The sixth pre-release for 1.18 is now available. This pre-releases squashes some more bugs. Additionally, we now save the game more often, similar how to you should remember to save backups more often. Happy mining!

This update can also be found on minecraft.net.

If you find any bugs, please report them on the official Minecraft Issue Tracker. You can also leave feedback on the Feedback site.

Changes in 1.18 Pre-release 6

• The numbers of features in cave biomes have been tweaked

Technical Changes in 1.18 Pre-release 6

• The game now saves chunks whenever there is time spare to reduce autosave spikes

Bugs fixed in 1.18 Pre-release 6

• MC-236947 - Signature attribute is stripped from java records
• MC-238930 - Soul Sand and Soul Soil generate below the nether ceiling
• MC-238959 - Falling block placing at Y=1 changes into dropped item when landing on Y=0
• MC-239880 - Some chunks have missing blocks below 0
• MC-239900 - Upgrading custom world to 21w43a ignores min_y and height
• MC-241263 - Off-heap memory leak
• MC-241409 - Game crashes when terrain shaper data is missing
• MC-241630 - Temperatures don't properly get converted
• MC-241767 - Breaking a vine or ladder block while the player is climbing it while sneaking allows the player to hover in place indefinetly
• MC-241820 - Ocean Monuments upgraded from previous versions appears to have the bounding box shifted to chunk borders north and west
• MC-241830 - Windswept savannas in amplified worlds have the incorrect surface blocks
• MC-241941 - Nether bedrock roof can generate exposed
• MC-242016 - Dripstone doesn't generate at high y values
• MC-242022 - Game crashes when loading new chunks (Exception generating new chunk, caused by ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: Index 268435455 out of bounds for length 32)
• MC-242479 - Pointed dripstone makes holes in lava pools

Get the Pre-release

Snapshots & pre-releases are available for Minecraft Java Edition. To install the pre-release, open up the Minecraft Launcher and enable snapshots in the "Installations" tab.

Testing versions can corrupt your world, please backup and/or run them in a different folder from your main worlds.

Cross-platform server jar:

• Minecraft server jar

What else is new?

If you want to know what else is being added and changed in Part II of the Caves & Cliffs Update, check out the previous pre-release post.

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