Java Edition 18w48a

18w48a is the ninth snapshot for Java Edition 1.14, released on November 29, 2018,^[1] which revamps plains villages.

Changes

Blocks

Barrels, bells, blast furnaces, brewing stands, cartography tables, fletching tables, lecterns, looms, smokers, smithing tables, and stonecutters

• Can now generate naturally inside plains villages.

Grindstones

• Changed texture.
• Are now craftable using two sticks, two planks, and one stone slab.
• Now has a GUI with 2 input slots and 1 output slot.
• Can now combine two damaged items into one and/or remove non-curse enchantments.
  • For each enchantment removed, some experience will be returned.
• Can be found at plains village weapon smiths.

Vines

• Can now be climbed without supporting blocks.

Mobs

Villagers

• Slightly modified trades of villagers.

Command format

/locate

• Can locate the new villages, using the New_Village parameter.

Generated structures

Plains villages

• Village houses now have a drastically different structure and there are many more types.
• Use jigsaw blocks for generation.
• Added new structure and loot table files for the new village houses.

General

Crafting

• Recipes for combining damaged items have been removed; these are now done using the grindstone.

Dedicated servers

• server.properties
  • difficulty and gamemode settings now accept string names; integer values are still allowed as legacy option.
• Server will now exit faster if eula.txt is not set.
• Command line
  • Added new option --help.
  • Added new command line option --initSettings.
    • Initializes eula.txt, and server.properties with defaults, then exits.

Fixes

7 issues fixed

From released versions before 1.14

• MC-103192 – Combining tools or armor adds to crafting stat.
• MC-118323 – magenta_dye_from_lapis_ink_bonemeal recipe and its advancement are misnamed

From the 1.14 development versions

• MC-138633 – The title screen needs updating in 1.14 snapshots.
• MC-139378 – "Exception while ticking" crash when Scaffolding falls onto a Shulker Box
• MC-139692 – Chests in ocean ruins not opening
• MC-139694 – Water blocks aren't filled in if above an ocean ruin.
• MC-139955 – Ocean ruins can spawn completely obliterated in certain chunks.

Video

Video made by slicedlime:

Trivia

• Unlike most of the first-of-the-week snapshots, this was released on a Thursday instead of Wednesday, similar to the snapshots before 14w26a.

References