Java Edition 14w28a

14w28a is the thirty-fourth snapshot released for 1.8.

Additions

 * Commands
 * command
 * Usage:
 * Alternative way of interacting with
 * Alternative way of interacting with
 * Alternative way of interacting with

Changes

 * Servers
 * Servers can now customize network compression in
 * Enchantments & Effects
 * Enchantments and effects now accept named IDs as well as of numerical IDs
 * Video Settings
 * Alternative Block option to toggle alternative block models
 * Useful for resource packs
 * Block States
 * All use of metadata in chunks is now converted to use block states instead
 * Many optimizations to both the server (including singleplayer) and the client

Fixes
From released versions before 1.8


 * – TNT Flashing Graphic when lit looks cut up and faded. / Z-fighting
 * – Heads, beds, and doors can't be placed where there is thin snow
 * – Rain goes through upside-down stairs
 * – Horse's jump bar appears even when the horse isn't saddled yet
 * – Text Color in Hopper and Brewing Stand GUI changes
 * – Iron golems can see and attack invisible hostile mobs
 * – If you sleep in a bed near a transparent block, you can get in the block
 * – New fragmented sentences in translation
 * – Normal players can use player selectors
 * – Horses do not convert their owner to UUID
 * – Spawning Cows on Mooshrooms

From the 1.8 snapshots


 * – Tools cant break Packed Ice faster
 * – Mobs not being targeted by team selector
 * –  with   changes the sign color
 * – "" executed when weather is clear sets the weather to thunder
 * – Negative Color Crosshair when using resource pack
 * – Smooth & Chiseled Sandstone & Chiseled Quartz has Incorrect Bottom Texture
 * – Double slabs become seamless
 * – Server logging broken

From the previous snapshot


 * – Blacksmith roof slabs oriented wrong
 * – Pistons retract on placement as if they were powered
 * – Fence Gates Placed Open
 * – Redstone repeaters are inverted
 * – Powered rail, detector rail, and activator rail are flipped when on an east/west slope
 * – iron door and wood door
 * – command blocks don't trigger when dispensed onto a redstone block
 * – Pumpkin / Melon Seeds fully grown when planted
 * – Command blocks not redstone updating when placed
 * – TNT spawns ignited on Desert Temples
 * – When placing fire on side of tnt it only renders on the side
 * – Pumpkin stem with wrong texture