This guide is a simplified overview of all the changes in the Java Edition 1.8.x releases, which assumes at least some familiarity with The Update that Changed the World (Java edition 1.7.x releases).
Mobs
New
| Name | Image | Habitat | Drops | Notes |
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| Endermite | chance to spawn when a player or enderman teleports using an ender pearl. | |||
| Guardian | Spawns in ocean monuments. |
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Attacks squids and players with a beam. When on land it flops around but remains hostile. The player will also get damaged with a thorns like effect if it damages the guardian while their spikes are deployed (as if it's being prickled). | |
| Elder Guardian | A boss-like variant of Guardians, with greater health, greater size and different appearance. |
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There are 3 elders in each ocean monument.
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| Rabbit | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Drops rabbit hide, raw rabbit, cooked rabbit and rabbit's foot. |
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There are 3 elders in each ocean monument.
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Blocks
New
| Name | Image | Acquired | Tool Required | Uses |
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| Diorite | class="wikitable " data-description="Crafting recipes" | Ingredients | Crafting recipe | |
| Cobblestone + Nether Quartz |
| Diorite can be mined with any pickaxe. | Decoration block. |- | Andesite
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| {| class="wikitable " data-description="Crafting recipes"
!Ingredients!!Crafting recipe
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|Diorite +
Cobblestone
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|- |} | Andesite can be mined with any pickaxe. | Decoration block. |- | Coarse dirt
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| {| class="wikitable " data-description="Crafting recipes"
!Ingredients!!Crafting recipe
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|Dirt +
Gravel
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|- |} | Coarse dirt can be broken with any tool as well as by hand, with shovels being the fastest way to break them. | Replaces the grassless dirt variant found in mega taiga, mesa and savanna biomes. | Slightly darker texture than regular dirt. | Tilling coarse dirt with a hoe will turn it to regular dirt. |- | Prismarine
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| Generates in ocean monuments. | The cracks in prismarine appear to slowly change color between brown, blue, gray and purple. |- | Prismarine bricks
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| Generates in ocean monuments. |- | Dark prismarine
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| Generates in ocean monuments. |}
Items
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To be added
Biomes
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Structures
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