Java Edition 14w27a

14w27a is the thirty-second snapshot released for Java Edition 1.8, released on July 2, 2014,^[1] which adds rabbits and rabbit-related items as well as raw and cooked mutton.

Raw mutton

• Restores 2 ().
• Drops from sheep.
• Can be cooked to make cooked mutton.

Cooked mutton

• Restores 6 ().

Raw rabbit

• Restores 3 ().
• Can be cooked to make cooked rabbit.
• Drops from rabbits.

Cooked rabbit

• Restores 5 ().

Potion of Leaping

• Applies the Jump Boost effect.
• Brewed with a rabbit's foot and an awkward potion.
• The potion and bubbles are bright green colored.
  • Prior to this version, the particles were lavender.

Rabbit's foot

• Used to brew potions of Leaping.
• Drops from rabbits.

Rabbit hide

• Can be put in a 2×2 arrangement to receive 1 leather.
• Drops from rabbits.

Rabbit stew

• Restores 10 ().
• Recipe: 1 cooked rabbit, 1 mushroom, 1 carrot, 1 baked potato, and 1 bowl in a shaped recipe.

Rabbit spawn egg

• Spawns rabbits.
• Brown colored with brown spots.
• Has a random chance of spawning 3 rabbits.

Rabbits

• Have 8 skins including black, white, brown, gold, black & white, salt & pepper, Toast, and the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog.
  • Naming a rabbit spawn egg "Toast", or using a name tag with that name on a rabbit, results in a special skin as a memorial to user xyzen420's girlfriend's lost rabbit 'Toast'.^[2]
  • The Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog:
    • ¹⁄₁₀₀₀ chance of spawning; it is hostile and deals 5HP on Easy difficulty, 8HP on Normal and 12HP × 6 on Hard.
    • A reference to the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail.^[3]
    • It is perfectly white except for its mouth, which has a blood red outline.
    • It can be directly spawned in with the command /summon Rabbit ~ ~ ~ {RabbitType:99}.
• Can be tamed/bred using carrots, golden carrots or dandelions.
  • Cannot be bred unless tamed.
• Are scared of the player and run away from it when untamed, similarly to ocelots.

NBT format

• New {CommandStats:} tag for command blocks and signs.
  • Allows a command block or sign to increase a certain score in the scoreboard when it runs successfully.
    • The command increases the score based on the number of items/blocks/entities/successes.
    • For example, a command block with this tag running a command which affects items (e.g. /give) causes it to update the score based on the number of items given.
  • Usage: {CommandStats:{AffectedItemsName:"playername", AffectedItemsObjective:"objective", AffectedBlocksName:"playername", AffectedBlocksObjective:"objective", AffectedEntitiesName:"playername", AffectedEntitiesObjective:"objective", SuccessCountName:"playername", SuccessCountObjective:"objective"}}.

Cakes

• Now have 7 slices instead of 6.

Debug mode world type

• Tweaked world creation.
  • Other world options are not available.
  • Only Spectator mode can be enabled.
• Now includes all block states rather than all data values.
  • This includes all possible states of redstone wire, fire, tripwire, stairs, etc.
• Arrangement of blocks is very different and a lot smaller, every block state only generates once.

Nether fortresses

• They are now affected by the "generated structures" option.

Particles

• Changed the particle effect when landing on a block, looks a lot more scattered.

Effects

• Changed the effect color of Jump Boost from
   #786297 to
   #22FF4C.

Block models

• Replaced block state names with the actual block state data, separated by commas.

Debug screen

• Now shows variant states after the item (e.g. minecraft:cauldron[level=1]).

12 issues fixed

From released versions before 1.8

• MC-15202 – Player can be pushed around by mobs while on horseback.
• MC-16387 – Nether fortresses are ignoring "Generate Structure" setting at world creation.
• MC-26987 – Horse tries to breed with another horse that is not yet in Love mode.
• MC-29558 – Double plants cannot be broken by placing a different block on the block it occupies.
• MC-29803 – Statistics doesn't resize/buttons missing after resize.
• MC-30002 – Falling/landing particles/particles applied to the player centered on the block rather than the player.
• MC-36489 – Mooshrooms lose their name (from name tag) when sheared.
• MC-37416 – when the disc is put in jukebox the name does not appear.

From the 1.8 development versions

• MC-58935 – Breaking dirt & coarse dirt has podzol particles.
• MC-59146 – Dirt in achievement background has podzol texture.
• MC-59250 – Enderman picking up dirt turns into podzol.
• MC-59402 – Fences and iron bars show "false"/redstone shows "up" in all cardinal directions regardless if other blocks connected or not.

• 14w27a was previously removed from the launcher for some time, but was added back in September 2018.