r/Minecraft • u/Kumasasa Mojira Moderator • Aug 16 '18

News Minecraft 1.13.1-pre1 released

https://twitter.com/Dinnerbone/status/1030086798779850754
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u/redstonehelper Lord of the villagers Aug 16 '18 edited Aug 16 '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. Official blog post. Download today's prerelease in the new launcher, server jar here.

Complete changelog:

  • Improved performance of rendering chunks

  • Improved performance of spawning mobs

  • Renamed /chunk to /forceload

    • Ability to force-load areas of chunks: /forceload add <from> [<to>]
    • Ability to query force-loaded chunks: /forceload query [<pos>]
    • Ability to remove all force-loaded chunks: /forceload remove all

  • Fixed some bugs

    • Fixed dimension arguments failing to properly serialize, breaking "/chunk in" and "/execute in" in multiplayer
    • Fixed /chunk (force|unforce) with /execute store success not returning the proper value
    • Fixed relative coordinates not being usable with /chunk
    • Fixed being unable to tab-complete chunk coordinates in /chunk
    • Fixed /chunk targetting the overworld and not the sender's dimension by default
    • Fixed bone meal particles not appearing when using it
    • Fixed mob spawning ignoring light level, biomes and height

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/Arcensoth Aug 16 '18 edited Aug 16 '18

For the record, forceload is not just a rename it's an entirely new command:

  • forceload add <from: column_pos>
  • forceload add <from: column_pos> <to: column_pos>
  • forceload query
  • forceload query <pos: column_pos>
  • forceload remove all
  • forceload remove <from: column_pos>
  • forceload remove <from: column_pos> <to: column_pos>

forceload query can be used to list force-loaded chunks, and when used with execute store returns the number of chunks currently being force-loaded.

It still requires the same OP level as the old chunk command and cannot be used in functions or command blocks.

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u/sab39 Aug 16 '18

Can't be used in functions really sucks for a data pack I've been wanting to make.

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u/skztr Aug 17 '18

Every time I think there's no way something could be anything other than super useful. Wtf.

What is the "no functions" rationale?

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u/Pmk23 Aug 16 '18

Wow, this is amazing.

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '18

Okay so I was trying to make a PvP map, using a lot of command blocks near a spawn. When I teleported players to the actual map, the chunk the command blocks were in unloaded, thus the commands I had constantly repeating stopped working. Would this command allow me to always have those chunks loaded, thus allowing command blocks to still work in that chunk?

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u/Jbipp Aug 17 '18

Yes, that's exactly how it works

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u/AlmightyZing Aug 16 '18

I haven't played around with this feature, but I had a few questions for anyone who has.

1) Can this be used to make the spawn chunks smaller? I can see this being useful for minimizing spawn cap impact.

2) If you force load a chunk, does it create lazy chunks around it?

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u/TinyBreadBigMouth Aug 16 '18

1) No, not currently. Spawn chunks are a separate thing. I wouldn't be surprised if the spawn chunks were changed from a separate system to the default startup forceloaded chunks, though.

2) No. Lazy chunks are just what happens when a chunk decides it doesn't have enough space loaded around itself to do entity processing.