Template:1.9 will be the first non-development version of the Combat Update,[1] which is an upcoming major 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
General
- World Selection Screen
- Worlds now display the version they were last played in, or "unknown" if the version was older than snapshot 15w32a.
- If the world hasn't been opened in one of the (1.9) snapshots yet, there will be an exclamation mark (!) next to the world's name on the far right; it says: "Don't forget to backup this world before you load it in this snapshot."
sneakTime- Tracks the amount of ticks the player has held the sneak key.
Gameplay
- Dominant hand option
- An option for players to change their dominant hand on their player model.
- Also changes the orientation of the offhand slot in the hotbar.
- Dual wielding
- Players can now use both hands at the same time to do different actions, with the left and right buttons.
- For example, if a player has a pickaxe in his/her main hand and a torch in their other hand, right clicking will place the torch.
- This happens because because a pickaxe lacks a right click use, and therefore the game tries to then treat the other item as if it's being left clicked.
- The player cannot click both buttons at the same time.
- This is achieved through an extra inventory slot called the "offhand" slot.
- Pressing F (by default) will switch whatever item is selected in the hotbar with the item in the offhand (including no item).
- The off-hand slot is displayed next to the hotbar when it's not empty (left for right-hand players and vice versa) and it's also available in the inventory screen.
- For example, if a player has a pickaxe in his/her main hand and a torch in their other hand, right clicking will place the torch.
- 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 while it's empty.
- Some attributes and enchantments will apply to the off-hand item, while others will not.
- Levitation
- Received when the 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
- Higher levels of levitation result in faster floating except for the last two:
- Effect level 255 results in neither floating up nor down.
- Effect level 254 results in slow fall (similar to lunar gravity).
- Glowing
- Received 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.
- It becomes colored differently, if the player is part of a team to match the team color.
- This makes it useful in a variety of multiplayer maps.
World generation
- Generates on separate end islands, arranged around the main island in a annular configuration (washer-like).
- Dungeon-type structure fashioned like a branching tower made of endstone and many of the new blocks.
- Resemble a tree house.
- End ships
- Spawns right next to the end city dungeon.
- Composed of the same materials.
- Spawns with shulkers in it.
- Has a speed beacon, a brewing stand with potions of healing and other various loot. However the speed beacon, will be removed in a later snap shot. The beacon is just for the developers' testing.
- Chorus trees
- Tree-like arrangements of the new chorus plant and chorus flower blocks.
- The whole structure is destroyed when the bottom-most block is destroyed, like cacti.
- Can be farmed by planting the chorus fruit flowers that come from the top of the plants.
- Unlike cacti, chorus plants do not require the supporting block to be below it, but rather adjacent.
- This allows the structure to grow around obstacles, like other plants.
- Unlike cacti, chorus plants do not require the supporting block to be below it, but rather adjacent.
- A small structure consisting of an end gateway block and two little bulbs of bedrock, at both the bottom and the top.
- It is an alternative way of traveling to the outer end islands, without having to build or fly all the way over there.
- Since the bulbs of bedrock only leave a one block slit on the horizontal plane, it is only accessible by using ender pearls, or by riding pigs, boats or minecarts.
- The player will get teleported to somewhere on the outer end islands
- The final location of the player depends on what angle he/she entered or at what angle the enderpearl was thrown at.
- One of them is created for each dragon kill and up to 20 are possible.
- Placed in a radius around the end portal.
- Another one is also created every time the player teleports to a new location, so both gateways are linked, and the player has a way back.
Blocks
- Spawn on the top of the chorus trees.
- Breaks if the supporting block below is broken.
- It only drops when mined directly.
- Can only be planted on end stone in any dimension.
- It will show a different texture when it stops growing.
- Generate in the End.
- Can be grown using chorus flowers.
- Breaks in quick succession if the supporting chorus plant below is broken.
- Drops chorus fruit.
- While a player wears the head and moves, the head's mouth opens and closes repeatedly.
- When powered with redstone while it's placed on solid block, the jaw starts to open and close.
- It will keep the mouth position of the exact moment it was unpowered.
- A portal block used to transport the player to the new outer regions of the end.
- The texture is identical to the end portal block, but the model is that of a full block rather than plane.
- The player cannot use pick block or
/giveto obtain it.- It can only be set by using
/setblock.
- It can only be set by using
- Naturally generates after killing the dragon and traveling someplace new in the End with it.
- Shows yellow beacon beam when created and used.
