Pre-Release 4 is ready for testing! A modest number of bugs were addressed here:
- [Bug MC-349] – Villagers ignore data tags in trading
- [Bug MC-954] – Air Blocks floating in Water
- [Bug MC-1237] – Anvil GUI truncating long item names and showing garbage at the end
- [Bug MC-37586] – Ghost Players in Multiplayer / Item Duplication
- [Bug MC-61587] – Summon Rotation
- [Bug MC-63070] – Chunks do not render behind the player in F5 or changed FOV until moving the mouse
- [Bug MC-72688] – Execute Detect gives false positive when in different dimension
- + many optimizations!
You can check out the pre-release in the launcher, as you would any snapshot. The more bugs squashed, the better!
In addition, today marks the first day Mojang is officially owned by Microsoft! The announcement, being mostly a formality at this point, marks the deal as finalized in a more official way now. What changes lie ahead for Minecraft, Mojang, or the community? Only time will tell!