Java Edition 15w47a

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15w47a

15w47a.png: Infobox image for Minecraft version '15w47a'

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15w47a is the forty-first snapshot for Java Edition 1.9, released on November 18, 2015.^[1]

Changes

Blocks

Now is able to keep an item in its inventory slot.
- No longer drops the item from the slot if the beacon is destroyed or the interface is exited before the 'accept' button is pressed.
Now interacts with hoppers.

Daylight sensor

No longer emits a signal at night when sufficiently shaded.

Redstone comparator

Side inputs now take power from redstone blocks.

Redstone block

Now updates adjacent blocks' power state correctly.
Never transmits power through blocks.

Trapped chest

Now changes its texture when the computer time is set to the 24th to 26th of December to suit Christmas.

Mobs

Now drops experience.

Non-mob entities

Armor stands

Wobbles slightly when being hit.

World generation

Jungle bushes

Leaves no longer replace blocks other than air or leaves when generating the tree.

Command format

Beacon block entity
- PaymentItem Item held in the beacon's slot.

Sound events

Added entity.armorstand.place, entity.armorstand.fall, entity.armorstand.hit, and entity.armorstand.break.
- These are used for the armor stand.

General

Overlay layers (hat, jacket, sleeves, and pants) correctly render semitransparent pixels, instead of only fully opaque and fully transparent pixels.

Hitbox Margin

Removed the default hitbox margin for entities.

Fixes

26 issues fixed

From released versions before 1.9

MC-1310 – Dispensed boats get stuck on the dispenser block.
MC-1777 – Placing a painting "behind" a button makes button unclickable.
MC-2844 – Doors have no placement sound.
MC-5927 – Daylight Sensor outputting signal when encased.
MC-9089 – Suicide from potions gives player a point in playerKillCount.
MC-12959 – TNT mesh rotated wrongly placed vs primed.
MC-28235 – Confirming beacon with items in hand makes items disappear, then drop on ground.
MC-30157 – Lighting glitch with ender crystals in the overworld.
MC-33384 – Noteblocks play the wrong walk, place and break sounds.
MC-46772 – Skin hat layer translucency only works in the end dimension.
MC-59777 – Endermen lose ability to dodge melee attacks after being hit.
MC-65699 – Armor stand Duplication.
MC-67017 – The small cube in slime blocks isn't displayed in inventory and when dropped.
MC-72739 – Pillar quartz has no block state defining axis.
MC-91314 – No sound when placing beds.

From the 1.8 development versions

MC-65240 – Banner pole texture misaligned.

From the 1.9 development versions

MC-84625 – Mobs don't navigate correctly in contact with chorus plants.
MC-87864 – Shulker monster spawner rotation animation is weird.
MC-89882 – Shulkers don't drop experience.
MC-92443 – Typo in soundevent name "enttiy.zombie.infect".
MC-92866 – Purpur slab variant displays "DEFAULT" in capital letters.

From the previous development version

MC-92556 – Mobs bouncing and spinning on grass.
MC-92559 – Splash potions are broken/all thrown potions are water potions.
MC-92562 – Redstone blocks emit power through blocks.
MC-92588 – Crash: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Cannot get property ... as it does not exist in aqu{block=minecraft:unpowered_comparator, properties=[facing, mode, powered]}.
MC-92595 – Redstone blocks don't update adjacent blocks' power state correctly.

Videos

Video made by slicedlime:

Trivia

15w47a was previously removed from the launcher for some time, but was added back in September 2018.
This snapshot was released exactly 4 years after the full release of Java Edition.
- It has since remained the most recent version of Java Edition to be released on the exact anniversary of the game's full release.

References

↑ "Minecraft snapshot 15w47a" (Archive) by Searge – Mojang.com, Nov 18, 2015.

Sources

Java Edition 15w47a — Minecraft Wiki, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0, revision 3338102.