Minecraft 1.16 Release Candidate

In with the past and into the future! Today, we're introducing a new naming convention (well, it's been a while since we've introduced it) for Minecraft Java Edition. The last pre-release was in fact the release candidate however, we're making that more evident by changing the name to be "release candidate". This means that, in the event that there aren't any major issues after this release, no further modifications will be made prior to the release.

The full release is coming soon In case you've been living under a rock (it's Minecraft, so that's OK) We'll be making available the Nether Update on Tuesday, June 23. Next week!

Fixed bugs in 1.16 Release Candidate 1

- Fixed Nether surface generation issues causing floating lava and crimson forest without nylium MC-150543. My world my life MCS-174790. Mc-181833. Crash on world startup after 20w18a.

Download the Release Candidate

Release candidates are available for Minecraft: Java Edition. To install the release candidate, start up the Minecraft Launcher and enable snapshots in the "Installations" tab.