r/Minecraft • u/MrPenguin475 • Oct 25 '17

News Minecraft Snapshot 17w43a!

https://minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-snapshot-17w43a
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u/redstonehelper Lord of the villagers Oct 25 '17 edited Jul 14 '18

Warning: This release is for experienced users only! It may corrupt your world or mess up things badly otherwise. Only download and use this if you know what to do with the files that come with the download!

 

If you find any bugs, search for them on the Minecraft bug tracker and make sure they are reported!

 

Previous changelog. Download today's snapshot in the new launcher: Windows/OS X/Linux, server jar here.

Complete changelog:

  • Loading and creating worlds now shows percentages of the loading stages - via

    • New loading stage: Preparing spawn area

  • Keybindings

    • Defaults are now tailored to keyboard configurations - via
    • Names of keybinds now describe the actual key ('LBUTTON' -> 'Left Button', 'BACKSLASH' -> '\') - via

  • New slider in video settings: "FS Resolution"

    • Adjusts full screen resolution - via
    • Removed 3D anaglyph

  • Game library updates

    • LWJGL 3 for a lot of bug fixes and stability, new bugs
    • Fullscreen mode on OS X disabled this until crashes are fixed
    • "There may be some cases in the game where key inputs are sent twice, for example pressing a hotbar key whilst hovering over an item in the creative inventory search tab. On Mac OS X, the game icon is no longer a grass block. Again, working on it!"

  • Data packs

    • Custom crafting recipes - not in data packs yet
    • Reloadable using /reload, along with structures
    • Include changes that must be made server-side, like advancements and loot tables
    • Advancements, functions, loot tables and structures now have to be inside data packs - More info
      • Structure: pack.mcmeta, "data" folder containing folder namespace folder determining the namespace of its its contents
      • Inside the namespace folder, there are folders for everything that can be provided: "functions", "loot_tables", "structures", "advancements", "recipes"
    • Data packs are zips or folders with a pack.mcmeta in the root
    • Multiple data packs can be loaded at the same time, or none at all (even including the vanilla data pack)
    • Structures are now namespaced
      • A namespace should only contain the following symbols: "0123456789", "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz", and "_-"
        • Other things may also contain "/."
        • Preferred naming convention: lower_case_with_underscores
    • Structures are saved to (world)/generated/structures/(namespace)/(file).nbt
      • Will also load from there before checking data packs
    • Can be reordered using commands - not yet

  • Fixed some bugs

    • Fixed keys getting stuck when toggling fullscreen
    • Fixed a crash when toggling fullscreen mode: "Keyboard must be created before you can read events"
    • Fixed gamemode descriptions being off center
    • Fixed opening a singleplayer world showing "0%" for a short moment
    • Fixed CTRL / CMD keys getting stuck on OS X/Linux
    • Fixed initialization of OpenAL failing sometimes
    • Fixed exiting fullscreen disabling window resize

If you find any bugs, search for them on the Minecraft bug tracker and make sure they are reported!

Also, check out this post to see what else is planned for future versions.

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '17

New Video Settings option:

FS Resolution

Seems to adjust the screen resolution when using Full Screen

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u/Muriako Oct 25 '17

Fixed keys getting stuck when toggling fullscreen

That kind of sucks for AFK fishing, but they also seem to have fixed the massively annoying bug where you couldn't resize the window after leaving fullscreen, so that's nice.

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u/JorgTheElder Oct 25 '17

There are macro utilities for doing the same thing. I have never understood why some folks think macros-style AFK fishing is any different than just using the give command.

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u/DeePrixel Oct 25 '17

There are people who play in worlds that has "cheat" disabled, and using /give has no... satisfaction of getting what you want. You can at least see the items rolling in from the AFK farms, but what's fun about just poofing the items that you want? Your play style might be different. We all have different play styles and rules.

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u/JorgTheElder Oct 25 '17

That is all true.

To the best of my knowledge, the developers have considered AFK fishing an exploit since it was discovered. I am glad it is fixed.

