It's Snapshot Tues- I mean Thursday, everyone! Today, we are kicking off a brand-new Snapshot series and with it comes the first set of features from our upcoming game drop, Mounts of Mayhem! Charge into the fray with the spear, a new weapon with a unique enchantment. Explore the oceans atop your nautilus or claim undead mounts – the zombie horse and zombie nautilus – as your new steeds. Galloping side to side with these new features is both a revamped video settings screen that includes nifty new graphical presets, as well as the new stopwatch command which keeps track of real time. Bug fixes and technical changes round off the meal, as is tradition.

Happy mining!

New Features

• Added Nautilus and Zombie Nautilus
• Added Nautilus Armor
• Added Spear Weapon
• Updated advancements to include Nautilus, Zombie Nautilus, and the Zombie Horse

Nautilus

• Nautilus is a new neutral aquatic mob
• Spawns in all ocean biomes
• Attacks using a Dash attack, if provoked
• Occasionally attacks Pufferfish within range using the Dash attack
• Has a Dash skill similar to Camels, used by pressing the Jump button
• Takes suffocation damage on land
• Adds the "Breath of the Nautilus" effect to mounted players
• Nautilus can be bred and tamed using Pufferfish or a Bucket of Pufferfish
• A Tamed Nautilus:
  • Can be mounted using a Saddle
  • With a Saddle has a roaming restriction of 16 blocks
  • Without a Saddle has a roaming restriction of 32 blocks

Zombie Nautilus

• Zombie Nautilus is a new underwater mob that spawns with a Drowned rider wielding a Trident
• Zombie Nautilus is only hostile if ridden by a hostile mob
• Zombie Nautilus behaves similar to the Nautilus except that it cannot be bred

Nautilus Armor

• Equippable on the Nautilus and Zombie Nautilus
• Comes in Copper, Golden, Iron, Diamond and Netherite versions

Spear Weapon

• New weapon that can be crafted in Wood, Stone, Copper, Iron, Gold, Diamond and Netherite versions
• Each material has different stats for timing, influencing how fast they are to use
• Has a minimum reach for damage, being too close to a target will yield no damage
• Has extended maximum reach compared to other tools and weapons
• Has two attacks. Jab and Charge
• Zombies, Husks, Zombified Piglins and Piglins can spawn with the Spear

Jab Attack

• Quick-press primary action button to use
• Low damage attack with knockback
• Cooldown between attacks
• Wooden Spears have the fastest cooldown; Netherite the slowest
• Can hit multiple enemies
• Does not destroy blocks

Charge Attack

• Press and hold the secondary action button to use
• Damage is based on Spear material, the player’s view angle, and the velocity of both the player and the target
• While holding down the button, the attack goes through three stages before returning to idle:
  • Engaged: The Spear can deal damage, knockback, and dismount mounted enemies if the speed is above the required thresholds
  • Tired: Indicated by the Spear rotating to a vertical position and shaking. The Spear can deal damage and knockback (but not dismount) if the speed is above the required thresholds
  • Disengaged: Indicated by the Spear being lowered, pointing downwards. The Spear gives damage but not knockback or dismount if the speed is above the required threshold
• The Spear's range when used by mobs is half of that when used by players, but they can deal damage, dismount and knockback at lower speeds than the players
• Zombies, Husks and Zombified Piglins know how to charge with a Spear

Lunge Enchantment

• Spear exclusive enchantment
• Only works with the Jab attack
• When doing a Jab attack with Lunge, it propels the player horizontally in the view direction
• The view angle needs to be perfectly leveled horizontally to achieve maximum lunge distance
• Does significant durability damage to the Spear

Advancements

• Updated the "How did we get here?" advancement to include the Breath of the Nautilus effect
• Updated the "Best Friends Forever" advancement to include the Nautilus, Zombie Nautilus, and the Zombie Horse
• Updated the "The Parrots and the Bats" advancement to include the Nautilus
• Updated the "Two by Two" advancement to include the Nautilus
• Updated the "Monster Hunter" advancement to include the Zombie Nautilus
• Updated the "A Throwaway Joke", "Take Aim" and "It Spreads" advancements to include the Nautilus and Zombie Nautilus

