Category: Minecraft News

This snapshot brings you lots of bugfixes! Getting really close to pre-releasing now.

A full changelog for this Snapshot can be found on Minecraft.net.

• Fixed a really old bug
• Blocks on chunk borders should now behave correctly when upgrading a world from 1.12.2
• Performance improvements
• Fixed a couple of crashes

FIXED BUGS IN 18W22A

• MC-1809 – Some trees generate with leaves too far from logs
• MC-121823 – Using “destroy” command on containers does not drop stored contents
• MC-121900 – Player data output does not show SelectedItem and is invalid in a data path
• MC-122153 – /gamemode does not provide success message
• MC-122455 – Disappearing Carpets
• MC-122787 – Rails placed to the east or south of curved rails break existing connections
• MC-123064 – No error message when saving a structure containing uppercase or other invalid characters
• MC-124281 – White dot on the creamy horse’s tail
• MC-124357 – Green pixels on iron horse armor
• MC-124833 – Item duplication
• MC-125745 – Sniper duel advancement can be achieved with trident
• MC-125986 – Rails adjacent to chunk borders update if world is loaded in snapshot
• MC-126118 – The fish mobs are missing their translation strings
• MC-127156 – Ocelots and parrots don’t spawn naturally
• MC-127386 – Right clicking on villager with its spawn egg opens trade menu
• MC-128276 – Water is not tinted next to glass
• MC-128393 – Conduit connects to iron bars and glass panes
• MC-128472 – When swimming, the player can stand up even though there is a block above
• MC-128509 – X-axis portals break when upgrading from 1.12.2 when certain blocks are above/near them
• MC-128512 – Certain blocks on chunk borders cause many blocks in the same chunk to be updated when upgrading from 1.12.2
• MC-129645 – Particles of downwards bubble columns are not centered
• MC-129712 – Team Prefix and Suffix reset after restarting world
• MC-130015 – Tropical fish bucket contains inconsistent dark pixel
• MC-130197 – Over a 1000 dolphins spawning in a range of 100 blocks at a certain height
• MC-130242 – Having an id tag in the tag tag of spawn eggs overwrites the spawned entity’s id

To get snapshots, open your launcher and go to the “launch options” tab. Check the box saying “Enable snapshots” and save. To switch between the snapshot and normal version, you can find a new dropdown menu next to the “Play” button. Back up your world first or run the game on in a different folder (In the “launch options” page).

Please report any and all bugs you find in Minecraft to bugs.mojang.com.

Snapshots can corrupt your world, please backup and/or run them in a different folder from your main worlds. 1.13 will have a lot of experimental snapshots that may break everything and smell funny. This may be one of those snapshots. This is what happens when Mojang are changing all the things! 

Share your thoughts on how 1.13 is shaping up in the comments below!

Wednesday snapshots are best snapshots!

A full changelog for this Snapshot can be found on Minecraft.net.

• Dolphins no longer wear armor
• Dolphins will now help you find treasures
• Lerp
• Fixed some bugs

