Minecraft:Java Edition guides/Bountiful Update

This guide is a simplified overview of all the changes in the Minecraft:Bountiful Update (Template:JE 1.8.x releases), which assumes at least some familiarity with Minecraft:The Update that Changed the World (Java Edition 1.7.x releases).

Mobs

New

Minecraft:Endermite	File:Endermite Revision 2.png	Chance to spawn when a player or enderman teleports using an Minecraft:ender pearl.	Template:Xp (when killed by a Minecraft:player or tamed Minecraft:wolf)	Usually despawns within 2 minutes after they spawn.
Minecraft:Guardian	File:Guardian Revision 1.png	Spawns in Minecraft:ocean monuments.	Template:Drop Template:Drop Template:Drop Template:Drop (if killed by fire) Template:Xp (when killed by a Minecraft:player or tamed Minecraft:wolf)	Attacks Minecraft:squid and players with a beam. When on land it flops around but remains hostile. The player also gets damaged with a thorns-like effect if it damages the guardian while their spikes are deployed (as if it's being prickled).
Minecraft:Elder guardian	File:Elder Guardian Revision 1.png	A boss-like variant of guardians, with greater health, greater size and different appearance.	Template:Drop Template:Drop Template:Drop Template:Drop Template:Drop (if killed by fire) Template:Xp (when killed by a Minecraft:player or tamed Minecraft:wolf)	There are 3 elders in each ocean monument. When on land it flops around but remains hostile. A flashing elder guardian appears on screen when close to the elder guardian, and Minecraft:Mining Fatigue III is inflicted on the player for 5 minutes.
Minecraft:Rabbit	Template:Animate	Spawns in the same biomes passive mobs spawn in.	Template:Drop Template:Drop Template:Drop (if killed by fire) Template:Drop Template:Xp (when killed by a Minecraft:player or tamed Minecraft:wolf)	Rabbits have the same AI as the most other passive mobs, and jump around randomly. Makes little squeaky sounds when hurt or killed.

Changed

All Minecraft:mobs		Improved AI. Now show a glow of a slightly different color when hurt.
Minecraft:Villagers	Template:Animate	Now have a system for distinguishing professions (colored clothes) and career Farmer (brown robe): farmer, fisherman, shepherd and fletcher. Librarian (white robe): librarian. Priest (purple robe): cleric. Blacksmith (black apron): armorer, weapon smith and tool smith. Butcher (white apron): butcher, leather worker. When struck by lightning, they turn into Minecraft:witches. Have a head slot where helmets and other items can be applied. Only Minecraft: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 it becomes willing again. When a baby villager is born, both parents lose their willingness. Villagers become willing to breed by consuming food: 3 bread or 12 potatoes or 12 carrots. Finding out a villager's willingness in Survival is achieved by counting the amount of xp given when trading: Normal trading yields 3–6 experience points. Changes to the farmer (profession) villager AI: Harvest, collect and replant grown potato, carrot & wheat crops. Minecraft:Craft wheat into bread. Share food with other villagers.
Minecraft:Wither skeletons	File:Wither Skeleton JE1 BE1.png	Hitbox has been changed from 2.5 to 3 blocks.
Minecraft:Zombie pigmen	File:Zombified Piglin JE3 BE2.png	Adult zombie pigmen forgive after a short time (and lose the aggression speed boost), but continue to attack until the player escapes their aggression distance. Baby zombie pigmen are now always hostile to players who have ever attacked them. The only way to obtain gold nuggets and gold ingots from zombie pigmen, is now for the player to kill them, whether it's through combat, potions, or player-activated mechanisms such as manually lit TNT. If killed without player intervention, zombie pigmen now only drop rotten flesh. The weapon holding position of zombie pigmen has now been changed.
Minecraft:Endermen	File:Enderman JE2.png	Walk slightly faster. Naturally aggressive towards endermites. No longer hostile to non-pearl spawned endermites.
Minecraft:Blazes	File:Blaze JE1 BE1.png	Walk slightly faster.
Minecraft:Silverfish	File:Silverfish.gif	Stop occasionally before moving again (similarly to most mobs).
Minecraft:Sheep	Template:Animate	Drop Minecraft:mutton when killed.
Minecraft:Giants	File:Zombie JE2 BE1.png	Can wear armor that is properly rendered. Removed AI.
Mob	File:Steve JE3 BE1.png	Removed AI.
Minecraft:Iron golems	File:Iron Golem JE1 BE1.png	No longer attack the player while in Creative. Attack and are attacked by zombies, skeletons, creepers, spiders, cave spiders, slimes, magma cubes, and blazes without provocation.
Minecraft:Snow golems	File:Snow Golem JE1 BE1.png	Snow golems below layer 64 no longer leave a trail of snow.
Minecraft:Wolves	Template:Animate	Tamed and untamed wolves attack skeletons and wither skeletons without provocation, similar to how untamed wolves attack sheep in the wild.
Minecraft:Skeletons & Minecraft:wither skeletons	Template:Animate	Run away from wolves instead of fighting back.
Minecraft:Spiders & Minecraft:cave spiders	Template:Animate	Can no longer draw line of sight through opaque blocks.

