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Additions

Blocks

Wood

• Cannot be obtained legitimately.
• 6 sides textures similar to logs.

Emerald ore

• Drops an emerald.

Block of Emerald

• Crafted by putting 9 emeralds on a crafting table.

Ender chest

• Crafted by surrounding an eye of ender with 8 pieces of obsidian.
• Stores each player's contents across dimensions and all Ender Chests.
• Contents are preserved even if all ender chests are destroyed.
• Explosion-resistant.
• Emits light and purple particles.
• Unless mined using a Silk Touch-enchanted pickaxe, they drop 8 obsidian.

Tripwire hook

• String in between needs to be placed manually.
• Breaking the string triggers a redstone signal, cutting it using shears doesn't.
• Entities like boats, mobs, arrows or players touching the string trigger a redstone signal.
• String can be up to 40 blocks long.
• Crafting recipe: iron ingot on top of a stick on top of a planks.

Wooden slabs

• Added all wood types.
• Wooden slabs crafted after the update act like wood.

Sandstone stairs

• Crafted in the same pattern as other stairs using sandstone

Wooden stairs

• Added wooden stairs for all kinds of wood.
• Adjusted hitbox.

Items

Emerald

• Is used to trade with villagers

Book and quill

• Right-click to write on and edit up to 50 pages or read.
• Click 'Done' to save the book, 'Sign' to choose a title and finalize the book.
• Crafting recipe: 1 ink sac, 1 feather and 1 book in any possible shape.

Written book

• Can only be obtained by signing a book and quill.
• Can be sold to villagers.

Golden apple

• Has two crafting recipes now
  • The new one replaces the gold nuggets with blocks of gold.
• Second tier gives the following:
  • Regeneration IV (0:30)
  • Resistance (5:00)
  • Fire Resistance (5:00)
• Only second tier glows like enchanted tools.
• Has attributes the Golden Apple had before Java Edition 1.1.

World generation

Bonus chest

• Optional starting chest on non-hardcore worlds
• Contents: wooden & stone tools, bread, apples, logs, planks and sticks

Desert villages

• Added desert-specific villages

Desert pyramids

• Built out of various kinds of sandstone and wool.
• Include hidden chest room and TNT trap, with loot including rotten flesh, bones, iron ingots and gold ingots, diamonds and emeralds.

Jungle pyramids

• Built out of various kinds of cobblestone.
• Contain multiple tripwire traps triggering dispensers filled with arrows.
• Loot chests include bones, rotten flesh, gold ingots, iron ingots, diamonds and emeralds.

Gameplay

Adventure mode

• Only playable using commands.
• Building, setting things on fire and using buckets is disabled.
• Players can only interact with mobs and the environment.
• Players can place and take items from a chest, a furnace or a dispenser.

Trading

• Using emeralds as currency, villagers will, depending on profession, offer different trades to players.
• There are three kinds of trades: Selling, buying and enchanting.
• As displayed in the top-most part of the trading GUI, villagers take one or more items or item stacks and give back something.
• After trading, villagers will sometimes emit purple particles for a few seconds to indicate that their trades changed.
• Otherwise unobtainable bottles o' enchanting and chainmail armor can be obtained by trading.

Command format

/seed

• Shows the map seed.

/defaultgamemode

• Chooses the gamemode new players start in.

/debug

• Enables and disable profiling.

/gamemode

• Changes the player's gamemode.

/toggledownfall

• Toggles rain and snow

/time

• Changes the world time

/give

• Gives an item to a player

/xp

• Adds experience to a player

/kill

• Kills a player

/help

• Provides help for commands.

General

Demo mode

• Lasts 5 game days per world.

