This week's snapshot brings you a few tweaks to honey bottles, performance improvements and some bugfixes.

Changes in 19w44a

Combining four glass bottles with one honey block now gives you four honey bottles

Honey bottles now stack (up to 16)

Vertically moving particles are performing better when they collide with blocks



Improved performance of chunk saving

Iron Golem's damage progress is now based on ratio of current health to max health

Fixed bugs

Fixed bugs in 19w44a

MC-63179 - Clouds move with the player

MC-106494 - Items despawn after one minute instead of five when dropped from the Creative inventory

MC-132211 - Book Edits Occur on Network Thread

MC-151962 - The last use of a shear will not drop the item on one high blocks

MC-158911 - Fences and walls connect to closed shulker boxes

MC-161837 - Some biome-affected items are coloured incorrectly when held in the hand

MC-161841 - Top texture of leaves and grass blocks is gray in first person mode when being held in the hand

MC-161846 - Shulkers on walls (facing east or west) are sometimes incorrectly oriented

MC-161918 - Item and experience orb shadows turn completely black during pickup animation

MC-161941 - Some items lose their colour when being picked up

MC-162026 - Some blocks held by the witch, the rendering is very strange

MC-162361 - Potions and water bottles are incorrectly colored when held in the hand

MC-162526 - Edge of spawn eggs are incorrectly colored when held in the hand

MC-162530 - Grass block and leaves sides are not colored correctly in first person mode when being held in the hand

MC-162606 - Evoker fangs are rendered too big

MC-163028 - Experience orbs turn white when being picked up

MC-163400 - Parrots can imitate wolves, polar bears, zombie pigmen and endermen

MC-163403 - Trees now require much more free space around them to grow

MC-163744 - Missing predicates return true/false rather than failing

MC-163849 - Stopping Creative flight with double-space triggers elytra flight

MC-164038 - Serializer for storage nbt component is missing

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