Minecraft:Java Edition 14w25a

14w25a is the twenty-seventh Minecraft:snapshot for Minecraft:Java Edition 1.8, released on June 18, 2014,<ref>Template:Cite</ref> which adds Minecraft:ocean monuments and all the blocks, items and mobs associated with the structure. It also adds Minecraft:coarse dirt.

Additions

Blocks

File:Prismarine JE1 BE1.gif Minecraft:Prismarine

• Generates in Minecraft:ocean monuments.
• Can be crafted with Minecraft:prismarine shards.
• The cracks in prismarine appear to slowly change color between brown, blue, gray and purple.

File:Prismarine Bricks JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Prismarine bricks

• Generate in Minecraft:ocean monuments.
• Can be crafted with Minecraft:prismarine shards.

File:Dark Prismarine JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Dark prismarine

• Generates in Minecraft:ocean monuments.
• Can be crafted with Minecraft:prismarine shards and an Minecraft:ink sac.

File:Sea Lantern JE1.gif Minecraft:Sea lanterns

• Generates in Minecraft:ocean monuments.
• Can be crafted with Minecraft:prismarine shards and Minecraft:prismarine crystals.
• Emit light at a light level of 15 and have an animated texture.

File:Coarse Dirt JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Coarse dirt

• Replacement for grassless dirt.
• Slightly darker texture than regular Minecraft:dirt.
• Can be crafted with two dirt and two Minecraft:gravel in a checker-board pattern.

File:Wet Sponge JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Wet sponge

• Obtained when a Minecraft:sponge soaks up water.
• Smelt wet sponge to remove water and get sponge.
• Wet sponge emits water dripping particles.
• Dropped by Minecraft:elder guardians when killed by a player.

Items

File:Prismarine Crystals JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Prismarine crystals

• Drop from Minecraft:guardians and sea lanterns.
• Can be crafted into sea lanterns.

File:Prismarine Shard JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Prismarine shard

• Drop from Minecraft:guardians.
• Can be crafted into all three kinds of prismarine blocks and sea lanterns.

File:Guardian Spawn Egg JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Guardian spawn egg

• Spawns the new Minecraft:guardian mob.

Mobs

File:Guardian Revision 1.png Minecraft:Guardian

• Spawns in Minecraft:ocean monuments.
• Attacks Minecraft:squid and players with a laser.
• When on land, it flops around and doesn't suffocate, unlike squid.
• Drops Minecraft:prismarine shards, Minecraft:prismarine crystals and Minecraft:raw fish.

File:Elder Guardian Revision 1.png Minecraft:Elder guardian

• Is a boss-like variant of guardians.
• There are 3 elders in each monument.
• A flashing elder guardian appears on screen when close to the mob, and Minecraft:Mining Fatigue III is inflicted on the player for 5 minutes.
  • Mining Fatigue III makes mining really slow, but not impossible.
• Drops a Minecraft:wet sponge when killed by a player.

World generation

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• New underwater generated structure made out of Minecraft:prismarine, Minecraft:prismarine bricks, Minecraft:dark prismarine, and Minecraft:sea lanterns.
• 8 Minecraft:blocks of gold can be found at the center of the monument.
• Also generates in old worlds.
• Can be toggled for a customized world.

Gameplay

Minecraft:Enchantments

• Minecraft:Depth Strider
  • Allows the player to move faster in water.
  • Can be applied only to boots.
  • Can go up to level III.

General

Minecraft:Splashes

• "Flavor with no seasoning!"
• "Strange, but not a stranger!"
• "Tougher than diamonds, rich like cream!"
• "Getting ready to show!"
• "Getting ready to know!"
• "Getting ready to drop!"
• "Getting ready to shock!"
• "Getting ready to freak!"
• "Getting ready to speak!"
• "It swings, it jives!"
• "Cruising streets for gold!"
• "Take an eggbeater and beat it against a skillet!"
• "Make me a table, a funky table!"
• "Take the elevator to the mezzanine!"

Changes

Blocks

General

• Rewrote how blocks are rendered.
• Rewrote how block data is handled.
  • Removed the previously-accessible item forms of flowing and stationary Minecraft:water and Minecraft:lava blocks (8, 9, 10 & 11), double stone and wooden Minecraft:slabs (43 & 125), Minecraft:fire blocks (51), nether portal and end portal blocks (90 & 119), Minecraft:cocoa pods (127), and Minecraft:potato and Minecraft:carrot crops (141 & 142). They are no longer available as item forms through the Template:Cmd or Template:Cmd commands, but are still placeable through commands such as Template:Cmd. This removal has made by adding method registerItemBlock(block), which registers an ItemBlock for respective block. The previously-accessible item forms of these blocks is not in the registerItemBlock list, this means they do not have any registered direct item form and therefore, they are unobtainable.

Minecraft:Cracked stone bricks

• Can be obtained by smelting Minecraft:stone bricks.

Minecraft:Podzol

• No longer displays dirt as its side texture when a block is placed above.

Minecraft:Tall grass & Minecraft:grass

• Texture is now brighter.

