1.8.1[1] is an upcoming update to Minecraft with no set release date.
Additions
- Gamerules
doEntityDrops - Works like doTileDrops but applies to entities instead.
Changes
- Credits
- Ryan Holtz (TheMogMiner) and Michael Stoyke (Searge) are now mentioned in the credits
- Gamerules
doTileDrops no longer affects entities
- Jack o'Lanterns
- Maps
- Mobs
- No longer run from creepers
- Performance
- Various improvements
- Many optimizations
- Potion of Leaping
- Witch huts
- Newly generated witch huts can spawn witches on Y 64 to 71
- This allows for three spawning floors in witch farms
- Options
- Renamed "Multiplayer Settings" to "Chat Settings" from 1.5.x and lower
- Off/fancy/fast clouds
- Off/on entity shadows
- Fast/fancy now only controls leaves and rain particles
- Dropped items
- On fast graphics, they now rotate
Fixes
- 30 issues fixed
- From the 1.8 development versions
- MC-44474 – Smooth teleportation while falling glitches player back up
- MC-46670 – Withers trapped in a barrier box attacks barriers, killing it
- MC-46809 –
/say Not Showing Villager Entity Data if 'CustomName' Provided
- MC-47987 – Entering a mobs view in spectator mode does not change if world is changed
- MC-48633 – Operation, test and enable doesn't show up as options when typing
/scoreboard players
- MC-53558 – World Generator Crash when creating a custom new world (Different than others)
- MC-53983 – Loading World on New World or loading screen disappears if the window size is changed.
- MC-54575 – Part of Stair becomes invisible when placing a block near it.
- MC-54626 – Chicken jockey falls into solid block when chicken dies
- MC-54929 – Fast Creeper bug (aka Creeper Zurg Rush)
- MC-56268 – Breaking the bedrock below an Ender Crystal (in the End) creates performance drops, rapidly flickering light
- MC-58908 –
/help for /worldborder not updated.
- MC-61610 – Bedrock at Y0 has wood log in it at x0 y0 z0.
- MC-61844 – Creepers target Iron Golems, causing terrain damage without interaction of a player
- MC-64455 – Item with
CanDestroy / CanPlaceOn have missing translations for ALL languages
- MC-64515 – Inconsistency in piston timing
- MC-64598 – Creative search tab text becomes offset.
- MC-65276 – bow when held is upside down
- MC-68880 – Rabbit falls through snow layers and suffocates
- MC-69562 – Can't play LAN whilst offline
References