Category: Minecraft News

Happy snapshot day everybody! We’ve mostly recovered from GDC and are now back to work, full steam ahead!

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

• New item: Phantom Membrane
• New potion: Potion of Slow Falling
• Added 4 new advancements
• New Kelp textures
• Changed generation rules for kelp and seagrass
• New Riptide behaviours for tridents
• Optimized cloud rendering some more

PHANTOM MEMBRANE

Very spooky.

• Elytra now requires Phantom Membrane to be repaired
• Phantoms now drop Phantom Membrane instead of leather
• Can be crafted into a super spooky Slow Falling potion

ADVANCEMENTS

We’re making progress!

• Fishy Business: Catch a fish
• Tactical fishing: Catch a fish… without a fishing rod!
• A Throwaway Joke: Throw a trident at something. Note: throwing away your only weapon is not a good idea.
• Very Very Frightening: Strike a Villager with lightning
• More to come!

RIPTIDE

Whooosh!

• No longer compatible with Loyalty or Channeling
• If riptide won’t work (such as being on land, nice and dry) you can’t attack with the trident at all
• Riptide will not throw the trident, but instead launch you forwards with the trident
• Looks neat!

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!

It’s a super sneaky snapshot day! The Minecraft Java team is travelling to GDC soon, so this will be the last snapshot for a couple of weeks.

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

• Added shipwrecks!
• Added a new hostile mob: The Drowned!
• Added coral fans!
• Added F3+C to copy your current location to clipboard

CORAL FANS

We were big fans of coral, so we couldn’t resist.

• Doesn’t spawn naturally yet
• You can place it on the side of coral!

DROWNED

They’re called “drowned” for a reason!

• Spawn in all oceans! And rivers too!
• Zombies will also become drowned after, well, drowning
• Drowned can spawn with tridents, allowing you to get them in survival
• Their loot isn’t final – there’s a super secret item coming soon
• They can swim but they prefer to walk
• Gurgle.
• All drowned have a melee attack, and ones with tridents have a ranged attack
• Like zombies, drowned don’t really like turtles that much

SHIPWRECKS

• Can be found in oceans and beaches
• Has 3 different type of loot depending on the ship!
• May spawn with some air pockets, that’s a known bug. Sorry!

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!

Minecraft News

• A bumper week for Minecraft 1.13 snapshots, the Update Aquatic is shaping up to be one of the best Minecraft updates yet! The first snapshot this week, 18W10A, brought with it buried treasure, tropical fish, underwater ambience, coral plants and many changes to Phantom behaviour…
• A day later we received 18W10B, bringing dead coral variants, more underwater ambience, tropical fish sounds and a non-dyed shulker box to the game…
• Then, we received 18W10C, with new water physics, and undead-Phantoms…
• And finally, 18W10D, with naturally generating coral, big optimization to how clouds are rendered, more improvements to water and Phantoms now burn in sunlight.
• You can learn more about these snapshots in the Minecraft.net news post.
• Players of Minecraft on other platforms need not feel left out, Minecraft Developer Jason Major shared previews of their work on bringing the Update Aquatic to the Bedrock edition of the game. Take a peek at Tridents, Swimming, Kelp and Fish.
• Jasper is working on the Emerald texture again and wants your feedback, take a look here on Twitter.
• Minecraft Developer Tommaso Checchi shares exciting information about the latest Bedrock beta, “So basically, in this beta Bedrock can finally have more than 256 block types. And also, it should use a whole lot less memory
  It’s a huge change, so report crashes!”.

Curse News

Every day is a snapshot day if you try hard enough. We’re travelling to GDC soon so we’re going to try to push out as many snapshots this week as we can.

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

• Added buried treasure
• Added tropical fish
• Added underwater ambience sounds
• Added ability to put markers on maps
• Added coral plants
• Changed phantom model and texture
• Changes to phantom behaviour
• Changed coral texture
• Underwater visibility now changes per biome

BURIED TREASURE

We found this cool stuff! Let’s hide it.

• Can be found… somewhere?
• Maps found in Underwater Ruins can lead you to them
• Will contain a very cool treasure… which isn’t added yet

TROPICAL FISH

We found nemo! And all his friends!

• They come in many colours!
• They come in many patterns!
• Like other fish, you can catch them up in a bucket
• You can find them in warm and lukewarm oceans

MAP MARKERS

You are here. Or there. I’m not sure, it’s somewhere here.