Minecraft:Huge mushrooms blocks

• When harvested with Minecraft:Silk Touch, they drop blocks with corresponding mushroom texture (red or brown) on all sides rather than the one with spores.

Minecraft:Redstone torches

• No longer randomly fix themselves.

Melon and pumpkin stems

• File:Attached Stem 14w25a.png Now composed of two planes.

Minecraft:Signs

• Use the JSON text components Text1, Text2, Text3, Text4 instead of plain text.
• Can be used to show scores towards players by using the selector and score tags.
• Previously, text formatting could only be accomplished using the section symbol via Minecraft:Formatting codes.
• Character limit is based on character width. Previously, it was capped at exactly 15 characters.
• Might need some time before it can work in Survival.

Minecraft:Sponge

• Introduced sponge to Minecraft:Survival mode, with new behavior and looks.
• Turns into Minecraft:wet sponge when it soaks up water.
  • Water particles appear around the sponge when this happens.
• Destroys water blocks from 5 blocks away in a kind of sphere.
• Soaks up water only when water is touching it.

Minecraft:Stairs

• All icons for stairs in the inventory are now viewed at a different angle.

Items

General

• All items are models, some are still generated from item icons.
• Resource packs can make models for all items.

Minecraft:Arrows

• Work differently underwater.
  • They lose all velocity after a few blocks and slowly fall.
  • Fire arrows are extinguished.

Minecraft:Written books

• Use JSON text components instead of plain text with the new pages tag.
• Capable of using the clickEvent and hoverEvent tags.
• Previously, text formatting could only be accomplished using the section symbol via Minecraft:formatting codes.
• Might need some time before it can work in Survival.

Mobs

Minecraft:Iron golems

• Can be spawned by arranging the blocks in any orientation.
  • This does not affect the orientation of the spawned mob.
• Now require air blocks in the corners to be built.<ref>Template:Bug</ref>

Minecraft:Snow golems

• Can be spawned by arranging the blocks in any orientation.
  • This does not affect the orientation of the spawned mob.

Minecraft:Withers

• Can be spawned by arranging the blocks in any orientation.
  • This does not affect the orientation of the spawned mob.
• Can now move around during the invulnerability stage right after they are spawned.<ref>Template:Bug</ref>
• Now require air blocks next to the base soul sand to be built.<ref>Template:Bug</ref>

Minecraft:Wither skeletons

• No longer visibly catch fire when going into fire or lava.
• Can now spawn anywhere on nether brick within the bounds of every nether fortress, even outside of specific segments.
  • Prior to this version, wither skeletons would only spawn this way in the first fortress loaded into the game due to a bug.
  • Spawning within specific segments remains unchanged and was not affected by the bug.

Command format

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• Added three Minecraft:scoreboard operators: <, >, =.
• Can be tested with a comparator to see if two scores are greater than, smaller than or equal to each other.

Model format improvements<ref>Template:Reddit</ref>

• New tag "textures" to specify the textures used by the model.
• Removed the directional attribute from the uv definition and replaced it with explicit texture references.
  • "textureFacing" renamed to "texture", it is prepended with the hash symbol (#).
• "useAmbientOcclusion" renamed to "ambientocclusion".
• "rotateVariantTextures" renamed to "UV lock".
• "cull" renamed to "cullface", specifies the opposite of which neighboring face causes culling to occur.
  • Example: if one has an east-facing face but wants it to be culled along a different axis (let's say Z), one would specify "cullface": "north" or "cullface": "south".
• Rotation made more verbose, it is now more clear that it can only occur on a single axis.
  • Example, the rotation for one of the two faces of the "cross" model is now: "rotation": { "origin": [ 8, 8, 8 ], "axis": "y", "angle": 45, "rescale": true },.
• The folder models/blocks/meshes was removed and model files are now stored in models/blocks.
• The folder blockstates was added and stores the model selection files previously found in models/blocks.

Gameplay

Minecraft:Inventory

• Text color darkened to Template:Color, the same color as before 1.2.4.

Minecraft:Potion effects

• Players now see better with Night Vision and Water Breathing at the same time underwater.<ref>Template:Bug</ref>

Player list

• Shows the faces of players.

General

Minecraft:Debug screen

• Template:Key + Template:Key now also shows which direction entities are looking in using a blue line.

• Items in Minecraft:first-person view now move up and down when its data changes.

Animations

• Block-hit animation that was used prior (from previous snapshots and 1.7.x) was removed.

Removals

General

Distance effects

• Minecraft:Falling block entities are now generated at the correct positions.

Minecraft:Options

• Anisotropic filtering has been removed.
  • This also means that the four-by-four checker variant of the Minecraft:missing texture no longer exists.

Trivia

• 14w25a was previously removed from the Minecraft:launcher for some time, but was added back in September 2018.
• This snapshot was released on the same day as 1.7.10-pre4.
• Although this was the last first-of-the-week snapshot before snapshots were said to be released on Wednesdays instead of Thursdays, this snapshot was released on a Wednesday instead of Thursday.