Minecraft’s latest Snapshot is now live with the new “damage” command being one of the key additions in the new update. The Snapshot is available for the Java Edition of Minecraft and you will be able to test new features ahead of the official release. Anyone can get access to the Snapshot but experimental features can often break and you may run into errors or crashes. Here is a breakdown of all of the new changes in Minecraft’s 23W06A Snapshot and a quick guide on how to install the update.
Minecraft 23W06A Snapshot Patch Notes
Here are all of the new changes in the new 23W06A Snapshot.
CHANGES
Jukeboxes now emit a note particle above them while playing a music disc to match Bedrock
ACCESSIBILITY
Added a new option in the Accessibility menu called Damage Tilt for controlling the amount of camera shake when being hurt
Added a tooltip in the Key Binds screen that specifies which keybinds are conflicting
"Notification Display Time" accessibility option was renamed to "Notification Time"
UPDATED CREATE NEW WORLD SCREEN
Tabs can be switched with the keyboard by pressing Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab
Specific tabs can also be navigated to by pressing Ctrl+Tab Number
For example, Ctrl+2 navigates to the second tab
Added a screen to easily enable/disable experimental features
The screen can always be found under the More-tab
In snapshots a shortcut button can be found under the Game-tab
CREATIVE MENU
Added painting variants to creative menu
Paintings with pre-defined variant will now display author and title in description when hovered over
To see all of the technical changes, you can view the official Snapshot changelog by Mojang.
How to install the latest 23W06A Snapshot for Minecraft
The 23W06A Snapshot is available for Minecraft: Java Edition only. To install the Snapshot, 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:
In case you run into issues you can head to the Minecraft issue tracker to report them.