Minecraft:Java Edition 17w18a

17w18a is the tenth Minecraft:snapshot for Minecraft:Java Edition 1.12, released on May 3, 2017.<ref>Template:Snap</ref> It was later reuploaded to fix an aspect ratio issue.<ref>Template:Tweet</ref>

Additions

Gameplay

Gamerules

• Template:Cmd
  • Defaults to true.
  • Toggles announcing of advancements in chat, replacing the old server.properties entry.

Command format

• Command to reload advancements and loot tables from disk.
• This command is available to all Minecraft:opped players in single player and to all level 4 operators on a multiplayer server.
• Cannot be run from a Minecraft:command block.

General

Minecraft:Advancements

• Re-introduced announcements to chat when someone earns an advancement.
  • Shows the description on hover, like before with Minecraft:achievements.
• Added three advancements to the "Adventure" tab:

• Added new minecraft:tick trigger.
  • Activates for each player on every tick, provided that the advancement was revoked before the next tick starts.
• Added new minecraft:tame_animal trigger.
  • Activates whenever the player tames an animal. The entity condition can be specified to check that the animal that was tamed.
• Added new show_toast display option.
  • Optional boolean defaulting to true. When false, the specified advancement does not display the toast popup when the advancement is fulfilled.
• Added new announce_to_chat display option.
  • Optional boolean defaulting to true. When false, this specific advancement does not announce the player fulfilling it to the chat for all players to see.

Changes

Blocks

Minecraft:Command blocks

• Optimized error conditions.

Items

Minecraft:Maps

• Changed some map colors around, again.
  • Reverted the wool colors on maps.
  • Moved dyed blocks such as banners to the new terracotta map color palette.

Command format

Template:Cmd and Template:Cmd

• Now reinforce item-specific stacking restrictions.<ref name=":0">Template:Bug resolved as "Works as Intended"</ref>
  • This is a reverse of 16w32a. (Template:Bug resolved as "Works as Intended")

General

Minecraft:Advancements

• "entity" objects and the minecraft:levitation trigger now use a shared "distance" object.
  • Check if the player is within or outside of the specified range on the x, y, or z axis (in either the positive or negative direction).
  • absolute and horizontal ranges check if the player is within range on all axes, though horizontal excludes the Y axis.
• Changed the "Great View From Up Here" advancement to 50 vertical blocks.
• Changed the "Sniper Duel" advancement to horizontal distance.
• Advancement loading is now strict Minecraft:JSON.

Minecraft:Narrator

• Optimized, it should work for more people now.

Minecraft:Recipe books

• Some optimizations.
• If the Minecraft:player searches "excitedze" in the recipe book, their language switches to Pirate Speak.
  • Searching "excited" no longer does this.

Fixes

Template:Fixes From the current version, hotfixed

• Fixed an aspect ratio issue.

Trivia

• 17w18a (the reuploaded version) was previously removed from the Minecraft:launcher for some time, but was added back in September 2018.
• The pre-reupload of this snapshot is currently the latest unarchived version of Minecraft:Java Edition.

Gallery

• "Adventure" advancement tree in 17w18a.
  "Adventure" advancement tree in 17w18a.