It's been a long time since the last Snapshot, but worry not! Snapshot Wednesday is back, and there are some exciting changes coming up for 1.9: the Love and Hugs Update! Famously, Minecraft has come under fire from a lot of directions in the last few years as a game that promotes, and even rewards, violence against animals, other people, and the environment itself. In an effort to make the game more family-friendly - and by extension, more appealing to family advocate groups and government agencies - Minecraft will be adding a ton of exciting new content. Let's see what is on the table today!
Changelog
Gameplay
- We have removed the ability to directly harm other creatures. You should be rewarded for helping, not hurting.
- Removed Health and Hunger. We feel that these are not appropriate gameplay mechanics for a game about love, sharing and peacefulness.
- Added a new “Love” meter. This fills up the more you help others, and others help you.
- “Survival” mode has been renamed to “Existence”.
Animals
- Bats are now 20% cuter. Squeek.
- Chickens can now be ridden by any player less than two blocks tall.
- Cows will now alert you to important events that you may have missed by means of an audible notification.
- Pigs can no longer fly, but can now climb on walls.
- Rabbits are fluffy.
- Sheep will, if asked nicely, share their wool to keep you warm.
- Squid changed, but we’re still trying to figure out how or why.
Monsters Inhabitants
- “Monsters” are no longer named as such. The preferred term is “Inhabitants”, as they live in this world just like you or me.
- Steve and Alex have realized that the inhabitants are not evil, and just want to hug and get along.
- Creepers no longer explode. They have gotten over their nervous disposition and are much more friendly once you get to know them.
- Skeletons have revealed themselves to be very efficient farmers, having a permanent source of bone meal on them at all times.
- Blazes are actually pretty cool guys and will defend you from harm.
- Guardians have put aside the initial misunderstanding, and now welcome you into their home with arms… erm… eyes… wide open.
- Ghasts are no longer frightened so easily, and will offer you rides throughout the nether.
- Slimes are now pretty fun to hang around with, sharing their secret jumping abilities to those that will listen.
- Witches are super friendly and surprisingly knowledgable. They will help you by sharing their potions.
- Zombies are extremely cuddly and love to hug.
- The Wither has been replaced with his lovable pink counterpart, promoting vitality and nourishment to the environment around him.
Weather & Environment
- Removed rain as it upset a lot of players.
- Falling snow has a chance to make exposed chests mysteriously full of goodies at midnight.
Villagers & Villages
- Trading has been rebalanced. We felt that the previous incarnation wasn’t very fair, and believe the new system is a step towards helping fix this.
- Villagers will offer you help in picking up items or blocks, in exchange for a small fee for their services.
- Iron Golems can appear as a manifestation of the village’s love for you.
Blocks
- Lava has been replaced with liquid cheese. It’s delicious and much safer!
- TNT has been replaced with a much friendlier block: A love bomb.
Items
- As we no longer have a hunger system, food items now give Happiness instead of Saturation.
- Carrot on a Stick has been removed. It was just cruel to pigs and we are very sorry for this.
Combat
- Bows no longer require arrows.
- Shooting things makes them fall in love with the first thing they see.
- Removed combat.
World generation & terrain
- Dungeons have been replaced with homes, offering a much more inviting and comfortable experience for everybody.
- All caves have been checked by the Minecraft Safety Committee to ensure a safer experience for players.
- Desert temples no longer contain TNT traps, and come with a nice, safe way to access the bottom floor.
- Some cliff edges may be lined with fences to avoid accidents by the unwary traveller.
- Jungle temples are no longer trapped, containing instead a new rare Golden Creeper to reward exploration.
Potions
- Some potions such as Strength or Harming have been removed, as we no longer have a place for them in the game.
- Added four (4) new potions:
- Love Potion
- Happiness Potion
- Potion of Sharing
- Potion of Caring
- Fun Potion
Transportation
- Horses can no longer be ridden as this was deemed unfair to the horses.
- In compensation to the horses, they can now ride on your shoulders.
- Minecarts now have a fluffy pink interior.
- Added obsidian boats which are impossible to break.
- Improved regular wooden boats.
- Added dirt bikes.
- Ender pearls no longer transport you to the target, but instead the target to you.
Weather & Environment
- Added rain back as it soothed a lot of players.
- Falling snow has a chance to make exposed chests mysteriously full of goodies at midnight.
Game Settings
- Not everybody had the same experience playing Minecraft under different configurations, so we decided to remove all the graphical settings.
- You may now only have one world, in order to reduce fragmentation and to treat all worlds as equals.
- Some resource packs were prettier than others, giving some players an unfair advantage in the amount of fun they were having. This has been fixed.
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Get the Snapshot
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).
Cross-platform server jar: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/15w14a/minecraft_server.15w14a.jar
Cool. I guess I've never thought about it.
Also, as a side note, I think you can grow all livestock by feeding now. I haven't ever done it, but I recall that being mentioned at some point.
WTH is Minescreeper
Lol I thought it was real then I looked at the date and it said 4/1/2015 April Fools!
really cool!!
LOL! I predicted this last night and my prediction was correct! There would be a fake snapshot! (Or joke snapshot)
I'm guessing this is an April Fool's Day joke?
Tries trading with villagers:
+ Places stack of 64 coal to trade for emeralds 16:1 ration
+ Grabs emerald... it turns into a note "Thanks for the donation"
+ Try to grab the rest of the stack of coal since I've seen the joke.
+ Get another thank you note instead
Yeah that's hilarious! XD
Creepers still "explode" but all it does is rain roses in it's wake. Adorbs.
I might have to grab the resource pack from the jar it's amusing.
Also the safer caves, meaning no fall damage and walking over red stone blocks illuminate the area much like lava would.
Screenshots to share!! I LOVE (pun not intended) the new creeper (check out the zombie pigman behind Creepy), and getting to ride the ghast (why the ghast and not horses? I prefer getting to choose where to go, instead of simply being along for the ride...)! The Skeletons are great, with dropping all that bonemeal. And the flying squids? Weird, but neat. Also, and smoke effects (including ender) are now hearts. And endermen have pink eyes, the boat has a heart shaped hole in the bottom, and what in Existence is the obsidian boat for? The wither is just plain.... I dunno, see for yourself.
All in all? I'm sticking with the 'old' 1.8.3 or 1.7.10 Minecraft, supposing they are still available to play. It'd be really cool if there was an option (in 'normal' Minecraft) to choose what mobs you want, so we can keep the ones we want.
P.S. LOVE the new creeper! I am so saving that re-texture!
P.P.S. The texture pack seems different. Brighter? I like it.
APRIL FOOLS! Man, I believed it for a second but then I was like wait, it's APRIL FOOLS! So this can't be true. Good one Mojang.
Now we know what Mojang has been working on for the past two months.
April Fools XD
Heh. If this was real, it would add more content then 1.8, 1.7, 1.6 and so on...combined
FINALLY How many updates has it been since the snapshot? Happy april fools!
SO MAJESTIC
Nice one Mojang
The pink wither killed a bunch of slimes. Remove it for harming them and my innocence
One problem: you can create only 1 world. Microsoft...
Read the changelog, it's on purpose.
Lavabucket hooo!
You mean molten cheese bucket? Lava was removed.