Java Edition 19w44a

19w44a is the eleventh snapshot for Java Edition 1.15, released on October 30, 2019. It makes honey bottles stackable and adds improvements for iron golems, chunks, and certain particles.

General

 * Tags
 * Added the block tag.

Items

 * Honey bottles
 * Combining four glass bottles with one honey block in a crafting table now returns four honey bottles.
 * Are now stackable (up to 16).

Mobs

 * Iron golems
 * Iron golem's damage progress is now based on the ratio of current health to max health.


 * Parrots
 * No longer imitate wolves, polar bears and zombie pigmen.

General

 * Chunks
 * Improved performance of chunk saving.


 * Recipe book
 * Many recipes changed to only require one material instead of nine to unlock.
 * The recipes affected are packed ice, blue ice, bone block, block of coal, block of diamond, block of emerald, block of gold, gold ingot, block of iron, iron ingot, lapis lazuli block, block of redstone, slime block, dried kelp block, and hay bale.
 * Many recipes for items that are crafted by placing one of the above blocks in a crafting table no longer unlock when the player has nine of the material.
 * The recipes affected are bone meal, coal, diamond, emerald, gold ingot, gold nugget, iron ingot, iron nugget, lapis lazuli, redstone dust, slime ball, dried kelp, and wheat.


 * Particles
 * Vertically moving particles are performing better when they collide with blocks.

Video
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