Java Edition 14w27a

14w27a is the thirty-second snapshot released for 1.8.^[1]

Additions

Rabbits
- Have 8 skins including: Black, White, Brown, Gold, Black & White, Salt & Pepper, Toast, and the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog
  - Naming a Rabbit Spawn egg or Name Tag "Toast" will give Rabbits a special skin as a memorial to user xyzen420's girlfriend's rabbit Toast
  - The Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog
    - 1/1000 chance of spawning, it is hostile and deals 4.5 × 2.25 in easy, 8 in normal difficulty and 12 × 6 in hard
    - A reference to the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail
    - It is perfectly white except for its mouth, which has a blood red outline
    - It can be directly spawned in with the command /summon Rabbit [x] [y] [z] {RabbitType:99}
- Rabbits can be tamed/bred using carrots or golden carrots
  - Rabbits cannot be bred unless tamed
- Rabbits will be scared of the player and run away from it when untamed, similarly to ocelots

Rabbit Spawn Egg
- Spawns rabbits
- Brown coloured
Rabbit Hide
- Can be put in a 2 x 2 arrangement to receive 1 leather
- Drops from rabbits
Raw Rabbit
- Restores 3 ()
- Can be cooked to make Cooked Rabbit
- Drops from rabbits
Cooked Rabbit
- Restores 5 ()
Rabbit's Foot
- Used to brew Potion of Leaping
- Drops from rabbits
Raw Mutton
- Restores 2 ()
- Drops from Sheep
- Can be cooked to make Cooked Mutton,
Cooked Mutton
- Restores 6 ()
Rabbit Stew
- Restores 10 ()
  - This makes it the best food in the game other than golden apples
- Recipe: 1 Cooked Rabbit, 1 Mushroom, 1 Carrot, 1 Baked Potato, and 1 Bowl
- Currently can not be crafted
Potion of Leaping
- Adds effect Jump Boost, for "I" and "II" levels
- Brewed with a Rabbit's Foot and Awkward potion
- The potion and bubbles are bright green coloured

A Secret Feature^[2]
- "Makes all commands more powerful"
- Not a new command^[3]
- Does not change command parameters
- It is useful with commands run via command blocks, signs, or via the /execute command.^[4]

Improved debug mode world type
- Tweaked world creation
  - Other world options are not available
  - Only Spectator mode can be enabled
- Now includes additional block states
  - This includes all possible states of redstone wire, fire, tripwire, stairs, etc.
- Arrangement of blocks is very different and a lot smaller, every block state only generates once
F3 Debug screen
- Now shows variant states after the item (ex. minecraft:cauldron[level=1])
Grass Blocks
- Their texture wraps randomly now.

From released versions before 1.8

15202 – Player can be pushed around by mobs while on horseback
16387 – Nether Fortresses are ignoring "Generate Structure" setting at world creation
26987 – Horse tries to breed with another horse that is not yet in Love mode
29558 – Double plants cannot be broken by placing a different block on the block it occupies
29803 – Statistics doesn't resize / Buttons missing after resize
30002 – Falling / Landing particles / particles applied to the player centered on the block rather than the player
36489 – Mooshrooms lose their name (from name tag) when sheared
37416 – when the disk is put in jukebox the name does not appear