Java Edition 14w33a

14w33a is the forty-sixth snapshot for Java Edition 1.8, which was released on August 13, 2014.^[1]

NBT format

• SelectedItem
  • Contains the item data of the item currently held in the player's hand.
  • Added to compact the process of testing if a player is holding a specific item.
    • Previous method required nine commands in command blocks; now requires only one command.

Wooden doors

• Original wooden door was renamed to "Oak Door".
• 
  The models of jungle and acacia doors no longer have inner faces in the holes in their models.

Stone slabs

• No longer craftable from granite, diorite or andesite, or their polished variants.

Wooden doors

• 
  The item textures of the new doors have been changed to match the dimensions of oak wood doors.

Iron golems

• Now attack creepers.
• Now gets attacked by skeletons, zombies, spiders, cave spiders, slimes and magma cubes.

Snow golems

• Now attack creepers.

General

• Tab-completing coordinate arguments now fill in the coordinates of the block currently being looked at.

Splashes

• "This is good for realms." changed to "This is good for Realms."

40 issues fixed

From released versions before 1.8

• MC-2559 – Squid taking damage while in water.
• MC-29408 – Tab support is not possible with player names when using the /playsound command.
• MC-31344 – /summon mob and /summon monster bug.
• MC-51856 – Torch placed on half block when placed against half-slab.
• MC-66347 – Beds make incorrect sounds.

From the 1.8 development versions

• MC-57714 – Placing torches on other torches.
• MC-58740 – Torches can be placed on transparent blocks, technical blocks, and slabs.
• MC-61245 – Upside down stairs have hitbox of regular stairs/regular stairs have wrong hitbox.
• MC-63319 – Heads dropped from charged creeper explosion ignore gamerules.
• MC-64626 – Unsmooth teleportation.
• MC-65162 – paintings placed with summon do not follow correct Y coordinate.
• MC-65522 – Tooltip for regular sandstone slab is incorrect.
• MC-65523 – If a colored glass is placed onto the beacon just as the beacon's beam color updates, the beam will be white, instead of the color of the glass.
• MC-65546 – Beacon lighting bug.
• MC-65790 – If player places a block on two-block-tall plants, it will destroy them
• MC-65909 – Skulls too small in item frames.
• MC-65994 – Polygons (faces) in block models not using designated textures.
• MC-66227 – Helmets can't be taken off of armor stands while flying above them in Creative mode.
• MC-66350 – Selecting "Hardcore" prior creating a debug world yields a "hardcore debug world".
• MC-66413 – Baby bunny's name tags.
• MC-66503 – Floating diamond sword.
• MC-66543 – Fence gates lock closed, and will not open from pressure plate activation.
• MC-66674 – Summoning a FallingSand entity with {Block:"leaves"} crashes the client.
• MC-66742 – Splash text capitalized wrongly.
• MC-66791 – Iron golems do not target creepers.
• MC-66862 – Falling sand summoned as redstone wire crashes the game.

From the previous development version

• MC-66163 – Using pick block on a colored door returns a regular door.
• MC-66166 – Breaking colored doors turns them into regular doors.
• MC-66169 – Old oak doors still called 'Wooden Door' instead of 'Oak Door'.
• MC-66504 – The lower hinge part of left-hinged open jungle doors show texture of the door leaf.
• MC-66532 – /entitydata tab autocomplete keeps entering player's name.
• MC-66685 – Hopper: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Cannot get property ben{name=half, clazz=class auz, values=[upper, lower]} as it does not exist in bdw{block=minec.
• MC-66687 – Hopper: java.lang.NullPointerException: Rendering entity in world.
• MC-66722 – Hopper: java.lang.ClassCastException: ayv cannot be cast to azh.
• MC-66816 – Crash: /give @p skull 1 3 {SkullOwner:<playername>} [SMP].
• MC-66819 – Hopper: java.util.ConcurrentModificationException.
• MC-66822 – Hopper: java.lang.NullPointerException: Batching chunks.
• MC-66824 – Hopper: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Cannot get property ben{name=shape, clazz=class ate, values=[north_south, east_west, ascending_east, ascending_wes.
• MC-66835 – /execute coordinates don't work.
• MC-66915 – Only smooth stone should make stone slabs.

• 14w33a was temporarily removed from the launcher, but was added back in September 2018.