We're now feeling confident enough in the stability and feature-completeness of 1.14 - The Village & Pillage Update - that we've decided to enter the pre-release phase. Whilst we know that there are still bugs to be solved and polish to be added, we feel that this version is now good enough that we can ask you all to please help us test and find any issues for a smooth release in a few weeks. Remember to report anything you find to our bug tracker, or give feedback on new features over to our feedback website. It helps us immensely!

Update: We're now on pre-release 5 and we expect this to be the last pre-release before the full release. We aim to release Village & Pillage for Minecraft: Java Edition on Tuesday, April 23rd.

CHANGES IN 1.14 PRE-RELEASE 5

Optimisations to nether portals, they will now keep the other side loaded for 15 seconds after an entity goes through



Fixed more lighting issues that were discovered since yesterday

Fixed a case where block entities weren't being ticked correctly

Updated the game credits

FIXED BUGS IN 1.14 PRE-RELEASE 5

MC-148580 - Server lighting still broken in 1.14 pre-4

CHANGES IN 1.14 PRE-RELEASE 4

Fixed bugs

Performance improvements

FIXED BUGS IN 1.14 PRE-RELEASE 4

MC-101233 - Burned out redstone torch map causes memory leak

MC-144173 - When foxes eat a soup they eat the whole bowl

MC-144346 - Composter Bottom texture uses side texture

MC-145736 - taiga_meeting_point_2 has two logs that are rotated incorrectly

MC-145762 - Villagers don't go to their appropriate work site

MC-146528 - Raid bar will disappear after being filled in villages created in nether

MC-146615 - Looms are backwards in village house

MC-147316 - Villager GUI right edge is missing/incomplete

MC-147845 - resources.zip in world folder makes game crash when clicking resource packs button

MC-148044 - Foxes look weirdly at you after killing rabbit/chicken when jumping

MC-148091 - Ominous banners are called "block.minecraft.illager_banner"

MC-148192 - Music slider doesn't affect volume

MC-148210 - The merchant can be summoned with a negative age which has the effect that he has the hitbox of a baby villager

MC-148356 - Foxes holding items are lowered by a pixel or 2

MC-148357 - Foxes still run away from wolves, even if they are tamed

MC-148358 - Baby foxes holding items are shifted

MC-148383 - Right-clicking cartography table output when duplicating map causes loss of second map

MC-148466 - Foxes have 20 health points

MC-148504 - Mobs not affected by sunlight

CHANGES IN 1.14 PRE-RELEASE 3

Fixed bugs

FIXED BUGS IN 1.14 PRE-RELEASE 3

MC-137935 - Skeletons do not shoot player when seeking shelter from sun

MC-139446 - Sky light not recalculated when blocks placed in air with /fill command

MC-141990 - Cartography table does not update when cloning maps

MC-142134 - Light sources spontaneously not working in some chunks

MC-144107 - Miscalculation of camera position in windowed mode on Linux with KDE

MC-144111 - Foxes get stuck after pouncing

MC-144114 - Foxes can walk/slide while sleeping

MC-145944 - Villagers travel up water really quick

MC-145952 - Iron golem and villagers can leave their village

MC-146272 - Double screen bounce with new sneak/crouch changes

MC-146978 - Hero of the Village effect obtained naturally makes the player give off particles

MC-147305 - Player crouches with a delay

MC-147363 - "Villager disagrees" sound is played twice when right clicking a villager without trades

MC-147387 - Ravagers with a passenger won't attack players and iron golems

MC-147646 - Mobs will go to village centers and attack the air

MC-147772 - Horses can glitch when moving up blocks

MC-147799 - Strange TNT behaviour

MC-147853 - Animals can not get out of water since 1.14-pre1

MC-147897 - Riding entities down elevation deals damage on dismount (again)

MC-147913 - Shearing Sheep doesn't use Shears Durability

MC-148000 - Enchanted books cannot be disenchanted with the grindstone

MC-148031 - Spectator flying slows down in solid blocks

MC-148037 - Light Level decreases on Blocks as Y Level increases

MC-148045 - Same items types on ground don't stack together

MC-148185 - Duplicate maps using cartography table

CHANGES IN 1.14 PRE-RELEASE 2

Fixed a few bugs

Some performance improvements

FIXED BUGS IN 1.14 PRE-RELEASE 2

MC-123773 - Scrolling the hotbar on mac behaves weirdly starting in 18w01a

MC-133205 - Missing block with superflat preset "The Void"

MC-137581 - Destroyed shulker boxes are lost in creative mode

MC-138444 - Tall sea grass doesn't drop sea grass when sheared

MC-140236 - Using the Grindstone on an item to remove enchants doesn't reset the XP price to add enchants to it in an anvil

