The first pre-release snapshot of ‘The Wild Update’ is here for Minecraft

The wild update is getting closer to a full release.

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what you need to know

Mojang Studios has been working on The Wild Update, Minecraft’s next content update, for many months.
On Wednesday, the studio officially began testing preview versions of The Wild Update with Minecraft: Java Edition players.
This means that The Wild Update is nearing completion, with only bug fixes and general improvements planned from this point on.
Minecraft: Java Edition 1.19 Pre-Release 1 is now available for players to test with a number of changes and other fixes.

Minecraft players regularly enjoy injections of new content through successive updates, with the next release coming later this year in the form of The Wild Update. Mojang Studios has been actively developing The Wild Update alongside the Minecraft community for months, but the update is now fast approaching an official release for all players.

Mojang Studios is now testing Minecraft: Java Edition 1.19 Pre-Release 1, which includes a new batch of bug fixes, changes, and technical updates for players to explore. As The Wild Update is now officially in the “pre-release” development era, don’t expect any major changes or feature additions from this point on. The release is now more or less feature locked, with only minor fixes and enhancements happening until completion.

The Wild Update is the next content update for one of the best PC games and it will bring new biomes, mobs, game mechanics and more to Minecraft. Players will be able to discover the terrifying Deep and Ancient Dark Cities, guarded by powerful Guardians, or explore idyllic mangrove swamps populated by frogs and mud. The wild update doesn’t have an exact release date yet, but we should get more information in the coming weeks or months.

The full changelog for Minecraft: Java Edition 1.19 Prerelease 1 includes:

Changes

Slightly reduced the number of mangrove trees in mangrove swamps.
Endermen, Skeletons, Wither Skeletons, and Piglins now spawn in a wider range of light levels in the Nether (from light level 0 to 11)
Item interaction vibrations are now emitted when you start or finish “using” an item with a start and end status (such as bows, crossbows, goat horns, shields, food)
Item interaction vibrations are now ignored when sneaking
Placing non-armor items (such as Pumpkins and Skulls) in your hat slot now plays a generic equipment sound.

technical updates

Auto completion is now available for the template argument for place and template
Custom servers can now enable or disable chat preview for certain clients by sending a new network packet
Now, a chat preview is also displayed for chat-related commands, such as say and message
test-rainbow-chat has been removed from server properties

Added game events

note_block_play with a vibration frequency of 6
instrument_play with a vibration frequency of 15

fixed bugs

Equip armor/elytras via the inventory or the dispenser on reproduce sonidos
PacketBuffer.writeStringThe maximum length of is in bytes, while it readStringis in characters
Attempting to open the Minecraft Realms menu claims the client is out of date, even though the snapshot may be newer than the version
Sculk sensors do not activate when entities are summoned by a generator.
Equipping armor through inventory does not count as a vibration.
The distance value for Sculk sensors is limited to integers
Goats are not scared when tempted with their favorite food
The description of the “FOV Effects” setting is not accurate
No subtitles are produced on the passing of the frogs.
He entity.frog.toungethe sound is misspelled
Frogs don’t shy away when tempted with their favorite food
Tadpoles are not tempted by slime balls
Frogs can jump while being tempted with balls of slime.
Tadpoles drop experience, unlike other baby mobs.
The sculk sensors comparator frequency when you’re stepping on it is the last frequency it heard
Items picked up from the ground by allays travel too high above their hitboxes
‘It Spreads’ trailer is not a child of ‘Monster Hunter’
Switching items to the player’s left hand can cause vibrations.
Birthday song trailer description does not capitalize the word Cake
British cat id does not match texture name
The Sculk catalyst is activated when a villager is turned into a zombie villager by a zombie.
The subtitle for picking up a tadpole with a bucket is the generic “Full Bucket” subtitle
/tp duplicate “argument” in options tab
The server crashes when trying to load fragments that contain command blocks consisting of a large number of characters within the above output field
Goat horn subtitles are misspelled
Playing the goat horn is not detected as a vibration
The server logs the messages from the “game test server”
Entity selectors in commands are no longer evaluated
Potted mangrove propagule model is incorrect
Structure block messages are in chat format
Duplicate object key
Error starting the game on a 32-bit operating system
io.netty.handler.codec.EncoderException when using special characters in the chat message
Game crash regarding keeper’s wrath
The chat closes only if the Open Chat control is set to Enter
Clicking on the “command incomplete” message removes / in chat
Iron golems can spawn on blocks that cannot be spawned, such as leaves, glass, sea lanterns, etc.
The Warden emerge / roar / sonic charge / dig animation (and possibly other similar animations) does not start unless the player looks at the Warden first
/say The command does not apply server message styling when sent from a command block, server console, or RCON, unlike/msg
Guardians can spawn on any non-full block, as long as it’s solid.
The reflected ghast fireball cannot hit the ghast
Can execute commands with double slash prefix
–devThe argument for data generators no longer converts NBT to SNBT correctly

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