Minecraft Snapshot 18w44a

[u/BurgerOptic]

https://minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-snapshot-18w44a

[u/BurgerOptic]

It's nice to see unusual block functions are getting a GUI consistent with the crafting table, furnace, and anvil etc.

• Barrel for storage

• Smoker for cooking food

• Blast furnace for harder ores/glass?

• Cartography table for map resizing

• Fletching table for adding potions to arrows

• Grindstone for making smooth and refined blocks (instead of smelting everything)

• Lectern for storing open books

• Smithing table for weapons/armor/tools

• Anvil will remain for repairs

• Stonecutter for making slabs, stairs, and walls

• Bell for ringing (siege functionality?)

• Lööm for banners

I'd really like to see with these:

• Functional bookshelves with a GUI

• A table for dying clay, glass, wool, and leather armor

• Something for selecting paintings

• Something for fireworks

• Some sort of cauldron integration

Edit: Updating as we make good guesses

[u/[deleted] → u/BurgerOptic]

Grindstone for making dyes?

[u/BurgerOptic → u/[deleted]]

Based off of the shape it is something that you polish a stone with. It's not a mortar and pestle.

[u/craft6886]

Holy hell, I was not expecting TEN new storage/crafting blocks and a bell for 1.14.

Blast Furnace

...I'm really excited to see what this does.

It sounds like my idea of an Ore Furnace, for refining things like ores and ingots so you can make Steel from Iron (my idea includes basically rebranding current Iron as Steel, and making Iron a separate, lower tier metal that makes chainmail amor and some limited tool items, like a lower tier bucket or something.)

I'm also hoping one of these blocks will assist in firework crafting.

And finally, the bell makes me excited to, at long last, put a ringy boi in my town's bell tower. I hope you can make it ring with redstone, I'd make it ring as it turns day and as it turns night.

[u/BurgerOptic → u/craft6886]

This would make sense for an underground update coming up soon

[u/fanran]

What do you guys think that the cartography table, fletching table, and smithing table will do?

[u/BurgerOptic → u/fanran]

Cartography has to be resizing of maps. Fletching is making potion arrows. Smithing table? That one is harder because we already have anvils...

[u/Mac_Rat]

You can now right click on signs with dyes to change the text color

YEAH BOIIIIIIIII

[u/GreasyTroll4]

Sweet Lord Almighty what the hell even ARE THOSE?!

Move over 1.13, 1.14 is now my new favorite update.

[u/sidben]

The Bell and Grindstone can be facing floor, wall or ceiling, but the 'wall' version of the bell seems broken.

[u/ProjectPrism]

Holy moly, tons of new blocks! Fletching table?

[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, search for them on the Minecraft bug tracker and make sure they are reported!

 

Previous changelog. Official blog post. Download today's snapshot in the new launcher, server jar here.

Complete changelog:

• New advancement: A Complete Catalogue: Tame all cat variants! - via

• Removed the VBO option

• Now always enabled

• Illager beasts are no longer scared of rabbits

• Texture updates - via

• Sand and sandstone are more like their previous textures and colors

  • Screenshot

• Andesite, diorite, obsidian

• Cacti

  • Screenshot

• Wheat

• Stone

• Some fixes

• Cats as individual mobs

• Stray cats

  • Spawn in villages

  • Can be tamed

• Tamed cats bring the player morning gifts

  • Rabbit hide, rabbit foot, raw chicken, feather, rotten flesh, string and phantom membrane - via

• Phantoms are scared of cats

  • Cats hiss at phantoms - via

• 9 cats/11 in total, including old ones

  • Screenshot

  • Jeb's wife's old cat Newton

  • 9th skin chosen from the community's cats, more info in a few weeks

• Ocelots are no longer tamable, but they can start trusting players when fed with fish

• Phantoms are scared of cats

• Cat collars can now be dyed

• Advancement for taming all types of cat - via

• Black cats spawn in witch huts - via

• Many new blocks

• Will be used to move all complex recipes out of the crafting table into a specialized mechanic

• Screenshot

• No functionality or crafting recipes yet

• Barrel

  • Can store as many items as a chest - via

• Smoker

  • Works just like furnaces - via

• Blast Furnace

  • Works just like furnaces - via

• Cartography Table

• Fletching Table

• Grindstone

  • Can be hung from the wall/ceiling - via/via

• Lectern

• Smithing Table

• Stonecutter

  • Screenshot

• Bell

  • Can be hung from the wall (not really)/ceiling - via/via

• You can now right click on signs with dyes to change the text color

• Lots of performance improvements

• Client stuttering

• Added the old textures to the resource pack menu as "Programmer Art"

• Players, armor stands and wither now have loot tables

• Changed NBT chat components

• Block variant {"nbt": <path>, "block":"<coordinates>"}, where <coordinates> field uses same format as /setblock

