18w07a

18w07a

Type	Snapshot
Release date	February 14, 2018
Snapshot for	1.13
Download	Client (.json) Server
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This article is about the Java Edition. For other editions, see Version history.

18w07a is the eighteenth snapshot released for 1.13.

Additions

Blocks

• Added stripped logs, a smoother log variant.
  • Created by right clicking with an axe on a log.
  • Act as regular logs, and can still be used to craft planks.
• Added bubble columns.
  • Created by magma blocks or soul sand in water at least 2 blocks deep.
  • Magma blocks columns push entities down: they will stop items from floating up in water and sink boats.
  • Soul sand columns push entities up.
• Added kelp and sea grass blocks.
  • Can only be placed underwater, requiring at least one water block above it.
    • Can be placed on dry land by using the /setblock command.
  • Generate in oceans.
  • Can grow multiple blocks high.
  • Have animated textures.
  • Sea grass also comes in a tall variant.
  • Sea grass can be generated when right clicking any block underwater.
  • Kelp can be smelted into dry kelp.
• Added dried kelp blocks.
  • Smelts 20 items when used as fuel in a furnace.
• Added prismarine stairs and slabs.
• Added turtle eggs
  • Stepping on turtle eggs will break them.
    • Zombies and zombie pigmen will intentionally step on turtle eggs.

Items

• Added new trident weapon.
  • Can be thrown by using it, or be used as a melee weapon by attacking, dealing 9 () damage.
  • Are currently unobtainable in Survival Mode
• Added kelp and dried kelp.
  • Kelp can be used to place a kelp plant underwater.
  • Kelp can be dried in a furnace to create dried kelp.
  • Dried kelp can be eaten, restoring 1 () hunger point.
• Added turtle shell pieces.
  • Dropped when baby turtles grow up.
  • Can be used to craft turtle shells.
• Added turtle shells.
  • Can be used as a helmet, adding 2 armor points.
    • While equipped and out of water, it will give the player the Water Breathing effect for 10 seconds, essentially giving the player 10 extra seconds of breath underwater.
  • Can be used to brew the potion of the Turtle Master from an awkward potion.
• Added potion of the Turtle Master.
  • Will give Slowness IV and Resistance IV for 1 minute.
  • Brewing it with redstone dust will extend the effect time to 3 minutes.
  • Brewing it with glowstone dust will increase the effect amplifiers from IV to VI.
  • Brewing it with gunpowder or dragon's breath will create a splash or lingering potion, respectively.
• Added arrow of the Turtle Master.
• Added turtle spawn eggs
• Added phantom spawn eggs

Mobs

• Added phantoms.
  • Spawn in the Overworld and the End, sometimes in groups of up to four.
  • Attack players who haven't slept in a while.
  • Drops 1-4 leathers.
    • This may change.
• Added turtles.
  • Spawns on warm beaches (in plains, jungles, swamps, deserts, mesas and savannahs), in groups of 1-5. This is temporary.
  • Will lay eggs in their home beach.
  • Drops 0-2 sea grass upon death.
    • Drops 0-1 bowl when killed with a trident enchanted with Channeling.
  • Can be bred using cod. (later changed to sea grass)
  • You can craft pieces of their old shell into one big shell.
• Added tridents.

Gameplay

Enchantments

• Added Loyalty.
  • Goes up to level III.
  • Used on tridents to make it return when thrown.
• Added Impaling.
  • Goes up to level V.
  • Used on tridents to deal more damage to sea creatures.
• Added Riptide.
  • Goes up to level III.
  • Used on tridents to launch the player when thrown while in water or rain.
• Added Channeling.
  • Only has one level.
  • Used on tridents to summon a lightning bolt on impact with a mob during storms.
    • Requires the target mob to be directly under an open sky and in a biome where it is raining.

Movement

• When sprinting while swimming, the player will now go much faster than normal swimming, and rapidly dive down to the lowest point in the body of water.
  • The players hitbox is only as large as 0.6×0.6 blocks (same as while flying with an elytra) while doing this
  • Vertically, the player can fit through a one block gap like this
    • If the ceiling block is solid, movement is very slow while in such a small space, for any other ceiling block like a bottom slab movement speed is as normal

General

• Added the minecraft:bubble_column_up, minecraft:bubble_pop, minecraft:current_down, and minecraft:squid_ink particles.
• Added the HomePosX, HomePosY, HomePosZ, TravelPosX, TravelPosY, TravelPosZ, and HasEgg NBT tags for turtles.
• Added the AX, AY, AZ, and Size NBT tags for phantoms.
• Added the time_since_sleep statistic.
  • Used by phantoms.
  • Reset when the player leaves their bed.
• Added the minecraft:water_hacked, minecraft:slabs, and minecraft:stairs block tags.
  • Blocks in the minecraft:water_hacked tag will render in water as if any non-filled space in the block model was water.
• Added the minecraft:acacia_logs, minecraft:birch_logs, minecraft:dark_oak_logs, minecraft:jungle_logs, minecraft:oak_logs, and minecraft:spruce_logs block and item tags.

Changes

Mobs

• Squids now shoot ink in response to being attacked.
• Zombies, skeletons, ocelots and wolves will naturally attack baby turtles, and zombies and zombie pigmen will seek out and trample turtle eggs.

Non-mob entities

• Items in water now float up.

World generation

• In the Nether, vertical air cavities — stretching from bedrock level to as far as Y=35, and filled with lava from bedrock level to Y=10 – now occur in chains across the bottom of the Nether, often forming extensive ravines.

Fixes

12 issues fixed

From released versions before 1.13

• MC-11208 – The big tree generator handles tree height variable incorrectly
• MC-102440 – Large oak trees not spawning or spawning abnormally in forest

From the previous development version

• 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