- Generates in the End city dungeons.
- Placeable horizontally and vertically.
- The model has a little base that is oriented against the block it was placed on.
- If it's placed on top of another rod, then it will have the opposite orientation.
- The model has a little base that is oriented against the block it was placed on.
- Produces white particles.
- Used as a lighting source with the same efficacy as torches.
- Unlike torches, they are tangible.
- Horizontal end rods can be stepped up onto like slabs.
- Generates in the End city dungeons.
- Can be crafted with 4 blocks of end stone.
- Are 15/16 block high
- Obtainable by right-clicking grass with a shovel.
- Drains the shovel's durability.
- Drops dirt, even when using silk touch.
- Cannot be obtained in the creative inventory.
- But unlike farmland, it can be obtained by using the pick block key in creative.
- Generates in the End city dungeons.
- Can be crafted with popped chorus fruit.
- Generates in the End city dungeons.
- Can be crafted with purpur slabs.
- Generates in the End city dungeons.
- Can be crafted with purpur blocks.
- Generates in the End city dungeons.
- Can be crafted with purpur blocks.
- Only placable via
/setblock, but unusable. - It has an "S" on the texture.
Items
- New spectral arrow:
- The tip is gold colored in both the item and the entity model.
- Shows mob and player outlines in their respective team color when hit – even when invisible.
- NBT tag for entities to disable outlines.
- NBT tag to force outline:
{Glowing:1b}. - The glowing is a status effect.
- Crafted by surrounding an arrow with 4 glowstone dust.
- Yields 2 spectral arrows.
- Arrows can be tipped with potions.
- 14 new arrow types in total.
- Each differently tipped arrow is available in the creative menu, just like enchanted books.
- Corresponding effect is applied on hit.
- Restores 1 (
). - Spawns naturally in villages.
- Can be used to craft beetroot soup.
- Can also be used to craft rose red dye.
- Used to grow beetroots.
- Obtained from chorus plants.
- Can be eaten even if the player is not hungry, similar to Golden Apples.
- Teleports the player to a random nearby location when eaten.
- Does not heal hunger points if hunger bar is full.
- Otherwise it will heal 4 (

)
- Otherwise it will heal 4 (
- Can be cooked in Furnaces to obtain Popped Chorus Fruits.
- Obtained from cooking chorus fruit.
- Used to craft purpur blocks.
- Used to spawn a shulker.
Mobs
- Mobs have a 5% chance to spawn left-handed, through the
LeftHandedboolean tag.- Mobs able to hold items, will hold them according to their dominant hand.
- Creepers, skeletons (but not wither skeletons), and zombies must be closer to notice players wearing the corresponding mob head.
- Specifically, the detection range is halved. This reduction stacks with the reductions from sneaking and invisibility.
- Short for "Shell Lurker".
- A hostile mob with the appearance of a purple block.
- Only spawns on the ground or at the walls of end cities when they first generate.
- When attacking, it opens its shell on a spinning animation, revealing the creature inhabiting.
- The creature looks a like a little white cube with big eyes
- Its attack consists in shooting projectiles
- The projectiles chase the player until it's out of range, but they can only move along one of the three grid axes at a time.
- This means they can only move through taxicab geometry.
- Projectiles can be knocked away by attacking them.
- Getting hit by a projectile causes 2 hearts of damage and inflicts the levitation status effect.
- They take more damage while their shell is open.
- The projectiles chase the player until it's out of range, but they can only move along one of the three grid axes at a time.
- It can be pushed by pistons, and resists being placed on any position that isn't 3 integers (except if they are on minecarts).
- It can teleport like an Enderman.
- It sometimes does this while being attacked or placed in unusual circumstances:
- Removing its support block.
- Pushing it into a non-air block (except piston heads).
- Pushing a non-air block into its position (except piston heads).
- It sometimes does this while being attacked or placed in unusual circumstances:
- It's one of the few entities (apart form boats and minecarts) that can be stood upon.
- It even displaces the player properly during its attacking animation.
Changes
General
- Removed Super Secret Settings and the Broadcast Settings section.
- Removed Alternate Blocks from video settings.
- Attributes
CustomNameVisible:truewill make the name tag on mobs show in the same way as on players.- Entities can now be summoned straight to teams:
{team="TeamName"}. DropChancesandEquipmenttags are no longer used.ArmorItems,HandItems,ArmorDropChancesandHandDropChancesare used instead.