Options

• Chat Settings
  • Change which parts of the chat are shown and how opaque it is.
  • Toggle chat colors, links being clickable and warning prompts for links.
  • Option to rebind the command key, which opens the chat with/in the text field.
• Snooper Settings
  • Allows users to toggle anonymous data being sent to Mojang.
  • Shows which data will be sent.
• Video options
  • Have to be toggled manually in options.txt for now.
  • Vertical Synchronization.
  • Fullscreen mode can now be enabled at startup.
• Added setting to disable servers offering the player texture packs

Large Biomes world type

• Generated as default worlds, but 16× bigger
• Beaches look closely to what they looked like in Java Edition Beta 1.7.3 and prior.

Changes

Blocks

Log

• Can now be placed in 3 different directions.
• Placement works like similar to piston placement.

Furnaces

• Can be fueled by wooden tools now.
• Return an empty bucket when using lava buckets as fuel now.

Ice

• Instead of melting in the Nether, it now disappears.
• Can be obtained using Silk Touch-enchanted gear now.

Glass panes

• Can be obtained using Silk Touch-enchanted gear now.

Nether portal

• Leaks into the Overworld now: Depending on difficulty, zombie pigmen rarely spawn in them.

Slabs & stairs

• Will now be placed upside-down when placed on the upper half of a block's side.
• When placed upside down, rails, pressure plates, levers, doors, torches, redstone torches, repeaters, redstone dust and beds can be placed on them - Redstone dust behaves like on glowstone - It transmits power horizontally and upwards, but not downwards. Redstone torches don't power redstone placed on slabs/stairs above them.

Leaves

• Water slowly drips through them when it's raining.

Cauldrons

• Slowly fill up when it's raining.

Dispensers

• Minecarts & boats will now be placed if there's rails/water in place.
• Instead of dispensing buckets, dispensers will now suck in or place water or lava in front of them.

Gravel

• Changed texture

Levers

• Can be placed on the underside of blocks.

Wooden pressure plates

• Can be triggered by arrows.

Pistons

• Now take 2 redstone ticks (4 game ticks) seconds to expand.

TNT

• Depending on difficulty, does different amounts of damage now:
  • Peaceful: no damage
  • Easy: ½ less damage
  • Normal: same damage as before
  • Hard: ⅓ more damage.

Nether wart

• Can now be grown in the Overworld and in the End.

Signs

• Stack up to 16 now.
• Crafting now gives 3 signs instead of 1.

Monster spawners

• Added NBT tags to further customize spawned mobs.
• Only changeable using map editors or mods.

Door

• Doors being broken by zombies now show their damage.

Items

String

• Can now be placed as tripwire

Cocoa beans

• Retextured item.
• Can be planted & grown on jungle wood now.
• Can be grown instantly using bone meal.

Cookies

• Give a full hunger point now.

Book

• Changed crafting recipe: 3 pieces of paper and one piece of leather in any shape.

Empty buckets

• Stack up to 16 now.

Mobs

All mobs

• Mobs can now spawn on top of all upside down slabs and stairs

Pigs

• Drop 1-3 porkchops instead of 0-2.

Slimes

• Reduced spawn rate in superflat maps.

Silverfish

• When suffering from poison potions, they will now spawn more silverfish from nearby silverfish blocks more often.

Creepers

• Increased knockback effect.
• Depending on difficulty, they do less or more damage now:
  • Easy: ~50% less damage
  • Normal: same damage as before
  • Hard: 33 ¹⁄₃% more damage.

Creepers & spiders

• Become aggressive towards the last mob or player that hit them now

Skeletons, creepers & zombies

• Become neutral against players again a few seconds after being hit in Creative.

Endermen

• Endermen now stop in front of the player. When the player swings their sword, it teleports behind the player.

Villagers

• Villagers spawned from spawn eggs will get a random profession now.

Non-mob entities

Boats

• Are not broken by lilypads anymore, instead they run straight through the lilypad now, breaking and sometimes dropping it.
• When they crash they can sometimes drop themselves.
• Are less glitchy and more responsive now.
• Increased maximum speed.
• When exiting, players will be moved from the boat.
• When broken by a player, they drop a boat now.

