Snapshot 14w20b Ready for Tesla!

By Sacheverell May 15, 2014
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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.

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Posted May 16, 2014
Finally, pumped for the new update

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Posted May 16, 2014
Quote from Ikkalyzte

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.

Totally agreed.

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Posted May 16, 2014
Removed the 4th dimension from blocks.
So, Minecraft was a fourth-dimensional game in the previous snapshots? Woah.

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Posted May 16, 2014
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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.teamikar...ntroduction.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.

Or, more likely, it's just the random joke that snapshot descriptions usually end with.

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Posted May 16, 2014
Tesla.....?
More electricity and magnetism confirmed.

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Posted May 17, 2014
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Tesla.....?
More electricity and magnetism confirmed.

It's just Sacheverell making up dumb article titles to see who is paying attention.

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Also what is /title doing ?

It allows you to put text on your screen. SeargeDP also made a use for /title: as holographic text.
/title <player> title|subtitle <raw json title> OR /title <player> times <fadeIn> <stay> <fadeOut>
It has many possibilities! Use it in the snapshot.

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Posted May 17, 2014
Unless they named block states with numbers, I highly doubt that Mojang removed metadata in this snapshot.

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Quote from APlotdevice

Or, more likely, it's just the random joke that snapshot descriptions usually end with.

QFT

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Posted May 17, 2014
What does "ready for Tesla" mean? Like, Nikola Tesla? But Tesla doesn't play Minecraft. He's dead.

Also, does "removed the 4th dimension" mean my sheep are going to stop shoving each other through walls, or that paintings and framed items are going to stop ricocheting all the hell over the place when I knock them off the wall, or what?

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Posted May 17, 2014
Caves now generate in deserts & mesas.

Because that's just what Minecraft needs: more caves. *groan* That was one of the nice things about mesas--no ugly gaping holes pockmarking an otherwise lovely landscape. Thank the cosmos for landscaping tools.

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Posted May 17, 2014
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Time is not the 4th Dimension.

Yes! Thank you! Somebody gets it at last.

PS:
4-Cube.

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Posted May 17, 2014
OMG

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Posted May 18, 2014
Cave fixes and Title commands are the updates I like the most~
Wonderfully done, Mojang team.

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Posted May 18, 2014
"ready for Tesla"

Is that a typo or is that just a joke?

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Posted May 19, 2014
they need to fix the texture of light gray glass panes in the inventory. you cant see them.

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Posted Jun 3, 2014
Quote from bmanrules

Quote from Yoshermon

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.teamikar...ntroduction.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.

Metadata is used to store stuff like block rotations and states (For example, wool colours, wood colours and whether or not a redstone torch is on or off). It's being replaced in 1.8 with redstonetorch:on and redstonetorch:off instead of 75:0 and 75:1

Wow I did not know no one really got the "Removed 4th dimension" thing. Reasoning got me to it because it could not be time other wise there could be no minecraft. It could not be the 4th spacial dimension because vanilla minecraft does not have theoretical physics/geometry. Thus it could only mean block data.

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Posted May 19, 2014
How do you play the latest snapshot?

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Posted May 20, 2014
found an easter egg
"Snapshot 14w20b ready for tesla!"

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Posted May 20, 2014
People, this is NOT the place to make suggestions for minecraft or ask for support for minecraft snapshots.

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found an easter egg
"Snapshot 14w20b ready for tesla!"

Do you even read the comments? I already said that. On this page, too.

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Posted May 20, 2014
but i found it too

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