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Minecraft snapshot 24w37a patch notes: Ender pearl improvements, High Norwegian language support, and more

Minecraft snapshot 24w37a brings exciting changes to Ender Pearls, along with support for the High Norwegian language and various bug fixes. Mojang has also added numerous technical features and changes in snapshot 24w37a, which will be helpful for data pack and resource pack creators.

One of the main attractions of snapshot 24w37a is the Ender Pearl. This useful item allows players to teleport from one place to another and craft the Eye of Ender. In the Minecraft 1.21 update, Mojang made Ender Pearls more useful by enabling them to travel through portals. Previously, Ender Pearls weren’t working properly when they landed in unloaded chunks. This issue has been addressed in snapshot 24w37a.

That said, let’s explore all the new features and changes in Minecraft snapshot 24w37a.

New Features in Minecraft snapshot 24w37a

Changes

  • Thrown Ender Pearls now load and tick chunks.
  • Added language support for High Norwegian.

Ender Pearl Chunk Loading

  • Ender Pearls now ensure that the chunk they are in or travel into is always loaded and ticking.
  • They also load chunks when crossing to a new dimension, so that they can always continue to travel.
  • This ensures that Ender Pearls can always land, and makes cross-dimensional Ender Pearl travelling more predictable.
  • Ender Pearls now unload when a player logs out, and reappear whenever that player logs back in, similar to how mounts currently behave.

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Mob Conversion Details

In last week's snapshot, Mojang fixed a bug related to data getting transferred between mobs when converted from one type to another (ex: zombie to drowned). This week, the developers have reverted a few of those changes (health, attributes, and loot tables are no longer transferred).

Here is a full list of tags, data, and other properties that get transferred when a mob is converted (only relevant for mobs that can have these properties):

  • AbsorptionAmount
  • active_effects
  • Age
  • AngerTime
  • AngryAt
  • ArmorDropChances
  • ArmorItems
  • Brain.memories.minecraft:angry_at.ttl
  • Brain.memories.minecraft:angry_at.value
  • CanBreakDoors
  • CanPickUpLoot
  • CustomNameVisible
  • CustomName
  • fall_distance
  • FallFlying
  • Fire
  • ForcedAge
  • HandDropChances
  • HandItems
  • HurtByTimestamp
  • HurtTime
  • Invulnerable
  • IsBaby
  • Leash
  • LeftHanded
  • Motion
  • NoAI
  • NoGravity
  • OnGround
  • Passengers
  • PersistenceRequired
  • PortalCooldown
  • Position
  • RootVehicle
  • Rotation
  • Silent
  • SleepingX
  • SleepingY
  • SleepingZ
  • Tags
  • Team

Mobs that split into several mobs rather than converting from one type into another do not transfer the following properties:

  • ArmorDropChances
  • ArmorItems
  • fall_distance
  • FallFlying
  • HandDropChances
  • HandItems
  • HurtByTimestamp
  • HurtTime
  • Leash
  • Motion
  • OnGround
  • Passengers
  • Position
  • Rotation
  • SleepingX
  • SleepingY
  • SleepingZ
  • Some properties mentioned in MC-88967 are intentionally not transferred in any conversion:
  • Attributes
  • Gossips
  • Health
  • Loot tables
  • VillagerData
  • Xp

Technical Changes in Minecraft snapshot 24w37a

  • The Data Pack version is now 53.
  • Resource Pack version is now 38.

Data Pack Version 53

Loot tables

  • Tool value (used for functions like match_tool) is now available for some additional loot table types.
  • archaeology - used brush.
  • vault - inserted key (not available when displaying items).
  • shearing - shears.
  • Chickens laying eggs is now controlled by a loot table found at gameplay/chicken_lay.
  • Armadillos randomly dropping scutes is now controlled by a loot table found at gameplay/armadillo_shed.

