Minecraft: Java Edition Snapshot 22w15a lets the Guardian attack you from afar

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The Wild update is expected to arrive later in 2022 with a ton of new features for Minecraft, but Mojang Studios isn’t making players wait that long to try out some of these new features just yet. Beta builds and pre-release snapshots have been rolling out for weeks, and a new Minecraft: Java Edition snapshot is now rolling out to players with a fresh batch of new features, changes, and bug fixes.

Minecraft: Java Edition Snapshot 22w15a is the latest release from The Wild Update, and continues development with new features and plenty of changes for players to sink their teeth into. The main feature of this particular snapshot is absolutely the addition of a long-range attack for the Guardian in deep darkness, which terrifyingly includes opening the Guardian’s ribcage to unleash a devastating sonic attack.

Swamps and mangrove vibes also get healthy tweaks, while a few dozen bugs get squashed. Minecraft’s latest snapshot is available now to play on PC and via PC Game Pass, and arrives as part of Mojang Studios’ effort to develop The Wild Update for full release later this year. Minecraft: Java Edition is one of the best PC games you can play, and this snapshot is a small part of that.

The complete changelog for Minecraft: Java Edition 22w15a Snapshot understand :

New features

• Added “When the Squad Jumps to Town” advancement to get every frog variant on a track
• Added “Sneak 100” advancement for sneaking near a Sculk Sensor or Guardian to prevent it from hearing you
• Added a new ranged attack to the Guardian

Guardian Ranged Attack

• Building high, hiding behind walls, or being out of range of their powerful melee attack will force Guardians to switch to their ranged attack
  • Their ribcages will open to scream a sonic-charged ranged attack that can penetrate walls

Changes

• Added Darkness effect to “How Did We Get Here?” advancement
• Allies have a natural health regeneration of 2 hit points per second
• Main menu background now shows Wild Update panorama
• Mud generates from the surface to the stone in the mangroves
• Tall mangroves are much more common than short mangroves in mangroves
• Carpet of Moss Generated Above the Roots of Mangrove Tree
• The Traveling Merchant will now sometimes offer Propagules for sale
• Reverted a previous change to Notepads that only woolen and woolen rugs blocked sound
• Guardians can now sniff you from further away
• The vertical range of guardians getting angry at a target while sniffing is now 20 blocks instead of 6 blocks

Vibes

• Carpets, like Wool Blocks, will now dampen vibration caused by placing, breaking, or dropping them as objects
• Now mats also dampen vibrations caused by running and jumping over them.

Technical changes

• Deleted item_delivered_to_player advancement trigger
• Added thrown_item_picked_up_by_player advancement trigger
• Added avoid_vibration advancement trigger
• Added sonic_explosion particle

Advancements

• thrown_item_picked_up_by_player
  • Triggers when a player picks up an item that was thrown by an entity
  • Terms:
  • player — a predicate for the player picking up the item
  • entity – a predicate for the entity that launched the item
  • item — a predicate for the item
• avoid_vibration
  • Triggers when a vibration event is ignored because the source drive is holding the discrete key
  • Terms:
  • player — a player for whom this trigger is executing

Game events

• Renamed Game Event Tag ignore_vibrations_on_occluding_block for dampenable_vibrations
• Block tag added dampens_vibrations to indicate blocks that will not trigger vibrations when placed, broken, or stepped on
• Article tag renamed occludes_vibration_signals for dampens_vibrations item tag too

Bugs fixed

• Item Frames / Light Item Frames do not change their hitbox if they contain a card
• Joining a world that uses custom resources shows default resources until fully loaded
• ghosts with NoAI can walk through blocks
• Luminous lichens can’t be put on soul sand
• Leashes of two or more invisible entities connect to each other
• Vines cannot be placed on the sides of 8 layers of snow
• Glowing Lichen cannot be placed on the side of 8 layers of snow
• Vines cannot be placed on the sides of soul sand
• The word “ingot” in the description of the “Serious Dedication” advancement is incorrectly capitalized
• Sleeping in custom dimension with “natural” set to false causes crash
• The word “villager” in the description of the “Star Trader” advancement is capitalized incorrectly
• Sculk howlers replace water blocks
• Interior texture of mangrove roots darkens when solid blocks are placed next to them
• Unexpected culling of inner sculk howler faces
• sculk_charge cannot be used in /particle ordered
• Vines, Glow Lichens, and Thatch Veins cannot be placed on the side or top faces of mud
• Mangrove roots cannot be composted
• The map color for the mangrove sign and the mangrove wall sign is incorrect
• You cannot open the boat with chests without change, even when you cannot enter the boat
• Activated sculk howlers fail to summon guardian when broken
• Dark pulse option is not registered
• Inconsistent shading in boat object sprites
• Guardian disappears when away
• Mangrove Stairs come after Wooden Nether Stairs in the Building Blocks tab
• Allay can be hustled with {NoAI:1b}
• New advancement names are not properly capitalized
• Guardian can be pushed as it emerges and digs
• Mangrove trees do not replace certain blocks with roots
• Salvage Compass is not sorted with Regular Compass in Crafting Inventory
• You can use a recovery compass on a lodestone
• Growing a Mangrove Tree with Bone Meal creates a Ghost Block
• A frog-related game crash has occurred (Access LegacyRandomSource from several threads)
• Sometimes mangrove roots do not generate water when generated in water
• Rock carvers don’t cut through mud
• Mangrove leaves do not fall off Silk Touch tools
• The water was removed after the growth of the waterlogged mangrove propagule
• The top of the Sculk Shrieker model is crushed vertically
• The keeper can forget a target he just roared at
• Powering a beacon disconnects the reader from the server
• Hard block borders appear when upgrading a 1.18.2 world
• Chance of having unwaterlogged mangrove roots when growing from a sapling underwater
• Description of birthday song progress incorrectly capitalized
• note_block is spelled inconsistently as notepad in the allay_deliver_cake_to_noteblock advancement
• Launch argument UUID required
• The advancement “You have a friend in me” is presented incorrectly in past tense
• Mangrove Log and Mangrove Planks do not appear in bonus chest
• I can’t plant sugar cane on mud
• I can’t plant bamboo on mud
• I can’t plant big dripleaf on mud
• Overworld vegetation cannot be placed on muddy mangrove roots