Minecraft 1.17 Snapshot 20w46a (Powder Snow, Freezing Damage)

Minecraft 1.17 Snapshot 20w46a adds Powder Snow, snow in cauldrons, freezing damage, frosty hearts, the bundle tool tip preview and much more.

Features:

• Added powder snow.
• The range in which a lightning rod attracts lightning has been doubled.
• Copper blocks are now crafted from four copper ingots.
• Sky color now varies smoothly when moving between different biomes.
• Buttons that change value (like Difficulty) can now be controlled with mouse wheel.
• Clicking on button that changes value while holding shift key changes to previous value.
• “Debug” world type can now be accessed while holding alt key (was shift).

Powder Snow:

• Powder Snow is a trap block that causes any entity that walks into it to sink in it.
• You can pick up and place powder snow with a bucket.
• Wear leather boots to prevent yourself from sinking into powder snow blocks.
• Leave a cauldron outside in falling snow and it will fill with powder snow.

Freezing:

• Standing in powder snow will slowly freeze an entity.
• Once frozen, freeze damage is done every few seconds to the frozen entity.
• Each piece of leather armor worn causes an entity to freeze more slowly.
• Wearing a full set of leather armor prevents freezing entirely.

Textures:

• Cut copper.
• Lightning rod.
• Calcite.
• Amethyst block.
• Budding amethyst block.
• Tinted glass.
• Candle item icons.
• Copper ingot item icon.
• Amethyst shard item icon.
• Bundle item icon.

How to install:

• To install the snapshot, open up the Minecraft Launcher and enable snapshots in the “Launch Options” tab.
• Snapshots can corrupt your world, please backup and/or run them in a different folder from your main worlds.

Screenshots:

Minecraft 1.17 Snapshot 20w46a Download Links:

Client: Download from Server 1 (.json)

Server: Download from Server 1

Obfuscation Maps:

Client

Server