Java Edition 14w28a

14w28a is the thirty-fourth snapshot for Java Edition 1.8, released on July 9, 2014.^[1][2]

/stats <entity|block> ...

• Usage:
  • /stats entity <selector> <mode>.
  • /stats block [x] [y] [z] <mode>.
  • Alternative and more featureful way of interacting with CommandStats.
    • Updates a scoreboard objective based on the number of entities/blocks which has been affecting the command, it updates the objective for the entity that ran the command, fake players can be used when run in a command block.
    • After the mode there are currently 4 possible stats that can be updated: SuccessCount, AffectedBlocks, AffectedEntities and AffectedItems.
    • For example: /stats entity @a set AffectedBlocks @a Test updates a scoreboard objective named 'Test' for all players whenever a command is performed relative to them, the objective updates by the number of blocks affected by the command since the stat was set to AffectedBlocks.

Cakes

• Produce a signal for comparators to detect.
  • Each slice is equivalent to 2 redstone signal strength, for a maximum of 14.

Sloped Powered Rails, Activator Rails and Detector Rails

• No longer decrease their hitbox height to be 2 pixels high when activated.

Enchantments & effects

• Now accept named IDs as well as numerical IDs.

Block states

• Chunks now use block states instead of metadata.

Performance & rendering

• Improved performance with rendering.
• Many optimizations to both the server (including singleplayer) and the client.

Servers

• Can now customize network compression in server.properties.

Video settings

• Added "Alternative Block" option to disable (or enable) weighted alternative block models.
  • When turned off, the least complex highest priority model is always used for each block.

Rabbit

• The chance of a killer bunny spawning was reduced from 1/1000 to 1/2500.

Distance effects

• When breaking a container such as a chest or furnace, the item entities are now dropped at the correct position.

43 issues fixed

From released versions before 1.8

• MC-1532 – TNT flashing graphic when lit looks cut up and faded./Z-fighting.
• MC-2990 – Heads, beds, and doors can't be placed where there is thin snow.
• MC-8858 – Rain goes through upside-down stairs.
• MC-13633 – Horse's jump bar appears even when the horse isn't saddled yet.
• MC-16608 – Text color in hopper and brewing stand GUI changes.
• MC-18477 – Iron golems can see and attack invisible hostile mobs.
• MC-23940 – If a player sleeps in a bed near a transparent block, said player can get in the block.
• MC-36718 – New fragmented sentences in translation.
• MC-43984 – Normal players can use player selectors.
• MC-53166 – Horses do not convert their owner to UUID.
• MC-55490 – Spawning cows on mooshrooms.

From the 1.8 development versions

• MC-45046 – Player skin doesn't render at Y:254.3 or more.
• MC-45067 – Player skin (model) disappears when under -1.8 height level (void).
• MC-45512 – Entities disappear in the void.
• MC-46674 – Tools can't break packed ice faster.
• MC-49407 – /effect and /enchant still uses IDs.
• MC-53022 – Mobs not being targeted by team selector.
• MC-54845 – Rain particles not rendering.
• MC-55515 – sign.edit with §(color) changes the sign color.
• MC-56041 – Wheat sprouts revert to seed at low light level blocks at night.
• MC-56251 – "/weather rain" executed when weather is clear sets the weather to thunder.
• MC-56835 – Pressure plate /fill disappearing glitch.
• MC-56884 – Negative color crosshair when using resource pack.
• MC-58067 – Smooth & chiseled sandstone & chiseled quartz has incorrect bottom texture.
• MC-59491 – Performance on Linux server tick-rate.
• MC-59848 – Grass blocks held by endermen have wrong texture.
• MC-59897 – Logs not generating in the right position in structures.
• MC-59996 – Falling sand entities are invisible or show a solid colored (red/green/black) texture.
• MC-60035 – Double slabs become seamless.
• MC-60039 – Server logging broken.
• MC-60077 – End portals (end_portal_frame) has eye in it.

From the previous development version

• MC-60093 – Blacksmith roof slabs oriented wrong.
• MC-60126 – Pistons retract on placement as if they were powered.
• MC-60150 – Fence gates placed open.
• MC-60151 – Redstone repeaters are inverted.
• MC-60152 – Powered rail, detector rail, and activator rail are flipped when on an east/west slope.
• MC-60153 – Iron door and wood door.
• MC-60156 – Command blocks don't trigger when dispensed onto a redstone block.
• MC-60193 – Doors generating weirdly in strongholds.
• MC-60208 – Pumpkin/melon seeds fully grown when planted.
• MC-60349 – TNT spawns ignited on desert temples.
• MC-60483 – When placing fire on side of TNT it only renders on the side.
• MC-60523 – Tripwire hook block placed sound bug.

• 14w28a was previously removed from the launcher for some time, but was added back in September 2018.