14w31a is the forty-first snapshot released for Java Edition 1.8.[1]
Changes[]
Blocks[]
- Added missing upward gradient and right solid half patterns, upside-down diagonal halves, bottom half, and right half.
- Changed the name of existing patterns according to Vexillology.
- Can be used as fuel in furnaces.
- Renamed "Stone Stairs" to "Cobblestone Stairs".
- Can be inverted with a right click.
- Reaches full strength at the opposite time than it would when set to normal.
- This can allow for a light that turns on at night rather than day without the need of a NOT gate.
- Mined faster using axes.
Items[]
- Zoomed maps now snap to a grid rather than being centered on the original map.
Mobs[]
- Now take fall damage.
- Now have sounds.
- Have 'hurt', 'death', 'hop', and 'idle' sounds.
- The 'hop' and 'idle' sounds are barely audible.
- Have 'hurt', 'death', 'hop', and 'idle' sounds.
- Changed model.
- Added tail.
World generation[]
- The time parameter of the worldborder size changing can now be larger.
- Only players get damage outside of the world border.
Command format[]
- Can now be run in single player.
- New arguments for debug
/debug <start|stop|chunk> [<x> <y> <z>]
.x/y/z
are required and valid only for chunk mode.- May be removed, as the command was supposed to be dev only.[2]
Gameplay[]
- Items which have been renamed will have their tooltips displayed as italic when highlighted, rather than just being straight.[3]
- Clerics now sell bottles o' enchanting, prices range from 3 to 11 emeralds each.
General[]
- Optimizations
- Threaded mob pathfinding
- More optimizations
Fixes[]
- 88 issues fixed
- From released versions before 1.8
- MC-129 – Chunks not loading surface, revealing caves, etc.
- MC-1831 – Incorrect fire charge noise.
- MC-2053 – Inconsistent door texture.
- MC-2071 – Pausing the game or opening any GUI in a nether portal does not work.
- MC-3100 – Stone stairs are named incorrectly. They should be called cobblestone stairs.
- MC-5206 – Renamed items' name isn't shown in italic or colored on item switching.
- MC-5585 – The Ender dragon is not affected by the sharpness and power enchantment.
- MC-5991 – Hoppers use wood sounds for placing/breaking.
- MC-6773 – Renaming a slime or magma cube, once it splits it no longer has its custom name.
- MC-7443 – Temporary floating minecart by pistons.
- MC-7807 – Thrown eggs look like snowballs when hitting something.
- MC-9275 – TNT is not ignited when right-clicked by a fire charge.
- MC-9406 – Underwater effect on held item at high aspect ratios.
- MC-9664 – Blaze / ghast fireballs can make fire with
MobGriefing
off. - MC-9806 – No name color when using
/say
. - MC-11651 – UTF-8 domaine name support.
- MC-15084 – Leads not dropping when a leashed mob is killed.
- MC-15707 – Wild and hostile wolves can be leashed.
- MC-17035 – Can teleport dead and unrespawned player.
- MC-17047 – Placing heads doesn't cause block updates.
- MC-19702 – Wither armor has wrong texture.
- MC-24778 – Opening and closing sound bug.
- MC-29518 – "
stat.damageTaken
" and "stat.damageDealt
" track # of hits vs # of hp damage. - MC-29559 – 2 block tall grass/fern does not produce seeds when broken.
- MC-30589 – Item frame only drops item upon explosion.
- MC-33558 – Agro tags don't work with neutral mobs that have new AI.
- MC-35617 – Cactus has incorrect inventory image.
- MC-36639 – Zoomed out maps do not properly align.
- MC-37661 – DataTag parsing/escaping issue.
- MC-39825 – Floating anvil using TNT.
- MC-43010 – Non-standard texture resolutions cause rendering errors with mipmap.
- MC-44597 –
Unable to play unknown soundEvent: minecraft:mob:witch.idle
. - MC-50176 – Asterisk as name for score chat component not effective as translatable argument.
- MC-51655 – Ladders don't break faster with an axe.
