Category: Minecraft News

Another week, another snapshot! Winter is getting closer and it’s getting so cold here in Stockholm that my fingers froze and snapped off while I was writing this intro (true story). Anyway, what better way to get into a festive mood than hanging out in a fancy new village in a snowy biome? If you’re not into the whole being cold and wearing thick woollen socks in the horrible outdoors thing, you can always stay inside playing Minecraft and hang out in the new updated savanna villages. If you’re hungry, grab some berries! Enjoy!

A full summary of the content available in this snapshot can be found in the changelog on Minecraft.net, the following is a short summary:

• Updated savanna villages
• Added snowy villages
• Added Berry Bushes
• Added Berries
• Changes to raids
• New loot table function: copy_nbt

BERRIES

• Delicious!
• Not very filling!
• Plant your berries in the ground and look with your special eyes as they grow up into a strong, independent bush!

BERRY BUSHES

• Commonly found in Taiga, Taiga Hills, and Taiga Mountains
• Rarely found in Snowy Taiga and Snowy Taiga Hills and Snowy Taiga Mountains
• You can stand inside them, but be careful, it will hurt to move
• Has 4 stages of growth. Sapling, no berries, some berries, full berries
• Drops 1-2 berries in younger stage, 2-3 in full growth stage
• Supports bonemeal!

RAID CHANGES

• There’s now two waves per Bad Omen level
• Beast now has a possibility to be a part of every wave
• You now have to complete a wave before the next one starts

To get snapshots, open your launcher and go to the “launch options” tab. Check the box saying “Enable snapshots” and save. To switch between the snapshot and normal version, you can find a new dropdown menu next to the “Play” button. Back up your world first or run the game on in a different folder (In the “launch options” page).

Please report any and all bugs you find in Minecraft to bugs.mojang.com.

Snapshots can corrupt your world, please backup and/or run them in a different folder from your main worlds. 

Share your thoughts on how 1.14 is shaping up in the comments below!

We’ve been doing a great job with the ‘Pillage’ part of the Village and Pillage update for a while now, which means it’s time for the ‘Village’ part. So today the first village of the Village and Pillage update gets a makeover!

A full summary of the content available in this snapshot can be found in the changelog on Minecraft.net, the following is a short summary:

• Added Grindstone functionality
• Updated plains villages

GRINDSTONE

• Moved inventory/crafting table repairing into the Grindstone, this will be its new home
• Has the ability to remove all non-curse enchantments from an item; for each enchant removed some XP is reimbursed

UPDATED PLAINS VILLAGES

• The plains villages have got an updated look
• The new look is adapted to the Plains biome, both when it comes to climate and to available resources
• Uses the mysterious Jigsaw block for generation
• Adds new structure files, quite a lot actually

DEDICATED SERVER

SERVER.PROPERTIES

• difficulty and gamemode settings now accept string names (integer values are still allowed as legacy option)
• Server will exit faster if eula.txt is not set

COMMAND LINE

• Added new option --help. Not going to tell you what it does.
• New command line option initSettings initializes eula.txt and server.properties with defaults, then exits

To get snapshots, open your launcher and go to the “launch options” tab. Check the box saying “Enable snapshots” and save. To switch between the snapshot and normal version, you can find a new dropdown menu next to the “Play” button. Back up your world first or run the game on in a different folder (In the “launch options” page).

Please report any and all bugs you find in Minecraft to bugs.mojang.com.

Snapshots can corrupt your world, please backup and/or run them in a different folder from your main worlds. 

Share your thoughts on how 1.14 is shaping up in the comments below!

Todays snapshot is nice and peaceful. We’ve gone and fixed some bugs, cleaned up so much code, nothing can go wr███████████████ … Oh no…

A full summary of the content available in this snapshot can be found in the changelog on Minecraft.net, the following is a short summary:

• Added Pillager Outpost
• Added Raids
• Changed some block textures based on feedback

PILLAGER OUTPOST

• As if finding Pillagers out in the wild wasn’t scary enough with Patrols, keep an eye out as out on your exploration you may just find an outpost of theirs.
• Can be found in any biome a village can be generated.
• Takes advantage of our new mystery block, the Jigsaw, for generation.

