Java Edition 19w08a

19w08a is the twenty-second snapshot for Java Edition 1.14, released on February 20, 2019,^[1] which adds brown mooshrooms and leather horse armor.

Leather Horse Armor

• Crafted from 7 leather.
• Can be dyed 12,326,391 different colors, similar to leather armor.

Brown Mooshroom

• Spawn when a regular mooshroom is struck by lightning.
  • Can turn back into a red mooshroom when again struck by lightning.
• Can be fed flowers to then be "milked" for suspicious stew.
  • Suspicious stew is only given the first time the mooshroom is milked after it has eaten a flower.

Blocks of Emerald, Diamond Ores, Diorite, Grass Blocks, Snowy Grass Blocks, Snowy Podzol, Snowy Mycelium, and Oak Doors

• Textures changed from .

Campfires

• Can now be extinguished using splash water bottles.

Smooth Quartz

• Now use the bottom texture of normal quartz blocks, rather than the top one which changes the texture from .

Stained Glass and Stained Glass Panes

• Updated textures from to match normal glass and glass panes.

Gold Armor, Cakes, Emeralds, Phantom Membranes, and Snowballs

• Textures changed from .

Horse Armor

• Textures changed from .
• Now remains visible when the horse wearing it has the Invisibility effect.
• No longer flashes red when the horse takes damage.
• Now apply the Thorns, Feather Falling, Depth Strider, Respiration, Protection, Fire Protection, Projectile Protection and Blast Protection enchantments to horses that are wearing it.

General

• Mobs can now sleep in beds using commands.^{[verify for Java Edition]}

Dolphins

• Can no longer have armor equipped onto them via a dispenser.

Foxes

• Changed bounding box and eye height of foxes (prevents them from drowning when swimming).
• Can no longer have armor equipped onto them via a dispenser.
• Fox bark sounds are now named screeches.

Iron Golems, Skeleton Horses, and Zombie Horses

• Textures changed from .

Mooshrooms

• Added 3 new sounds, for converting, eating and milking.
• Mooshrooms now have a Type data field.

Pandas

• Can no longer have armor equipped onto them via a dispenser.
• 5% of them are babies when naturally spawned.

Slimes and Magma Cubes

• Hitbox side length for sizes 0, 1, 3 (small, medium, big) changed from 0.51, 1.02, 2.04 to 0.5202, 1.0404, 2.0808, respectively.

Villages

• Now naturally generate with one iron golem spawned.
• Updates to animal and villager spawn structures.

Status effects

• Each individual status effect icon texture is now found in a separate texture file.
• Bad Omen, Luck and Bad Luck have had their icons updated.
• Improved the Invisibility status effect to allow it to correctly work in many cases where it didn't.
  • Guardians no longer see invisible players.
  • Zombies and illagers no longer see invisible villagers and wandering traders.

• 'text' can once again be used for string quotes in commands in addition to the double quote "text".^[2]
  • Inside single-quoted strings, double quotes are handled as a normal character and requires no escaping (and vice-versa), making it easier to input text components in NBT.

• The loading screen added in the previous snapshot now displays when changing the game's language and changing or reloading resource packs.
  • Doing these things no longer freeze the client.

33 issues fixed

From released versions before 1.14

• MC-10901 – Various mobs can see invisible players.
• MC-60960 – Unable to sleep through to morning due to dead player.
• MC-64581 – Game freezes a couple of seconds when changing mipmap level parameter.
• MC-68563 – Barrier particles display random textures when switching resource packs.
• MC-73724 – Iron golems no longer actively seek out hostile mobs.
• MC-79320 – Invisible villagers and wandering traders can be seen by zombies.
• MC-106430 – "Glowing" shader not reloaded on resource pack reload.
• MC-113788 – Obsidian platform in End is not repaired when dead player teleports.
• MC-116969 – Mobs look at invisible mobs/players.
• MC-129855 – Turtle egg block model has stretched texture.
• MC-130564 – Server resource packs can brick the client for periods of time.
• MC-131368 – Snow golems attack invisible mobs.
• MC-134625 – Tesselating liquid in world - NullPointerException.
• MC-135247 – Phantom attack damage attribute cannot be modified using the /data command.
• MC-137009 – Shulker Detection Range Incorrect for invisible targets.

From the 1.14 development versions

• MC-137722 – Smooth quartz blocks do not use the proper "smooth" texture.
• MC-137841 – Villagers don't run away from ravagers.
• MC-138022 – Wither roses can be placed on unusual blocks like hoppers.
• MC-138425 – Stained glass and stained glass pane still uses the old glass texture lines.
• MC-138558 – Cats and ocelots run away from players in creative mode.
• MC-139739 – Bad Omen's icon is bugged in programmer art.
• MC-140379 – New village church stained window is one block lower.
• MC-140676 – Sweet berry bushes do not burn.
• MC-141318 – Server crashes when an arrow, which has a non-vanilla sound event in its SoundEvent tag, hit a block or mob.
• MC-141911 – Fire charges cannot ignite campfires.
• MC-141987 – Splash water bottle does not extinguish campfire.
• MC-142850 – Baby pandas never spawn naturally.
• MC-143983 – Mojang logo can be changed using texture pack.

From the previous development version

• MC-144080 – Clicking anywhere in "Video Settings..." plays the click sound.
• MC-144083 – Cannot drag slider in options.
• MC-144092 – Fox offspring don't trust the player.
• MC-144142 – Foxes take and eat things while sleeping.
• MC-144161 – Warning on game startup: "File minecraft:sounds/mob/fox/bark5.ogg does not exist, cannot add it to event minecraft:entity.fox.bark".

• This snapshot, being the twenty-second for 1.14, was released in the same week of the year as the twenty-second snapshot of the previous major update, 18w08b.