14w29a is the thirty-sixth snapshot for 1.8.[1] This snapshot contains a lot of optimizations specifically targeting render performance.
Additions
- Gamerules
reducedDebugInfo- Gamerule to enable/disable reduced information on the F3 debug screen
- Op-only unlike the 'reduced debug info' toggle in multiplayer settings
- Overrides 'reduced debug info' settings in clients
- Options
- Multiplayer settings
- 'Reduced debug info' toggle to enable/disable reduced information on the F3 debug screen
- Video settings
- 'Use VBOs' toggle to enable/disable vertex buffer objects
- Multiplayer settings
Changes
- Commands
/worldborder/worldborder getargument to see the current size of the border
/particle- Additionally has a
forceargument after thecount
- Additionally has a
- Signs, chests, beacons, beds and heads
- Now display the cracking animation
- Beds did display the cracking animation previously, but not on their top and bottom
- Now display the cracking animation
- Optimisations
- Ore generation is a lot faster[2]
Fixes
From released versions before 1.8
- 71 – Mobs don't spawn next to water streams if the x and z coordinates are negative
- 267 – Potion effect status doesn't show if the inventory was open when it was cast upon the player
- 393 – Starvation prevents sleeping in bed on peaceful
- 404 – Viewing a map while invisible still shows both hands holding it
- 455 – Standing on exact X.0 Z.0 coordinates prevents breaking/placing block in north west
- 486 – Zombies and skeletons don't burn on slabs
- 506 – You can make smooth sandstone into smooth sandstone
- 665 – Minecarts and TNT are not moved by water currents
- 676 – Signs and chests do not display cracking animation
- 61586 – Client freezes for ~1 second in multiplayer when opacity of a block changes next to unloaded chunk
From the 1.8 snapshots
- 49041 – Teleporting with rotation might twist your head
- 53033 – Unable to disable
nameTagVisilibityfor someone in spectator mode - 57516 –
CanPickUpLootandCustomNameVisiblenot working - 59052 – Cannot add fake players or named entities to scoreboard teams
- 59602 – Hoppers/droppers can't take water bucket out of furnace
- 59634 – You get the message "Your game mode has been updated" even when
sendCommandFeedback = false - 59946 – Iron trapdoors appear on the opposite side of where they are placed when open (east/west orientation)
- 60279 – Detector rails render as unpowered, even when powered
- 61033 –
/particlecommand doesn't work
From the previous snapshot
- 61451 – Frame-rate drop in 14w28b
- 61453 –
/titlecommand writing errors on the server log - 61505 – Mob spawners count min/max spawn delay with a rate of 10 instead of 1
- 61519 – Chests that should be oriented east/west are oriented north in desert temples
- 61577 –
CommandStatsare not used when a command sign is right-clicked by non-OPs - 61666 – Cannot
/setblockor fill ender chests - 61711 – Sidebar scoreboard shows the lowest scores and not the best when hitting the limit of the sidebar
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