The new Minecraft 1.20 Trails and Tales update is around the corner and players are excited about trying out the new biomes. Mojang has said that there will be various new biomes to explore in the update.
If you wish to experience a little bit of what is in store for you in the Trails and Tales update, head over to the Java edition of the game.
But to play the new Java release, you need to know how to download the game in the first place.
Related: Minecraft Java Edition 1.20 snapshot 23w18a: Everything you need to know
How to download Minecraft 1.20 Trails and Tails Java Snapshot
According to Mojang, they will mostly focus on fixing bugs from now on after the Trails and Tales update. Moreover, the pre-release will not follow the normal Cadence of Wednesday releases. To experience the new Cherry Blossom biome in the snapshot follow these steps and download the Minecraft 1.20 Trails and Tails Java :
- Back up your game beforehand, if you’re using a previously used world.
- Open Minecraft Launcher.
- Enable snapshots in the ‘Installations’ tab.
- Click “New Installation.”
- Select Minecraft 1.20 Snapshot 23W07A and click “Create”.
- Your new snapshot installation is now selectable before clicking play.
- Click “Create New World” in the game.
- Select “data packs.“
- Enable “bundle” and “update_1_20” data packs.
- Click “Create New World” again.
- Select the new world you created.
- Click play!
All the new changes and bug fixes
Here are all the changes players will notice in the upcoming Minecraft 1.20 Trails and Tails Java Snapshot update patch:
- The update introduced two new damage types, “outside_border” and “generic_kill“. Moreover, Loot tables have been modified to generate deterministic random sequences. The server.properties encoding has been altered. Furthermore, the data command now accepts negative boundaries for string data sources, which are counted from the end of the string.
- The game mechanics have been updated so that players outside the World border now take damage from the new damage type, “outside_border,” instead of the previous damage type, “in_wall.” Additionally, using the /kill command to forcibly remove an entity now results in the use of the “generic_kill” damage type, instead of the previous “out_of_world” damage type.
- To ensure consistency in the production of loot, the game now utilizes named random sequences for loot tables. These sequences generate unique results based on the world seed and sequence ID. This means that when a loot table is run with the same parameters in the same world, it will always produce the same results. Moreover, the random sequence ID to be used for a particular loot table is specified in the new field “random_sequence.”
- Last but not least, the game now reads files in UTF-8 encoding by default, with the previous ISO 8859-1/Latin 1 encoding serving as a backup. Additionally, files are now written with UTF-8 encoding.
Bugs fixed
Here are some prominent bugs fixed in the new Minecraft 1.20 patch notes Trails and Tales:
- When reaching the other side of a nether portal the animation plays forever until stepped out of
- Encoding errors in server.properties
- Several realms strings are untranslatable
- Breaking animation is one frame off
- Placing an end crystal when entering The End prevents Ender Dragon from spawning
- When entering spectator mode while standing on the ground, the player moves down by 0.19051 blocks, which makes you fall down
- The “Include entities:” string displayed within the structure block GUI is improperly capitalized
- The“data packs” string is inconsistent with the “data pack” string in the “datapackFailure.title” text
- Options background texture does not match the dirt texture
- Incorrect use of the colon in options.hideMatchedNames.tooltip
- MC-226454 – The “Light as a Rabbit” advancement description has no space after the ellipsis
- Lightning bolt-related string lacks capitalization
- The game mode is sometimes referred to as “game mode”
- Some chiseled bookshelf interaction subtitles are improperly capitalized
- Music composers not listed in the credits
- Changing resource pack that overrides a font crashes JVM
- Rabbits are no longer affected by jump boost
- Entities do not stick to honey blocks pushed by pistons if their center isn’t over the honey block
- Nether won’t load in upgraded worlds
- Worldgen deadlock caused by supporting block checks
- Sprinting particles on the edges of blocks is still incorrect
There is no official release date announced by Mojang for the Trails ad Tales Java update. However, since they mentioned Summer 2023 fans of the game won’t have to wait too long for its release.
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