Minecraft:Java Edition 14w30a

14w30a is the thirty-eighth Minecraft:snapshot for Minecraft:Java Edition 1.8, released on July 23, 2014,<ref>Template:Cite</ref><ref>Template:Tweet</ref> which adds Minecraft:banners.

Additions

Over 16×400⁶ possible combinations – 6.5536×10¹⁶.
Crafted like a sign, just with one color of wool instead of planks.
Can be stacked to 16.
Most patterns are created by arranging dyes in certain ways around a banner on a crafting table.
- The dyes cannot be shifted or flipped even if there is space, known as a fixed recipe.
Additional patterns: creeper, skull & crossbones, brick, and flower - making these without dyes results in a black pattern, one can use dyes to get different colors (items: creeper skull, wither skeleton skull, brick block, oxeye daisy).
33 crafting recipes which produce different patterns.
Up to 6 layers of patterns possible.
Can be placed on walls or on the ground (16 rotations possible).
Sway as if blown by wind.
Can be cloned by crafting them together with a blank banner.
Can be worn as headgear (but only using commands).
Top-most layer can be removed using cauldrons.

New Silent tag for entities.
- Setting to 1 disables sound produced by that entity, such as idle and hurt sounds.

stat.talkedToVillager
- Detects how many times the player has talked to villagers (opened the trading GUI).
stat.tradedWithVillager
- Detects how many times the player has traded with villagers.

Made creeper, skeleton and zombie heads available in Survival.
Creepers, skeletons, wither skeletons, and zombies drop their heads when killed by charged creepers. Wither skeletons continue to have heads as Minecraft:rare drops.
Skulls worn on heads are now bigger so the second skin layer no longer peeks through.
Player and mob heads in inventories and held by mobs/players now display the actual head.

Lighting

Completely fixed black spots.
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Now displays how many chunk sections are being rendered currently and how many chunk sections are out of view in percent, the OpenGL version, display size, vendor and GPU.
"Vanilla" added to the version number. e.g., "Minecraft 14w30b (14w30b/Vanilla)".
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Template:Key tooltips now show how many NBT tags an item has.
Block names no longer contain blockstate data in brackets next to their name (in the view of a block's name and data along the right side of the screen).
Data is still shown in separate rows beneath the name.

Animations

Third person sword Minecraft:blocking position slightly tweaked
Block hitting animation redone
Punching while blocking, shooting an arrow, drinking a potion, and eating removed
Rod scaling tweaked
Removed armor turning red when hit
Items are now positioned a little higher and further left during their eating/drinking animation in first person view<ref>Template:Bug</ref>

Video settings

Render distance slider now goes up to 32 when using 64-bit Java.
- Requires 2 GB of allocated RAM.
Removed Advanced OpenGL.

Performance improvements

Rewrote chunk sorting.
Ported over the visibility culling code from MCPE to avoid rendering invisible stuff.
Threaded chunk rebuilds.

14w30a was previously removed from the Minecraft:launcher for some time, but was added back in September 2018.