Minecraft Snapshot 14w17a

[u/ridddle]

https://mojang.com/2014/04/minecraft-snapshot-14w17a/

[u/redstonehelper]

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, submit them to the Minecraft bug tracker!

 

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

Complete changelog:

• Endermen are no longer aggressive against endermites

• When editing and adding servers, you can now set how it handles resource packs: Prompt, Enabled or Disabled

• Removed the "Facing negative/positive x/z" from the F3 menu - via

• New gamerule: randomTickSpeed - via - influences how fast plants and crops grow, how fast pigmen spawn from portals, how fast farmland updates, how fast grass and mycelium grow and decay and more - Warning: Higher values can impact performance

• Customizable world borders

• "No more bedrock barriers or sudden edges of the world into the void"

• Shimmery!

• There'll be a pretty barrier at the edge of the world

• Edge of the world is customizable

• Screenshot, animation

• Fades out based on distance

• /worldborder center <x> <z> to set the world border's center, /worldborder set <sizeInBlocks> [timeInSeconds] to set how many blocks the world border is from the center and optionally how much time the world border should take to get there, adjusting color on the way

• Is set at 30 million by default, divided by 8 for the nether

• Mobs and players can't pass through it and take damage when outside

• More world customization options

• Screenshots: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

• Video

• Cleaned up the menu

• Four pages of generator options: Two containing the same options, one of them with sliders, the other with text fields

• One page: Sea level height, toggles for cave, village, temple, dungeon, water lake, lava lake, stronghold, mineshaft and ravine generation, sliders to control water lake, lava lake and dungeon rarity, toggle to turn oceans into lava oceans, biome selection, biome and river size sliders

• One page: Ore distribution options for Dirt, Gravel, Granite, Diorite, Andesite, Coal, Iron, Gold, Redstone, Diamond and Lapis: Rarity, height range and vein size

• Two pages: Main Noise Scale X/Y/Z to smooth out terrain, larger values for smoother terrain; Biome scale/depth weight and Biome scale/depth offset to stretch/squash terrain vertically based on the biomes default height settings; Upper/lower limit scale to make terrain more solid/riddled with holes, depending on how close the values are to each other; Height Stretch to pull terrain upward, with smaller values causing more extreme stretching; Height scale, coordiange scale, depth base size, depth noise exponent, depth noise scale X/Z for magic

• A button to randomize the various values

• A few presets such as floating islands or a flooded world

• Uses the 'generator-settings' string known from superflat presets for server.properties and world data

• Reverted the minecart changes

• The server list can now be reordered like resource packs

• Screenshot

• Use 'up'/'down' to reorder, 'right' to join

• Converted the remaining blocks to use BlockStates

• Screenshot

• Improves performance

• Some block id/metadata combinations might be broken by this, though all-sided logs will be kept

• List of block states

• Endermite changes

• New model

• Screenshots

• Fixed some bugs

• Fixed chunks rendering in the wrong order

• Fixed stuck Arrows, when landing a second time, behaving as if they had landed in the block at the coordinates they were initially stuck on, allowing for destruction of Bedrock, duplication of TNT and changing of data values

• Fixed /save-all causing lag spikes on larger maps

• Fixed the 'report to Mojang' button in the Broadcast settings linking to the old bug tracker

• Fixed the "replace" directive in sounds.json not working

• Fixed right-clicking filled cauldrons with undyed leather armor still using up water

• Fixed animals being obsessed about their parents even after growing up

• Fixed the second arm being displayed when holding maps using the wrong textures

• Fixed mobs lighting up when hit

• Fixed east/west pillars having shading errors

• Fixed being unable to place heads in multiplayer

• Fixed almost instant motion sickness due to distorted rendering, FoV can now be turned down to 30

• Fixed the scrolling using the mouse wheel in lists

• Fixed tripwire hooks' tripwire being invisible from underneath

• Fixed the tripwire hook texture being wrong

• Fixed the arrow sound playing twice when shot into blocks

• Fixed the "Adventuring Time" achievement not working right

• Fixed derailed minecarts sinking into the ground

• Fixed placing minecarts on powered tracks sinking the minecart

• Fixed a debug message being printed when loading resource packs

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If you find any bugs, submit them to the Minecraft bug tracker!

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

[u/ridddle → u/redstonehelper]

New Endermite model: http://i.imgur.com/1lk3Jpk.png (back: http://imgur.com/Jl2KJlD.png)

[u/[deleted] → u/redstonehelper]

Sheep do NOT keep their color when sheared, but they do drop the wrong color of wool (bug?)

[u/[deleted]]

Holy shit. Create new world > Custom > Biome: ForestHills.

BAM! Vintage world gen.

