Java Edition 15w33a

15w33a is the seventh snapshot released for Java Edition 1.9.

Items

 * Dragon's breath
 * Found in the brewery section of the creative inventory.
 * Can be used to brew lingering potions by brewing it with a splash potion.
 * Can be obtained by right clicking with a glass bottle while the dragon breathes the homonymous attack.
 * Stacks to 64.


 * Lingering potion
 * Thrown like a splash potion.
 * Leaves a patch of the potion particle effect.
 * Entities that walk into it get the effect.
 * Has all the potion types, and works with potions whose effect are instant, like harming.
 * Brewed with dragon's breath and the corresponding splash potion.
 * The cloud duration can be controlled through a data tag.
 * Doesn't stack, like other potions.

Command format

 * NBT tags
 * Added entity  (ID 3), child of.
 * Added tags,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  , and   to.
 * Added  to.
 * Added  to.


 * Scoreboard
 * New objective types: armor and level.
 * "armor" tracks the armor bar, that indicates the total protection from all currently worn armor pieces.
 * "level" tracks the level of the player which is the number above the experience bar and not the amount of xp points.

General

 * Statistics
 * Per-item statistics for number dropped and number picked up.
 * and.


 * Splashes
 * Added "More Digital!"

Blocks

 * Command block
 * The character limit is now 32500 instead of 32767


 * End gateway block
 * Changed texture to be both angle and face independent.
 * The footprint of the visible faces, will always display the same texture without deforming due to perspective.
 * Therefore any edges of the block that are not part of the footprint will be invisible.
 * Changed the beam texture to be unique.

Items

 * Potions
 * Extended potion of poison, potion of poison II, and extended potion of regeneration had their duration reduced.
 * Potion of strength changed from 130% bonus to damage to of bonus damage (from relative to absolute).
 * Potion of weakness changed from 0.5 ( × $1/4$) reduction to damage to.
 * Throwable potions now behave like other projectiles when used in dispensers.
 * They travel a much greater distance.


 * Spawn eggs
 * Can no longer address spawn eggs by numeric data id, like:.
 * The spawnable item from a spawn egg is now addressed by a datatag:.

Mobs

 * General
 * The  Float tag has been renamed to.
 * As a result, the original  tag is now a Float type rather than Short.


 * Ender dragon
 * Now shoots the previously added ender acid entities.
 * A fire charge like projectile.
 * On impact it spawns dragon breath and lights the ground on fire.
 * The dragon breath acts like a lingering potion, creating a special entity cloud.
 * Players in the cloud will get damaged.
 * Arrows get deflected and set on fire while the dragon is on top of the portal.

Command format

 * NBT tags
 * can be used to obtain the number of scoreboard tags an entity has via.
 * Example: will return the number of "scoreboard tags" applied to the target.
 * If the target previously had 3 tags added, a score of "3" is returned.
 * Removed  from  . It is now only applied to   only, child of.
 * under  has become deprecated.
 * under  has changed from type "Short" to "Float".
 * renamed to  for   entity.
 * removed from  and   entity, its usage replaced by   and   which were added earlier.

General

 * Pick block
 * In Survival, pick block now works on items outside of the hotbar but inside the player's inventory.
 * In Creative, using pick block normally will give the player a new one instead of existing ones with NBT.
 * + no longer replaces items.
 * Existing items are put into the inventory instead of being deleted.


 * Tooltips
 * Now show absolute damage instead of damage increase

Video
Video made by slicedlime:

Trivia

 * 15w33a was previously removed from the launcher for some time, but was added back in September 2018.