Minecraft:Java Edition 15w14a

15w14a is an April Fools' joke snapshot released on April 1, 2015.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20150401075342/https://www.mojang.com/2015/04/minecraft-snapshot-15w14a-the-love-and-hugs-update/</ref> It was released as a hoax announcement for "1.10", which Mojang named The Love and Hugs Update (unrelated to the actually released update and the update released with the same version number, the Frostburn Update). No further snapshots were released for the hoax update. This snapshot is a fork of 1.8.3, which was the latest release at the time.

This is the first publicly available April Fools' Day version of Template:JE. The previous version in this "series", 2.0, was only officially released to certain individuals, though copies of it can be found.

Additions

Items

File:Potion of Slowness JE1 BE1.pngFile:Potion of Poison JE1 BE1.png Potion of Caring

• Changes the mob AI to move toward the nearest mob as if it were to attack it.
• Replaces the data value of both potions of Slowness and potions of Poison.

Template:InvSprite Minecraft:Potion of Sharing

• Causes affected entities to drop items in a random amount of time, ranging from food to rare items like Minecraft:saddles or Minecraft:diamonds.
• Replaces the data value of potions of Weakness.

Non-mob entities

Template:InvSpriteFile:Obsidian Boat.png Minecraft:Obsidian boat

• Sinks instead of floating.
• Can be crafted with the following recipe:

• Has an ID name of minecraft:obsidian_boat and an item number of 432.

Gameplay

"Love" meter

• Appears like the health bar, only across the whole top of the experience bar.
• Fills up when the player takes damage or left-clicks on mobs.
• There is a 10 second (200 tick) cool-down on adding hearts.
• Resets upon quitting the world.
• One line of hearts is 23 hearts.
• Collecting eight lines of hearts unlocks a game called Minescreeper, which is Minesweeper textured like Minecraft.
  • On the top of the screen is the Minecraft logo, with "CRAFT" crossed out and "SCREEPER" written over it.
  • The game contains a grid of grass block tops, which when left clicked become dirt blocks with the numbers depicting how many bombs are touching that block.
    • The size of the grid varies based on the GUI scale, and the game resolution, though the amount of creepers remains the same. At the default resolution and GUI scale, the grid size is 8×25.
  • The flags from Minesweeper are replaced with signs, which can be placed with a right-click.
  • The mines are replaced with creepers. Any creeper that was marked with a sign has their mouth upside down.
  • Pressing the keys Template:Key, Template:Key, Template:Key, Template:Key, Template:Key, Template:Key, Template:Key in this order (just like the classic Minesweeper) plays the level-up sound and activates a cheat that shows if a square is safe or has a mine under it with a white square in the top left corner.
  • Winning the game or placing a sign before the first left click triggers the credits, which upon exiting returns the player to normal Minecraft.

Changes

Blocks

Minecraft:Banners

• Have a heart pattern on them by default.

Minecraft:Lava

• No longer damages players or mobs.

Items

Minecraft:Carrot on a stick

• Removed.

Minecraft:Lava bucket

• Renamed to "Cheese Bucket".

Template:AnimateFile:Arrow (item) 15w14a.png Minecraft:Bows and Minecraft:arrows

• Bows no longer require arrows.
• Arrows have a heart on the end of the texture.
• Shooting two of the same animal with arrows makes them breed.

Minecraft:TNT

• Renamed to "Love Bomb".
• No longer damages blocks when it explodes.
  • Still damages mobs.
  • Does not affect nearby TNT.

Pufferfish

• Now inflicts Minecraft:Hunger III for 14 seconds, Minecraft:Haste for 29 seconds, and Fun II for 14 seconds after eating.

Minecraft:Spider Eye

• Now inflicts Minecraft:Haste for 29 seconds after eating.

Minecraft:Potions

• Potions of Strength now give upgrades to "Love Power".
• Potions of Harming were renamed to "Potion of Love", though they still damage mobs.
• Potions of Slowness were renamed to "Potion of Caring" and no longer slow down the player or mobs.
• Potions of Invisibility were renamed to "Potion of Fun".
• Potions of Leaping were renamed to "Potion of Happiness".
• Removed potions of Weakness and potions of Poison.

File:Wooden Heart.pngFile:Stone Heart.pngFile:Iron Heart.pngFile:Golden Heart.pngFile:Diamond Heart.png Minecraft:Swords

• Renamed to "Hearts" and have a heart on the end of the texture.
• Not damaged when used on mobs.

