Category: Minecraft News

Surviving the heat? Most of the Java team are on holiday/on fire. But we still managed to release a snapshot. Pretty impressive, no?

A full changelog for this snapshot can be found on Minecraft.net.

NEW FOR 18W31A

• Optimized performance
• Fish now have a 5% chance of dropping bonemeal when killed
• Conduits are properly waterlogged
• Bonemeal used in water now has a chance to grow coral in warm ocean biomes
• Squids now only spawn in rivers and oceans
• Added a concept of force-loaded chunks to the game, and a command (/chunk) to toggle force-loading on and off

FIXED BUGS

• MC-73 – Green arrow bug on maps in frames
• MC-1528 – Maps in item frames’ markers aren’t persistent
• MC-112801 – Players on the death screen still cause spawners to spawn.
• MC-122939 – Statistics for mining banners and beds never increase
• MC-128547 – Minecraft keeps previously used World in memory if the player has hit any entity in that world
• MC-130258 – Maps in item frames show shading problems
• MC-133181 – Observer Cooldown is broken
• MC-134105 – Can’t return from the end after defeating dragon
• MC-134159 – Saved world causes crash in 1.13
• MC-134667 – Async Chunk Gen dangerously adding entities to world async
• MC-134716 – Minecraft Multiplayer – Player kick exploit
• MC-134832 – TNT with unstable=true blockstate is ignited instead of broken in creative mode
• MC-134889 – Iron golems spawn in air blocks
• MC-134898 – Pressing Escape no longer returns to main menu from singleplayer menu
• MC-134916 – Sound event block.pumpkin.carve doesn’t play when carving normal pumpkins
• MC-134967 – NullPointerException when placing Wither Skeleton Skulls
• MC-134982 – Exception when placing a command block
• MC-134987 – Renaming a world doesn’t update its name until re-entering the world list
• MC-134988 – Optimizing a world doesn’t update it until re-entering the world list
• MC-135049 – Old world doesn’t save map markers in 1.13
• MC-135053 – Sticky pistons get stuck when receiving a 0 gametick pulse
• MC-135136 – Crash when placing a chain command block with set command
• MC-135172 – Under certain conditions pistons can’t be powered for the first 2 gameticks after being moved
• MC-135185 – All redstone components can become stuck in a powered state when indirectly unpowered
• MC-135186 – Pistons can only be re-pulsed 5 or more gameticks later.
• MC-135194 – Pistons react 1 gametick too late
• MC-135261 – /setblock for player heads don’t show the texture after the placement

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. 1.13 will have a lot of experimental snapshots that may break everything and smell funny. This may be one of those snapshots. This is what happens when Mojang are changing all the things! 

Share your thoughts on how 1.13 is shaping up in the comments below!

You’ve just had the release of Update Aquatic and yet you still expect us to keep working? In this heat? Oh, fair enough – here’s a Wednesday snapshot for the coming-very-soon 1.13.1 update! Enjoy it before we all melt.

A full changelog for the snapshot can be found on Minecraft.net.

