14w28a is the thirty-fourth snapshot released for 1.8.[1]
This version was previously removed from the launcher for some time, but was added back in September 2018.
Additions
- Commands
/stats <entity|block> ...- Usage:
- Alternative and more featureful way of interacting with
CommandStats- Will update a scoreboard objective based on the number of entities/blocks which has been affecting the command, it updates the objective for the entity that ran the command, fake players can be used when run in a command block
- After the
modethere are currently 4 possible stats that can be updated:SuccessCount,AffectedBlocks,AffectedEntitiesandAffectedItems - For example:
/stats entity @a set AffectedBlocks @a Testwill update a scoreboard objective named 'Test' for all players whenever a command is performed relative to them, the objective will update by the number of blocks affected by the command since the stat was set toAffectedBlocks
Changes
- Servers
- Servers can now customize network compression in
server.properties
- Servers can now customize network compression in
- Enchantments & Effects
- Enchantments and effects now accept named IDs as well as numerical IDs
- Video Settings
- Added Alternative Block option to disable (or enable) weighted alternative block models
- When turned off, the least complex highest priority model will always be used for each block
- Added Alternative Block option to disable (or enable) weighted alternative block models
- Block States
- Chunks now use block states instead of metadata
- Rendering
- Improved performance with rendering
- Many optimizations to both the server (including singleplayer) and the client
- Cakes
- Now have 7 slices instead of 6
- Produce a signal for comparators to detect
- Each slice is equivalent to 2 redstone signal strength, for a maximum of 14
Fixes
From released versions before 1.8
- 1532 – TNT flashing graphic when lit looks cut up and faded. / Z-fighting
- 2990 – Heads, beds, and doors can't be placed where there is thin snow
- 8858 – Rain goes through upside-down stairs
- 13633 – Horse's jump bar appears even when the horse isn't saddled yet
- 16608 – Text color in hopper and brewing stand GUI changes
- 18477 – Iron golems can see and attack invisible hostile mobs
- 23940 – If you sleep in a bed near a transparent block, you can get in the block
- 36718 – New fragmented sentences in translation
- 43984 – Normal players can use player selectors
- 53166 – Horses do not convert their owner to UUID
- 55490 – Spawning cows on Mooshrooms
From the 1.8 snapshots
- 45046 – Player skin doesn't render at Y:254.3 or more
- 45067 – Player skin (model) disappears when under -1.8 height level (void)
- 45512 – Entities disappear in the void
- 46674 – Tools can't break packed ice faster
- 49407 –
/effectand/enchantstill uses ids - 53022 – Mobs not being targeted by team selector
- 54845 – Rain particles not rendering
- 55515 –
sign.editwith§(color)changes the sign color - 56041 – Wheat sprouts revert to seed at low light level blocks at night
- 56251 – "
/weather rain" executed when weather is clear sets the weather to thunder - 56835 – Pressure plate
/filldisappearing glitch - 56884 – Negative color crosshair when using resource pack
- 58067 – Smooth & chiseled sandstone & chiseled quartz has incorrect bottom texture
- 59491 – Performance on Linux server tick-rate
- 59848 – Grass blocks held by Endermen have wrong texture
- 59897 – Logs not generating in the right position in structures
- 59996 – Falling sand entities are invisible or show a solid colored (red/green/black) texture
- 60035 – Double slabs become seamless
- 60039 – Server logging broken
- 60077 – End Portals (
end_portal_frame) has eye in it
From the previous snapshot
- 60093 – Blacksmith roof slabs oriented wrong
- 60126 – Pistons retract on placement as if they were powered
- 60150 – Fence gates placed open
- 60151 – Redstone repeaters are inverted
- 60152 – Powered rail, detector rail, and activator rail are flipped when on an east/west slope
- 60153 – Iron door and wood door
- 60156 – Command blocks don't trigger when dispensed onto a redstone block
- 60193 – Doors generating weirdly in strongholds
- 60208 – Pumpkin/melon seeds fully grown when planted
- 60349 – TNT spawns ignited on desert temples
- 60483 – When placing fire on side of TNT it only renders on the side
- 60523 – Tripwire hook block placed sound bug