Changes

• Zombies, Husks, Piglins and Zombified Piglins can now hold Spears
• Piglins now consider Golden Spears as one of the items they like
• Items will no longer "bob" whenever their durability changes, such as when losing durability from an attack, or repaired by Mending
• Some changes were made to debug renderers
• Graphics modes "Fast", "Fancy", and "Fabulous!" have been replaced with graphics presets with the same names
• Cloud movement is now the same for all players on a server
• Netherite Armor points have been increased for the Body slot from 11 to 19
• All blocks in the world now have mipmaps applied if enabled in video settings
  • Blocks that did not have mipmaps before, such as different vines, rails, folliage (apart from leaves) and more should look better from higher distances
• Client FPS is expected to be higher for most players

Zombie Horse

• Zombie Horses now spawn naturally
• Zombie Horses spawn in darkness, and burn in sunlight like other undead mobs
• Zombie Horses count towards the hostile mob cap and spawn with other hostile mobs
• Zombie Horses do not display any hostile behavior towards players. Their hostility resides solely in their Zombie rider
• Untamed Zombie Horses despawn like other hostile mobs
• Tamed Zombie Horses are persistent and do not despawn
• Zombie Horses can be tamed in the same fashion as regular Horses, and can then be mounted and controlled by a player
• Zombie Horses can be healed and tempted using Red Mushrooms
• Tamed Zombie Horses can be equipped with a Saddle and Horse Armor
• Horse Armor protects Zombie Horses from sunlight damage
• Zombie Horses have 25 health points (12.5 hearts) of health
• Zombie Horses have variable movement speed and jump strength, determined when they spawn
• Zombie Horses drops 2-3 Rotten Flesh when killed, with extra 0-1 for each level of Looting
• Zombies riding Zombie Horses now have a chance of dropping a Red Mushroom on death

Mob Spawning

• Zombie Horses now has a chance to spawn in plains and savanna biome types, with a zombie rider holding an iron spear

World Generation

• Added various spears to various loot chests around the world
  • Iron Spears can be found in Buried Treasure chests
  • Copper and Iron Spears can be found in Weaponsmith chests in villages
  • Stone Spears can be found in Ocean Ruin chests
  • Diamond Spears can be found in Bastion Remnant and End City chests
• Copper, Iron, Golden, and Diamond Nautilus Armor now have a chance to be found in the Chests for the following Structures:
  • Buried Treasure
  • Ocean Ruins
  • Shipwreck

Status Effects

• Added Breath of the Nautilus effect
  • Effect that affects mounted players
  • Pauses player oxygen consumption (but does not replenish oxygen)

Sounds

• Anvil destroy, land, place and use sounds now play at a slightly lower volume

Accessibility

• Keys used to access debug features can now be rebound
  • It is part of a new Debug category in the Key Binds screen
• The debug modifier key can be bound separately from the debug overlay key
• The key to toggle GUI can now be rebound
• The key to toggle spectator shader effects, such as when spectating an enderman, can now be rebound

Input

Several uses of the cmd key on Mac have been rebound to ctrl:

• The input modfier to drop all items
• The input modfier to include all the data when picking a block
• The input modfier to change GUI scale in the Video Settings screen
• Stopping the recipe book from cycling through variations of items

Debug Renderer Changes

• Same as before, do not treat debug renderers as supported features, they are there only to aid with development
• More debug renderers are now available through the Debug Settings screen
• Some existing renderers were improved
• The performance of debug renderers has been significantly improved

Graphics Presets

• Settings on the Video Settings screen have been reordered and split into 3 sections: "Display", "Quality & Performance", and "Interface"
• The following settings that were duplicating accessibility settings have been removed from the Video Settings screen:
  • "View Bobbing"
  • "Glint Speed"
  • "Glint Strength"
  • "FOV Effects"
  • "Distortion Effects"
• Tweaks that were previously hidden behind the "Graphics" setting have been split out to be configurable independently:
  • "See-Through Leaves"
  • "Show Vignette"
  • "Weather Effect Radius" configures the distance in blocks within which rain and snow are visible
  • "Improved Transparency" resolves some of the transparent geometry rendering issues at a significant GPU cost, previously was hidden behind "Fabulous!"
• A new "Preset" slider was added to the top of the "Quality & Performance" section
  • Presets, as you would expect based on gaming industry standard, control most of the "Quality & Performance" settings at once, not only the ones that were previously hidden behind the "Graphics" setting
  • Available presets are "Fast", "Fancy", "Fabulous!" and "Custom"
  • The default preset is "Fancy" for new players
  • But for players who are upgrading to this version the preset will be set to "Custom" to preserve your current configuration