FIXED BUGS

• MC-134570 – Door top half missing when updating to new version
• MC-134476 – Miss written sounds .json causing almost all 1.13 subtitles to be unshown (Fix included)
• MC-134468 – Map cloning recipe only yields 2 maps
• MC-134414 – Concrete powder falling onto sea grass just replaces it
• MC-134348 – Crash while upgrading: bkv{block=Block{minecraft:acacia_slab}, properties=[type, waterlogged]} has no property: half
• MC-134300 – Inconsistency with update order when pistons retract other pistons
• MC-134298 – Observers don’t detect retracting sticky pistons
• MC-134297 – Observers detect moved blocks late in 1.13
• MC-134166 – Villager door detection order has changed
• MC-134115 – Containers next to chunk borders can lose items when upgrading
• MC-133995 – Transferring world from 1.12.2 to 1.13 isn’t working
• MC-133986 – Non [a-z0-9/. _ -] character in path of location: minecraft:EntityHorse
• MC-133959 – Credits don’t appear when clicking “Copyright Mojang AB” in the title screen.
• MC-133942 – 1.13 Release is called a snapshot when backing up world
• MC-133905 – Large oak trees generate without making block under stump dirt
• MC-133894 – Drowned don’t drop items that they picked up as zombie then were converted
• MC-133871 – Waterlogged trapdoors do not update properly when opened
• MC-133839 – Crash when tp/at world border
• MC-133715 – Thrown tridents cannot be picked up after dying
• MC-133587 – Deleting server format error
• MC-133251 – Curse enchantments don’t use red text
• MC-132703 – Iron golems do not spawn in center of village
• MC-132663 – Command blocks kick player when entering certain commands > 256 characters in multiplayer
• MC-131868 – Concrete powder next to waterlogged blocks is not converted to concrete
• MC-131678 – Setblock property – block and setblock property – value are reversed in error messages
• MC-131462 – Coordinate math error causes structure not to generate and possibly other issues
• MC-131029 – Villager door detection range has changed
• MC-125134 – Server crashes while generating new chunks – java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: We are asking a region for a chunk out of bound
• MC-124942 – “Invalid book tag” is not translatable
• MC-124690 – Successful “/bossbar set players” doesn’t give success message in chat
• MC-124543 – JSON-Text formatting in CustomNames of container blocks does not work
• MC-122625 – Order of contents of north- and east-facing double chests changed after update 1.12.2 -> 1.13
• MC-119971 – Various duplications, deletions, and data corruption at chunk boundaries, caused by loading outdated chunks — includes duping and deletion of entities/mobs, items in hoppers, and blocks moved by pistons, among other problems
• MC-88356 – Bow animation broken in off-hand in third person
• MC-88099 – Slimes/Magma cube with NoAI-Tag still can damage the player

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. 1.13 will have a lot of experimental snapshots that may break everything and smell funny. This may be one of those snapshots. This is what happens when Mojang are changing all the things! 

Share your thoughts on how 1.13 is shaping up in the comments below!

There’s a whole new ocean of features, impatiently waiting for you to dive in! Take a delightful swim with dolphins and tropical fish. Explore mysterious ruins and tragic shipwrecks while hunting for new deep-sea treasures. Meet turtles on the shore and defend their eggs from mobs with the new trident!

The Update Aquatic is out now on Minecraft: Java Edition! Load up the game and click Play to dive in.

A WORLD OF NEW CREATURES
The oceans of the Overworld are populated by both fish and foe alike. Some will fight you, while others will become your buddy! Play with the dolphins, swim with majestic turtles, or brawl with the hostile Drowned. And if you do come up for air, watch out for the Phantom soaring the skies!

EXPLORE THE DEPTHS
Swim through a paradise of colourful reefs, deep sea trenches, and kelp forests – all filled with neat new blocks to use in your builds! Legend also speaks about shipwrecks and forgotten ruins, rumoured to hold treasures for any adventurer brave enough to explore them…

WIELD NEW ITEMS
It is said that the oceans are home to some mythical items, and only the most daring adventurers reap the rewards! Discover shipwrecks and underwater ruins, take a swing at the Drowned for a chance to earn a mighty trident, or assemble the awesome conduit.

Learn more about the update, including a full changelog, on Minecraft.net or watch the trailer below!

We’re now on pre-release 10 and we expect this to be the last pre-release before the full release. That said, unless any major show stopper pops up, we aim to release Update Aquatic for Minecraft: Java Edition on Wednesday, July 18th.

A full changelog for this Pre-Release can be found on Minecraft.net.

• Added an “Optimize World” button (singleplayer -> edit world -> optimize world), which upgrades an entire world from older version to the latest version in one go
• Improved performance
• Fixed bugs!

