Category: Minecraft News

The fourth pre-release for Update Aquatic is now available!

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

• Updated LWJGL
• Biome names are now sorted alphabetically in the buffet menu
• Performance improvements
• Bugs got fixed!

FIXED BUGS IN 1.13-PRE4

• MC-36030 – Music playing despite music / jukebox slider set to OFF
• MC-121798 – Can only scroll list in superflat preset selection when it is focused
• MC-126162 – Waterlogged blocks and bubble columns don’t absorb explosion damage
• MC-126244 – Extreme lag when using the /locate command or when generating explorer maps
• MC-126595 – Blue Wither heads are intangible and invincible on the first tick(s?)
• MC-128299 – Blocky and fully bright areas appearing underwater
• MC-128690 – Water does not flow sideways when there’s no block below it
• MC-130270 – Iron golem spawning inside blocks
• MC-130530 – Water source block gets destroyed from downwards flowing water
• MC-131094 – Projectiles ignore collisions for ~1 block after spawned
• MC-131462 – Coordinate math error causes structure not to generate and possibly other issues
• MC-131768 – Models’ predicates are inverted
• MC-131773 – Comparators from command blocks no longer output results properly
• MC-131805 – Observers pulsing after being moved instantly after triggering
• MC-131825 – Enchanted books lose enchantments when upgrading
• MC-131849 – Duplication bug

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!

The third pre-release for Update Aquatic is now available!

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

FIXED BUGS IN 1.13-PRE3

• MC-131706 – Water doesn’t destroy carpet
• MC-131633 – Mobs get stuck on carpet
• MC-131458 – Cobwebs don’t appear on maps
• MC-131419 – Squids, fish, and dolphins don’t suffocate on land
• MC-131416 – Conversion of a 2013 world crashes as of 1.13
• MC-131400 – Structure names allow trailing dots for folder names
• MC-131343 – Crash when clicking on a recipe in the recipe book without sufficient ingredients
• MC-131154 – Resource locations allow empty path pieces
• MC-130778 – End return portals don’t return you to the centre End Island
• MC-130690 – EntityTag for spawn eggs is not working
• MC-130667 – Flowing water freezes in frozen biomes.
• MC-130554 – Waterlogged blocks have a full cube hitbox
• MC-130486 – Side of water and lava not rendered besides non-full-height blocks
• MC-130475 – Boats immediately sink when placed on water
• MC-130374 – vSync turns off in fullscreen mode
• MC-130169 – Enchanted items with capitals in enchantment ID cause crash (path of location: minecraft:Cookie)
• MC-129526 – Grass and ferns don’t show up on a map
• MC-128558 – Swamp Hills (mutated_swampland) biomes have wrong colored water (light yellow)
• MC-128237 – Conduits, kelp, coral (fans), and tall grass have full hitboxes
• MC-128071 – Desert rabbits were the wrong color, but now they are missing
• MC-127720 – Baby horses have long necks
• MC-127326 – Rain splash particles don’t appear on the surface of the water
• MC-127109 – Nether caves under lava oceans don’t fill up with lava properly
• MC-127044 – Waterlogged blocks don’t move entities if the water in them is flowing
• MC-126809 – minecraft:exploration_map loot table function only works on block containers
• MC-126138 – No rain sound in ocean
• MC-126038 – Observers getting moved in “on” state rather than “off” state
• MC-125644 – Dispenser filled with bone meal cannot create sea grass
• MC-124876 – Villagers requesting tools with no damage provided specifically want Damage:0
• MC-124325 – Nested /execute commands can only store success/result once
• MC-124174 – Game crash when give yourself an item with empty name
• MC-124025 – Terracotta, spawn egg and entity statistics are lost on world upgrade
• MC-123362 – SuccessCount of command blocks use the “result” return value of a command instead of “success”
• MC-123011 – Scores on scoreboard objectives created with old stats causes scoreboards to not store changes to scoreboard.dat
• MC-122498 – Some advancements and recipes are not upgraded when opening world in 17w47+
• MC-35856 – Multiple background /title songs playing at one time / automatic music overlap (not Jukebox music)
• MC-258 – Most text boxes / chat / scroll bars revert when the window changes size, fullscreen mode is toggled, or fullscreened game is tabbed into

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!

