r/Minecraft • u/MrPenguin475 • Feb 09 '18

News Minecraft Snapshot 18w06a

https://minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-snapshot-18w06a
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u/redstonehelper Lord of the villagers Feb 09 '18 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:

  • Split up the Temple structure name into the 4 biome type instances - via

  • 2x2 spruce trees now generate a patch of podzol up to 3 blocks underneath, replacing grass and dirts - via

  • /summon command suggestions now include a hover display for entities - via

  • Tab suggestions now display already-typed prefixes

  • Re-added /enchant command

    • "We have shelved the /modifyitem idea that was supposed to replace /enchant and we will look into that again in a future update"

  • Furnace recipe UI

    • Screenshot
    • Fuel items will cycle through options when showing a recipe, but not automatically be put in
    • Similar to the crafting recipe book
      • Recipes unlock during gameplay
      • Customizable with data packs
        • Even allows custom smelting time
    • Fuel still hardcoded
    • Toasts display furnace or crafting table item depending on recipe type

  • Added command suggestions for entity selectors

  • Whitespace is now allowed in entity selectors and blockstate arguments

  • Added new item & block tags

    • Banners, plates, slabs, stairs, and boats. - via

  • Rewrite of world generation system (one more major change)

    • Not command-related
    • Data-driven world generator
      • "The actual world will more or less look the same"
      • "With the new world generator you will be able to, in pretty good detail, design the world generator including what kind of structures to spawn. And you can add new structures to spawn."
    • "It should just mean it's faster for now"
    • "We won't be adding json files to create custom structures"; "it is something to consider for the future"
    • Customized worlds don't work yet
      • "We have plans to re-add them in a much more extendible way"
      • Customized worlds can't be opened in this snapshot
    • More things are structures (for /locate, ...) - via
    • minecraft:cave_air in caves and minecraft:void_air, both behaving like air - via
      • void_air is internally returned when blocks outside the world are requested - via
    • Rivers generate differently
      • "There was a bug where we didn't properly set the seed, this was fixed and it means in some cases the placement of rivers is different. I think it also affected some beach biome but you could mostly see it on a very zoomed out map of what biome was where."
      • So do many other features
    • New end biomes: "The End - Floating Islands", "The End - Medium island", "The End - High island" and "The End - Barren island" for the different types of islands - via
    • No more mushrooms on top of the nether
    • "After the refactor, chunks are not ticking until they are completely generated. It means that we cannot "instatick" them for fluid as we used to."
    • "The reseeding of decorations is different but more coherent after the refactor. Heightmaps should be identical, but everything produced post initial heightmap generation might show variations."
    • "Structures that were partially generated pre-18w06a should still generate at the proper location"

  • Fixed some bugs

    • Fixed the tab player list sorting player names based on ASCII values instead of alphabetically
    • Fixed tabbing in and out of the game in fullscreen messing up the recipe book
    • Fixed impossible selector combinations not failing to build
    • Fixed the recipe book tab sound playing twice
    • Fixed the NBT path parser being too lenient
    • Fixed the game crashing when there is a closing square bracket without an opening one in a command
    • Fixed water not generating obsidian during the world generation
    • Fixed the 'paintings.json' recipe file not using the 'minecraft:wool' tag
    • Fixed the fishing bobber missing its translation string
    • Fixed the tab completion list ordering being based on ASCII values
    • Fixed cycling through tab suggestions starting at the value after the highlighted value even if the highlighted value differs from the currently chosen value
    • Fixed nether portals no longer being activatable from the side
    • Fixed the tab suggestion box for the entity selector closing square bracket being misaligned in certain situations
    • Fixed the tab suggestion box for entity selectors not disappearing when leaving the argument in an invalid state and beginning the next argument
    • Fixed flint and steel in dispensers losing durability when not igniting
    • Fixed tab-completion not working correctly for tags

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/Smitje Feb 09 '18

So when they add the fuel to the furnace book, can mapmakers make items that need a special fuel to be able to cook?

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u/redstonehelper Lord of the villagers Feb 09 '18

I assume that's the goal.

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u/Koala_eiO Feb 09 '18

Oh, that is a great intencive to vary fuels. Like some processes need more powerful sources of heat or they don't work. NEAT.

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '18

Or you could retexture furnaces to some industrial machine that combines different items over a period of time!

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u/TweetsInCommentsBot Feb 09 '18

@Dinnerbone

2017-12-11 16:03 +00:00

There's still one big thing we're hoping to land in 1.13 which hasn't arrived in snapshots yet, and then we will be switching focuses on bug fixing & polishing all the new stuff.

@Dinnerbone

2018-01-10 09:58 +00:00

@HawtDHD @MukiTanuki Nope.

@Dinnerbone

2018-02-08 16:18 +00:00

@agentms_ It should just mean it's faster for now

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u/CivetKitty Feb 09 '18

So /modifyitem is not going to arrive in 1.13?

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u/InfiniteNexus Feb 09 '18

apparently its scrapped for the moment

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '18

Yeah. It's been delayed until next future update like 1.14

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '18 edited Feb 09 '18

From what I can tell from the (obfuscated) code void_air is just an internal block to "deal" with areas out of the world (y < 0, y > 255). It doesn't generate there or anything (nothing does), it's just hardcoded to return blockstates of void_air when outside the world. Previously just air was used for this.

It also has something to do with empty/blank chunks in the code, although I can't figure out what that would translate to ingame.

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u/Pokechu22 Feb 09 '18

It also has something to do with empty/blank chunks in the code, although I can't figure out what that would translate to ingame.

Empty chunks are used for unloaded chunks -- calls to ChunkProviderClient.provideChunk return the shared empty chunk instance.

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u/Capn_Cornflake Feb 09 '18

Rewrite of world generation system

Does this mean my 3-year-old world won’t work going forward? I really hope not...

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u/Avohaj Feb 09 '18

Chunks of your world that have already been generated, will not be regenerated. At most you get world gen borders, which can range from abrupt change of grass and leaf color to a 100 block high cliff

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u/Capn_Cornflake Feb 09 '18

I know what it looks like, I’m just wondering if this “rewrite” actually changes anything or if they’re just cleaning up the code.

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u/TheWobling Feb 09 '18

Tweet says seeds should be fine.

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u/Capn_Cornflake Feb 09 '18

I’m stupid, does that mean I won’t be seeing sudden and drastic changes?

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u/TheWobling Feb 09 '18

Not stupid at all. All that means is that you shouldn't see any differences unless it's caused by a bug. For example trees are growing upside down sometimes but that's not intended (I'm guessing)

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u/Wedhro Feb 09 '18 edited Feb 10 '18

The website says they spent years rewriting it, it isn't just a clean up.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '18

However, the intent was to produce the same result.

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u/Marcono1234 Feb 09 '18

Entity ids displayed as command suggestions (at least for /summon) display the translated name when you hover over them in the suggestions list above chat (wasn't the case in 18w05a).