Mobs

File:Smiling Creeper.png Creeper

• Now burst into Minecraft:poppies when close to the player.
  • The poppies cannot be picked up.
• Have a new texture, with the mouth flipped upside down, appearing to be a smile.

Minecraft:Ghast

• Can now be ridden, though cannot be controlled.

Minecraft:Elder guardian

• Give the player Mining Fatigue like usual, but the ghostly image does not appear.

Minecraft:Horse

• Can no longer be ridden, instead they ride on the player's shoulders.
  • Only dismount if killed, or if the player is submerged in water (at least 3 blocks deep).

File:LoveGolem.png Iron golem

• Now known as "Love Golems".
• Can appear as a manifestation of the villager's love and peaceful nature.
• Have a new texture that is tinted pink all over, with a heart on the right side of the chest and an altered facial expression.

Minecraft:Magma cube

• Now known as "Cheese Cubes".
• Similarly to Minecraft:slimes, they also give the player Happiness upon attacking or pressing Template:Control on them.

Minecraft:Pig

• Can now climb walls.
  • Because of this, it may sometimes cause a glitch where pigs "dance" at one place.

Minecraft:Sheep

• Can shear their wool without shears now by using the Template:Control key on them.

Minecraft:Skeleton

• Now randomly drop Minecraft:bone meal, similar to chickens dropping eggs.
• No longer burn under sunlight.

Minecraft:Slime

• Now give the player Happiness when attacked.
  • Can also give the Happiness effect by using the Template:Control key on them.

Minecraft:Squid

• Can now fly.

Minecraft:Villager

• Rather than trading, they take the player's items in exchange for a piece of Minecraft:paper saying "Thanks for your donation".
  • This also occurs when the player takes their items back instead of trading.
• Offer the player help in picking up items or blocks, in exchange for a small fee (of the item they pick up) for their services.

Minecraft:Witch

• Now throw random beneficial potions at players.

Wither

• Recolored to pink with smiles on its faces.
• Skulls now explode with Minecraft:bone meal.
• The explosion upon creation still damages blocks.
• About the same as the pink wither from Minecraft:Java Edition 2.0.
  • Spawns with all 3 heads instead of 1.
  • Is summoned with the normal wither spawn instead of pink wool with a flower pot.

Minecraft:Zombies

• No longer burn under sunlight.

Non-mob entities

File:Boat (item) 15w14a.pngFile:HeartBoat.png Minecraft:Boats

• Sink when the player rides them, but float again when the player exits.
• Have a heart-shaped hole in the bottom.

File:PinkMinecart.png Minecraft:Minecart

• Now have a fluffy pink interior.

World generation

Minecraft:The End

• Has more obsidian pillars than normal.
• Has a bigger island.

Minecraft:Dungeons

• Have been replaced with homes.
  • The cobblestone and mossy cobblestone wall is replaced with Minecraft:blocks of quartz.
  • Some of them have Minecraft:crafting tables and/or Minecraft:furnaces added.

Temples

• Minecraft:Desert pyramids no longer contain TNT traps and have a ladder placed going down to the bottom for easier access.
• Minecraft:Jungle temples no longer have traps.

Minecraft:Biomes

• One-block patches of snow now randomly generate, regardless of biome.
• Majority of snow cover in ice plains and cold taiga is melted.

Weather

Minecraft:Rain

• Rain in all biomes causes snow to form around the player.
  • Even in hot biomes, where it doesn't rain, snow still generates.
• Hearts appear when the rain hits the ground.

Snow

• Near coordinates X=0, Z=0, there is an area wherein some chunks snow is more frequent than normal chunks while raining and in others there is no snow even when raining, forming a QR code. When this code is scanned, it would reveal the name of the Minecraft:Combat Update (Minecraft:Java Edition 1.9).

Gameplay

• Removed the ability to directly harm mobs.
  • Hitting mobs with weapons or a fist causes heart particles.
• Removed Minecraft:health and Minecraft:hunger.
  • As a result, the player is unable to die, including from Template:Cmd and the Minecraft:void.
• Minecraft:Survival mode is now called Existence mode.
• Removed Minecraft:combat.
• Removed Minecraft:Hardcore mode.

General

File:Shader none.png

A world with regular visuals

File:Shader love.png

A world with the "love" shader and the replaced clouds

Minecraft:Options

• Removed all graphical settings titles.

Minecraft:Clouds

• Now shaped like large, pink hearts.

Minecraft:Particles

• All particles were replaced with hearts.

Minecraft:Shaders

• The shader love.json, which adds a red tint to everything, is always used.
  • Pressing "Minecraft:Super Secret Settings..." doesn't change the shader.

