Java Edition guides/Pretty Scary Update

• Nether Star (1)
• 50XP (when killed by a player or tamed wolf)

• Three-headed flying player-created boss mob shooting projectiles at any mob (that isn't undead) and players.
• After spawning, it flashes blue, builds up health, grows slightly and is invincible for a few seconds - then it explodes and starts attacking players and mobs.
• Each head can fire projectiles, so-called wither skulls, at different targets.
  • Shoots two kinds of projectiles - a blue one from the little heads, targeting mobs and a dark one from the big head targeting players.
  • When hit by projectiles, players get the Wither II effect, which acts like a slower Poison effect that can kill and turns affected players' health bars' hearts black.
• Constantly regenerates health.
• Gains 'wither armor' when taken down to half health, making it immune to arrows.
• Darkens the sky when spawned in the Overworld.

• Coal (0–1)
• Bone (0–2)
• 5XP, plus 1–3XP per equipment piece (when killed by a player or tamed wolf)

Rare drops

• Wither Skeleton Skull

Spawned equipment

• Stone Sword

• Give players Wither effect when hitting them.
• Rarely, depending on difficulty, spawn with the ability to pick up armor, head wear, items, blocks, weapons and tools.
  • Items that are picked up have a 100% chance of dropping after dying.
• More advanced gear is more likely to spawn with mobs when playing on harder difficulties and rarely drops when the mob is killed by players.

• Rotten Flesh (100% chance)
• Iron Ingot (2.5% chance)
• Carrot (2.5% chance)
• Potato (2.5% chance)
• 5XP, plus 1–3XP per equipment piece (when killed by a player or tamed wolf)

• Have a 5% chance of spawning instead of a normal zombie.
• Have a chance of spawning when a villager is killed by a zombie (0% chance in easy, 50% chance in normal, 100% chance in hard).
• Can be cured into a villager using a golden apple and a splash potion of Weakness.
• Have the same bodies as normal zombies, only the head is different.

• Rotten Flesh (100% chance)
• Iron Ingot (2.5% chance)
• Carrot (2.5% chance)
• Potato (2.5% chance)
• 12XP, plus 1–3XP per equipment piece (when killed by a player or tamed wolf)

• Swamp
• Witch hut

• Glass Bottle (12.5% chance)
• Glowstone Dust (12.5% chance)
• Gunpowder (12.5% chance)
• Redstone (12.5% chance)
• Spider Eye (12.5% chance)
• Sugar (12.5% chance)
• Stick (25% chance)
• 5XP (when killed by a player or tamed wolf)

They make 1–3 drops of 0–2 items each, for a maximum of 6 items total.

• Spawn in groups of two in the Overworld at a light level of 3 or less on opaque blocks below layer 63.
  • Between October 20 and November 3, they only require a light level of 6 or less to spawn.
  • On Superflat worlds, bats spawn below the top non-air layer, ignoring the usual layer-63 limitation.

• Hang on the ceiling when idle, starts flying when players come near.
• Sleep during the day.
• Don't trigger pressure plates or tripwire.

• Now jump down to players as long as they can survive the fall.
• Depending on difficulty, they are willing to take more damage.

• Now attack creepers, slimes and magma cubes
• Can become aggressive towards players depending on whether the player is liked or disliked by the villagers of a village

• Improved villagers to make them more self-aware.
• The inhabitants of a village can now like and dislike specific players.
  • Trading makes the villagers like the player.
  • Hurting villagers or their iron golems makes the villagers dislike a player.
    • When players are highly disliked, iron golems of that village can become aggressive towards those players.
• After a villager dies to natural causes (mobs excluded) while a player is within 16 blocks or if a mob kills a villager, no baby villagers are produced in the next few minutes.
• Changed and added some trades to counteract emerald farming and improve gameplay.
• Show particle effects indicating a change in player reputation.

• Can now accelerate to up to 5 m/s.
• Now drop their saddle when killed.

• Start exploding when they hit the ground, with explosions being more imminent with higher falls.
• Can now have custom explosion radius and fuse timer using edited mob spawners and NBT data.

