The company has just rolled out Minecraft 23w16a, and here is everything you need to know about the patch notes!
Minecraft is one of the most played games of all time, and each update means a lot more millions of people.
The developers add new features and fix current errors to offer smoother gameplay to all the fans.
The official website announces more updates. Recently, Minecraft 23w16a rolled out for mass usage, and it includes many fixes and improvements.
Minecraft 23w16a Snapshot: What is new?
The update includes tweaks to Trail Runs, a new command functionality, a new advancement trigger, and a couple more. We listed some of the important updates below.
You can also visit the official website for more information. For the most important stuff, keep on reading!
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Changes
- All Pottery Shards renamed to Pottery Sherds
- If a vibration is scheduled to be received by a Sculk Sensor or Sculk Shrieker, they will stay queued until all adjacent chunks are loaded and ticking
- Prevents vibration resonance setups from breaking when unloading their chunks from a distance
- The game’s application icon updated
- This will be a Grass Block in release versions and a Dirt Block in snapshot versions
- Added native support for ARM64 machine architecture on Windows
- To try this out, you need to specify a native Java Executable in the launcher manually
Trail Runs
- Reworked structures based on community feedback
- Added more structure variants
- Sand no longer generates within the structures
- Tweaked the amount of gravel and dirt
- Tweaked the amount of Suspicious Gravel
- Split the loot tables for the Suspicious Gravel within the structure. There is now a dedicated loot table for Rare loot items (e.g. Pottery Sherds, Smithing Templates), and a dedicated loot table for more common loot drops (e.g. Stained Glass Pane, Tools, Candles, etc.)
- Due to these changes you might see errors like Failed to get element ResourceKey[minecraft:worldgen/processor_list / minecraft:trail_ruins_suspicious_sand] in an old snapshot world. These are harmless, but existing Trail Ruin structures that were not previously fully loaded might be missing parts of the structure.

Technical Changes
- The data pack version is now 14, accounting for item display orientation changes
- Added a return command
- Added recipe_crafted advancement trigger
Advancements
New Triggers
RECIPE_CRAFTED
- Triggered when crafting a recipe
- Conditions:
- recipe_id – the resource location of the recipe crafted
- ingredients – an array of predicates for the item stacks used in the recipe
- A single-item stack can only be used to fulfill one predicate
- Each predicate needs to be fulfilled to trigger the advancement. This allows for seperation between recipes that have same identifier but use different ingredients.
- This field is optional. When not provided, or left empty, only the recipe_id will dictate the success of the trigger
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Tags
- Added villager_plantable_seeds to represent which kind of seeds Villagers can farm
- Added maintains_farmland to represent which blocks will not cause farmland to be converted into dirt when placed on top of it
Display Entity
Rendering Changes
- item_display items have been rotated 180 degrees around Y axis to better match transformation applied when rendering items on armor stand head and in item frames
- For reference, order of transformations applied to model (starting from innermost) is item_transform, rotate Y 180, transformation field, entity orientation (billboard option + Rotation field + Pos field)
Minecraft new snapshot
The new Minecraft 23w16a Snapshot included the information above. It surely brought many updates and improvements. The list looks pretty long.

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