RAIDS

• If you find an illager wearing a banner on its head, be careful not to kill it!
• If you do kill it, you might find yourself facing a Bad Omen
• If you find yourself facing a Bad Omen, be especially careful not to walk into a village
• If you do walk into a village…good luck

• MC-139374 – Leashes spazzing out
• MC-138797 – Eating block entities makes lava particles
• MC-138075 – Dying Shulker Boxes Doesnt work
• MC-137819 – Shulker boxes cannot be dyed, resulting in duplication

To get snapshots, open your launcher and go to the “launch options” tab. Check the box saying “Enable snapshots” and save. To switch between the snapshot and normal version, you can find a new dropdown menu next to the “Play” button. Back up your world first or run the game on in a different folder (In the “launch options” page).

Please report any and all bugs you find in Minecraft to bugs.mojang.com.

Snapshots can corrupt your world, please backup and/or run them in a different folder from your main worlds. 

Share your thoughts on how 1.14 is shaping up in the comments below!

Here in Stockholm, the nights are getting so long that we’ve all long forgotten what the sun looks like. It’s square, right? Anyway, at least navigating Minecraft at night should be easier now we’ve added lanterns!

A full summary of the content available in this snapshot can be found in the changelog on Minecraft.net, the following is a short summary:

• Added the lantern
• Improved Pillager AI
• Changes to Illager Patrols
• Increased the distance scaffolding can extend before it falls

LANTERN

Wait?! What? Another new block!?

• The lantern is a new light source
• The lantern can be placed either hanging under a block or on top of a block
• It gives slightly more light than the torch

ILLAGER PATROL

• Now spawns in the world as a pack of 5 random illagers
• Removed the “Illager Beast” from patrols

• Added support for directional opacity of blocks (used by slabs, stairs, snow layers, non-full-block dirt-related blocks and extended piston base blocks)
• Removed option to turn off VBO in the game settings. VBO are now always used.

To get snapshots, open your launcher and go to the “launch options” tab. Check the box saying “Enable snapshots” and save. To switch between the snapshot and normal version, you can find a new dropdown menu next to the “Play” button. Back up your world first or run the game on in a different folder (In the “launch options” page).

Please report any and all bugs you find in Minecraft to bugs.mojang.com.

Snapshots can corrupt your world, please backup and/or run them in a different folder from your main worlds. 

Share your thoughts on how 1.14 is shaping up in the comments below!

It’s been a very busy week here at Mojang, but we’ve managed to finish off two more features in time for the snapshot. Don’t worry – there’s still lots more to come!

A full summary of the content available in this snapshot can be found in the changelog on Minecraft.net, the following is a short summary:

• Added Illager Patrols
• Added scaffolding
• Rewrote the sign editing to be more intuitive
• Performance improvements & bug fixes!

ILLAGER PATROLS

• Spawn in the world as a pack of 5 mobs consisting of an Illager beast and 4 random other illagers.
• Spawn in all variations of the Plains, Taiga, Deserts, Savanna.
• Scary-spooky new banner can be found a top the patrol leaders head.

REWRITE OF SIGN EDITING

The pen is mightier than the sword! Unless you’re fighting a Pillager…

• Movable cursor for free text editing
• Selection support
• Copy & Paste

SCAFFOLDING

Here to make your life easy! No strings attached.

• Easily buildable
• Easily destroyable
• Easily climbable
• Easily the best use of your Bamboo

To get snapshots, open your launcher and go to the “launch options” tab. Check the box saying “Enable snapshots” and save. To switch between the snapshot and normal version, you can find a new dropdown menu next to the “Play” button. Back up your world first or run the game on in a different folder (In the “launch options” page).

Please report any and all bugs you find in Minecraft to bugs.mojang.com.

Snapshots can corrupt your world, please backup and/or run them in a different folder from your main worlds. 

Share your thoughts on how 1.14 is shaping up in the comments below!

