Java Edition 19w03a

19w03a is the fourteenth snapshot for Java Edition 1.14, released on January 16, 2019, which adds composters.^[1]

Composter

• Produces bone meal.
  • Using certain items on the composter has a chance to add 1 level of composting to the composter, up to 7 levels. After the composter reaches level 7, it turns into level 8, which is the harvestable stage, yielding 1 bone meal when used.
  • Some composted items are consumed without adding a level. The chance a level is added depends on the quality of the item: larger or crafted items have a higher chance of adding a layer when used (e.g. kelp has a low chance of about 10%, while pumpkin pie has a chance of 100%).
• Crafted with 3 planks and 4 fences.

Barrels, blast furnaces, grindstones, smokers, and sweet berry bushes

• Added sounds for the blocks or items.

Crops and nether wart

• Added placement sounds.

Campfires

• Changed model and texture.
• Now gives off light level 15.

Scaffolding

• Now scaffolding without blocks under it has a bottom that can be walked on.
• Now possible to place scaffolding to the side, similar to how can be stacked upwards.

Giants

• No longer use zombie AI nor NBT data.

26 issues fixed

From released versions before 1.14

• MC-1237 – Anvil GUI truncating long item names and showing garbage at the end.
• MC-65086 – Double clicking an item in creative mode survival inventory tab no longer stacks similar items.
• MC-79925 – null hitResult when no entity or block is in focus while looking through blocks without the ray trace intersecting the blocks themselves.

From the 1.14 development versions

• MC-138530 – Crash when clicking on 'Minecraft Realms' button.
• MC-138547 – Opening a 1.12.2 world in 18w44a or newer causes terrain to regenerate.
• MC-139018 – Scaffolding doesn't stack from the bottom under water.
• MC-139107 – The sides of the top of the scaffolding blocks above the air is not solid.
• MC-139975 – Hover/click events in books are vertically misaligned by about a third of a row of text.
• MC-140591 – Placing sweet berry bushes doesn't play sound/destroying sweet berry bushes plays stone break sound.
• MC-141036 – Game crashes when shift-clicking a newly named item out of an anvil.
• MC-141080 – Scaffolding does not replace vines when attempting to stack from the bottom.
• MC-141730 – /data remove-ing multiple elements from a list skips every other match in sub-sequence.
• MC-141814 – /data modify can create corrupt NBT lists (crashes).
• MC-141815 – Using /data modify to replace all list values with a different type wipes the list.

From the previous development version

• MC-141879 – Flame animation in GUI's is darkened.
• MC-141881 – Campfire breaking particles have a blue tint.
• MC-141882 – Wrong capitalization on "Take book' button.
• MC-141883 – Some shortcuts don't work in the "Survival Inventory" tab of the creative inventory.
• MC-141890 – Death by campfire gives the player the death message "discovered floor is lava".
• MC-141923 – Client Crash: java.lang.NullPointerException: Unexpected error.
• MC-141946 – Shulker boxes lose their name after being broken.
• MC-141951 – Campfire fire isn't fully lit like entity fire.
• MC-141991 – Top of lectern is a solid face.
• MC-142043 – Unlit campfire creates smoke particles in the rain.
• MC-142081 – Game crashes while reading lectern and adjusting window size (java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Listener already listening).
• MC-142197 – Written books with change_page event only update the book client side.

• This snapshot, being the fourteenth for 1.14, was released in the same week of the year as the fourteenth snapshot of the previous major update, 18w03a.