Java Edition 1.13.1

1.13.1 is a minor update that was released on August 22, 2018.

Additions

 * Blocks
 * Re-added punch-to-explode TNT using the  state (instead of the   state before 17w47a)
 * Added dead coral.
 * Dead variants of regular corals.
 * Can be placed on top of blocks.


 * Entities
 * Fish now have a 5% chance of dropping bone meal when killed.


 * Items
 * Bone meal used underwater in warm ocean biomes now has a chance to grow corals and coral fans.
 * Added tooltips to bucket of tropical fish.


 * Gameplay
 * New statistics:
 * Damage Dealt (Absorbed) –
 * Damage Dealt (Resisted) –
 * Damage Blocked By Shield –
 * Damage Absorbed –
 * Damage Resisted –
 * Shulker Box Cleaned –


 * General
 * Added to force a JVM crash, instead of a regular crash. However, with some keyboards it only triggers with right control.
 * Added a search bar to the world list.
 * Added a concept of force-loaded chunks to the game, and a command to toggle force-loading on and off.
 * Added the block tag.

Changes

 * Blocks
 * Conduits are now properly waterlogged.
 * Coral
 * Can now be placed in air.
 * Unless adjacent to water or waterlogged blocks, they will turn into dead coral after a short moment.
 * Purpur stairs and purpur slabs
 * Can now be crafted using purpur pillars.


 * Entities
 * Squids now spawn only in rivers, oceans, or beaches.


 * Functions
 * Line numbers in function parse error logs now start with 1 (was 0).


 * Command format
 * The scoreboard operator  was changed from using Java's native   to using  . This causes the operator to use floored modulo instead of truncated modulo, so now   wraps to 6 instead of returning -1.


 * General
 * Performance has been optimized.
 * Improved the performance of liquids.
 * Improved the performance of flowing liquids.
 * Improved the performance of rendering chunks.
 * Improved the performance of spawning mobs.

Trivia

 * 1.13.1 has five snapshots, from 18w30a to 18w33a, making it have the second most snapshots among all minor updates, behind 1.7.4, which has 8.

Video
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