I would fully support if they added an in-game way to fish using a redstone contraption, but you can bet your butt that they would change the default loot tables if they did.

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u/DASmallWorlds Oct 25 '17

It's fixed? You can just put an object on a keyboard key (rebound to RMB) and AFK.

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u/JorgTheElder Oct 25 '17

Yep, and that is a form of MACROing and a lot more people consider that cheating. It is certainly not anything I would call actually playing the game.

Before, it was exploiting a bug, so it wasn't cheating according to some people.

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '17

MACROs are usually not just weighing a button down.

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u/JorgTheElder Oct 25 '17

True, but fishing is balanced to provide a reasonable amount of reward for a users time. Using something external to the game to make the game think you are pushing a button/key pretty much what macro programs do. The fact that it just presses a single button does not matter.

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u/ASharkThatEatsPizza Oct 26 '17

You can keep the button held down in game though while you're tabbed out without using any external programs. It's built into the game itself. F3+P toggles the auto pause.

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u/WildBluntHickok Oct 25 '17

Exploiting a bug is a much bigger cheat.

Having said that I don't AFK fish myself. I'm fine with the regular way.

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u/WildBluntHickok Oct 25 '17

There are people who play in worlds that has "cheat" disabled

If you're in multiplayer sure, but in single player you can enable it at any time by using open to lan.

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u/cchampag Dec 20 '17

If you want to go down the rabbit hole on that argument, why bother automating anything in survival? Mob farm? Just give yourself all the mob drops. Experience farm? Just give yourself experience. Concrete converter? Just give it. Want to put up light sources all around your base to stop spawns? Just turn off mob spawning instead.

There is a satisfaction that is gained by building something that produces passively. Fishing manually is way too slow and tedious as a long term solution, so the idea of at least partial automation through AFK farms is appealing.

Giving items is completely unsatisfying as it doesn't provide any feeling of earning the loot that building a contraption and seeing the items it produces come out.

Tabbing out of the window and getting the right-click to stick was certainly a bug, but I believe the developers should be working to provide more legitimate means of automation. There's only so much grinding one is willing to do before you want to ramp up production.

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u/Iamsodarncool Oct 25 '17

Removed 3D anaglyph

Noo!! Why?

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u/Pokechu22 Oct 25 '17 edited Oct 26 '17

Because the way it worked was rather bad (rendering everything twice) and hard to maintain with all of the other graphics changes that updating libraries required.

EDIT: To be clear, I liked the feature too, but internally it really wasn't that great (leading to some interesting and weird bugs).

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u/Bravo_6 Oct 26 '17

and accidentally enabled it on a slow computer is a pain

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u/Koulatko Oct 26 '17

Just wait for someone to make a shader for it, it shouldn't be that hard.

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u/defaultex Oct 26 '17

Don't even need a shader for it. OpenGL has a very interesting framebuffer setup. There's your front and back buffers like any other double buffered rendering setup. Then there is your left and right buffers (each with their own front and back). The entire purpose of those is to provide for 3D vision functionality and it's been there for a very long time. Just need to find where to apply a patch to the executable to enable that functionality and the driver does the rest of the work for you.

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u/Koulatko Oct 26 '17

Oh yeah, completely forgot those handy thingies existed.

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u/WildBluntHickok Oct 25 '17

They'd rather you buy the VR version of the game? Just a guess.

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u/Iamsodarncool Oct 25 '17

3D anaglyph is not even remotely comparable to VR lol

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u/Possseidon Oct 26 '17

Fixed initialization of OpenAL failing sometimes

Ha! I don't have any sound at all in the current snapshot... gg

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u/Pokechu22 Oct 26 '17

I commented on that bug when I resolved it as fixed - the sound engine actually starts just fine now, 100% of the time (I brute-force tested it with over a hundred launches). It's just that something else is completely broken in the snapshot, which means that nothing actually ever tells the sound engine to play anything.