UI

• Menu sliders will now "stick" to the closest available value when you release them after dragging with a mouse
• When using keyboard to change slider values, arrow keys will now move the slider to the next available value, not by one pixel as before
• The inF3 button in the Debug Option screen has been renamed to inOverlay

Technical Changes

• The Data Pack version is now 89.0
• The Resource Pack version is now 70.0
• The Minecraft Server Management Protocol version is now 1.1.0
• Added ClientFps JFR event
• Experience packets that do not change the player's experience progress or level are no longer sent by the server

Minecraft Server Management Protocol Version 1.1.0

• Added a new notification server/activity
  • Indicates that a network connection to the server has been initiated
  • Rate limited to 1 notification per 30 seconds

Data Pack Version 89.0

• Added stopwatch command for keeping track of real time

Commands

Added stopwatch

• New command that allows the creation of a Stopwatch that keeps track of real time
• Stopwatches do not depend on game ticks
• They only run when the server/world is running, even when paused

Syntax:

• stopwatch <id> create - creates a Stopwatch with the given namespaced ID
• stopwatch <id> query - shows the elapsed time in seconds of the given Stopwatch in chat
• stopwatch <id> restart - restarts the given Stopwatch
• stopwatch <id> remove - removes the given Stopwatch

Developer's Note: This command is added to replace the need of using world borders to keep track of real time. The intent is to change the world border to be dependent on game ticks in a future snapshot. If you've relied on this way of measuring the passage of real time before, please switch to using the new command and let us know if anything doesn't work as intended. Thank you!

execute

• Added new syntax /execute if|unless stopwatch <id> <range>
• Allows to compare the elapsed time of a given Stopwatch with a floating point value range
  • The Stopwatch value is measured in seconds and has an accuracy of at most a millisecond
  • Example: /execute if stopwatch foo:bar ..10 run say Stopwatch foo:bar has not reached 10 seconds yet

Item Components

Added minecraft:use_effects

• Controls how the player behaves when using an item (right mouse click)
• Format: object with fields
  • can_sprint: boolean, whether the player can sprint while using this item
    • Default value: false
  • speed_multiplier: float (0 to 1), the speed multiplier applied to the player while using this item
    • Default value: 0.2
  • e.g. use_effects={can_sprint:true,speed_multiplier:1.0}

Added minecraft:minimum_attack_charge

• Sets the minimum attack charge on the attack indicator required to attack with this item
• Format: float (0.0 to 1.0)
  • 0.0: no charge required
  • 1.0: full charge required

Added minecraft:damage_type

• Specifies the type of damage this item deals
• Format: string, damage type identifier
  • e.g. damage_type='minecraft:spear'

Added minecraft:kinetic_weapon

• Enables a charge-type attack when using the item (primarily for Spears), where, while being used, the damage is dealt along a ray every tick based on the relative speed of the entities
• Format: object with fields
  • min_reach: float, the minimum distance in blocks from the attacker to the target to be considered valid
    • Default value: 0.0
  • max_reach: float, the maximum distance in blocks from the attacker to the target to be considered valid
    • Default value: 3.0
  • hitbox_margin: float, the margin applied to the target bounding box when checking for valid hitbox collision
    • Default value: 0.3
  • delay_ticks: integer, the time in ticks required before weapon is effective
    • Default value: 0
  • dismount_conditions, knockback_conditions, damage_conditions: indicating the condition to apply dismount, knockback and damage effects respectively. Objects with fields:
    • max_duration_ticks: integer, the ticks after which the condition is no longer checked. This starts after delay has elapsed
    • min_speed: float, the minimum speed of the attacker, in blocks per second, along the direction that the attacker is looking
      • Optional, default value: 0.0
    • min_relative_speed: float, the minimum relative speed between the attacker and target, in blocks per second, along the direction that the attacker is looking
      • Optional, default value: 0.0
  • forward_movement: float, the distance the item moves out of hand during animation
    • Default value: 0.0
  • damage_multiplier: float, the multiplier for the final damage from the relative speed
    • Default value: 1.0
  • sound: Optional Sound Event to play when the weapon is engaged
  • hit_sound: Optional Sound Event to play when the weapon hits an entity
  • e.g. kinetic_weapon={max_reach:5.0,forward_movement:1.0,delay:20,damage_conditions:{max_duration:60},knockback_conditions:{max_duration:40},dismount_conditions:{max_duration:20}}
• The damage dealt is calculated as floor(relative_speed * velocity_multiplier) where relative_speed is the difference of speed vectors of the attacker and the target as projected onto the axis of the attacker's view vector
  • Any additional damage from enchantments or attribute modifiers is added after this calculation

