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Java Edition 18w09a

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18w09a is the twenty-third snapshot for Java Edition 1.13, released on March 1, 2018,[1] which added coral blocks and underwater ruins.

Additions

Blocks

Coral blocks

  • Come in 5 colors: blue, pink, purple, red, yellow.
  • Turn into dead coral when placed out of the water.
    • Dead coral cannot be revived.
  • Only obtainable in the Creative inventory.

World generation

Underwater ruins

  • Come in many different shapes and sizes.
  • Cold ruins can be found in cold and frozen ocean biomes regardless of depth.
  • Warm ruins can be found in warm, lukewarm, and deep lukewarm ocean biomes.
  • Can generate alone or as part of a big ruined village.
    • Can also generate out of the water, slightly underground or slightly above sea level.

Changes

Mobs

Phantoms

Command format

Tags

  • Added the vanilla block and item tag minecraft:coral.
  • The minecraft:water_hacked tag now includes chests.

General

Optimizations

Fixes

6 issues fixed

From released versions before 1.13

  • MC-118324 – One of magenta dye recipes is unlocked via getting Ink Sac
  • MC-118416 – Recipe for bowl not unlocked until bowl or mushrooms are obtained

From the 1.13 development versions

  • MC-125141 – Witch huts generated by new world generator don't spawn witches
  • MC-125451 – Crash when logging into multiplayer without logging into singleplayer first

From the previous development version

  • MC-126111 – Furnaces don't award recipes or experience when output is taken after a reload
  • MC-126150 – Furnaces don't account for multiple recipes with the same output when giving experience and smelting recipes

Videos

Video made by slicedlime:

Trivia

  • Unlike most of the first-of-the-week snapshots, this was released on a Thursday instead of Wednesday, similar to the snapshots before 14w26a.
  • 18w09a was released exactly 6 years after 1.2.1 and 1.2.2.

References

  1. ↑ "Minecraft Snapshot 18w09a" – Minecraft.net, March 1, 2018.

Sources