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Minecraft Java Edition 1.17 Pre-Release 4 changelog

Released 3 June 2021

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
Contents (4 sections)
  1. CHANGES IN 1.17 PRE-RELEASE 4
  2. THE CAVES & CLIFFS PREVIEW
  3. FIXED BUGS IN 1.17 PRE-RELEASE 4
  4. GET THE PRE-RELEASE

It's Monday and it's time for another pre-release! This one fixed a few bugs and crashes.

In case you missed our recent news, we just announced that we're releasing Caves & Cliffs Part I on June 8th. That's soon!

Update: The fourth pre-release for 1.17 is now available, and this one fixes a few additional bugs and crashes.

CHANGES IN 1.17 PRE-RELEASE 4

  • Holding down control while holding down space now makes the credits scroll even faster

THE CAVES & CLIFFS PREVIEW

Download the latest datapack.

FIXED BUGS IN 1.17 PRE-RELEASE 4

  • MC-223552 - Credits not alphabetically ordered
  • MC-226690 - In the credits, “EXPERIS” is in all capital letters for two employees
  • MC-226692 - In the credits, a closing parenthesis is missing for Brian Canning
  • MC-226693 - The credits say “Wed Developers” instead of “Web Developers” in one place
  • MC-226696 - In the credits, “TEN GUN DESIGN INC” is in all capital letters for one employee
  • MC-226700 - Some people are listed twice in the credits
  • MC-226702 - The usage and punctuation of “Inc.” and “LLC” are inconsistent in the credits
  • MC-226762 - Credits Text Wrapping
  • MC-226777 - When a crossbow is loaded in the offhand, you cannot see it or shoot with it if an item is held in the main hand
  • MC-227003 - Game crashed whilst debug profiling
  • MC-227058 - Any hostility between animals is removed in peaceful
  • MC-227092 - Experimental Settings confirmation prompt appears when creating any world in 1.17-pre3
  • MC-227107 - C418 is removed from Composers in credits.json

GET THE PRE-RELEASE

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.

Pre-releases can corrupt your world, so please make a backup and/or run them in a different folder from your main worlds.

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