15w38a

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15w38a

Type	Snapshot
Release date	Sep. 16, 2015
Snapshot for	1.9 1.9 Official name Combat Update Type Release Release date Feb. 29, 2016 1] Development versions View all Snapshots 15w31a 15w31b 15w31c 15w32a 15w32b 15w32c 15w33a 15w33b 15w33c 15w34a 15w34b 15w34c 15w34d 15w35a 15w35b 15w35c 15w35d
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◄ ◄ 1.8.9 1.8.9 Release date Dec. 9, 2015 Download Client (.json) Server ◄◄ 1.8 ◄ 1.8.8 1.9 ►► See the computer edition. For other editions, see Version history (disambiguation). 1.8.9 1] is an update ◄ 15w37a 15w37a Type Snapshot Release date Sep. 10, 2015 Snapshot for 1.9 Download Client (.json) Server ◄◄ 1.8.9 ◄ 15w36d 15w38a ► 1.9.1 ►► See the computer edition. For other editions, see Version 15w38b ► 15w38b Type Snapshot Release date Sep. 17, 2015 Snapshot for 1.9 Download Client (.json) Server ◄◄ 1.8.9 ◄ 15w38a 15w39a ► 1.9.1 ►► See the computer edition. For other editions, see Version 1.9.1 ► 1.9.1 Release date Mar. 30, 2016 1] Development versions View all Pre-releases 1.9.1-pre1 1.9.1-pre2 1.9.1-pre3 Download Client (.json) Server ◄◄ 1.9 1.9.2 ► 1.10 ►► See the computer edition. For other editions, ► 1.9.1 Release date Mar. 30, 2016 1] Development versions View all Pre-releases 1.9.1-pre1 1.9.1-pre2 1.9.1-pre3 Download Client (.json) Server ◄◄ 1.9 1.9.2 ► 1.10 ►► See the computer edition. For other editions,

15w38a is the twenty-fourth snapshot released for 1.9.

Additions

Statistics The general statistics screen. Statistics are a game featureSpecial attraction that allows players to track how many times they have completed certain tasks. Statistics are divided into four sections: General, Blocks, Items and Mobs. The General

• Added "Times Slept in a Bed" (stat.sleepInBed) to track the amount of times a player has used a bed Bed Type Block Entity Physics No Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 1 Hardness 0.2 Tool Any tool Renewable Yes Stackable No Flammable PC: No, but catches fire from lava PE: No First appearances See .

NBT tags

• SkeletonTrap (byte): Indicates whether the horse is a skeleton trap (i.e. whether or not the horse will spawn 4 undead horsemen in its place when a player gets within 10 blocks of it)
  • /summon EntityHorse ~ ~1 ~10 {SkeletonTrap:1b}
• SkeletonTrapTime (integer), incremented each tick when SkeletonTrap is set to 1. The mob automatically de-spawns when it reaches 18000 (15 minutes). This will prevent the hostile horses from overflowing the world, similar to chicken jockeys.
  • /summon EntityHorse ~ ~1 ~10 {SkeletonTrap:1b,SkeletonTrapTime:17980}

Videos

Blocks

Crops

• Improved drop chances for seeds Seeds Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 0 Tool None Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Seeds (1) when not mature Seeds (0–3) when fully grown Wheat (1) when fully grown Data values (average 1⁵⁄₇ per crop harvested instead of 1³⁄₅), potatoes Potato Type Food Restores 1 () Cookable Yes Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Experience Cooked: 0.35 First appearances See History Data values Block dec: 142 hex: 8E bin: 10001110 Item dec: 392 hex: 188 bin: 110001000 Name Block potatoes Item potato and carrots Carrot Type Food Restores 3 () Cookable No Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) First appearances See History Data values Block dec: 141 hex: 8D bin: 10001101 Item dec: 391 hex: 187 bin: 110000111 Name Block carrots Item carrot This article is (average 2⁵⁄₇ per crop harvested instead of 2³⁄₅), and beetroot seeds Beetroot Seeds Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 0 Tool Any tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Beetroot Beetroot Seeds Data values PCPersonal Computer item: dec: 435 hex: 1B3 bin: 110110011 PE Item: dec: 458 hex: 1CA bin: 111001010 (average 2 per crop harvested instead of ⁴⁄₅).

