15w41a is the thirty-first snapshot released for 1.9.[1]
Additions
- Transportation
- Elytra which functions according to hang glider aerodynamics.
- Elytra has to be equipped onto the "chestplate" slot in order to work.
- Has 432 durability and can be given the unbreaking enchantment with anvil or commands.
- Legs will make a "walking movement" when you are stalling in the air.
- You don't receive fall damage if you fall from a small height while flying slowly (not nose-diving).
- Still receive fall damage if you nose-dive directly into the ground.
- Similar to the Wing Cap item from Super Mario 64.
- Found on End Ships within an Item Frame.
- Different kind of wood boats.
- Currently, all other boats except for Oak Boats are unable to be crafted.
- All mobs can go into boats, with a max of 2 mobs including the player.
- Commands
- NBT tag:
Passengers- Overrides
Ridingtag. - Example:
/summon Slime ~ ~ ~ {Passengers:[{id:Witch}]}, which will spawn a slime with a witch on top. - Improvement of the deprecated
Ridingtag, as you can have more than one entity riding on top of another entity since it consists out of an array of compounds.
- Overrides
Changes
- Improved cheat detection in Multiplayer.
- Boats which require oar movement to move.
Fixes
- 7 issues fixed
- From the 1.9 development versions
- MC-84155 – The End stops generating around X/Z ~= 524200
- MC-84753 – The outer islands of the end have terrain glitches after around 9,975,300 x
- MC-87041 – Kicked from server, Console spams "Netty Epoll Server IO #6/ERROR"
- MC-88016 – Multiplayer problems
- MC-89125 – Items sit on top of hoppers instead of going in them
- MC-89127 – Netty Epoll Server IO #26/ERROR
- MC-89699 – 1.9 snapshots resetting chunks with tamed cats