14w20a is the twenty-third snapshot released for Java Edition 1.8.
Additions[]
Command format[]
- Can make text display on a players screen in the form of a title and/or subtitle.
/title <player> times <fadeIn> <stay> <fadeOut>
- Set the fade in time, the stay on screen time and the fade out time for the title.
/title <player> title <raw json message>
- Set and start showing the title.
/title <player> subtitle <raw json message>
- Set and start the subtitle.
/title <player> clear
- Clear titles immediately.
/title <player> reset
- Reset all title parameters to defaults (fade times).
General[]
- Added the following splashes:
- "Run, coward! I hunger!"
- "Blue warrior shot the food!"
- "Warning! A huge battleship "STEVE" is approaching fast!"
- "Rise from your grave!"
Changes[]
Blocks[]
- General
- Blocks no longer have bits for metadata, the freed up bits are now used for block ids (dynamically).
Mobs[]
- "Slime sizing was moved to a post-spawn method, so the slime's canSpawn() method would report spawnability based on the initial size, not the final size. There is an added secondary check which fixes the issue."[1][2]
World generation[]
- Now generate on the surface of desert, mesa, mega taiga and mushroom biomes.
- World borders
- If a player is stuck outside the world border, it is possible for them to freely fly/walk around (not possible to freely walk through the border).
Command format[]
- Now has a
selector
argument.- Allows to print player's names.
- Example:
/tellraw @a {selector:"@a[team=TeamRed]"}
will print everyone who is on TeamRed. - Also works with
/title
.
Gameplay[]
- Spectator mode
- Adjusting fly speed in spectator mode now works vertically too.
- Player list
- Made tab-list more consistent and a little prettier when using health display objective.
- Now groups together teams.
- Now sorts players by name.
General[]
- The 'Towards Positive/Negative X/Z' is back.
Fixes[]
- 23 issues fixed
- From released versions before 1.8
- MC-8881 – Mobs treat any layered snow as non-solid.
- MC-26203 – Scoreboard: player does not appear in sidebar after setting initial score to zero.
- MC-33084 –
/give
command at dead players. - MC-41234 – "
/summon
"ed or spawned LeashKnots always spawn at 0, 0, 0. - MC-51776 – 32000 Command block character limit only works as a 16000 character limit within Minecraft.
- MC-52881 – Knockback distance incorrect, depends on login order.
- From the 1.8 development versions
- MC-44331 – Interacting with invalid villagers crashes the game.
- MC-45303 – Surface dungeons generating without spawner, chests, and most of floor.
- MC-46765 – Leaves, Block of Redstone, TNT and Glowstone cause suffocation damage.
- MC-48442 – Mob Dungeon spawning without floor / with broken chests / overwritten spawner.
- MC-48535 – Creeper explosion animation missing if
mobGriefing
set to false. - MC-49577 – Slime spawning bug.
- MC-50275 – Leads don't show knot on fence posts and cannot be right clicked.
- MC-50323 – Chest not openable with item frame on, standing too close.
- MC-50852 –
/scoreboard players reset * objective
clears sidebar for other scoreboard objectives. - MC-50974 – Renamed items not displaying name in item frames after respawn.
- MC-51080 – Endermite ignore
PersistenceRequired
tag. - MC-53380 – Staying outside border makes you unable to move at all.
- MC-53435 – Debug screen: Facing towards negative/Positive X/Z removed.
- MC-53469 – Sliders have incorrect values causing world to never be created
(java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: n must be positive)
. - MC-54164 – footstep, hugeexplosion and largeexplode particles don't appear.
- MC-54228 – Respawning after death outside of world border places player at Y=256.
- MC-54381 –
/scoreboard players operation
doesn't work on a player that's not on a scoreboard, but also does work.
Trivia[]
- 14w20a was previously removed from the launcher for some time, but was added back in September 2018.
- "Warning! A huge battleship "STEVE" is approaching fast!" is a reference to Darius, a series of games with the same sentence, showing before boss fights.
References[]
- ↑ "Slime sizing was moved to a post-spawn method, so the slime's canSpawn() method would report spawnability" – @TheMogMiner (Ryan Holtz) on X, May 15, 2014
- ↑ "based on the initial size, not the final size. I added a secondary check which fixes the issue." – @TheMogMiner (Ryan Holtz) on X, May 15, 2014