Blocks

New

Minecraft:Diorite	File:Diorite JE1 BE1.png		Pickaxe	Decoration block.
Minecraft:Andesite	File:Andesite JE1 BE1.png		Pickaxe	Decoration block.
Minecraft:Granite	File:Granite JE1 BE1.png		Pickaxe	Decoration block.
Minecraft:Polished diorite	File:Polished Diorite JE1 BE1.png		Pickaxe.	Decoration block.
Minecraft:Polished andesite	File:Polished Andesite JE1 BE1.png		Pickaxe	Decoration block.
Minecraft:Polished granite	File:Polished Granite JE1 BE1.png		Pickaxe	Decoration block.
Minecraft:Prismarine	File:Prismarine JE1 BE1.gif	Prismarine generate in ocean monuments.	Pickaxe	The cracks in prismarine appear to slowly change color between brown, blue, gray and purple.
Minecraft:Prismarine bricks	File:Prismarine Bricks JE1 BE1.png	Prismarine bricks generate in ocean monuments.	Pickaxe	Decoration block.
Minecraft:Dark prismarine	File:Dark Prismarine JE1 BE1.png	Dark prismarine generate in ocean monuments.	Pickaxe	Decoration block.
Minecraft:Sea lantern	File:Sea Lantern JE1.gif		Pickaxe	Decoration block. Used as a light source.
Minecraft:Wet sponge	File:Wet Sponge JE1 BE1.png	Dropped by elder guardians. Generates in ocean monuments.	Any	Can be dried in a furnace.
Minecraft:Red sandstone	File:Red Sandstone JE1 BE1.png File:Cut Red Sandstone JE1 BE1.png File:Chiseled Red Sandstone JE1 BE1.png		Pickaxe	Decorative building blocks.
Red sandstone Minecraft:stairs and Minecraft:slabs	File:Red Sandstone Stairs (N) JE1 BE1.png File:Red Sandstone Slab JE1 BE1.png		Pickaxe	Decorative building blocks.
Minecraft:Iron trapdoor	File:Iron Trapdoor JE1 BE1.png		Pickaxe	Can be opened by powering the block with a power source.
Minecraft:Slime block	File:Slime Block JE1.png		Any	Slime blocks push and pull each other, along with adjacent blocks, when at least one of them is moved by a sticky piston. Allows for moveable contraptions.
Minecraft:Banner	Template:Animate		Axe	Crafted like signs, but with one color of wool instead of planks. Stacks up to 16.
Minecraft:Fence for all wood types.	Template:Animate		Axe	Acts like a barrier for mobs and players.
Minecraft:Fence gate for all wood types.	Template:Animate		Axe	Acts like a barrier for mobs and players that can be opened and closed.
Minecraft:Door for all wood types.	Template:Animate		Axe	Can be opened and closed.
Minecraft:Coarse dirt	File:Coarse Dirt JE1 BE1.png		Shovel	Now craftable and naturally generates in Minecraft:giant tree taiga variants, Minecraft:mesa forest plateau, Minecraft:mutated mesa plateau, Minecraft:shattered savanna and Minecraft:shattered savanna plateau biomes. Was formerly called "grassless dirt", and had the same appearance as normal dirt, was not craftable, dropped normal dirt when broken, and was not available in the creative inventory.
Minecraft:Barrier	File:Barrier JE1 BE1.png	Template:Cmd	Cannot be broken in Survival.	Acts like bedrock, but is completely transparent. Can be used to create impenetrable boundaries.

