15w33a[1] is the seventh snapshot released for Java Edition 1.9.
Additions[]
Items[]
- Found in the brewery section of the creative inventory.
- Can be used to brew lingering potions by brewing it with a splash potion.
- Can be obtained by right clicking with a glass bottle while the dragon breathes the homonymous attack.
- Stacks to 64.
- Thrown like a splash potion.
- Leaves a patch of the potion particle effect.
- Entities that walk into it get the effect.
- Leaves a patch of the potion particle effect.
- Has all the potion types, and works with potions whose effect are instant, like harming.
- Brewed with dragon's breath and the corresponding splash potion.
- The cloud duration can be controlled through a data tag.
- Doesn't stack, like other potions.
Command format[]
- NBT tags
- Added entity
AreaEffectCloud(ID 3), child ofEntity. - Added tags
Age,Duration,WaitTime,ReapplicationDelay,DurationOnUse,RadiusOnUse,RadiusPerTick,Radius,OwnerUUIDLeast,OwnerUUIDMost,Particle,Color, andEffectstoAreaEffectCloud. - Added
ExactTeleporttoEndGateway. - Added
LingertoThrownPotion.
- New objective types: armor and level.
- "armor" tracks the armor bar, that indicates the total protection from all currently worn armor pieces.
- "level" tracks the level of the player which is the number above the experience bar and not the amount of xp points.
General[]
- Per-item statistics for number dropped and number picked up.
stat.pickupandstat.drop.
- Added "More Digital!"
Changes[]
Blocks[]
- The character limit is now 32500 instead of 32767
- Changed texture to be both angle and face independent.
- The footprint of the visible faces, will always display the same texture without deforming due to perspective.
- Therefore any edges of the block that are not part of the footprint will be invisible.
- The footprint of the visible faces, will always display the same texture without deforming due to perspective.
- Changed the beam texture to be unique.
Items[]
- Extended potion of poison, potion of poison II, and extended potion of regeneration had their duration reduced.
- Potion of strength changed from 130% bonus to damage to 3

of bonus damage (from relative to absolute). - Potion of weakness changed from 0.5 (
× 1⁄4) reduction to damage to 4
. - Throwable potions now behave like other projectiles when used in dispensers.
- They travel a much greater distance.
- Can no longer address spawn eggs by numeric data id, like:
give @p spawn_egg 1 50.- The spawnable item from a spawn egg is now addressed by a datatag:
give @p spawn_egg 1 {EntityTag:{id:"Creeper"}}.
- The spawnable item from a spawn egg is now addressed by a datatag:
Mobs[]
- General
- The
HealFFloat tag has been renamed toHealth.- As a result, the original
Healthtag is now a Float type rather than Short.
- As a result, the original
- Now shoots the previously added ender acid entities.
- A fire charge like projectile.
- On impact it spawns dragon breath and lights the ground on fire.
- The dragon breath acts like a lingering potion, creating a special entity cloud.
- Players in the cloud will get damaged.
- The dragon breath acts like a lingering potion, creating a special entity cloud.
- Arrows get deflected and set on fire while the dragon is on top of the portal.
Command format[]
- NBT tags
CommandStatscan be used to obtain the number of scoreboard tags an entity has viaQueryResult.- Example:
/scoreboardwill return the number of "scoreboard tags" applied to the target.- If the target previously had 3 tags added, a score of "3" is returned.
- Example:
- Removed
DataVersionfromEntity. It is now only applied toPlayeronly, child ofLivingBase. HealFunderLivingBasehas become deprecated.HealthunderLivingBasehas changed from type "Short" to "Float".Liferenamed toAgeforEndGatewayentity.Equipmentremoved fromArmorStandandLivingentity, its usage replaced byHandItemsandArmorItemswhich were added earlier.
General[]
- In Survival, pick block now works on items outside of the hotbar but inside the player's inventory.
- In Creative, using pick block normally will give the player a new one instead of existing ones with NBT.
- ctrl+middle click no longer replaces items.
- Existing items are put into the inventory instead of being deleted.
- Tooltips
- Now show absolute damage instead of damage increase
Fixes[]
- 7 issues fixed
- From the 1.9 development versions
- MC-82945 – UUID error:
Tried to add entity with duplicate UUIDspam. - MC-83731 – Using
/killon the ender dragon doesn't end the fight. - MC-84509 – End gateway block effect looks weird in third person.
- MC-85288 – "Save World" and "Cancel" button have been switched.
- MC-85382 – Attempting to use a spawn egg on a block thats out of range throws error.
- MC-85542 – Ender dragon can destroy
end_portalandend_gatewayblocks.
- From the previous development version
- MC-85397 – Adult mobs spawned with mob eggs are "invalid", they can't be selected with
@e.
Video[]
Video made by slicedlime:
Trivia[]
- 15w33a was previously removed from the launcher for some time, but was added back in September 2018.