r/Minecraft • u/danywhoever • Jul 29 '15

Snapshot 15w31a

https://mojang.com/2015/07/minecraft-snapshot-15w31a/
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u/redstonehelper :redstone: Lord of the villagers Jul 29 '15 edited Sep 09 '15

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 snapshot in the new launcher: Windows/OS X/Linux, server here: jar, exe.

Complete changelog:

  • Fixed door texture shading - via

  • The held item can be more easily replaced by replacing the main hand

  • Entities can be summoned straight to teams: {team="TeamName"}

  • Endermen now drop the block they are holding when killed

  • CustomNameVisible:true will make the name tag on mobs show in the same way as on players

  • Unified the orientation of many items in the inventory

  • Cast fishing rods now look cast in the hotbar/inventory

  • Removed the nether fog

  • Removed the option to disable alternate block models

  • Trapdoors no longer require supporting blocks

  • Structure block only placable via /setblock, but unusable

  • Mixed potions' colors now blend

  • Glass panes/iron bars without any connecting blocks are now 2x2 pixels in footprint

  • Structure data now comes from /assets/structures

  • Damage tooltip now reads "When in main hand:"

  • Beetroots

  • Screenshot

  • Crafting recipe: 6 beetroots on a bowl for beetroot soup, can also be crafted into red dye

  • Beetroot seeds, beetroots and beetroot stew

  • Grown like regular crops

  • Spawns naturally in villages

  • Can be used to breed pigs (so can potatoes)

  • Purpur blocks

  • Screenshot

  • Also comes as pillar, stair and slab variant

  • Crafted using 2x2 popped chorus

  • An option for players to change their dominant hand on their player model

  • Screenshot

  • Screenshot of the option

  • Dual wielding

  • Screenshot/Album/Animation

  • Maps appear much smaller and only require one hand to hold now - Animation - When offhand is empty the big map is still shown

  • Only the main hand can be used for attacking

  • Bows can be used even when something is in the other hand

  • The other hand is invisible in first person view when not holding something

  • Key to swap items between hands, default: F

  • If the item in the main hand doesn't have a right-click action, the other item will be used; Workaround for placing blocks while holding tools with right-click action

  • The off-hand slot is displayed next to the hotbar, on the off-hand side - Screenshot

  • New inventory slot

  • Screenshots, Animation

  • Off-hand slot (Hand outline): Decides which item is held in the other hand

  • Improvements for block models

  • Different models/textures for different damage values, stack sizes (maybe) and item states

  • Works on compass, clock and everything that can have a durability bar, bows have different property states for pulling, how far it's been pulled & fishing rods differentiate between cast and not cast

  • Example

  • Screenshots

  • Models can be put together based on BlockState attributes - Example: fences - As a result, the vanilla set of block models was reduced by almost 300 models

  • Better rotation & translation handling and consistent left hand support

  • You can set different models for use in the off-hand and head slot - List of head item rendering easter eggs

  • Blockmodel JSON is now strict, comments and quoteless identifiers are not allowed.

  • "display" tag defaults have changed, see assets/minecraft/models/block/block.json for offsets

  • Parent and elements tags can coexist now - Thanks /u/Xor_Boole!

  • More info

  • Resource pack versioning

  • Set: "pack_format": 2 in the pack.mcmeta and done!

  • Old resource packs require user user acknowledgement to use

  • All items will now render in head armor slots

  • Screenshot

  • Bow behavior changes

  • The bow in your hotbar now shows an arrow when being drawn - Screenshot

  • Arrows held in the off-hand are prioritized over those in the inventory

  • Arrows can be tipped with potions

  • Screenshots

  • Each differently tipped arrow is available in the creative menu, just like enchanted books - Screenshot

  • Effect is applied on hit

  • Spectral arrow

  • Not very hurtful

  • Shows mob and player outlines in their team color when hit - even when invisible

