Java Edition 19w41a

19w41a is the ninth snapshot for Java Edition 1.15, released on October 9, 2019.^[1] It adds a new menu panorama, two new blocks, the ability to toggle sprinting and sneaking, and a new command for spectating.

Honey blocks

• Crafted from 4 honey bottles.
  • The bottles are not consumed and remain in the crafting grid.
• Walking on them is slower, and jump height is reduced.
  • Effect also works through non-full blocks like carpet, trapdoors and slabs.
• If an entity is on a honey block that is pushed by a piston, the entity is moved with the honey block.
• Entities touching the side of a honey block slide down slowly.
• Landing on a honey block reduces fall damage.
  • Fall damage is cut to about ¹⁄₅ of normal: equal to ceiling(fall distance - 3) / 5), or in other words, ¹⁄₅ of 1HP for every block fallen after the first 3, rounded up.
• When a honey block is pushed or pulled by a piston, it attempts to move all adjacent blocks in the same direction.
  • Work the same way as slime blocks.
• Mobs usually avoid walking on them.
• Does not conduct redstone signals.

Honeycomb blocks

• Purely decorative.
• Crafted using 4 honeycombs.

/spectate

• Syntax is /spectate [<target>] [<player>].
  • target – the target entity to spectate.
    • If omitted, makes the player stop spectating.
  • player – the player that should spectate the target.
    • Must be in Spectator mode.
    • If omitted, @s (the executing player) is used.

clickEvent

• Added copy_to_clipboard action.

Controls

• Sneak and sprint inputs can now be switched between "Hold" and "Toggle" mode in the accessibility options.
  • Allows players to stay sneaked while opening different GUIs.
  • Also affects flying down in Creative mode. When toggled, the player keeps going down until toggled again.

Sprites Status effects

• Instant Damage
  • Added an effect sprite.
• Instant Health
  • Added an effect sprite.
• Saturation
  • Added an effect sprite.

Beehives

• Name changed from "Bee hive" to "Beehive".
  • ID also changed from bee_hive to beehive.

Stripped wood

• Can now be crafted from stripped logs.

Cocoa pods

• Cocoa pods can now generate on any jungle log block on a small tree; previously they would only generate two blocks under the leaves.

Spawn egg

• The bee spawn egg colors have been changed from to .

General

• Mobs are better at avoiding walking through lava now.

Ender dragons

• Removed a black dot on the transparent parts of wing texture.
• Removed texture for part of wing bottom in the exploding ender dragon.

Iron golems

• Now starts cracking upon losing health.
  • A sound plays on every cracking stage.
    • There are 4 stages, from uncracked to fully cracked, before the golem dies.
• Can be healed using iron ingots.
  • A sound plays each time the golem is repaired.
• One iron ingot restores 25HP × 12.5 health.
  • It takes 4 iron ingots to repair an iron golem from 1 HP to full health.

Zombie villagers

• Zombie villagers now preserve the PersistenceRequired state when converted from villagers.

Huge mushrooms

• Huge brown mushrooms no longer require an additional block of air above them to grow.

/effect

• The /effect clear command now defaults to @s if no target argument is given.

Title screen

• Changed panorama to an image which includes new 1.15 features such as bees and bee nests.
  • Because this was an asset update, the menu panorama in all previous 1.15 snapshots was also updated.
• Descriptions under buttons on the "Create World" screen are now narrated.

Tags

• Removed dirt_like block tag.

42 issues fixed

From released versions before 1.15

• MC-20144 – Saturation and Instant Health/Damage effects do not have an icon.
• MC-35920 – Some translucent parts of entities make translucent blocks, block entities and some entities invisible (depending on loading order).
• MC-80110 – Villager item count graphical bug.
• MC-86846 – Changing a powered command block from impulse or chain mode to repeat mode does not trigger it until repowering.
• MC-109108 – Mobs getting stuck on vines.
• MC-120480 – Pets teleport onto blocks which have a solid "bottom", not "top" face.
• MC-121942 – Item count renders behind crafting preview items.
• MC-124140 – Anchoring does not reset after use and is implicitly applied in nonsensical cases by default.
• MC-125104 – Cancelling delete world screen and options sub-menus using Esc opens main menu.
• MC-129806 – Team prefixes and suffixes do not show for villagers without a custom name.
• MC-131552 – Cannot craft stripped wood from stripped log.
• MC-145021 – Tamed animals are not able to teleport to the player when they are on the snow layer blocks.
• MC-146213 – Loading bar on splash screen is able to extend beyond its black outline.
• MC-156005 – Tamed wolves no longer teleport to the player when they're in water.
• MC-161733 – Vindicator's "idle5" sound is unused.
• MC-162952 – Stacked numbers of an item in inventory are rendered behind the potion effect status effect in inventory.

From the 1.15 development versions

• MC-159423 – Bees cannot get to flowers on edges.
• MC-159469 – There is a space in "Beehive" when there shouldn't be.
• MC-160102 – IllegalArgumentException when being attacked by a weak iron golem.
• MC-160957 – Bees do not leave the nest or hive when it is destroyed by the player.
• MC-161297 – Shulker box's inside textures are invisible.
• MC-161391 – Strays are brighter.
• MC-161495 – Horse texture is partially translucent when viewing it from certain angles.
• MC-161692 – Hopper creating a furnace block entity by transferring an item crashes the game.
• MC-161840 – Entities are shaded far darker than usual.
• MC-161847 – Armor slots in the inventory are displayed black in some circumstances.
• MC-161855 – Icons used for customizing superflat worlds are not displayed if no world has been opened before.
• MC-161856 – Items held by armorstands are only visible in spectator mode.
• MC-161889 – Mobs in spawners are in full lighting even when no light source is around.
• MC-161891 – Blocks with special rendering are not rendered behind transparent block items.
• MC-162042 – Items with partially transparent textures will render incorrectly in item frames.
• MC-162087 – Parrots can imitate pandas.
• MC-162118 – Iron Golems hanging in mid air.
• MC-162378 – Screen turns black during the totem of undying activation animation.
• MC-162432 – Some blocks like chests and beds are no longer shaded in the world.

From the previous development version

• MC-162538 – Creative menu corners have opacity issues; outlines have no transparency.
• MC-162550 – Offhand slot is glitched/black in some circumstances.
• MC-162586 – Log repeatedly prints the message "Ticking entity", and finally crashes the game.
• MC-162616 – java.lang.NullPointerException after attacking a parrot.
• MC-162671 – Mooshroom cow's mushroom texture is too bright.
• MC-162936 – java.lang.IllegalArgumentException when using an enchanted totem of undying.

Private issues

• MC-160865 – Waking up from a bed can cause the server to crash in specific circumstances.^[1]