New year, new Snapshot - we're now releasing the third Snapshot of Minecraft 1.20.5. This time around, we're bringing some updates to the Armadillo, the Breeze, as well as accessibility improvements.
\nIn addition to a big bundle of bug fixes, we're bringing some changes to how spawn chunks are handled.
\nThe spawn chunks are an area of the Overworld located at the world spawn which are always loaded in memory. These are useful for some players but use more of your computer’s resources and make the game load and run more slowly. (You can read more about spawn chunks at the community wiki!)
\nIn this snapshot we made the size of the spawn chunks configurable by adding a new gamerule: spawnChunkRadius.\nThe new default setting is 2 (which creates a 48x48 block area). This is 98% smaller than the previous area and will result in a noticeable performance improvement for most players.
If you would like to keep your spawn chunks working like they did before, you can use the game rule to change the spawn chunk radius value to 10. This will make your spawn chunks work the same as they did before, but you will miss out on the performance gains.
\nWe're interested in hearing your feedback on this change and how the new default setting affects you.
\nLet's talk about spawn chunks!
\nArmadillo visual update! We gathered feedback from the first Armadillo snapshot, and the next step in the look of the Armadillo, the Armadillo Scutes and the Wolf Armor are now here.
\nignoreTags: true in the trade's NBTaccepts-transfers property to true in the server.properties filespawnChunkRadius to set the size of the spawn chunksminecraft:sweeping enchantment has been renamed to minecraft:sweeping_edgedefault_block_use which triggers due to the default interaction of a block by a player, such as opening a doorany_block_use which triggers due to any type of interaction with a block by a player, such as using an item on the block or its default usageNew item tags controlling what enchantments can be added to what gear:
\nminecraft:enchantable/foot_armorminecraft:enchantable/leg_armorminecraft:enchantable/chest_armorminecraft:enchantable/head_armorminecraft:enchantable/armorminecraft:enchantable/weaponminecraft:enchantable/swordminecraft:enchantable/miningminecraft:enchantable/mining_lootminecraft:enchantable/fishingminecraft:enchantable/tridentminecraft:enchantable/durabilityminecraft:enchantable/bowminecraft:enchantable/equippableminecraft:enchantable/crossbowminecraft:enchantable/vanishingminecraft:ignores_poison_and_regen for entities that cannot be affected by Poison and Regeneration effectsminecraft:illager_friends for entities that Illagers will consider allies (unless on a different team)minecraft:inverted_healing_and_harm for entities that have inverted meanings of the Healing and Harm effectsminecraft:not_scary_for_pufferfish for entities that will not cause Pufferfish to puffminecraft:sensitive_to_bane_of_arthropods for entities sensitive to Bane of Arthropodsminecraft:sensitive_to_impaling for entities sensitive to Impalingminecraft:wither_friends for entities that the Wither will not target and which cannot harm the Witherttf font provider transforms have been adjusted to have more reasonable defaultsshift is no longer applied double, and now directly represents a number of pixels in the game UIsize pixels in the game UI, instead of between the font ascender and font descendersize of 9 and no shift should look correct by default