- Proper support for multiple bosses’ health bars, so they show at the same time without obstructing each other.
- Damage tooltips
- Now read "When in main hand:".
- Death messages will now be displayed on the player's death screen as well as in the chat.
- Different models/textures can be used for each different damage values, item states, and whether the player is left handed.
- This works on compasses, clocks, and anything that can have a durability bar.
- It also contains additional tags for bows and fishing rods.
- Models can be put together based on block state attributes, such as fences.
- As a result, the vanilla set of block models was reduced by almost 300 models.
- Block model JSON is now strict: comments and quote-less identifiers are not allowed.
- "display" tag defaults have changed, and the
"thirdperson"and"firstperson"tags were replaced with"thirdperson_righthand","thirdperson_lefthand","firstperson_righthand", and"firstperson_lefthand". - "parent" and "elements" tags can coexist now, though the top level elements tag overwrites all former ones.
- The required pack version number was changed to "2" in
pack.mcmeta. - Old resource packs require user acknowledgement to use.
- Structure data
- Now comes from /assets/structures.
Gameplay
- Rearranged the survival inventory and the creative "survival tab" to accommodate for the new off hand slot.
- Unified the orientation of many items in the inventory.
- Status effects are now displayed on the HUD on the right hand corner, instead of just in the inventory (similar to Pocket Edition).
- They are ordered by the time of infliction from right to left.
- Positive effects are on the top row, negative effects on the bottom row.
- Effects that are about to run out blink.
- They blink faster when they are closer to running out and start fading away.
World generation
- A set amount of differently-sized obsidian 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 tallest pillars have iron bars around their ender crystal.
- The exit portal is pre-generated at the center of the island, but without the dragon egg and portal blocks.
- New outer regions of the end with "satellite islands" spread through a radius.
- Mini islands generate between the center and main islands.
- End islands and mini end islands have chorus trees spread throughout them.
- Removed the Nether fog.
- Farms now include beetroot crops.
Blocks
- Will now drop anywhere between 0–2 sticks.
- The block states flip and alt were removed, and the integer state upper was reimplemented as the byte state up.
- This reduced the number of states representing fire from 3072 to 512.
- No longer require supporting blocks.
- Can be moved with pistons freely.
- Are now rotated 90° in the inventory.
- Have now a slightly thinner item model.
- Glass panes/iron bars without any connecting blocks are now 2x2 pixels in footprint.
- This is compared to the big cross configuration that was default.
Items
- The bow in the hotbar now shows an animation for drawing back an arrow.
- Arrows in the off hand are prioritized over arrows in the rest of the inventory slots.
- Can now be thrown in creative mode
- Now display as a mini map when held in the off hand, or if the off-hand slot is occupied.
- The (old) large version is visible only when held in the dominant hand with both hands free.
- Casting fishing rods now has an animation in the hotbar/inventory.
- Mixed potions' colors now blend.
- Numeric IDs are no longer used. Instead an NBT "Potion" tag is used.
- e.g.
/give <target> minecraft:potion 1 0 {Potion:"minecraft:swiftness"}
- e.g.
- Splash potions now have a separate data value and ID name and can be created from all potions, including water bottles.
- Added Mundane, Thick and Awkward potions to the creative inventory.
- Glowstone dust or redstone can no longer be added to extended or tier-II potions respectively.
- Most recipes for Potion of Weakness were removed (see: brewing for all recipes removed).
Mobs
- Similar to the one on console edition.
- The dragon can be re-spawned indefinitely many times, by creating a creeper face configuration out of clay in the End.
- Subsequent dragons will spawn new gateways up to a total of 20, but won't drop XP or create new dragon eggs.
- The dragon AI and attacks has been changed:
- Breathes fire/purple particles on players and mobs, while on top of the portal.
- Drops fireballs on top of the player.
- Defends the obsidian pillars more, the further the fight progresses.
- The dragon flies and stops over the portal sometimes, only then can the last blow be dealt.
- Farmer villagers now harvest beetroot.
- Have an animation for lifting up and drawing back their bow.
- Mapmakers can make skeletons shoot potion-tipped arrows.
- Remain aggravated towards the player despite being in contact with water.
- Drop the block they were holding when killed.
- Can be led and bred with melon seeds, pumpkin seeds, and beetroot seeds, in addition to regular seeds.
Non-mob entities
- Projectiles
- Can now be summoned to dual wield with commands in creative.
