Java Edition 19w34a

19w34a is the first snapshot for Java Edition 1.15,^[1] released on August 22, 2019,^[2] which adds bees and bee-related items, such as bee hives, honey bottles, and honeycombs.

Bee nests

• Spawn naturally in flower forests, plains, and sunflower plains biomes.
• Can house bees.
• Fills up with honey.
  • The amount of honey in the bee nest increases as bees gather nectar and return to their nest.
  • The player can harvest honeycombs and honey bottles from the nest using shears and glass bottles respectively.
  • If the player breaks or harvests honey from the nest, the bees become hostile on the player.
    • Bees inside the nest don't turn hostile if it is broken with Silk Touch, but bees outside the nest do.
    • Bees don't turn hostile if there is a campfire underneath the nest when honeycombs or honey bottles are harvested.
• Is a block entity and cannot be pushed by pistons.

Bee hives

• Can be crafted using 6 planks and 3 honeycombs.
• Function the same as bee nests, but don't need Silk Touch to be dropped.

Honey bottles

• Restores 6 () and 9.6 saturation.
• Can be used to craft 3 sugar.
• Obtained by using a glass bottle on bee hives/nests with a honey_level of 5.

Honeycombs

• Obtained by using shears on bee hives/nests with a honey_level of 5.
• Can be used to craft bee hives.

Spawn eggs

• Bee spawn egg
  • Spawns bees.

Bees

• Have 10HP health.
• Live in groups near hives and nests.
  • If a bee does not have a home nest, it wanders until it finds one.
  • Can hide inside hives.
    • Maximum of 3 bees per nest.
• When attacked, all bees from the same hive try to attack the original attacker.
  • The same happens when their hive/nest is destroyed.
    • Placing a campfire under the nest makes the bees passive.
  • Have an [Int] Anger data tag, which defaults to zero.
    • When the bee is attacked, this tag is set to around 700 ticks.
  • When they attack, they give Poison to the target for 10 seconds and then they die 50–60 seconds after attacking.
  • When bees attack the player, their eyes turn red.
• Can be bred using any type of flower, including wither roses.
  • They follow any player holding a small flower.
    • If the player holds still, the bees land around them.
• Hover around flowers and enter a "pollinated" state after some time. When pollinated, pale white particles come off them. The bee also has its texture changed to include dots similar in color to the pollen particles.
  • Bees try to pollinate wither roses despite the fact that they are harmed by the Wither effect they give.
  • When they pollinate flowers, a small popping noise is heard.
  • Return to their nest after entering the "pollinated" state.
  • A pollinated bee can accelerate the growth of crops and sweet berry bushes it passes.
  • After enough bees enter a bee nest in the pollinated state, the bee nest becomes filled with honey.
• Being killed by a bee sting results in new death message: "<player> was stung to death".

Particles

• New particles: dripping_honey, falling_honey, falling_nectar, landing_honey.

Loot tables

• New function:
  • copy_state – Copies state properties from dropped block to [NBT Compound / JSON Object] BlockStateTag in dropped item.
    • Parameters:
      • [String] block – source of properties (block ID).
      • [NBT Compound / JSON Object] properties – list of property names. All must be present on block.

Languages

• Added Yiddish language.

Tags

• Added minecraft:bee_growables, minecraft:beehives, minecraft:crops, minecraft:flowers, and minecraft:tall_flowers block tags.
• Added minecraft:flowers and minecraft:tall_flowers item tags.

Textures

• Added textures for a wax block and crystallized honey item.
  • These are unobtainable in-game. See history of unused textures.

Crafting table

• When the GUI is opened, ⇧ Shift + clicking an item or a stack in the inventory now transfers it directly into the crafting grid.

Dispenser

• Can now harvest honeycombs when dispensing shears on bee nests and bee hives filled with honey.
  • The honeycomb items are dropped on the ground.
• Can now collect honey bottles when dispensing glass bottles on bee hives.
• Can now collect water bottles when dispensing glass bottles on water.

Redstone comparator

• Can now detect how much honey is inside bee hives and bee nests.
  • The output strength is equal to the amount of honey in the hive.

Game library updates

• Minecraft now requires OpenGL 2.0.

Rendering updates

• Partially implemented Blaze3D.

20 issues fixed

From released versions before 1.15

• MC-74762 – Under certain circumstances chunks can swap or reset.
• MC-102267 – Certain mobs do not take damage on magma blocks.
• MC-103313 – Hitbox of slime and magma cube is offset for some seconds.
• MC-115643 – Cannot hear punching blocks with 'Friendly Creatures' volume off.
• MC-133255 – Cartographers generate maps for existing Mansions and Monuments rather than unexplored ones.
• MC-142918 – The stonecutter does not allow custom recipe inputs to be shift-clicked in.
• MC-148562 – Obsidian towers in The End biome are not generated as intended.
• MC-149231 – Dragon egg culls the top of cactus.
• MC-150202 – Chunks sometimes are dislocated/copied to another location.
• MC-151354 – Cannot rearrange servers with shortcut.
• MC-152100 – When using a brewing stand, the player cannot put blaze powder into the slot using the shift key.
• MC-152172 – Cartography table plays the sound multiple times overlapping on shift-click.
• MC-152173 – Loom plays the sound multiple times overlapping on shift-click.
• MC-156276 – Cannot shift-click while riding a horse, within inventory.
• MC-156852 – Ghost blocks remain when insta-mining; reappearance of MC-5694.
• MC-156876 – In desert_small_house_7, one door is open.
• MC-156884 – Bows sometimes don't use the correct texture when being drawn in creative mode.
• MC-156952 – Village tree center has leaves that are persistent.
• MC-157136 – Villagers restocking is not properly tracked.
• MC-158988 – Minecraft will remove up to several hundred chunks per region if region file is not exact multiple of 4096 bytes.

• Unlike most of the first-of-the-week snapshots, this was released on a Thursday instead of Wednesday, similar to the snapshots before 14w26a.
• This snapshot came exactly a year after 1.13.1.