The pre-release is relatively light, and mostly focused on Realms-specific content. However, the snapshot is loaded to the gills with goodies,
1.7.10 PRE-RELEASE (ALPHA 4)
- This pre-release allows you to finally upload your own worlds to Realms, and adds an option to allow you to enable command-blocks on your own Realm. It also fixes some possible future-compatibility issues we discovered.
Snapshot 14w25a
Hey, look, a snapshot! It has lots of cool new stuff. I’m not going to tell you what they are. Not even about the new sponge texture or the new hostile mob. Nope. Nuhuh. Won’t get any new information about the new underwater stuff from me! I will, however, tell you that this snapshot contains a few months worth of rewrites to some very important parts of the engine. It is very likely that this snapshot may be more unstable than usual, slower than usual, slightly more sentient than usual or just generally unusual. Please help us to fix all these issues by reporting anything you find to the bug tracker!
NOTABLE CHANGES
- Added a new hostile mob.
- Introduced Sponges to survival, with new behaviour and looks.
- Added new scoreboard operations: "=", "<" and ">" - assign, min, max.
- ???
- Badgers were removed from the game.
- Rewrote how items are rendered.
- Rewrote how blocks are rendered.
- Rewrote how block data is handled.
- Rewrote history. Toby isn’t real.
To get snapshots, open your launcher and press the “New Profile” button. Call it “snapshots” and check the box saying “Enable experimental development snapshots” and save. To switch to the normal version, you can select it in the dropdown at the bottom left corner of the launcher. Back up your world first or run the game on in a different folder (See the “new profile” dialog).
Snapshots can corrupt your world, please backup and/or run them in a different folder from your main worlds.
CROSS-PLATFORM SERVER JAR
https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/14w25a/minecraft_server.14w25a.jar
REPORT BUGS:
Minecraft issue tracker
Not much one to rant, but my tolerance ran out on that part, but it is fixed for now.
Find the actual changelog on your own, people, since somebody doesn't want me posting it here.
I conform to Mojang's wishes on the matter.
So I am aware and this is why my little rant is just not directed at none, nor you. A developer of a game should not make players hunt for new content, it inhibits bug testing in the long run. However that is their wrote problem they have to fix when it is missed.
One man's trash is another man's treasure. Cannot please everyone. But the oceans at long last are getting some attention. Updates come in a large dump, built over time by smaller parts.
Coords: 682, 789
Tip: bring a night vision potion
Ps:ssry for my english
Actually, the more I think about these kind of snapshot updates, the less sense it makes to me.
You are right, definitely. Agreed.
I posted the link to an actual changelog twice (in separate posts), and both times the post got removed.
Bit annoying but what can you do.