable with the "Monochrome Logo" accessibility option
Changes in 21w13a
Tweaks to Caves
Tweaks to Ore Distribution
Tweaks to Powdered Snow
Dripstone clusters can now be found rarely in normal caves
Deepslate blobs can now be found between heights 0 and 16
Axolotls and glow squids now spawn in underground water sources
Axolotls will now always chase after and attack squids, glow squids, tropical fish, cod, salmon, pufferfish, drowned, guardians, and elder guardians
Axolotls now have a 2 minute cooldown after hunting non-hostile targets such as fish, squids, etc.
They will prioritise targeting hostile mobs first before hunting.
Bees now see Flowering Azalea (and Flowering Azalea Leaves) as flowers
Additions to Wandering Trader and Mason trades
Additions to chest loot tables
Cave Tweaks
Mineshaft tweak: increased the max length of pillars and chains.
Carver tweaks: made carvers less likely to be too flat to walk through.
Noise cave tweaks:
Increased likelihood of megacaves (large cheese caves)
Reduced likelihood of toothpick pillars (tall 1-block thin pillars)
Other tweaks to make the cheese caves more varied and interesting.
Ore Distribution Tweaks
Slightly more iron
Larger diamond blobs sometimes form
Powdered Snow
Powder snow's durability/hardness was slightly increased
Freeze time has decreased to 7 seconds and hurt frequency has decreased to 2 seconds
Entities on fire now melt powder snow when colliding
Increase vertical movement speed within powder snow
Strays, polar bears, and snow golems are now immune to freezing
Mobs now shake when they are fully frozen
Skeletons converting to strays now only require the 7 seconds it takes for an entity to be fully frozen to begin converting, instead of the 30 seconds it took before
Leather horse armor now protects horses from freeze damage
Mobs that enjoy the heat (Blazes, Magma Cubes, and Striders) take increased freeze damage
Trade & Loot Table Additions
Added the following trades to Mason:
Will sell 4 Dripstone blocks for 1 emerald
Added the following trades to Wandering Trader:
Will sell 2 Pointed Dripstones for 1 emerald
Will sell 2 Rooted Dirt for 1 emerald
Will sell 2 Moss Blocks for 1 emerald
Moss blocks can be found in Shipwreck chests
Glow Berries can be found in Mineshaft chest minecarts
Technical Changes in 21w13a
Added metric cube of light!
Unused parts of code are no longer removed
Light block
Op-only (/give) air-like waterloggable block
Emits light at level determined by block state
Visible and targetable only when item is held (similar to barrier)
Right click cycles light level
Bugs fixed in 21w13a
MC-3366 – End portal appears transparent from below
MC-70738 – Killing guardian with lava does not give cooked fish
MC-102269 – Polar bears drop raw fish instead of cooked fish when killed with fire or lava
MC-108636 – There are a number of unused texture files
MC-123587 – Kicked from the game when reaching y levels over 30,000,000
MC-124667 – Air can be used in custom recipes, causing a crash
MC-136776 – Some NBT tags are not kept when fish or axolotl mobs are caught in water buckets
MC-167853 – Observer doesn't detect when a grass block changes to dirt if a tree grows on top
MC-174701 – Leash knot sound effect plays when loading singleplayer world
MC-187544 – 'Cover Me With Diamonds' advancement improperly capitalized
MC-190774 – Stonecutter saw spins both ways simultaneously
MC-194183 – Some experience points do not go towards Mending repair, even if the Mending gear is not fully repaired
MC-195640 – Suspicious stew inedible with full hunger
MC-197073 – Turtles laying eggs on red sand produce normal sand particles
MC-199065 – Zombies that die while on fire do not drop baked potatoes
MC-199237 – Back of ladder is incorrectly mirrored
MC-199239 – Vines appear incorrectly mirrored when viewed from behind
MC-199242 – Texture planes of crop models appear incorrectly mirrored from behind
MC-201748 – Chain model planes are incorrectly mirrored on the rear
MC-201751 – Chain section on lanterns is incorrectly mirrored from behind
MC-201753 – Sea pickle green top sections do not render correctly from behind
MC-203553 – Water bottle doesn't extinguish candles
MC-203605 – Lightning rod bottom texture is mapped incorrectly
MC-203617 – Can't "Pick Block" cauldrons with liquid or powdered snow inside
MC-203838 – Aiming a spyglass with a loaded crossbow in offhand creates weird third person effect
MC-204133 – Candle extinguishing particle appears offset from the candle
MC-204430 – Cauldrons filled with water, lava or powder snow cannot be used as a workstation for villagers
MC-205060 – Powder snow does not cause underlying grass, mycelium or podzol to appear snowy
MC-205083 – Mobs wearing leather boots spin around when walking on powder snow
MC-205106 – Mobs that get damaged by powder snow can spawn inside powder snow
MC-205131 – Landing on powder snow while wearing leather boots inflicts fall damage on Java, but not on Bedrock
MC-205143 – The particles produced when extinguishing a campfire are misplaced
MC-205158 – Powder snow inside textures are not correctly mirrored
MC-205169 – Mobs don't path find across powder snow blocks when not wandering
MC-205302 – Using /setblock to place a structure block defaults to save mode, unlike placing one by hand
MC-205613 – Skeletons in powder snow spin when aiming at the player
MC-205885 – Endermen holding water, lava or powder snow cauldrons don't drop cauldrons
MC-205914 – Placing turtle egg/sea pickle onto turtle egg/sea pickle while sneaking doesn’t place it next to it, although placing candle onto candle does
MC-205918 – Experience orb stacks that were used in the mending process lose their experience amount, even if the stack is still larger than one
MC-208075 – Copper slabs and stairs are not included in the #minecraft:slabs and #minecraft:stairs tags
MC-208588 – Axolotls change color when released from bucket / axolotl entity data isn't stored in the bucket item
MC-208594 – Axolotls aren't required for the "Two By Two" advancement
MC-219973 – Hanging Roots takes about a second to be mined
MC-219974 – Big Dripleaf takes about a second to be mined
MC-220068 – Experience orbs are no longer affected by the fog from powder snow/lava
MC-220069 – Wither/creeper armor is no longer affected by the fog from powder snow/lava
MC-220070 – Lightning is not affected by the fog from powder snow/lava
MC-220157 – String is not affected by light levels
MC-220174 – With graphics set to Fabulous!, blocks such as honey, slime and stained glass appear lit up in third person mode
MC-220269 – Shader texture coordinate wrapping mode causes screen effects like glowing to wrap where they shouldn't
MC-220339 – Beacon beam is not affected by the fog from powder snow/lava
MC-221146 – Water fog still very subtle making water appear too clear in the distance
Get the Snapshot
Snapshots are available for Minecraft Java Edition. To install the snapshot, open up the Minecraft Launcher and enable snapshots in the "Installations" tab.
Testing versions can corrupt your world, please backup and/or run them in a different folder from your main worlds.
If you want to know what else is being added and changed in the Caves & Cliffs update, check out the previous snapshot post. For the latest news about the Nether Update, see the previous release post.