We've been doing a great job with the 'Pillage' part of the Village and Pillage update for a while now, which means it's time for the 'Village' part. So today the first village of the Village and Pillage update gets a makeover!
A full summary of the content available in this snapshot can be found in the changelog on Minecraft.net, the following is a short summary:
CHANGES IN 18W48A
- Added Grindstone functionality
- Updated plains villages
GRINDSTONE
- Moved inventory/crafting table repairing into the Grindstone, this will be its new home
- Has the ability to remove all non-curse enchantments from an item; for each enchant removed some XP is reimbursed
UPDATED PLAINS VILLAGES
- The plains villages have got an updated look
- The new look is adapted to the Plains biome, both when it comes to climate and to available resources
- Uses the mysterious Jigsaw block for generation
- Adds new structure files, quite a lot actually
DEDICATED SERVER
SERVER.PROPERTIES
difficultyandgamemodesettings now accept string names (integer values are still allowed as legacy option)- Server will exit faster if
eula.txtis not setCOMMAND LINE
- Added new option
--help. Not going to tell you what it does.- New command line option
initSettingsinitializeseula.txtandserver.propertieswith defaults, then exits
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