It’s a very spooky day today, zombies everywhere, bats flapping around… It must be october 31st, Halloween! Man, can you imagine if it were also friday the 13th? That’d be truly scary. Here at Mojang, we celebrate halloween in style: with snapshots! And this weeks snapshot is another doozy! New cats! New blocks! Lots of new blocks! Keeping in the spooky theme of the day, though, we’ve not added any new functionality to the new blocks contained within this snapshot. How fiendish of the developers! What could they possibly be for? We may never find out… At least not today.

A full summary of the content available in this snapshot can be found in the changelog on Minecraft.net, the following is a short summary:

• Split cats and ocelots to their own creatures and updated cats with new features!
• Added lots of new blocks!
• You can now right click on signs with dyes to change the text color
• Lots of performance improvements, especially to client stuttering!
• Added “Programmer Art” in the resource pack menu: it’s the old textures, easy to use!

CAT AND OCELOT SPLIT

• Stray cats can be tamed
• Tamed cats can give lovely (or less lovely) morning gifts to their owners
• Ocelots can’t be tamed, but they might start trusting you if you feed them with fish
• Phantoms are terribly scared of cats – how convenient!
• Cat collars can now be dyed
• Added several new cat skins!

NEW BLOCKS

Even more! Can you believe it?!

All of these blocks currently have no functionality and are only available in the creative inventory. This will change really soon, we just wanted to get the actual blocks themselves out there as soon as we could! They might also change visually, too!

• Added Barrel
• Added Smoker
• Added Blast Furnace
• Added Cartography Table
• Added Fletching Table
• Added Grindstone
• Added Lectern
• Added Smithing Table
• Added Stonecutter
• Added Bell

To get snapshots, open your launcher and go to the “launch options” tab. Check the box saying “Enable snapshots” and save. To switch between the snapshot and normal version, you can find a new dropdown menu next to the “Play” button. Back up your world first or run the game on in a different folder (In the “launch options” page).

Please report any and all bugs you find in Minecraft to bugs.mojang.com.

Snapshots can corrupt your world, please backup and/or run them in a different folder from your main worlds. 

Share your thoughts on how 1.14 is shaping up in the comments below!

It’s a very spooky day today, zombies everywhere, bats flapping around… It must be october 31st, Halloween! Man, can you imagine if it were also friday the 13th? That’d be truly scary. Here at Mojang, we celebrate halloween in style: with snapshots! And this weeks snapshot is another doozy! New cats! New blocks! Lots of new blocks! Keeping in the spooky theme of the day, though, we’ve not added any new functionality to the new blocks contained within this snapshot. How fiendish of the developers! What could they possibly be for? We may never find out… At least not today.

A full summary of the content available in this snapshot can be found in the changelog on Minecraft.net, the following is a short summary:

• Split cats and ocelots to their own creatures and updated cats with new features!
• Added lots of new blocks!
• You can now right click on signs with dyes to change the text color
• Lots of performance improvements, especially to client stuttering!
• Added “Programmer Art” in the resource pack menu: it’s the old textures, easy to use!

CAT AND OCELOT SPLIT

• Stray cats can be tamed
• Tamed cats can give lovely (or less lovely) morning gifts to their owners
• Ocelots can’t be tamed, but they might start trusting you if you feed them with fish
• Phantoms are terribly scared of cats – how convenient!
• Cat collars can now be dyed
• Added several new cat skins!

NEW BLOCKS

Even more! Can you believe it?!

All of these blocks currently have no functionality and are only available in the creative inventory. This will change really soon, we just wanted to get the actual blocks themselves out there as soon as we could! They might also change visually, too!

• Added Barrel
• Added Smoker
• Added Blast Furnace
• Added Cartography Table
• Added Fletching Table
• Added Grindstone
• Added Lectern
• Added Smithing Table
• Added Stonecutter
• Added Bell

To get snapshots, open your launcher and go to the “launch options” tab. Check the box saying “Enable snapshots” and save. To switch between the snapshot and normal version, you can find a new dropdown menu next to the “Play” button. Back up your world first or run the game on in a different folder (In the “launch options” page).

Please report any and all bugs you find in Minecraft to bugs.mojang.com.

Snapshots can corrupt your world, please backup and/or run them in a different folder from your main worlds. 

Share your thoughts on how 1.14 is shaping up in the comments below!