FIXED BUGS IN 18W21A

• MC-52974 – Host’s skin not visible to other players when in LAN world
• MC-72866 – Item shading inside item frames does not account for rotation
• MC-97196 – /spreadplayers shows wrong error message / large number in error message when no entities were spread
• MC-105139 – Entity head rotation not interpolating on Yaw axis
• MC-123199 – Lighting renders incorrectly on item frames oriented vertically
• MC-123454 – Dispenser using spawn egg spawns mob too high
• MC-123455 – Using spawn egg spawns mob too high on the water and lava
• MC-123598 – Fence top missing texture when below fence gate
• MC-123769 – Some item names that previously had colors doesn’t have colors anymore
• MC-124954 – Jungle temple redstone wire is not connected
• MC-125377 – Structures from old worlds don’t regenerate if opened with 1.13 standalone client/server
• MC-126086 – Salmon and tropical fish hitbox on land is wrongly positioned
• MC-126863 – Sounds made with water in spectator mode
• MC-127116 – When placing a wall using /setblock without specifying a block state, it is invisible; default state has up=false
• MC-127333 – Carpet and panes don’t show the right colors on maps
• MC-127586 – Mobs do not suffocate in double slabs
• MC-127996 – Bone meal can be put on floating water
• MC-128139 – Sea grass generates water source when placed on flowing water
• MC-128251 – Grass and mycelium can spread to dirt blocks which are submerged under general water
• MC-128493 – Dolphins can wear armor
• MC-129058 – Dolphins become permanent (can’t despawn) after playing with an item
• MC-129708 – Armor slot icons are backwards
• MC-129808 – “demo.day.6” does not include the keybinding correctly
• MC-129849 – Upgrade from 1.6.4 destroys world, spams errors

To get snapshots, open your launcher and go to the “launch options” tab. Check the box saying “Enable snapshots” and save. To switch between the snapshot and normal version, you can find a new dropdown menu next to the “Play” button. Back up your world first or run the game on in a different folder (In the “launch options” page).

Please report any and all bugs you find in Minecraft to bugs.mojang.com.

Snapshots can corrupt your world, please backup and/or run them in a different folder from your main worlds. 1.13 will have a lot of experimental snapshots that may break everything and smell funny. This may be one of those snapshots. This is what happens when Mojang are changing all the things! 

Share your thoughts on how 1.13 is shaping up in the comments below!

This Tuesday snapshots brings you bugfixes. Pre-release is getting closer!

A full changelog for the Snapshot can be found on Minecraft.net.

• Sleeping in creative mode is now more comfortable
• All worlds created in older snapshots should finally be openable again
• Fire no longer spreads everywhere
• Lots of bugfixes

FIXED BUGS IN 18W20A

• MC-9620 – F1 and open chat makes hotbar appear
• MC-116928 – Command block and spawner minecart data fixer not working correctly
• MC-121743 – Feedback of some commands uses OS locale for formatting decimal numbers
• MC-122331 – Shield with banner has broken colors
• [MC………..] – 40 more bugs

To get snapshots, open your launcher and go to the “launch options” tab. Check the box saying “Enable snapshots” and save. To switch between the snapshot and normal version, you can find a new dropdown menu next to the “Play” button. Back up your world first or run the game on in a different folder (In the “launch options” page).

Please report any and all bugs you find in Minecraft to bugs.mojang.com.

Snapshots can corrupt your world, please backup and/or run them in a different folder from your main worlds. 1.13 will have a lot of experimental snapshots that may break everything and smell funny. This may be one of those snapshots. This is what happens when Mojang are changing all the things! 

Share your thoughts on how 1.13 is shaping up in the comments below!

We’re getting ready to do pre-releases soon and we’re working hard to fix bugs.

A full changelog for the Snapshot can be found on Minecraft.net.

Note from ProfMobius via reddit:

If you can hold until tomorrow, 18w19b will be able to open all the worlds without wiping them. Sorry for the stress generated.

• Due to changes in world generation, worlds from previous snapshots will no longer work
• All undead mobs now sink
• Skeleton Horses are rideable underwater
• Updated biomes to have new fancy names
• Seagrass now generates in underwater caves
• New sounds for Conduit and Beacon
• Phantoms are now extra flappy
• Improved the upgrade paths from old versions
• You can now copy the output of the /seed command
• Updated the credits list
• Maybe some other stuff?
• Fixed a couple of bugs

FIXED BUGS IN 18W19A

• MC-7908 – Spawning underwater / In the middle of an (lava) ocean
• MC-86016 – Some Mojang staff not mentioned in credits.txt
• MC-121285 – Crash on start when resolution is changed in profile
• MC-121636 – Server commands available in singleplayer with weird/bad effects
• MC-121661 – Typing /help + unavailable command returns “unexpected error” message
• [MC-……….] – 96 more bugs 

To get snapshots, open your launcher and go to the “launch options” tab. Check the box saying “Enable snapshots” and save. To switch between the snapshot and normal version, you can find a new dropdown menu next to the “Play” button. Back up your world first or run the game on in a different folder (In the “launch options” page).

