The new Minecraft Snapshot 24w45a brings numerous bug fixes, updates for resource packs, and adjustments to mob interactions with equipable items.
Key Highlights:
- Baby Animals: Baby cats and wolves now inherit a collar color mixed from their parents’ colors.
- Suspicious Stew Update: Effect durations for Suspicious Stew now match Bedrock Edition, with durations like Fire Resistance (3 seconds), Blindness (11 seconds), and Poison (11 seconds).
- Mob Item Interaction: Mobs now have new logic for equipping items. They will prefer items with higher armor or damage values, more enchantments, or a custom name. Some mobs also have specific weapon preferences:
- Skeletons prefer bows.
- Piglins and Pillagers prefer crossbows.
- Drowned prefer tridents.
- Eyeblossoms: Bees now ignore Closed Eyeblossoms and won’t be poisoned by them.
- Creaking Mob: Creaking mobs won’t move if observed by a player in survival or adventure mode and gain knockback resistance in this state.
- Resin Brick for Trimming: Resin Brick is now the material used for armor trimming instead of Resin Clump.
This snapshot introduces valuable tweaks for gameplay and new functionality for resource pack creators.
