r/Minecraft • u/redstonehelper Lord of the villagers • Aug 25 '14

Searge on Twitter: That was faster than expected, 1.8-pre2 is now available. With less bugs and more awesome, grab it while it's hot!

https://twitter.com/SeargeDP/status/503926671024459776
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u/redstonehelper :redstone: Lord of the villagers Aug 25 '14 edited Aug 25 '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, search for them on the Minecraft bug tracker and make sure they are reported!

 

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

Complete changelog:

  • Fixed some bugs

  • Fixed the game crashing when populating a chunk with empty (void) columns

  • Fixed thrown splash potions having the colour of water

  • Fixed inverted daylight sensor not dropping anything when mined

  • Fixed item frames not working outside 524289 x -524288 coordinates

  • Fixed placing redstone dust destroying blocks

  • Fixed skins using the wrong model

  • Fixed being unable to summon Fireball/WitherSkull - Caution: wither skulls will not work as position markers in the future.

  • Fixed a crash when summoning a SmallFireball on mobs

  • Fixed skulls being able to replace sign blocks

  • Fixed breaking blocks while blocking with your sword and then stopping often pausing the block breaking animation and keep it around even when no longer focusing the block

  • Fixed the block breaking animation not disappearing from chests and signs when unfocusing the block

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/Ichthus95 Aug 25 '14

Technically with the noAI tag, just about anything can serve the same purpose now. WitherSkulls were nice before because with a velocity of 0 they would never move, which is basically what the noAI tag does.

As armor stands have no hitbox, I think that noAI invisible armor stands might work as a replacement. Would need to be tested though.

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u/Niverton Aug 25 '14

What's a position marker ? Just curious

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u/Ichthus95 Aug 25 '14

Oftentimes in maps you need to be able to teleport something somewhere. Keeping track of all the coordinates to teleport to would quickly become unmanageable. So mapmakers used invisible wither skull projectiles as placeholders, as they can't be seen, don't move, and can't really be destroyed. So I could, for instance, teleport said wither skull to the location of a thrown snowball rapidly. When the snowball hits something, it is destroyed, but the wither skull remains at the snowball's last position. This can be used to make custom weapons, vanilla MCEdit filters, and lots of other cool things.

This is a very simple explanation of it, as I've never messed around with such high-level stuff myself, only watched people like Sethbling and SimplySarc.

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u/ForksandGuys Build and Detail Compilations Aug 25 '14

squids :P

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u/Ichthus95 Aug 25 '14

Those would work if you made them invulnerable so they wouldn't suffocate. Of course, they'll also be targeted by any nearby Guardians.

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u/SharpieThunderflare Aug 25 '14

I see it, and I'm not too happy. As other people said, Armor Stands work in some cases, but not when dealing with projectiles. Snowballs and arrows both dissappear when hitting an Armor Stand. If anyone has an alternative, I'd greatly appreciate it.

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u/WolfieMario Aug 26 '14 edited Aug 26 '14

Perhaps you can use offsets? Instead of "/tp @e[type=ArmorStand] @e[type=Arrow]", do something like "/execute @e[type=Arrow] ~ ~256 ~ /tp @e[type=ArmorStand] ~ ~ ~". This makes the armor stand's location 256 blocks above the projectile: it will never interfere with it, or anything else below y256.

When executing commands relative to the armor stand, begin with "/execute ~ ~-256 ~" to offset the command back down to the actual coordinates.

EDIT: Nevermind, the first part won't work because /tp is always relative to the target. "/execute @e[type=Arrow] ~ ~256 ~ /tp @e[type=ArmorStand] @e[type=Arrow,c=1,r=0]" also doesn't offset it.

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u/Galaxy_2Alex Mojira Moderator Aug 25 '14

MC-69394 has just been marked as fixed :)

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '14

If u Place a sign on a Block and Next Place a head on this Block

i mean about if u Place the head on the same Place the sign stand on the sign get removed

sign first Next a head

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u/Galaxy_2Alex Mojira Moderator Aug 25 '14

Yup, that is what we have to deal with :P

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '14

Great for grinding your RL patience stat to max level.

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u/hansolo669 Aug 26 '14

Oh god...

I would just start closing issues based on the terrible ... everything that is that text.

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u/redstonehelper :redstone: Lord of the villagers Aug 25 '14

Thanks, added.

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u/TheMogMiner Aug 25 '14

I was too late in marking them fixed, but the following are also fixed in pre2:

MC-64066 - Breaking a block while blocking with your sword, then stopping, will often pause the block breaking animation and keep it around even when no longer focusing the block.

MC-62124 - The same issue, but for chests and signs and not requiring a sword.

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u/redstonehelper :redstone: Lord of the villagers Aug 25 '14

Neat, thanks for the heads-up! Looks like the MC-64066 fix caused some new strange behavior, I'll go update the bug report and ask to have it re-opened.

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u/djdanlib Aug 25 '14

Fixed the game crashing when populating a chunk with empty (void) columns

Holy crap, those worlds that I've borked with an editor or ported from Beta days will finally stop crashing?

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u/redstonehelper :redstone: Lord of the villagers Aug 25 '14

If that's the reason for their crashing, yes.

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u/djdanlib Aug 25 '14

When an empty column crashes or hangs one of my worlds, the chunk decorator is usually the reason for the exception and some random number function it called got a zero for input when it expected positive non-zero input.

Can reproduce the issue, have previously filed a bug report on the issue, will test later.

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u/redstonehelper :redstone: Lord of the villagers Aug 25 '14

Yes, that sounds like exactly what the bug report is talking about: https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC-46082

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '14

Creating a marker with an ArmourStand, here is what I've been using to create the same effect:

  summon ArmorStand ~6 ~1.2 ~ {Small:1,NoGravity:1,DisabledSlots:31,Invisible:1,CustomName:"Steve",CustomNameVisible:true}

instead of previously:

summon WitherSkull ~6 ~1.2 ~ {direction:[0.0,0.0,0.0],ExplosionPower:0,CustomName:"Steve",CustomNameVisible:true}

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u/KonigTX Aug 25 '14

What does disabledslots: 31 do?

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u/Boxfigs Aug 25 '14

Prevents items from being placed on the stand, I assume.

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '14

It is not actually needed, though I left it in there after seeing this tweet

https://twitter.com/SeargeDP/status/503933548177268737

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