What’s New in Minecraft’s 23W06A Snapshot?

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:

• Minecraft server jar

In case you run into issues you can head to the Minecraft issue tracker to report them.