Minecraft 1.21 Release Candidate 1

Here is the first Release Candidate for 1.21, addressing some critical issues. Apart from that we decided to revert the changes made in Pre-Release 4 to armor enchantments based on your feedback.

Happy mining!

Changes

• The changes to Burn Time reduction from Fire Protection and Knockback reduction from Blast Protection from pre-release 4 have been reverted
  • We have heard your feedback, and we expect to rebalance these two enchantments in the future to find a better place for them
  • Values are now the same as in 1.20.6
  • These effects still stack from wearing multiple pieces (changed from 1.20.6)

Fixed bugs in 1.21 Release Candidate 1

• MC-272888 - Zooming with riptide still applies mace wind burst if held in main hand
• MC-273007 - Projectiles have incorrect motion when shot from a vehicle which was entered with player velocity
• MC-273158 - Animals stay floating after getting on a boat

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.

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

Cross-platform server jar:

• Minecraft server jar

Report bugs here:

• Minecraft issue tracker!

Want to give feedback?

• For any feedback and suggestions on our upcoming 1.21 features, head over to the dedicated Feedback site category. You can also leave any other feedback on the Feedback site. If you're feeling chatty, join us over at the official Minecraft Discord.