Minecraft 24w20a
Returning to Wednesday releases, this snapshot buffs witch farms and has an… interesting new piston sound. See the changelog.
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:
| Level | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Average |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Looting | 1/5 | 1/5 | 1/5 | 1/5 | 1/5 | 6 | |||
| Looting I | 1/10 | 1/5 | 1/5 | 1/5 | 1/5 | 1/10 | 6.5 | ||
| Looting II | 1/20 | 3/20 | 1/5 | 1/5 | 1/5 | 3/20 | 1/20 | 7 | |
| Looting III | 1/30 | 1/10 | 1/6 | 1/5 | 1/5 | 1/6 | 1/10 | 1/30 | 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