The second pre-release for Update Aquatic is now available!

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

• Title screen should now be more optimised
• Reverted the bark block changes from the first pre-release
• Various performance optimisations
• You can now combine 9 ice to create 1 packed ice
• Fixed a bunch of bugs

FIXED BUGS IN 1.13-PRE2

• MC-35856 – Multiple background songs playing at one time / automatic music overlap (not Jukebox music)
• MC-102403 – Persistent/unchangeable sounds after (re-)opening a world
• MC-121628 – Horse armor textures z-fighting.
• MC-121714 – Unable to save screenshots and world icons if the path contains non-ASCII characters
• MC-121832 – Z-fighting on skeleton horse texture
• MC-122864 – Tamed llamas, donkeys, and mules cannot be named with a name tag
• MC-123007 – Z-fighting on zombie horse texture
• MC-123366 – Item right click actions don’t work whilst looking at a block in adventure mode
• MC-123811 – Horses (and llamas, etc) show default name as “HorseChest”
• MC-124364 – Horse skin and armor textures not applied correctly to horse model
• MC-125363 – Items fail to remain on surface
• MC-125744 – Entity predicates for advancements fail if “type” not specified
• MC-127099 – Kelp isn’t completely removed when sponge removes the water
• MC-127320 – Drowned do not recognize tridents as weapons they can pick up
• MC-127921 – Horses’ health bars interfere with the air bubble bar.
• MC-128241 – Dolphins can sit in boats
• MC-129262 – Zombie horses don’t sink in water like other undead mobs
• MC-129374 – Crash on 32 bit JVMs: “Unable to bootstrap datafixers” due to stack overflow
• MC-129500 – Map displays 1 deep water as dry land.
• MC-129712 – Team Suffix resets after restarting world
• MC-129895 – Concrete powder’s falling sand entities lose NBT data when upgrading from 1.12.2 to snapshots
• MC-130014 – When updating villagers trade carved pumpkin instead of pumpkins
• MC-130059 – Bubble column particles (from falling) have missing texture
• MC-130145 – Text over the hotbar does not reflect item rarity colours
• MC-130200 – Items in saved creative toolbars upgrade improperly from 1.12.2 to 1.13-pre1
• MC-130524 – Beds turn invisible when upgrading from 1.11.2 or below
• MC-130577 – Armor doesn’t always line up with Drowned model
• MC-130722 – Slime blocks diffuse light
• MC-130779 – Title-Screen Lag High GPU Usage
• MC-130800 – Normal terracotta disappears from chests when upgrading from 1.12 to 1.13-pre1
• MC-130858 – Pistons are no longer transparent
• MC-130936 – Carpets on llamas removed when loading 1.12 map
• MC-130942 – Errors, warnings and 10 second freeze on loading list of singleplayer worlds
• MC-130945 – Command tab completion does not work in command blocks with command suggestions off
• MC-131125 – InhabitedTime set to zero after update from 1.12.2 (Local Difficulty)
• MC-131155 – Saving structure which has not been saved before logs error “Couldn’t load structure”

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!

It’s finally time for the Update Aquatic pre-release!

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

• New Update Aquatic title screen
• Three brand new pieces of music by C418
• You can now tab-complete in command blocks again
• Fixed bugs!

FIXED BUGS IN 1.13-PRE1

• MC-122134 – Tab-completion in command blocks no longer works
• MC-122940 – After executing the /reload command, clicking on recipe book recipes does not work
• MC-124123 – Crash upon loading world: Non [a-z0-9/._-] character in path of location: minecraft:Zombie
• MC-124972 – Game crashes during the loading world, when creating a superflat world with oceanmonument tag
• MC-127142 – Failed to create block entity DUMMY (path of location: minecraft:DUMMY)
• MC-129625 – Sea grass changes to air pockets when upgrading from 18w16a to 18w20a+
• MC-130463 – Sponges do not absorb bubble columns
• MC-130521 – Leaves placed by hand disappear if not touching log or bark after a reload

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!

This snapshot brings you lots of bugfixes! Getting really close to pre-releasing now.