Planned additions
General
- Might include model changes within the NBT data or new animations for default.
- Would be implemented via resource packs.[6]
- Will make better use of code so that map/mod makers can create better/new mobs.[7]
- Similar to the block data changes in 1.8.
- Subtitles which display for each sound for the hard of hearing/deaf.[10]
Gameplay
- Possibly new potions.[12]
- Possibly new enchantments.[12]
Blocks
- New block type[13]
- Uncertain if he was referring to an already added block.
Items
- Shields[14]
- Will be used for blocking instead of a sword. [15]
- Can be used to allow attacking and defending at the same time.
- Shields can be crafted with a banner to add custom patterns.[16]
- Used to block attacks from the side the shield is held on.
- Sounds will be played for when you blocked an attack.[17]
Non-mob entities
- Dragon breath
- Shoot by the ender dragon as an attack.[18]
- Craftable ender crystals
- A version of the ender crystal that can be crafted, which spawns another dragon when placed.[19]
Planned changes
World generation
- End cities and End ships.
- Will no longer generate with beacons, as that was a leftover testing feature.[20]
Blocks
- Will have a new UI[21]
- Will support tab to complete.
Items
- Can no longer be used for blocking.
Mobs
- Will now have different animations to show that they are attacking.
Fixes
- 25 issues fixed
- From released versions before Template:1.9
- MC-438 – Ender pearl can't be used in creative mode
- 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-1663 – Dying while having a gui window open doesn't make appear the death screen
- MC-1956 – Arms misplaced in skeletons with a bow
- MC-2768 – Ladder Bug with Trapdoors
- MC-2835 – Resizing the Minecraft window while dead grays out the Respawn/Exit to Menu buttons and several other screens
- MC-2963 – Left hand covers corner of held map when riding an entity and switching the perspective
- MC-4474 – Boss health bar temporarily viewable after respawn and loading another world
- MC-5404 – Name Tags/XP Orbs/Splash Potions are angled in third-person mode
- MC-14826 – Lead break / disappear on game restart or chunk reload
- MC-42841 – Incorrect Creative Instant Health Damage value
- MC-47526 – Ender Crystal entity spawning 1 block too low
- MC-48730 – Nametags still show while player is invisible and on team
- MC-53897 – Torches in Villages, Stronghold, & End exit portal spawned dropped
- MC-56268 – Breaking the bedrock below an Ender Crystal (in the End) creates performance drops, rapidly flickering light
- MC-67952 – XP Orbs have graphical bugs when looking straight down
- MC-68062 – Boss health bar only visible when looking at boss
- MC-69320 – Data tag output by
/entitydataand/blockdatacontains too many commas - MC-74113 –
/entitydataNoAI on Ender Dragon causes it to rapidly vibrate - MC-75082 – End music will stop every time the ender dragon loads out of view
- MC-77686 – Weird pixels in top-left corner of hand-held maps
- MC-78918 – "Java" isn't capitalized in Twitch message about diverging architecture
- MC-83964 – Blindness And Night Vision Doesn't Create Complete Blindness Anymore
- MC-84262 – Zombies Still Follow in Creative
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.
- 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
- ↑ "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
- ↑ "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
- ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/3f7m2y/minecraft_snowball_projectile_changes_snapshot/
- ↑ "@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
- ↑ "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
- ↑ "@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
- ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/2isrvt/themogminer_on_twitter_ripping_apart_the_entity/cl5ufzr?context=1
- ↑ "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
- ↑ 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
- ↑ "And now back to working on subtitles for hard of hearing players :)" – @Dinnerbone (Nathan Adams) on X, March 9, 2015
- ↑ "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
- ↑ a b https://mojang.com/2015/07/minecraft-snapshot-15w31a/
- ↑ "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
- ↑ "After reading a lot of helpful feedback on /r/MinecraftSuggestions, I reworked the new inventory slots a little. https://gfycat.com/CoordinatedCom …" – @Dinnerbone (Nathan Adams) on X, May 22, 2015
- ↑ "@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
- ↑ https://youtu.be/Minecon&t=21m11s
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ9LoyyuWgE
- ↑ https://youtu.be/Minecon&t=5m22s
- ↑ https://youtu.be/Blkh2fxo6iY&t=5m11s
- ↑ https://twitter.com/SeargeDP/status/626793834815582208
- ↑ http://limitedengagement.net/podcasts/010-the-future-of-minecraft/#more-114 at 1:47:25