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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
Endermite
Endermite Revision 2
chance to spawn when a player or enderman teleports using an ender pearl.
Guardian
Guardian Revision 1
Spawns in ocean monuments. 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
Elder Guardian Revision 1
A boss-like variant of Guardians, with greater health, greater size and different appearance. There are 3 elders in each ocean monument.


When on land it flops around but remains hostile.
A flashing boss guardian will appear on screen when close to the boss guardian, and Mining Fatigue III will be inflicted on the player for 5 minutes.

Rabbit Brown Rabbit Revision 1Albino Rabbit Revision 1Black Rabbit Revision 1Gold Rabbit Revision 1Salt & Pepper Rabbit Revision 1Black & White Rabbit Revision 1Toast Rabbit Revision 1 Drops rabbit hide, raw rabbit, cooked rabbit and rabbit's foot. There are 3 elders in each ocean monument.


Rabbits have the same AI as the most other passive mobs, and jump around randomly.
Makes little squeaky sounds when hurt or killed.

Blocks

New

Name Image Acquired Tool Required Uses
Diorite
Ingredients Crafting recipe
Cobblestone +
Nether Quartz
Diorite can be mined with any pickaxe. Decoration block.
Andesite
Ingredients Crafting recipe
Diorite +
Cobblestone
Andesite can be mined with any pickaxe. Decoration block.
Coarse dirt
Coarse Dirt
Ingredients Crafting recipe
Dirt +
Gravel

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
Ingredients Crafting recipe
Prismarine Shard
Generates in ocean monuments. The cracks in prismarine appear to slowly change color between brown, blue, gray and purple.
Prismarine bricks
Ingredients Crafting recipe
Prismarine Shard

Generates in ocean monuments.
Dark prismarine
Ingredients Crafting recipe
Prismarine Shard +
Ink Sac

Generates in ocean monuments.

Items

New

To be added

Biomes

New

To be added

Structures

New

To be added

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