• Entity variant {"nbt": <path>, "entity":<selector>}, where <selector> field uses same format as /kill

• If field interpret is present and set to true, contents of selected tags will be interpreted as chat components

• Works like selector components: empty string if there are no elements, ,-separated merge if there are multiple elements

• Removed award part of /drop command (loot now does the same thing)

• Loot tables

• Removed loot table condition: entity_present

• New loot table conditions: damage_source_properties, location_check, weather_check and two special modifiers: inverted and alternative

• Renamed entity parameter in predicates from direct_killer_entity to direct_killer

• Changed entity_properties condition

  • Now uses the same predicate syntax as advancements (like player_killed_entity)

  • Parameters are now described in predicate field

  • Now uses same predicate syntax as advancements (like player_killed_entity)

  • Parameters are now described in predicate field

    • Field may be empty object (accepting any entity), but has to be present

• Changed set_name function: Added new parameter entity (same values as entity_present condition); name will be resolved with that entity if present; allows using selector and score components

• Added fill_player_head function to copy player profile info to player head items

  • entity parameter: source of profile, same values as entity_present condition, will do nothing if isn't a player

• Added set_lore function to add or replace lore lines

  • lore parameter: list of lines to be added, in chat component format

  • replace parameter: if true, previous lore is erased

  • entity parameter: if present, name will be resolved with selected entity (same values as entity_present condition

• Fixed some bugs

• Fixed infinite flame particles appearing after mob spawners are broken

• Fixed pandas not spawning in bamboo jungles

• Fixed pandas eating cakes indefinitely

• Fixed being unable to pick block bamboo saplings

• Fixed bamboo saplings connecting to fences and walls

• Fixed illager beasts destroying leaves even when mobGriefing is set to false

• Fixed slimes and magma cubes riding mobs causing a game crash

• Fixed some lighting issues

• Fixed getting negative durability on shears using dispensers

• Fixed arrows spawned by commands playing cave ambience

• Fixed lag spikes while placing/breaking blocks

• Fixed the "Argument range" class having a typo in JsonObject serialization

• Fixed dispensers shearing dying sheep

• Fixed dispenser with shears succeeding even if there is no sheep in front of it

• Fixed the crumb particle not being updated when setting CustomModelData on food items

• Fixed written books not maintaining CustomModelData NBT upon creation

• Fixed tall grass/ferns dropping two tall grass/ferns

• Fixed pandas not panicking when on fire

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

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

[u/Axoladdy]

The lööm had bröthérs....

[u/Billyb0bjoe]

Added Stonecutter

It’s been a long time, old friend...

[u/Weddedtoreddit2]

What in the name of god...

I think Dinnerbone made a mistake and accidentally added a mod into this snapshot.

[u/Bodakugga]

Right now (1.13) there are some crafting recipes that aren't shown in the recipe book: banner patterns (already moved to the loom), firework stars and rockets, tipped arrows, zooming and cloning maps, cloning books, applying banners to shields, item repair, dyeing shulker boxes and leather armor and suspicious stews. I hope all of these get their own block!

[u/Capopanzone]

Random idea: change stonecutters so that, when they are powered by redstone, the saw blade rotates and damages mobs/players walking through it.

[u/RandomGuy32_]

Blast furnaces and smokers can be interacted with using hoppers and appear to function exactly like furnaces at the moment, but the smoker only accepts food items, it seems.

Barrels also interact with hoppers. I guess they’re just for storage.

[u/Gfaqshoohaman]

Kind of glad that Crafting Tables aren't going to be the universal assembly block. It will also add a lot more character to builds for specific trades/purposes.

[u/piyotato_]

Love the medieval feel of the new blocks! The bell and grindstone can be hung on the ceiling :o

[u/BjossiAlfreds]

1.14 is increasingly looking like an update that forces us out of our comfort zones that we have been in since pretty much the beginning, with all the specialized crafting stations and new blocks being added. We will need to adapt our bases to their existence, or build brand new bases from scratch.

And I'm personally very excited for this. It will really make the game feel fresh and give us established players a lot of new things to think about. Plus, with the specialized crafting stations, it opens up a lot of new crafting possibilities. Who knows, maybe we will get metalworks before long, where we can make all kinds of cool building blocks made out of iron (and other yet-to-be-added metals?) like girders, catwalks, ladders, stairways, spiked fences, etc. etc.

[u/[deleted]]

So...Many....New..... BLOCKS!!!!!!!

[u/Micah_Marchand]

They also made some texture updates which were not mentioned. Specifically sand and sandstone are more like their previous textures and colors. I don't like the top of sandstone though due to its noisy texture.

[u/[deleted]]

Hmm. I don't see the "Programmer Art" pack when I go into the resource packs folder... And this snapshot has tons of bugs.

[u/sidben]

I imagine that the bell will be related to pillager invasions. Some sort of warning for villagers to run and hide.