17w16a[1] is the sixth snapshot released for Java Edition 1.12.
Additions[]
Blocks[]
- When placed on top of a bone block, wool, clay, packed ice, or gold blocks, the noteblock produces no sound when altered or activated (this is to make place for new noteblock sounds coming up).
- Added sound events (when using
/playsound
) for the following:minecraft:block.note.bell
minecraft:block.note.chime
minecraft:block.note.flute
minecraft:block.note.guitar
minecraft:block.note.xylophone
- Added sound events (when using
Mobs[]
- Version exclusive: Illusioners
- New illager.
- Affects players with Blindness for 20 seconds then shoots with a bow.
- Summons duplicates of itself.
- All duplicates will show the shooting animation, but only the real one can be hit and attacked.
- Does not currently have a spawn egg, therefore it can only be summoned with
/summon illusion_illager
- Targets both players and villagers.
Command format[]
- Selectors
@s
- Targets the executing entity, e.g:
/execute @e[type=Villager] ~ ~ ~ /say @s
General[]
- Version exclusive: Tutorial hints
- Displayed in the top right
- Will display only in Survival mode, and only upon starting a new world for the first time
- Saved per player, stored in options.txt
- Name:
tutorialStep
- List of criteria:
movement
,find_tree
,punch_tree
,open_inventory
,craft_planks
, andnone
- Name:
- Saved per player, stored in options.txt
- Version exclusive: Added keybinding options for Creative toolbar saving
- JSON format
- Added 'group' to recipe JSON format, to clump similar recipes together
- Added new 'keybind' text component, to refer to the player's keybindings
Changes[]
Blocks[]
- Renamed to terracotta.
- Will no longer "stick" to slime blocks if attached to the side, top or bottom, but not if attached to the front or back.
- Colors changed in accordance with the changes to other block colors.
- This causes the 'default' (purple) shulker boxes to be a vibrant purple that mismatches all other purpur items and blocks (reverted in 17w17a).
- Now executes all of the commands in a chain before scheduling them for the next tick.
- It is now possible to stop/modify the operation of a chain via commands and get results instantly (as opposed to getting them in a 1 tick delay).
Items[]
- Version exclusive: Added sounds for reeling in the fishing bobber.
Mobs[]
- Colors changed in accordance with the changes to other block colors.
- This causes the 'default' (purple) shulkers to be a vibrant purple that mismatches all other purpur items and blocks (reverted in 17w17a).
General[]
- Now displays a message whenever it isn't available.
- Version exclusive: Pressing F1 will now hide all toast messages.
- NBT format
- Improved NBT parsing in commands.
- Keys can now (optionally) be quoted, e.g:
"Motion":[0.0,0.0,0.0]
- Unquoted string values are now stricter; they can no longer contain spaces or special symbols, e.g:
CustomName:Test Test
- Indices, which were previously optional in lists, are no longer allowed, e.g:
Motion:[0:7.3,1:1.0,2:3.1]
- Empty keys and values are no longer allowed.
- Keys can now (optionally) be quoted, e.g:
- Improved error messaging; now points to where exactly the error occurred.
Fixes[]
- 27 issues fixed
- From released versions before 1.12
- MC-9565 – Fences and Cobblestone Walls connect to Fence Gates, which are facing the other direction
- MC-95560 – Wrong command message: The last character of NBT parsing error message is missing
- MC-97662 – NBT parser regex checks for pipebars as tag declaration
- MC-114219 – NBT integer array regex matches non-integer arrays
- MC-114220 – NBT integer arrays have a trailing comma in the string representation
- From the 1.12 development versions
- MC-113915 – Inadvertently saving/overwriting saved hotbars due to stuck modifier key
- MC-114889 – Parrots on shoulders disappear when flying up in creative or spectator mode
- MC-115046 – Recipe book icon changes when wearing enchanted armor
- MC-115336 – Closing crafting menu drops or deletes items in some cases
- MC-115528 – Local client crashes when using the new shift-click recipe book in a server
- MC-115603 – Shift clicking recipe deletes other applicable items with different meta data
- From the previous development version
- MC-115797 – Server output shows errors and nothing else
- MC-115802 – Crash when going to Statistics/items-blocks or trying to customize Superflat settings
- MC-115806 – Clicking on coloring white bed recipe selects creating bed recipe (placing planks in armor slots of a player)
- MC-115807 – Game crash if right clicked on the underside of block with torch in hand
- MC-115809 – Advancements/recipes notifications don't show correctly in F1 mode.
- MC-115812 – ⇧ Shift + F3 crashes the game
- MC-115837 – Gap between advancements and recipe toast
- MC-115873 – Can't drop items by clicking outside of inventory
- MC-115938 – Toasts darken in some GUIs and while some tooltips are displayed
- MC-115942 – Parrots imitating mobs causes null pointer exception
- MC-116004 – "Parrot" isn't translatable in the "imitates" subtitle
- MC-116136 – Parrots are invisible when on shoulder
- MC-116213 – Parrots on your shoulder change color when the player is wearing an enchanted elytra
- MC-116314 – Bows destroy other bows while crafting using recipe book
- MC-116316 – Shulker boxes not matching the new hues
- From the current version, hotfixed
- MC-116352 – Crash when opening the chat settings
Video[]
Video made by slicedlime:
Trivia[]
- 17w16a was previously removed from the launcher for some time but was added back in September 2018.
References[]
- ↑ "Minecraft Snapshot 17w16a" – Minecraft.net, April 20, 2017