FIXED BUGS IN 1.13-PRE10

• MC-133653 – Game Crash when creating Superflat world (Void), entering the End, or creating floating islands buffet world
• MC-133473 – Dead bubble coral fan looks like dead brain coral fan
• MC-133467 – Mobs Stuck on Flowing Water
• MC-133421 – The lowest level of flowing water doesn’t move mobs
• MC-133408 – Coral fans and dead coral fans never drop as item
• MC-128668 – Ocean monuments cut off icebergs
• MC-127100 – Water and lava influence the flow direction of each other when touching
• MC-125038 – New world generation doesn’t populate edges of old world
• MC-125007 – World fails to generate decorations on seemingly random quarter chunks
• MC-122216 – /execute if blocks only returning 1/0 for “result”
• MC-59729 – /replaceitem doesn’t work with chest or hopper minecarts

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 is shaping up in the comments below!

We’re now on pre-release 9 and we expect this to be the last pre-release before the full release. That said, unless any major show stopper pops up, we aim to release Update Aquatic for Minecraft: Java Edition on Wednesday, July 18th.

A full change log can be found on Minecraft.net.

• Added a few missing subtitles
• Improved performance
• Fixed bugs!

FIXED BUGS IN 1.13-PRE9

• MC-131821 – Cory Scheviak does not appear in credits
• MC-131822 – Nondescript / confusing error message when attempting to join servers <= 1.13-pre2 using >=1.13-pre3
• MC-132652 – Username tab completion on non-empty starting strings is offset
• MC-132657 – Username tab completion appears on the left when invoked without a starting string in the middle of the chat entry line
• MC-133337 – Crash in org.lwjgl.opengl.GL11.glDrawArrays when opening language settings (caused by Couldn’t find glyph for character Ʞ (\ua7b0))
• MC-133503 – Control settings from 1.12.2 can get completely lost when upgrading to 1.13

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 is shaping up in the comments below!

We’re now on pre-release 8 and we expect there to be a couple of more pre-releases before the full release. That said, unless any major show stopper pops up after the upcoming pre-releases, we aim to release Update Aquatic for Minecraft: Java Edition on Wednesday, July 18th.

A full changelog for this Pre-Release can be found on Minecraft.net.

• Added dead coral fans
• Changed which blocks show dripping liquids
• Team names & objective names are now text components, not raw strings
• More bugfixes!

FIXED BUGS IN 1.13-PRE8

• MC-133325 – Double chests becoming invisible or separating with redstone
• MC-133277 – Texts sometimes error if the language is Chinese
• MC-133233 – Sticky pistons do not update blocks they cannot pull
• MC-133216 – Water dripping from transparent blocks
• MC-133214 – Sticky pistons pull glazed teracotta
• MC-133157 – Sprinting in shallow water using ctrl will change FOV back and forth
• MC-132835 – The right “tail” of the capital ß (ẞ) seems to be a few pixels too long.
• MC-132695 – Some bold characters have either extra or lack of pixels
• MC-132639 – New version of unicode font has some weird characters
• MC-132635 – Placing blocks with off-hand while main hand empty not possible
• MC-132603 – Bark recipes are not upgraded
• MC-132466 – No enum constant bfz – loading and saving 1.12.2 chunks
• MC-132174 – Tier 4 beacons will not give regeneration effect
• MC-132123 – Lighting for broken block not updated
• MC-131327 – Opaque blocks at the top of subchunks (chunk sections) do not increase the world height to the next subchunk
• MC-128858 – Distance given by /locate is inaccurate
• MC-124955 – Bottoms of large ferns and tall grass are generating in place of regular ferns and grass in taiga biomes
• MC-123447 – Skin not visible in spectator mode GUI (since 1.13)
• MC-123265 – Spectator mode tooltips not showing
• MC-68565 – Monsters spawn at daytime at y=256 and don’t burn
• MC-60995 – Maps inconsistent over restarts

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 is shaping up in the comments below!

Take a deep breath and dive into a vibrant new world beneath the surface! Full of marine life, new mobs and colourful sea-nery, Minecraft’s oceans are about to get their biggest update yet.

The Minecraft: Update Aquatic is out today on Windows 10, Xbox One, VR, mobile devices and Nintendo Switch! Java players can expect to see the Update Aquatic available on PC before the end of July.

