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Minecraft: Java Edition - 1.17 Pre-release 2

Published: June 1, 2021 - View official source

It's Monday and it's time for another pre-release! This one fixed a few bugs and crashes.

In case you missed our recent news, we just announced that we're releasing Caves & Cliffs Part I on June 8th. That's soon!

THE CAVES & CLIFFS PREVIEW

Download the updated datapack.

FIXED BUGS IN 1.17 PRE-RELEASE 2

  • MC-68129 - Smooth lighting doesn’t work properly underwater
  • MC-196298 - Arrows fired into the side of bamboo or pointed dripstone never despawn
  • MC-205840 - Smooth lighting behaves oddly on blocks covered with tinted glass
  • MC-213767 - Flowering azalea leaves ID is unintuitive
  • MC-220698 - The ExplosionPower of ghast fireballs is uncapped, causing a freeze / crash
  • MC-223602 - Glowing translucent entities often don’t merge their outlines with other glowing entities
  • MC-225190 - Tnt can be pushed with enchanted sword with knockback
  • MC-225911 - Slimes and Magma Cubes not interacting with player
  • MC-226470 - Nether Fossils generate on the nether roof above bedrock in soul sand valleys
  • MC-226561 - Facing away from signs with glowing text makes the text disappear or z-fight
  • MC-226576 - Unknown CPU on Debug menu.
  • MC-226782 - /debug start does not work as described

GET THE PRE-RELEASE

Pre-releases are available for Minecraft: Java Edition. To install the pre-release, open up the Minecraft Launcher and enable snapshots in the "Installations" tab.

Pre-releases can corrupt your world, so please make a backup and/or run them in a different folder from your main worlds.

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