Minecraft:Java Edition 14w02a

14w02a is the first Minecraft:snapshot for Minecraft:Java Edition 1.8, released on January 9, 2014,<ref>Template:Cite</ref> which adds new stone blocks, the Template:Cmd and Template:Cmd Minecraft:commands, and the @e selector. This is the first snapshot released in 2014.

Additions

Blocks

File:Andesite JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Andesite

• Generates within Minecraft:stone terrain below Y=80, each in blobs similar in size and abundance to Minecraft:gravel or Minecraft:dirt.
• Can be crafted with 1 Minecraft:cobblestone and 1 Minecraft:diorite.
• Can be crafted, with 4 of the raw stone in a 2×2 configuration into Minecraft:polished andesite.
• Have the same data value, blast resistance, mining time, and other properties as stone.

File:Diorite JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Diorite

• Generates within Stone terrain below Y=80, each in blobs similar in size and abundance to gravel or dirt.
• Can be crafted with 2 cobblestone and 2 Minecraft:nether quartz in a checkboard pattern.
• Can be crafted, with 4 of the raw stone in a 2×2 configuration into polished diorite.
• Have the same data value, blast resistance, mining time, and other properties as stone.

File:Granite JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Granite

• Generates within Stone terrain below Y=80, each in blobs similar in size and abundance to gravel or dirt.
• Can be crafted with 1 Minecraft:nether quartz and 1 Minecraft:diorite.
• Can be crafted, with 4 of the raw stone in a 2×2 configuration into polished granite.
• Have the same data value, blast resistance, mining time, and other properties as stone.

Template:Animate Minecraft:Polished andesite, Minecraft:polished diorite, Minecraft:polished granite

• Can be crafted with four of the respective raw stones in a 2×2 configuration.
• Polished forms have the same data value, blast resistance, mining time, and other properties as stone.

File:Slime Block JE1.png Minecraft:Slime block

• Crafted with 9 Minecraft:slimeballs, can also be crafted back into 9 slimeballs.
• Players, mobs and particles that land on their top side bounce, as if on a trampoline.
  • Bounce rebound velocity is scaled by impact velocity.
  • A bounce can be avoided by holding spacebar.
• Prevents fall damage.
• Walking on them is slower than walking on soul sand, about the speed of sneaking.

Command format

Template:Cmd

• Can amend and modify the NBT data of the block at specified coordinates.
  • Usage: Template:Cmd

Template:Cmd

• Can be used to change the difficulty.

Minecraft:Target selectors

• Added @e.
• Can select entities.
• Can specify type of entity by entity ID to either include or exclude with [type=Chicken] or [type=!Skeleton].
  • Example: Template:Cmd.

General

Minecraft:NBT format

• Added a tag that can lock containers.
  • Mostly useful for (adventure) maps in Adventure mode.
• Tag in JSON format: {Lock:Key}, containers can be unlocked by clearing their string for Lock (changing it to {Lock:}).
• The lock can be cleared with the command Template:Cmd.
• Locked containers can only be opened while holding an item renamed to the given string.
  • Example: If the value of the lock tag is "Key" ({Lock:Key}), a player is not able to open the chest unless they are holding an item named Key.
  • Item is not removed on use.
  • Only works if the item has a custom name (default names do not work).
    • Example: a chest with the tag {Lock:Diamond} cannot be opened when holding a diamond; the item held must be renamed Diamond.

Minecraft:Splashes

• Added "That's Numberwang!"

Changes

Blocks

Minecraft:Mossy stone bricks

• Now can be crafted using 1 Minecraft:vine and 1 stone bricks.

Minecraft:Chiseled stone bricks

• Can now be crafted using 2 Minecraft:stone brick slabs on top of each other, similar to Minecraft:chiseled sandstone.

Minecraft:Anvils

• The cost of experience is now reduced.
  • Renaming items now only costs 1 level, repairing now starts out with 2 to 5 levels and tools can be repaired longer and with better enchantments, repairing costs can no longer be kept down by renaming items.

Minecraft:Furnaces

• When a furnace runs out of fuel, the smelting progress pauses instead of resetting.
  • Will be changed in a later snapshot.<ref>http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/1uwewe/tilwhen_a_furnace_runs_out_of_fuel_the_smelting/cemi933</ref>

Minecraft:Doors

• Can now stack to 64.
• Crafting recipe now gives 3 doors.

Items

Minecraft:Baked potatoes

• Now restore 5 hunger points instead of 6.

Minecraft:Carrots

• Now restore 3 hunger points instead of 4.

Mobs

Baby animals (Minecraft:sheep, Minecraft:pig, Minecraft:cow, Minecraft:chicken, Minecraft:cat, Minecraft:wolf, Minecraft:horse)

• All baby animal growth can now slowly be accelerated using the animal's breeding item.
• Baby animals make particles when right-clicked with the proper food.
  • It appears holding the right mouse button speeds up the growth-acceleration process.
• They randomly grow up instantly.

Minecraft:Villagers

• Now only breed when willing.
  • The first time a specific trade is done, the villager becomes willing, any other time there's a 1 in 5 chance the villager becomes willing.
• When a baby villager is born, both parents lose their willingness.
  • Finding out a villager's willingness in Survival is difficult: the only way to tell is the amount of XP they give when trading. Normal trading yields 3-6 experience points, trading and making a villager willing yields 8-11 experience points.

Non-mob entities

Minecraft:Boats

• Now break (into sticks and wooden planks) when landing on a solid surface after falling more than 3 blocks.