• Right click on a banner with a map to add it to the map
• Right click on the same banner again to remove it
• That map will show the colour of the banner at that spot
• Named banners will show their name on the map too
• If a banner is destroyed, it’ll disappear when you get close and are holding the map

PHANTOM

“Less derpy” – Jeb

• Now despawn during the day
• No longer spawn in The End
• They have a new model! And texture! Pretty neat.

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 currently battling winter here in the office, but we managed to sneak out this small snapshot a little later than usual.

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

• Added underwater ruins!
• Added new coral blocks!
• Phantoms no longer spawn in the end
• Phantoms despawn in the daytime
• Optimized particle rendering slightly

UNDERWATER RUINS

We’ve ruined the game. Again.

• Come in many different shapes and sizes!
• Cold ruins can be found in cold, frozen, ocean biomes – regardless of depth
• Warm ruins can be found in warm, lukewarm, and deep lukewarm biomes
• Can generate alone or in a big ruined village
• You can also sometimes find them slightly underground or slightly above sealevel
• They can contain mysterious treasures! So mysterious that we haven’t even added the real treasure yet.
• A few more things to come in a future snapshot…

CORAL

Pretty blocks! Or should they be mobs? I’m not entirely sure.

• Comes in 5 colors: blue, pink, purple, red, yellow
• Requires water to stay alive
• If it dies, it dies. Sorry.
• Currently only obtainable in the creative inventory
• World generation to come in a future snapshot…

FIXED BUGS IN 18W09A

• MC-118324 – One of magenta dye recipes is unlocked via getting Ink Sac
• MC-118416 – Recipe for bowl not unlocked until bowl or mushrooms are obtained
• MC-126111 – Furnaces don’t award recipes or experience when output is taken after a reload
• MC-126150 – Furnaces don’t account for multiple recipes with the same output when giving experience and smelting recipes

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 week’s snapshot is mostly to help prepare for a really cool snapshot coming your way soon. That’s right – it’s a snapshot snapshot!

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

• The game shouldn’t crash when joining multiplayer!
• Split the ocean into 10 different biomes!
• Added underwater caves & ravines
• Added a clickable link to the /locate command output

OCEAN BIOMES

We didn’t want to stop at seven seas.

• Oceans are now split into 5 temperatures: frozen, cold, normal, lukewarm, warm
• Each ocean has a deep variant, like before
• World generation should stay the same, but old chunks will only have normal oceans
• We’ll be using these for something real soon!

UNDERWATER CAVES & RAVINES

They look so cool. Sea for yourself!

• Caves under the ocean are 50% more humid
• Ravines will appear in all oceans
• Some ocean ravines cut deep, exposing lava to the seas

FIXED BUGS IN 18W08A

• MC-122000 – Items get deleted when the inventory is overflowed by using the recipe book to return items from a crafting table.
• MC-124299 – /give command: Items on ground for a long time not able to pick up
• MC-124948 – /enchant can be used by non-ops
• MC-125451 – Crash when logging into multiplayer without logging into singleplayer first

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!

Minecraft News

• The first Update Aquatic snapshot, 18W07A, was released this week, bringing with it our experience of Turtles, Phantoms, Tridents, a new swimming ability and much more.
• That’s not all though! Dinnerbone tweets, “p.s. this isn’t everything aquatic. There’s at least one or two more things to come in future snapshots. Maybe three.”.
• The Minecraft: Java Edition development team give a behind the scenes look into the Update Aquatic. Learn about turtle behaviour and the dangers of The Phantom — “[…] Jens stresses just how dangerous a risk that is. “They are really nasty to fight, really hard to hit – they fly up and then swoop down again. They sound really scary too. Samuel Åberg did some really scary sound effects for them”.
• Minecraft (Bedrock) is coming to the Nintendo Switch, and this week Mojang shared a preview of the game on their livestream. You can catch up on that livestream below!

Watch Terrific Tuesdays: Bedrock on Switch SNEAK PEEK! from Minecraft on www.twitch.tv

Today is Valentines Day! We couldn’t think of any better way to show our love for you than to give you a snapshot
full of new things. <3

The full changelog can be found on Minecraft.net.

• Added Phantoms (MineCon voted mob!)
• Added Turtles
• Added new swimming ability (sprint underwater!)
• Added bubble columns
• Added ability to strip logs
• Added new trident weapon
• Squids now shoot ink to defend themselves
• Added new kelp and sea grass blocks
• Items in water now float to the top
• Added new prismarine stairs and slabs

PHANTOMS

You look tired. When’s the last time you got a decent night’s rest? Bad things happen to those who don’t sleep… they start to hallucinate, and see what’s really there.

• Spawns in the overworld and the end
• Attacks players who haven’t slept in a while
• Drops leather, but this may change

TURTLES

The turtle moves.