Please report any and all bugs you find in Minecraft to bugs.mojang.com.

Snapshots can corrupt your world, please backup and/or run them in a different folder from your main worlds. 1.13 will have a lot of experimental snapshots that may break everything and smell funny. This may be one of those snapshots. This is what happens when Mojang are changing all the things! 

Share your thoughts on how 1.13 is shaping up in the comments below!

We’re very close to feature complete, and have now started focusing more on bug fixing & polishing!

A full changelog for the Snapshot can be found on Minecraft.net.

• New custom world type: Buffet
• Coral fans now generate naturally
• Drowned can sometimes be found inside ruins
• Turtle helmet will no longer give you particle effects
• Turtle helmet will no longer make you absolutely completely 100% invulnerable
• Blue ice is now ever-so-slightly less slippery than before. Still pretty slippery!
• When water spreads and would later turn into a source block, it now immediately just places a source block
• We changed how we calculate the temperature of ocean biomes, which should result in nicer transitions between oceans
• Mining coral blocks now requires silk touch
• Changed particle effect from the Conduit
• Optimized spawn position finding code
• Technical: there’s now a distinction between scheduled “liquid ticks” and “block ticks”
• Technical: there’s new block & item tags for coral
• Lots of bug fixes!

BUFFET WORLDS

All you can pick!

• As a popular request, we readded a way to play with single biome worlds
• You can check it out when creating a new world by selecting Buffet World as a world type
• As a side bonus, we also threw in another way to generate chunks in there
• Keep an eye on this screen, there might be more things on their way!
• (it’s pretty crazy)

FIXED BUGS IN 18W16A

• MC-18903 – Villagers’/ Witchs’ right arm doesn’t have the texture flipped. (Like zombies/giants/players/zombie pigmen/zombie villagers/Illagers’ does.)
• MC-83064 – Accumulated fall damage is not reset when levitation starts
• [               ] – x25 more bugs fixed

To get snapshots, open your launcher and go to the “launch options” tab. Check the box saying “Enable snapshots” and save. To switch between the snapshot and normal version, you can find a new dropdown menu next to the “Play” button. Back up your world first or run the game on in a different folder (In the “launch options” page).

Please report any and all bugs you find in Minecraft to bugs.mojang.com.

Snapshots can corrupt your world, please backup and/or run them in a different folder from your main worlds. 1.13 will have a lot of experimental snapshots that may break everything and smell funny. This may be one of those snapshots. This is what happens when Mojang are changing all the things! 

Share your thoughts on how 1.13 is shaping up in the comments below!

You’ve already seen the header image. Do we even need to say anything else?

A full changelog for the Snapshot can be found on Minecraft.net.

• New entity: Dolphins
• New block: Conduit
• New block: Blue Ice
• New item: Heart of the Sea
• New item: Nautilus Shell
• Icebergs now generate in frozen oceans
• You no longer have “night vision” effect underwater
• Water now has different colours based on the biome
• New video option: Biome blend distance
• Going in and out of swimming should now feel smoother
• You can now swim through 1×1 holes! Again!
• Fog colour underwater now changes much smoother between biomes
• Optimized fog rendering
• Light now goes much further through liquid blocks

DOLPHINS

It’s happening!

• Spawns in any ocean that isn’t frozen
• They’re just cute, okay?
• Dolphins are very playful and love floating items
• They also love to chase after boats
• If you upset one, you upset them all
• More behaviours coming soon

Blubb blubb blubb blubb

• Water now only blocks 1 light per block, instead of 3
• This only affects newly placed water – we will relight all chunks in an upcoming snapshot
• Every ocean biome has a unique water colour, and swamps are icky and gross
• In newly generated chunks, you’re less likely to find frozen ocean next to warm ocean (and similar)

CONDUIT

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• ????
• I’m not sure.
• What is this?
• Where are we?

