Minecraft Update 1.19.3 Patch Notes – December 7, 2022

Minecraft update 1.19.3 (Java) is now available on mobile devices. According to the official Minecraft 1.19.3 patch notes, the latest update added new features, reworked the Creative Inventory tabs, and much more. Additionally, Minecraft Bedrock update 1.19.3 also includes performance improvements.

Previously, a big update 1.19.10 added new changes and fixes to the game. Unfortunately, players are still facing issues with the game. Today’s Minecraft patch 1.19.3 will fix a few of these issues.

Read more details below.

Minecraft Update 1.19.3 Patch Notes – December 7, 2022

New Features in 1.19.3
  • Some experimental features are now available through built-in experimental datapacks

  • Added a new “Panorama Scroll Speed” accessibility option

  • Added new default skins for offline players

  • New wood sounds

Sounds
  • Various wood types now have unique sounds when placed, broken, or walked on

    • There are three sets of unique sounds: Overworld wood types, Nether wood types, and Bamboo (when enabled)

  • Step sounds can now be heard when walking on Carpets, Lily Pads and Small Amethyst Buds

  • Step sounds can now be heard when walking through Nether sprouts, Glow lichen, Crimson Roots and Warped Roots

Changes in 1.19.3
  • Reworked the Creative Inventory tabs

  • Added Operator Items Tab option in the Controls menu which is off by default

  • The Vex now has a new look

  • In the Nether dimension Endermen, Skeletons and Wither Skeletons now only spawn at light level 7 and below (instead of 11 and below)

  • Changes to block support

  • Spawner block changes

  • Changes to chat

  • Added Draft Player Reports

  • Improvements to the Open to LAN screen

  • The Realms News button will now show a confirmation screen before opening the link

  • Stronghold placement code has been changed to be more efficient, causing stronghold positions to shift

    • They are still placed in concentric rings, but their positions in the rings may change by a few degrees

  • “Teleport to Team Member” option in spectator menu now only shows up for teams with viable target players

  • Changes to tooltips

  • The Wild update music has been tweaked to be slightly less loud

Creative Inventory

The ordering of tabs and the contents in the Creative Inventory have been tweaked to make the experience of finding relevant blocks and items easier.

  • Blocks and items have been moved into categories that fit them better

  • Blocks are now ordered by their material as much as possible

    • For example, all Oak blocks and variants are now next to each other

  • Some items can now be found in more than one tab

  • Various tabs have been renamed or collapsed into others

  • The search tab now lists items sequentially grouped by the other tabs

    • For example, items found in Building Blocks will always appear before items in Redstone Blocks

  • A Colored Blocks tab has been added that contains all blocks with 16 color variants

  • Petrified Oak Slab has been removed from the Creative Inventory

    • It can still be accessed through commands

  • The following missing items have been added to the Creative Inventory:

    • Suspicious Stew

      • The tooltip will show the effect of a stew before it’s picked up from the Creative Inventory

      • Only stews with effects available via crafting or Mooshrooms are listed

    • Dragon Egg

    • Ominous Banner

    • Monster Spawner

    • All 3 flight durations of Fireworks

    • Operator-only blocks and items

      • These only appear in the Operator Utilities tab if you have both:

        • Operator Items Tab option in Controls menu set to ON

        • The required operator permissions

  • Tooltips for all items in Creative Menu outside single-category tabs will show categories where this item can be found

    • Previously this only happened on the search tab

Vex
  • Changes to Vex model and textures

    • The Vex retains its old, now slightly oversized, hitbox to make it easier to fight

Block Support
  • Fence Gates no longer provide center support beneath them

  • When opening, Shulker Boxes will pop off blocks which are attached to opened faces (such as Torches)

    • Blocks that require support cannot be placed on these open faces while the Shulker Box is open

Spawners
  • No longer has a default mob spawn type when placed by a player (previously was the Pig)

  • Will not emit fire particles when a mob spawn type has not been defined

  • Renamed to Monster Spawner to match Bedrock, and removed purple text color

  • Pick-block now works for Spawner blocks

  • The mob type is now displayed in the hover description of a Spawner item stack

    • If a mob type has not been defined yet, the hover description will describe how to set it

Items
  • Added new Spawn Egg items for Ender Dragon, Iron Golem, Snow Golem and Wither mobs to Creative mode

    • Ender Dragon and Wither Spawn Eggs will only be available through commands to prevent accidental destruction of player builds

  • Polar Bear Spawn Egg colors have changed to distinguish it from the Ghast Spawn Egg

Chat
  • Removed Chat Preview

  • Chat messages deleted by server moderators will no longer be completely hidden, but rather replaced with text stating “This chat message has been deleted by the server.”

  • Deleted chat messages will now be displayed in the chat window for at least 3 total seconds before being hidden

  • The Chat Trust Status indicators have been tweaked:

    • The ‘Modified’ tag will no longer display for server-modified messages where only style has been changed

    • The ‘Modified’ tag icon and indicator is now dark gray

    • The ‘Not Secure’ tag is now light gray and does not have an icon

  • Partially filtered chat messages now show the filtered text as gray hashes with a hover text saying that it was filtered

  • The Chat Reporting screen now shows when the player being reported rejoined chat

Added Draft Player Reports

Player Reports can now be kept temporarily as a draft while connected to a server.

  • When exiting the Player Reporting screen, the report can be either discarded or kept as a draft

    • The draft will always be kept if the screen was forcefully closed (e.g. player dying)

  • Draft reports are kept until the player leaves the current server or world

    • When leaving, the player will be prompted to either discard or finish and send the report

LAN screen
  • The screen now allows selecting the port on which to host the LAN world

  • The game mode and allow cheats buttons are now initialized with the default values of the world

Tooltips
  • When tabbing through buttons, tooltips are displayed above or below them

  • Tooltips displayed when hovering are displayed next to the cursor

  • Tooltips from focused buttons (focused by pressing tab) take priority over tooltips from hovered buttons

Technical Changes in 1.19.3
  • Added Feature Flags – world options to enable or disable some experimental or unfinished features (like blocks, entities and items)

  • Command changes

  • Added new Telemetry Events

  • Added new Game Rules

  • Custom Player Head Note Block sounds

  • New entity sub-predicate types

  • Instances of recipe types that have recipe books now have field category to determine placement

  • Changes to texture loading and stitching

  • Network protocol changes

  • Migrated linear algebra types to Java OpenGL Math Library (JOML)

  • Blocks carried by Endermen now use loot tables to generate drops when killed

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Jack Johnson
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