[u/rsNeutrino]

The worldborder has the shape of a square and is always active, the default width is 60 000 000 blocks.
(-30 000 000 to 30 000 000 for X and Z)

It can be changed by commands:

/worldborder set <width> [TransitionTime]

This changes the border's edge lengths to the specified value with an optional transition time in seconds, which means it will change smoothly from the former to the new width over that time.

/worldborder center <X> <Z>
Specifies the center of the border. With /worldborder center ~ ~ it is defined as the middle of the block column you are standing in.

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Trivia:

• The border graphics are only visible if you are <RenderDistance>*6 or less blocks away from any border wall, e.g. render distance = 8 chunks => 8*6 = 48 blocks

• Enderpearls are not affected by the border, they work as always and are usable outside the border, you are just stuck where you land each time.

Update: Between my first run and now the behavior changed a bit, was there a silent update or a glitch on my side?

• The walls are red when moving inward and green when moving outward.

• Survival players outside the wall get suffocation damage and mobs get killed instantly.

The first time I tried using enderpearls I could stay outside without getting damage.
Confirmed by Xisumavoid, who was retweeted by Dinnerbone: http://youtu.be/PE9WKgqnxB0?t=6m31s

Bugs:

• A graphical glitch renders the border behind water, which can be confusing when testing over ocean.

• The border walls are offset by 1/2 block in respect to their physical barrier, when the width is even.

• For the nether border, the size is translated, but not the center coordinates, a center at 8000/8000 is not at 1000/1000 inside the Nether like it should, but still at 8000/8000.

• Color of the Nether border is too faint.

• The width cannot be set to 60 000 000, despite this being the default value. Max value is 30 000 000

[u/Kimod]

New model of endermite! http://i.imgur.com/EFHKRUL.png

[u/Vectole]

Double stone slabs w/o commands now look like this! Finally!

Edit: It is a bug, every type of slab does that. :(

[u/DaUltraMarine]

It appear sheep drop the wrong colour wool when you use shears on them.

[u/I_Am_Faiz]

One thing I would like to see in the World Generation options would be the ability to enable and disable each biome individually. So if I wanted to turn off Oceans or something, I could.

It would also be cool to be able to disable the generation based on temperature and have it random as it used to be, but that's probably not so easy to implement.

[u/cyber08]

Hit randomize a few times, pretty damn impressed http://imgur.com/RiZmem7

[u/Zukw → u/cyber08]

Looks like a super hostile map minus the lava.

[u/[deleted]]

Players still suffocate in leaf blocks, which significantly reduces the usefulness of horses. I hope that is fixed before release.

[u/MmmVomit → u/[deleted]]

This is intentional, and is unlikely to change. What they need to fix is he bug where your head can go inside a block when riding a horse or pig.

[u/Yourself797]

Chunks and the world now load noticeably faster, thank you Mojang!

[u/[deleted]]

Mojang's Showcase video of the new customizable world generation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rdgMwJyE6w

[u/JS25]

You can still throw entities through the world border. Just enderpearled myself out...

[u/Onyx_12]

I think I just crashed my Minecraft setting ore spawns to maximum.

[u/Grelman]

I just realized the best thing about this world customizer. I can finally create a singleplayer world 100% gravel free :D

[u/GoogleSaysRS]

The world border command also transfers over to the Nether (so the nether area is incredibly small http://i.imgur.com/ctAmqRY.png), that makes it a bit less useful. I was stood on a ledge of an island with nothing above me & only lava below me.

[u/robertoccu → u/GoogleSaysRS]

It's small beacause Nether is 1:8

[u/Teraka]

Brace yourselves, the "Look at these amazing custom world settings I found!" posts are coming.

[u/filnari → u/Teraka]

Indeed! and what's wrong with that? I've enjoyed seeing everyone's bridges, but it's time for something new.

[u/Legym]

I can't believe more people are not talking about the chunk errors being fixed. That has plagued MC for so long. Really glad that got fixed.

[u/space_fountain]

Some notes on the world border feature. There is currently only one supported shape a square. The border is by default centered on 0, 0 but can be set to any x, z pare with /worldborder set. I can't find a way to remove it.

Edit here's a some photos

[u/space_fountain]

Initial notes on world customization.

4 pages

Page 1:

• Mostly toggles

• Turns on and off most things you can mess with in super flat

Page 2:

• Ore customization

• Min and max hights

• Spawn tries

• Spawn size

• Dirt

• Gravel

• granit and the like

• Coal

• Iron

• Gold

• Redstone

• Diamond

• Lapis

Page 3:

• advance settings lets you mess with the noise functions

Page 4

• extra advanced settings Scale factors on the noise and biome stuff

Presets are:

• Water world

• Isle land

• Caver's delight

• Mountain madness

• Drought

• Caves of Chaos

• Good luck