14w04a is the sixth snapshot for Java Edition 1.8, released on January 23, 2014,[1] which adds the /particle command.
14w04a was reuploaded an hour and a half later to fix the server not working.[2]
Additions[]
Command format[]
- Spawns particles in a given area.
- It can also be relative to entities.
- Usage:
/particle <name> <x> <y> <z> <xd> <yd> <zd> <speed> [count] [player:entity]. - Example:
/particle lava ~ ~1 ~ 1 1 1 0.5 2 @e[type=Chicken].- List of particles:
hugeexplosion,largeexplode,fireworksSpark,bubble,suspended,depthsuspend,townaura,crit,magicCrit,smoke,mobSpell,mobSpellAmbient,spell,instantSpell,witchMagic,note,portal,enchantmenttable,explode,flame,lava,footstep,splash,wake,largesmoke,cloud,reddust,snowballpoof,dripWater,dripLava,snowshovel,slime,heart,angryVillager,happyVillager,iconcrack_(ID)_(DATA),blockcrack_(ID)_(DATA),blockdust_(ID)_(DATA).
- List of particles:
Changes[]
Blocks[]
- Prior work cost increase changed from linear (1 per repair) to exponential (times 2 plus 1 per repair).
- Repairing with a "sacrifice" now costs 2 levels rather than only 1.
- Can now be placed on ceiling/floors.
- Now flammable.
- When a furnace runs out of fuel, the smelting progress will reverse at twice the normal speed.
- Items in item frames can now be rotated by 45 degrees (eight possible orientations).
- Item frames can give off a signal detected by comparators, based on the item's current orientation.
- Signal strength is as follows: 0: empty; 1: item; 2: item rotated once; 3: item rotated twice; ...; 8: item rotated 7 times.
- Now craftable in a shapeless recipe with one cobblestone and one vine.
Mobs[]
- Can drop iron ingots again by any means of death.
- Can be spawned with pumpkins + dispenser.
- Can be spawned with pumpkins + dispenser.
- Can be spawned with skulls + dispenser.
- Villagers will now harvest, collect and replant grown potatoes, wheat, and carrots.
- Villagers do not have unlimited seeds; seeds must be replenished to replant crops.
- Villagers will craft wheat into bread, and drop it to other villagers.
- Villagers can now become willing to breed by consuming food: 3 bread, 12 potatoes or 12 carrots.
- Can drop gold nuggets again by any means of death.
Command format[]
/fill
- Added the ability to filter block types, as long as the filler block is not a tile entity
- Only if it's used to fill in replace mode with "normal" blocks.
- Syntax:
/fill [x] [y] [z] [x] [y] [z] [BlockName] [Data] replace [filterBlockName] [filterData].
Gameplay[]
- Looting now gives an extra 1% chance of getting rare loot per level.
- Doors are now added to the closest village.
- This will not break iron farms, but change them a little, enough to make them "practically pointless".[3]
General[]
- F3 Debug Screen
3D crosshairs showing the XYZ axis in debug screen.
- The x coordinate line will now be bold when looking east/west, similarly the z coordinate line will now be bold when looking south/north.
- The crosshair will display 3 short colored lines to indicate the direction of each axis: x/red, y/green, z/blue.
- Rendering & performance
- Only transparent blocks will now render as transparent (eliminates the use of x-ray texture packs).
- Skin customization
- Now displays the right arm's second layer in first person view.
- Skins and capes are now distributed through servers.
- Skins server outages will occur less frequently and have less impact.
- Server-altered skins/capes are not possible – only signed URLs are stored server-side.
- Skin changes will no longer require client restarting, at worst re-logging will update the skin for everybody.
- Duplicate skins no longer need to be downloaded twice.
- Server traffic will barely be affected.
Fixes[]
- 37 issues fixed
- From released versions before 1.8
- MC-78 – Villagers crowd into a single building.
- MC-888 –
/difficultycommand doesn't change the default difficulty in the ESC menu (singleplayer). - MC-1253 – Ladder, sign, fence, gate, trapdoor causes block it is placed in to darken.
- MC-1580 – Ghost items from trading with SHIFT-click.
- MC-3668 – When going through nether portals with (potion) effects, the effect animations (particles, fire, visibility, additional hearts) are lost.
- MC-5824 – Cactus can grow next to blocks.
- MC-8662 – Items are not centered correctly within frames.
- MC-9582 – Whole-word selection behaves erratically in chat.
- MC-16457 – Pumpkin texture flips when made into snowman.
- MC-18284 – New AI mobs see through invisibility.
- MC-25370 – Mouse is centered when going to previous menu with ESC.
- MC-29999 – Realms button is still visible even though the client is a snapshot.
- MC-30995 –
/setblockreplace doesn't replace same block with different tile entity/NBT data. - MC-31081 – Stone monster eggs spawn 2 silverfish.
- MC-31203 – Furnace progress remains after changing ingredient.
- MC-32301 – Lava fizz sound plays whenever a flowing lava block destroys an air block.
- MC-36847 – No colon after game mode in world options.
- MC-37355 – server-icon.png alpha channel display.
- MC-45087 – Id for cooked fish is "
minecraft:cooked_fished". - MC-45235 – Double Shift = Sprint .
- From the 1.8 development versions
- MC-44368 – After setting the difficulty lock, and changing it with a command block, the lock would not revert to what the command block says.
- MC-44467 – Overpopulated flowers near lake
- MC-44551 – Silverfish can infest granite/andesite/diorite.
- MC-44592 – Fire from lava spreads further than it should.
- MC-44700 –
/me@ecrash. - MC-44890 – Doors get added to the list of village doors over and over a.gain.
- MC-44893 –
/killnot killing invulnerable entity. - MC-45011 –
/clonedoesn't clone TileEntity orientation. - MC-45063 – Tripwire is invisible.
- MC-45071 – The world freezes if an Enderman is being hit.
- MC-45084 – Skin's second layers invisible in first person.
- From the previous development version
- MC-45172 – New skin layer jacket acts enchanted when enchanted pants equipped.
- MC-45278 –
/spawnpointwon't update to chosen coordinates second time unless world file is reloaded. - MC-45345 –
/fillTile Entity:java.lang.ClassCastException. - MC-45459 – Debug code streaming in console.
- MC-45557 – Server does no longer produce a logfile.
- MC-45595 – Server seems locked in debug mode, spams console.
Trivia[]
- 14w04a was previously removed from the launcher for some time, but was added back in September 2018.
References[]
- ↑ "Snapshot! https://mojang.com/2014/01/minecraft-snapshot-14w04a/" – @Dinnerbone (Nathan Adams) on X, January 23, 2014
- ↑ Replying to "@Dinnerbone Crap. The server for 14w04a completely doesn't work. Unable to even login. A lot of debug printouts in the log." – @nicklase on X, January 23, 2014: "@nicklase Redownload it." – @Dinnerbone (Nathan Adams) on X, January 23, 2014
- ↑ "well little enough to make them practically pointless." – @_grum (Erik Broes) on X, January 23, 2014