We're getting ready to do pre-releases soon and we're working hard to fix bugs.

Changes in 18w19a

All undead mobs now sink

Skeleton Horses are rideable underwater

Updated biomes to have new fancy names

Seagrass now generates in underwater caves

New sounds for Conduit and Beacon

Phantoms are now extra flappy

Improved the upgrade paths from old versions

You can now copy the output of the /seed command

command Updated the credits list

Maybe some other stuff?

Fixed a couple of bugs

Changes in 18w19b

You can now open worlds from old snapshots

A bunch of bugfixes

Fixed bugs in 18w19a

MC-7908 - Spawning underwater / In the middle of an (lava) ocean

MC-86016 - Some Mojang staff not mentioned in credits.txt

MC-121285 - Crash on start when resolution is changed in profile

MC-121636 - Server commands available in singleplayer with weird/bad effects

MC-121661 - Typing /help + unavailable command returns "unexpected error" message

MC-121799 - Cannot summon lightning bolt

MC-121999 - Incorrect /help behavior for non-ops

MC-122557 - Setting the size parameter for the dust particle to 0 or very close to it crashes the game

MC-122596 - Command autocomplete overrides command history navigation

MC-122628 - /help no longer has pages

MC-122630 - /help no longer prefixes "/" to commands

MC-122684 - Connected LAN players are able to kick/ban the server host

MC-123053 - Game crashes when using an item with a tag in the CanDestroy or CanPlaceOn NBT tag

MC-123606 - Server crash: Ticking entity 'java.lang.ClassCastException: ass cannot be cast to aui'

MC-123778 - Team color doesn't work in playerlist and sidebar before reconnecting

MC-123813 - Team colors no longer show in json results

MC-123835 - Colored sidebar display slots are not visible

MC-123852 - Glowing effect doesn't change depending on team color

MC-123856 - Clicking [Intentional Game Design] on death screen doesn't open a link to MCPE-28723

MC-124091 - Team color doesn't affect name above head

MC-124092 - Some team options don't work

MC-124098 - jeb_ sheep don't change color

MC-124102 - Book signing shows the author name as string representation of the textcomponent

MC-124147 - Zombie horses are invisible and replaced with regular zombies on reload

MC-124237 - Command syntax help doesn't clamp to the right chat line border

MC-124560 - Server says "type help or ?" but ? is not a valid command anymore

MC-124633 - Feedback text for "/team option seeFriendlyInvisibles false" when seeFriendlyInvisibles is already disabled is wrong

MC-124720 - Cannot start server with GUI

MC-124750 - /particle acting strangely across dimensions

MC-124889 - You cannot shift click smeltable items into a furnace

MC-124895 - Trees generate side by side

MC-124898 - Minerals tab in furnace recipe book displays apple item

MC-124949 - Tree generating in village house and as part of field

MC-124956 - Furnace recipe book availability toggle has wrong tooltip ("Showing craftable")

MC-125060 - Furnace recipe book availability toggle has crafting table icon

MC-125107 - Mineshafts don't generate support blocks when a block is above it

MC-125115 - Command suggestions don't order numbers from least to greatest

MC-125130 - Selector auto-completion tooltips mixed up

MC-125174 - Ore pockets do not generate in superflat worlds

MC-125232 - Phantoms attack players in peaceful mode

MC-125258 - Preparing spawn area spams 0%

MC-125283 - Jungle Biomes are extremely cluttered

MC-125381 - Effects from the turtle master potion don't show amplifier

MC-125442 - Extreme Lag in Jungle Biome

MC-125466 - Fishing drops don't come towards player

MC-125550 - Experience orbs don't float up in water

MC-125607 - Going inside of bubble columns in spectator mode plays bubble column sound

MC-125675 - Two high sea grass placed on the ocean floor can replace ocean monument parts

MC-125803 - NoGravity no longers works on items

MC-125872 - Superflat preset "the void" doesn't generate starting platform anymore

MC-125915 - Zombies can destroy turtle eggs through a full block and a half above the egg