Added minecraft:piercing_weapon

• Enables a quick attack that damages multiple entities along a ray (primarily for Spears)
• Format: object with fields
  • min_reach, max_reach, hitbox_margin: as in kinetic_weapon
  • deals_knockback: boolean, whether the attack deals knockback
    • Default value: true
  • dismounts: boolean, whether the attack dismounts the target
    • Default value: false
  • sound: Optional Sound Event to play when a player attacks with the weapon
  • hit_sound: Optional Sound Event to play when the weapon hits an entity
  • e.g. piercing_weapon={min_reach:0,max_reach:4,dismounts:true}

Added minecraft:swing_animation

• Specifies the swing animation to play when attacking or interacting using this item
• Format: object with fields
  • type: string, the animation identifier (none, whack, stab)
    • Default value: whack
  • duration: integer, the duration in ticks
    • Default value: 6
  • e.g. swing_animation={type:'stab',duration:20}

Changed minecraft:consumable

• The animation field has been updated:
  • Renamed spear to trident
  • Added new spear animation

Changed minecraft:intangible_projectile

• Items with this component now show information about it in their tooltip

Entity Data

• The AngryAt field has been renamed to angry_at
• The AngerTime field has been removed
• An anger_end_time (long) field has been added, containing the time anger ends in game ticks

Damage Types

• Added a new minecraft:spear damage type

Predicates

Component Predicates

• Component predicates (predicates field in block, item and entity predicates) now include predicates for checking existence of every component type
• Those predicates are written as {<component_type>: {}}
• Such predicate check passes as long as component is present, no matter the actual value
• Existing predicates for specific components remain unchanged
• Example:
  • {predicates:{written_book_content:{author:"foo"}} - existing format for matching books
  • {predicates:{written_book_content:{}} - special case of above that accepted any value, as long as component existed
  • {predicates:{instrument:{}} - checks if component minecraft:instrument exists (was not allowed before)

Entity Predicates

The flags predicate now supports new values:

• is_in_water: when an entity is touching water or a bubble column
• is_fall_flying: when an entity is gliding with an elytra

Item Predicates

• Item predicate in command form (<item>[predicate~{...},component={...}]) has been extended to accept empty predicates for any component type
• Similarily to component predicates in data, those empty entries only check for component existence
• Existing shorter syntax for checking component existence remains unchanged
  • That means *[instrument] and *[instrument~{}] are equivalent

Enchantments

Enchantment Effect Components

• minecraft:post_piercing_attack: Effects applying after a piercing attack with an item

Enchantment Entity Effects

• minecraft:apply_impulse: applies an impulse to the targeted entity
  • direction - The first step of determining the impules is applying this vector as local coordinates (the same used by tp @s ^ ^ ^) onto the entity look vector
  • coordinate_scale - The second step is scaling the resulting vector by this vector on each axis in world space, X, Y and Z
  • magnitude - The third step is scaling the resulting vector by this Level-Based Value
• minecraft:play_sound: can now support a list of sound event identifiers, one for each level of enchantment. If a level is higher than the number of sounds, the last sound in the list is used

Added exponent

• Raises the base to the specified power level.
  • base - Level-Based Value indicating the base of the exponent.
  • power - Level-Based Value indicating the power of the exponent.

