This article documents an April Fools' joke.
There is no actual "Love and Hugs Update" of Minecraft in development.
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- The mines are replaced with creepers. Any creeper that was marked with a sign has their mouth upside down.
- Pressing the keys X, Y, Z, Z, Y, ⇧ Shift + ↵ Enter, ↵ Enter in this order (just like the classic Minesweeper) will play the level-up sound and activate a cheat that shows if a square is safe or has a mine under it with a white square in the top left corner.
- Winning the game or placing a sign before the first left click triggers the credits, which upon exiting returns the player to normal Minecraft.
Blocks and items
- Sinks instead of floating.
- Can be crafted with the following recipe:
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|
| Obsidian |
- Has an ID name of
minecraft:obsidian_boatand an item number of 432.
- Potions of Caring
- Changes the mob AI to move toward the nearest mob as if it were to attack it.
- Replaces the data value of both potions of Weakness and potions of Poison&
- Potions of Sharing
Changes
General
- Removed all graphical settings titles.
- Clouds are now shaped like large, pink hearts.
- All particles were replaced with hearts.
- The shader
love.jsonis always used, which adds a red tint to everything.- Pressing "Super Secret Settings..." will not change the shader.
- Only one splash is displayed, which is "Minecraft is love, Minecraft is life".
- Removed the Minecraft Realms button.
- Only one world is available.
- The world can be created using the "Create World" button.
- The world must be named "There can only be one".
- When viewed with another Minecraft version, the world is named "AF15 Existence", which probably stands for "April Fools 2015 Existence".
- The only available gamemodes are Survival, which is called "Existence", and Creative.
- The "Allow Cheats" button now states "Allow Superpowers".
- The world must be named "There can only be one".
- Once created, it can be played by pressing "Play World" or deleted by pressing "Reset World".
- When pressing "Reset World", it calls the world "My Beloved World".
- Because of this, the game is essentially always in Demo mode.
- When pressing "Reset World", it calls the world "My Beloved World".
- The world can be created using the "Create World" button.
- MissingTiles.png
Blank settings titles.
An explosion of heart particles after attacking an end crystal.
Gameplay
- Removed the ability to directly harm mobs.
- Hitting mobs with weapons or a fist causes heart particles.
- Removed health and hunger
- Survival mode is now called Existence mode.
- Removed combat.
- Removed Hardcore mode.
World generation
- Has more obsidian pillars than normal.
- Has a bigger island
- Have been replaced with homes.
- The cobblestone and mossy cobblestone wall is replaced with blocks of quartz.
- Some of them have crafting tables and/or furnaces added.
- Temples
- Desert temples no longer contain TNT traps and have a ladder placed going down to the bottom for easier access.
- Jungle temples no longer have traps.
- One-block patches of snow now randomly generate, regardless of biome.
- Majority of snow cover in ice plains and cold taiga is melted.
- On Superflat worlds, near coordinates x=0, z=0, there is an area wherein some chunks snow is more frequent than normal chunks while raining and in others there is no snow even when raining, forming a QR code. When this code is scanned, it would reveal the name of the Combat Update (Java Edition 1.9).
Weather
- Rain in all biomes will cause snow to form around the player.
- Even in hot biomes where it doesn't rain, snow still generates.
- Hearts will appear when the rain hits the ground.
- Even in hot biomes where it doesn't rain, snow still generates.
Blocks and Items
- Lava is now liquid cheese (doesn't damage players or mobs, but still destroys items, produces stone/obsidian and works as furnace fuel).
- Removed
- Lava buckets were renamed to "Cheese Bucket".
- Have a heart pattern on them by default.
- Sink when the player rides them, but float again when the player exits.
- Have a heart-shaped hole in the bottom.
- Bows no longer require arrows.
- Arrows have a heart on the end of the texture.
- Shooting things with a love arrow makes them fall in love and breed.[verify]
- Renamed to "Love Bomb".
- No longer damages blocks when it explodes.
- Still damages mobs though.
- Does not affect nearby TNT.
- Potions of Strength now give upgrades to "Love Power".
- Potions of Harming were renamed to "Potion of Love", though they still damage mobs.
- Potions of Slowness were renamed to "Potion of Caring" and no longer slow down the player or mobs.
- Potions of Invisibility were renamed to "Potion of Fun".
- Potions of Leaping were renamed to "Potion of Happiness".
- Removed potions of Weakness and potions of Poison.
- Renamed to "Hearts" and have a heart on the end of the texture.
- Not damaged when used on mobs.
Zombie pigmen wielding heart-shaped swords.
Entities
- Now burst into poppies when close to the player.
- The poppies cannot be picked up.
- Mouth flipped upside down, appearing to be a smile.
- Can now be ridden, though cannot be controlled.
- Elder guardians will give the player Mining Fatigue like usual, but the ghostly image does not appear.
- Can no longer be ridden, instead they ride on the player's shoulders.
- Will only dismount if killed, or if the player is submerged in water (at least 3 blocks deep).
- Can appear as a manifestation of the villager's love.
- Now known as "Cheese Cubes".
- Similarly to slimes, they will also give the player Happiness upon attacking or pressing use on them.
- Can now climb walls.
- Because of this, it may sometimes cause a glitch where pigs "dance" at one place.
- Can shear their wool without shears now by using the use key on them.
- Now randomly drop bone meal, similar to chickens dropping eggs.
- No longer burn under sunlight.
- Now give the player Happiness when attacked.
- Happiness was called Jump Boost before this update.
- Can also get the Happiness effect by clicking the use button on them.
- Can now fly.
- Rather than trading, they will take the player's items in exchange for a piece of paper saying "Thanks for your donation".
- This also occurs when the player takes their items back instead of trading.
- Villagers will offer the player help in picking up items or blocks, in exchange for a small fee (of the item they pick up) for their services.
- Now throw random beneficial potions at players.
- Recolored to pink with smiles on its faces.
- Skulls now explode with bone meal.
- The explosion upon creation still damages blocks.
- Are the same as the pink wither from Java Edition 2.0.
- No longer burn under sunlight.
- Now have a fluffy pink interior.
A smiling Creeper.
Other "changes"
Some changes were on the official changelog, but were not included in the actual version. Those are:
- Bats are now 20% cuter.
- Chickens can now be ridden by any player less than two blocks tall.
- Monsters are now known as Inhabitants.
- Fixed resource packs "being prettier than others".
- Cliff edges have been lined with fences to avoid accidental falls.
- Cows will now alert a player to important events using an audible notification.
- Blazes will now defend players from harm.
- Falling snow has a chance to make exposed chests mysteriously full of goodies at midnight.
- Removed rain as it upset a lot of players.
- Added rain back as it soothed a lot of players.
- Added dirt bikes.
- All caves in the player's world are checked for safety.
Issues
- 15w14a is not supported due to being an April Fools' joke, and therefore issues affecting it will be closed as "Invalid" in the issue tracker.[1]
Trivia
- 15w14a was previously removed from the launcher for some time, but was added back in September 2018.
See also
- Java Edition 2.0 (2013)
- Java Edition 1.RV-Pre1 (2016)
- Java Edition 3D Shareware v1.34 (2019)
- Java Edition 20w14infinite (2020)
- Java Edition 22w13oneBlockAtATime (2022)






















