16w02a


Info

Additions

  • Volume slider labeled "Voice/Speech" under "Music & Sounds"
    • Intended to be used for voice acting in custom maps

Videos

Commands

  • Selector argument m
    • Supports both negation and literal gamemode values, for example:
@pm=!1, @pm=c, and @pm=!spectator
  • /playsound
    • Now accepts a sound as its second parameter
  • /help
    • Now outputs various messages prefixed by "Searge says:" when run in a command block.

Blocks

Items

Mobs

Non-mob entities

  • Marker ArmorStands
    • Will now only outline their equipment when glowing

Fixes

35 issues fixed
From released versions before 1.9
  • MC-233 – The portal travel sounds travel.ogg / trigger.ogg swapped / played at wrong time
  • MC-1072 – No translation for “Air” in the superflat customization.
  • MC-4040 – Jump Sprinting on redstone wire produces greyscale particles
  • MC-4661 – Chickens (And small mobs) cannot path when standing in/next to fences
  • MC-14722 – Social zombies are not affected by /gamerule doMobSpawning.
  • MC-23952 – Bad alignment when using wide Unicode fonts
  • MC-27912 – Hindi: some text is not centered
  • MC-41542 – Displacement of Mipmap Levels slider in Traditional Chinese language pack
  • MC-44140 – Acacia and dark oak stairs do not burn and cannot be lit with flint and steel.
  • MC-46258 – The “⃸” Character has an extra pixel.
  • MC-46690 – Items and experience drop upon death in Spectator mode.
  • MC-60692 – The game mode selector m doesn’t work with negation.
  • MC-73304 – Scoreboard teamkill.“color” is not registering entities.
  • MC-74072 – Unicode character “Small H with Stroke” (℧) is one pixel too high.
  • MC-74392 – Copying written books creates stacks of size 0, and duplicates the original.
  • MC-76313 – Pressing the crouch key while flying will slow you down.
  • MC-78557 – Buttons don’t have a special tool assigned – compare pressure plates.
  • MC-79604 – Explosions do not repel players in Creative mode.
  • MC-81687 – Villagers accept fewer items for the same number of emeralds.
  • MC-82677 – /give @p minecraft:anvil 1 3 will crash the game.
From the 1.9 development versions
  • MC-85304 – Ender dragons go to X,Y,Z = 0,0,0 when spawned in any type of world.
  • MC-87894 – Creeper explosion damage is disproportionate to armor protection and to damage from other mobs.
  • MC-88268 – Glowing CustomName items have blurry names.
  • MC-88668 – Old hopper minecarts have Enabled:0b and do not gather items.
  • MC-89592 – Death screen death message still shows when showDeathMessages is false.
  • MC-89917 – Using pick block on boats only gives the oak variant.
  • MC-92208 – Summoned MinecartHopper defaults to Enabled:0b.
  • MC-92783 – Setting LastOutput of a command block to an invalid JSON string causes a crash.
  • MC-93083 – Sound sliders not working with the new sounds
  • MC-93093 – Console spam: “PLAYER is sending move packets too frequently (19 packets since last tick)”
  • MC-93119 – A survival player can obtain the bedrock item.
From the previous development version
  • MC-94466 – Zombies won’t climb stairs.
  • MC-94776 – Chicken will not follow a player with seeds up stairs.
  • MC-95129 – Zombies don’t want to walk up a block, in some situations.
Private issues
  • MC-59196 – Players can tick themselves arbitrarily.