Tags

Block Tags

• Added #can_glide_through - climbable blocks that can be glided through without stopping

Item Tags

• Added #nautilus_taming_items - items that can be used to tame a Nautilus and a Zombie Nautilus
• Added #nautilus_bucket_food - bucketed fish items that can be used to feed a tamed Nautilus and Zombie Nautilus
• Added #nautilus_food - all items that can be used to feed a tamed Nautilus and Zombie Nautilus
• Added #spears - all Spear weapons
• Added #enchantable/lunge - all items that can be enchanted with the lunge enchantment
• Added #enchantable/melee_weapon - all primary melee weapons including Swords and Spears
• Renamed #enchantable/sword to #enchantable/sweeping

Entity Tags

• Added #can_wear_nautilus_armor - entities that can equip Nautilus Armor
• Added #nautilus_hostiles - entities that the Nautilus will be hostile towards when untamed
• Changed #not_scary_for_pufferfish to include Nautilus and Zombie Nautilus
• Added #burn_in_daylight - entities that burn in daylight

Enchantment Tags

• Added #lunge_exclusive - all enchantments incompatible with the lunge enchantment

Resource Pack Version 70.0

• Unifont has been updated to 17.0.01

Textures

• texture section of *.mcmeta files has a new boolean field darkened_cutout_mipmap
  • The default value is false
  • It is set to true for the block textures that had mipmaps before this version: all Leave types and Mangrove Roots
  • If the field is set to true and the texture is cutout the mipmaps will be darkened to emulate the darker interior of the block, this was the behavior for cutout mipmapped blocks before this version
  • Leaving the field unset or setting it to false will generate mipmaps without darkening, and it fits well for other types of cutout blocks that do not have dark interior such as flowers, grasses, vines, rails, etc
• Only mipmaps of level 0 and 1 are now animated for block animated textures
• Glass and Glass Pane now support translucent textures

Item Sprites

• Added new item sprites:
  • item/nautilus_spawn_egg
  • item/zombie_nautilus_spawn_egg
  • item/copper_nautilus_armor
  • item/iron_nautilus_armor
  • item/golden_nautilus_armor
  • item/diamond_nautilus_armor
  • item/netherite_nautilus_armor
• Added the following item sprites for the Spear weapon:
  • When in inventory: item/wooden_spear, item/stone_spear, item/copper_spear, item/iron_spear, item/golden_spear, item/diamond_spear, item/netherite_spear
  • When in hand: item/wooden_spear_in_hand, item/stone_spear_in_hand, item/copper_spear_in_hand, item/iron_spear_in_hand, item/golden_spear_in_hand, item/diamond_spear_in_hand, item/netherite_spear_in_hand

UI Sprites

• Added new UI sprite:
  • container/slot/nautilus_armor
  • container/slot/spear - Spear icon used in the Smithing Table screen
• Added new nine-sliced sprites:
  • container/inventory/effect_background
  • container/inventory/effect_background_ambient
• Removed the following sprites:
  • container/inventory/effect_background_large
  • container/inventory/effect_background_small

Celestials Atlas

• A new celestials atlas has been introduced, including sprites for objects rendered in the sky such as the Sun and Moon
• Includes sprites from <namespace>:textures/environment/celestial/<path>.png
• The following textures have been moved or split:
  • textures/environment/sun.png -> sun
  • textures/environment/end_flash.png -> end_flash
  • textures/environment/moon_phases -> moon/full_moon, moon/waning_gibbous, moon/third_quarter, moon/waning_crescent, moon/new_moon, moon/waxing_crescent, moon/first_quarter, moon/waxing_gibbous

Mob Effect Sprites

• Added new mob effect sprite:
  • breath_of_the_nautilus

Entity Textures

• Added new entity textures:
  • entity/nautilus/nautilus.png
  • entity/nautilus/nautilus_baby.png
  • entity/nautilus/zombie_nautilus.png
  • entity/equipment/nautilus_body/copper.png
  • entity/equipment/nautilus_body/iron.png
  • entity/equipment/nautilus_body/gold.png
  • entity/equipment/nautilus_body/diamond.png
  • entity/equipment/nautilus_body/netherite.png
  • entity/equipment/nautilus_saddle/saddle.png

