Minecraft 1.20.5 Java Edition Download

The developers continue to release intermediate versions of the game, fixing numerous bugs, but about the update Minecraft 1.21: Java Edition, which should be released in 2024, most of the information is already known, and if you want to see what will be waiting for you in this update, you need to activate the experimental features in the settings when creating a game world. Minecraft 1.21: Java Edition;

Maincraft 1.20.5 release date: April 23, 2024.

Content:

1. New content

2. major changes

3. corrected errors

4. Supplementing experimental content

5. Download links

New content

With the release of update 1.20.5, the game will be home to a new mob - Armadillo. It is a passive mob that appears in savannah or barren lands, has the same rarity of appearance as a chicken or a pig. The Armadillo has 12 health and is very scary, the player as well as the undead pose a great danger to it. If the player or undead approach the Armadillo, the mob will begin to curl up into a ball to defend itself from the potential threat. In this state, the Armadillo is protected by a shell, so it takes less damage and sometimes no damage at all on weak attacks. In the protected state, it cannot move.

Although the Armadillo is harmless, spiders are afraid of it, so they begin to run away when they encounter it. The Armadillo can be bred using spider eyes. To keep the Armadillo from curling up when you are near it, use a leash. If the Armadillo is running away, in the water, or in the air, it will not curl up. If the mob has not detected a threat in range within three seconds, it will turn around, but before doing so, it will carefully peek out to make sure it is safe. 

Battleship Shield is a new item that will periodically drop from a mob. The drop rate of this resource is about the same as the rate at which a chicken lays an egg. There is a faster and more efficient way to mine a new item, you need to use a brush by simply right-clicking on the armadillo. You can get up to four shields from a single brush, after that it breaks. There are no limitations, you can get many shields with this method.

The new resource was added for a reason, because it is used to craft a useful and necessary item - Wolf Armor. To create it, place the six shields in a certain way. The armor can only be put on a tamed wolf. The wolf armor will not only change the appearance of the wolf, but will also protect it from damage. This item will add 11 units of armor to the wolf, which is a great value, now the four-legged companions will become excellent defenders.

A new command is available to the player - /transfer. The command provides transferring the player to another server, but it exists only on certain servers. The syntax of the command is /transfer <hostname> [<port>] [<players>], where hostname is the server hostname, port is an integer representing the server port number to connect to, and players are the players to be transferred.

Major changes

The most important change is related to the wolf, the developers have adjusted its characteristics. The wolf has become stronger and more dangerous, now the mob has 40 units of health, although before it was only 20. Feeding a tamed wolf restores twice as many health points. Another major change is that wolves do not take half the damage from most environmental sources as they used to. The texture of the wolf collar has also been changed.

Due to the fact that a new item was added to the game - Armadillo Shield, the developers had to adjust the name of the existing resource - Shield. The item is now named Turtle Shield.

There are changes that affect one block of the game - Funnels. The developers have decided to improve the performance of the Funnels to make them much more efficient. The Funnel will no longer try to pick up resources if there is a full block above them.

Another very important change is updated interface design. Now in the main menu instead of the ground, the game world will be displayed around the buttons. A similar change awaits you in the world itself, if you go into the settings, you will find this innovation. Now the interface looks beautiful and stylish, it fits perfectly into the game.

Fixed errors

Update 1.20.5 not only adds new content and makes some changes, but also fixes a lot of bugs to make the game more comfortable. There were a lot of bugs, for example, the snowballs thrown by the snow golem did not damage the wolves, but only threw them away. The update fixes this, so snow golems are now dangerous to wolves. A total of 118 bugs that were seen in different versions of the game have been fixed.

Addition of experimental content

A new mob has been added to the experimental content - The Swampman. It is a kind of skeleton with a modified appearance and some characteristics. Bognik has less health than the skeleton, only 16 units. Externally, he looks bright and colorful, he is covered with moss, and on his head mushrooms. It does not live in all biomes, unlike the skeleton, you can find it in swamps and mangrove swamps.

Bognik's main weapon is also a bow, only it has modified characteristics. It will fire the bow at almost twice as slow as a skeleton. When hitting a target with his arrows, the Swampman not only deals damage, but also applies a poisoning effect. The Swampman appears twice as often as the Skeleton. When killing him, he drops the standard set of resources - bones, arrows, sometimes even a bow, and armor, if any. The new drop from the Swampman is poison arrow.

A wind charge drop has been added for the Vetrenik. You can now get this resource in quantities of four to six pieces when killing a single Vetrenik. This item is used as a weapon, but the Wind Charge doesn't actually do damage, it only knocks back the target. This item can be used as projectiles for the dispenser. If used manually, there is a half second recovery time after each use.

A new block has been added to the game - Storage, which is generated in the trial chambers. This block cannot be destroyed, but can be activated using the trial key. The block stores random resources, mostly quite valuable items such as emeralds, enchanted armor, weapons and tools. Once activated, all resources in turn that were in the block are dropped. The Vault is only activated once, further the block is useless, but it still cannot be destroyed. Once activated, the test key is lost, so to unlock another vault, a new key will be needed. Simply put, a vault is a chest with a drop, but to get that drop, you need a key.

In addition to the innovations, the experimental content will suffer some changes. These changes have affected the Vetrenik and a few other settings. The test key texture has been changed to match the new block. Parrot can now mimic stuck sounds.