A WORLD OF NEW CREATURES
The oceans of the Overworld are populated by both fish and foe alike. Some will fight you, while others will become your buddy! Play with the dolphins, swim with majestic turtles, or brawl with the hostile Drowned. And if you do come up for air, watch out for the Phantom soaring the skies!

EXPLORE THE DEPTHS
Swim through a paradise of colourful reefs, deep sea trenches, and kelp forests – all filled with neat new blocks to use in your builds! Legend also speaks about shipwrecks and forgotten ruins, rumoured to hold treasures for any adventurer brave enough to explore them…

WIELD NEW ITEMS
It is said that the oceans are home to some mythical items, and only the most daring adventurers reap the rewards! Discover shipwrecks and underwater ruins, take a swing at the Drowned for a chance to earn a mighty trident, or assemble the awesome conduit.

Watch the trailer below, click here to learn more on Minecraft.net, check out your app store in the next few hours to play the update, and share your thoughts in the comments below!

We’re on the final stretch for 1.13 and hope to have it released by the end of July. If you’re experiencing any issues with world conversion (opening a 1.12.2 world in 1.13-pre6), please let us know by reporting it on the Minecraft issue tracker.

A full changelog for this Pre-Release can be found on Minecraft.net.

• Fixed outstanding issues with the new improved fonts
• Maps changed slightly. Read more about it by clicking here.
• Made all waterlogged blocks display the drip animation
• More bugfixes!

FIXED BUGS IN 1.13-PRE7

• MC-37557 – Sometimes a minecart sound plays/subtitle shown when loading a world
• MC-122596 – Command autocomplete overrides command history navigation
• MC-122734 – No particles when bed explodes in the nether
• MC-123087 – Fences, glass panes, iron bars, stairs, and melon/pumpkin stems in structures generate with wrong block state
• MC-123369 – Trying to recreate world from future version shows no warning and can crash
• MC-123769 – Some item tooltips that previously had colors don’t have colors anymore
• MC-123836 – Double blocks aren’t loaded in structures
• MC-123850 – Redstone dust doesn’t update shape of connecting redstone dust when going up onto transparent blocks
• MC-124015 – Red Giant Mushrooms generate with 5 blocks having wrong blockstates, thus showing wrong faces
• MC-124126 – You no longer look at the block you are inside of
• MC-124915 – /locate and eye of ender find strongholds in invalid places
• MC-125090 – Cartographer doesn’t unlock woodland mansion map trades
• MC-125462 – Waterlogged blocks does not decrease light level
• MC-125872 – Superflat preset “The Void” doesn’t generate starting platform anymore
• MC-125992 – Cave outlines generate in ocean ravines
• MC-126704 – X-ray vision
• MC-126998 – When their block state changes, waterlogged blocks don’t remove water they let through
• MC-127025 – Waterlogged blocks do not display water drip animation
• MC-127093 – Water flowing onto waterlogged blocks spreads outward, rather than stopping
• MC-127114 – Water in glass panes and ladders doesn’t appear in maps
• MC-127115 – Visually fully submerged waterlogged blocks don’t appear as water on maps
• MC-127224 – Waterlogged blocks that are not full blocks trigger auto-jump even if it is disabled.
• MC-127303 – There are no water sources near the south ceiling of flooded caves and trenches
• MC-128257 – Bugged swimming animation while the head is not underwater
• MC-128478 – Distance swum statistic uses old “swimming” (bobbing on top of water) instead of the new swimming
• MC-129388 – Player suffocating when touching a solid block while swimming
• MC-129892 – Selector wildcard doesn’t work in scoreboard operations
• MC-130072 – Pufferfish don’t play the entity.puffer_fish.sting sound when damaging mobs
• MC-131352 – Item rarity color / colour overrides first text component’s colour in the held tooltip (item switching)
• MC-131382 – Scoreboard objective name can’t be updated
• MC-132135 – Bad performance of a 1.12.2 world in 1.13
• MC-132248 – Server crash on launch using Java 9 or newer
• MC-132269 – Blocks invisible on map
• MC-132375 – Upgrading 1.12.2 world to 1.13-pre5 crashes the game
• MC-132631 – Cannot write in the box in the Superflat presets option
• MC-132632 – Can not climb 1 block height if player is in water 5 or more blocks from water source
• MC-132654 – F3 + I is missing large amounts of data
• MC-132706 – Sticky pistons pull blocks that pop off
• MC-132751 – Two chests spawned inside each other
• MC-132833 – Opening 1.5.2 world on 1.12.2 works perfectly but bed is transparent.
• MC-132974 – Converting 1.12 world to 1.13 spams Chunk file at x,y is missing level data, skipping
• MC-132977 – Esc key results in an older world being converted to a newer version during ‘Play’ menu sequence
• MC-133063 – When trying to connect to an unreachable server Minecraft crashes instead of showing error message
• MC-133136 – Crash when launching the game with LWJGL allocation debugging enabled
• MC-133139 – The image write callback is never freed, leaking small amounts of memory for each screenshot
• MC-133140 – The GL debug message callbacks are never freed, causing memory leak warnings