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

• Fixed a really old bug
• Blocks on chunk borders should now behave correctly when upgrading a world from 1.12.2
• Performance improvements
• Fixed a couple of crashes

FIXED BUGS IN 18W22A

• MC-1809 – Some trees generate with leaves too far from logs
• MC-121823 – Using “destroy” command on containers does not drop stored contents
• MC-121900 – Player data output does not show SelectedItem and is invalid in a data path
• MC-122153 – /gamemode does not provide success message
• MC-122455 – Disappearing Carpets
• MC-122787 – Rails placed to the east or south of curved rails break existing connections
• MC-123064 – No error message when saving a structure containing uppercase or other invalid characters
• MC-124281 – White dot on the creamy horse’s tail
• MC-124357 – Green pixels on iron horse armor
• MC-124833 – Item duplication
• MC-125745 – Sniper duel advancement can be achieved with trident
• MC-125986 – Rails adjacent to chunk borders update if world is loaded in snapshot
• MC-126118 – The fish mobs are missing their translation strings
• MC-127156 – Ocelots and parrots don’t spawn naturally
• MC-127386 – Right clicking on villager with its spawn egg opens trade menu
• MC-128276 – Water is not tinted next to glass
• MC-128393 – Conduit connects to iron bars and glass panes
• MC-128472 – When swimming, the player can stand up even though there is a block above
• MC-128509 – X-axis portals break when upgrading from 1.12.2 when certain blocks are above/near them
• MC-128512 – Certain blocks on chunk borders cause many blocks in the same chunk to be updated when upgrading from 1.12.2
• MC-129645 – Particles of downwards bubble columns are not centered
• MC-129712 – Team Prefix and Suffix reset after restarting world
• MC-130015 – Tropical fish bucket contains inconsistent dark pixel
• MC-130197 – Over a 1000 dolphins spawning in a range of 100 blocks at a certain height
• MC-130242 – Having an id tag in the tag tag of spawn eggs overwrites the spawned entity’s id

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!

Wednesday snapshots are best snapshots!

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

• Dolphins no longer wear armor
• Dolphins will now help you find treasures
• Lerp
• Fixed some bugs

FIXED BUGS IN 18W21A

• MC-52974 – Host’s skin not visible to other players when in LAN world
• MC-72866 – Item shading inside item frames does not account for rotation
• MC-97196 – /spreadplayers shows wrong error message / large number in error message when no entities were spread
• MC-105139 – Entity head rotation not interpolating on Yaw axis
• MC-123199 – Lighting renders incorrectly on item frames oriented vertically
• MC-123454 – Dispenser using spawn egg spawns mob too high
• MC-123455 – Using spawn egg spawns mob too high on the water and lava
• MC-123598 – Fence top missing texture when below fence gate
• MC-123769 – Some item names that previously had colors doesn’t have colors anymore
• MC-124954 – Jungle temple redstone wire is not connected
• MC-125377 – Structures from old worlds don’t regenerate if opened with 1.13 standalone client/server
• MC-126086 – Salmon and tropical fish hitbox on land is wrongly positioned
• MC-126863 – Sounds made with water in spectator mode
• MC-127116 – When placing a wall using /setblock without specifying a block state, it is invisible; default state has up=false
• MC-127333 – Carpet and panes don’t show the right colors on maps
• MC-127586 – Mobs do not suffocate in double slabs
• MC-127996 – Bone meal can be put on floating water
• MC-128139 – Sea grass generates water source when placed on flowing water
• MC-128251 – Grass and mycelium can spread to dirt blocks which are submerged under general water
• MC-128493 – Dolphins can wear armor
• MC-129058 – Dolphins become permanent (can’t despawn) after playing with an item
• MC-129708 – Armor slot icons are backwards
• MC-129808 – “demo.day.6” does not include the keybinding correctly
• MC-129849 – Upgrade from 1.6.4 destroys world, spams errors

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!

This Tuesday snapshots brings you bugfixes. Pre-release is getting closer!

