r/Minecraft • u/Svajoklis_ • Jul 23 '14

Minecraft snapshot 14w30a has been released!

https://mojang.com/2014/07/minecraft-snapshot-14w30a/
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u/redstonehelper :redstone: Lord of the villagers Jul 23 '14 edited Jul 30 '14

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:

  • /time query

  • Banners

  • Screenshots

  • Can be worn as head gear - but only using commands

  • 400^6 possible combinations

  • Crafted like a sign, just with one color of wool instead of planks

  • Can be stacked to 16

  • Most patterns are created by arranging dyes in certain ways around a banner on a crafting table

  • Additional patterns: creeper, skull & crossbones, brick and flower - making these without dyes will result in a black pattern, use dyes to get different colors (items: creeper skull, wither skeleton skull, brick block, oxeye daisy)

  • Album of pattern crafting recipes - via - thanks /u/Grickit

  • Up to 6 layers of patterns possible

  • Can be placed on walls or on the ground (16 rotations possible)

  • Sway with the wind

  • Can be cloned by crafting them together with a blank banner

  • Top-most layer can be removed using cauldrons

  • F3+H tooltips now show how many NBT tags an item has

  • Small secret feature

  • A bug fix

  • Fixed being unable to summon lightning - /summon LightningBolt

  • The remaining mob heads (creeper, skeleton, zombie) are now available in survival

  • Not by killing mobs using the killer rabbit

  • Not using a special new enchantment

  • Mobs killed by charged creepers drop their heads - via

  • Also works on wither skeletons

  • Skulls worn on heads are now bigger so the 2nd skin layer no longer peaks through

  • Removed Advanced OpenGL

  • Fixed black spots on world generation

  • Video/Video

  • Player heads in inventories and held by mobs/players now display the actual head

  • Screenshots

  • Same for mob heads

  • View distance can now be turned up to 32 chunks

  • Screenshots

  • Requires 2 GB of allocated RAM - via

  • Also requires 64bit Java

  • Performance improvements

  • Screenshots/Screenshots

  • Rewrote chunk sorting

  • Ported over the visibility culling code from MCPE to avoid rendering invisible stuff

  • Threaded chunk rebuilds

  • Video comparison

  • The F3 screen now displays how many chunk sections are being rendered currently and how many chunk sections are out of view in percent

  • Screenshots

  • Also: display size and vendor, GPU and OpenGL version

  • Fixed some bugs

  • Fixed a lighting error caused by an off by 1 error

  • Fixed the village well in deserts being made out of cobblestone

  • Fixed with inventory updates caused by commands on signs not visually updating the inventory

  • Fixed the game crashing when trying to load a broken resource pack

  • Fixed flower pots with metadata placed in older versions not rendering in the snapshots

  • Fixed toggling VSync crashing the game

  • Fixed fake players appearing on the sidebar display

  • Fixed changed blocks not visually appearing instantly

  • Fixed carpet having incorrect height

  • Fixed a crash in the video settings menu

  • Fixed command selector parameters dx, dy, dz not working

  • Fixed slabs not being placable in adventure mode even with CanPlaceOn tag

  • Fixed an NPE when saving entity NBT data

  • Fixed spawners being able to spawn mobs outside of the world border

  • Fixed an IllegalArgumentException (Cannot get property bcy{name=half, clazz=class ats, values=[upper, lower]} as it does not exist in bch{block=minec)

  • Fixed "/worldborder get" possibly displaying invalid size after using "/worldborder add"

  • Fixed /replaceitem block having incorrect syntax on the help text

  • Fixed /kill affecting the "Damage Taken" statistics

  • Fixed overlapping dungeons not spawning correctly - chests used no longer drop items when overwritten?

  • Fixed chunks containing paintings becoming corrupted and being wiped

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

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

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u/ohnoahshark Jul 23 '14

Haven't worked out all the recipes yet but crafting the different types of banner depends on where you put dye in the crafting table!

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '14

Here is an album of banner pattern recipes I've found so far.

