Java Edition 16w02a

16w02a is the first snapshot released in 2016, and the forty-ninth snapshot released for 1.9.

Options

 * Volume slider labeled "Voice/Speech" under "Music & Sounds"
 * Intended to be used for voice acting in custom maps

Command format

 * Selector argument
 * Supports both negation and literal gamemode values, for example:
 * ,, and


 * Now accepts a sound  as its second parameter
 * Now accepts a sound  as its second parameter

Blocks

 * Bedrock
 * Can no longer drop itself as an item
 * Air
 * Now translatable into other languages, for the purposes of superflat customization
 * Beacons
 * Now immediately activate when placed on valid pyramids
 * Stone buttons
 * Now break faster with pickaxes.
 * Wooden buttons
 * Now break faster with axes.

Items

 * Changed damage/armor values again to protect armored players against "backstabbing" creepers
 * Reduction in effective defense points due to attack strength will no longer take the effective defense below 25% of the armor points.
 * Max (20) armor points damage reduction increased back to 80% (was 66% since 15w36a).
 * Attack cooldown does not have as great an effect on damage: reduction is linear 50%–100% rather than quadratic 0%–100%.

Mobs

 * Ender dragons summoned using will now stay in the same position no matter what
 * Unlike summoning a dragon with, it will still flap its wings
 * These dragons do not show their boss health bar, nor do they take damage from any attack other than
 * Mobs are now knocked back from non-entity damage sources such as cacti.

Non-mob entities

 * Marker  swapped / played at wrong time
 * 1072|No translation for “Air” in the superflat customization.
 * 4040|Jump Sprinting on redstone wire produces greyscale particles
 * 4661|Chickens (And small mobs) cannot path when standing in/next to fences
 * 14722|Social zombies are not affected by.
 * 23952|Bad alignment when using wide Unicode fonts
 * 27912|Hindi: some text is not centered
 * 41542|Displacement of Mipmap Levels slider in Traditional Chinese language pack
 * 44140|Acacia and dark oak stairs do not burn and cannot be lit with flint and steel.
 * 46258|The “ø” Character has an extra pixel.
 * 46690|Items and experience drop upon death in Spectator mode.
 * 60692|The game mode selector  doesn’t work with negation.
 * 73304|Scoreboard  is not registering entities.
 * 74072|Unicode character “Small H with Stroke” (&#295;) is one pixel too high.
 * 74392|Copying written books creates stacks of size 0, and duplicates the original.
 * 76313|Pressing the crouch key while flying will slow you down.
 * 78557|Buttons don’t have a special tool assigned – compare pressure plates.
 * 79604|Explosions do not repel players in Creative mode.
 * 81687|Villagers accept fewer items for the same number of emeralds.
 * 82677| will crash the game.


 * dev
 * 85304|Ender dragons go to X,Y,Z = 0,0,0 when spawned in any type of world.
 * 87894|Creeper explosion damage is disproportionate to armor protection and to damage from other mobs.
 * 88268|Glowing  items have blurry names.
 * 88668|Old hopper minecarts have  and do not gather items.
 * 89592|Death screen death message still shows when  is false.
 * 89917|Using pick block on boats only gives the oak variant.
 * 92208|Summoned  defaults to.
 * 93083|Sound sliders not working with the new sounds
 * 92783|Setting  of a command block to an invalid JSON string causes a crash.
 * 93093|Console spam:
 * 93119|A survival player can obtain the bedrock item.


 * previous
 * 94466|Zombies won’t climb stairs.
 * 94776|Chicken will not follow a player with seeds up stairs.
 * 95129|Zombies don’t want to walk up a block, in some situations.


 * Private issues
 * 59196|Players can tick themselves arbitrarily.

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