Command format

Template:Cmd

• Can be used to clear only a specific number of items and can be restricted to certain NBT data.
  • Example: Template:Cmd removes up to 34 villager spawn eggs named Michael from player. Note: maximum removal item count does not work correctly (fixed in Minecraft:14w02c).

Template:Cmd

• Now has a target selector argument.
• Can kill entities (including players) other than the player that ran the command.
• Can now be used by command blocks.

Template:Cmd

• Can now also check for dataTags.
  • Example: Template:Cmd.
• No longer is exclusively usable in command blocks.

Template:Cmd

• A new tag called "insertion" allows text to be inserted into the chat that, when shift-clicked, inserts more text into the players' chat input.
  • Example: Template:Cmd.

Item IDs

• Changed from using numbers (for example, TNT's id was 46) to Minecraft:namespaced IDs of the form minecraft:item_name. (Example: minecraft:tnt)

Gameplay

Minecraft:Adventure mode

• Block interaction is now impossible by default.
• Block outlines do not show unless block can be interacted with.
• Added CanDestroy tag for tools.
• Items with this tag display the names of the blocks that they can destroy in the item tooltip.
  • Example: Template:Cmd to give a Diamond Shovel that can break grass and sand).

Minecraft:Enchanting

• Enchanting now costs 1 to 3 levels of experience and lapis lazuli, depending on the tier.
  • Player still needs the same minimum levels displayed on the enchantment table to enchant.
• The actual enchantment calculation is the same.
• One of the enchantments is displayed in the tooltip.
• The enchantments player would get do not change until they enchant it, or enchant something else.
  • This enchantment seed is stored per player.

Minecraft:Experience

• Leveling up now takes more experience.

Teleporting

• Relative teleporting is smoother and no longer brings players to a stop.
  • Preserves their velocity from before the teleport.

Minecraft:Trading

• Offers are less random and more useful.
• Existing villagers are not affected.
• Trading now gives experience.
• Villager profession is now displayed in trade GUI.
• Villagers start out with 2-4 trades unlocked.
• The disabled trade arrow now has a descriptive tooltip.
• Trades are now unlocked more freely (no longer requires trading last trade).
• There are now more villager professions (only notable trade changes and additions listed).

Villager trades

Robe	Profession	Buys	Sells	Notes
White	Librarian	Stacked Template:ItemLink		Can now offer multiple Minecraft:enchanted books trades.
Purple	Cleric	Template:ItemLink Template:ItemLink	Template:ItemLink 1-4 pieces of Template:ItemLink
Brown	Fisherman	Template:ItemLink Template:ItemLink	Template:ItemLink	Cooks normal Minecraft:raw fish
Brown	Farmer	Template:LegacyBlockSprite Minecraft:Melons Template:LegacyBlockSprite Minecraft:Pumpkins Template:ItemLink Template:ItemLink	Template:ItemLink and Template:ItemLink	No longer sells melons.
Brown	Fletcher	Template:ItemLink	Template:ItemLink	Converts 10 Minecraft:gravel into about 7-10 Minecraft:flint.
Brown	Shepherd	Template:BlockLink	Template:BlockLink Template:ItemLink
White (Apron)	Butcher	Template:ItemLink Template:ItemLink	Template:ItemLink Template:ItemLink
White (Apron)	Leatherworker	Template:ItemLink	Template:ItemLink Template:ItemLink Template:ItemLink
Black (Apron)	Armorer	Template:ItemLink Template:ItemLink Template:ItemLink	Template:ItemLink Template:ItemLink Template:ItemLink
Black (Apron)	Tool Smith	Template:ItemLink Template:ItemLink Template:ItemLink	Template:ItemLink Template:ItemLink Template:ItemLink
Black (Apron)	Weapon Smith	Template:ItemLink Template:ItemLink Template:ItemLink	Template:ItemLink Template:ItemLink Template:ItemLink Template:ItemLink

General

Minecraft:Chat

• Messages are now either chat, system or action bar messages.
• Action bar messages are always shown, chat and system messages are only shown if chat settings are configured that way.
• Some instances of usernames in the chat now show the player's UUID when hovered on when debug tooltips are enabled.

Minecraft:Debug screen

• Now shows which axis players are facing after the cardinal direction: "Towards positive/negative X/Z".

Minecraft:Difficulty

• Now saved per world.
• Defaults to Normal instead of Easy.
• Can be locked in a specific difficulty per world.
  • Locking cannot be undone without external tools.
  • The difficulty may still be changed when locked by using Template:Cmd.

Removals

General

Distance effects

• Ember Minecraft:particles emitted by Minecraft:lava no longer are generated at the wrong positions at high coordinates.
  • This bug would later return in Minecraft:Java Edition 18w10c.
• Suspension particles formed inside Minecraft:water no longer are generated at the wrong positions at high coordinates.
  • This bug would also later return in 18w10c.
• Water and lava dripping particles (formed from when such a fluid is above a block with air beneath) are no longer generated at the wrong positions.
• Minecraft:Piston arms no longer visually break down at high coordinates.
• Minecraft:Tripwire (including that which appears on Minecraft:tripwire hooks) no longer appears abnormally stretched at high coordinates.
• The inside faces of Minecraft:cauldrons, Minecraft:hoppers and Minecraft:flower pots no longer appear at the wrong positions or outside the block entirely at high coordinates.

Trivia

• 14w02a was previously removed from the Minecraft:launcher for some time, but was added back in September 2018.
• As with Minecraft:14w02b and Minecraft:14w02c, this snapshot has the same protocol version as 1.7.6–1.7.10. Crossplay is therefore technically compatible between these versions but can cause issues.