Fire Fire Transparency Yes Luminance Yes, 15 Blast resistance 0 Tool Any tool Renewable No Stackable N/A Flammable No Drops None Data value dec: 51 hex: 33 bin: 110011 Name fire Fire is a harmful non-solid block. Contents 1

• Fire goes out less often under the rain.
  • The chance of going out each fire tick is reduced from 100% to 0–45%, depending on the age property.

End rod End Rod Transparency No Luminance Yes, 14 Blast resistance 0 Tool Any tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Itself Data values PC: dec: 198 hex: C6 bin: 11000110 PE: dec: 208 hex: D0 bin: 11010000 Name end_rod End

• The player can no longer step up onto an end rod as if it were a slab.

Mobs

All mobs

• General improvements to mob AI.

Skeletons Skeleton Health points 20 () Attack strength Bow: Easy: 1 () - 4 () Normal: 1 () - 4 () Hard: 1 () - 5 () Sword: Easy: 2 () Normal: 2 () Hard: 3

• Have new idle sounds.
• Skeletons can now walk, strafe and shoot at the same time.
  • They walk away from players that are too close and towards players that are too far.
    • They will also sprint towards the player when very far away.
• Now can spawn riding "skeletal horses" through the new "skeleton trap" horse.

Horses Horse Health points 15 () to 30 ( × 15) Armor points See horse armor Size Adult: Height: 1.6 Blocks Width: 1.3965 Blocks Baby: Height: 0.8 Blocks Width: 0.6982 Blocks Spawn Plains and savanna First

• Added "skeleton trap" horses. When a player approaches to within 10 blocks, the following will happen:
  • The SkeletonTrap flag is cleared.
  • Lightning strikes the horse.
  • The horse will become skeletal if it isn`t already.
  • The horse becomes tame.
  • The horse becomes fully grown (if a baby) and the breeding cooldown is reset.
  • A skeleton is spawned riding the horse.
    • If on peaceful, the Skeleton will not spawn, while the Horse will.
    • The skeleton has damage immunity for 3 seconds.
    • The skeleton will not despawn since they have the tag PersistenceRequired set to true.
    • The skeleton will be wearing an iron helmet, unless it randomly spawned with some other headgear.
    • The skeleton`s bow and helmet will be enchanted "Flame" redirects here. For the non-solid damage-dealing block, see Fire. “ How does enchanting work in Minecraft? Well, you open a magical book and pick a random spell, not quite sure knowing what it will as if on an enchantment table at level 5⃢₀ₓ22.
      • The level is higher depending on regional difficulty Mobs in full armor are a common sight in higher difficulty levels. Difficulty is an option in Minecraft that has a direct impact on the ease of gameplay. Contents 1 World setting 1.1 Peaceful 1.2 ; on Easy it will always be a level-5 enchantment.
  • Three additional skeletal horses with riders will be spawned in the vicinity.

Villagers Villager Health points 20 () Size Adult: Height: 1.95 Blocks Width: 0.6 Blocks Baby: Height: 0.975 Blocks Width: 0.3 Blocks Spawn Village When a zombie villager is cured First appearances See History Drops None Experience

• Will now pick up and plant beetroot seeds Beetroot Seeds Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 0 Tool Any tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Beetroot Beetroot Seeds Data values PC item: dec: 435 hex: 1B3 bin: 110110011 PE Item: dec: 458 hex: 1CA bin: 111001010 .
• Will now pick up beetroot Beetroot Type Food Restores 1 () Cookable No Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Luminance No First appearances See History Data values PC: dec: 434 hex: 1B2 bin: 110110010 Pocket Edition:: dec: 457 hex: 1C9 bin: 111001001 Name beetroot This article is and use it in the same way as they do carrots Carrot Type Food Restores 3 () Cookable No Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) First appearances See History Data values Block dec: 141 hex: 8D bin: 10001101 Item dec: 391 hex: 187 bin: 110000111 Name Block carrots Item carrot This article is and potatoes Potato Type Food Restores 1 () Cookable Yes Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Experience Cooked: 0.35 First appearances See History Data values Block dec: 142 hex: 8E bin: 10001110 Item dec: 392 hex: 188 bin: 110001000 Name Block potatoes Item potato .