- MC-53215 – TNT destruction nerfed.
- MC-54584 – Crash when creating an item with an
AttributeModifier
with anOperation
of > 2. - MC-58322 – Connecting to server that uses resource pack displays "Texture pack".
- MC-64287 – Incorrect display for Failed to Login screen.
- MC-64851 – Getting off of Horse while jumping makes a player fly (In Creative).
- MC-65060 – Heads glitch.
- From the 1.8 development versions
- MC-44413 – Villagers no longer trade xp bottles with the player.
- MC-46051 – Item frame block/item entities are lit incorrectly.
- MC-46365 – Server crash when pushing villager through Nether portal.
- MC-46460 – Spectators show burning effect in lava.
- MC-46470 – Flying through water in spectator mode plays the splashing sound.
- MC-47878 –
/spreadplayers
not working with entities. - MC-48294 – Items a player holding go black when players walk on soul sand.
- MC-48372 – Crash when using
/clone
on complex structure (command block and pulser). - MC-48538 – Monsters can spawn on barriers.
- MC-49305 – Server scoreboard "36>16" bug.
- MC-49580 – Swimming in water causes held items to "darken".
- MC-49590 –
stat.damageTaken
bug. - MC-50176 – Asterisk as name for score chat component not effective as translatable argument.
- MC-50572 – Upward facing droppers/dispensers only shoot items west.
- MC-51754 – Fully grown cocoa beans only drop 1 item when wood log they're attached to is retracted.
- MC-53430 – when
/gamerule randomTickSpeed
is typed in gives wrong tab completion. - MC-53638 – Pigs spawned inside gravel, invisible on layer 256.
- MC-55191 –
/clone
,/fill
, and/setblock
do not set blocks outside world border. - MC-55253 – The new
{selector:"@…"} tellraw
feature fails on failing selectors. - MC-57159 – 2d rendered objects (tall grass, plants, fire, etc) are darker on one side.
- MC-57524 – Nether portals don't generate or generate unlit.
- MC-57861 – Projectiles going north or south appear sideways.
- MC-58524 – Using shears on double fern results in pink and black box in inventory. When placing said box on dirt, player would get dead grass *(i.e. desert).
- MC-58838 – Breaking an active jukebox doesn't destroy the block.
- MC-58985 – Blocks pushed by pistons above Y=256 are deleted.
- MC-59043 – Using "Pick Block" on lapis lazuli ore creates missing texture.
- MC-59472 – Item frames drop as an item when not supported by block even when game rules say not to.
- MC-59556 – Wearing a skull loses its name.
- MC-59602 – Hoppers can't take water bucket out of furnace.
- MC-59845 – Rabbits do not take damage from falling.
- MC-59962 – Rabbits have no sounds.
- MC-60306 – Rabbit foot in incorrect creative tab.
- MC-60331 – Pie chart debug menu doesn't disappear in F1 mode.
- MC-61794 – Damaged anvils are placed as undamaged ones.
- MC-62972 – Hoppers doesn't take empty bucket from furnace.
- MC-63026 – Spectator gamemode (gamemode 3) is useless underground.
- MC-63157 – Fishing rod/carrot on a stick not held correctly/line not attached to pole.
- MC-63310 – Several mirror banner crafting recipes not in game.
- MC-63357 – Sleeping in bed underground and saw sky.
- MC-63592 –
/replaceitem
not working twice. - MC-63735 – Natural world border 14w30b (30000000 block).
- From the previous development version
- MC-63492 – Guardians deal damage when hit with TNT.
- MC-63506 –
Hopper: java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: -1
. - MC-63507 – Clicking 'Snooper Settings' crashes Minecraft.
- MC-63595 – Endermen get angry when hit in Creative.
- MC-63785 –
comparator_unlit
has invalid cullface. - MC-64362 – Anvil durability is restored when anvil is broken and placed back down.
- MC-64395 – Tamed rabbits would teleport to the player as wolves and cats.
Trivia[]
- 14w31a was previously removed from the launcher for some time, but was added back in September 2018.