• Spawns on warm beaches, but this is temporary
• Will lay eggs in their home beach
• You can craft pieces of their old shell into one big shell
  • And wear it on your head!
  • Or craft it into a potion!
  • Turtles are known for their strength, not their speed
• Please be kind to turtles. They hold up the world.

KELP AND SEAGRASS

The green in the blue!

• Seagrass generates in all oceans, but this is temporary
• Kelp doesn’t generate in deep oceans, but this is temporary
• Kelp can be smelted to get dry kelp
  • A tasty snack for the ocean adventurer!
  • Or a convenient way to fuel more smelting
  • Or just store it away into a dried kelp block

BUBBLE COLUMNS

Blub blub blub blub.

• Doesn’t generate anywhere currently
• Occurs when a magma block is in water
• Watch out, you’ll get sucked under!
• A good way to breath without cheating game mechanics

STRIPPED LOGS

Go ahead, axe us a question.

• You can strip logs by using an axe on them (right-click)
• Stripped logs act like regular logs in furnaces, crafting, etc
• They look neat!

TRIDENTS

Some say that throwing your only weapon away is a bad idea. We disagree.

• Right click to throw the trident
• Left click to melee
• Currently unobtainable in survival, that will change
• Super overpowered, we’ll balance them later
• Has 4 available enchantments
  • Loyalty: Your trident will come back to you. Spoil-sport.
  • Impaling: Very useful against creatures of the sea.
  • Riptide: Gotta go fast.
  • Channeling: We’re not sure. It’s pretty spooky.
• UI icon is not yet implemented

FIXED BUGS

• MC-11208 – The big tree generator handles tree height variable incorrectly
• MC-124890 – Can’t insert charcoal into furnace
• MC-124897 – “Balloon oak” tree variant generates upside down, with often only stumps visible on the surface
• MC-124902 – Furnace recipes work in crafting interfaces and interfere with crafting recipes
• MC-124903 – Random crash in snow biomes: java.lang.NullPointerException: Exception ticking world
• MC-124913 – Horses, rabbit, parrot, llamas and sheep generate with default color / variant only
• MC-124916 – Chorus plant generation broken
• MC-124930 – The game crashes when pressing “show craftable” in the furnace recipe book.
• MC-124952 – Large oak trees fail to generate in all biomes with the new generator
• MC-125016 – Debug world does not generate
• MC-125047 – World generator not fully cleaned before making new world

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!

Todays snapshot brings in a complete rewrite of how world generation works behind the scenes, so that we can do some really cool things with it in the future & speed it up dramatically. It may be quite unstable in this first snapshot though, so as always: do not open worlds you care about in a snapshot without having a backup first. We can almost guarantee that any world opened in this snapshot will not work in the full 1.13 release.

A full changelog can be found on Minecraft.net:

CHANGES IN 18W06A

• Re-added /enchant command
• Added a recipe book for the furnace
• Rewrote the world generation system
• Added command suggestions for entity selectors
• Allow whitespaces in entity selectors & blockstate arguments
• Added new item & block tags

WORLD GENERATION

We’ve spent the last few years (yes, years) rewriting the world generator completely from the ground up, and this snapshot finally has the first version that we have some kind of confidence in. It may not be much faster at first, but that’s because we’re playing it safe and want to just achieve “it works” before “it’s fast”. It might still be unstable, too, so watch out for that. It’s the very first snapshot with it in, after all!

FURNACE RECIPE BOOK

Now there’s a recipe book for the furnace! Exactly like the existing crafting recipe books, you can unlock recipes as you play through the game and they will automatically appear in your recipe book for smelting. Mapmakers can customize the recipes with data packs, which allows them to add or completely change furnace recipes. “Fuel”, the items that can be burned in a furnace, is not included in this and is still somewhat hardcoded currently.

CUSTOMIZED WORLDS

… don’t work in this snapshot. Sorry. We have plans to re-add them in a much more extendible way, but unfortunately we were not able to have that ready yet. You will be unable to open any world of type “customized” in this snapshot, it will tell you to revert to an old version to play in those worlds.

/ENCHANT VS /MODIFYITEM

It’s back how it was. We have shelved the /modifyitem idea that was supposed to replace /enchant and we will look into that again in a future update.

FIXED BUGS

• MC-77488 – TAB player list sorts player names based on ASCII values instead of alphabetically
• MC-121641 – Impossible selector combinations don’t fail to build
• MC-121644 – Recipe book tab sound plays twice
• […………….] x 10

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!

Minecraft News