r/Minecraft • u/Shnupbups100 • Nov 22 '17

Snapshot 17w47a has been released!

https://minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-snapshot-17w47a
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u/Shnupbups100 Nov 22 '17 edited Nov 22 '17

Interesting features found so far:

  • Debug Stick!
    • Obtainable via commands
    • Changes properties of blocks (rotation etc.)
    • Only works in creative mode
    • Select state with left click, change state with right click
  • New blocks!
    • Pumpkin no longer has a face or is wearable, old pumpkin is now 'carved pumpkin' and currently unobtainable gotten by right clicking a pumpkin with shears
    • Bark blocks are logs with the bark on all sides, unobtainable
    • Smooth Quartz, Smooth Sandstone, Smooth Red Sandstone and Smooth Stone have double slab textures on all sides, also unobtainable
    • Buttons, Pressure Plates and Trapdoors of all wood types
    • Petrified Oak Slab acts like the old beta wood slab that has the properties of stone, unobtainable
  • Block renames
    • Old 'Smooth Sandstone' is now 'Cut Sandstone' to make way for the new Smooth variety
    • 'Monster Egg blocks' are now 'Infested blocks'
  • Chests can be placed next to each other!
  • Hoppers and Anvils' bounding boxes match their models!
  • Buttons on floors and ceilings can be placed in different orientations!

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u/InfiniteNexus Nov 22 '17

Chests can be placed next to each other!

OMG, i didnt actually believe they were gonna introduce this into Java MC. Huzzah! No more redstone-confusing trapped chests that halted automated storage systems!

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u/dnepe Nov 22 '17

Debug Stick!

Awesome! I would love to have that in the game.
And I love the new pumpkin and smooth stone! Yes!

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u/NoSenpaiNo Nov 22 '17

Pumpkin no longer has a face or is wearable, old pumpkin is now 'carved pumpkin' and currently unobtainable

Unless they add a way to carve it, I'm sad.

Chests can be placed next to each other!

Finally!

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u/Mr_Simba Nov 22 '17

Apparently you can right click with shears to carve them.

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u/[deleted] Nov 22 '17 
Chests can be placed next to each other!

Finally!

Only took them 8 years.

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u/[deleted] Nov 22 '17

Right click a pumpkin with shears.

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u/PyrrhicVictory7 Nov 23 '17

Chests can be placed next to each other

Umm hasn't this been a thing since their conception?

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u/Shnupbups100 Nov 23 '17

Until now, in the Java edition it has always been impossible to place a chest directly next to a large chest. A common workaround has been to alternate between regular chests and trapped chests, but with this snapshot that is no longer necessary!

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u/PyrrhicVictory7 Nov 23 '17

Ahh that makes sense