Minecraft:Java Edition 15w43a

15w43a is the thirty-fourth Minecraft:snapshot for Minecraft:Java Edition 1.9, released on October 21, 2015.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20151021161242/https://www.mojang.com/2015/10/minecraft-snapshot-15w43a/</ref> Most notably, Chinese, Japanese and Korean (and likely other IME languages) can now be input into chat thanks to bug Template:Bug being fixed. Igloos were also added in this version.

Additions

World generation

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• Spawns randomly in Minecraft:ice plains and Minecraft:cold taiga (but not the hills variant).
  • Spawning parameters are shared with Minecraft:desert pyramids, Minecraft:jungle temples, and Minecraft:witch huts: the fact of a structure spawn is decided, then the biome determines which structure (if any) is spawned.
• Created by Searge (as found in the NBT data).
• An igloo contains: 9 Minecraft:white carpets, 3 Minecraft:light gray carpets, 2 blocks of Minecraft:ice, a Minecraft:redstone torch, a Minecraft:furnace, Minecraft:bed and a Minecraft:crafting table.
• Some igloos have a Minecraft:stone brick basement, with a Minecraft:cauldron, 2 Minecraft:red carpets, a Minecraft:brewing stand, 3 Minecraft:spruce stairs, 2 Minecraft:torches and a loot chest, along with a Minecraft:villager priest and Minecraft:zombie villager priest behind Minecraft:iron bars. An Minecraft:oak trapdoor with Minecraft:ladders leads down into the basement. Cracked and mossy stone bricks can also generate.
  • In the loot chest, there is sometimes be a Minecraft:golden apple in the central spot, hinting that the player needs to cure the zombie.
  • Always spawns with a splash potion of Weakness, hinting the player to use these on the zombie villager to turn it into the same type of villager next to it.
  • The zombie has the PersistenceRequired tag which makes it not despawn.
  • Minecraft:Silverfish spawn in some stone brick blocks.

Command format

Minecraft:NBT format

• Chests/minecart chests
  • Template:Nbt: Loot table to be used to fill the chest when it is next opened or destroyed. When the chest is part of a double chest, only the half corresponding to the tagged single-chest is affected.
    • e.g. /setblock ~ ~1 ~ minecraft:chest 0 replace {LootTable:"minecraft:chests/simple_dungeon"}.
  • Template:Nbt: Seed for generating the loot table. Used in vanilla survival to replicate chest content in new worlds with same seeds. 0 or omitted uses a random seed.
    • Template:Command.
• All mobs
  • Template:Nbt (string): Determines which loot table is used when the mob is killed.
    • e.g. /summon Creeper ~ ~1 ~ {DeathLootTable:"minecraft:chests/simple_dungeon"}.
  • Template:Nbt (long): The deterministic seed for grabbing data from the loot table. Used in vanilla survival to replicate chest content in new worlds with same seeds. Must not be 0.
    • e.g. /summon Creeper ~ ~1 ~ {DeathLootTable:"minecraft:chests/simple_dungeon",DeathLootTableSeed:123l}.

General

Minecraft:Language

• Added LOLCAT.
• Replaced Australian English (Australia) with English (Australia). (Australian English had many jokes/slang, but English (Australia) is a real language.)

Minecraft:Loot tables

• All loot from mobs, chests etc. is now based on Minecraft:loot tables, excluding block drops.
  • Can be changed by mapmakers by adding a json file within the "WORLD/data/loot_tables" folder, however, it is broken in 43a.

Changes

Blocks

Minecraft:Heavy weighted pressure plate, Minecraft:light weighted pressure plate, Minecraft:wooden pressure plate, Minecraft:fence gates, Minecraft:iron doors, Minecraft:wooden doors, Minecraft:wooden buttons

• Added new sounds.

Minecraft:Lily pads

• Can be placed on Minecraft:ice and Minecraft:frosted ice, but don't stay placed if updated.

Minecraft:Sugar cane

• No longer breaks if its adjacent water is turned to Minecraft:frosted ice.

Minecraft:Chests

• Changed sounds.
  • Ender chests still use the old sounds, however, due to Template:Bug.

Mobs

General

• Mobs wearing armor or carrying weapons no longer drop the equipment, i.e. HandDropChances and ArmorDropChances are ignored.
  • See Template:Bug.

Minecraft:Cave spiders & Minecraft:spiders

• Drop eyes more often (now 50% chance, previously a 33% chance normally and 66%/77%/82.5% with Looting) and the amount is now increased by Minecraft:Looting.

