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|date=November 12, 2015&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;15w46a&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; is the 40th [[Minecraft:snapshot]] for [[Minecraft:Java Edition 1.9]], released on November 12, 2015.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{link|url=https://www.mojang.com/2015/11/minecraft-snapshot-15w46a/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151113051511/https://www.mojang.com/2015/11/minecraft-snapshot-15w46a/|title=Minecraft snapshot 15w46a|author=Searge|website=Mojang.com|date=Nov 12, 2015}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Changes ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Blocks ===&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Minecraft:Banner]]s &amp;amp; [[Minecraft:sign]]s&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
* Now replace replaceable blocks such as [[Minecraft:grass]], instead of trying (and failing) to be placed on them.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Minecraft:Farmland]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
* Mobs smaller than 0.512 cubic blocks can no longer turn farmland to dirt by jumping or falling on it.&lt;br /&gt;
** This includes [[Minecraft:rabbit]]s, [[Minecraft:chicken]]s, [[Minecraft:bat]]s, [[Minecraft:ocelot]]s, [[Minecraft:wolves]], [[Minecraft:cave spider]]s, [[Minecraft:endermite]]s, [[Minecraft:silverfish]], small [[Minecraft:slime]]s, small [[Minecraft:magma cube]]s, and all current baby mobs.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Minecraft:Iron bars]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
* Their sides now include an edge texture.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Rails&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Minecraft:Powered rail]]s and [[Minecraft:activator rail]]s now transmit power to each other.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Minecraft:Redstone]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
* Hitbox for redstone is now smaller based on the connections, similarly to [[Minecraft:fence]]s.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Minecraft:Redstone block]]s&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
* Now emit power through adjacent blocks.&lt;br /&gt;
** Reverted in [[Minecraft:15w47a]].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Items ===&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Filled [[Minecraft:bucket]]s&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
* Now replace single snow layers when {{control|used}} on the top, instead of placing the water or lava in the air above the snow layer.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Mobs ===&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;General&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
* Mobs can no longer spawn inside blocks that block movement but are transparent, such as [[Minecraft:leaves]].&lt;br /&gt;
* Also, mobs can no longer spawn in blocks containing any type of [[Minecraft:rail]]s, buttons, tripwire hooks, pressure plates, levers, redstone torches, redstone repeaters, comparators, or redstone dust.&lt;br /&gt;
* Something about rendering has changed; screenshots taken with the exact same position, viewing angle, FOV, etc. as an equivalent screenshot in 15w45a or earlier will differ.{{info needed|what changed, exactly?}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Minecraft:Iron golem]]s&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
* If spawned in 15w46a and later, they have 100% knockback resistance.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Minecraft:Rabbit]]s&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
* Smaller than before.&lt;br /&gt;
* Chance to drop a rabbit&amp;#039;s foot is now 10% + 3 percentage points per level of Looting (was 2.5% + 1 percentage point per Looting).&lt;br /&gt;
* Now only spawn in deserts, flower forests, taiga, mega taiga, cold taiga, ice plains, ice mountains, ice plains spikes, and &amp;quot;hills&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;M&amp;quot; variants of these biomes. Even in these biomes, spawn chance is somewhat reduced (weight 4 out of 44–52 rather than 10 out of 50–58).&lt;br /&gt;
* Are faster when panicking.&lt;br /&gt;
* No longer prefer begging for food to mating.&lt;br /&gt;
* Non-killer rabbits now avoid players within 8 blocks and most hostile mobs within 4 blocks (except slimes, magma cubes, and ghasts), and move faster when doing so. Also, avoidance range for wolves was reduced from 16 to 10 blocks.&lt;br /&gt;
* Health reduced from {{health|10}} to {{health|3}}.&lt;br /&gt;
* Naturally-spawned rabbit&amp;#039;s skin depends on the biome. When breeding rabbits, there is a 5% chance the baby matches the biome rather than either parent.&lt;br /&gt;
** In a snowy biome, 80% white and 20% black &amp;amp; white.&lt;br /&gt;
** In a desert or desert hills, 100% gold.&lt;br /&gt;
** Otherwise, 50% brown, 40% salt &amp;amp; pepper, 10% black.&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;MoreCarrotTicks&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt; no longer has any effect.&lt;br /&gt;
** When destroying crops, &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;MoreCarrotTicks&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt; is set to 40 rather than 100.&lt;br /&gt;
* Rabbits eating carrot crops now reduces the growth stage by 1 level, only removing the crop block entirely if the growth stage was 0.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Minecraft:Snow golem]]s&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
* No longer leave a trail of snow if the [[Minecraft:game rule]] &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;mobGriefing&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt; is false.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Minecraft:Wolves]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
