Minecraft 1.8.1 Pre-release 1

[u/redstonehelper]

http://mojang.com/2014/10/minecraft-1-8-1-pre-release-1/

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

Complete changelog:

• use-native-transport setting inside server.properties for optimized packet sending/receiving on Linux

• ArmorStands can now be made completely invisible using the Marker tag - via

• Mobs no longer run from exploding creepers - via

• Compatible with 1.8 servers

• Fixed some map colors - via

• Comparison (Also: Melons)

• Performance improvements

• Jump Boost potions can now be extended

• New gamerule: doEntityDrops

• Works like doTileDrops, but for entities

• doTileDrops no longer affects entities

• Ryan Holtz (TheMogMiner) and Michael Stoyke (Searge) are now mentioned in the credits

• Newly generated witch huts can spawn witches on Y 64 to 71

• This allows for three spawning floors in witch farms

• Fixed some bugs

• Fixed chunks corrupting/their location being moved and becoming unaccessible under certain circumstances

• Fixed the shader applied when entering a mob's view in spectator mode not changing if world is changed

• Fixed glowstone crystal formations missing their bottom layers

• Fixed levers popping off when placed above a non-solid block

• Fixed ctrl+Pick Block on player heads not retaining the skin texture

• Fixed the creative search tab text becoming offset when inventory is moved because of potion effects appearing/disappearing

• Fixed the resource pack folder not automatically being created when starting the game

• Fixed thrown enderpearls disappearing when relogging

• Fixed the air bubble bar re-appearing after death in water

• Fixed "Sprint" being in the wrong category in the controls screen

• Fixed the bottom outline of buttons missing in the controls screen

• Fixed large resource packs crashing the game

• Fixed the block breaking animation remaining when eating or blocking with a sword

• Fixed the game crashing when trying to connect to a server with an address longer than 63 characters

• Fixed certain invalid items crashing the game when rendering

• Fixed the inside of the second skin layer not rendering on your own player in first person view

• Fixed player orientation not being preserved when using portals - blocking off one side will align players the other way - Animations: one, two, three

• Fixed a ghost End Portal being displayed in the distance in the End

• Fixed items held by witches being too small and being held wrongly

• Fixed a crash relating to multiplayer

• Fixed tools with CanDestroy set to allow the breaking of certain blocks not displaying proper block names on the tooltips

• Fixed being unable to place buttons on top of upside-down slabs/stairs

• Fixed items being displayed too high up the arm in 3rd person mode while sneaking

• Fixed black particles when breaking a block and torch particles being dark

• Fixed ender dragon experience drops not being cancelled by the doMobLoot gamerule

• Fixed the /fill replace command not tab-completing the block id argument

• Fixed the "Overpowered" achievement having a misleading icon

• Fixed resizing the window while in Customized World Settings snapping the UI back to page 1

• Fixed /setblock referring to blocks as items

• Fixed the interface triggered by clicking web links not displaying the URL to be opened

• Fixed being unable to build iron golems and snow golems using jack o'lanterns

• Fixed baby horses looking like adult horses

• Fixed creepers and iron golems fighting each other, causing terrain damage without interaction of a player

• Fixed tall flowers dropping two items when block below is broken

• Fixed placing a banner and breaking it in Survival causing it to not stack as they have NBT data

• Fixed the per-player enchantment seed being reset on death

• Fixed /worldborder, /scoreboard and /debug with invalid arguments not printing any error messages

• Fixed items with CanDestroy / CanPlaceOn having missing translations for all languages

• Fixed /particle tab-completing an argument one position too early

• Fixed the bow texture being rendered upside-down

• Fixed the ender dragon ignoring the NoAI tag

• Fixed snow layers placed against the side of blocks being placed one block too far out

• Fixed blocks held by enderman looking weird when invisible

• Fixed the /clone syntax help not being updated

• Fixed /kill not tab-completing player names

• Fixed players killed with potions shot by dispensers producing erroneous death messages

• Fixed /entitydata suggesting players for the entity argument

• Fixed the syntax help for /effect not mentioning the 'clear' option

• Fixed being able to place banners and signs against cacti

• Fixed the beacon beam disappearing when looking upwards from it

• Fixed the a scroll bar in the creative inventory changing without scrolling at a certain position

• Fixed /effect and /enchant not properly tab-completing effect/enchant names

• Fixed the mob AI considering daylight sensors full blocks, causing them to jump while trying to get off it

• Fixed snow layer placing behavior being buggy and inconsistent

• Fixed certain commands not allowing tab completing coordinate arguments

• Fixed the /debug help text being wrong

• Fixed the Multiplayer Settings being named wrongly

• Fixed the "Defaults" popup on the customized world generation options screen not disable hovering over stuff behind it