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 is shaping up in the comments below!

We’re on the final stretch for 1.13 and hope to have it released by the end of July. If you’re experiencing any issues with world conversion (opening a 1.12.2 world in 1.13-pre6), please let us know by reporting it on the Minecraft issue tracker.

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

• Changed dolphin treasure finding behaviour to be more on parity with Bedrock
• Improved fonts
• Some sounds are now more wet
• Brought out the bug spray!

FIXED BUGS IN 1.13-PRE6

• MC-234 – Digging straight down glitches out the breaking animation (Z-fighting)
• MC-14502 – Special characters on splash text on title screen rendered wrong
• MC-41410 – Random text does not work in unicode
• MC-64537 – Gui zooming out when using some languages (unicode)
• MC-72943 – Game freeze after closing an “Open to LAN” single player world
• MC-81876 – Number of characters before line cutoff in chat is not same when unicode mode is enabled and when it is off
• MC-91727 – loot table “spreading large stacks” will overwrite existing items
• MC-92255 – Singleplayer freezes instead of kicking a player
• MC-94325 – Shadow of obfuscated text does not match with displayed character
• MC-96524 – Language specific letters don’t look like they should
• MC-121798 – Can only scroll list in superflat preset selection when it is focused
• MC-121861 – Command argument validation does not work for entity id in /summon
• MC-122110 – BufferBuilder not expanding under specific conditions.
• MC-122478 – It is possible to create a server in the server list with a blank name and/or IP address
• MC-122495 – Cancelling backup screen using ESC opens main menu
• MC-122596 – Command autocomplete overrides command history navigation
• MC-122597 – “Preparing spawn area %s%%” string is hardcoded/not translatable
• MC-123078 – Scoreboard ranges don’t work correctly at extreme values
• MC-123087 – Fences, glass panes, iron bars, stairs, and melon/pumpkin stems in structures generate with wrong block state
• MC-123236 – Wrong error message when using invalid item in /replaceitem
• MC-123325 – You can no longer use damaged items in advancement icons to display different textures
• MC-123352 – Interaction error with block and GUI, when shift-clicking them with non-block items
• MC-123363 – Occasional crash when changing blocks with a special renderer that uses states
• MC-123432 – Snapshots are leaking tile entity data through to world save
• MC-124469 – GUI scale size 3 displays as size 2 when Unicode font is forced
• MC-124966 – Torches in mineshafts/strongholds are not always attached
• MC-125090 – Cartographer doesn’t unlock woodland mansion and ocean monument map trades
• MC-126244 – Extreme lag when using the /locate command or when generating explorer maps
• MC-126685 – Bubble columns don’t update when placing magma blocks or soul sand above them
• MC-126708 – Advancement trigger “bred_animals” does not trigger for breeding turtles
• MC-126769 – Observers detecting updates from redstone on top of them
• MC-127822 – Unicode on/off bug with another languages and english letters.
• MC-128387 – Dolphins try to pick up items on land
• MC-128687 – Picking up lava with an empty bucket would play the water picking up sound.
• MC-128736 – Dolphin’s pectoral (side) fins are flipped over instead of mirrored
• MC-129318 – The “How Did We Get Here?” advancement does not require Dolphin’s Grace
• MC-130127 – Dolphins generate in large amounts with ocean ruin structures
• MC-131019 – Setting and changing data of signs creates unnecessary “extra” tags and causes slow downs
• MC-131159 – Dolphins spawning in frozen/deep frozen oceans!
• MC-131288 – Shulker Box can’t be opened and disappears when mined
• MC-131783 – Crash on breaking 1.12.2 -> 1.13-pre5 upgraded banner
• MC-131903 – Banners not dropping as item when broken after unloading
• MC-132050 – Worlds <= 1.8.9 spam errors on conversion
• MC-132113 – 1.13-pre4+ crashes caused by invalid gamepad / controller configuration detected by LWJGL 3.1.6 build 14b
• MC-132242 – Upgrading enderman spawn egg causes chunk to regenerate
• MC-132252 – Player cannot leave the swimming animation underwater
• MC-132254 – Using /effect to give players an effect kicks them from the server
• MC-132259 – Poor TPS in latest pre-release
• MC-132278 – End Crystal beam is missing texture
• MC-132281 – Crash while creating a customized superflat world using capital letters
• MC-132292 – Some sound events are no longer playing the expected sound
• MC-132311 – Dolphins don’t save how long they have been out of water
• MC-132312 – Using bone meal on anything underwater places sea grass on it
• MC-132320 – Entities with new IDs disappear when upgrading
• MC-132335 – Shulkers no longer shoot missiles in 1.13-pre5
• MC-132375 – Upgrading 1.12.2 world to 1.13-pre5 crashes the game
• MC-132443 – Some advancements are not upgraded from 1.12.2 (to 1.13-pre5+)
• MC-132448 – Illager and golem statistics are not upgraded properly
• MC-132455 – Evoker spawn egg disappears when upgrading from 1.12.2
• MC-132579 – Inconsistent font

