14w25a

14w25a

Type	Snapshot
Release date	June 18, 2014
Snapshot for	1.8
Download	Client (.json) Server
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This article is about the computer edition. For other editions, see Version history (disambiguation).

14w25a is the twenty-seventh snapshot released for 1.8.

Additions

• Guardian
  • Spawns in ocean monuments
  • Attacks squid and players with a web/beam
  • When on land, it flops around and doesn't suffocate, unlike squids
  • Drops prismarine shards, prismarine crystals and raw fish
• Elder guardian
  • Is a boss-like variant of guardians
  • There are 3 elders in each monument
  • A flashing elder guardian will appear on screen when close to the elder guardian, and Mining Fatigue III will be inflicted on the player for 5 minutes
    • Mining fatigue III makes mining really hard, but not impossible. Even with aqua affinity, efficiency V and Haste II, it takes about 10 seconds to mine something under water.
  • Drops a wet sponge when killed by a player
• Guardian spawn egg
  • Spawns the new guardian mob
• Ocean monuments
  • New underwater generated structure made out of prismarine, prismarine bricks, dark prismarine and sea lanterns
  • 8 gold blocks can be found at the center of the monument
  • Will also generate in old worlds
  • Can be toggled for a customized world
• Prismarine
  • Generates in ocean monuments
  • Can be crafted with prismarine shards
  • The cracks in prismarine appear to slowly change color between brown, blue, gray and purple.
• Prismarine bricks
  • Generates in ocean monuments
  • Can be crafted with prismarine shards
• Dark prismarine
  • Generates in ocean monuments
  • Can be crafted with prismarine shards and an ink sac
• Sea lanterns
  • Generates in ocean monuments
  • Can be crafted with prismarine shards and prismarine crystals
  • Emit light at a light level of 15 and have an animated texture
• Prismarine shard
  • Drop from guardians
  • Can be crafted into all three kinds of Prismarine blocks and sea lanterns
• Prismarine crystals
  • Drop from guardians and sea lanterns
  • Can be crafted into sea lanterns
• Enchantment
  • "Depth Strider"
    • Allows the player to move faster in water
    • Can be applied only to boots
    • Can go up to level III
• Coarse dirt
  • Replacement for grassless dirt
  • Slightly darker texture than regular dirt
  • Can be crafted with two dirt and two gravel in a checker-board pattern
• Wet sponge
  • Obtained when a sponge soaks up water
  • Smelt wet sponge to remove water and get sponge
  • Wet sponge emits water dripping particles
  • Dropped by elder guardians when killed by a player
• Splashes
  • "Flavor with no seasoning!"
  • "Strange, but not a stranger!"
  • "Tougher than diamonds, rich like cream!"
  • "Getting ready to show!"
  • "Getting ready to know!"
  • "Getting ready to drop!"
  • "Getting ready to shock!"
  • "Getting ready to freak!"
  • "Getting ready to speak!"
  • "It swings, it jives!"
  • "Cruising streets for gold!"
  • "Take an eggbeater and beat it against a skillet!"
  • "Make me a table, a funky table!"
  • "Take the elevator to the mezzanine!"

Changes

• Sponge
  • Introduced sponge to Survival mode, with new behavior and looks
  • Sponge turns into wet sponge when it soaks up water
    • Water particles appear around the sponge when this happens
  • Sponge destroys water blocks from 5 blocks away in a kind of sphere
  • Sponge soaks up water only when water is touching it
• Tall Grass + Double Tall Grass
  • Texture is now brighter
• Redstone torches
  • No longer randomly fix themselves.
• Cracked stone bricks
  • Smelt stone bricks to get cracked stone bricks
• Commands
  • /scoreboard operation
    • Added three scoreboard operators: <, >, =
    • Can be tested with a comparator to see if two scores are greater than, smaller than or equal to each other
• Player list
  • Player list shows the faces of players
• Debug screen
  • F3 + B now also shows which direction entities are looking in using a blue line
• Options
  • Anisotropic filtering has been removed
• Signs
  • Use the JSON text components Text1, Text2, Text3, Text4 instead of plain text
  • Can be used to show scores towards players by using the selector and score tags
  • Previously, text formatting could only be accomplished using the section symbol via Formatting codes
  • Character limit is based on character width
  • Might need some time before it can work in survival
• Written books
  • Use JSON text components instead of plain text with the new pages tag
  • Capable of using the clickEvent and hoverEvent tags
  • Previously, text formatting could only be accomplished using the section symbol via Formatting codes
  • Might need some time before it can work in survival
• Huge mushrooms
  • When harvested with Silk Touch enchantment they drop blocks with corresponding mushroom texture (red or brown) on all sides rather than the one with spores
• Stairs
  • All icons for stairs in the inventory are now viewed at a different angle
• Model format improvements
  • New tag "textures" to specify the textures used by the model.
  • Removed the directional attribute from the uv definition and replaced it with explicit texture references
    • "textureFacing" renamed to "texture", it is prepended with the hash symbol (#)
  • "useAmbientOcclusion" renamed to "ambientocclusion"
  • "rotateVariantTextures" renamed to "UV lock"
  • "cull" renamed to "cullface", specifies the opposite of which neighboring face causes culling to occur
    • Example: if you have an east-facing face but want it to be culled along a different axis (let's say Z), you would specify "cullface": "north" or "cullface": "south".
  • Rotation made more verbose, it is now more clear that it can only occur on a single axis
    • Example, the rotation for one of the two faces of the "cross" model is now: "rotation": { "origin": [ 8, 8, 8 ], "axis": "y", "angle": 45, "rescale": true },
  • The folder models/blocks/meshes was removed and model files are now stored in models/blocks.
  • The folder blockstates was added and stores the model selection files previously found in models/blocks.
• Rendering
  • Items
    • All items are models, some are still generated from item icons
    • Resource packs can make models for all items
  • Blocks
    • Rewrote how blocks are rendered
    • Rewrote how block data is handled
    • Removed the previously-accessible item forms of flowing and stationary water and lava blocks (8, 9, 10 & 11), double stone and wooden slabs (43 & 125), fire blocks (51), Nether portal and End portal blocks (90 & 119), cocoa pods (127), and potato and carrot crops (141 & 142). They are no longer available as item forms through the /give or /summon commands, but are still placeable through commands such as /setblock.
• Withers, iron golems & snow golems
  • Can be spawned by arranging the blocks in any orientation
    • This does not affect the orientation of the spawned mob
• Withers
  • Can now move around during the invulnerability stage right after they are spawned.
• Arrows
  • Work differently underwater
    • They will lose all velocity after a few blocks and slowly fall
    • Fire Arrows will be extinguished
• Potion effects
  • You now see better with night vision and water breathing at the same time under water.