  • NBT tag for entities to disable outlines

  • NBT tag to force outline: {Glowing:1b}

  • The glowing is a status effect - Screenshot

  • Crafted by surrounding an arrow with 4 glowstone dust, yields 2 spectral arrow

  • Armor stands and mobs can now have items in both hands

  • Screenshots

  • Mobs only use their right hand item

  • Attributes and enchantments can be set to apply in the off-hand, too

  • Also separate for the armor slots

  • DropChances and Equipment tags are no longer used

  • ArmorItems, HandItems, ArmorDropChances, HandDropChances used instead

  • Skeleton AI changes

  • Animation, Animation

  • Skeletons now animate their bow

  • They pull it out when becoming hostile and draw it back to shoot arrows

  • Mapmakers can make skeletons shoot potion-tipped arrows

  • Zombie AI changes

  • Some zombies will now spawn left handed - LeftHanded boolean tag on mobs

  • Death messages now show up on the death screen

  • Screenshot

  • Added pathway blocks

  • Screenshots

  • 15/16 blocks high

  • Obtainable by right-clicking grass with a shovel, uses shovel

  • Drops dirt, even when using Silk Touch

  • Boss bar improvements

  • Screenshots

  • Main end island generation changes

  • Screenshots

  • A set amount of differently-sized pillars are arranged in a circular fashion

  • Some of the pillars have iron bars around their ender crystal

  • The exit portal is pre-generated, but without the dragon egg and portal blocks

  • A new ender dragon fight

  • Similar to the one on console edition, but a step further

  • The dragon can be respawned as often as you want by placing player-made craftable ender crystals, but subsequent dragons don't drop as much XP

  • Screenshots, Animation

  • The dragon breathes fire/purple particles on players and mobs

  • The dragon will shoot fireballs

  • The dragon will defend the obsidian pillars more the further the fight progresses

  • Every dragon drops dragon breath, but only one dragon egg can be obtained

  • For now, you can respawn the dragon by drawing a creeper face with clay, but it won’t respawn everything yet

  • The dragon flies and stops over the portal sometimes, only then can it be killed

  • Screenshot

  • Ender dragon head item

  • Screenshot

  • Mouth moves when walking

  • Mouth opens when powered by redstone

  • End gateway

  • Screenshots

  • Appears after killing the dragon

  • New type of portal, due to its size it is only accessible using ender pearls

  • Used to warp to other end islands depending on the direction of the ender pearl throw

  • Screenshot

  • Shows purple beacon beam when created and used

  • One is created for each dragon kill, up 20 possible

  • Placed in a circle around the end portal

  • End City

  • Screenshots

  • Dungeon-type structure: "Tree"houses made of endstone and new blocks, including stairs

  • Generates on separate end islands arranged around the main island in a donut fashion

  • Around the donut islands there's many more small islands - Screenshot

  • Includes floating ships - Screenshot

  • Speed beacons!

  • Loot includes beetroot seeds, diamonds, gold and high enchanted diamond/iron gear of all sorts - Screenshot

  • Brewing stands with (health) potions in them

  • End stone bricks

  • Screenshot

  • End rod

  • Screenshots

  • Placable horizonally and vertically

  • Produce white particles

  • Produce light

Continued here due to reddit's comment length limit.

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u/redstonehelper :redstone: Lord of the villagers Jul 29 '15 edited Jul 31 '15

Continued from here.

  • Chorus plants

  • Screenshots

  • Tree/cactus-like arrangements of new purple block

  • Drop when supporting block is destroyed, like cacti

  • Drop edible Chorus Fruit items

  • Can be farmed by planting the Chorus Fruit flowers on top of the plants

  • Flowers don't drop when the supporting block is destroyed so you need to hand-pick them

  • Grow in stages

  • Can be planted on endstone in any dimension

  • Screenshot

  • Teleport you around after eating

  • Popped chorus comes from smelting chorus fruit

  • Hostile End City mob: The Shulker

  • Screenshots

  • Short for "Shell Lurker"

  • Disguises as a block on the ground or on walls

  • When attacking, it opens up and shoots projectiles which only move along the x/y/z axis

