Java Edition 19w09a

19w09a is the twenty-fourth snapshot for Java Edition 1.14, released on February 27, 2019^[1], which adds new note block sounds.

Note blocks

• Five new note block sounds have been added: "iron xylophone", "cow bell", "didgeridoo", "bit", and "banjo".
  • The new sounds can be heard by using iron blocks, soul sand, pumpkins, emerald blocks, and hay bales respectively.
• A previously unused note block sound has now been fully implemented: "pling".
  • Can be played using glowstone.

Sounds

• Added two new sounds for wandering traders drinking Invisibility potions and milk.

Tags

• Added minecraft:arrows item tag.

Blocks of quartz

• Now uses the top texture on both the top and bottom face.

Crops

• The blocks that have to be lit up for growth and survivability of wheat, carrots, potatoes, and beetroots have been merged into a single one. Previously, the block above the crop dictated growth and the crop's block itself dictated survivability, both being merged now into the crop's block.

Pillagers

• Can now use tipped arrows and fireworks in their offhand when shooting their crossbow.

Foxes

• The effects of certain food items such as chorus fruits and spider eyes now apply to foxes when the fox consumes them.
• Now attack tropical fish and pufferfish.

Particles

• Sprites for particles can now be configured in resource packs.

33 issues fixed

From released versions before 1.14

• MC-106133 – Stray / wither skeleton / pillager with tipped arrow in offhand no longer shoots tipped arrows.
• MC-137353 – Game runs out of memory while building datafixers.

From the 1.14 development versions

• MC-137627 – Loom pattern selection turns blank when using banner patterns.
• MC-137977 – Pillagers with Multishot or Piercing crossbows don't have the enchanted effects.
• MC-138004 – Pillagers do not shoot fireworks from their offhand.
• MC-138084 – Light not passing through bamboo.
• MC-138121 – Nether region sometimes appears in the overworld when going through a portal.
• MC-138196 – Mobs don't burn when inside a wall / fence.
• MC-138208 – While inside a box of transparent blocks, the world unloads.
• MC-139295 – Pillagers that drop a loaded crossbow don't fire arrows when you try to use it.
• MC-139689 – South-facing banners are placed differently on pillager outpost.
• MC-140658 – Some snowy village buildings generate with incorrect blocks set from jigsaw blocks.
• MC-140750 – Undead mobs don't burn during the day in bamboo blocks.
• MC-141010 – 12 elder guardians spawn at monument.
• MC-141916 – Campfire smoke stays behind when replacing area using structure block.
• MC-141924 – Locking a map removes markers.
• MC-141958 – Creeper and skeleton banners can be created without patterns.
• MC-142332 – Campfire smoke remains after removing the block with /fill.
• MC-142703 – Joining world outside of spawn chunks whilst riding an entity results in desync.
• MC-143404 – NPE: Ticking entity with trader llamas, sheep, wolves, horses, cats, and chickens.
• MC-144078 – Foxes don't get effects from the food they eat.
• MC-144136 – Foxes don't attack tropical fish or pufferfish.
• MC-144182 – If foxes have no AI, are sleeping, and it's thundering, they will wake up.
• MC-144184 – Foxes with fire aspect swords don't make cooked chicken when killing a chicken.
• MC-144195 – Foxes attempt to sit while swimming.
• MC-144514 – Water buckets won't interact with double slabs.
• MC-144517 – Block of quartz' bottom texture is the same as smooth quartz.
• MC-144519 – Foxes are able to harvest berry bushes with /gamerule mobGriefing false.
• MC-144580 – Llamas spit at tamed wolves.
• MC-145023 – Game won't load when a specific resourcepack is equipped.

From the previous development version

• MC-144624 – Animals do not follow players holding food in creative mode.
• MC-144756 – New splash screen seems to be using massive amounts of RAM.
• MC-144784 – Entities are invisible when joining/teleporting to areas outside spawn chunks.