To get snapshots, open your launcher and go to the “launch options” tab. Check the box saying “Enable snapshots” and save. To switch between the snapshot and normal version, you can find a new dropdown menu next to the “Play” button. Back up your world first or run the game on in a different folder (In the “launch options” page).

Please report any and all bugs you find in Minecraft to bugs.mojang.com.

Snapshots can corrupt your world, please backup and/or run them in a different folder from your main worlds. 1.13 will have a lot of experimental snapshots that may break everything and smell funny. This may be one of those snapshots. This is what happens when Mojang are changing all the things! 

Share your thoughts on how 1.13 is shaping up in the comments below!

Happy snapshot day everybody! We’ve mostly recovered from GDC and are now back to work, full steam ahead!

A full changelog for the Snapshot can be found on Minecraft.net.

• New item: Phantom Membrane
• New potion: Potion of Slow Falling
• Added 4 new advancements
• New Kelp textures
• Changed generation rules for kelp and seagrass
• New Riptide behaviours for tridents
• Optimized cloud rendering some more

PHANTOM MEMBRANE

Very spooky.

• Elytra now requires Phantom Membrane to be repaired
• Phantoms now drop Phantom Membrane instead of leather
• Can be crafted into a super spooky Slow Falling potion

ADVANCEMENTS

We’re making progress!

• Fishy Business: Catch a fish
• Tactical fishing: Catch a fish… without a fishing rod!
• A Throwaway Joke: Throw a trident at something. Note: throwing away your only weapon is not a good idea.
• Very Very Frightening: Strike a Villager with lightning
• More to come!

RIPTIDE

Whooosh!

• No longer compatible with Loyalty or Channeling
• If riptide won’t work (such as being on land, nice and dry) you can’t attack with the trident at all
• Riptide will not throw the trident, but instead launch you forwards with the trident
• Looks neat!

To get snapshots, open your launcher and go to the “launch options” tab. Check the box saying “Enable snapshots” and save. To switch between the snapshot and normal version, you can find a new dropdown menu next to the “Play” button. Back up your world first or run the game on in a different folder (In the “launch options” page).

Please report any and all bugs you find in Minecraft to bugs.mojang.com.

Snapshots can corrupt your world, please backup and/or run them in a different folder from your main worlds. 1.13 will have a lot of experimental snapshots that may break everything and smell funny. This may be one of those snapshots. This is what happens when Mojang are changing all the things! 

Share your thoughts on how 1.13 is shaping up in the comments below!

It’s a super sneaky snapshot day! The Minecraft Java team is travelling to GDC soon, so this will be the last snapshot for a couple of weeks.

A full changelog for the Snapshot can be found on Minecraft.net.

• Added shipwrecks!
• Added a new hostile mob: The Drowned!
• Added coral fans!
• Added F3+C to copy your current location to clipboard

CORAL FANS

We were big fans of coral, so we couldn’t resist.

• Doesn’t spawn naturally yet
• You can place it on the side of coral!

DROWNED

They’re called “drowned” for a reason!

• Spawn in all oceans! And rivers too!
• Zombies will also become drowned after, well, drowning
• Drowned can spawn with tridents, allowing you to get them in survival
• Their loot isn’t final – there’s a super secret item coming soon
• They can swim but they prefer to walk
• Gurgle.
• All drowned have a melee attack, and ones with tridents have a ranged attack
• Like zombies, drowned don’t really like turtles that much

SHIPWRECKS

• Can be found in oceans and beaches
• Has 3 different type of loot depending on the ship!
• May spawn with some air pockets, that’s a known bug. Sorry!