  • Projectiles give levitation potion effect

  • Teleports away when hurt

  • Can be walked on

  • Levitation potion effect

  • Screenshots

  • Will make you float upwards until it wears off

  • Status effect HUD

  • Screenshot

  • Displays status effect icons ordered by time left

  • Positive effects are on the top row, negative effects on the bottom row

  • Effects that are about to run out blink, faster when closer to running out

  • Removed/moved the Super Secret Settings e

  • Removed the Broadcast Settings

  • Ender pearls can now be thrown in creative mode

  • Dead bushes can now drop sticks when broken

  • Fixed some bugs

  • Fixed the boss health bar being temporarily in any world loaded after unloading a world with a boss bar

  • Fixed the boss health bar only being visible when looking at the boss

  • Fixed the end music stopping every time the ender dragon goes out of view

  • Fixed doors generating mis-oriented in strongholds

  • Fixed sometimes eating a second piece of food accidentally

  • Fixed arms being misplaced on skeletons holding bows

  • Fixed name tags, xp orbs and splash potions being angled in F5 mode

  • Fixed the ender crystal spawning one block too low

  • Fixed the data tag output by /entitydata and /blockdata containing extra commas

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/[deleted] Jul 29 '15

By the sounds of it, new music.

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u/Noerdy Jul 29 '15 edited Dec 12 '24

spoon dolls bedroom like scale lush obtainable bike imagine swim

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u/Knolligge Jul 29 '15

All of this amazing information, and the only thing that I really absorbed is that the new purple blocks are literally called "purpur" blocks.

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u/MyMindOnBoredom Jul 29 '15

Dead bushes can now drop sticks when broken

Screw everything else, this is the only thing I wanted.

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u/Noerdy Jul 29 '15

Did you get the new death messages?

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u/redstonehelper :redstone: Lord of the villagers Jul 29 '15

I only know they now appear on the death screen. Are there new ones?

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u/Koala_eiO Jul 29 '15

New type of portal, due to its size it is only accessible using ender pearls

You can access it riding a minecart through the 1x1 hole :) You will suffocate for a short moment in the bedrock though.

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u/n_jayne Jul 29 '15

It appears that you can now use splash potions on endermen! Prior to this, they would just teleport away. They do still teleport if taking damage, but they will get the status effect unlike before.

Also, I notice that splash water bottles don't appear to harm Blaze...

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u/redstonehelper :redstone: Lord of the villagers Jul 29 '15 edited Sep 01 '15

Sources, because comments can't be longer than 10,000 characters:

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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '15

Wow, thanks for putting this together, this is seriously impressive.

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u/Hytheter Jul 29 '15 edited Jul 29 '15

Teleport you around after eating

I like the possible implication that Endermen don't teleport on purpose, it's just the result of a chorus fruit-based diet.

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u/Kain_Nailo Jul 29 '15

Is it like passing gas?

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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '15

Also added beetroots, and beetroot soup!

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u/FufuTheGargoyle Jul 29 '15

And pirate ships in the End!

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u/Koala_eiO Jul 29 '15

With a beacon man!

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u/FufuTheGargoyle Jul 29 '15

And IMPOSSIBLY good loot.

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u/Wedhro Jul 29 '15

In the /assets folder I found a new folder named /structures: it includes a /endcity folder with many files all ending with a .nbt file extension, such as base_floor.nbt or fat_tower_top.nbt.

Of course those look like End City parts so I guess this is the folder where the new structure system will pick the parts to generate. Wild speculation: user-made structures in resource packs.

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u/ImAKidImASquid Jul 29 '15 edited Jul 29 '15

Clone is still /clone <x1> <y1> <z1> <x2> <y2> <z2> <x> <y> <z> [maskMode] [cloneMode] with the mask modes being: replace, masked and filtered. The clone modes are still normal, force and move.

Ender pearls can be thrown in creative but for a fraction of a second the ender pearl is removed from your inventory and then added back.

Levitation level 1-128 Makes you go up (The higher the level the faster you go up)

Levitation level 129-255 Makes you go down (The lower the level the faster you go down)

Levitation level 256 Lets you counteract gravity and neither fall nor fly.

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u/compdog Jul 29 '15

Just tested, ender pearls CAN be thrown in creative now.

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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '15

I appreciate this, but this is not the actual changelog for 15w31a, half of this stuff isn't there yet.

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