14w04a is the sixth snapshot for Java Edition 1.8, released on January 23, 2014,[1] which adds the /particle
command.
14w04a was reuploaded an hour and a half later to fix the server not working.[2]
Additions[]
Command format[]
- Spawns particles in a given area.
- It can also be relative to entities.
- Usage:
/particle <name> <x> <y> <z> <xd> <yd> <zd> <speed> [count] [player:entity]
. - Example:
/particle lava ~ ~1 ~ 1 1 1 0.5 2 @e[type=Chicken]
.- List of particles:
hugeexplosion
,largeexplode
,fireworksSpark
,bubble
,suspended
,depthsuspend
,townaura
,crit
,magicCrit
,smoke
,mobSpell
,mobSpellAmbient
,spell
,instantSpell
,witchMagic
,note
,portal
,enchantmenttable
,explode
,flame
,lava
,footstep
,splash
,wake
,largesmoke
,cloud
,reddust
,snowballpoof
,dripWater
,dripLava
,snowshovel
,slime
,heart
,angryVillager
,happyVillager
,iconcrack_(ID)_(DATA)
,blockcrack_(ID)_(DATA)
,blockdust_(ID)_(DATA)
.
- List of particles:
Changes[]
Blocks[]
- Prior work cost increase changed from linear (1 per repair) to exponential (times 2 plus 1 per repair).
- Repairing with a "sacrifice" now costs 2 levels rather than only 1.
- Can now be placed on ceiling/floors.
- Now flammable.
- When a furnace runs out of fuel, the smelting progress will reverse at twice the normal speed.
- Items in item frames can now be rotated by 45 degrees (eight possible orientations).
- Item frames can give off a signal detected by comparators, based on the item's current orientation.
- Signal strength is as follows: 0: empty; 1: item; 2: item rotated once; 3: item rotated twice; ...; 8: item rotated 7 times.
- Now craftable in a shapeless recipe with one cobblestone and one vine.
Mobs[]
- Can drop iron ingots again by any means of death.
- Can be spawned with pumpkins + dispenser.
- Can be spawned with pumpkins + dispenser.
- Can be spawned with skulls + dispenser.
- Villagers will now harvest, collect and replant grown potatoes, wheat, and carrots.
- Villagers do not have unlimited seeds; seeds must be replenished to replant crops.
- Villagers will craft wheat into bread, and drop it to other villagers.
- Villagers can now become willing to breed by consuming food: 3 bread, 12 potatoes or 12 carrots.
- Can drop gold nuggets again by any means of death.
Command format[]
/fill
- Added the ability to filter block types, as long as the filler block is not a tile entity
- Only if it's used to fill in replace mode with "normal" blocks.
- Syntax:
/fill [x] [y] [z] [x] [y] [z] [BlockName] [Data] replace [filterBlockName] [filterData]
.
Gameplay[]
- Looting now gives an extra 1% chance of getting rare loot per level.
- Doors are now added to the closest village.
- This will not break iron farms, but change them a little, enough to make them "practically pointless".[3]
General[]
- The x coordinate line will now be bold when looking east/west, similarly the z coordinate line will now be bold when looking south/north.
- The crosshair will display 3 short colored lines to indicate the direction of each axis: x/red, y/green, z/blue.
- Rendering & performance
- Only transparent blocks will now render as transparent (eliminates the use of x-ray texture packs).
- Skin customization
- Now displays the right arm's second layer in first person view.
- Skins and capes are now distributed through servers.
- Skins server outages will occur less frequently and have less impact.
- Server-altered skins/capes are not possible – only signed URLs are stored server-side.
- Skin changes will no longer require client restarting, at worst re-logging will update the skin for everybody.
- Duplicate skins no longer need to be downloaded twice.
- Server traffic will barely be affected.
Fixes[]
- 37 issues fixed
- From released versions before 1.8
- MC-78 – Villagers crowd into a single building.
- MC-888 –
/difficulty
command doesn't change the default difficulty in the ESC menu (singleplayer). - MC-1253 – Ladder, sign, fence, gate, trapdoor causes block it is placed in to darken.
- MC-1580 – Ghost items from trading with SHIFT-click.
- MC-3668 – When going through nether portals with (potion) effects, the effect animations (particles, fire, visibility, additional hearts) are lost.
- MC-5824 – Cactus can grow next to blocks.
- MC-8662 – Items are not centered correctly within frames.
- MC-9582 – Whole-word selection behaves erratically in chat.
- MC-16457 – Pumpkin texture flips when made into snowman.
- MC-18284 – New AI mobs see through invisibility.
- MC-25370 – Mouse is centered when going to previous menu with ESC.
- MC-29999 – Realms button is still visible even though the client is a snapshot.
- MC-30995 –
/setblock
replace doesn't replace same block with different tile entity/NBT data. - MC-31081 – Stone monster eggs spawn 2 silverfish.
- MC-31203 – Furnace progress remains after changing ingredient.
- MC-32301 – Lava fizz sound plays whenever a flowing lava block destroys an air block.
- MC-36847 – No colon after game mode in world options.
- MC-37355 – server-icon.png alpha channel display.
- MC-45087 – Id for cooked fish is "
minecraft:cooked_fished
". - MC-45235 – Double Shift = Sprint .
- From the 1.8 development versions
- MC-44368 – After setting the difficulty lock, and changing it with a command block, the lock would not revert to what the command block says.
- MC-44467 – Overpopulated flowers near lake
- MC-44551 – Silverfish can infest granite/andesite/diorite.
- MC-44592 – Fire from lava spreads further than it should.
- MC-44700 –
/me
@e
crash. - MC-44890 – Doors get added to the list of village doors over and over a.gain.
- MC-44893 –
/kill
not killing invulnerable entity. - MC-45011 –
/clone
doesn't clone TileEntity orientation. - MC-45063 – Tripwire is invisible.
- MC-45071 – The world freezes if an Enderman is being hit.
- MC-45084 – Skin's second layers invisible in first person.
- From the previous development version
- MC-45172 – New skin layer jacket acts enchanted when enchanted pants equipped.
- MC-45278 –
/spawnpoint
won't update to chosen coordinates second time unless world file is reloaded. - MC-45345 –
/fill
Tile Entity:java.lang.ClassCastException
. - MC-45459 – Debug code streaming in console.
- MC-45557 – Server does no longer produce a logfile.
- MC-45595 – Server seems locked in debug mode, spams console.
Trivia[]
- 14w04a was previously removed from the launcher for some time, but was added back in September 2018.
References[]
- ↑ "Snapshot! https://mojang.com/2014/01/minecraft-snapshot-14w04a/" – @Dinnerbone (Nathan Adams) on X, January 23, 2014
- ↑ Replying to "@Dinnerbone Crap. The server for 14w04a completely doesn't work. Unable to even login. A lot of debug printouts in the log." – @nicklase on X, January 23, 2014: "@nicklase Redownload it." – @Dinnerbone (Nathan Adams) on X, January 23, 2014
- ↑ "well little enough to make them practically pointless." – @_grum (Erik Broes) on X, January 23, 2014