Minecraft:Java Edition 17w50a

17w50a is the eleventh Minecraft:snapshot for Minecraft:Java Edition 1.13, released on December 11, 2017,<ref>Template:Snap</ref> which fixes bugs. This is the final snapshot released in 2017.

Additions

Command format

• Added a new local coordinate type in commands using ^.
  • When specifying coordinates in a command, the Minecraft:player can now use ^ to specify local coordinates instead of world coordinates.
  • The axes used for local coordinates are relative to the rotation of the executing entity.
  • Like world coordinates, they are measured from the base of an entity.
  • The syntax is: ^left ^up ^forwards
  • left/up/forwards is the amount of blocks in the specified direction.
  • For example, typing Template:Cmd in chat sets a stone block 3 blocks in front of the player in their view.
• Tab-completing coordinates when not targeting a block suggests ~ ~ ~ again.

General

Minecraft:Tags

• Added the default tags wooden_buttons and wooden_doors for both items and blocks.
• The tags buttons and doors now include stone_button and iron_door respectively for both items and blocks.

Changes

Blocks

Minecraft:Ender chests

• Now change their texture when the computer time is set to the 24th to 26th of December to suit Christmas.

Minecraft:Item frames

• Can now be placed on the top and bottom of blocks.

General

Minecraft:Tags

• Can now include other tags (of the same type).
  • The player can add for example #foo:bar in a tag value list to reference another tag called foo:bar.
  • Self-referencing is not possible.
• When overriding a tag, the player can now choose to replace instead of append.
  • By default all tags append if another data pack created the tag.
  • Adding "replace": true to the tag definition makes that tag replace existing tags instead.
• When used in commands, block tags now support block state and data tag arguments.

Trivia

• Unlike most of the first-of-the-week snapshots up to this point, this was released on a Monday instead of Wednesday, similar to Minecraft:17w48a.