16w02a is the forty-ninth snapshot released for Java Edition 1.9, and the first snapshot released in 2016.[1]
Additions[]
General[]
- Volume slider labeled "Voice/Speech" under "Music & Sounds".
- Intended to be used for voice acting in custom maps.[2]
Changes[]
Blocks[]
- Now translatable into other languages, for the purposes of superflat customization.
- Now immediately activate when placed on valid pyramids.
- Can no longer drop itself as an item.
- Now break faster with pickaxes.
- Now break faster with axes.
Items[]
- Changed damage/armor values again to protect armored players against "backstabbing" creepers.
- Reduction in effective defense points due to attack strength will no longer take the effective defense below 25% of the armor points.
- Max (20) armor points damage reduction increased back to 80% (was 66% since 15w36a).
Mobs[]
- General
- Mobs are now knocked back from non-entity damage sources such as cacti (reverted in 16w03a).
- When summoned using
/summon EnderDragon
will now stay in the same position no matter what.- Unlike summoning a dragon with
{NoAI:1b}
, it will still flap its wings. - These dragons do not show their boss health bar, nor do they take damage from any attack other than
/kill
.
- Unlike summoning a dragon with
Non-mob entities[]
- Marker
ArmorStand
s will now only outline their equipment when glowing.
Command format[]
/help
- Now outputs various messages prefixed by "Searge says:" when run in a command block.
- Now accepts a sound
<source>
as its second parameter.
m
- Now supports both negation and literal gamemode values.
- Example:
@p[m=!1]
,@p[m=c]
, and@p[m=!spectator]
.
- Example:
- Now supports both negation and literal gamemode values.
Gameplay[]
- Combat
- Attack cooldown does not have as great an effect on damage: reduction is linear 50%–100% rather than quadratic 0%–100%.
Fixes[]
- 35 issues fixed
- From released versions before 1.9
- MC-233 – The portal travel sounds
travel.ogg/trigger.ogg
swapped/played at wrong time. - MC-1072 – No translation for "Air" in the superflat customization.
- MC-4040 – Jump Sprinting on redstone wire produces grayscale particles.
- MC-4661 – Chickens (And small mobs) cannot path when standing in/next to fences.
- MC-14722 – Social zombies are not affected by
/gamerule doMobSpawning
. - MC-23952 – Bad alignment when using wide Unicode fonts.
- MC-27912 – Hindi: some text is not centered.
- MC-41542 – Displacement of mipmap levels slider in traditional Chinese language pack.
- MC-44140 – Acacia and dark oak stairs do not burn and cannot be lit with flint and steel.
- MC-46258 – The "ø" Character has an extra pixel.
- MC-46690 – Items and experience drop upon death in Spectator mode.
- MC-60692 – The game mode selector
m
doesn't work with negation. - MC-73304 – Scoreboard
teamkill."color"
is not registering entities. - MC-74072 – Unicode character "Small H with Stroke" (ħ) is one pixel too high.
- MC-74392 – Copying written books creates stacks of size 0, and duplicates the original.
- MC-76313 – Pressing the crouch key while flying will slow player down.
- MC-78557 – Buttons don't have a special tool assigned – compare pressure plates.
- MC-79604 – Explosions do not repel players in Creative mode.
- MC-81687 – Villagers accept fewer items for the same number of emeralds.
- MC-82677 –
/give @p minecraft:anvil 1 3
will crash the game.
- From the 1.9 development versions
- MC-85304 – Ender dragons go to X,Y,Z = 0,0,0 when spawned in any type of world.
- MC-87894 – Creeper explosion damage is disproportionate to armor protection and to damage from other mobs.
- MC-88268 – Glowing
CustomName
items have blurry names. - MC-88668 – Old hopper minecarts have
Enabled:0b
and do not gather items. - MC-89592 – Death screen death message still shows when
showDeathMessages
is false. - MC-89917 – Using pick block on boats only gives the oak variant.
- MC-92208 – Summoned
MinecartHopper
defaults toEnabled:0b
. - MC-92783 – Setting
LastOutput
of a command block to an invalid JSON string causes a crash. - MC-93083 – Sound sliders not working with the new sounds.
- MC-93093 – Console spam:
"PLAYER is sending move packets too frequently (19 packets since last tick)"
- MC-93119 – A survival player can obtain the bedrock item.
- From the previous development version
- MC-94466 – Zombies won't climb stairs.
- MC-94776 – Chicken will not follow a player with seeds up stairs.
- MC-95129 – Zombies don't want to walk up a block, in some situations.
- Private issues
Video[]
Video made by slicedlime:
Trivia[]
- 16w02a was previously removed from the launcher for some time, but was added back in September 2018.
References[]
- ↑ a b "Minecraft snapshot 16w02a" (Archive) by Searge – Mojang.com, Jan 13, 2016.
- ↑ "that's the idea, yes" – @SeargeDP (Michael Stoyke) on X, January 14, 2016