What's New in Minecraft Java Edition 1.13 Pre-release 8?
304It's a new record - there has never been 8 pre-releases before but there are for Minecraft 1.13. Check out what this one contains! #minecraftemployee
slicedlime works as a Tech Lead for Minecraft at Mojang, but the YouTube and Twitch channels are personal projects run entirely in his spare time.
Official announcement: https://minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-113-pre-release
Minecraft news playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4ZS2guXqa_jrD_9AGgzp9ZEntWkNDOsm
What's New in Minecraft 1.12? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6HsqQMHuSs
The Minecraft JIRA (bug tracker): https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC
If you want to play this pre-release, choose the "Latest Snapshot" profile in your launcher. Keep in mind that snapshots are unstable - they can break your world if you are unlucky - keep backups!
Changes in this version:
Blocks & Items:
- Coral fans can now be placed on top of blocks
- Added dead coral fans
Mobs:
- Mobs can now stand in the most shallow form of flowing water, breaking many mob farms
- Fixed monsters spawning and not burning at y=256 regardless of light
Worlds:
- Fixed bottoms of large ferns and tall grass generating in place of regular ferns and grass in taiga biomes
- Fixed opaque blocks at the top of subchunks not increasing the world height to the next subchunk
- Fixed "No enum constant bfz" when loading and saving 1.12.2 chunks
- Fixed bark recipes not being upgraded
Gameplay:
- Fixed tier 4 beacons not giving regeneration
- Fixed placing blocks with the offhand while the main hand is empty being impossible
- Fixed sprinting in shallow water using ctrl changing the FOV back and forth
- Fixed water dripping from transparent blocks
- Fixed maps being inconsistent over restarts
- Fixed lighting for broken blocks not being updated
- Fixed sticky pistons pulling glazed teracotta
- Fixed sticky pistons not updating blocks they cannot pull
- Fixed placing redstone downwards of an existing redstone dust not updating the top one
- Fixed double chests becoming invisible or separating when redstone dust is updated next to them
Spectator:
- Fixed spectator mode tooltips not showing
- Fixed skins not being visible in spectator mode GUI since 1.13
Text:
- Re-added the "force unicode font" option
- Fixed the new version of unicode font having some weird characters
- Fixed some bold characters having either extra or lack of pixels
- Fixed the right "tail" of the capital ß (ẞ) being a few pixels too long
- Fixed texts sometimes becoming partially invisible if the language is Chinese
Commands:
- Renamed team option to team modify
- Team names & objective names are now text components, not raw strings
- Fixed the distance given by /locate being inaccurate
- impermeable tag for blocks that don't drip
Music: "Beach Chalet" by Crinkles (https://crinklesmusic.bandcamp.com) and outro music "The Fire" by Amarante (http://amarante.bandcamp.com) licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
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