Minecraft 1.21.2 Pre-Release 2 patch notes: All you need to know

The Minecraft 1.21.2 Pre-Release 2 is now available, having come just after the latest snapshot 24w40a was replaced. This second update focuses on the upcoming Pale Garden and makes changes to the Pale Hanging Moss. There are also improvements to the design and features of Pale Garden as well as tweaks for stabilization.

Minecraft 1.21.2 Pre-Release 2's changes are primarily focused on the Winter Drop and are essentially meant to fix critical bugs to improve the gameplay experience ahead of the coveted Pale Garden's official release. This is the second Pre-Release version to come out ahead of the upcoming official launch.

Here's everything we know about the Minecraft 1.21.2 Pre-Release 2.

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Everything to know about Minecraft 1.21.2 Pre-Release 2

Experimental Features

Winter Drop

Pale Moss

• Pale Hanging Moss now only drops when cut with Shears or destroyed using tool with Silk Touch
• Pale Moss Carpet is now more efficient to destroy with Sword
• Pale Moss Carpet now plays the correct step sound when walking over it

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Bug fixes

Fixed bugs in 1.21.2 Pre-Release 2

• MC-54532 - Sneaking while falling on Slime Blocks inflicts fall damage
• MC-160810 - Some items are held sideways in the left hand
• MC-266480 - Breeze can jump on top of honey blocks
• MC-266494 - Jump Boost does not affect the breeze's jump
• MC-269851 - Breeze idle animations are different than Bedrock Edition
• MC-275834 - Jumping when falling onto a slime block no longer cancels the bounce effect
• MC-275941 - Consumable item components with inlined sound event definitions cause undefined behavior
• MC-276072 - Tridents enchanted with Loyalty fly around drowned upon returning to them
• MC-276605 - Throwing an ender pearl through a portal or gateway often results in the player being placed slightly too low
• MC-276624 - The Nether portal can send you back when your ender pearl lands in the portal
• MC-276716 - Thrown ender pearl teleport position is inconsistent
• MC-276813 - Minecraft no longer prints an error to the game log when trying to render a character without a defined glyph in the loaded fonts
• MC-276825 - Transmute recipes allow air as output
• MC-276906 - Specifying a block tag in an item's can_place_on or can_break component in a recipe or loot table causes a validation error
• MC-276954 - Ender pearl interaction with bubble columns is still broken
• MC-276963 - Mobs standing inside both lava and water produce the fire extinguishing sound every tick
• MC-276978 - Mobs produce the fire extinguishing sound every tick while standing in lava in the rain
• MC-277000 - Entities can be damaged by fire without being ignited
• MC-277073 - Pale moss and pale moss carpets cannot be broken faster using hoes
• MC-277091 - Pale oak boats are in the chest boats tag in place of pale oak chest boats
• MC-277096 - When selecting a biome in the single biome world type, there is no translation for the pale garden
• MC-277135 - Entity collision order is now locational
• MC-277165 - Particles produced upon creakings spawning are spawned one block too far to the east
• MC-277175 - #overworld_natural_logs block tag contains #pale_oak_logs instead of pale_oak_log
• MC-277212 - The "options.accessibility.high_contrast_block_outline.tooltip" string is missing an article before the word "targeted"
• MC-277309 - Missing translations for Pale Oak Wall (Hanging) Signs
• MC-277376 - Consumable block animation inherits shield behaviors
• MC-277389 - Armor stand in the smithing table interface no longer renders armor when appropriate
• MC-277392 - The realms description text and the game mode text within the realms menu can intersect one another
• MC-277398 - The horse armor equipping sound is unusually loud
• MC-277402 - Horse armor doesn't render properly in horse inventory again
• MC-277404 - Entities' limbs are incorrectly positioned for a brief second when entities are damaged while riding entities
• MC-277405 - Mounts no longer receive damage when riding them through sweet berry bushes
• MC-277409 - Text on glowing signs no longer looks different to text on normal signs
• MC-277417 - /tp no longer works when run from a command block without context from "execute as"
• MC-277424 - The pale garden can prevent trial chambers from spawning
• MC-277438 - Wolf Armor no longer shows cracks when damaged
• MC-277452 - Player idle timeout does not kick players

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These changes are aimed at improving the gameplay experience and fixing disruptive bugs. The arrival of previews essentially sets the stage for an upcoming update. Mojang also stated that it will not follow the usual format of dropping snapshot cadence on Wednesdays as it is currently focused on fixing bugs and implementing stabilization fixes.

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