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Template:1.9, known as The Combat Update,[1] is an upcoming update to Minecraft with no set release date. Dinnerbone has stated that many of the features he has shown for 1.9 are not “100% final”, so things may change later.[2]

Additions

Gameplay

Dominant hand option
  • An option for players to change their dominant hand on their player model
Dual wielding
  • Only the main hand can be used for attacking
  • Bows can be used even when something is in the other hand
  • The other hand is invisible in first person view when not holding something
  • Key to swap items between hands, which is F by default
    • For example, if you have a pickaxe in your main hand and a torch in your other hand, right click places the torch* The off-hand slot is displayed next to the hotbar, on the off-hand side (left for right-hand players and vice versa)
  • Some attributes and enchantments will apply to the off-hand item, while others will not.
Status effects
Levitation status effect
  • Recieved when player is hit by shulker projectiles
  • Makes player involuntarily float high into the air
    • Can be used to get to higher places
  • Listed as a negative effect due to the potential to kill from fall damage
Spectral status effect
  • Recieved when players or mobs are hit by spectral arrows
  • Makes player's outline glow, seen even through non-transparent blocks
  • Listed as a negative effect because it prevents you from hiding from players once you are hit
  • Supports different colors for different teams to allow usage in competitive maps, team co-op maps, etc.

Blocks

Grass path
  • A 15/16 block tall grass-like “path”. It features a somewhat similar texture to the grass block.
  • Cannot be obtained from the creative inventory.
Purpur Block
  • Generates in the End dungeons
  • Can be crafted with Popped Chaos Fruits
Purpur Pillar
  • Generates in the End dungeons.
  • Can be crafted with Purpur Slabs
Purpur Stairs
  • Generates in the End dungeons.
  • Can be crafted with Purpur Blocks
Purpur Slabs
  • Generates in the End dungeons.
  • Can be crafted with Purpur Blocks
End Stone Bricks
End Rod
  • Placable horizonally and vertically which produce white particles
Dragon mob head

Items

Beetroots and Beetroot seeds
  • Each beetroot gives the player 1 (🍗).
  • Beetroot seeds can be found in End Cities.
  • Beetroot can be crafted in to Rose Red.
Beetroot Soup
  • Can be made using beetroots and a bowl
  • Gives the player 6 (🍗🍗🍗).
Chorus fruit
  • Obtained from chorus plants
  • Can be eaten even if the player is not hungry, similar to Golden Apples
  • Can be cooked in Furnaces to obtain Popped Chorus Fruits
  • Teleports the player somewhere nearby
Chorus flowers
  • Spawn on the top of the chorus plant
  • Don't drop when the supporting block is destroyed so you need to hand-pick them.
  • Can only be planted on End Stone in any dimension.
Arrows
  • Fourteen new arrow types.
  • New spectral arrow (gold colored)
    • Shows mob and player outlines in their team color when hit – even when invisible
    • NBT tag for entities to disable outlines
    • The glowing is a status effect – you can find out whether you're glowing from a spectral arrow using the status effect HUD
  • Arrows can be tipped with potions
    • Each differently tipped arrow is available in the creative menu, just like enchanted books
    • Effect is applied on hit
Dragon breath
  • Dropped by the Ender Dragon

World generation

End city dungeon
  • Dungeon-type structure: "Tree" houses made of end stone and new blocks, including stairs
  • Contains the shulker mob
  • Generates on separate end islands arranged around the main island in a donut fashion
Chorus plants
  • Tree/cactus-like arrangements of new purple block.
  • Drop when supporting block is destroyed, like cacti.
  • Drop edible chorus fruit items.
  • Can be farmed by planting the chorus fruit flowers that come from the top of the plants.
  • Grow in stages.
End gateway portal
  • Appears after killing the dragon
  • New type of portal, due to its size it is only accessible using ender pearls.
  • Used to warp to other end islands depending on the direction of the ender pearl throw.

