Minecraft Snapshot 24w05b

Published: February 1, 2024 - View official source

We are now releasing 24w05b to address a crash and bug introduced in yesterday's snapshot.

Happy mining!

Technical Changes

Potion effect amplifiers are now restricted between 0 and 127

Fixed bugs in 24w05b

MC-118857 - Effect amplifier is read/written as byte from NBT despite being stored as an integer
MC-268168 - Chainmail armor texture broken due to armor material renaming
MC-268172 - Game crashes when saving an entity's effect above 127

Get the Snapshot

Snapshots are available for Minecraft: Java Edition. To install the Snapshot, open up the Minecraft Launcher and enable snapshots in the "Installations" tab.

Testing versions can corrupt your world, so please backup and/or run them in a different folder from your main worlds.

Cross-platform server jar:

Minecraft server jar

Report bugs here:

Minecraft issue tracker!

Want to give feedback?

For any feedback and suggestions on our upcoming 1.21 features, head over to the dedicated Feedback site category. You can also leave any other feedback on the Feedback site. If you're feeling chatty, join us over at the official Minecraft Discord.