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Minecraft Snapshot 25w04a reverts controversial movement changes

Originally posted on Video Games on SI | By Ryan Woodrow | Last updated Jan 22, 2025 10:04 AM ET

The latest Minecraft snapshot has arrived and while it mostly makes technical changes, there is reason for players to rejoice, as the old Minecraft bugfixes that ruined the game have now been reverted after a couple of weeks of complaints from the community. You can now continue to move faster when going diagonally, as well as remain sprinting when doing certain actions that would otherwise affect your movement speed.

This comes with a note from the developers that the team still wants to look into altering these mechanics but admits that the way they “fixed” those bugs caused too many problems for it to be worth it. It also adds language support for Kyrgyz, so if you speak it, enjoy – I’ll be sticking with Pirate though.

Minecraft Snapshot 25w04a feature list

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New Features

Added language support for Kyrgyz

Changes

Reverted fixes:
MC-271065 - Diagonal movement is not normalized when crouching or using certain items
MC-152728 - The player continues sprinting when performing actions that slow them down
Developer's Note: After consideration, we have decided to revert both fixed bugs. While we do want to revisit these mechanics in the future, it's clear that these recent fixes alone didn't quite hit the mark and caused too many negative side-effects for parkour, speedbridging, and movement in general
Crossbows will now show all charged projectiles in their tooltip instead of just the first
All charged projectiles will also add their entire tooltip as a subsection, instead of only Fireworks
All container items with stored contents, such as a Chest picked with Ctrl+Pick Block, will now list the first 4 items in their tooltip just like Shulker Boxes

Technical Changes