To get snapshots, open your launcher and go to the “launch options” tab. Check the box saying “Enable snapshots” and save. To switch between the snapshot and normal version, you can find a new dropdown menu next to the “Play” button. Back up your world first or run the game on in a different folder (In the “launch options” page).

Please report any and all bugs you find in Minecraft to bugs.mojang.com.

Snapshots can corrupt your world, please backup and/or run them in a different folder from your main worlds. 1.13 will have a lot of experimental snapshots that may break everything and smell funny. This may be one of those snapshots. This is what happens when Mojang are changing all the things! 

Share your thoughts on how 1.13 is shaping up in the comments below!

Minecraft News

• A bumper week for Minecraft 1.13 snapshots, the Update Aquatic is shaping up to be one of the best Minecraft updates yet! The first snapshot this week, 18W10A, brought with it buried treasure, tropical fish, underwater ambience, coral plants and many changes to Phantom behaviour…
• A day later we received 18W10B, bringing dead coral variants, more underwater ambience, tropical fish sounds and a non-dyed shulker box to the game…
• Then, we received 18W10C, with new water physics, and undead-Phantoms…
• And finally, 18W10D, with naturally generating coral, big optimization to how clouds are rendered, more improvements to water and Phantoms now burn in sunlight.
• You can learn more about these snapshots in the Minecraft.net news post.
• Players of Minecraft on other platforms need not feel left out, Minecraft Developer Jason Major shared previews of their work on bringing the Update Aquatic to the Bedrock edition of the game. Take a peek at Tridents, Swimming, Kelp and Fish.
• Jasper is working on the Emerald texture again and wants your feedback, take a look here on Twitter.
• Minecraft Developer Tommaso Checchi shares exciting information about the latest Bedrock beta, “So basically, in this beta Bedrock can finally have more than 256 block types. And also, it should use a whole lot less memory
  It’s a huge change, so report crashes!”.

Curse News

Every day is a snapshot day if you try hard enough. We’re travelling to GDC soon so we’re going to try to push out as many snapshots this week as we can.

A full changelog for the Snapshot can be found on Minecraft.net.

• Added buried treasure
• Added tropical fish
• Added underwater ambience sounds
• Added ability to put markers on maps
• Added coral plants
• Changed phantom model and texture
• Changes to phantom behaviour
• Changed coral texture
• Underwater visibility now changes per biome

BURIED TREASURE

We found this cool stuff! Let’s hide it.

• Can be found… somewhere?
• Maps found in Underwater Ruins can lead you to them
• Will contain a very cool treasure… which isn’t added yet

TROPICAL FISH

We found nemo! And all his friends!

• They come in many colours!
• They come in many patterns!
• Like other fish, you can catch them up in a bucket
• You can find them in warm and lukewarm oceans

MAP MARKERS

You are here. Or there. I’m not sure, it’s somewhere here.

• Right click on a banner with a map to add it to the map
• Right click on the same banner again to remove it
• That map will show the colour of the banner at that spot
• Named banners will show their name on the map too
• If a banner is destroyed, it’ll disappear when you get close and are holding the map

PHANTOM

“Less derpy” – Jeb

• Now despawn during the day
• No longer spawn in The End
• They have a new model! And texture! Pretty neat.

To get snapshots, open your launcher and go to the “launch options” tab. Check the box saying “Enable snapshots” and save. To switch between the snapshot and normal version, you can find a new dropdown menu next to the “Play” button. Back up your world first or run the game on in a different folder (In the “launch options” page).

Please report any and all bugs you find in Minecraft to bugs.mojang.com.

Snapshots can corrupt your world, please backup and/or run them in a different folder from your main worlds. 1.13 will have a lot of experimental snapshots that may break everything and smell funny. This may be one of those snapshots. This is what happens when Mojang are changing all the things! 

Share your thoughts on how 1.13 is shaping up in the comments below!