Minecraft:Chickens

• Now drop more than one meat item when killed with Minecraft:Looting.
  • See Template:Bug.

Minecraft:Elder guardians

• No longer rarely drop fish as if from fishing.
  • See Template:Bug.
• Now drop dry sponges on any kill, rather than wet sponges on a player kill.
• Drop chances for raw fish and prismarine crystals changed. Now it is a 40% chance for fish, 40% for crystals, and 20% of nothing, with the amount increased by Looting. Formerly it was 33% raw fish and 33% of crystals only if the raw fish drop failed, with Looting increasing the chances but not the amount.

Minecraft:Endermen

• No longer drop the held block.
  • See Template:Bug.

Minecraft:Ghasts

• Now drop 0–3 gunpowder and 0–2 ghast tears (up from 0–2 gunpowder and 0–1 tears), incremented as usual with Looting.
  • See in Template:Bug.

Minecraft:Guardians

• No longer rarely drop fish as if from fishing.
• Drop chances for raw fish and prismarine crystals changed. Now it is a 40% chance for fish, 40% for crystals, and 20% of nothing, with the amount increased by Looting. Formerly it was 33% raw fish and 33% of crystals only if the raw fish drop failed, with Looting increasing the chances but not the amount.
  • See Template:Bug.

Minecraft:Horses

• No longer drop leather, bones, or rotten flesh. Saddles, horse armor, chests, and chest contents are still dropped when applicable.
  • See Template:Bug

Minecraft:Pigs

• No longer drop worn saddles.
  • See Template:Bug.

Minecraft:Rabbits

• Now drop more than one meat item when killed with Minecraft:Looting.
  • See Template:Bug.
• Rabbits no longer rarely drop feet.
  • See Template:Bug.

Minecraft:Sheep

• Sheared sheep now drop wool when killed.
  • See Template:Bug.

Minecraft:Skeletons

• Now drop 0–3 arrows and 0–3 bones (up from 0–2 of each), incremented as usual with Looting.

Minecraft:Wither skeletons

• Now drop 0–3 coal and 0–3 bones (up from 0–1 coal with "0" having double chance and 0–2 bones), incremented as usual with Looting.

Minecraft:Zombie pigman

• Now drop 0–2 rotten flesh and 0–2 gold nuggets (up from 0–1 of each), incremented as usual with Looting.

Note: many changes above were reverted or modified in Minecraft:15w43b and Minecraft:15w43c, with the exception of the change to the drop chances from Minecraft:guardians, the change of elder guardians dropping dry rather than wet sponges, the addition of Minecraft:Looting affecting Minecraft:chicken and Minecraft:rabbit meat drops, and the change to how Looting affects Minecraft:spider eye drops. Also, as of Minecraft:15w34c horses again drop their items, but always 1 rather than 0–2.

World generation

Minecraft:Stronghold

• Increased number of strongholds to 128 per world, rather than 3.

Command format

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• Now displays in chat the gamemode the player switched to.

Gameplay

Minecraft:Brewing

• Minecraft:Blaze powder fuel points reduced from 30 to 20.

Minecraft:Enchantments

• Minecraft:Frost Walker no longer works on flowing water.

Minecraft:Trading

• Librarians charge double for books with "treasure" enchantments.

General

Minecraft:Debug screen

• Is now toggled when the Template:Key key is released, instead of when it is pressed.
• Now shows more information.
  • Template:Keys gives help.
    • Shows all Template:Key + key combinations.
  • Template:Keys now increases render distance by 1 (minimum 2, maximum 32).
  • Template:Keys now decreases render distance by 1 (minimum 2, maximum 32).
  • Shows if the pie chart and FPS chart are shown on screen.
  • Shows text in chat when you reload chunks, sounds, etc.
  • Does not open the F3 screen when you use a specific key combination like Template:Keys, Template:Keys, etc.
  • Removed Template:Keys, which previously reloaded sounds.
    • Template:Keys now reloads all resource pack content, including sounds.

Minecraft:Bonus Chest

• Wood found in bonus chests can now be of any type, rather than just acacia or oak.
  • Acacia and dark oak wood have a slightly higher chance of appearing.
• Planks found in bonus chests can now be of any type, rather than just oak.

Minecraft:Sounds

• Added 150+ new sound events.<ref>Template:Tweet</ref>

Trivia

• 15w43a was previously removed from the Minecraft:launcher for some time, but was added back in September 2018.Template:Citation needed