Minecraft Version History
Changes
Items
Shields
No longer take damage when blocking weak attacks (less than 3 damage).
Entities
Minecarts with chests & minecarts with hoppers
The title of the inventory now match the item's name.
Gameplay
Combat
Missing triggers weapon cooldown again if the cooldown was 75% or more recharged (later reverted in final release).
Fixes
5 issues fixedFrom release version 1.9
MC-98461 – Several languages (at least Frisian, Talossan, Ripuarian, ...
Release Date: 2016-03-10
Additions
Items
Armor
New armor attribute: generic.armorToughness.
Damage formula is now damage = damage * ( 1 - max( defensePoints / 5, defensePoints - damage / ( 2 + toughness / 4 ) ) / 25 ), i.e. increased toughness means less armor defense point reduction from strong attacks.
Diamond armor has toughness 2, all other armor has toughness 0. A full set of diamond armor, therefore gives a toughness attribute of 8.
New ...
Release Date: 2016-03-09
Additions
Blocks
Chorus flower
Spawn on the top of the chorus trees.
Breaks if the supporting block below is broken.
It only drops when mined directly.
Can only be planted on end stone in any dimension.
It will show a different texture when it stops growing.
Chorus plant
Generate in the End.
Can be grown using chorus flowers.
Breaks in quick succession if the supporting chorus plant below is broken.
Drops chorus fruit.
Dragon head
While a player ...
Release Date: 2016-02-29
Changes
Non-mob entities
Projectiles
Changed scaling.
Command format
Selectors
Changed handling of r= in entity selectors
Now based on the position of the entity and not on the center of the block anymore - meaning that r=0 only selects entities at the exact same position.
Gameplay
Traveling
Made players invulnerable during dimension changes.
Fixes
4 issues fixedFrom the 1.9 development versions
MC-85135 – Projectiles ...
Release Date: 2016-02-26
Additions
Command format
Sound events
Added that were unavailable in the snapshots, that were available from 1.8.x and previous:
block.note.pling.
entity.bat.loop.
entity.cat.hiss.
entity.ghast.scream.
entity.small_slime.jump.
entity.wolf.howl.
A new sound event was added, however unused in the actual game.
entity.player.breath.
Changes
Mobs
Horses
Are less wide (now 1.3964844 blocks instead of 1.4).
General
Credits
Thomas Guimbretière is now ...
Release Date: 2016-02-24
Changes
Gameplay
Mob spawning
Pack spawning is less likely to spawn the full pack, and less likely to spread them out.
Previously, spawning a pack would start from the center three times and cumulatively adjust the coordinates four times by up to ±5 in X and Z, trying to spawn a mob each time, for a total of twelve spawn attempts (although it stops early if a full pack has spawned). Now that "four times" is a random number 1–4, meaning fewer total spawn attempts and less ...
Release Date: 2016-02-18
Changes
Items
Shields
Durability increased from 181 to 337.
World generation
Obsidian pillar
Some of the pillars will now generate with iron bars again, which was removed in last snapshot.
Fixes
9 issues fixedFrom released versions before 1.9
MC-4272 – Zombie Pigmen don't attack in groups when fighting other mobs.
MC-12448 – Not translatable potion names in some languages.
MC-13277 – Holding the sneak key and the jump key while flying causes the ...
Release Date: 2016-02-17
Fixes
14 issues fixedFrom released versions before 1.9
MC-2075 – Biome color change is abrupt.
MC-16234 – Crash when player opens a chested horse inventory.
MC-30481 – Enchanted fishing rod doesn't glow when fishing.
MC-55827 – Incomplete end portals can be activated.
MC-88128 – Lightning strikes cause new mobs to face south.
From the 1.9 development versions
MC-85101 – Cast fishing rod item doesn't show as cast/predicate ...
Release Date: 2016-02-16
Additions
Items
Maps
Added sounds for making maps.
Command format
Gamerules
Added disableElytraMovementCheck.
When set to true, disables the server checking whether the player is moving too fast (cheating) while wearing elytra.
Sound events
Added block sound events:
brewing_stand.brew.
chorus_flower.death and grow.
comparator.click.
furnace.fire_crackle.
iron_trapdoor.close and open.
Added enchant sound ...
Release Date: 2016-02-15
Changes
Items
Elytra
The elytra texture now defaults to the cape texture if no custom texture is uploaded and the player owns a cape.
Tipped arrows
Are now crafted by 8 arrows surrounding a lingering potion of that type, yielding 8 of them.
Can no longer be obtained by splashing down a lingering potion first, then shooting regular arrows through that cloud.
This new method can even create tipped arrows from a custom lingering potion using commands, but the tipped arrow ...
Release Date: 2016-02-10
Changes
Items
Armor
Armor reduction in effective defense points due to attack strength will now allow the effective defense to go as low as 20% of the armor points (was 25% since 16w02a).
Gameplay
Combat
Attack cooldown effect increased: now quadratic 20%–100% (was linear 50%–100% since 16w02a).
Explosions
Damage increased ...
Release Date: 2016-02-04
Changes
Blocks
Trapped chest
Recipe is now shapeless.
Fixes
8 issues fixedFrom released versions before 1.9
MC-15214 – Trapped chest recipe not shapeless.
MC-68664 – doMobLoot prevents player's XP from dropping.
MC-74505 – /enchant can't be used on entities.
From the 1.9 development versions
MC-91620 – Boats full speed on pressure plates.
From the previous development version
MC-96195 – Boats travel ...
Release Date: 2016-02-03
Additions
Command format
General
Running "Searge" as the command in a command block (without a preceding "/", also case insensitive) will now set #itzlipofutzli to the previous output.
Gameplay
Enchanting
Added a sound for taking damage from thorns.
Weather
Rain sounds are now more ambient/less loud and sound more realistic.
Changes
Blocks
Lily pads
Bounding box changed again, now 3⁄32 block tall and inset 1⁄16 from all ...
Release Date: 2016-01-28
Changes
Blocks
Beacons
No longer immediately activate when placed on valid pyramids, as they had in the previous snapshot.
Non-mob entitites
Minecarts
All types of minecarts will now display their CustomName when CustomNameVisible is set.
Command format
/achievement
No longer affects statistics.
General
Sounds
More new sounds.[more information needed]
Some updated sounds.[more information needed]
Fixes
14 issues fixedFrom released ...
Release Date: 2016-01-20
Some issues resolved and realms notifications toggle to the options menu has now been added.
Release Date: 2016-01-13
Additions
General
Realms
Added a Realms Notifications toggle to the Options menu, toggleable to ON and OFF.
Changes
Blocks
Trapped Chest
Will now change their texture when the computer time is set to the 24th to 26th of December to suit Christmas.
General
Realms
Better Realms integration.
New buttons to configure/leave realms without having to select them first.
Fixes
13 issues fixedFrom released versions before 1.8
MC-2324 – Player trapped/cannot get out of ...
Release Date: 2015-12-09