The first snapshot for 1.14 “Village & Pillage” is here, and oh boy, it’s a big one! With new items, new blocks, new mobs, new blocks, new enchantments, new blocks, new mechanics, even more new blocks, new commands, and not to forget all the new blocks – we’re pretty confident there’s something for everyone in this snapshot!

A full summary of the content available in this snapshot can be found in the changelog on Minecraft.net, the following is a short summary:

• Added Bamboo Blocks into the game
• Added Bamboo Jungles in the world
• Rewrote the book & quill editing to be more intuitive
• Added Crossbows!
• Added lots of new decorative blocks!
• Added new dyes and flowers!
• Added some community suggestions
• Updated the credits list
• Added in-game buttons for reporting bugs or giving feedback
• Added Illager Beast
• Added Loom into the game
• Special banner patterns can now be crafted into a new item, Banner Patterns
• We’re now using the new textures!
• Added pandas!
• Added Pillagers
• Added suspicious stew – hmmmm!

To get snapshots, open your launcher and go to the “launch options” tab. Check the box saying “Enable snapshots” and save. To switch between the snapshot and normal version, you can find a new dropdown menu next to the “Play” button. Back up your world first or run the game on in a different folder (In the “launch options” page).

Please report any and all bugs you find in Minecraft to bugs.mojang.com.

Snapshots can corrupt your world, please backup and/or run them in a different folder from your main worlds. 

Share your thoughts on how 1.14 is shaping up in the comments below!

The first snapshot for 1.14 “Village & Pillage” is here, and oh boy, it’s a big one! With new items, new blocks, new mobs, new blocks, new enchantments, new blocks, new mechanics, even more new blocks, new commands, and not to forget all the new blocks – we’re pretty confident there’s something for everyone in this snapshot!

A full summary of the content available in this snapshot can be found in the changelog on Minecraft.net, the following is a short summary:

• Added Bamboo Blocks into the game
• Added Bamboo Jungles in the world
• Rewrote the book & quill editing to be more intuitive
• Added Crossbows!
• Added lots of new decorative blocks!
• Added new dyes and flowers!
• Added some community suggestions
• Updated the credits list
• Added in-game buttons for reporting bugs or giving feedback
• Added Illager Beast
• Added Loom into the game
• Special banner patterns can now be crafted into a new item, Banner Patterns
• We’re now using the new textures!
• Added pandas!
• Added Pillagers
• Added suspicious stew – hmmmm!

To get snapshots, open your launcher and go to the “launch options” tab. Check the box saying “Enable snapshots” and save. To switch between the snapshot and normal version, you can find a new dropdown menu next to the “Play” button. Back up your world first or run the game on in a different folder (In the “launch options” page).

Please report any and all bugs you find in Minecraft to bugs.mojang.com.

Snapshots can corrupt your world, please backup and/or run them in a different folder from your main worlds. 

Share your thoughts on how 1.14 is shaping up in the comments below!

What’s this? A spooky surprise 1.13.2 pre-release? We didn’t even snapshot them! This is a very small pre-release to address a few performance issues and upgrade issues left over from 1.13.1. If all goes well with this pre-release, we will do the full release on Thursday.  Don’t worry though, snapshots for 1.14 will be starting really soon!

A full changelog for this pre-release can be found on Minecraft.net.

CHANGES IN 1.13.2-PRE1

• Improved performance of upgrading worlds
• Improved startup time
• Improved performance of turtle pathfinding
• Improved mob spawning performance
• General other performance improvements
• MC-134115 – Containers next to chunk borders can lose items when upgrading
• MC-91621 – Mobs repetitively despawn and respawn rapidly at high Y coordinates (causing lag)

To get pre-releases, open your launcher and go to the “launch options” tab. Check the box saying “Enable snapshots” and save. To switch between the snapshot and normal version, you can find a new dropdown menu next to the “Play” button. Back up your world first or run the game on in a different folder (In the “launch options” page).

Please report any and all bugs you find in Minecraft to bugs.mojang.com.

Pre-releases can corrupt your world, please backup and/or run them in a different folder from your main worlds. 

Share your thoughts on how 1.13.2 is shaping up in the comments below!