Hero of the Village Gift Loot Tables

The loot given by Villagers is now controlled by two additional loot tables:

  • gameplay/hero_of_the_village/unemployed_gift - used if the Villager is unemployed.
  • gameplay/hero_of_the_village/baby_gift - used if the Villager is a baby.

Tags

Item Tags

  • duplicates_allays: Items that can be used to duplicate Allays when dancing.
  • panda_eats_from_ground: Items that a Panda will pick up from the ground and eat.
  • brewing_fuel: Items that can be used as fuel in a Brewing Stand.

Item Component Changes

minecraft:fire_resistant -> minecraft:damage_resistant

  • Has a new field: types, hash-prefixed damage type tag.
  • Items with this component, when in entity form, will be resistant to the damage types included in the tag.
  • This component also affects whether the equipped item will be damaged when the wearer is hurt by a given damage type.

minecraft:item_name

  • Name provided by this component always has the lowest priority.
  • That means it will be overriden by components like minecraft:potion_contents.

minecraft:potion_contents

  • Added optional string field custom_name.
  • When present, it will be used to generate containing stack name.
  • For example, if value is foo and item is minecraft:lingering_potion, the name of item will be translation of item.minecraft.lingering_potion.effect.foo

minecraft:equippable

Added the following fields:

  • swappable: boolean (default: true), whether the item can be equipped into the relevant slot by right-clicking.
  • damage_on_hurt: boolean (default: true), whether this item will be damaged when the wearing entity is damaged.

Added

minecraft:death_protection

  • If present, this item will protect the holder from dying by restoring a single health point.
  • Format: object with fields
  • death_effects: An optional list of effects that are applied when the item protects the holder.
  • These effects are the same as those specified by the on_consume_effects field in the consumable component.

Predicates

sheep

entity sub-predicate

Added minecraft:sheep entity sub-predicate.

Fields:

  • sheared - optional boolean.
  • color - optional wool dye color.

salmon

entity sub-predicate

Added minecraft:salmon entity sub-predicate

Fields:

  • variant: one of small, medium, large.

Advancements

Triggers

minecraft:killed_by_crossbow -> minecraft:killed_by_arrow

  • Will now trigger whenever an Arrow kills an entity, not just when fired from a Crossbow.
  • Has a new optional Item Predicate field, fired_from_weapon.
  • Can be used to match the item used to shoot the arrow.

Resource Pack Version 38

GUI Sprites

The appearance of a highlighted slot may now be customized by replacing sprites:

  • container/slot_highlight_front: The sprite to render in front of highlighted slots.
  • container/slot_highlight_back: The sprite to render behind highlighted slots.

Likewise, the appearance of a highlighted item within the Bundle can be customized with the following sprites:

