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"

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

Items

 * Changed damage/armor values again to protect armored players against "backstabbing" creepers

Entities

 * Marker, it will still flap its wings

Commands

 * 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