Changed

Minecraft:Chiseled stone bricks	File:Chiseled Stone Bricks JE1 BE1.png	Now craftable.
Minecraft:Cracked stone bricks	File:Cracked Stone Bricks JE1 BE1.png	Can now be obtained by smelting Minecraft:stone bricks.
Minecraft:Mossy cobblestone	File:Mossy Cobblestone JE2 BE1.png	Now craftable. Changed texture.
Minecraft:Mossy stone bricks	File:Mossy Stone Bricks JE1 BE1.png	Now craftable.
Minecraft:Cobblestone stairs	File:Cobblestone Stairs JE4 BE5.png	Renamed from "Stone Stairs" to "Cobblestone Stairs"
Minecraft:Furnace	File:Furnace JE2 BE1.png	When a furnace runs out of fuel, the smelting progress rewinds at 2× speed. Empty furnaces only accept fuel and empty buckets in the fuel slot, unless a command forces it to.
Minecraft:Beacon	File:Beacon JE4 BE1.png	Beacon light beams change color when going through stained glass and stained glass panes. Making it feed into multiple stained glass blocks/panes combines the colors. Beam now goes through all blocks that don't completely block light: ice, water and leaves.
Minecraft:Hay bale	File:Hay Bale (UD) JE1 BE1.png	Rebalanced how they heal and accelerate the growth of horses. Now do it nine times as fast.
Minecraft:Packed ice	File:Packed Ice JE1 BE2.png	Mined faster with a pickaxe.
Minecraft:Mushroom blocks	Template:Animate	When harvested with Silk Touch enchantment, they drop blocks with corresponding mushroom texture (red or brown) on all sides, rather than the one with spores.
Minecraft:Sponge	File:Sponge JE2 BE2.png	Reintroduced sponge to Survival mode, with new behavior and texture. Sponge turns into wet sponge when it soaks up water. Water particles appear around the sponge when this happens. Sponge destroys water blocks from 5 blocks away in a kind of sphere. Sponge soaks up water, only when some water is touching it.
Minecraft:Door	Template:Animate	Stack to 64. The crafting recipe for doors gives three doors instead of one. Door item textures were given more detail, to be consistent with the item textures of the new doors. "Wooden Doors" have been renamed to "Oak Doors".
Minecraft:Dispenser	File:Dispenser JE2 BE1.png	Can place pumpkins or wither skeleton skulls to spawn golems and withers respectively. Only places them if the body of the golem or wither is already built, in a valid configuration. Can place command blocks with pre-configured commands.
Minecraft:Button	File:Oak Button (S) JE1 BE1.png	Can be placed on the ceiling and on the ground.
Minecraft:Redstone comparator	File:Redstone Comparator (S) JE2 BE1.png	Can now detect what way an Minecraft:item frame is rotated.
Minecraft:Redstone repeater	File:Redstone Repeater JE4 BE1.png	No longer emit light.
Minecraft:Daylight sensor	Template:Animate	Can be inverted with a right click, which changes the color of the nine "sensors" to change to a blue hue. Reaches full strength at the opposite time than it would when set to normal. This can allow for a light that turns on at night rather than day, without the need of a NOT gate
Minecraft:Activator rail	Template:Animate	Powered activator rails shake Minecraft:minecarts, causing riders (players or mobs) to dismount.

Items

New

Minecraft:Prismarine crystals	File:Prismarine Crystals JE1 BE1.png	Drop from guardians.	Used to craft sea lanterns.
Minecraft:Prismarine shard	File:Prismarine Shard JE1 BE1.png	Drops from guardians.	Used to craft all three kinds of prismarine blocks and sea lanterns.
Minecraft:Raw mutton	File:Raw Mutton JE2 BE1.png	Drops from sheep.	Restores Template:Hunger and 1.2 saturation. Can be cooked into cooked mutton.
Minecraft:Cooked mutton	File:Cooked Mutton JE2 BE1.png		Restores Template:Hunger and 9.6 saturation.
Minecraft:Raw rabbit	File:Raw Rabbit JE2 BE1.png	Drops from rabbits.	Restores Template:Hunger and 1.8 saturation. Can be cooked into cooked rabbit.
Minecraft:Cooked rabbit	File:Cooked Rabbit JE2 BE1.png		Restores Template:Hunger and 6 saturation.
Minecraft:Rabbit stew	File:Rabbit Stew JE1 BE1.png		Restores Template:Hunger and 12 saturation.
Minecraft:Rabbit hide	File:Rabbit Hide JE2 BE1.png	Drops from rabbits.	Can be crafted in a 2×2 arrangement to produce leather.
Minecraft:Rabbit's foot	File:Rabbit's Foot JE2 BE1.png	Rarely drops from rabbits.	Brewed to make a potion of Leaping.
Minecraft:Spawn egg (endermite, guardian and rabbit)	Template:Animate	Can be obtained only via creative inventory.	Have the same function as other Minecraft:spawn eggs.

Potions

New

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Minecraft:Jump Boost

Non-mob entities

New

Minecraft:Armor stand

File:Armor Stand JE1.png

Itself

Can be used to decoratively display armor (including pumpkins, mob heads and player heads). Armor can be right-clicked to equip the armor stand. Armor can be equipped by dispensers aimed at any part of the stand.

