15w37a[1] is the twenty-third snapshot released for Java Edition 1.9.
Additions[]
World generation[]
- "The Void" is now a biome with id 127.
- No mobs randomly spawn in the biome.
- Generates a single structure: a stone platform with a cobblestone center block at spawn.
- New superflat preset: The Void.
- Spawns the player on a stone platform with a cobblestone center block, with the rest being air blocks and the void biome present everywhere.
Command format[]
- NBT tags
MinecartHopper
entity.Enabled
(byte): Determines whether or not the minecart hopper will pick up items into its inventory.- Example:
/summon MinecartHopper ~ ~1 ~ {Enabled:1b}
.
- Example:
- Gamerules
spectatorsGenerateChunks
- Boolean to control whether or not spectators generate chunks on their own.
- Defaults to true.
- Boolean to control whether or not spectators generate chunks on their own.
Changes[]
Blocks[]
- Now has an inventory icon.
Items[]
- Teleportation range reduced from ±32 to ±8.
- Enchanted golden apple regeneration level has been reduced from V to II.
- Enchanted Golden Apple regeneration time has been reduced from 30 seconds to 20 seconds.
- Its absorption level has been increased from I to IV to balance this.
- Golden Apple regeneration level has been reduced from II to I.
- Now have a new crafting recipe, requiring 6 planks and an iron ingot (this removes the need for wool).
- As a result, they now lack a base color by default: The new texture shows a wooden face.
- Crafting a shield with a banner still yields a patterned shield.
- As a result, they now lack a base color by default: The new texture shows a wooden face.
- Arrows can now ricochet off a shield to hit other entities.
Gameplay[]
- Combat
- Bows can now be used when in the offhand, in the absence of a usable item in the main hand.
- Sword attack speed increased from 1.45 to 1.6.
- Axe attack speed is now based on the type, rather than 0.8 for all (similar to the hoe).
- Wooden and stone axes have as speed of 0.8.
- Iron axes have a speed of 0.9.
- Gold and diamond axes have a speed of 1.
- Certain attack damage values were changed.
- Stone and diamond axes now deal 9 damage, instead of 8 and 10 respectively.
- Upon death, the player now has the choice to respawn in spectator mode, rather than the world being deleted immediately.
General[]
- Performance
- Improved chunk generation, loading and sending.[2][3]
- Improved rendering "by building a chunk only once where it was rebuilt up to 5 times in worst case".[4]
Fixes[]
- 19 issues fixed
- From released versions before 1.9
- MC-46710 – 4 blocks wide paintings need 5 blocks space/paintings popping off wall when blocks around it are broken.
- MC-58073 – Farmland has missing texture in inventory.
- MC-79980 – Skeletons and creepers flee endlessly.
- MC-86513 – Sneak mode ends after using inventory.
- MC-88095 – Nights don't get skipped when the last player is set to Spectator mode.
- MC-88098 – When unloading a hopper minecart it gets unlocked.
- From the 1.8 development versions
- MC-59061 – Zoom animation when entering (new generated) world.
- From the 1.8.2 development versions
- MC-76679 – Wrong hand position after going through portal/loading world (combined with missing item).
- MC-77604 – Pushed
WitherSkulls
become invisible.
- From the 1.9 development versions
- MC-82923 – Bow in offhand does not work properly.
- MC-86486 – Offhand sneak placing doesn't work like main hand sneak placing.
- MC-86811 – Digging with axes, shovels, and pickaxes cause the new reload/attack animation to appear.
- MC-86989 – World/map save dates are not recorded in the newer snapshots.
- MC-87851 – When durability on bow it is 0 / 384 and shoot one more time to bugs.
- MC-87872 – Can't open command blocks after death and respawn or changing dimensions.
- MC-87877 – Command block break particles don't appear after death and respawn.
- From the previous development version
- MC-87918 – Animation not playing when placing command blocks after death and respawn
- MC-88206 – Stairs/leaves disappear or replaced by doors/beetroot.
- MC-88277 – Hopper:
java.lang.NullPointerException: Updating screen events
.
Video[]
Video made by slicedlime:
Trivia[]
- Unlike most of the first-of-the-week snapshots, this was released on a Thursday instead of Wednesday, similar to the snapshots before 14w26a.
- This version was previously removed from the launcher for some time, but was added back in September 2018.
References[]
- ↑ https://www.mojang.com/2015/09/minecraft-snapshot-15w37a/
- ↑ "Chunk generation & sending should be much smoother in the next snapshot, if not a tiny bit faster." – @Dinnerbone (Nathan Adams) on X, September 10, 2015
- ↑ "I have been doing terrible things to chunk loading & sending. Best case scenario, a much smoother game. Worst case, everything ever broke." – @Dinnerbone (Nathan Adams) on X, September 9, 2015
- ↑ "I found a way to improve rendering by building a chunk only once where it was rebuilt up to 5 times in worst case. Probably broke something." – @SeargeDP (Michael Stoyke) on X, September 10, 2015