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18w14a[1] is the twenty-ninth snapshot released for Java Edition 1.13, which added phantom membrane and the potion of slow falling.

Additions[]

Items[]

Phantom membranes
  • Dropped by phantoms.
  • Used to repair elytra.
  • Can be used to brew potions of Slow Falling.
Potions of Slow Falling
  • Brewed with phantom membrane.
  • Gives the player the Slow Falling status effect for 1 minute and 30 seconds.
  • Can be extended to 4 minutes by brewing with redstone.
  • Brewing it with gunpowder or dragon's breath will create a splash or lingering potion, respectively.
Arrows of Slow Falling
  • Effects the shot mob with the Slow Falling status effect.

Gameplay[]

Status effects[]

  • Added slow falling.
    • It causes the player to descend at a much slower rate, and not take any damage when hitting the ground.
      • This allows the player to jump further than normal.
        • If the player is sprinting while under the Slow Falling status effect, they will be able to jump across a gap of over 5.5 blocks, compared to 4 with normal sprinting.
    • Crops will not get destroyed if the player lands on them with the Slow Falling status effect.
    • Higher levels do not change the rate of descent.

Advancements[]

  • Added 4 new advancements:
    • Fishy Business: 'Catch a fish'
    • Tactical fishing: 'Catch a fish... without a fishing rod!'
    • A Throwaway Joke: 'Throw a trident at something'
    • Very Very Frightening: 'Strike a Villager with lightning'
  • Added three new advancement triggers;
    • minecraft:fishing_rod_hooked triggers when a player reels in an item or entity;
    • minecraft:channeled_lightning triggers when a player uses the Channeling enchantment to strike a mob;
    • minecraft:filled_bucket triggers when a player fills a bucket.

General[]

Debug screen
  • F3 + C
    • Now gives a warning before forcing a debug crash.

Changes[]

Blocks[]

Kelp
  • Changed texture.

Items[]

Elytra
  • Now requires phantom membrane to be repaired instead of leather.

Mobs[]

Phantoms
  • Now drop phantom membrane instead of leather.

World generation[]

Kelp
  • Kelp cannot generate anymore in warm oceans.
Seagrass
  • Seagrass can now generate in rivers and swamps.

Gameplay[]

Enchantments[]

Riptide
  • No longer compatible with Loyalty or Channeling.
  • If the player is not in water and it is not raining, the player is no longer able to throw tridents enchanted with Riptide, but they still deal melee damage.
  • Riptide will not throw the trident but instead launch the player forwards.
  • Players now display a spinning animation when dashing.

General[]

Optimizations
  • Optimized cloud rendering.

Fixes[]

9 issues fixed
From the 1.13 development versions
  • MC-124114 – Parrots are not visible on the shoulders
  • MC-125222 – Kelp can sometimes generate with two tops
  • MC-125311 – Kelp (non-top block), tall sea grass, and bubble columns are missing the translation strings
  • MC-125371 – Kelp (top) isn't an "X" like texture
  • MC-125617 – Kelp can be placed on transparent and non-full blocks
  • MC-125657 – Kelp top texture is always pointing right
  • MC-126633 – Falling block over Kelp or Seagrass drop as items
From the previous development version
  • MC-127297 – Holding down F3+C spams "Copied location to clipboard"
  • MC-127338 – F3+C (copy coordinates) uses @p instead of @s

Video[]

Video made by slicedlime:

References[]

  1. "Minecraft Snapshot 18w14a" – Minecraft.net, April 4, 2018
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