Changed

Minecraft:Arrow	File:Arrow JE2 BE1.png	Behave differently underwater. They lose all velocity after a few blocks and slowly fall. Fire arrows are immediately extinguished.
Minecraft:Minecart with TNT	File:Minecart with TNT JE1 BE1.png	Can be ignited with a flame enchanted bow. Explosions no longer stack linearly.
Minecraft:Item frame	File:Item Frame JE1 BE1.png	Can be seen from further away. Items in item frames can now face eight different directions, instead of just four. Item frames can give off a signal detected by comparators, based on the direction the present item is facing. Improved position handling.
Minecraft:Painting	File:Painting JE1 BE1.png	Improved position handling.

Structures

New

Minecraft:Ocean monument

File:Ocean Monument JE1 BE1.png

Minecraft:Deep oceans

No

Minecraft:Elder guardian Minecraft:Guardian

Spawns guardians in perimeter, and therefore can be farmed Loot includes gold

Gameplay

New

Minecraft:Spectator mode

It can only be accessed and reversed via Template:Cmd, either using spectator, sp, or 3. It is the default Minecraft:gamemode on the debug Minecraft:world type. Like in Minecraft:Creative mode, only the Void and Template:Cmd can damage/kill a spectator. Their player model in the inventory is completely invisible.

Changed

Minecraft:Enchanting	Enchanting now costs from 1 to 3 pieces of Minecraft:lapis lazuli as well as Minecraft:XP. The XP cost is 1–3 levels – the same number as the lapis lazuli the player spend. The player still needs the same minimum total levels to unlock it. The actual enchantment calculations are the same. One and only one of the possible enchantments is displayed in the tooltip. The enchantments the player would get on a specific kind of Minecraft:tool don't change until the enchanting happens. This enchantment seed is stored per player. Leveling up takes longer. Level V enchantments can now appear on an item, without the use of an Minecraft:anvil. Looting now gives an extra 1% chance of getting rare loot per level.
Minecraft:Anvil repairing	Costs reduced to balance out with the new enchanting system. Renaming items costs only 1 level. Repairing cost now increases exponentially (1, 2, 4, 8...). Repairing costs can no longer be kept down by renaming items.
Minecraft:Trading	Villagers of specific professions (colored clothes), can have distinct careers. Existing villagers keep already unlocked trades. Villagers start out with 2–4 trades unlocked. Trading gives Minecraft:experience to the player. The disabled trade arrow has a descriptive tooltip. Villagers of the same career have the same trades, but they differ in price/item amount.
Minecraft:Health bar	Has a new animation for Minecraft:damage, that shows how many hearts the player just lost.
Minecraft:Adventure mode	Block mining and placement is impossible by default. Block hitboxes no longer appear in Adventure mode if interaction with the block is impossible. The CanDestroy tag can be used to determine which blocks can be allowed to be broken with what tool (see above for usage). The CanPlace tag determines which blocks can be placed on top what blocks (see above for usage).
Minecraft:Creative mode	Players can create a copy of a block-entity in their hotbar, including all NBT data pressing Template:Key+Template:Key, or command on Mac. Players can damage entities, even if they are flagged as invulnerable.
Minecraft:Sprinting	Sprinting while flying now affects movement speed.
Teleporting	Is now smoother and seamless. Conserves the player's velocity and rotation by default. Is much more accurate than a single block.
Item tooltips	Show the internal name for use in commands (Template:Key+Template:Key mode).
Particles	Can be summoned using the Template:Cmd command. Changed the particle effect when landing on a block. Before, the particles were arranged in a circumference. It looks a lot more scattered, but it's still radial.
Player list	Improved the health objective display on the player list. Falls back to textual display if space is scarce, with colors (green/yellow/red) to show different health levels. Additional health squashes the display together to fit. Groups together teams. Sorts players alphabetically by name. Player list shows the faces of the Minecraft:skin of players.

Enchantments

New

Minecraft:Enchantment	Max level	Applicable items	Notes
Minecraft:Depth Strider	III	Template:ItemSpriteTemplate:ItemSpriteTemplate:ItemSpriteTemplate:ItemSpriteTemplate:ItemSprite	Increases underwater movement speed.

World types

New

Customized world type	File:Customized Biome.png	Highly customizable terrain generation. There are 4 pages to customize the world. Page 1: customizes generation of structures, chance of lake generation, size of certain structures, biome type and size, and sea level. Page 2: customizes the ore distribution for dirt, gravel, granite, diorite, andesite, coal, iron, gold, redstone, diamond and lapis. Page 3 & 4: Expert customization of the terrain generation.	Customized on pages 1 and 2
Minecraft:Debug mode world type	File:Debug World Type 14w26b.png	Useful for resource pack makers. Hold Template:Control and cycle through "World Type" option to select it. Other world options are not available. Only Spectator mode can be enabled upon spawn, but it can be reverted through commands once inside. All possible blocks with all possible data values (not IDs), are generated throughout a single plane. Every block state generates only once. Blocks may not be placed or destroyed.	None