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Minecraft Java Edition 1.16.3 Release Candidate 1 changelog

Released 8 September 2020

This is the official changelog from the Minecraft Feedback site, published by Mojang Studios. FoxyNoTail shows it here so every version is easy to find; the text is © Mojang Studios / Microsoft.

Read the original on minecraft.net Last checked 9 Oct 2026

7 September 2020

What better way to start the week than with a new release candidate that fixes two bugs? 1.16.3 addresses a duplication exploit, along with a pathfinding issue.

FIXED BUGS IN 1.16.3 RELEASE CANDIDATE 1

  • MC-198678 - Giving an item and a gold ingot to a baby piglin and killing it duplicates the item
  • MC-196449 - Piglins, Piglin Brutes, Hoglins and Zoglins have trouble pathfinding to the player when attacking

GET THE RELEASE CANDIDATE

Release candidates are available for Minecraft: Java Edition. To install the release candidate, open up the Minecraft Launcher and enable snapshots in the "Installations" tab.

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

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