Java Edition 14w30c

14w30c is the fortieth snapshot for 1.8, and was released to fix some of the bugs and crashes in the 14w30a and 14w30b snapshots.

This version was previously removed from the launcher for some time, but was added back in September 2018.

Changes

 * Banners
 * Now have some new patterns
 * 'Cross' which puts a cross on the banner (slightly thinner than when using stripes)
 * 'Border' which adds a border to the banner (again thinner than when using stripes)
 * 'Curly border' which adds a more decorative border
 * 'Mojang logo' which adds the Mojang logo
 * Lighting
 * Some black spots will now occur
 * The black spots bug-fix was responsible for, which was causing trees in certain biomes to not generate.

Fixes
60 bugs fixed

From released version before 1.8
 * – Pick block item duplication
 * – producing true comparator signal with invalid parameters
 * – Carpet and layered snow blocks not properly visible in hand
 * – " " and " " track # of hits vs # of hp damage
 * – ladder creates transparent block instead
 * – Thunderstorms light level is still as bright as normal rainstorms
 * – One block has no backface culling whilst others do
 * – Wrong texture of a bottle
 * – Excessive client-side chunk ticking 1.7.4+
 * – Trapdoor locks in position
 * – Villagers walk normally around when farming, but speed around when not.
 * – Words in chat do not wrap correctly and do not make a new line
 * – Realms join from other location - bug
 * – Creeper vs potato crop

From the 1.8 snapshots
 * – Villagers don't farm crops [Multiplayer]
 * – Server crash when pushing villager through nether portal
 * – Ice Spikes: floating towers
 * –  with items such as wheat seeds
 * – Villagers walk normally when farming, but speed around when not
 * – Player skulls with  do not use UUIDs; can break after name-changes
 * – Given Item adding to
 * – Certain Items are rotated 90° / 180° in hand and in hotbar / inventory / item frames
 * – The beacon light/laser is bugged
 * – Performance drop after about 20-30min gameplay
 * – Selectors on commands run by are not run as if by 's target
 * – Sea level problems, customized world
 * – The new   feature fails on failing selectors
 * – Wheat sprouts revert to seed at low light block levels at night
 * – Any block in any empty chunk section (16x16x16) is invisible on some graphics cards
 * – Broken sunflower model (upper block part of stem missing)
 * – Multiplayer: entity rendering weird while using player heads / spawned mobs with player heads
 * – In mode the variant of Dark Oak planks says
 * – Horrendous GC activity
 * – When you look down, the textures glitch out
 * – Glass pane texture
 * – Texture of dark acacia and dark oak leaves are missing when you break them with a tool with silk touch
 * – Water rendering oddly
 * – Debug start, crashes the server
 * – 4x4 resourcepacks cause screen flicker
 * – Sun / moon / stars disappear when looking at them with render distance < 7
 * – Crash "Tesselating block model"
 * – Skin on player head doesn't show unless put in the helmet slot or placed down
 * – Some trees are not / rarely / improperly generating in certain biomes
 * – When having a mob head in the hot bar / inventory / UI, transparent blocks change texture in the hot bar / inventory / UI
 * – Crash when press F3+A
 * – Player head bugs (2.0)
 * – Launcher treats crash report as modded / bottom part of crash report missing
 * – Terrain behaves very strangely near world edge

From the previous snapshot
 * –  not listed when using  on
 * – Another crash in 14w30b
 * – Crash "Tesselating block model"
 * – Throwing an Eye of Ender outside of the Worldborder crashes the game
 * – Texture flickering
 * – When rendering chunks, game crashes when loading ocean
 * – Minecraft started crashing every 15 minutes or so repeatedly
 * – Lightning tesselating block model crash
 * – Client crashing every 1-2 minutes
 * – I could not report it by launcher (my game crashed)
 * – I could not report it by launcher (my game crashed)