MC-140261 - When putting only one non-enchanted item in the grindstone GUI, the same item appears as the output

MC-141253 - Zombie villagers in certain biomes don't spawn with their biome specific skins

MC-141990 - Cartography table does not update when cloning maps

MC-143410 - Wandering Trader and Trader Llama spawn in the void biome

MC-143998 - Switching in smoker between "Showing all" and "Showing smokable" does not work

MC-144242 - Foxes' heads never move

MC-145738 - All town centers in village now generate in ground and creates many holes in superflat world

MC-145848 - Players can sleep in the same beds as villagers

MC-145916 - Food that can be planted cannot be eaten while targeting a block

MC-146251 - Farmer doesn't look at plants when he is working

MC-146995 - Villagers don't immediately replant crops

MC-147338 - Bright spots underwater - ocean lighting errors

MC-147565 - Foxes body model are 2 pixel higher when sleeping

MC-147566 - Baby fox hitbox is shifted

MC-147572 - Suspicious stews of saturation from shipwrecks and villagers still have a lasting effect

MC-147598 - Baby foxes don't drop items they're holding when they die

MC-147606 - Polar bear attack sound never changes pitch, even if the roar comes from a baby polar bear

MC-147654 - Baby fox's head is off center

MC-147754 - Crash while opening world / while ticking entity: "IllegalStateException: POI data mismatch: already registered at ev{x=##, y=##, z=##}"

MC-147951 - Cartography Table does not Lock Maps

CHANGES IN 1.14 PRE-RELEASE 1

Fixed lots of bugs

Some optimizations

Inside optimize world screen there's now an option to remove cached world data (e.g. height maps and light), so that it's recomputed on the next load

FIXED BUGS IN 1.14 PRE-RELEASE 1

MC-134755 - All short mobs drown just below the surface of water

MC-137451 - Mobs heads rotate super quickly when looking around

MC-138979 - Scaffolding switches quickly between entity and block when placed on some non-solid blocks

MC-139255 - Cave ambient sounds are not playing

MC-140936 - The tall grass in the plains village structures doesn't take the block it spawns on into consideration

MC-142134 - Light sources spontaneously not working in some chunks

MC-142228 - Skylight shines through blocks

MC-142729 - Puffed puffer fishes with "NoAI" tag can shrink down

MC-142768 - Mobs can suffocate below blocks, if the eye height isn't inside the collision box

MC-143112 - Duplicated files in village structure

MC-143591 - Spiders and cave spiders fly-climb

MC-143699 - Trader llamas won't despawn

MC-144798 - Barrels always try to set their "open" state to false

MC-145031 - Crash while ticking barrel

MC-145766 - Iron golems spawning at an alarming rate

MC-146295 - Loom top texture is backwards

MC-146538 - Eye position for riptiding player is incorrect

MC-146800 - Villager can make the discount number of unstackable item more than 1

MC-146860 - Trading sometimes takes the full price instead of the discounted price when player has the Hero of the Village effect

MC-146919 - Drowned, fish and guardians are not spawning

MC-147031 - When a zombie wakes up a villager, the bed tag is still on occupied (occupied: true)

MC-147056 - Zombie villagers spawned with a zombie village move very fast

MC-147207 - hs_pid_error appears for no reason in snapshots.

MC-147227 - Shift-clicking an item out of the trading inventory instantly locks the trade

MC-147240 - Villagers can trade Arrows of Luck

MC-147268 - Villagers don't run away from ravagers, pillagers, vindicators, evokers, zombies or husks

MC-147270 - Player can still move at normal speed and sprint while sneaking in a 1.5 blocks tall space

MC-147274 - Villager 'Happy' and 'Angry' particles not showing, even when particles are on 'All'

MC-147298 - Arrow facing down with 0 degrees on both x z (basically straight down) cannot be picked up and play a sound on loop

MC-147305 - Player crouches with a delay

MC-147363 - "Villager disagrees" sound is played twice when right clicking a villager without trades

MC-147513 - Unable to focus anvil textfield by clicking

MC-147529 - Background is not dimmed for book or lectern

MC-147532 - Chunks stop loading after change view distance

MC-147538 - Cannot drag any slider in "Video Settings" options

MC-147560 - Mobs stop spawning over time if the render distance is less than 11

MC-147607 - Command block text field isn't focused when opening the GUI anymore

MC-147642 - Narrator is toggled when typing in text fields

MC-147681 - X-ray with door and slab

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.

Cross-platform server jar:

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