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Additions

Items

Maps

• Added proper color display support for the new blocks.

Command format

Gamerules

• doEntityDrops - Works like doTileDrops and doMobDrops but applies to non-mob entities (minecarts, paintings, etc.) instead.[4]

Gameplay

Credits

• Ryan Holtz (TheMogMiner) and Michael Stoyke (Searge) are now mentioned in the credits.

Changes

Blocks

Jack o'Lanterns

• Can be used to create iron golems and snow golems again.

Items

General

• Now rotate on fast graphics.

Potion of Leaping

• Can now be extended with redstone.

Mobs

General

• No longer run from creepers that are about to explode.

Armor Stands

• Added Marker tag.

World generation

Witch huts

• Newly generated witch huts can spawn witches on Y 64 to 71.

• This allows for three spawning floors in witch farms.

Command format

Gamerules

• doTileDrops no longer affects entities.

General

Options

• Renamed "Multiplayer Settings" to "Chat Settings".

• Off/fancy/fast clouds.

• Off/on entity shadows.

• Fast/fancy now only controls leaves and rain particles.

Performance

• Various improvements.

• Many optimizations.

Fixes

130 issues fixed

From released versions before 1.8

• MC-3 – Player facing changes when passing through nether portals in certain cases.

• MC-349 – Villagers ignore data tags in trading.

• MC-954 – Air blocks floating in water.

• MC-1279 – Slow (choppy) rotating beacon block.

• MC-1607 – Ghost end portal in the End/missing layer with AMD/ATI graphics cards.

• MC-3448 – Statistic screen icons messed up.

• MC-4158 – Nether portal sometimes places player a fraction of a block in the air.

• MC-4167 – EXP orbs will switch locations after a second or so from killing a mob.

• MC-6261 – Brewing stand doesn't drop custom potions.

• MC-6594 – Non-living entities (boats, minecarts, falling sand, item frames, paintings) drop items even if doTileDrops is set to false.

• MC-10808 – Sprinting and breaking particles of piston arms use same particles as piston even though there is no stone on the arms.

• MC-12013 – Experience orbs are invisible for one second right after spawning.

• MC-25646 – Music keeps playing when putting in a disc in a jukebox and breaking it at the same time.

• MC-30937 – /summoned mobs riding XP orbs phase out of existence.

• MC-37782 – Items held by witches are too small and held wrongly.

• MC-38372 – Sprint glitch.

• MC-45537 – Cannot place buttons under stairs or slabs, or on top of upside down stairs or slabs.

• MC-46579 – Items are too high up on the arm in 3rd person mode while sneaking.

• MC-47052 – Wither destroying barrier block.

• MC-48011 – Ender dragon experience drops are not affected by doMobLoot gamerule.

• MC-48130 – /fill replace command not filling when clicking tab.

• MC-49126 – Glowstone crystal formations are missing their bottom layers.

• MC-49538 – Achievement "Overpowered" has misleading icon.

• MC-50263 – Lighting bug affecting End portal frames with eye.

• MC-52717 – Placing heads/skulls break existing blocks.

• MC-53718 – Chicken jockey riding inside chicken.

• MC-54551 – Resizing window while in Customized World Settings snaps back to Customized Settings page 1.

• MC-54707 – Command: /setblock minecraft:sign produces a confusing error message.

• MC-55661 – Animals don't teleport to player when target is air block.

• MC-56574 – /tellraw open_url isn't showing url.

• MC-57633 – Minecraft crashes when specific command is used.

• MC-58307 – Air bubbles appear after drowning and still dead.

• MC-58568 – Item frames with items in them do not frustum culling properly causing severe FPS lag.

• MC-59216 – Unable to build iron golem and snow golem with jack o'lantern.

• MC-59358 – "/spawnpoint <player>" (without coordinates) is not working.

• MC-59360 – Levers pop off non-solid blocks.

• MC-61587 – /summon Rotation bug.

• MC-61640 – Snow layers can't be placed on top of another full snow layer block.

• MC-61653 – Mojang's API for retrieving players from UUIDs isn't working consistently.

• MC-62140 – 2 block tall flowers generated in previous version removes the 2nd block.

• MC-62206 – barrier block can cause mobs to get stuck and suffocate to death.

• MC-62758 – Tall flowers drop two items when block below is broken.

• MC-63466