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14w17a is the nineteenth snapshot released for 1.8.

Additions

  • World types
    • Customized world type
      • Highly customisable terrain generation
        • To use, press 'create new world', then 'world type: customized' and then press the 'customize' button
        • There are 4 pages to customize the world
        • Page 1: customizes generation of structures, chance of lake generation, size of certain structures, and biome type and size, and sea level
          • There are 14 customization options which affect whether generated structures will spawn in, as well as other environmental factors. Some of these presets are yes/no inputs or sliders.
            • Sea level, caves, strongholds, villages, mineshafts, temples, ravines, dungeons, dungeon count, water lakes, water lake rarity, lava lakes, lava lake rarity, lava oceans
        • Page 2: customizes the generation of all ores, stones and dirt/gravel
          • Can set levels of generation, spawn size, and spawn tries
        • Page 3 & 4: Expert customization of the terrain generation
          • There are 16 customization options which can be used to affect various aspects of Minecraft's terrain generator. These can be changed by moving sliders or by typing in values directly
            • Main noise scale X, main noise scale Y, main noise scale Z, depth noise scale X, depth noise scale Z, depth noise exponent, depth base size, coordinate scale, height scale, height stretch, upper limit scale, lower limit scale, biome depth weight, biome depth offset, biome scale weight, biome scale offset
      • There are seven presets
        • Water world, isle land, caver's delight, mountain madness, drought, caves of chaos, good luck
      • Generate structures button disappears when selected
  • Commands
    • /worldborder [set, center]
      • /worldborder set <sizeInBlocks> <timeInSeconds>
        • Used to set size of border, the first argument sets the size of the border and the second sets the speed of the border to expand or shrink
      • /worldborder center <x> <z>
        • Sets the center of where the border will be placed
  • Gamerules
    • /gamerule randomTickSpeed [value]
      • A new gamerule that controls how often a random tick occurs. These ticks are used for things such as plant growth and leaf decay.
      • If set to 0, random ticks never occur.

Changes

  • World borders
    • The default world border is now an animated texture rather than an invisible bedrock barrier
    • There is now nothing beyond the world border
    • Can be changed with /worldborder [set,center] to prevent players from leaving the specified area.
    • Anything outside the border will die from suffocation.
  • Server icons
    • Display with 3 buttons
      • Up and down arrows to move the servers' order
      • Third button is to join the server
    • There is now a default server icon
      • Resembles the unknown resource pack icon
  • Endermites
    • New model (currently bugged)
  • F3 debug screen
    • All blocks now have their info displayed on the right hand side of the F3 debug screen
  • Minecarts
    • Reverted to the way they were before 14w11a

Fixes

From released versions before 1.8

  • 9177 – Tripwire doesn't have two sided faces
  • 11607 – Right click with undyed leather armour part on cauldron with water still lower water layer
  • 13485 – Tripwire hook texture looks wierd
  • 29475 – Arrow sound plays twice when shot into blocks
  • 30527 – Achievement "adventuring time" does not work right
  • 33086 – Save-all causes lagspikes on larger maps
  • 33109 – scrolling with mouse wheel in server list is unresponsive
  • 31468 – Holes in bedrock and replaced any block using arbitrary TNT and flame bows
  • 40615 – Child animals obsessed about their parents, even after growing up
  • 48826 – "replace" directive in sounds.json does not work
  • 51953 – Almost instant motion sickness due to distorted rendering

From the 1.8 snapshots

  • 47585 – Derailed minecarts sink into the ground
  • 45160 – When holding a map you have two right arms
  • 47723 – Broadcast settings - report to Mojang, links to previous bug reporting facility
  • 47455 – When hitting a mob, the mob becomes lighter for short
  • 50588 – East/west pillars have shading error

From the previous snapshot

  • 51131 – Placing minecart on powered tracks sinks the minecart
  • 51206Hopper: java.lang.NullPointerException: Can't place skulls in multiplayer
  • 51241 – When loading a resource pack weird dev concole message

References


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