15w36a[1] is the nineteenth snapshot released for Java Edition 1.9.
Additions[]
Command format[]
collisionRule
added as a team rule to the scoreboard.- It determines whether or not entities can push each other, and whether or not it's team dependent.
- Subcommands:
always
,never
,pushOtherTeam
,pushOwnTeam
.
Changes[]
- Can no longer be placed by players who are unable to use commands.
Items[]
- Armor protection calculations have been nerfed:
- Max (20) armor points damage reduction reduced from 80% to 66% (Changed back again in 16w02a).
- Armor points count for less as the attack strength increases: Each 2 done by the attack reduces the effective defense points by 1 ().
Mobs[]
- General
- No longer reset their AI when hit.
- Due to MC-87946, all hostile mobs can now draw line of sight through solid blocks in order to track the player.
- Detection range for players wearing their corresponding mob head adjusted to be 50% of the normal range again.
Gameplay[]
- Sharpness and Protection enchantments have been nerfed.
- Each sharpness level now adds 1 damage to the base damage at level I and an additional 0.5 ( × 0.25) for each additional level, down from a flat 1.25 × 0.625 per level.
- Protection enchantment bonuses are now linear instead of quadratic.
- Most entities can now be pushed by other entities.
- The exceptions being: items, paintings, ender crystals, areaEffectCloud, item frames and xp orbs.
- These can be overridden for mobs and players through a team rule.
- The same class of entities are now "magnetic" to the fishing rod bobber, and in the case of mobs/players will no longer suffer from knockback or pseudo-damage.
General[]
- Performance
- Optimized memory usage when connected to servers.[2]
Fixes[]
- 7 issues fixed
- From released versions before 1.9
- MC-7980 – Enderman teleportation and behavior irregular.
- MC-59098 – Enderman only make the 'stare' noise as long as the player is close to the enderman.
- MC-64591 – Wither skeletons wield sword incorrectly.
- From the 1.9 development versions
- MC-82955 – Left-hand items render incorrectly on Alex model skins.
- MC-86840 – Armor durability affecting protection is not working right.
- MC-87611 – Chains of conditional command blocks don't work properly.
- From the previous development version
- MC-87759 – Hopper:
java.lang.NullPointerException: Loading entity NBT
.
Video[]
Video made by slicedlime:
Trivia[]
- This version was previously removed from the launcher for some time, but was added back in September 2018.