* Collar, when tamed, is now red, as it had been in releases before 1.8, rather than orange.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== World generation ===&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Minecraft:Ocean monument]]s&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
* Now require a 16 block square radius of deep ocean, not just a single deep ocean block at the center.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Gameplay ===&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Minecraft:Experience]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
* Now is collected at the middle rather than at the head.&lt;br /&gt;
** This means that if a large amount of experience is collected, it no longer blocks the player&amp;#039;s view.&lt;br /&gt;
* Blocks no longer drop XP when the &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;doTileDrops&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt; gamerule is false. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Fixes ==&lt;br /&gt;
{{fixes|fixedin=15w46a|prefix=Minecraft&lt;br /&gt;
|;old&lt;br /&gt;
|128|3rd person view reverts to 1st person view if head inside a block (corner a one block wide tunnel in a minecart, ride on a horse through a block, piston, etc.).&lt;br /&gt;
|415|Leaves replace transparent blocks.&lt;br /&gt;
|1701|Flying through a portal in Creative turns off &amp;quot;fly mode&amp;quot; on the other side.&lt;br /&gt;
|1752|Breaking doors moves the other part of the door sometimes.&lt;br /&gt;
|1846|First-person perspective parallax problem.&lt;br /&gt;
|2631|{{cmd|defaultgamemode}} not changing tag on world selection screen.&lt;br /&gt;
|3480|superflat generating air.&lt;br /&gt;
|3634|Blocks incorrectly able to be placed on end portal frame/end portal frames are solid.&lt;br /&gt;
|3776|IPv6 does not work.&lt;br /&gt;
|3867|Mob inside mob spawner &amp;quot;stutters&amp;quot; if no player is in spawn range or spawner is outside world border.&lt;br /&gt;
|4839|Sprinting stops after certain distance/time.&lt;br /&gt;
|5951|Comparator side input does not recognize all types of redstone power sources.&lt;br /&gt;
|7849|No step sound when walking on anvils.&lt;br /&gt;
|8565|Underwater: TNT dispensed into a block above a dispenser visually appears above the block.&lt;br /&gt;
|11149|Redstone hitbox not allowing block below to be hit.&lt;br /&gt;
|11519|Epilepsy trigger from collecting a lot of EXP.&lt;br /&gt;
|11790|Since the advent of 1.5, we can no longer put a water seal on the snow, water is placed in the block above the snow.&lt;br /&gt;
|11996|Mining an anvil plays no sound.&lt;br /&gt;
|13818|Unable to see horse health in Creative.&lt;br /&gt;
|19243|Breath icon misplaced with absorption.&lt;br /&gt;
|29362|&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;WitherBoss&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt; health bar showing from spawners.&lt;br /&gt;
|35665|Glass panes don&amp;#039;t join up correctly with ice blocks.&lt;br /&gt;
|38422|Blocks drop XP with &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;doTileDrops&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt; set to false.&lt;br /&gt;
|49370|&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;mobGriefing&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt; false snowman snow placing.&lt;br /&gt;
|54109|Wolfs collar is orange instead of red.&lt;br /&gt;
|57569|Wither moves during shield generation/wither attacking before initial explosion.&lt;br /&gt;
|62041|Untamed horses continue consuming food after reaching 100% tameability (0 temper)/tamed horses continue consuming golden food after already in love mode.&lt;br /&gt;
|62118|Iron bars model issues.&lt;br /&gt;
|64139|Cannot place banner or sign on snow layer level 1.&lt;br /&gt;
|64492|Changes to mob spawning algorithm (Mobs don&amp;#039;t require &amp;#039;Air&amp;#039;-block for spawning cycle).&lt;br /&gt;
|65214|Guardians are spawned in random places.&lt;br /&gt;
|68443|Distant mobs don&amp;#039;t despawn when changing to Peaceful.&lt;br /&gt;
|72834|Horse suffocates when tries to jump on block with 2-high roof.&lt;br /&gt;
|78635|Stopping a server after save-off causes unexpected data loss.&lt;br /&gt;
|80807|NBT data for &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;SmallFireballs&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt; is incomplete.&lt;br /&gt;
|91299|Rabbit legs twitching.&lt;br /&gt;
|;From the 1.8 development versions&lt;br /&gt;
|45842|Reads from java are slow due to many system calls.&lt;br /&gt;
|52254|{{cmd|spreadplayers}} sometimes teleports players underground, sometimes suffocates them.&lt;br /&gt;
|;dev&lt;br /&gt;
|84306|Glowing aura doesn&amp;#039;t work if team color is set to reset.&lt;br /&gt;
|86983|Cobblestone walls flicker when being moved with slime blocks.&lt;br /&gt;
|87920|Enderman looks backwards in {{cmd|gamemode 3}}.&lt;br /&gt;
|88875|Donkey and Mule have swapped textures.&lt;br /&gt;
|91025|Redstone fix - color changing beacon.&lt;br /&gt;
|92148|Crash when selecting &amp;#039;Teleport to team member&amp;#039; in Spectator mode.&lt;br /&gt;
|;previous&lt;br /&gt;
|92137|Stairs&amp;#039; UV Mapping is upside-down.&lt;br /&gt;
|92144|Hopper: &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;java.lang.ClassCastException: ahw cannot be cast to ahn&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
|92167|&amp;quot;Realms Notifications&amp;quot; option in options menu.&lt;br /&gt;
}}&amp;lt;/onlyinclude&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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== Videos ==&lt;br /&gt;
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== Trivia ==&lt;br /&gt;
* Unlike most of the first-of-the-week snapshots, this was released on a Thursday instead of Wednesday, similar to the snapshots before [[Minecraft:14w26a]].&lt;br /&gt;
* 15w46a was previously removed from the [[Minecraft:launcher]] for some time, but was added back in September 2018.&lt;br /&gt;
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== References ==&lt;br /&gt;
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