MC-125946 - Phantoms can spawn inside/colliding with blocks

MC-125997 - Deep Frozen Ocean isn't frozen

MC-126085 - Pufferfish attack invisible players and creative/spectator players

MC-126086 - Salmon and tropical fish hitbox on land is wrongly positioned

MC-126139 - The fins of dying cod and some tropical fish show z-fighting

MC-126144 - Cods suffocate when touching a solid block from below

MC-126178 - Can use the water (with fish) bucket to destroy kelp, sea grass, coral and coral fan

MC-126190 - Salmon mobs often get stuck

MC-126198 - Only players are poisoned by pufferfish

MC-126218 - Held turtle eggs are too low in first person

MC-126261 - Turtle Egg Placement

MC-126362 - Shift-clicking fuel into non-empty furnaces only moves fuel client-side

MC-126380 - Getting an uncarved pumpkin gives recipe for jack o' lantern

MC-126656 - Bubble columns made by Soul Sand only appear every other block

MC-126762 - Red screen when player attack invalid tropical fish variant

MC-126800 - The tropical fish item is named "clownfish".

MC-126815 - Banner and treasure markers on maps show incorrect icons in multiplayer

MC-126859 - Polar bears and rabbits not spawning in Ice Plains

MC-126883 - Shulker(box) becomes dark purple when upgrading from 1.12.2

MC-126950 - Riding floating boats underwater

MC-127069 - huge phantom crash

MC-127166 - Parrots don't imitate dolphins, phantoms and drowneds

MC-127253 - F3+Q list isn't sorted alphabetically anymore

MC-127274 - F3+C to copy coordinates works even when reduced debug info is enabled

MC-127291 - Zombies drowning always drop armor items instead of using random chance

MC-127295 - Zombies can gain tridents or fishing rods when they drown

MC-127337 - F3+C (copy coordinates) does not copy dimension

MC-127388 - Pufferfish appear with their most inflated model after world load

MC-127516 - Duplication and deletion of ingredients, inventory desync and game freezing caused by faulty handling of firework star recipe

MC-127593 - Waterlogged blocks such as fence sign ladder etc, will not allow bubble columns to spawn next to them

MC-127924 - Slow falling is considered a negative effect

MC-127969 - Sea grass doesn't generate correctly above stairs

MC-127998 - You cannot place sea pickles on top of non solid blocks

MC-127999 - Glitching in sea pickles when standing on them while placing the fourth one in the block

MC-128039 - New Phantom skins do not match spawning egg colors

MC-128242 - Leaving water while swimming causes player's arm to render out of screen

MC-128243 - Dolphins do not try to get into the water

MC-128264 - Mobs can spawn on regular ice

MC-128285 - Dolphins summoned with NoAI take damage and die

MC-128336 - Kelp spawns on trapdoors, stairs, slabs and chests on sunken ships

MC-128463 - The "How Did We Get Here" advancement does not require Conduit Power

MC-128557 - Drowning dolphins don't swim to the surface.

MC-128666 - Flowing water above magma blocks turns into bubble columns

MC-128674 - Buffet end island puts you in the void

MC-128681 - Dolphins don't drop experience

MC-128712 - Phantoms don't drop experience when killed by player

MC-128733 - The ice block tag is missing frosted_ice

MC-128766 - Blue ice doesn't mine fast using pickaxe

MC-128779 - "Debug Mode" comes before "Buffet" in the world creation menu

MC-128857 - Sea pickles change hitbox when increasing count, but turtle eggs don't

Fixed bugs in 18w19b

MC-122308 - Zombies can no longer break wooden doors

MC-123351 - Growing grass with bonemeal deletes upper block

MC-124694 - /bossbar create subcommand named inconsistently

MC-127249 - Drowned don't show armor

MC-128243 - Dolphins do not try to get into the water

MC-128681 - Dolphins don't drop experience

MC-129233 - Items with additional NBT you hold don't show up or "wiggle" up and down; damaged tools partially don't work anymore

MC-129246 - The sound for Parrots imitating Phantoms is empty

Get the snapshot

To install the snapshot, open up the Minecraft Launcher and enable snapshots in the "Launch Options" tab.

Snapshots can corrupt your world, please backup and/or run them in a different folder from your main worlds.

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