1.14, the first release of Village and Pillage,[1] is an upcoming major update to the Java Edition with the possible release date at the beginning of 2019. It will focus mainly on villages, adding a new subset of villagers and redesigning village architecture. This update will also introduce many new stairs and slabs,[2] and update the taiga biome.
Planned additions
Blocks
- Stairs
- Slabs
- Sandstone walls
- Campfires
- Bamboo and bamboo shoots
- Generate in bamboo forests in jungles.
- Scaffolding
- Can be climbed quickly.
- The whole structure breaks when the bottom block is broken.
- Crafted from bamboo.
Items
- Crossbows
- Stronger than bows, but slower to reload.
- Will be able to be enchanted with new enchantments:
- Multi-Shot
- Fires three arrows at once in different directions.
- Fast Reload
- Decreases the reload speed.
- A third secret enchantment that hasn't yet been revealed.[5]
- Multi-Shot
- Can shoot firework rockets holding the crossbow in one hand and the fireworks in the other.
- Can be crafted.
- Bamboo
- Can be eaten by pandas.
- Can be used to craft scaffolding.
- Berries
- Found on berry bushes.
Mobs
- Foxes
- Pillagers
- Pillager beasts
- Pandas
- Spawn in bamboo forests.
- Eat bamboo.
- Have varying personalities and traits.
- Can be lazy, playful, and/or aggressive.
- Their emotions can be read on their faces based on whether they are smiling or not.
- When they have red eyes, they are aggressive when attacked.
- Baby pandas can sneeze, startling the parent.
- Have a rare brown variant.
World generation
- Berry bushes
- Bamboo forests
- New biome variant of jungles.
- Contains bamboo shoots and pandas.
Planned changes
General
- A rewrite of the game's rendering engine.[6]
Mobs
- Villagers
- Cats and Ocelots
- Cats and ocelots are being split into two separate mobs.
- Cats are now able to spawn as strays in villages.
- Have 9 new skins, one being chosen by the community.
- Will bring the player "gifts".
- Scare off phantoms.
- Cats and ocelots are being split into two separate mobs.
World generation
Unconfirmed features
These features were mentioned during the development of 1.14 or during MINECON Earth 2018, but have not been confirmed to be added in this update.
- Brown mooshrooms
Planned fixes
- 4 issues fixed
- From released versions before Java Edition 1.14
- MC-1578 – Cannot move backwards in Books/Signs while writing / Cannot copy anything from the book.
- MC-4686 – Client movement when teleported.
- MC-88097 – Snow blocks receive (useless) random updates and can get destroyed when there is a light glitch.
- MC-124395 – Beacon block entity contains code for custom names, despite not storing it to NBT and the beacon GUI not having one.
Gallery
MINECON Earth 2018
The new cat skins.
New villager types.
New jungle biome villager types.
New taiga biome villager types.
A possible shepherd's house in a desert village.
- Plains village with markey stall.png
Plains village with a market stall.
References
- ↑ https://youtu.be/HoMDyRqMNMA&t=10m03s
- ↑ "I can't tell you the theme but unrelated to that it'll have lots and lots of new slabs/stairs/etc. We don't have nearly enough." – @Dinnerbone (Nathan Adams) on X, April 17, 2018
- ↑ a b "We've gone through all the blocks in the game and after adding the slabs/etc we want, there's probably going to be about 40 new blocks. Stone stairs is one of them!" – @Dinnerbone (Nathan Adams) on X, October 6, 2018
- ↑ a b "There will be the polished ones as well... and more!" – @_LadyAgnes (Agnes Larsson) on X, October 8, 2018
- ↑ "Everything we announced at Minecon Earth 2018" – Minecraft.net, September 30, 2018
- ↑ "Programmers: Play With Minecraft's Inner Workings!" – Minecraft.net, October 6, 2018