Mobs

Shulker
  • Short for "Shell Lurker"
  • The shell looks like a purple block
    • It can appear on the ground or walls
  • Appears in the End city dungeons
  • Using commands, they can be made to be part of a team to attack other teams and can be used as defense mobs
  • Can teleport to other locations.
  • When attacking, opens up and shoots projectiles which only move along the x/y/z axis
    • Projectiles can be knocked away by attacking them.
    • Getting hit by one causes damage and provides the levitation status effect


Planned additions

General

Animations/Entity models[3][4]
  • Might include model changes within the NBT data.
    • Would be implemented via resource packs.[5]
  • Will make better use of code so that map/mod makers can create better/new mobs.[6]
    • Same as the block data changes in 1.8.
Captions/Subtitles[7][8]
  • Subtitles which display for each sound for the hard of hearing/deaf.[9]
    • An example would be “Creeper hissing”.[10]
    • Would have < or > to point in the direction this sound is coming from.[8]

Blocks

New block type.[11]

Items

Shields[12]
  • Will be used for blocking instead of a sword. [13]
  • Can be used to attack and defend at the same time.
  • Can use two shields at the same time[14]
  • Shields can have customizable patterns, like banners[14]
  • Used to block attacks from the side the shield is held on
  • Sounds for when you blocked an attack[15]

Changes

General

Options
  • Removed Super Secret Settings and Broadcast Settings
  • Removed Alternate Blocks from video settings

Gameplay

Bosses
  • Proper support for multiple bosses’ health bars, so they show at the same time without obstructing each other.
Death messages
  • Death messages will now be displayed on the player's death screen as well as in the chat.
Inventory
  • Rearranged the survival inventory and the creative "survival tab" to accommodate the new off hand slot.
Items
  • Can now render when equipped into the head slot
Status effects
  • Status effects are now displayed on the HUD, instead of just in the inventory, similarly to Pocket Edition
    • Displays status effect icons ordered by time left
    • Positive effects are on the top row, negative effects on the bottom row
    • Effects that are about to run out blink, faster when closer to running out and also fade away
  • New "Glowing" effect
    • Triggered when hit by a spectral arrow
  • New "Levitation" effect
    • Triggered when hit by a Shulker beam

Commands

/clone
  • Allows for mirroring/rotating structures

Blocks

Armor stands
  • Can now dual wield
Dead bushes
  • Will now drop anywhere between 0–2 sticks
Ender crystals
  • A version of the ender crystal can be crafted which spawns another dragon when placed

Items

Bows
  • The bow in your hotbar now shows an arrow when being drawn.
  • Arrows in the off hand are prioritized over arrows in the rest of the inventory slots.
Ender pearls
  • Can now be thrown in creative mode
Maps
  • Now display as a mini map when held in either hand, rather than being held with both hands.
Swords
  • Can no longer be used for blocking.

World generation

End island
  • A set amount of differently-sized pillars are arranged in a circular fashion
  • The tallest pillars have iron bars around their ender crystal
    • This makes it so that you have to climb some of the pillars, making the fight harder
  • The exit portal is pre-generated, but without the dragon egg and portal blocks
  • Infinite number of islands in the end

Mobs

Ender dragon
  • Revamped boss fight inspired by the Console Edition.
  • The dragon can be respawned as often as you want by placing player-made craftable ender crystals, but subsequent dragons don't drop as much XP and won't drop a dragon egg
  • The dragon breathes fire/purple particles on players and mobs
  • The dragon will defend the obsidian pillars more the further the fight progresses
  • Every dragon drops dragon breath, but only one dragon egg can be obtained
  • A more controlled dragon
Hostile mobs
  • Will now have animations to show that they are attacking.
Skeletons
  • Skeletons now animate their bow
  • They pull it out when becoming hostile and draw it back to shoot arrows
  • Mapmakers can make skeletons shoot potion-tipped arrows
All mobs
  • More different textures for mobs

Planned changes

General

Shaders
  • Switch away from using fixed-function OpenGL to using Shaders.[16]
Block models
  • Models can be put together based on BlockState attributes – As a result, the vanilla set of block models was reduced by almost 300 models[14]
    • These will also be changed in resource packs, allowing better rotation and translation handling, as well as consistent left hand support.[17]

Gameplay

Clouds
  • New cloud rendering system.[18]

Blocks

Command blocks
  • Will have a new UI[19]
    • Will contain tab to complete.