Minecarts

• When on rails, they can be accelerated a bit while sitting in them.
• When exiting, players will be moved from the minecart.

World generation

Extreme hills biomes

• Now generate with emerald ore.
• Occurs up to 8 times per chunk in veins of 1.
• Generates between layers 4 and 31, inclusive.

Mountains

• Made sub-biome type mountains like Desert Hills or Ice Mountains taller

Jungle trees

• Made cocoa beans appear on some small jungle trees

Gameplay

Creative mode inventory

• There are categorized tabs for various groups of items and blocks.
• Added a search tab that will automatically be switched to when the chat key is hit.
• Added survival inventory tab, which shows the full inventory, a 'Destroy item' slot, armor slots including a preview of the player's character and a 2×2 crafting field.
• Items can now be deleted from the inventory by shift-clicking them.
• Added layered snow block, monster egg blocks (silverfish spawning blocks), ender portal frame and all potions.
• Now shows potion effects' timers like in Survival.
• The player will now spawn with an empty inventory in Creative mode.

Experience collection

• Depending on ore type, experience now drops from ores that drop items.
• Taking smelted items out of furnaces gives experience now.
• Destroying mob spawners gives experience now.
• Adjusted experience level progression:
  • Levels 1–15 cost 17 XP points each
  • Levels 16–30 cost 3 more XP points than the previous (cost = 17 + (level - 15) * 3)
  • Levels 31–38 cost 7 more XP points than the previous (cost = 62 + (level - 30) * 7)

Enchanting

• The maximum enchanting level is now 30 and can be reached with only 15 bookshelves.
• The 3rd slot shows the most expensive possible enchantment more often.
• Increased chances for multiple enchantments at once.
• Adjusted enchantments to go with the new maximum level.

Multiplayer

• Added option to let LAN friends join SP games
  • The player can choose which gamemode players join in and whether they are allowed to use cheats.
• Made entities less likely to glitch through blocks.
• Added automatic downloading of standard-sized texture packs when joining servers.
• Blocks other players are mining now show cracks.
• Made server list re-orderable: shift+click or shift+arrow keys move selected servers.
• Server list now scans for LAN servers.
• Added hardcore difficulty: Players are banned upon death.
• Connections are now encrypted to prevent eavesdropping.
• Added SRV Record Lookup support
  • Different subdomains of one domain can handle different servers via different port numbers.
  • Service name should be “minecraft"; i.e. “_minecraft._tcp.example.com".

Added & changed many minor things

• Individual, stackable items near each other on the ground now become one item stack.
• Added shift clicking support to armor slots, brewing stands & enchantment tables.
• Made the stars smaller and brighter.
• Removed the downwards knockback while drowning.
• The “Mojang" splash screen when opening the game appears for 1 instead of 3 seconds now.
• The sky color in the End changed.
• Blocks now show cracks when destroying them while the GUI is hidden.
• The player can now fall 4 blocks without getting hurt (might be a bug as there exist other, higher distances that don't cause damage either).
• The cracking particles no longer instantly appear when mining blocks.
• The inventory sprites for all blocks will now face the top right of the block, instead of the top left.

Pick Block key

• The player now get the actual block.
• The player can now pick paintings, boats, minecarts and mobs, which will give them their spawn eggs.
• Picking huge mushroom blocks now gives mushrooms.
• The player can no longer pick portal blocks.
• When riding a minecart that is currently on a rail, using directional keys will allow the player to slowly move the minecart in that direction.

Command format

Server commands

• Are now more descriptive.

/ban

• Added reason parameter

/kick

• Can now contain \n to force a new line.

/tp

• Can now be used to teleport to specific coordinates.

General

Launcher

• Includes demo mode. Note: Clicking on demo mode without the game installed will not work, and instead freeze at game updating and not download.
• The “Loading update news" message which appears when the launcher attempts to load the release feed is now styled, rather than the plain html it was prior.

