On February 7, 2024, Mojang Studios released Minecraft snapshot 24w06a for the upcoming 1.20.5 update for Java Edition. Snapshot 24w06a marks the end of the development of Armadillo, as confirmed by developers Gnembon on X. Meanwhile, the developers have now moved on to polishing up wolf armor for its official release.Alongside the finishing touches to Armadillo, Mojang has added a new item called Wind Charge in the Minecraft snapshot 24w06a. It is a drop reward for defeating the Breeze enemy found in trial chambers and works similarly to an already existing item called a fire charge. Instead of lighting up fire, Wind Charge shoots a burst of wind, dealing knockback damage, just like the Breeze mob's attacks.There are also optimizations to hoppers, a health buff for tamed wolves, and plenty more. Let's go through the patch notes for Minecraft snapshot 24w06a.Minecraft snapshot 24w06a patch notes: All you need to knowWind charge added in snapshot 24w06a (Mojang Studios)Experimental features in Minecraft snapshot 24w06aWind ChargeBecome the Breeze! Using a Wind Charge will fire off a wind charge projectile similar to the Breeze'sA Wind Charge fired by a player will grant 10% more knockback than a Breeze's but have a much smaller area of impactJust like the projectile fired by the Breeze, Wind Charges fired by the player also deal damage if they hit an entity directlyThe Breeze drops between 4-6 Wind Charges when killedThere is a half-second cooldown after each useWind Charges can be fired from a dispenserPlayers that launch themselves with a wind charge only accumulate fall damage below the y-level of where they collided with the wind burstVaultTweaked the texture of Vaults to make them easier to distinguish from Trial SpawnersChangesFinal tweaks to ArmadilloUpdates to Tamed Wolves health and damageAdded option to use Japanese variants of CJK charactersHoppers will no longer try to pick up item entities if there is a full block placed above itArmadilloArmadillos do not panic when damaged but roll up instead and hide their head and feetArmadillos peek out to see if “the coast is clear” before unrollingNew animations and sounds for rolling up and unrolling + the peek-out animationWith these changes, the Armadillo work is done for now, and the developers are switching their attention to the Wolf Armor instead.Tamed Wolves health and damageTamed Wolves now have 40 health points (20 hearts) instead of 20 health points (10 hearts)They no longer take half of the damage from most environmental sources like they used to doIn most cases, this change will make no difference given the health boost, but now they can withstand more damage from players and arrowsFeeding a Wolf now heals twice as many health pointsJapanese font variantsA new option has been added to select Japanese variants for some CJK charactersReplacement glyphs come from the Japanese version of Unifont fontA new option is included in the new "Font Settings" menu, accessible from the "Language" menuThe default value of this option is based on the system locale language settingThe "Force Unicode" button has been moved to "Font Settings"Technical changes in Minecraft snapshot 24w06aThe Data Pack version is now 31The Resource Pack version is now 26Improved hopper performanceAdded JFR (Java Flight Recorder) events for individual chunk reads (minecraft.ChunkRegionRead) and writes (minecraft.ChunkRegionWrite)The maximum length of a command in a function (including macro expansions) can no longer exceed 2,000,000 charactersReduced amount of data sent by the server during login by reusing parts of the vanilla datapackData pack version 31Potion effect amplifiers are restricted between 0 and 255 againThe former behavior of effects such as Jump Boost, Levitation, and Mining Fatigue over 127 has been replaced with new attributesAdded generic.gravity attribute that controls blocks/tick^2 acceleration downwardAdded generic.safe_fall_distance attribute to control the fall distance, after which the entity will take fall damageAdded generic.fall_damage_multiplier attribute to multiply the overall fall damage amountRenamed horse.jump_strength to generic.jump_strength, and now applies to all entitiesThis controls the base impulse from a jump (before jump boost or modifier on block)Added player.block_break_speed attribute that acts as a multiplier over block breaking speed for playersAll block positions are now stored as an array of 3 integers instead of a map of X, Y, and ZFlowerPos and HivePos in Bees have been renamed to flower_pos and hive_posFlowerPos in Beehives has been renamed to flower_posBeamTarget in End Crystals has been renamed to beam_targetLeash in all leashable entities has been renamed to leashPatrolTarget in patrolling mobs has been renamed to patrol_targetExitPortal in End Gateways has been renamed to exit_portalWanderTarget in Wandering Traders has been renamed to wander_targetTagsBlock tagsAdded 'minecraft:blocks_wind_charge_explosions' for blocks not impacted by the explosion when hit by Wind Charge.Resource pack version 26Added font variant filters to font providersFont Variant FiltersEvery glyph provider can now be enabled or disabled based on a certain set of variantsAvailable variants are currently hardcoded and controlled by the font options menuCurrent variants:uniform - wired to "Force Uniform" buttonjp - wired to "Japanese Glyph Variants" buttonFilters are defined in section called filter, available for every glyph providerKeys in that object are variant names (for example, uniform)Glyph provider will be included only when the value in the filter matches the actual value of the variant in the keyFixed bugs in Minecraft snapshot 24w06aSnow Golem's snowballs damage wolves instead of pushing themTamed wolf health resets when NBT is loaded (e.g., relog)Hoppers with the barrel facing downwards on top picking up an itemJapanese language uses a Chinese fontToo long macro silently failsInvulnerable ghasts can be killed with reflected fireballsBaby armadillos don't make an eating sound when feeding them spider eyesArmadillo's scute drop timer is not saved to dataArmadillos with no AI roll up after being attacked"Shuniji," "Dragon Fish," and "Axolotl" no longer play underwaterSingleplayer client discards synced biome tagsHorse armor and wolf armor disappear when right-clicking in the air"block.vault.fall" uses placeholder soundsIt has nearly been two months since the release of Minecraft 1.20.4, and Mojang has been busy during this period. The developers have finally come close to releasing the anticipated Wolf Armor and adorable Armadillo mobs to the game.