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Java Edition 18w08b

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18w08b is the twenty-second snapshot for Java Edition 1.13, released on February 22, 2018[1], which added three types of fish mobs and fish buckets, a crafting recipe for dried kelp blocks, and changed the player's underwater visibility.

Additions

Items

Fish buckets

Spawn eggs

Mobs

General

Changes

World generation

  • Warm and lukewarm oceans now have sand floors.
  • Warm deep ocean biomes no longer generate.

Gameplay

  • Changed natural water visibility.
    • The longer a player stays underwater, the better they are able to see. (Maximum underwater visibility is given when a player stays underwater for 1 minute)
    • The Water Breathing status effect and Respiration enchantment no longer grant enhanced vision underwater.

Fixes

12 issues fixed

From released versions before 1.13

  • MC-80096 – Insufficient handling of Damage tag.
  • MC-112974 – Hostile mob doesn't teleport correctly when overworld/nether is already loaded.
  • MC-120524 – Signs controled by command blocks with scoreboards will make other block entities in the same chunk disappear after respawning.
  • MC-120622 – Item loss with shift + click to fill up with picked up items.
  • MC-124964 – Clicking into the armor slots or the first inventory slot cancels crafting recipe preview.

From the 1.13 development versions

  • MC-124007 – Multiplayer recipe book not working on server.
  • MC-124896 – Testing for a score of x or a minimum of x doesn't work in execute if/unless score.
  • MC-124909 – Taking an item out of the output slot of the furnace will give the player the recipe for the item in the input slot.
  • MC-124963 – Clicking into the first 7 inventory slots cancels smelting recipe preview.
  • MC-125352 – Dried kelp block can't be crafted.
  • MC-125961 – Furnace experience reward depends on item in cooking slot, rather than output slot.

From the previous development version

  • MC-126049 – Underwater lighting effect glitch.

Videos

Video made by slicedlime:
  • A school of cod swimming in the ocean.
    A school of cod swimming in the ocean.

References

  1. ↑ "Minecraft Snapshot 18w08a" – Minecraft.net, February 21, 2018.

Sources