Minecraft: Java Edition Snapshot 21w14a adds new raw ore items to replace smeltable blocks

It's time for some other Minecraft: Coffee Edition snapshot! Today, Minecraft: Java Edition Snapshot 21w14a is the star of the prove, and furthers the work existence done on the upcoming Caves and Cliffs Update. The latest snapshot for Minecraft: Java Edition is certainly smaller than some of the more recent snapshots, simply withal includes an interesting (if minor) alter to how ores and smelting work in Minecraft.

Players who participate in Minecraft: Coffee Edition snapshots will be testing out a scattering of small-scale changes and issues fixes in the 21w14a snapshot. The most notable of which is the add-on of raw ore items for iron, aureate, and copper. These raw ore items replace smeltable ore blocks when you mine ore. This is more consequent with other ores and how Minecraft commonly operates. It also has the nice side effect of making these raw ore items more visually distinct from the rest of your inventory.

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The full changelog for Minecraft: Java Edition Snapshot 21w14a includes:

New features

Added Raw Copper, Raw Fe, and Raw Gold items
Tuff blobs can now be found between heights 0 and 16

Smeltable ore

Ores that are smeltable now drop raw item forms of the ore instead of the ore block and these can exist smelted just similar before
This is to prevent cluttering the inventory and have consistency with Fortune on all ores
Ore blocks from former worlds and silk-touched ore blocks will continue to be smeltable

Changes

Fully oxidized Copper tin can at present be waxed

Bug fixes

Angling rod texture ever looks like it has been bandage when in the player's hand
Entering only colons into multiplayer Direct Connection & pressing enter crashes the game
Control block output no longer is displayed immediately after running a control
Crash upon attempting to generate a world with a height of 0 blocks
Crash upon entering a nether portal when logical_height is set to 0 and min_y is set to eighty or greater
World-gen datapacks can cause crashes when start generating earth
Having min_y fix to lower than -64 causes either a crash or the earth non to comport correctly if the height limit wasn't modified
Game crashes (ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException) during globe feature placement / decoration
Line-fishing doesn't animate or render the rod, line or bobber anymore
IndexOutOfBound exception hard crash when loading a simple custom dimension datapack
The finish dimension generates differently than information technology did previously
Excessive pillager spawning in pillager outposts
Ocean monuments are completely empty

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