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We'll end up in 14w99z before getting 1.8

In all seriousness , its nice too see all this stuff coming.

Might be a typo in there.

I have to say, I am really loving the new /title command!

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Might be a typo in there.

Or it could be a hint that lightning will be able to do some new secret thing.

Wellp, I was a little disappointed when the change to caves turned out to be so... mundane... I was just thinking an awesome thing to add would be cooler caves, butnope. Iamsadnow.

What does it mean by:

• Removed the 4th dimension from blocks. Incidentally, this may or may not coincide with the aforementioned unnatural spawning.

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Might be a typo in there.

Sacheverell is Zeus. O_o Also, something new for lightning. (Wahh, not zombie pigman related!)
EDIT: He was doing dumb article titles to see who is paying attention.

And removing time from blocks? What? Will that break pistons and crop growing, plus fire?

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We'll end up in 14w99z before getting 1.8

In all seriousness , its nice too see all this stuff coming.

Not even remotely possible seeing there are only 52/53 weeks in a year.
So after 14w53(?) we'd get 15w01a.

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So, the latest snapshot is ready for Tesla, eh? What do you thing Tesla wanted it for, anyways?

ON TOPIC:

They removed time from blocks?! That breaks wheat growing and a lot of stuff, including pistons THE LAST 2 SNAPSHOTS ARE ALMOST USELESS!

Because why wouldn't they want to break all the farm ya know. Think about it, let's make so no plants can grow! Now think of what would happen.

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I would rather see a thousand snapshots than bugs delivered in 1.8

I agree, it its much better for Mojang to take their time when releasing big updates so they can fix the annoying bugs before the millions of people who play Minecraft all start raging over them. Hopefully releasing these snapshots ahead of time will make the actual update less buggy and better quality.

Caves in deserts and mesas? Cool!

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And why piston and beacon's textures are still glitched in inventory? Why do they not fix the most obvious bug?

Sometimes it's not as easy as all of that. I'm sure they're aware the bug exists, but the current way for them to fix it could be causing issues elsewhere, you never know. Better some glitched textures than a completely unworking game.

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Update: Snapshot 14w20b has been released to fix mobs not spawning naturally. They may or may not have been spawning unnaturally in 14w20a, and that's just creepy.

This weeks snapshot brings many bugfixes, a little polishing and possibly even some hugs. Check here for hug updates!

CHANGELOG:

• Caves now generate in deserts & mesas.
• Added new /title command for ingame adventure-map chaptering.
• Made tab-list more consistent and a little prettier when using health display objective.
• Adjusting fly speed of spectator mode now works vertically too.
• If you’re stuck outside the world border, you can now walk freely to go back inside.
• Bunch of bugs fixed!
• Removed the 4th dimension from blocks. Incidentally, this may or may not coincide with the aforementioned unnatural spawning.

BUGFIXES

• [Bug MC-8881] – Mobs treat any layered snow as non-solid
• [Bug MC-26203] – Scoreboard: player does not appear in sidebar after setting initial score to zero
• [Bug MC-44331] – Interacting with invalid villagers crashes the game
• [Bug MC-45303] – Surface dungeons generating without spawner, chests, and most of floor
• [Bug MC-46765] – Leaves, Block of Redstone, TNT and Glowstone cause suffocation damage
• [Bug MC-47052] – Wither destroying barrier block
• [Bug MC-48442] – Mob Dungeon spawning without floor / with broken chests / overwritten spawner
• [Bug MC-49577] – Slime spawning
• [Bug MC-50275] – Leads dont show knot on fence posts and cannot be right clicked
• [Bug MC-50323] – Chest not openable with item frame on, standing too close
• [Bug MC-50821] – Cats and dogs teleporting into leaves and rails, causing them to suffocate
• [Bug MC-50852] – "/scoreboard players reset * objective" clears sidebar for other scoreboard objectives
• [Bug MC-51776] – 32000 Command block character limit only works as a 16000 character limit within Minecraft
• [Bug MC-52881] – Knockback distance incorrect, depends on login order
• [Bug MC-53380] – Staying outside border makes you unable to move at all
• [Bug MC-53469] – Sliders have incorrect values causing world to never be created (java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: n must be positive)
• [Bug MC-54164] – footstep, hugeexplosion and largeexplode particles don't appear
• [Bug MC-54381] – /scoreboard players operation – Doesn't work on a player that's not on a scoreboard, but also does work
• And many more that weren’t on the bug tracker! Did we mention you should report bugs to the bug tracker?

Please report any and all bugs you find in Minecraft to bugs.mojang.com. If nobody reports a bug, kittens will cry!

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...rver.14w20b.jar

REPORT BUGS HERE:

• Minecraft issue tracker!

I think this is awesome and I also saw when my MineCraft was starting yesterday it said "Secret Friday Update" Does this mean 1.8 is coming out today? If you have also seen this I suggest you keep replying.. -Jordan

Every time I see a snapshot with one or two tiny changes, I am disappointed... and then I scroll down to the crapton of bugfixes. I know it can take a day (or more )for one person to fix a bug, so I personally am happy with both their pace and focus in their updates.

What? 4th dimension? And what's a health display objective?

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I think this is awesome and I also saw when my MineCraft was starting yesterday it said "Secret Friday Update" Does this mean 1.8 is coming out today? If you have also seen this I suggest you keep replying.. -Jordan

Secret Friday Updates were ten weekly updates made on 2010. This has nothing to do with 1.8.

Article here.

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They removed time from blocks?! That breaks wheat growing and a lot of stuff, including pistons THE LAST 2 SNAPSHOTS ARE ALMOST USELESS!

Time is not the 4th Dimension.

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Then what is ? What do they mean with it ?

The 4th dimension is a spatial dimension. Think of how we have length, width, and height--or in Minecraft, we have the X coordinate, Y coordinate, and Z coordinate. The 4th dimension would be another coordinate we could move through, usually designated as W. That coordinate is NOT time; time is a temporal dimension, separate from the spatial ones. You can have four spatial dimensions as well as a time dimension, for example, so moving through the W coordinate would not affect time in any way. It takes a lot to describe in more depth, and the best way to visualize it is by thinking of the difference between 2D and 3D. This site explains it clearly and thoroughly if anyone is interested: http://hddb.teamikaria.com/classic/introduction.htm

As for what they meant when they posted that tidbit in the snapshot page, the wiki says that it has to do with block metadata. Someone with a better understanding of how Minecraft works could probably tell you how that's similar to "removing the 4th dimension", though I'm guessing it's somewhat akin to taking away an unused, aforementioned W coordinate to free up memory.