This week's snapshot brings you many performance improvements and bugfixes. We've now released 19w45b with a crash fix.

Changes in 19w45b

Fixed a crash bug.

Fixed bugs in 19w45b

MC-165137 - java.lang.NullPointerException: Tesselating liquid in world - Crash while loading some worlds because of a grass block

Changes in 19w45a

Bees will now search up to 10 blocks away from itself in all directions to find a nest / hive to call home

Brought over a change from Minecraft Bedrock

Improved Performance



Changed how some textures are used by the game

Fixed bugs

Parity

Change from Minecraft Bedrock:

Composters are now crafted from wooden slabs

Textures

Shield patterns are now using alpha channel instead of brightness

Command used to change the patterns:

for f in *.png; do convert "$f" -alpha copy tmp.png && composite tmp.png -compose copy-opacity ../shield_base.png tmp2.png && convert tmp2.png -fill "rgba(0,1,0,1)" -draw "rectangle 0,0 1,63" -draw "rectangle 2,0 63,1" -draw "rectangle 2,22 64,64" -draw "rectangle 12,2 64,64" -fill none -draw "matte 0,0 floodfill" tmp3.png && mv tmp3.png "$f" && rm tmp.png tmp2.png; done

Fixed bugs in 19w45a

MC-164778 - Parrots can still imitate endermen

MC-164759 - Potions held by witches float above their arm

MC-164732 - When lighting a campfire below a beehive, the campfire does not light up and instead, the hive starts to burn

MC-164514 - Blazes and Ghasts can light campfires even when mobGriefing is false

MC-164485 - Superflat preset icons cause text to not render

MC-164448 - While trading with villagers, the experience progress bar shoots beyond the gui

MC-164397 - Birches no longer generate in Dark Forest biome

MC-164383 - Game Crash Exploit



MC-164289 - Entity shadows cause clouds behind them to not render

MC-164121 - Entities in spawners are rendered too dark

MC-164114 - Falling blocks no longer support glowing effect

MC-164070 - Dispensed Armor Stands only face south

MC-164020 - Bees are not taking pollen from tall flowers anymore

MC-164012 - 3D inventory models transformed into 2D inventory models have a non-transparent background

MC-163870 - Advancements menu still isn't clipped properly on small GUI scale

MC-163854 - Breaking animation is flipped horizontally on some sides

MC-163789 - Mysterious blinking pixels when in lava

MC-163353 - Left wings and legs of the ender dragon are shaded darker than right wings and legs

MC-163282 - Shadows are z-fighting when riding an entity

MC-163270 - Sign in sign editing GUI is too dark

MC-163242 - Blocks on armor stands render shadows based on camera vector

MC-163233 - Entity shadows render in front of block hitboxes

MC-163144 - World border is rendered in front of all non-transparent blocks

MC-163113 - Placing a banner cause an error in the game output

MC-163084 - Beacon beam lighting depends on viewing angle

MC-163079 - Chunk borders are rendered in front of all non-transparent blocks

MC-163064 - Character skin is too dark in inventory

MC-163054 - Bee Flower tracking/pollination AI broken

MC-163048 - Barrier particle changes to a random texture after changing resource pack

MC-163012 - Bees no longer have an animation while pollinating flowers

MC-162905 - Kelp naturally generates with 'age' too low

MC-162808 - Poppies are positioned incorrectly when held by an iron golem

MC-162736 - Text cursor disappears when editing sign text

MC-162519 - Block hitboxes are rendered transparent

MC-162368 - Burning mobs are no longer bright

MC-162338 - Entity shadows don't display properly on transparent blocks

MC-162279 - Beacon beam loses color at high altitudes

MC-162078 - Bees cannot pathfind if they are submerged in water

MC-162013 - Player model in inventory is affected by light level

MC-161976 - Enchanted trident loses enchanted glint when thrown into the ground

MC-161948 - Models with alpha channel do not render all faces consistently

MC-161927 - Pillagers don't have any arms if they aren't carrying a crossbow

MC-161926 - Breaking animation is more transparent when mining ice or stained glass

MC-161923 - Breaking animation is rendered behind water and nether portals

MC-161849 - Items in inventory, subtitles, background, chat, notifications on the screen and game menu are darker and have a blue tint when you have the night vision effect

MC-161302 - Banners appear blank white for a split of a second when placing them

MC-161277 - Graphics card information displays method calls on the debug/F3 screen

MC-161009 - Bee nests and hives drop in Creative mode even if gamerule doTileDrops is set to false

MC-161002 - Endermen don't turn to face you when looked at

MC-160978 - Foxes not consuming food anymore

MC-160291 - Bees leave their nest/hive when it is sheared or used to fill bottles, even there is a campfire below it and it is night time

MC-160177 - Block breaking animation doesn't show for other players

MC-159803 - Bees wander too far from their nest and get lost

MC-159648 - Bees can claim hives behind walls

MC-159646 - Bees get stuck on cocoa beans

MC-159576 - Yiddish is displayed left-to-right instead of right-to-left

MC-159514 - Bees are flying back to original nest

MC-159496 - Player death uses incorrect sound event

MC-159447 - Bees occasionally get stuck on fences, fence gates, and walls

MC-159418 - Bees do not update their home hive even if there are empty hives nearby

MC-159410 - Bees with NoAI can get angry

MC-159368 - Bees do not follow players holding tall flowers

MC-159350 - Bees freeze if they cannot execute their current AI task / Bees don't seem to have a wandering AI

MC-155758 - Endermen don't pick up non collidable blocks

MC-155289 - Mob spawning rate in the Overworld is reduced

MC-153697 - Iron golems will occasionally attack players in creative/spectator mode

MC-153334 - Cured villagers sell bookshelves for 1 emerald and buy books for 1 emerald, allowing players to easily get an unlimited amount of emeralds

MC-152683 - Spectral Arrow doesn't count for "Take Aim" achievement

MC-152159 - You can hit the dragon during its death animation

MC-149343 - Chunk block lag when tall spruce tree is grown in that chunk

MC-149181 - Biome blend causes massive stuttering when loading chunks or when placing/breaking blocks

MC-147548 - Terrible performance with large forest fires

MC-136984 - Game Crash Exploit



MC-133877 - Extreme lag from decaying leaves

MC-117635 - Rear legs of sitting tamed wolf are displayed hovering

MC-94013 - End Stone Bricks are less durable than End Stone and destroyed by the Ender Dragon

MC-24336 - Withers are harmed by the explosions of their wither skulls

MC-3591 - Cured zombie villagers don't drop picked up items

Get the snapshot

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

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

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