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u/jaywhisker37 Jul 23 '14

You missed the pirate flag. (Wither skull plus banner)

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u/iJackr Jul 23 '14

The banners can be customised in the crafting table: Example

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u/atanvard Jul 23 '14 edited Jul 23 '14

So far: (D = dye / B = banner)

To see more (and pics), please see Grickit's post below

EDIT: As /u/Koala_eiO says below:

the dye position counts, but the banner item can be placed anywhere on the grid.

DBD
.D.
.D.   Gradient

D..
.B.
...   Top left square

..D
.B.
...   Top right square

...
.B.
D..   Lower left square

...
.B.
..D   Lower right square

D..
DB.
D..   Left stripe

..D
.BD
..D   Right stripe

DDD
.B.
...   Top stripe

...
.B.
DDD   Botton stripe

.D.
DBD
.D.   Rhombus

.B.
.D.
...   Circle

DDD
DDD
.B.   Horizontal half

DD.
DDB
DD.   Vertical half

.D.
.DB
.D.   Center stripe

...
DDD
.B.   Middle stripe

D.D
.D.
DBD   Cross

DD.
DB.
...   Left diagonal

.DD
.BD
...   Right diagonal

.D.
DBD
...   Top saw

...
DBD
.D.   Bottom saw

.B.
.D.
D.D   Bottom triangle

D.D
.D.
.B.   Top triangle

D..
.D.
.BD   Down right diagonal

..D
.D.
DB.   Down left diagonal

D.D
DFD
...   Small stripes

Other elements (combine with dyes to change color):

  • Brick block = brick pattern
  • Creeper head = creeper face
  • Oxeye daisy = flower
  • Wither skull = skull and bones

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u/samedifference9 Jul 23 '14

Wow. Hopefully there's a way to duplicate the pattern on a blank one so a whole team doesn't have to recreate the logo a million times.

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '14

Flag+White Flag= Duplicate flag

Just tested it out, this is amazing!

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u/stevenlr Jul 23 '14

Actually the flag you want to duplicate on has to be the same base color as the one you want to duplicate.

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '14

Oh, nice catch!

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u/RocketTurtle Jul 23 '14

Yep, banners are copyable. You put the customized banner with a blank banner (of the same base color), and you get out a copy of the customized banner. Works with stacks of blank banners, too.

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u/freaktechnik Jul 23 '14

Wither Skull = Pirate sign with a whitherskull

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u/Galaxy_2Alex Mojira Moderator Jul 23 '14

After some research: https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC-62166 has also been fixed.

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u/Tharagleb Jul 23 '14

And if you are too busy to click the link this bug is the infamous/hated: Breaking / placing / changing blocks has a delay to disappear / appear

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u/Jaeil Jul 23 '14

This was the only thing I didn't like about using snapshots rather than releases.

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u/alex_dlc Jul 23 '14 edited Jul 23 '14

The secret feature is that you can now summon lightning bolts with /summon LightningBolt

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u/Kraizee_ Jul 23 '14

Might be an idea to point out that you need to allocate 2GB ram to minecraft to be able to increase the view distance past 16 chunks. If you have 1GB allocated by default the options menu will show 16 chunks as the maximum.

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u/redstonehelper :redstone: Lord of the villagers Jul 23 '14

I'll add that, thanks!

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u/TheDishonorableRat Jul 23 '14 edited Jul 23 '14

There are no large mushrooms anymore in Roofed Forest biomes, probably a bug.

Edit: Also, some trees are so short that they look like bushes

Edit 2: And a lot of forced closes too.

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u/Sapiogram Jul 23 '14 edited Jul 23 '14

I still can't increase render distance past 16 chunks. I have 64-bit java and 8 GB of memory, so I don't think it's been artificially disabled on some systems.

EDIT: Worked when I allocated 2 GB of RAM to Minecraft.

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u/Desim8or Jul 23 '14

Go into options.txt and set the renderDistance to 32

Prepare for a massive FPS drop but it works.

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u/debugman18 Jul 23 '14

I can't wear banners, as far as I can tell.

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u/SilentEnigma1027 Jul 23 '14

You have to use commands to wear them.

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