Minecraft 1.21.7 release candidate 1 patch notes: Lava Chicken song, good boy painting, and bug fixes

It has been nearly two weeks since the release of the Minecraft Chase the Skies update. Usually, these major updates are followed by a minor bug-fix update to address issues that slipped by during development. Unsurprisingly, Minecraft Java Edition is getting a 1.21.7 update, featuring expected bug fixes, and most importantly, a new music disc and a painting.

Mojang has directly released a release candidate for version 1.21.7, featuring the Lava Chicken music disc and Good Boy painting. Both of these features from A Minecraft Movie will now be immortalized in the game. Along with the new music disc and painting, there are some critical bug fixes.

Here are the patch notes for Minecraft 1.21.7 Release Candidate 1.

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Minecraft 1.21.7 rc-1 patch notes: Everything you need to know

New Features

Added a painting of a good boy by artist Sarah Boeving
Added music disc "Lava Chicken" by Hyper Potions
Drops when defeating a Baby Zombie riding a Chicken (Chicken Jockey)

Fixed bugs in 1.21.7 Release Candidate 1

MC-297748 - The moon is rendered incorrectly on some Qualcomm graphics
MC-298448 - Filled maps are rendered incorrectly on some Qualcomm graphics
MC-298681 - Text displays with the "shadow" tag enabled and the "see_through" tag disabled exhibit z-plane fighting at a close distance
MC-298710 - TTF glyphs are incorrectly rendered over some elements
MC-298832 - The breaking particles of droppers and dispensers facing up or down appear incorrect on some Qualcomm graphics
MC-298856 - Blindness and darkness fog effects no longer work underwater
MC-298898 - TextureAtlas leaks textures after resource reload
MC-298919 - Sometimes you pass through the happy ghast when you get off while going forward
MC-299017 - Text on glowing signs is not visible on some graphics
MC-299071 - Memory Leak in ItemStackRenderState leads to OutOfMemoryError

Dennis and new music disc (Image via Mojang)

As Minecraft didn’t release any regular snapshots for the 1.21.7 update and jumped straight into the release candidate, fans can expect this hotfix to be released within one or two weeks at most. Release candidates suggest the update is almost ready for launch, and if no critical bugs are found, this version will be released as the final update.

Despite the 1.21.7 update being a minor hotfix, Minecraft fans have two big reasons to be excited. The funny Lava Chicken song from A Minecraft Movie is now part of the game. You can obtain this music disc by killing a chicken jockey, which is quite fitting given the hype created by the chicken jockey in the live-action movie.

Mojang had already added the good boy Dennis painting from the movie in the Bedrock Edition 1.21.90 update. This feature was missing at the launch of the 1.21.6 Java Edition update but will be made available with the 1.21.7 hotfix.

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