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

• Sleeping in creative mode is now more comfortable
• All worlds created in older snapshots should finally be openable again
• Fire no longer spreads everywhere
• Lots of bugfixes

FIXED BUGS IN 18W20A

• MC-9620 – F1 and open chat makes hotbar appear
• MC-116928 – Command block and spawner minecart data fixer not working correctly
• MC-121743 – Feedback of some commands uses OS locale for formatting decimal numbers
• MC-122331 – Shield with banner has broken colors
• [MC………..] – 40 more bugs

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!

We’re getting ready to do pre-releases soon and we’re working hard to fix bugs.

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

Note from ProfMobius via reddit:

If you can hold until tomorrow, 18w19b will be able to open all the worlds without wiping them. Sorry for the stress generated.

• Due to changes in world generation, worlds from previous snapshots will no longer work
• All undead mobs now sink
• Skeleton Horses are rideable underwater
• Updated biomes to have new fancy names
• Seagrass now generates in underwater caves
• New sounds for Conduit and Beacon
• Phantoms are now extra flappy
• Improved the upgrade paths from old versions
• You can now copy the output of the /seed command
• Updated the credits list
• Maybe some other stuff?
• Fixed a couple of bugs

FIXED BUGS IN 18W19A

• MC-7908 – Spawning underwater / In the middle of an (lava) ocean
• MC-86016 – Some Mojang staff not mentioned in credits.txt
• MC-121285 – Crash on start when resolution is changed in profile
• MC-121636 – Server commands available in singleplayer with weird/bad effects
• MC-121661 – Typing /help + unavailable command returns “unexpected error” message
• [MC-……….] – 96 more bugs 

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!

We’re very close to feature complete, and have now started focusing more on bug fixing & polishing!

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

• New custom world type: Buffet
• Coral fans now generate naturally
• Drowned can sometimes be found inside ruins
• Turtle helmet will no longer give you particle effects
• Turtle helmet will no longer make you absolutely completely 100% invulnerable
• Blue ice is now ever-so-slightly less slippery than before. Still pretty slippery!
• When water spreads and would later turn into a source block, it now immediately just places a source block
• We changed how we calculate the temperature of ocean biomes, which should result in nicer transitions between oceans
• Mining coral blocks now requires silk touch
• Changed particle effect from the Conduit
• Optimized spawn position finding code
• Technical: there’s now a distinction between scheduled “liquid ticks” and “block ticks”
• Technical: there’s new block & item tags for coral
• Lots of bug fixes!

BUFFET WORLDS

All you can pick!

• As a popular request, we readded a way to play with single biome worlds
• You can check it out when creating a new world by selecting Buffet World as a world type
• As a side bonus, we also threw in another way to generate chunks in there
• Keep an eye on this screen, there might be more things on their way!
• (it’s pretty crazy)

FIXED BUGS IN 18W16A

• MC-18903 – Villagers’/ Witchs’ right arm doesn’t have the texture flipped. (Like zombies/giants/players/zombie pigmen/zombie villagers/Illagers’ does.)
• MC-83064 – Accumulated fall damage is not reset when levitation starts
• [               ] – x25 more bugs fixed

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 already seen the header image. Do we even need to say anything else?

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

• New entity: Dolphins
• New block: Conduit
• New block: Blue Ice
• New item: Heart of the Sea
• New item: Nautilus Shell
• Icebergs now generate in frozen oceans
• You no longer have “night vision” effect underwater
• Water now has different colours based on the biome
• New video option: Biome blend distance
• Going in and out of swimming should now feel smoother
• You can now swim through 1×1 holes! Again!
• Fog colour underwater now changes much smoother between biomes
• Optimized fog rendering
• Light now goes much further through liquid blocks

DOLPHINS

It’s happening!

• Spawns in any ocean that isn’t frozen
• They’re just cute, okay?
• Dolphins are very playful and love floating items
• They also love to chase after boats
• If you upset one, you upset them all
• More behaviours coming soon

Blubb blubb blubb blubb

• Water now only blocks 1 light per block, instead of 3
• This only affects newly placed water – we will relight all chunks in an upcoming snapshot
• Every ocean biome has a unique water colour, and swamps are icky and gross
• In newly generated chunks, you’re less likely to find frozen ocean next to warm ocean (and similar)

CONDUIT

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• ????
• I’m not sure.
• What is this?
• Where are we?

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!