Minecraft 24w20a
Returning to Wednesday releases, this snapshot buffs witch farms and has an… interesting new piston sound.
These writeups assume you have read the Official Changelog before continuing.
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Mobs
A witch now rolls 1-3 times pulling from non-redstone items, and 1 time to determine how much redstone it will drop. This means that witches are guaranteed to drop redstone.
When a witch does one of its 1-3 rolls pulling from non-redstone items, each item has a 1/7 chance instead of a 1/8 chance of being selected (except sticks, which have a 2/7 chance instead of a 2/8 chance). As a result, witches now drop 14.286% more non-redstone items on average.
The chances of getting a specific number of redstone dust from a Witch is shown in the table below:
| Count | Default | Looting I | Looting II | Looting III |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 1/5 (20.00%) | 1/10 (10.00%) | 1/20 (5.000%) | 1/30 (3.333%) |
| 5 | 1/5 (20.00%) | 1/5 (20.00%) | 3/20 (15.00%) | 1/10 (10.00%) |
| 6 | 1/5 (20.00%) | 1/5 (20.00%) | 1/5 (20.00%) | 1/6 (16.67%) |
| 7 | 1/5 (20.00%) | 1/5 (20.00%) | 1/5 (20.00%) | 1/5 (20.00%) |
| 8 | 1/5 (20.00%) | 1/5 (20.00%) | 1/5 (20.00%) | 1/5 (20.00%) |
| 9 | 0 | 1/10 (10.00%) | 3/20 (15.00%) | 1/6 (16.67%) |
| 10 | 0 | 0 | 1/20 (5.000%) | 1/10 (10.00%) |
| 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1/30 (3.333%) |
| Average | 6.0 | 6.5 | 7.0 | 7.5 |
In swamps and mangrove swamps, the skeleton spawn rate was reduced from 100 to 50, and the bogged spawn weight was reduced from 50 to 30, fixing MC-268598 .
Misc
If the doImmediateRespawn gamerule is true, players with the oozing, infested, or wind charged status effects will activate those effects immediately on death, fixing
MC-269951
.
The fraction enchnatment value provider will return 0 if the denominator is 0, fixing
MC-271716
.
Edits
May 15 2024
- Added more details about witch drop chances
October 13 2026
- Corrected witch loot table