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 is shaping up in the comments below!

A pre-release for Update Aquatic is now available!

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

• Fixed a nasty crash
• Renamed a lot of internal IDs to be more consitent with the game
• Squashed bugs!

FIXED BUGS IN 1.13-PRE5

• MC-103516 – Spider and chicken jockeys only spawn the additional mob
• MC-118372 – Faulty netty-4.1.9.Final release causes players to be kicked from the server
• MC-124545 – Malformed JSON as ‘name’ value for ‘show_entity’ hoverEvent causes crash
• MC-124546 – /datapack disable only works in the overworld
• MC-125729 – Moving frosted ice preempts melting even under correct conditions
• MC-126136 – Inverted tab-suggestions for argument values in entity selectors are suggested even if the typed prefix doesn’t include an exclamation mark
• MC-126144 – Cods suffocate when touching a solid block from below
• MC-126373 – Density of nether and overworld ore veins significantly lower in 18w versions
• MC-126906 – Buckets cannot be emptied against blocks with the state waterlogged
• MC-126915 – Dispenser with empty bucket removes waterlogged blocks instead of drying them out.
• MC-129527 – Drowned overlay turns dark blue when wearing enchanted armor
• MC-130270 – Iron golem spawning inside blocks
• MC-130480 – Input range entry and limits are reversed in error messages
• MC-130547 – Objective minecraft.used only ticks up when placing a block from a stack of 2 or more items
• MC-131094 – Projectiles ignore collisions for ~1 block after spawned
• MC-131599 – Opening player inventory with visible recipe book after using beacon causes crash
• MC-132002 – Ender dragon respawns when upgrading from 1.12 to 1.13-pre3
• MC-132064 – Swimming state does not end when teleporting / jumping out of water

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. 

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