How to download Minecraft Java 21w14a Snapshot

Ever since its arrival at the tail end of the 2000s, Minecraft has been on a roll that doesn't seem to be slowing down anytime soon. The game constantly evolves, adapts, and improves according to the times and has not only survived but thrived for all these years.

One of the many reasons why players often flock to Minecraft is due to the developers' receptiveness to feedback and communication. Minecraft often introduces major updates with new features and functionality. But in order to ease players into it, the developers put out Snapshots.

Snapshots are essentially smaller versions of major future updates for Java Edition that give players a small glimpse of everything new to arrive in Minecraft. This week's Snapshot 21w14a introduces Raw Copper, Raw Iron, and Raw Gold items, amongst other new stuff.

---

Downloading Minecraft Java 21w14a Snapshot

To download the latest Snapshot, simply follow the steps given below:

1. Open the Minecraft Launcher.
2. Select the "Installations" tab in the top-left corner.
3. Toggle "Enable Snapshots" to be checked.

New features in 21W14A

• Added Raw Copper, Raw Iron, and Raw Gold items
• Tuff blobs can now be found between heights 0 and 16

Smeltable Ore Drops

• Ores that are smeltable now drop raw item forms of the ore instead of the ore block, and these can be smelted just like before
• This is to prevent cluttering the inventory and have consistency with Fortune on all ores
• Ore blocks from old worlds and silk-touched ore blocks will continue to be smeltable

Changes in 21W14A

• Fully oxidized Copper can now be waxed

Fixed bugs in Minecraft Snapshot 21W14A

• MC-203854 - Fishing rod texture always looks like it has been cast when in the player’s hand
• MC-207173 - Entering only colons into multiplayer Direct Connection & pressing enter crashes the game
• MC-210155 - Command block output no longer is displayed immediately after running a command
• MC-213665 - Crash upon attempting to generate a world with a height of 0 blocks
• MC-214287 - Crash upon entering a nether portal when logical_height is set to 0 and min_y is set to 80 or greater
• MC-215120 - World-gen datapacks can cause crashes when first generating world
• MC-216697 - Having ‘min_y’ set to lower than -64 causes either a crash or the world not to behave correctly if the height limit wasn’t modified
• MC-217702 - Game crashes (ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException) during world feature placement / decoration
• MC-219849 - Fishing doesn’t animate or render the rod, line, or bobber anymore
• MC-220652 - IndexOutOfBound exception hard crash when loading a simple custom dimension datapack
• MC-221553 - The end dimension generates differently than it did previously
• MC-221586 - Excessive pillager spawning in pillager outposts
• MC-221673 - Ocean monuments are completely empty