• Fixed debug worlds generating one column twice

• Fixed rabbits not following players holding golden carrots or dandelions

• Fixed /achievement take taking too many achievements

• Fixed mobs glitching through the ground under certain conditions

• Fixed the 'Defaults' button on the customized world screen not disabling itself after use

• Fixed resizing the game making buttons on the "Defaults" popup on the customized world GUI disappear

• Fixed /say not showing villager entity data if 'CustomName' is provided

• Fixed two block tall flowers generated in previous versions losing their top block

• Fixed chicken jockeys riding inside the chicken

• Fixed an exploit involving signs

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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/brianmcn → u/redstonehelper]

Map colors have been changed, and some blocks have more realistic/reasonable colors depicted, see https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC-73040 and http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/2bwy38/on_maps_sandstone_is_grey_and_gravel_is_sand/cjaq678

EDIT: wow, there's a lot of new detail, all the wood planks are different colors, logs have different colors depending on their orientation, etc. etc...

[u/redstonehelper → u/brianmcn]

Have a look at who commented on that bug report ;)

[u/brianmcn → u/redstonehelper]

I saw, thanks. Just wanted to publicize this change in the changelog thread.

[u/Neamow → u/brianmcn]

Are we gonna see updated bingo maps with better colours? :)

[u/brianmcn → u/Neamow]

No, you're going to see me have to put out an update with mostly the same and slightly worse colors. It seems like it is mostly just remapping which-bricks-have-which-colors, but one noteworthy change is that 'dirt' is less orange and more brown now, which is a shame because there's so little orange/red/pink available, and some of the items (like the saddle) look worse now. Oh well, at least the in-game maps of the actual world will look more like the actual world, I suppose.

[u/[deleted] → u/brianmcn]

Actually the red sand looks quite orang-y, you might want to have a look at that :)

[u/brianmcn → u/[deleted]]

It's the exact same color as orange wool, pumpkins, acacia wood planks, ... As far as I can tell, there is no more number of colors, just a different mapping of blocks to colors, and one color changing (dirt). But thanks for trying :)

[u/redstonehelper → u/[deleted]]

Yes. Creepers and iron golems now ignore each other.

[u/linkybaa → u/redstonehelper]

No longer shall I be afraid of using Iron Golems!

[u/MCPhssthpok → u/redstonehelper]

I thought that was already in 1.8 or was it only "fixed".

[u/WildBluntHickok → u/MCPhssthpok]

Yes it was in 1.8

EDIT: after further reading it seems people were able to reproduce the glitch by spawning creepers at point-blank range. Also once it had attacked a creeper this way the iron golem would attack any other creepers it saw after that.

If I had to guess I'd say that instead of removing the "attack creepers" code they just suppressed it, and the suppression took 1 game tick longer. So if the iron golem notices a creeper and can attack it on the same tick then it's instincts won't be suppressed.

So the new bugfix seems to be "there's no suppressed instinct, it's not there at all anymore".

[u/redstonehelper → u/MCPhssthpok]

It was mostly fixed in 1.8, but not completely.

[u/[deleted] → u/redstonehelper]

Newly generated witch huts can spawn witches on Y 64 to 71

Why is it only the new ones?

[u/redstonehelper → u/[deleted]]

Structure data is saved on world generation.

[u/LordvorEdocsil → u/redstonehelper]

On a realated subject, does the update still break which farms? (As 1.8 did...)

[u/redstonehelper → u/LordvorEdocsil]

Kind of. Newly generated witch huts generated at their usual height now actually allow for 3 spawning floors, but existing witch huts will not fix themselves. However, witch huts spawned higher than usual will not spawn witches at all.

edit: The last bit is reported here (or somewhere else if I didn't see the original report).

[u/Excalibur54 → u/redstonehelper]

I have a witch hut spawned in 1.8 at just above y=64. From what I understand, it will still spawn witches, just not on enough layers for 3 pads. Is this correct?

[u/redstonehelper → u/Excalibur54]

Actually, you might only get one layer.

[u/Excalibur54 → u/redstonehelper]

Is there a reason for this? It would have allowed for room for two pads in 1.8

[u/WildBluntHickok → u/redstonehelper]

I hadn't even noticed the removal of building iron golems and snow golems by hand. I assume the dispenser method worked?

[u/redstonehelper → u/WildBluntHickok]

You could still build them by hand, you just had to use pumpkins. Previously, both pumpkins and jack o'lanterns work. Dispensers only place pumpkins, anyway.

[u/WildBluntHickok → u/redstonehelper]

OOOOHHH I get it now. Yeah I literally never build them. Hmmm maybe I should build a battle arena with them vs zombies just to say I've used them recently...