Articles by Java Team
Another Tuesday, another snapshot! This week's release brings you some helpful new particles designed to better tell if your golden dandelion is keeping your mobs young or if you're about to reintrod…...
Beware! A pack of seven floofy and feral baby mobs have taken over the snapshot! These tiny foxes, polar bears, bees, llamas, armadillos, and goats might have snuggly new looks, but might not all be …...
With today's snapshot release, we're bringing you another set of features from our next game drop! Dive into testing with new versions of aquatic baby mobs and discover eternal youth! Making big wave…...
We're back in action with another Snapshot! In this week's release we're making it possible to access game rules from the in-game pause screen, through the new world options button. On the data pack …...
As the year draws to a close, we gather in the shipping room one more time to press the buttons that make snapshots happen! In this final release of 2025 we're (among other things) upgrading our runt…...
Today we are shipping Release Candidate 3 for 1.21.11, addressing three issues discovered after the recent update.
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Fixed bugs in 1.21.11 Release Candidate 3
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Today we are shipping Release Candidate 2, fixing a crash issue affecting some players.
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Stability
Release Candidates are available for Minecraft: Java Edition. To install the Release…...
As we are getting ready for the release of the Mounts of Mayhem drop on December 9th, today we are shipping the first Release Candidate. If there are no critical issues, this will be the version that…...
We're starting the week with Pre-Release 4 for Mounts of Mayhem! With this one, Dispensers can now be part of the Mayhem with the new Mounts, along with other fixes!
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Changes
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We'll kick the week off with a third pre-release for the Mounts of Mayhem drop. This pre-release includes bug fixes and spear weapon tweaks.
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New Features
Spear Weapon
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