Sounds

• Added new sounds for Spears:
  • item.spear.hit
  • item.spear.use
  • item.spear.attack
• Added special sounds for the Wooden Spear:
  • item.spear_wood.hit
  • item.spear_wood.use
  • item.spear_wood.attack
• Added new sound events for the Lunge Enchantment:
  • item.spear.lunge_1
  • item.spear.lunge_2
  • item.spear.lunge_3
• Added new sound events for the Nautilus:
  • entity.baby_nautilus.ambient
  • entity.baby_nautilus.death
  • entity.baby_nautilus.eat
  • entity.baby_nautilus.hurt
  • entity.baby_nautilus.swim
  • entity.nautilus.ambient
  • entity.nautilus.death
  • entity.nautilus.dash
  • entity.nautilus.dash_ready
  • entity.nautilus.eat
  • entity.nautilus.hurt
  • entity.nautilus.swim
  • entity.zombie_nautilus.ambient
  • entity.zombie_nautilus.death
  • entity.zombie_nautilus.dash
  • entity.zombie_nautilus.dash_ready
  • entity.zombie_nautilus.eat
  • entity.zombie_nautilus.hurt
  • entity.zombie_nautilus.swim
  • item.nautilus_armor.equip
  • item.nautilus_armor.unequip
• Added new sound event for the Zombie Horse:
  • entity.zombie_horse.angry

Item Models

• Added new option for all item models: swap_animation_scale
  • Defaults to 1.0
  • Indicates how fast the item moves up and down when swapping items in hotbar
  • Large speeds can allow items that take more of the screen space to fully duck before swapped into the next item

Added new item model:

• spear_in_hand - model for the Spear when in hand.

Fixed bugs in 25w41a

• MC-22882 Ctrl + Q doesn't work on Mac
• MC-54989 Sliders can be moved to positions between available values
• MC-80476 On macOS, the "drop item stack" shortcut conflicts with the "quit Minecraft" shortcut
• MC-114265 Mipmaps are too dark around transparent edges in textures (e.g. side of grass)
• MC-146862 Long effect names cause text to appear outside the effect box
• MC-147718 F1, F3, F3+[char] combos cannot be rebound
• MC-159275 Map player markers on maps of the nether don't rotate when doDaylightCycle is disabled
• MC-162573 A white outline is rendered on composters' edges when viewed from far away
• MC-171688 Invisibility status of LivingEntity is not updated when ActiveEffects are modified directly
• MC-195505 Short grass is unaffected by mipmap levels
• MC-234358 Moiré patterns / aliasing on certain objects when viewed from a distance
• MC-241862 It sometimes requires multiple keyboard inputs to change values on sliders
• MC-248499 Potion UIs displayed within the inventory don't have cyan outlines if the effects are granted by beacons or conduits
• MC-264151 Glass blocks do not use mipmapping, but glass panes do
• MC-267364 Teleporting in the air is considered flying by server
• MC-271941 Music discs can sometimes spawn inside jukeboxes when ejected from them
• MC-276445 Highlighted text within the anvil and creative inventory interfaces renders blue making it difficult to read
• MC-278742 Creakings cannot be ridden by any entities using commands
• MC-279076 Certain mobs will always retarget the player upon reloading the chunks, regardless of distance or gamemode
• MC-295949 Flying through vines with an elytra cancels the flight
• MC-296952 F4 key to toggle shaders cannot be rebound
• MC-297328 Unloading and reloading an area causes invisible entities to be visible until you get close enough.
• MC-297367 Checkbox filled status isn't narrated
• MC-298767 Piercing arrows phase through mobs that are in the same block
• MC-298915 Multishot crossbows loaded in survival or adventure mode show their secondary charged projectiles on a separate line in the tooltip
• MC-299196 Waypoints fade out when an advancement is granted
• MC-300979 The movement and duration messages in the demo introduction screen now have a text shadow
• MC-301595 Music toasts briefly appear in the pause menu after a song has finished
• MC-301632 Comparators measuring jukeboxes do not update when a music disc is taken out of a jukebox if the music disc has already finished its song
• MC-301754 The hand animation plays when right-clicking shelves with nothing in your hand
• MC-301763 The outline of the “Invited” element within the realms “Players” tab renders above other tabs when selected and when a scroll bar is present
• MC-301805 Selected item outline on statistics screen renders outside of scissor area
• MC-302030 Setting commandBlocksEnabled to false prevents command blocks from being edited
• MC-302254 Cursor changes do not work for command suggestions
• MC-302288 All shelves have the oak tan map color
• MC-302549 Server main thread deadlock during respawn position resolution when the entire world spawn radius is filled with fluids
• MC-302601 A white outline is rendered on anvils' top texture when viewed from far away