Java Edition 14w30a

14w30a is the thirty-eighth snapshot for 1.8.

Additions

 * Banners
 * Can have many different textures
 * Green, Blue, Red, Yellow, Grey, Creeper face, etc...
 * Supports up to 400^6 patterns
 * Can have different orientations
 * Can be placed against walls like signs
 * Have a brief animation as if swaying in the wind
 * Pattern can be copied onto another banner of the same base color by crafting
 * Stack up to 16

Changes

 * Commands
 * command can now summon lightning using
 * Mob Heads
 * Made Creeper, Skeleton and Zombie Heads available in survival
 * They drop when killed by powered creeper
 * Mob head items are now 3D and show the skin of the player if it is a custom mob head
 * Video Settings
 * Render distance slider now goes up to 32 when using 64-bit Java
 * Removed Advanced OpenGL
 * Optimizations
 * Significant increase in FPS and performance
 * Stability in the smoothness of FPS
 * Chunks load a lot faster
 * Lighting
 * Completely fixed black spots
 * You will need to re-load old worlds for them to be fixed
 * F3 debug screen
 * Has extra information on the right hand side about your OpenGL and display
 * Shows a lot more values for game performance and the FPS value was moved
 * "Vanilla" added to the version number. eg: "Minecraft 14w30b (14w30b/Vanilla)"
 * Presumably this will say something different if modded. No mods (or even APIs) currently exist for versions this recent.
 * Presumably this will say something different if modded. No mods (or even APIs) currently exist for versions this recent.

Fixes
From released versions before 1.8
 * – Flight can be faster than chunk load
 * – Lighting error due to  ignoring block at the top level of an   instance (off by 1 error)
 * – 1.7 lighting bug / black spots
 * – command can't summon lightning
 * – The well in a desert village is made out of the wrong material / cobblestone
 * –  has   also for graphic cards without Advanced OpenGL in video settings

From the 1.8 snapshots
 * – Falling sand can replace pistons, destroying them
 * – Sign with /  doesn't update player inventory
 * – Bug in the menu
 * – Broken resource packs: game crashes when I try to load 14w27a/b
 * – Flower pots with metadata placed in 1.7 will not render in 1.8 snapshots / metadata not removed
 * – Turning off VSync crashes the game
 * – "#PLAYER" appears on sidebar
 * – doesn't consider x, y, z anymore
 * – Breaking / placing / changing blocks has a delay to disappear / appear
 * – "" can display invalid size using ""
 * – Cubic player selector always finds player if there are more than 31 entities around

From the previous snapshot


 * – Carpet has incorrect height
 * – Breaking / placing / changing blocks has a delay to disappear / appear
 * – Carpet has incorrect height?
 * – Crash in Video Settings menu
 * – Command selector parameters,   and   don't work
 * – Game crashes when trying to enable VSync
 * – Slabs can not be placed in adventure mode with tag
 * – Spawners (dungeons, strongholds, etc...) can spawn mobs outside of worldborder
 * – has incorrect syntax
 * – adds 214748364 / 0xCCCCCCC to "Damage Taken" statistics
 * – Overlapping dungeons don't spawn correctly
 * – Rendering empty chunks/cubes in 14w29b (or number of rendered chunks on debug screen (C) is wrong)
 * – command not updated when the command was executed with a sign
 * – Chunks containing paintings may be wiped and regenerated upon load
 * – command not updated when the command was executed with a sign
 * – Chunks containing paintings may be wiped and regenerated upon load