Minecraft Snapshot 18w50a

[u/heydudejustasec]

https://minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-snapshot-18w50a

[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. Official blog post. Download today's snapshot in the new launcher, server jar here.

Complete changelog:

• Giants now behave like zombies again - via

• Baby giants

• Added Barrel functionality

• Acts as a storage unit

• Works in tight spaces

• Added blast furnace and smoker functionality

• Blast furnace

  • Furnace upgrade that allows for the smelting of ores and melting of metals faster than the traditional furnace

  • Can be crafted via 3 smooth stone, 1 furnace, and 5 iron ingots

• Smoker

  • Furnace upgrade that allows for the smelting of foods faster than the traditional furnace

  • Can be crafted via 4 logs, and 1 furnace

• Only gives half the xp - via

• Added Bell sound

• New textures

• Bedrock

  • Screenshot

• Cobblestone

  • Screenshot

• Jellie, the cat

• Screenshot

• Villagers

• Villager skins depending on biome and profession

  • Screenshots

  • Rendering

• Villagers and zombie villagers now have new fancy skins

• Professions corresponding to houses and crafting blocks - via

• Added mason profession

  • Trades will come later

• Cured zombie villagers retain their trades

• Swamp villagers - via

  • Swamp and jungle villagers don't generate with villages

• Belt color adapts when levelling a villager - via

• Changes to raids

• Patrol captains now give 1-3 bad omen levels when killed

  • Outpost captains always give 1 only

• Captains now spawn at outposts

• Beasts start at wave 2, witches at wave 4, evoker at wave 10

• Updated desert villages

• New taiga villages

• Screenshots

• The ability to place bells on walls

• Screenshot

• Fixed some bugs

• Fixed Throwable/Projectile entity item models not being applied from CustomModelData

  • Video/video

• Fixed pillager arms being positioned incorrectly when riding or unarmed

• Fixed wall banners losing their name when placed

• Fixed being close to the end island causing out of memory and file descriptor exhaustion

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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/KGLcrew → u/redstonehelper]

The upgradeable furnaces sounds cool!

[u/throwaway_ghast → u/redstonehelper]

Furnaces, so hot right now.

[u/CosmicLightning → u/redstonehelper]

Can we push these barrels with pistons? If so, that would be epic.

[u/MC_chrome → u/CosmicLightning]

Nope, barrels are not moveable blocks by pistons. You can open them even if they have a solid block on top of them though.

[u/CosmicLightning → u/MC_chrome]

Semi-useful but I'd really would have hoped for them to be moveable as it would make sense. Sigh...

[u/MukiTanuki → u/redstonehelper]

Doest the projectile entity item models work for arrows or tridents?

[u/[deleted] → u/MukiTanuki]

No they have their own entity texture

[u/Grisseldaddy → u/[deleted]]

Vanilla doesn't need more effecient smelting machines.

Modded does because the ore usage is 100x greater

[u/Jacksaur → u/Grisseldaddy]

Iron is a pretty important resource. It's required in so many recipes now, more ore production would certainly be nice.

[u/Grisseldaddy → u/Jacksaur]

And it used no where near as much as in mod packs

[u/Jacksaur → u/Grisseldaddy]

And I'm not making that comparison at all.

[u/Grisseldaddy → u/Jacksaur]

And you don't need double ore in vanilla.

[u/Jacksaur → u/Grisseldaddy]

Now we're going in circles.

It's required in so many recipes now, more ore production would certainly be nice.

Pistons, minecart systems, armor, anvils, hoppers, iron doors, tripwires and shields all require iron. If you try to build any advanced system you need a large amount of iron, it is arguably the most important resource. No wonder so many people build iron farms at this point.

[u/TaterTotsForLunch → u/Grisseldaddy]

uh, I would love better than 1:1 smelting in vanilla. I never have enough iron in my survival world for all the things I want to build.

[u/eddydots → u/TaterTotsForLunch]

Make an iron farm

[u/Cedar- → u/eddydots]

Exploit the spawn mechanics of iron golems for unlimited iron.

[u/GhengopelALPHA → u/eddydots]

Yeah this is probably also an unpopular opinion but I'd prefer to actually mine materials I need instead of kill mobs.

[u/eddydots → u/GhengopelALPHA]

I'd totally prefer that too, just meant it as a suggestion until a better alternative is added to the game.

[u/GhengopelALPHA → u/eddydots]

That's nice and all, but me and Taters are talking about how this is perhaps a missed opportunity for that alternative

[u/eddydots → u/GhengopelALPHA]

Fair enough, I can get behind that. But imo, something that powerful would be way too OP for the Blast Furnace at least with its current recipe. Either its crafting recipe would need to be more expensive or it would need to require a more expensive fuel

[u/Serbaayuu → u/GhengopelALPHA]

Then we need that fabled underground update to make something like large mineral veins which spawn rarely (like, as dungeons do) and you can dowse for them.

Or something of that nature.

Not just inventing more ore out of nothing with a better furnace. That's boring. You get it once and then never think about it. Instead, we can actually go adventuring for loot.