Fixes

54 bugs fixed

From released versions before 1.8

• MC-1298 – Slightly damaged and very damaged anvils lose broken texture when falling
• MC-1499 – Can see the water lighter in a certain position
• MC-3615 – Seeing through lava
• MC-4239 – Redstone and string in a cobble generator turn into obsidian
• MC-5018 – Wide characters (e.g. tildes ~) overflow on signs
• MC-5306 – Enchanted blocks don't show enchantment in your hand, inventory, as headwear (skulls/pumpkins) or when dropped on the ground
• MC-7432 – Real zombie sieges fail to start (fix included)
• MC-7488 – Village siege's spawn location is calculated incorrectly (fix included)
• MC-9173 – Side of dropped items and items in item frames don't appear enchanted
• MC-11524 – Slime & minecart
• MC-18752 – Entity shadows not rendered correctly after getting GL error due to compass in item frame
• MC-19205 – Tall grass particles are gray when destroyed by placing water through another tall grass
• MC-29777 – Grass Block's sides use fast version of texture when held in hand regardless of graphical settings
• MC-30484 – Giving items with unknown (high) data value crashes and leaves the world unusable
• MC-30897 – Nether portal doesn't fully break when one or more blocks are destroyed
• MC-31615 – Mipmapping: seeing green and brown "blocks" at the horizon
• MC-44363 – Anvil rendering glitch in inventory
• MC-45264 – Item textures with overlays cause potion display box to turn invisible in a 16x16 pixel area
• MC-48688 – Anisotropic filtering
• MC-52540 – Lack of shading on east/west block variants using the x rotation argument
• MC-55382 – Glow effect doesn't work for dropped items with data tag in Fast Graphics
• MC-56541 – Redstone torches (and other redstone components) have inconsistent timings
• MC-67168 – Setting Anisotropic Filtering above 0 on some Intel graphics systems makes some textures appear fuzzy

From the 1.8 snapshots

• MC-46591 – Ender dragon destroys barriers when it flies through them
• MC-47437 – Endermen do not teleport out of water, lava or when on fire
• MC-47475 – Floating mushrooms on Mooshrooms
• MC-48435 – Beacon is not transparent like before in inventory
• MC-49110 – Arrow's inGround NBT tag does not update when fired into some blocks
• MC-49839 – .json shading filters rendered after red/blue anaglyph mode
• MC-50290 – Beacon shadows are incorrect in hand and inventory
• MC-50322 – Z-fighting in iron bars with glass blocks
• MC-50509 – Item hitbox in frame is displayed incorrectly
• MC-50598 – Unlit Redstone Comparator gives off lit Redstone Torch particles
• MC-50729 – Vines orienting improperly in inside corners
• MC-50732 – Anvil, beacons, pistons, end portal frames etc. are incorrectly shadowed in inventory
• MC-51003 – Custom player skulls show as the default skin's head on mobs or players
• MC-51134 – Anvil texture doesn't change in hand
• MC-51198 – When your head is inside a full block, you see the texture of the block below your feet
• MC-51236 – Same door model on mirrored doors
• MC-51717 – Brewing stand bottles model error
• MC-52076 – End portal frame (falling sand) texture render glitch
• MC-53374 – Piston, end portal frame, beacon and anvil items are darker than the block form
• MC-53478 – "Round Trip Different" error with stained glass, Ender chests, quartz
• MC-53587 – When powering a piston, the piston head quickly appears as a full block
• MC-53675 – Non-full blocks occupy a full block when moved by piston
• MC-54039 – Sugar cane next to a block turns black
• MC-54053 – Blocks moved by pistons / slime block have their textures temporarily rotated 180° or 90°
• MC-54075 – The side face of a piston arm doesn't renders when a block is placed next to it.
• MC-54602 – Invulnerable mobs still drown
• MC-55145 – Pumpkin top textures don't rotate depending on direction
• MC-56744 – Baby Pigmen cannot attack

From the previous snapshot

• MC-55684 – /clone with move on structure with dispensers vomits dispenser contents onto ground
• MC-56689 – /move Command with containers on positive axis deletes items
• MC-55702 – /clone command move: NBT containing blocks drop item