Minecraft:Main menu

• Only one splash is displayed, which is "Minecraft is love, Minecraft is life".
• Removed the Minecraft Realms button.
• Only one world is available.
  • Because of this, the game is essentially always in Minecraft:Demo mode.
  • The world can be created using the "Create World" button.
    • The world must be named "There can only be one".
      • When viewed with another Minecraft version, the world is named "AF15 Existence", which probably stands for "April Fools 2015 Existence".
    • The only available gamemodes are Survival, which is called "Existence", and Creative.
    • The "Allow Cheats" button now states "Allow Superpowers".
  • Once created, it can be played by pressing "Play World" or deleted by pressing "Reset World".
    • When pressing "Reset World", it calls the world "My Beloved World".

Fake "changes"

Some changes were on the official change log, but were not included in the actual version.

Minecraft:Bat

• Now supposedly 20% cuter.

Minecraft:Chicken

• Can now supposedly be ridden by any Minecraft:player less than two Minecraft:blocks tall.

Monsters

• "Renamed" to Inhabitants.

Minecraft:Resource packs

• "Fixed" some being "prettier than others".

Cliff edges

• "Added" Minecraft:fences to them to prevent accidental falls.

Minecraft:Cow

• Now supposedly alerts a Minecraft:player to important events using an audible notification.

Minecraft:Blaze

• Now supposedly defends players from harm.

Minecraft:Rain

• Removed, and then readded.
• Falling Minecraft:snow now supposedly has a chance to make exposed Minecraft:chests "mysteriously full of goodies" at midnight.

Dirt bikes

• "Added".

Minecraft:Caves

• Are now checked for safety.

Issues

• 15w14a is not supported due to being an April Fools' joke, and therefore issues affecting it will be closed as "Invalid" in the issue tracker.<ref>Template:Bug</ref>

Trivia

• 15w14a was previously removed from the Minecraft:launcher for some time, but was added back in September 2018.
• Worlds created in this version get saved as "existence.af15", presumably standing for "Existence [Reference to the world name] April Fools 2015".
• The reason why this version was claimed to be a snapshot for 1.10 rather than 1.9 is unknown.

Gallery

Screenshots

• Title screen after creating a world, with new buttons "Play World" and "Reset World".
  Title screen after creating a world, with new buttons "Play World" and "Reset World".
• Minecraft:Create New World screen.
  Minecraft:Create New World screen.
• Video settings.
  Video settings.
• A Minecraft:chicken that laid an iron ingot instead of an Minecraft:egg.
  A Minecraft:chicken that laid an iron ingot instead of an Minecraft:egg.
• Particles in Minecraft:water are replaced by small hearts that float to the surface.
  Particles in Minecraft:water are replaced by small hearts that float to the surface.
• An Minecraft:explosion of heart particles after destroying an Minecraft:end crystal.
  An Minecraft:explosion of heart particles after destroying an Minecraft:end crystal.
• The texture of the heart clouds.
  The texture of the heart clouds.
• Wither.
  Wither.
• Flying squid.
  Flying squid.
• A very comfortable minecart.
  A very comfortable minecart.
• A boat with a heart-shaped hole at the bottom.
  A boat with a heart-shaped hole at the bottom.
• A horse is riding on the player.
  A horse is riding on the player.
• A dungeon turned into a house.
  A dungeon turned into a house.
• A snow patch in a forest biome.
  A snow patch in a forest biome.
• An ice plains with almost all of the snow melted.
  An ice plains with almost all of the snow melted.
• A cold taiga with almost all of the snow melted.
  A cold taiga with almost all of the snow melted.
• Minecraft:Zombie pigmen wielding heart-shaped swords.
  Minecraft:Zombie pigmen wielding heart-shaped swords.
• Wooden, stone and iron heart swords.
  Wooden, stone and iron heart swords.
• Banners, obsidian boat, normal boat, and diamond heart.
  Banners, obsidian boat, normal boat, and diamond heart.
• The texture of the heart arrows.
  The texture of the heart arrows.
• If the player gets 8 lines of hearts, the Minescreeper game pops up.
  If the player gets 8 lines of hearts, the Minescreeper game pops up.
• The Minescreeper logo.
  The Minescreeper logo.
• The hidden QR code in a map.
  The hidden QR code in a map.
• The QR code from the previous screenshot, only recolored to be scannable.
  The QR code from the previous screenshot, only recolored to be scannable.
• The previous QR code, but with the Creeper face removed.
  The previous QR code, but with the Creeper face removed.
• A squid out of water.
  A squid out of water.