Java Edition 18w50a

Minecraft 18w50a

Edition	Java Edition
Type	Snapshot
Release date	December 12, 2018
Snapshot for	1.14
Downloads	Client (.json) Server
Protocol version	451
Data version	1919
◄◄ 1.13.2 ◄ 18w49a 19w02a ► 1.14.1 ►►

18w50a is the twelfth snapshot for Java Edition 1.14, released on December 12, 2018, the last of the year. It adds a new type of cat, a villager profession, a new statistic, functionality to barrels, blast furnaces, and smokers, and more.

Additions

Mobs

Cats

• Added Jellie, the winner of the community competition.

Villagers

• Added Mason profession.
  • Currently has no trades.

Gameplay

Sounds

• Added Bell sound.
• Added raid horn sounds.

Statistics

• New "Barrels opened" statistic.

Changes

Blocks

Barrels

• Added functionality
  • Now acts as a storage unit.
  • Works in tight spaces, even if there is a block above it, unlike a chest.
• Can now be crafted using 6 wood planks and 2 wood slabs

Beds, cobblestone, emerald Blocks, end stone, grass, jigsaw blocks, mossy cobblestone, nether quartz ores, quartz pillars, red nether bricks, red sandstone, sandstone, spruce planks

• Changed texture.

Bells

• Added sounds.
• Has a shaking animation when hit or right-clicked.
  • Based on the position and facing, bells can only be hit in some certain directions, and will only shake in those directions.
• Changed texture.
• Changed model for ceiling bells and added models for wall bells.
• Can now be placed on walls.
• Changed block states face=ceiling|floor|wall to attachment=ceiling|double_wall|floor|single_wall.

Blast furnaces

• Added functionality
  • Able to smelt ores twice as fast as the normal furnace, but only gives half the experience.
  • Cannot smelt anything other than ores.
• Can now be crafted using 3 smooth stone, 1 furnace, and 5 iron ingots.

Enchanting tables

• Changed obsidian side and bottom textures.

Smokers

• Added functionality
  • Able to smelt food twice as fast as the normal furnace, but only gives half the experience.
  • Cannot smelt anything other than food.
• Can now be crafted using 4 logs and 1 furnace.

Stripped jungle logs

• Changed top texture.

Items

Baked potatoes, fermented spider eyes, all horse armor, potatoes, poisonous potatoes, rabbit stew

• Changed texture.

Mobs

Cats

• Will now spawn naturally in villages.

Giants

• Now use zombie AI.
• Now have all NBT that zombies have.

Villagers

• Villagers and zombie villagers now have seven skin types which correspond to the following biomes:
  • Plains
  • Desert
  • Savanna
  • Taiga/mountain
  • Snowy tundra/snowy taiga
  • Jungle
  • Swamp
• Villagers now have five profession levels, showing how many trade tiers they've unlocked by a badge of a varying material on their suit.
  • The first trade tier is represented by a stone badge, the next iron, then gold, emerald and finally diamond.
  • Some of the professions have less than five tiers in total.
    • If a villager summoned by a command has a higher level than its natural highest level, its badge can still be seen, however, the player wouldn't be able to interact with it.
• Cured zombie villagers will retain their trades when they are converted back into regular villagers.

Witches

• Are now neutral mobs.
• Changed appearance.
  • Both of these changes were unintentional.

Non-mob entities

Boat

• Changed texture.

Thrown eggs, thrown ender pearls, thrown bottles o' enchanting, eyes of ender, ghast fireballs, blaze fireballs (fire charge), and snowballs

• Now have an optional Item tag that can specify a different item stack to render.

World generation

Villages

• Updated taiga and desert villages.
• Updated village pieces from plains, savanna and snowy villages.
• New loot chests for fletcher houses: can contain emeralds, arrows, feathers, eggs, flint, sticks.

Gameplay

Raids

• Patrol leaders now give 1–3 Bad Omen levels when killed. Pillager outpost patrol leaders always give 1 level only.
• Patrol leaders can now spawn at outposts.
• Illager beasts start spawning at wave 2, witches at wave 4, and evokers at wave 10.

Command format

Villager NBT

Removed the following NBT information:

• •  Profession: The ID of the texture used for this villager.
  •  Career: The ID of this villager's career.
  •  CareerLevel: The current level of this villager's trading options.

Added the following NBT information:

• •  VillagerData: Information about the villager's profession.‌
    •  level: The current level of this villager's trading options ( 1... ) and at the same time its displayed badge ( capped at 5 ).
    •  profession: Namespaced ID value.
    •  type: Namespaced ID value.

Zombie Villager NBT

Removed the following NBT information:

• •  Profession: The ID of the texture used for this zombie-villager.

Added the following NBT information:

• •  VillagerData: Information about the villager's profession.‌
  •  Offers: Copied from converted villager.‌

General

Advancements

• Updated "A Complete Catalogue" to require the new cat skin.

Fixes

36 issues fixed

From released versions before 1.14

• MC-15990 – The base of farms in desert villages are composed of dirt.
• MC-85128 – Fireball doesn't use model.
• MC-102893 – Villages in other biomes don't have their respective saplings.
• MC-109268 – Loading world with cast fishing rod makes fishing rod cast sound.
• MC-114760 – Client may display incorrect villager career name.
• MC-116355 – Villagers don't run away from illusioners.
• MC-120687 – Desert churches have sandstone stairs inside of a cobblestone building.
• MC-123025 – Destroying moving blocks with TNT always drops the block.
• MC-123312 – Pressure plate tables in villages are oak instead of village type specific wood.
• MC-123729 – Villagers not remembering correct profession.
• MC-124029 – The game removing unknown recipes is not logged as an error.
• MC-127963 – Having vex as a passenger to a mob causes erratic AI behavior.
• MC-129537 – save-all returns before data is saved.
• MC-130786 – Chests spawning with the exact same items.
• MC-132529 – Villager egg with custom career make him does strange trades.
• MC-133398 – Level of moisture of farmland in village is 0
• MC-135759 – Blacksmith houses in desert villages are partially made out of sandstone.

From the 1.14 development versions

• MC-137921 – Polished andesite, polished diorite and all stripped logs using old textures.
• MC-138587 – The bell-face "wall" have no texture.
• MC-138611 – Barrels containing items lose inventory when broken.
• MC-138660 – Throwable/Projectile entity item model not apply CustomModelData from model.
• MC-138662 – Bell can't be placed on walls.
• MC-138667 – Villagers use their old texture.
• MC-138880 – Stray cats won't spawn in villages.
• MC-138938 – Container NBT not loading in chunk when player loads inside chunk.
• MC-139225 – Pillager arms incorrectly positioned when riding or unarmed.
• MC-139423 – Next to last growth stage of wheat looks too similar to its mature stage.
• MC-139428 – Missing texture particles appear when breaking jigsaw blocks.
• MC-139665 – "Preparing spawn area" can sometimes display negative numbers and percentages over 100
• MC-140018 – Glitch with Illager raid mobs.
• MC-140069 – Banners lose their name when placed (49a: wall only).
• MC-140246 – Chest in the blacksmith in plains village is missing a loot table.
• MC-140300 – Villagers spawned with spawn eggs have different trade lists than those naturally spawned.
• MC-140853 – Being close to the end island causes out of memory and file descriptor exhaustion.

From the previous development version

• MC-140887 – Unused loot table "minecraft:chests/village/village_taiga_house".

From the current version, hotfixed

• MC-140917 – Bell doesn't have a sound.

Video

Video made by slicedlime: