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
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Changes

 * Technical
 * Servers can now customize network compression in
 * Enchantments and effects now accept named IDs as well as of numerical IDs
 * Added an option to disable (weighted) alternate block models
 * When turned off, the least complex highest priority model will always be used for each block
 * Chunks now use block states instead of metadata
 * Improved performance with rendering

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