Minecrafts Latest Snapshot Includes Chat Reports For Abusefree Building

Minecraft is a game that you should play with your friends. Sometimes you'll all be mucking in to build something incredible or perhaps playing with mods to recreate Elden Ring, and other times you'll be looking at servers online to see what the world has to offer. If you are playing online with other players, sometimes things can become messy, and this appears to be the problem that the latest Minecraft snapshot is attempting to fix.

Minecraft snapshot 22W24A is out now, and it's building towards 1.19.1 by making a few bug fixes and two new features. Chat reporting is the primary feature. This lets you report abusive messages that are being sent in chat in game. It's important to note that the blog explains that "any reports made during the testing phase may not be acted upon," but the ability to kick out toxic players is an essential aspect of any online game and this is a good move.

Chat reporting is accessible through the social interactions screen and you'll have to report the individual chat messages and choose an appropriate category for them, too. This will stop abuse of the system. You can't create a generic report on an individual user. You must specify the actions they took. The blog says your report will be reviewed by a moderator team. There's no telling yet what constitutes a true and useful report but it's worth learning all about it anyway.

Another major change is that you can now duplicate the awesome Minecraft allay. This can be done by giving them an amethyst-based shard, but duplication has the benefit of a 2.5-minute cooldown. This should take away any worries about how many allay mobs are in the area. Plus there's always more an adorable thing, isn't there?

In more non-official news, we're hugely awestruck of this Mario Kart mod for Minecraft. System32 It adds the karts that you like to Minecraft, and also adds some cool aquatic features.