Tamed Ocelots Ocelot Health points 10 () Attack strength Chickens Only: 2 () Size Adult: Height: 0.7 Blocks Width: 0.6 Blocks Baby: Height: 0.35 Blocks Width: 0.3 Blocks Spawn Ocelot: In Jungle Biomes, on Grass or leaf and Wolves Wolf Health points Wild: 8 () Tamed: 20 () Attack strength Wild: Easy: 3 () Normal: 4 () Hard: 6 () Tamed: 4 () Size Adult: Height: 0.85 Blocks Width: 0.6 Blocks Baby: Height: 0.425

• Deaths (and killers) are now announced to their owners on chat See the multiplayer experience in Minecraft. For the multiplayer software, see Server. PvP (Player versus Player) on a multiplayer server. Multiplayer is the server-based version of Minecraft that enables multiple players to , even if unnamed.

Non-mob entities

Lightning Lightning during a thunderstorm. A lightning bolt strikes a tree. A creeper can be seen hopping about in the woods. If it had been closer to the strike, it would have become charged. Thunderstorms are

• Natural lightning strikes may spawn a "skeleton trap" style skeletal horses.
  • Chance is calculated from the regional difficulty Mobs in full armor are a common sight in higher difficulty levels. Difficulty is an option in Minecraft that has a direct impact on the ease of gameplay. Contents 1 World setting 1.1 Peaceful 1.2 score: 5% * raw regional difficulty score
    • 3.75–7.5% chance on Easy, 7.5–20% chance on Normal, 11.25–33.75% chance on Hard.

Fixes

29 issues fixed

From released versions before 1.9

• MC-1230 – Players and mobs can fall through extending/retracting pistons.
• MC-1635 – Hitboxes for some blocks are broken.
• MC-1720 – Dropped items bounce on stairs, cauldrons, carpets and full / locked hoppers.
• MC-32850 – Server GUI Text box is empty (.exe only).
• MC-69652 – Mobs de-aggro After Punching Them.
• MC-73302 – Block collision box issues (mobs glitch through blocks and more).
• MC-77972 – No large red mushrooms in mushroom biomes 1.8.2 onwards.
• MC-78759 – Hopper splitting items into "Minecart with chest"s next to each other.
• MC-79995 – Too many banners items (in chests) will become invisible after 6-7 chests.
• MC-81738 – Crash: IndexOutOfBoundsException on Tesselating block in world.
• MC-88101 – Retracting blocks don`t move/bounce entities correctly.
• MC-88480 – Minecarts accept items from hopper 2 blocks above.

From the 1.9 development versions

• MC-83002 – Villagers don`t pick up Beet Roots or Beet Root Seeds.
• MC-83266 – Beetroot Farming non-sustainable.
• MC-86253 – In multiplayer, when a player is blocking with a shield, other players see the shield as the normal state.
• MC-86845 – Minecart Command Blocks kick players from servers.
• MC-87802 – Excessive banners (as blocks) do not render.
• MC-87946 – Monsters see you through walls.

From the previous development version

• MC-88357 – Crash when going outside height limit or into the void with F3.
• MC-88365 – Shift-clicking combined shields+banners moves the whole banner stack to the inventory, but only removes one banner from the crafting grid, duplicating the rest.
• MC-88377 – Crash when crafting an Empty Shield with a Banner.
• MC-88396 – Pistons do not move unextended pistons.
• MC-88428 – Pistons Can Push Obsidian.
• MC-88438 – Vines cannot be placed on blocks in Creative or Survival mode.
• MC-88446 – Unconditional impulse command blocks interact unexpectedly with conditionMet.
• MC-88470 – Joining a multiplayer game within render distance of player causes "invisibility".
• MC-88499 – Breaking top vine growing ON jungle tree stem removes all lower vines.
• MC-88812 – Hopper: java.lang.NullPointerException: Rendering screen.
• MC-88815 – Can`t place Paintings bigger than 2x2.