Performance

• Reduced CPU, RAM & bandwidth usage.
• Accelerated chunk loading.
• Decreased lag spike frequency.
• Made the Nether less laggy.
• Decreased unnecessary world updates.
• Made the chat work smoothly even when the server is laggy.
• Decreased packets sent between client and server.

Servers

• Made singleplayer internally use a multiplayer server.
• Decreased world saving intervals.

F3 debug screen

• Truncated coordinates to 5 fractional digits.
  • For example, if the player is at X: 11,427,276, instead of the game displaying x: 1.1427276483E7, it will now display x: 11427276.
• The y-coordinate now shows both the feet level and the eye level.
• Removed frame rendering time history graph (bottom-left).
• 3 new values:
  • ws: Walking speed (constant)
  • fs: Flying speed (constant)
  • g: Boolean value, true when the player touches the ground.

Language files

• Added tooltips for all types of monster egg blocks and the end portal frame.
• Added more descriptive tooltips for different types of tree-related blocks, sandstone and stone bricks.
• Localized server command responses.
• Added missing commands-related strings.
• Added missing double chest GUI caption.

Superflat world type

• Respawning in superflat is no longer random.

Fixes

41 bugs fixed

• Fixed texture packs in folders not showing their icon and description
• Fixed Man-in-the-middle attack allowing intruders to log in as the player when they visit their server
• Fixed the Open texture pack folder button not working on macOS
• Fixed liquids slowing down flying players.
• Fixed blocks with the same id but different data/damage values stacking in Creative inventory.
• Fixed boats & minecarts not being one-hit breakable in Creative.
• Fixed raw fish, dyes, saddles, potions, milk buckets and tools depleting in Creative.
• Fixed water destroying non-solid blocks when breaking them from above.
• Fixed Silk touch giving the player only one slab from double slabs.
• Fixed redstone updates not propagating through unloaded chunks.
• Fixed repeaters getting stuck when loading their chunk.
• Fixed tools taking damage when breaking insta-breakable blocks.
• Fixed a few misalignments in the item sprite sheet.
• Fixed the arrow representing players on held maps being offset.
• Fixed being able to duplicate sand, gravel and powered rail.
• Fixed placing a piston in front of another powered, but not extended one resulting in a glitched piston with the head's texture on all sides.
• Fixed TNT dropping as a resource on creative mode.
• Fixed powering specifically glitched pistons crashing the game.
• Fixed the End Portal Frame block not showing as a block in the inventory.
• Fixed weather not working correctly in certain biomes.
• Fixed Overworld portals above Y=127 not being recognized when leaving the Nether.
• Fixed various hacked mob spawners crashing the game.
• Fixed thrown splash potions not preserving their type when reloading the world.

Multiplayer only

• Fixed arrows scooting up to the top of the block they were shot on.
• Fixed endermen not opening their jaws.
• Fixed fully charged arrows not showing their particle effect.
• Fixed many sounds not playing.^[2][3][4][5]
• Fixed magma cubes' and slimes' jumping animations not showing.
• Fixed thunderstorms not darkening the sky.
• Fixed weather not fading in or out.
• Fixed enchanted armor and tools not glowing to other players.
• Fixed explosions not pushing players back.
• Fixed TNT not knocking back players.
• Fixed pistons not pushing back players.
• Fixed players on minecarts, boats or pigs and spider jockeys not being displayed in the correct location.
• Fixed glitchy mob prediction.^[6]
• Fixed fishing lines not showing.^[4][7]
• Fixed sneaking players' nameplates not staying hidden when loading the chunks they are in.
• Fixed Unbreaking-enchanted tools sometimes breaking and then re-appearing a few times.
• Fixed potion effects losing their graphical effects when traveling between dimensions.
• Fixed blocks disappearing when placing them under the player and jumping.