What's New in Minecraft Snapshot 18w16a?
383Hey, want a new type of world in Minecraft? Well check out this new snapshot! Here's an overview of 18w16a. #minecraftemployee
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Official announcement: https://minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-snapshot-18w16a
Minecraft news playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEqam0f7VN8&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 snapshot, choose the "Snapshots" 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:
World Generation:
- New custom world type: Buffet
- Restricted to a single biome
- Allows choosing between overworld and end terrain generator
- "Another way to generate chunks in there"
- "Keep an eye on this screen, there might be more things on their way!"
- Coral fans now generate naturally
- Changed how the temperature of ocean biomes is calculated - should result in nicer transitions between oceans
Blocks:
- Blue ice is now less slippery
- Mining coral blocks now requires silk touch
- Fixed sponges not soaking up flowing water
- Fixed sponges working with lava
- Fixed being unable to place sea pickles on top of non-solid blocks
Gameplay:
- Fixed lava on top of water not turning water into stone
- When water spreads and would later turn into a source block, it now immediately just places a source block
- Fixed force-waterlogged blocks not spreading water
- Fixed water turning into ice deleting any other block occupying the same space as water
- Fixed magma blocks/soulsand not generating bubbles and currents with only one block of water above
- Fixed bubble columns not being created when pouring water over magma blocks
- Fixed players drowning while touching the ceiling in a bubble column
- Fixed sprinting underwater while flying in creative making the player start swimming
- Fixed the swimming animation being triggerable while riding a horse
- Fixed accumulated fall damage not being reset when levitation starts
- Fixed the strong Turtle Master potion making players invincible - Now gives resistance 4 and slowness 6
- Fixed being unable to pick-block the bottom part of kelp and double sea grass
- Fixed the turtle shell water breathing effect beginning to count down as soon as the player's feet touch the water
- Turtle helmet will no longer give you particle effects
- Fixed air time not being clamped at 300 ticks, causing an 11th bubble to appear depending on overflow air time
Mobs:
- Drowned can sometimes be found inside ruins
- Fixed drowned dropping tridents from loot tables and from their held items
- Fixed salmon and tropical fish hitboxes on land being wrongly positioned
- Fixed pufferfish, salmon, cod, and tropical fish spawn eggs being in incorrect positions in creative inventory
- Fixed duplicating fish being possible with waterlogged blocks
- Fixed water buckets being able to catch dying fish
Redstone:
- Fixed dispensers not using fish buckets
- Fixed bubble columns being pushable by pistons
Graphics:
- Fixed lava being tinted incorrectly
- Fixed the bottom of water not being tinted
- Changed particle effect from the Conduit
- Fixed the camera instantaneously changing position when elytra are deployed, rather than smoothly
- Fixed the fins of dying cods and some tropical fish showing z-fighting
- Fixed villagers' and witches' right arms not having the texture flipped
UI:
- Biome names are now translatable
Technicial:
- Optimized spawn position finding code
- valid_spawn block tag
- There's now a distinction between scheduled "liquid ticks" and "block ticks"
- Block & item tags for coral
Music: "Tide" 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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