Java Edition 18w32a

18w32a is the fourth snapshot for Java Edition 1.13.1, released on August 8, 2018,^[1] which adds dead coral and some other features, changes some existing features, optimizes performance, and fixes many bugs.

Dead coral

• Dead variants of corals.
• When the live coral is placed on land it'll now turn dead.
• Can be placed on top of blocks.

Statistics

• New statistics:^[2]
  • "Damage Dealt (Absorbed)" – damage_dealt_absorbed
  • "Damage Dealt (Resisted)" – damage_dealt_resisted
  • "Damage Blocked By Shield" – damage_blocked_by_shield
  • "Damage Absorbed" – damage_absorbed
  • "Damage Resisted" – damage_resisted
  • "Shulker Box Cleaned" – clean_shulker_box

Coral

• Can now be placed in air.
  • Unless adjacent to water, they turn into dead coral after a short moment.

Purpur stairs and slabs

• Can now be crafted using purpur pillars.

Bone meal

• When used in water of warm ocean biomes, it now has a chance to grow coral fans.

• Performance has been optimized.

31 issues fixed

From released versions before 1.13

• MC-1489 – Dismounting a horse with a fence on the player's right leaves the player on the wrong side of the fence.
• MC-4488 – Mobs don't drop cooked meat if last damage is from fire, lava or fire charge.
• MC-73361 – Exiting a minecart / boat can put the player outside the border.
• MC-76649 – Thrown item in hand and as entity
• MC-81237 – stat.damageTaken fails to increment when player has absorption.
• MC-88230 – When feeding a tamed horse or llama with a golden apple/carrot or hay bale, the cursor moves to the right.
• MC-112533 – Dispenser can equip shield for armor stand without arms.
• MC-114074 – Some non-full cube blocks don't cull the faces of the same block next to them
• MC-114246 – Item in offhand of armor stand with arms cannot be taken back.
• MC-119607 – Llamas, unlike horses, can be kept feeding hay bales even if in love mode.
• MC-130724 – stat.damageDealt does not record damage to absorption health.

From 1.13

• MC-132789 – Unexpected piston behavior when chaining repeaters
• MC-132806 – You cannot grant/revoke specific advancement criteria because of a colon in its name.
• MC-132870 – Weird lag with large amounts of entities in 1.13 compared to 1.12.2
• MC-133158 – Underwater waterlogged blocks still produce water dripping particles.
• MC-133842 – Crash when getting kicked while in Inventory
• MC-134392 – Spawers will spawn dolphins inside of solid blocks.
• MC-134402 – Statistic for cleaning shulker boxes is missing.
• MC-135079 – Purpur stairs and slabs cannot be crafted using purpur pillars.
• MC-135126 – Bone meal on underwater grass blocks doesn't spawn sea grass.
• MC-135468 – Mooshroom disappears when sheared
• MC-135791 – Mobs glitching out

From the 1.13.1 development versions

• MC-134817 – Collision with shulkers is extremely glitched.
• MC-135048 – Misplaced sandstone block on desert temple.
• MC-135457 – Strange placing and removing blocks after respawning, especially redstone system and sands

From the previous development version

• MC-135381 – Conduits can not be placed outside of water.
• MC-135385 – Entities fall through the entire world when they are inside blocks.
• MC-135387 – Chunks are not forced/unforced until a player loads it.
• MC-135390 – Pistons react inconsistently to certain 4 gametick pulses.
• MC-135423 – Can't stand on top of boat anymore without glitching.
• MC-135431 – Scoreboard division is inconsistent with modulo.

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