Additions
Items
-
Added proper color display support for the new blocks.
Command format
-
doEntityDrops
- Works likedoTileDrops
anddoMobDrops
but applies to non-mob entities (minecarts, paintings, etc.) instead.[4]
Gameplay
-
Ryan Holtz (TheMogMiner) and Michael Stoyke (Searge) are now mentioned in the credits.
Changes
Blocks
-
Can be used to create iron golems and snow golems again.
Items
- General
-
Now rotate on fast graphics.
-
Can now be extended with redstone.
Mobs
- General
-
No longer run from creepers that are about to explode.
-
Added
Marker
tag.
World generation
-
Newly generated witch huts can spawn witches on Y 64 to 71.
-
This allows for three spawning floors in witch farms.
Command format
-
doTileDrops
no longer affects entities.
General
-
Renamed "Multiplayer Settings" to "Chat Settings".
-
Off/fancy/fast clouds.
-
Off/on entity shadows.
-
Fast/fancy now only controls leaves and rain particles.
- Performance
-
Various improvements.
-
Many optimizations.
Fixes
- 130 issues fixed
- From released versions before 1.8
-
MC-3 – Player facing changes when passing through nether portals in certain cases.
-
MC-349 – Villagers ignore data tags in trading.
-
MC-954 – Air blocks floating in water.
-
MC-1279 – Slow (choppy) rotating beacon block.
-
MC-1607 – Ghost end portal in the End/missing layer with AMD/ATI graphics cards.
-
MC-3448 – Statistic screen icons messed up.
-
MC-4158 – Nether portal sometimes places player a fraction of a block in the air.
-
MC-4167 – EXP orbs will switch locations after a second or so from killing a mob.
-
MC-6261 – Brewing stand doesn't drop custom potions.
-
MC-6594 – Non-living entities (boats, minecarts, falling sand, item frames, paintings) drop items even if
doTileDrops
is set to false. -
MC-10808 – Sprinting and breaking particles of piston arms use same particles as piston even though there is no stone on the arms.
-
MC-12013 – Experience orbs are invisible for one second right after spawning.
-
MC-25646 – Music keeps playing when putting in a disc in a jukebox and breaking it at the same time.
-
MC-30937 –
/
summon
ed mobs riding XP orbs phase out of existence. -
MC-37782 – Items held by witches are too small and held wrongly.
-
MC-38372 – Sprint glitch.
-
MC-45537 – Cannot place buttons under stairs or slabs, or on top of upside down stairs or slabs.
-
MC-46579 – Items are too high up on the arm in 3rd person mode while sneaking.
-
MC-47052 – Wither destroying barrier block.
-
MC-48011 – Ender dragon experience drops are not affected by
doMobLoot
gamerule. -
MC-48130 –
/
fill
replace command not filling when clicking tab. -
MC-49126 – Glowstone crystal formations are missing their bottom layers.
-
MC-49538 – Achievement "Overpowered" has misleading icon.
-
MC-50263 – Lighting bug affecting End portal frames with eye.
-
MC-52717 – Placing heads/skulls break existing blocks.
-
MC-53718 – Chicken jockey riding inside chicken.
-
MC-54551 – Resizing window while in Customized World Settings snaps back to Customized Settings page 1.
-
MC-54707 – Command:
/
setblock
minecraft:sign
produces a confusing error message. -
MC-55661 – Animals don't teleport to player when target is air block.
-
MC-57633 – Minecraft crashes when specific command is used.
-
MC-58307 – Air bubbles appear after drowning and still dead.
-
MC-58568 – Item frames with items in them do not frustum culling properly causing severe FPS lag.
-
MC-59216 – Unable to build iron golem and snow golem with jack o'lantern.
-
MC-59358 – "
/
spawnpoint
<player>
" (without coordinates) is not working. -
MC-59360 – Levers pop off non-solid blocks.
-
MC-61640 – Snow layers can't be placed on top of another full snow layer block.
-
MC-61653 – Mojang's API for retrieving players from UUIDs isn't working consistently.
-
MC-62140 – 2 block tall flowers generated in previous version removes the 2nd block.
-
MC-62206 – barrier block can cause mobs to get stuck and suffocate to death.
-
MC-62758 – Tall flowers drop two items when block below is broken.
Release Date: 2014-11-24
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