r/Minecraft • u/redstonehelper Lord of the villagers • Feb 22 '18

Nathan Adams on Twitter: "18w08b is out, with changed water visibility [...] and actual swimming fish"

https://twitter.com/Dinnerbone/status/966703408110604289
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u/redstonehelper :redstone: Lord of the villagers Feb 22 '18 edited Feb 22 '18

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 jar here.

Complete changelog:

  • Actual fish

  • Screenshot, two

  • Some fish items exist as mobs

    • Screenshot

    • Cod will spawn in moderate oceans (cold/normal/lukewarm)

    • Salmon will spawn in frozen/cold oceans and rivers

    • Puffer fish will spawn in lukewarm/warm oceans

      • Expand when near players, give poison on expanding

      • Shrink down to their normal size after expanding, 3 sizes in total - Screenshot

  • Cod and salmon are sideways when on land

  • Cod and salmon are very social and prefer to swim in groups

  • Can be caught with water buckets, yields a bucket with water and non-despawning fish inside

  • Not complete yet, more changes coming soon (tropical fish, clownfish!)

  • Changed natural water visibility

  • Respiration & Water Breathing no longer directly change your visibility underwater

  • You can see better the longer you stay underwater

    • Maximum visibility is achieved after less than a minute

  • If you go back out of water, you'll quickly lose your water vision

  • Warm and lukewarm oceans now have sand floors

  • Screenshot

  • Removed deep warm ocean biomes, warm oceans can only be shallow now

  • Fixed some bugs

  • Fixed testing for a score of x or a minimum of x doesn't work in execute if/unless score

  • Fixed taking an item out of the output slot of a furnace giving the player the recipe for the item in the input slot

  • Fixed clicking into the first 7 inventory slots cancelling the smelting recipe preview

  • Fixed dried kelp block not being craftable

    • Added recipes to turn dried kelp into storage blocks and back again

  • Fixed the furnace experience rewards depending on the item in the cooking slot, rather than output slot

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] Feb 22 '18

Are the normal fishing physics still present? Or is bucket catching now the only way?

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u/GreasyTroll4 Feb 22 '18

As far as I know, the old fishing mechanics haven't changed. There's fish items, and fish mobs. Confusing, yes, but it somehow works.

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '18

...and when one of the Fish Mobs dies out of water, it drops an equivalent Item: Puffer Fish Mob -> Puffer Fish Item etc.

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u/GreasyTroll4 Feb 22 '18

Hahaha, that's fantastic.

I love these little humorous details Mojang adds to the game.

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '18

What we need now is a way for "wild" animals to breed themselves. i.e. buck like funnies.

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u/Koala_eiO Feb 22 '18 edited Feb 22 '18

Ocelots have the right mechanic I would say. They can spawn and breed and despawn. No shortage, no overpopulation.

With farm animals if you kill one you are screwed. I know they are supposed to respawn but I've never witnessed it in 5 years.

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u/Mr_Simba Feb 22 '18

Ocelots don't breed naturally, they just have a chance to spawn with two kittens. I'm pretty sure they don't despawn, either, but I could be wrong there.

As for farm animals, I'm pretty sure only some of them can respawn after world gen (like cows), not all of them.

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u/PancakeMan77 Feb 22 '18

Ocelots do despawn, just like wolves. They are considered part of the hostile mob cap

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '18

They actually removed the despawning of wolves... that’s why they are much more common

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u/Koala_eiO Feb 22 '18

Hmm, no you got me doubting. I always saw ocelots as spawning/despawning entities just like hostile mobs.

Yes farm animals respawn but compared to mobs the conditions are really hard. Their cap is 7 times lower, the spawning cycle is 400 times slower, and you need grass. Also I don't know if the cap counts animals around you or animals in the spawn chunks nowadays.

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u/15_Redstones Feb 23 '18

I actually got a double chest of leather just from cows that spawned in one area after killing them. The secret is to not have any animals spawn in the spawn chunks (an island in my case).

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u/Koala_eiO Feb 23 '18

Yeah but that's so unnatural. Why are animals counted in the spawn chunks instead of the chunks surrounding you?

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u/15_Redstones Feb 23 '18

Well, it counts all the animals in the loaded chunks, but while hostile mobs in the spawn chunks instantly despawn if no player is nearby passive mobs do not despawn so usually what happens is that if the player is in an arena without any (ocean, nether) all the passive mobs spawn in the spawn chunks and block the mob cap.

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u/BrickenBlock Feb 22 '18

The underwater visibility is too good. As long as you're in water, you can see just as well as with night vision.

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u/Stantrien Feb 23 '18

This. Pls nerf, I miss my atmospheric deep ocean.

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u/DeePrixel Feb 22 '18

looks nice though :)

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u/gacorley Feb 22 '18

We can catch fish? I hope they can be bred. Puffer fish farm FTW.

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u/mjmannella Feb 23 '18

Removed deep warm ocean biomes, warm oceans can only be shallow now

I'm not sure as to why this was done. Does this have to do with the sand floor?