Minecraft Java Edition 1.16.2 Version History

Spawn Eggs

• Added Piglin Brute Spawn Egg

Hostile Mobs

• Added Piglin Brute

Mob Changes

• Villagers now emit green particles when joining a village, setting a home bed, or acquiring a job site or profession
• Villagers now lose their job sites when changing dimension
• Endermen will no longer place their held block onto bedrock blocks
• Zoglins can now be leashed
• When a Zombified Piglin is spawned riding a Strider, it will now be holding a Warped Fungus on a Stick
• Piglins now become angry with players who open or destroy a Chest Minecart
• Tweaked bartering loot when bartering with piglins

Changes

• /execute command - execute in now respects dimension scaling
• /spawnpoint command - added an angle parameter for setting the default facing angle for a respawning player
• /setworldspawn command - added an angle parameter for setting the default facing angle for a respawning player

NBT Tags

• Entries in tags can now be marked as optional. Failure to resolve optional entries does not prevent the whole tag from loading. Example:

  {
    "replace": false,
    "values": [
      "#minecraft:beds", // existing syntax
      { "id":"#missing:tag", "required": false }, // optional sub-tag entry
      "minecraft:anvil", // existing syntax
      { "id":"minecraft:stone_button", "required": true }, // new syntax for required tags
      { "id":"missing:block", "required": false } // optional single-element entry
    ]
    }

General Changes

• Tools and Weapons are now sorted based on material in the Creative Inventory Menu (in order of: wooden, stone, golden, iron, diamond, netherite)
• Totem of Undying now gives the Fire Resistance status affect for 40 seconds when activated
• Tweaked the Bastion Remnant chest loot
• Chests in Bastion Remnants are now more likely to be positioned on top of gilded blackstone
• Brewing stands can now be crafted with blackstone
• Lanterns and Soul Lanterns can now be waterlogged
• Crimson and warped fungus can now be placed on mycelium
• Chains can now be placed in all orientations
• Custom worlds now support custom biomes
• Sign edit screen will now intialize from existing sign text (should have no noticeable impact on vanilla)
• Small improvements to data and resource pack selection screens
• Tags can now have optional entries
• Bug fixes

Respawn Block Positions

• Modified how respawn positions are chosen for beds and respawn anchors
• Respawn anchors will prioritize cardinal directions over corners
• Beds will prioritize the side of the bed the player entered from and then spaces circling around the foot of the bed up to the head of the bed
• Respawning players will now face the block that they respawned at
• Placing players onto dangerous blocks is now avoided when possible

Accessibility

• Two new accessibility settings have been added to help with visual comfort
• Distortion effects such as nausea and the Nether portal overlay can now be reduced
• At lower values, the nausea effect is replaced with a green overlay as an alternative visualization
• Field of view effects, shown after speed modifiers are applied, can now be reduced

Chat Delay

• Chat delay has been added to the Chat Settings screen
• Pressing F3+D now clears the pending chat messages

Customized World Generation

• Custom world generation and dimension settings now use the same folder pattern in data packs as other resources (namespace/<type>/resource.json)
• There is now experimental support for a worldgen folder in data packs
• worldgen/biome can contain biome definitions
• worldgen/configured_carver can contain definitions for world carver settings
• worldgen/configured_feature can contain definitions for feature placements
• worldgen/configured_structure_feature can contain definitions for structure placements
• worldgen/configured_surface_builder can contain definitions for surfaces
• worldgen/noise_settings can now contain noise configurations
• worldgen/processor_list can contain sets of block processors
• worldgen/template_pool can contain pool definitions for jigsaw structures
• Custom biomes can now be used in the single biome/caves/floating islands world types (add the data pack containing the biome first)
• Custom biomes can now be used in custom dimension generators

Dedicated Server Packet Limit

• Dedicated servers can now kick clients that consistently send too many packets within a second
• Controlled with the rate-limit settings in server.properties
• The default rate limit of 0 means "no limit"

Pack Selection Screens

• While screen is open, it will automatically update when pack directory contents change
• Both pack selection screen will now display contents of pack.png as pack icon

Pack Version

• Resource pack version raised to 6