  • container/bundle/slot_highlight_front
  • container/bundle/slot_highlight_back

Fixed bugs in Minecraft snapshot 24w37a

  • MC-119369 - Boats crash/break and can kill their passengers when falling certain distances.
  • MC-206436 - Stonecutter ignores anything over 64 when shift-clicking.
  • MC-260537 - Tree growth can replace leaves that have the 'persistent' block state set to true.
  • MC-265399 - Players' heads are incorrectly positioned while exiting the swimming/crawling state when other players are on screen.
  • MC-275205 - The hand animation is delayed and doesn't play all the time.
  • MC-275300 - Mace smash attack damage does not work with mobs, even though particles and sounds happen.
  • MC-275302 - The animation speed of end crystals is no longer constant.
  • MC-275352 - Spectral arrow texture is not updated properly for Programmer Art.
  • MC-275406 - Grammatical error in "options.rotateWithMinecart.tooltip".
  • MC-275468 - Gamerule minecartMaxSpeed can't be set through functions.
  • MC-275504 - Custom model data is not applied to open bundle.
  • MC-275538 - Breeze still do not attack when super close to them.
  • MC-275751 - Head snaps when coming out of crawling.
  • MC-275765 - Missing full stop in string gamerule.minecartMaxSpeed.description.
  • MC-275792 - Bottom faces of torches and soul torches are not culled against solid blocks.
  • MC-275833 - Hand animation plays higher than before.
  • MC-275883 - Riding a minecart cluster into a wall freezes the game.
  • MC-275909 - Wrong death message is displayed when being killed by a mob's smash attack.
  • MC-275964 - Bundles can remain in the open state when held by the mouse cursor via swapping items.
  • MC-275990 - Bundles can remain in the open state through the crafting table.
  • MC-276025 - Model overrides are not applied to items shown in an open bundle.
  • MC-276111 - Salmon spawned from a bucket are the wrong size for one tick.
  • MC-276127 - Fractions in bee nest tooltip are not padded with whitespace.
  • MC-276134 - Can't scroll in creative inventory while hovered over the bundle.
  • MC-276263 - explosion_power nbt does not work for minecarts with tnt.
  • MC-276293 - Mobs no longer get damaged by sweet berry bushes.
  • MC-276295 - Zombies always kill villagers.
  • MC-276296 - Worn chainmail armor has a missing texture.
  • MC-276297 - Worn netherite armor appears as diamond armor.
  • MC-276299 - Horse armor doesn't render properly in horse inventory.
  • MC-276301 - Item tooltip padding is gone.
  • MC-276304 - Carved pumpkins and skulls can be equipped through right-clicking.
  • MC-276310 - Players' capes detach from their bodies when wearing non-chestplate items in the chest slot.
  • MC-276311 - Players' capes illogically point upward when flying with non-elytra items.
  • MC-276314 - Wind charges cause entities to be launched extremely high when directly hit by them.
  • MC-276315 - Teleport command runs at the entity's position and ignores location from execution context.
  • MC-276316 - Ender pearls no longer teleport entities to the point of impact.
  • MC-276317 - Projectiles visually update slowly when their motion is changed.
  • MC-276320 - Shields no longer block incoming projectiles.
  • MC-276321 - Elytra loses durability when taking damage.
  • MC-276322 - Boats don't drop as items when destroyed.
  • MC-276326 - "Air" item lost its name.
  • MC-276327 - The item_name component no longer overrides potion names.
  • MC-276335 - Cured villagers have the wrong movement speed.
  • MC-276338 - Converted mob keeps the same loot table of the first mob.
  • MC-276339 - Witches converted from villagers move very fast.
  • MC-276344 - Hovered items in bundles do not reflect any tooltip_style component.
  • MC-276364 - Non-armor items with equippable tag cannot be given to wolves.
  • MC-276365 - Armor sleeves do not follow arms when switching to and from items and on item use animations.
  • MC-276370 - Golden armor pieces have wrong max durabilities.
  • MC-276376 - /tp command cannot teleport to the correct facing angles.
  • MC-276378 - Converted witches lose their armor yet are still protected by it.
  • MC-276383 - Using Pick Block on boats crashes the game.
  • MC-276384 - Players' capes detach from their bodies when moving.
  • MC-276394 - Some specially rendered elements are no longer affected by fog of any type.
  • MC-276415 - Turtle helmet does not give water breathing effect when equipped on any slot other than the head.
  • MC-276429 - Projectiles move after hitting a block.
  • MC-276433 - set_enchantments function removes enchantments component from books.
  • MC-276463 - Armor on piglins detach from their bodies while bartering.
  • MC-276476 - Crash when a boat is destroyed by a hazard.
  • MC-276480 - Projectile no longer moves correctly when it is deflected.
  • MC-276484 - Fireballs and wither skulls do too much damage.
  • MC-276495 - Creative player can go through nether portal without being teleported when throwing riptide trident.
  • MC-276501 - Returning tridents get stuck on blocks and spam sounds.
  • MC-276527 - Duplicate UUID error causes player to teleport to origin when riding on a pig after it is converted by lightning.
  • MC-276533 - Game crashes when three or more skeletons are about to release their arrows.

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