20w31a

The 20w31a snapshot of the Java & Bedrock 1.17: The Update that Rechanged the World is the first snapshot of the said update. It added 2 new woodtypes, a new ore, and a new mob.
==Additions==
===Blocks===
Alexandrite Block
*Crafted from 9 alexandrites.
*Can be crafted into 9 alexandrites.
*Can be used as beacon base blocks.
Alexandrite Ore
*Generates in veins underground between y=1 and y=16.
*When mined with an iron pickaxe or higher, drops 1 alexandrite.
*Generates once per chunk each.
Blackberry Block
*Crafted from 9 blackberries.
*Can be crafted into 9 blackberries.
*Purely a decorative block.
Black Sandstone
*A new sandstone variant.
*Crafted with a sandstone and black dye or ink sac in a shapeless recipe.
*Can be crafted into its chiseled, cut, and smooth variants; the way which they are crafted is similar to its normal and red counterparts.
Chests, bookshelves and ladders
*Added spruce, birch, acacia, dark oak, jungle, crimson, warped, larch and beech variants.
Log
*Added larch and beech woodtypes.
**Both logs can be used to craft respective planks, wood, slabs, stairs, fences, fence gates, pressure plates, signs, buttons, doors, chests, bookshelves, ladders, and trapdoors.
Mossy Log
*Replaces normal logs in dying oak, spruce, birch, jungle, and beech trees.
*Crafted from 2 logs and 2 vines in a shapeless recipe.
**This provides 4 mossy logs.
*Can be used to craft mossy wood.
===Items===
Alexandrite
*Obtained by mining its respective ore with an iron pickaxe or higher.
*Can be crafted into its respective block.
*Can be used as beacon payment items.
Blackberry
*A new edible item dropped from its bushes in all taigas.
**The amount of the dropped blackberries varies between 3-9.
*Restores 5 hunger.
*Its bushes have 5 growing steps.
*When the player is on the bush, they will deal temporary damage and slowness.
Golden Blackberry
*Crafted with 8 golden nuggets and a blackberry.
*Gives you Strength III (02:35).
*Gives you Resistance IV (02:15).
*Restores 10 hunger.
Ham
*Comes in raw and cooked forms.
**Raw ham restores 3 hunger, while cooked ham restores 6.
*Has a 50% chance to be dropped by pigs.
Ricochet Arrow
*Can be crafted with an arrow and a slime ball in a crafting table or a smithing table.
*Ricochets off targets doing less damage each time.
*Can be used with a normal bow, a crossbow, or, like the normal arrow, can be thrown at enemies.
===Mobs===
Village Weaver
*Passive ambient mob.
*Has 4 hp.
*Spawns anywhere.
*Drops 1-5 feathers upon being killed.
*Roosts in groups of 20 which fly around the Overworld, and sometimes lands on the block below it, then flies off that block, like its real life counterpart.
*Can be bred with seeds.
*Is very simple to tame just by right-clicking on it.
**The downside of the mob is that foxes hunt on them and attack them while weavers are spawned in taigas.
*Has 2 variants based on the real life village weaver.
**The first variant is based on a male P. c. bohndorffi.
**The second variant is based on a female P. c. cucullatus.
*The mob is itself based on a village weaver.
===World generation===
World types
*Buffet worlds have been added to Bedrock Edition.
**Functions similarly to those in Java Edition before 1.16.
===Gameplay===
Spectator mode
*Added to Bedrock Edition.
*Functions similarly to as in Java Edition.
==Changes==
===Blocks===
Beacon
*Now accepts alexandrites as payment items.
**Beacon base pyramid can now be made with alexandrite blocks.
===Items===
Arrows
*Now have a function to throw them at enemies.
===Mobs===
Pigs
*Added a pale variant of this mob (the same as the pale pig from Minecraft Earth), which has a 21% spawning.
**Like normal pigs, 5% of the pale pigs spawn as piglets.
*Now have a 50% chance to drop 0-2 raw ham. When burned, raw ham becomes cooked ham instead.
Witches
*Can now heal illagers with splash potions in raids.
Zombie Horses
*Completely deleted from the game, along with its spawn egg.
==Thank You!==
Hope you like the snapshot 20w31a. The next one, 20w32a, will add a new Nether biome (the Nether Drylands).
TheRandomBlock (talk) 18:00, September 25, 2020 (UTC)
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