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Minecraft:Update 1.8.8

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Template:Distinguish Template:Stub Template:Infobox theme Update 1.8.8 is an update to all Minecraft:Legacy Console Editions except Minecraft:Nintendo Switch Edition. It adds features from Minecraft:The Update that Changed the World and the Minecraft:Bountiful Update.

Additions

Blocks

Items

Mobs

World generation

Minecraft:Structures

Minecraft:Biomes

Enchantments

Creative Inventory

Changes

Blocks

Minecraft:Activator rails

All Minecraft:acacia and Minecraft:dark oak related blocks

  • Are now obtainable in Survival mode.

Minecraft:Anvil

  • Repairing has been rebalanced.

Minecraft:Buttons

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

Minecraft:Cauldrons

  • Will put out burning entities if filled with water, taking away one water level each time.

Minecraft:Cracked stone bricks and Minecraft:sponges

  • Are now obtainable via smelting.

Minecraft:Dispensers

Minecraft:Furnace

  • When it runs out of fuel, the smelting progress will rewind at 2× speed.
  • Empty furnaces will only accept fuel and empty Minecraft:buckets in the fuel slot.

Minecraft:Huge mushrooms

  • When harvested with Silk Touch enchantment, now drop blocks with corresponding mushroom texture (red or brown) on all sides, rather than the one with spores.

Minecraft:Monster Spawners

Moss stone, Minecraft:mossy stone bricks, and Minecraft:chiseled stone bricks

  • Are now obtainable via crafting.

Minecraft:Redstone comparators

  • Can now detect the rotation of an item in an Minecraft:item frame and output an equivalent power signal.

Minecraft:Sponges

  • Are now obtainable in survival mode and now soak up contiguous water source blocks out to a Minecraft:taxicab distance of 5 when placed, thereupon turning into a new wet sponge.

Minecraft:Wooden fences

Items

Mobs

  • Most mobs can now swim.
  • Babies' growth can be accelerated by feeding them.

Minecraft:Cows

  • Updated sounds

Minecraft:Skeletons and rabbits

Minecraft:Creepers

  • Can now be ignited with flint and steel.
  • Zombies, skeletons, wither skeletons, and creepers drop their head when killed by a charged creeper. Charged creeper explosions do not yield more than one mob head, regardless of how many mobs were killed by it.

Minecraft:Iron golems, Minecraft:snow golems, and Minecraft:withers

  • Can be spawned by arranging the blocks, in equivalent rotations of the default on the horizontal plane.
    • This does not affect the orientation of the spawned mob.

Minecraft:Mooshrooms

  • Updated sounds.

Minecraft:Sheep

Minecraft:Shrubs

  • Can now drop Minecraft:wheat seeds.
  • Can no longer be placed in flower pots. Potted shrubs in old worlds are retained.

Minecraft:Snow golems

  • Can be spawned by arranging the blocks, in equivalent rotations of the default on the horizontal plane.
    • This does not affect the orientation of the spawned mob.

Minecraft:Spiders

  • No longer see players through solid blocks.

Tamed Minecraft:ocelots & tamed wolves

Minecraft:Villagers

  • Have additional professions and trades .
  • Will now harvest crops if they are farmers
  • Will only breed when willing
  • Will turn into Minecraft:witches when struck by lightning.

Minecraft:Witches

  • Can now drink and drop potions of Water Breathing.

Minecraft:Withers

  • Can be spawned by arranging the blocks, in equivalent rotations of the default on the horizontal plane.
    • This does not affect the orientation of the spawned mob.

Minecraft:Wither skeletons

  • No longer visibly catch fire when going into fire or lava.

Minecraft:Zombies

Minecraft:Zombie pigmen

  • Adult zombie pigmen will forgive after a short time (and lose the aggression speed boost), but will continue to attack until the player escapes their aggression distance.

Non-mob entities

Minecraft:Players

  • Now start with an empty map instead of an already drawn map.

Minecraft:Item frames

  • Can now rotate in 8 directions.
  • Are no longer broken with one click when punched if they have an item inside. Now only the item is taken out.

World generation

Gameplay

Minecraft:Fishing

Minecraft:Enchanting

General

Minecraft:Nether portals

  • New Nether portal building rules: any rectangular shape from 4×5 to 23×23.
  • If the portal in the Nether is big enough, Minecraft:ghasts can travel through.
  • Will now be activated by any fire block within the frame.

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