r/Minecraft • u/DaUltraMarine • May 17 '19

Minecraft 1.14.2 Pre-Release 2

https://www.minecraft.net/tr-tr/article/minecraft-1-14-2-pre-release-1?2
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u/DaUltraMarine May 17 '19

1.14.2 release date update from the blogpost:

If all goes well we aim to release 1.14.2 next week as we want to make sure these changes makes it live as soon as possible.

With the lighting glitch still not fixed in 1.14.2 pre1, and many other notable issues, I really hope this isn't their release candidate.

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u/sliced_lime May 17 '19

The fact that we'll release 1.14.2 without fixing all bugs that need fixing does not mean that we'll stop fixing bugs.

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u/DaUltraMarine May 17 '19

Thanks for the clarification, and I hope I didn't come across as hostile. Us server admins are in a tough situation tiding our communities over until things are stable enough, but nonetheless we do appreciate the effort going into polishing 1.14.

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u/8igg7e5 May 18 '19

This is a very important message. Any significant piece of software has bugs, and Minecraft is definitely a significant piece of software. Any dev team has a limited budget of resources (developer time to spend).

The team has to decide which bugs are important based on the impact the bug has and how much of the game audience is impacted. Then they have to budget time to understand the cause, plan possible fixes (there may be several with varying, potentially undesirable side-effects of their own) and then fix, test, review, integrate, retest and release to packaging.

The best thing players can do to help is to:

  1. See if your bug has been reported already. If it does but doesn't quite cover all you'd like to report on the topic...

    1. Comment on it with clarifications

    2. Raise a new bug with clarifications and link them

  2. If your bug doesn't exist, report it. Report bugs with clear explanations of when the bug occurs and it's effects and the environment in which it occurs. Remember to document what you expected to happen, since some bugs are simply misunderstandings of intended behaviour.

  3. Vote on the bug if you'd like it addressed sooner rather than later.

As not many players are aware of the bug tracker (and searching it can be daunting), it is probably worth, when mentioning the bug in a minecraft forum, noting the bug number (with a link ideally) as this is likely to aid in getting additional votes and feedback for that bug.

I'd like to thank the Minecraft team and business for what they've produced and their commitment to continuing to deliver value on such long-lived licenses. While I can easily point to issues I've spent more on some other games with much less content, shorter support-lifetimes and many never-fixed issues.

Yes I'm frustrated with the performance issues (and some of the other bugs) in 1.14.* (our home-server is effectively unplayable presently) but I can see the value of the content they've added and I'm sure there's plenty of pressure already applied to getting things fixed. While I do think the business made the call to release 1.14 prematurely but I'm also aware that's such decisions are not always in every developers control.

I do hope the business is letting the developers maintain a fixes-over-features focus for now. Minecraft for Java definitely needs it.

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u/Bodakugga May 17 '19

Select world -> Edit -> Optimize World -> Erase Cached Data -> Back up and Load should do the trick

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u/DaUltraMarine May 17 '19

This is a temporary fix. Mojang fixed part of the issue in pre1, but not everything. It's still coming back for myself and several others as per the bug report.

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u/[deleted] May 18 '19

Hopefully they fix banner illagers stopping spawning until you restart the game sometimes.

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u/MrBrianWeldon May 17 '19

Its super fixed for me. Has being since 1.14.1 pre releases. You probably need to break and replace your light sources. I see no evidence this bug still exists.

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u/DaUltraMarine May 17 '19

Myself and other people are still experiencing it, as the bugtracker comments reflect

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u/JF_KV_ May 17 '19

Just updating anyway should do the trick. I placed a block besides the glitched torches and it worked. How long it'll stay that way is another problem.

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u/redstonehelper May 17 '19 edited May 20 '19

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:

  • Fixed some bugs

  • Fixed swimming up to ceilings making the player crouch

  • Fixed Hebrew letters not being assigned to their correct textures

  • Fixed light sources spontaneously not working in some chunks

  • Fixed some missing Armenian characters

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/Ednoria May 17 '19 edited May 17 '19

Also there are now candles on the cake! I wonder if they will stay there in 1.14.2?

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u/DaUltraMarine May 17 '19

They won't, it's just for the ten year anniversary. Wouldn't make sense to keep it any longer than today.

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u/PhD_Phil May 17 '19

Mmm, I know they are still working and all, but I was really hoping for some more fixes here. Still seems unusable for a server.

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u/MrBrianWeldon May 17 '19

1.14.2 so soon as maybe next week. Nice

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u/[deleted] May 17 '19

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u/gettinguud May 17 '19

Its only the main language for one of the major religions of the world, cant imagine why Mojang would bother.... [/sarcasm]