Fixes

9 issues fixed
From released versions before Template:1.9
  • MC-417 – Arrows first bounce back then appear at correct location
  • MC-849 – Eating a food item / drinking potion / curing zombie has a chance of also consuming a second food item / potion without any animation
  • MC-1537 – Sometimes doors in strongholds are misplaced
  • MC-1956 – Arms misplaced in skeletons with a bow
  • MC-4474 – Boss health bar temporarily viewable after respawn and loading another world
  • MC-4504 – The hitbox of brewing stands is missing the blaze rod
  • MC-5404 – Name Tags/XP Orbs/Splash Potions are angled in third-person mode
  • MC-68062 – Boss health bar only visible when looking at boss
  • MC-75082 – End music will stop every time the ender dragon loads out of view
Other fixes
  • Arrows no longer occasionally collide with a glitched 'invisible wall'.[20][21]

Trivia

  • This is now the longest wait for a major update to Minecraft, with 3360 days now having elapsed since the release of 1.8 on September 2, 2014.
    • Until this point, the longest waits had been those between 1.7.2 and 1.8 (312 days), and between 1.2.1 and 1.3.1 (153 days).
  • This has also been the longest span of time between the release of a major update to Minecraft and a snapshot for the next major update, with 330 days having elapsed between the release of 1.8 on September 2, 2014, and 15w31a on July 29, 2015.

References

  1. "Darn, I hoped this would go unnoticed for a few days. Well spotted, @3ddeters. http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/co …"@Dinnerbone (Nathan Adams) on X, April 1, 2015
  2. "Worth noting: things about 1.9 that I tweet are not 100% final, that's why there's no snapshots and not much info. Things may change further"@Dinnerbone (Nathan Adams) on X, May 28, 2015
  3. "@minecraftiawiz That's a really good idea! Animation and entity models are planned for 1.9. Not sure about model changes via NBT."@TheMogMiner (Ryan Holtz) on X, September 6, 2014
  4. "Ripping apart the entity model system at the moment. External model files and skeletal animations? Yes plz. Much work to be done yet though."@TheMogMiner (Ryan Holtz) on X, October 9, 2014
  5. "@DC_MasterMind It's to make entity models and animations part of resource packs, like block models in 1.8"@TheMogMiner (Ryan Holtz) on X, October 10, 2014
  6. https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/2isrvt/themogminer_on_twitter_ripping_apart_the_entity/cl5ufzr?context=1
  7. "Super rough and initial work on closed captions/subtitles: https://gfycat.com/DefinitiveInex … - needs some more work, but I think it's getting there."@Dinnerbone (Nathan Adams) on X, March 9, 2015
  8. a b "Another attempt of how subtitles could work in Minecraft: https://gfycat.com/LinedShyAppalo … - feedback welcome, is it better or worse than last one?"@Dinnerbone (Nathan Adams) on X, March 16, 2015
  9. "And now back to working on subtitles for hard of hearing players :)"@Dinnerbone (Nathan Adams) on X, March 9, 2015
  10. "Whilst watching a talk on accessibility yesterday, I realized how to add captioning ("[creeper hissing]") to MC. Hope it helps some people."@Dinnerbone (Nathan Adams) on X, March 6, 2015
  11. "This reddit post made me happy about a new block type we're working on for 1.9... http://i.imgur.com/Rg7HYOw.png"@jeb_ (Jens Bergensten) on X, March 3, 2015
  12. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named ArrowShield
  13. "@CraftyCore That was only removed because it was a bug. In 1.9, swords don't block; shields do - you can block and hit at the same time."@Dinnerbone (Nathan Adams) on X, May 28, 2015
  14. a b c Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named Minecon
  15. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ9LoyyuWgE
  16. "@MC_News_Germany Planning on switching to using shaders. No more fixed-function OpenGL. Performance boost and extensibility, good times."@TheMogMiner (Ryan Holtz) on X, September 26, 2014
  17. "The changes we are making to blockmodels in resourcepacks will allow better rotation & translation handling and consistent left hand support"@SeargeDP (Michael Stoyke) on X, July 14, 2015
  18. "@TheAkaiyoGaming The cloud rendering code is fricking atrocious and is #1 on my 1.9 hit-list. Until now there was not much to be done."@TheMogMiner (Ryan Holtz) on X, September 5, 2014
  19. http://limitedengagement.net/podcasts/010-the-future-of-minecraft/#more-114 at 1:47:25
  20. "Remember the problem with arrows, sometimes looking as if they hit an invisible wall right in front of the player? Just fixed it for 1.9"@SeargeDP (Michael Stoyke) on X, July 27, 2015
  21. https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/3ery6n/searge_fixes_annoying_arrow_bug/cthy86f?context=1


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