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For a guide about all content in this release of the Nether Update, see Java Edition guides/Nether Update.

1.16, the first release of the Nether Update, is a major update to Java Edition announced at MINECON Live 2019[1] and released on June 23, 2020.[2] This update overhauls the Nether by adding four new biomes, four new mobs (the piglin, hoglin, zoglin, and strider), and a multitude of new blocks, including many variants of blackstone as well as the respawn anchor used to set the player's spawnpoint in the Nether. It also adds a new netherite tier of equipment, obtained through ancient debris found rarely throughout the Nether.

1.16 was reuploaded around 6 hours after release to fix an issue with the Realms menu which prevented clients from viewing and connecting to Realms (MC-191138). The changes were only to the client, and the server jar files are functionally identical.[3] This hotfix was unsuccessful,[4] and 1.16.1 was released the next day.

Additions

Blocks

Ancient debris
Basalt
All blackstone block variants.

All blackstone block variants.

Blackstone
Block of netherite
Chain
Chiseled nether bricks
Cracked nether bricks
Crimson and warped fungi
Crimson and warped nylium
Crimson and warped planks
Crimson and warped roots
Crimson and warped stems
Crying obsidian
Gilded blackstone
Hyphae
Lodestone
Nether gold ore
Nether sprouts
Quartz bricks
Respawn anchor
Shroomlight
Soul campfire
Soul fire
Soul lantern
Soul torch
Soul soil
Target
Twisting vines
Warped wart block
Weeping vines
The 2 variations of the new nether-themed colored blocks, crimson (right) and warped (left), along with a soul lantern.

The 2 variations of the new nether-themed colored blocks, crimson (right) and warped (left), along with a soul lantern.

Items

Lodestone compass
Music discs
Netherite armor
Netherite axe, hoe, pickaxe, shovel, and sword
Netherite ingot
Netherite scrap
Snout banner pattern
Spawn eggs
Warped fungus on a stick

Mobs

Hoglins
Piglins
Striders
Zoglins

World generation

Biomes
Structures

Command format

/attribute
/locatebiome
/gamerule forgiveDeadPlayers
/gamerule universalAnger

Gameplay

Advancements
Bartering
Death messages
Enchanting
Loot tables
Materials
Recipe book
Sounds
Statistics

General

Accessibility
Ambience
client.json arguments
Customized worlds
The new datapack selection menu.

The new datapack selection menu.

Data packs
entity_properties
Game mode toggling
Graphics
Options
Particles
Settings
Shaders
Splash
Sound events
Subtitles
Tags
Text
World creation

Changes

Blocks

Bamboo saplings
Beacons
Bells
Bone blocks
Campfires
Composter
Dispensers
Fire
Flower pots
Furnaces
Gravel and soul sand
Jigsaw blocks
Lava
Nether Portal (block)
Netherrack
Nether wart blocks
Observers
Pistons and sticky pistons
Potted cactus
Purpur pillars
Redstone blocks
Redstone dust
Signs
Smithing tables
Smokers
Smooth quartz
Snow
Soul sand
Structure blocks
TNT
Vines
Walls

Items

Bone meal
Charcoal
Clay
Compass
Diamond axe, diamond boots, diamond helmet, diamond hoe, diamond leggings, diamond pickaxe, diamond shovel, diamond sword, golden hoe, golden pickaxe, wooden hoe, and wooden pickaxe
Food
Hoes
Maps
Spawn eggs
Stone axes, hoes, pickaxes, shovels, and swords
Water buckets
Zombie pigman spawn eggs

Mobs

The revamped anger management for neutral mobs in minecraft

The revamped anger management for neutral mobs in minecraft

General
Bees
Cows
Endermen
Fish
Ghasts
Mooshrooms
Iron golems
Magma cubes
Parrots
Shulkers
Skeletons
Skeleton horses and zombie horses
Snow golems
Villagers
Witches
Withers
Wither skeletons
Zombie pigmen

Non-mob entities

Item frames
Minecarts

World generation

Ceiling
Floating Islands
Nether biome
Structures
Villages
World types
Zombie villages

Command format

General
/clear
/datapack
/locate
/spawnpoint
/spreadplayers

Gameplay

Advancements
Ambience
Death messages
Debug Messages
Debug screen
Dual wield
Enchantments
Fishing
Knockback resistance
Patrols
Recipe book
Repairing
Sounds
Spawn
Subtitles

General

Animations
Attributes
Block storage format
Chat
client.jar
Collision
Credits
Data packs
Debug menu
Floating-point precision
Bone meal particles being generated at the corner of the block instead of at the sapling, one of many precision loss bugs fixed by 1.16.

Bone meal particles being generated at the corner of the block instead of at the sapling, one of many precision loss bugs fixed by 1.16.

Fonts
Hitboxes
Loot tables
Main menu
Materials
New Mojang Studios logo on the loading screen.

New Mojang Studios logo on the loading screen.

Menu screen
Miscellaneous
Models
Multiplayer screen
NBT tags
Obsidian platform
Optimizing Worlds
Options
Particles
Pathfinding
Predicates
Raw JSON text format
Realms
Recipe book
Region files
Rendering
Servers
Splash
Statistics
Superflat
Tags
The Nether
UUIDs
Worlds
World creation
World save files
World save format
World selection

Fixes

463 issues fixed
From released versions before 1.16

Videos

Videos made by slicedlime:

Trivia

See also

References

  1. a b "Everything We Announced at MINECON Live 2019" – Minecraft.net, September 28, 2019
  2. "Nether Update out today on Java!" – Minecraft.net, June 23, 2020
  3. "Welcome to the Nether - Minecraft Java Edition 1.16 has been released"u/sliced_lime on Reddit, June 23, 2020
  4. MC-191138
  5. "Fun fact: the respawn anchor's portal is in reverse and the particles go outward instead of inward like the nether portal, indicating that you cannot go in, but only out!"@JasperBoerstra (Jasper Boerstra) on X, March 20, 2020
  6. MC-171413 resolved as "Works As Intended"
  7. MC-133088
  8. MC-177771
  9. MC-140544 — Pickaxes don't speed up piston breaking
  10. MC-93631 — Pistons pop off blocks attached to their back when retracting
  11. MC-182748
  12. "It was 128 blocks before. This does not apply to anything marked persistent, like nametagged fish or fish caught in a bucket and then released again."u/sliced_lime on Reddit, March 4, 2020
  13. MC-186468
  14. MC-164692
  15. MC-178567
  16. MC-178618
  17. MC-180922
  18. MC-165669
  19. MC-165734
  20. MC-166524
  21. MC-76810
  22. MC-167046
  23. MC-167042
  24. MC-167971
  25. MC-170872
  26. MC-161969
  27. MC-167091
  28. MC-167044
  29. MC-166047
  30. MC-183174
  31. MC-167103
  32. MC-167421
  33. MC-156442
  34. "We are skipping 1.15 so the next release will be 1.16." (archived)@Chupacaubrey on X, March 16, 2020
  35. Replying to "are version numbers finally going to be the same across both bedrock and java then?": "That is the plan! 👇 So that it’s not so confusing anymore." (archived)@Chupacaubrey on X, March 16, 2020