14w30a

14w30a

Type	Snapshot
Release date	July 23, 2014
Snapshot for	1.8
Download	Client (.json) Server
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This article is about the computer edition. For other editions, see Version history (disambiguation).

14w30a is the thirty-eighth snapshot for 1.8.

Additions

• Banners
  • Can be worn as head gear - but only using commands
  • Over 16*400⁶ possible combinations = 6.5536x10¹⁶
  • Crafted like a sign, just with one color of wool instead of planks
  • Can be stacked to 16
  • Most patterns are created by arranging dyes in certain ways around a banner on a crafting table
    • The dyes cannot be shifted or flipped even if there is space, known as a fixed recipe.
  • Additional patterns: creeper, skull & crossbones, brick, and flower - making these without dyes will result in a black pattern, use dyes to get different colors (items: creeper skull, wither skeleton skull, brick block, oxeye daisy)
  • 33 crafting recipes which produce different patterns
  • Up to 6 layers of patterns possible
  • Can be placed on walls or on the ground (16 rotations possible)
  • Sway as if blown by wind
  • Can be cloned by crafting them together with a blank banner
  • Top-most layer can be removed using cauldrons
• NBT tags
  • New Silent tag for entities
    • Setting to 1 disables sound produced by that entity, such as idle and hurt sounds.
• Statistics
  • stat.talkedToVillager
    • Detects how many times the player has talked to villagers (opened the trading GUI)
  • stat.tradedWithVillager
    • Detects how many times the player has traded with villagers

Changes

• Commands
  • /summon
    • /summon command can now summon lightning using /summon LightningBolt
• Mob Heads
  • Made creeper, skeleton and zombie heads available in survival
  • Creepers, skeletons, wither skeletons, and zombies drop their heads when killed by charged creepers. Wither skeletons continue to have heads as rare drops.
  • Skulls worn on heads are now bigger so the 2nd skin layer no longer peeks through
  • Player and mob heads in inventories and held by mobs/players now display the actual head
• Video Settings
  • Render distance slider now goes up to 32 when using 64-bit Java
    • Requires 2 GB of allocated RAM
  • Removed Advanced OpenGL
• Performance improvements
  • Rewrote chunk sorting
  • Ported over the visibility culling code from MCPE to avoid rendering invisible stuff
  • Threaded chunk rebuilds
• Lighting
  • Completely fixed black spots
  • You will need to re-load old worlds for them to be fixed
• F3 debug screen
  • Now displays how many chunk sections are being rendered currently and how many chunk sections are out of view in percent, the OpenGL version, display size, vendor and GPU
  • "Vanilla" added to the version number. e.g., "Minecraft 14w30b (14w30b/Vanilla)"
    • Presumably this will say something different if modded. Very few mods (or even APIs) currently exist for versions this recent.
• F3+H tooltips now show how many NBT tags an item has
• Block names no longer contain blockstate data in brackets next to their name (in the view of a block's name and data along the right side of the screen)
  • Data is still shown in separate rows beneath the name

Fixes

32 bugs fixed

From released versions before 1.8

• MC-7508 – Lighting error due to Chunk.heightMap ignoring block at the top level of an ExtendedBlockStorage instance (off by 1 error)
• MC-30568 – /summon command can't summon lightning
• MC-32514 – The well in a desert village is made out of the wrong material / cobblestone
• MC-58823 – options.txt has advancedOpengl:true also for graphic cards without Advanced OpenGL in video settings

From the 1.8 snapshots

• MC-46225 – Falling sand can replace pistons, destroying them
• MC-56897 – Chunks don't render
• MC-57895 – Stairs are backwards in the creative inventory and hotbar
• MC-58790 – Sign with /give / /replaceitem doesn't update player inventory
• MC-59259 – Breaking block below tall plants causes them to drop two items
• MC-59979 – Bug in the F3 menu
• MC-60301 – Broken resource packs: game crashes when I try to load 14w27a/b
• MC-60552 – Flower pots with metadata placed in 1.7 will not render in 1.8 snapshots / metadata not removed
• MC-61191 – Sandstone stairs bug in desert villages
• MC-62127 – Turning off VSync crashes the game
• MC-62138 – "#PLAYER" appears on sidebar
• MC-62180 – /testfor @p doesn't consider x, y, z anymore
• MC-62493 – "/worldborder get" can display invalid size using "/worldborder add"
• MC-62655 – Cubic player selector always finds player if there are more than 31 entities around

From the previous snapshot

• MC-62170 – Carpet has incorrect height
• MC-62223 – Crash in Video Settings menu
• MC-62240 – Command selector parameters dx, dy and dz don't work
• MC-62267 – Game crashes when trying to enable VSync
• MC-62342 – Slabs can not be placed in adventure mode with tag CanPlaceOn
• MC-62349 – Hopper: java.lang.NullPointerException: Saving entity NBT
• MC-62379 – Spawners (dungeons, strongholds, etc...) can spawn mobs outside of worldborder
• MC-62419 – Hopper: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Cannot get property bcy{name=half, clazz=class ats, values=[upper, lower]} as it does not exist in bch{block=minec
• MC-62499 – /replaceitem block has incorrect syntax
• MC-62504 – /kill adds 214748364 / 0xCCCCCCC to "Damage Taken" statistics
• MC-62507 – Overlapping dungeons don't spawn correctly
• MC-62558 – Rendering empty chunks/cubes in 14w29b (or number of rendered chunks on debug screen (C) is wrong)
• MC-62736 – /replaceitem command not updated when the command was executed with a sign
• MC-62789 – Chunks containing paintings may be wiped and regenerated upon load