• Now rarely spawn with armor of all kinds, sometimes enchanted.
• Now rarely, depending on difficulty, spawn with the ability to pick up armor, headwear, items, blocks, weapons, and tools.
• All equipped gear is functional - swords and tools do more damage on attacks, armor protects the mob.
• Rare tool drops are now damaged.
• More advanced gear is more likely to spawn with mobs when playing on harder difficulties and drops rarely when the mob is killed by players.
• When wearing helmets, they don't burn up - instead, all damage is applied to the helmet.
• Using modified mob spawners they can have a custom drop rate of items and hold and wear all kinds of items and blocks.
• Now have a chance, depending on difficulty, to infect villagers after killing them - the villager then gets replaced with a zombie villager on death.
• Infected baby villagers turn into baby zombie villagers.
• Right-clicking a zombie villager under the influence of a Weakness potion with a golden apple inverts their potion effect, make them wiggle slightly, and eventually turn back into a villager.
• Rarely spawn holding iron swords or shovels.
• When holding something in their hands, their arms move upwards when attacking.
• Added baby zombie, which is only spawnable using mods or third-party tools.
• Now rarely drop carrots and potatoes when killed by players.
• Have a 25% chance of spawning with a pumpkin on their head during Halloween.

• Now rarely spawn with armor of all kinds, sometimes enchanted.
• Now rarely, depending on difficulty, spawn with the ability to pick up armor, headwear, items, blocks, weapons, and tools.
• All equipped gear is functional - swords and tools do more damage on attacks, armor protects the mob.
• Rare tool drops are now damaged.
• More advanced gear is more likely to spawn with mobs when playing on harder difficulties and rarely drops when the mob is killed by players.
• When wearing helmets, they don't burn up - instead all damage is applied to the helmet.
• Using modified mob spawners they can have a custom drop rate of items and hold and wear all kinds of items and blocks.
• Rarely spawn with enchanted bows which can be dropped when killed by players.
• Have a 25% chance of spawning with a pumpkin on their head during Halloween.

• Now rarely, depending on difficulty, spawn with the ability to pick up armor, headwear, items, blocks, weapons, and tools.
• All equipped gear is functional - swords and tools do more damage on attacks, armor protects the mob.
• Rare tool drops are now damaged.
• More advanced gear is more likely to spawn with mobs when playing on harder difficulties and rarely drops when the mob is killed by players.
• Using modified mob spawners they can have a custom drop rate of items and hold and wear all kinds of items and blocks.
• Rarely carry enchanted golden swords.
• Dropped golden swords now sometimes are damaged.
• Added baby zombie pigman, which is only spawnable using mods or third-party tools.

• Runs editable commands when triggered by redstone signal.
• Intended for adventure maps.
• Can only be edited by operators in Creative mode, as long as enable-command-block in server.properties is enabled.

• Any
  • It always takes exactly 4.5 seconds to break, regardless of tool used.

• Continuously glows and gives a selected status effect to players within a set amount of blocks while beaming a beacon of light directly upwards.
• Activated by building a solid pyramid of iron/gold/emerald/diamond blocks underneath (can be used interchangeably) and selecting an effect.
  • The cheapest configuration requires 9 blocks (one layer), while the best configuration requires 164 blocks (four layers).
• Unlockable effects, with increasing amounts of required layers of blocks.
• When all 4 layers of blocks underneath are built correctly, a second status effect can be chosen.

• Used for repairing and combining enchanted items as well as for renaming any block or item at the cost of experience levels.
  • Tools can also be repaired using one piece of their material.
  • Enchantments that are the same are upgraded by one level as long as they are both the same level and the higher level exists.
    • Conflicting enchantments are removed and only the first one is kept.
• Becomes damaged from using and dropping it.
  • Damage persists in the inventory and splits up into 3 categories: anvil, slightly damaged anvil & very damaged anvil.

• Lets players plant all kinds of saplings, mushrooms, flowers, cacti, dead shrubs and ferns.
  • Right-click it with something to plant it, hit it to get both back.

• Available in cobblestone and mossy cobblestone variants.
• Behave like fences - connect to each other, to other blocks and to fence gates & have a 1.5 blocks high collision box.
• Have a different, higher shape in corners and when blocks are placed on them.

• Wither skeletons have a 2.5% chance of dropping a wither skeleton skull when killed by a player or tamed wolf.
  • All other heads are only obtainable from the creative inventory.

• Any
  • If a player head has a custom skin, the skin is preserved when broken.

• Can be put on the ground in 16 orientations and hung on walls.
• Can be worn.

• Unlike stone buttons, can be activated by arrows.
• When pressed, stays activated longer than stone buttons.

• Can be used as a building block.
• Added in 1.4.6.

• When the computer's clock is set to a date between December 24 and 26, chests and ender chests^[verify] become retextured to look like presents.
• Added in 1.4.6.

• Placement now depends on the surface it is placed on, rather than the direction of the player.
  • Placed on the side of a block, the log is horizontal.
  • Placed on the top or bottom of a block, the log is vertical.

• Added tags to change a few key spawning rules.
• Spawning range can now be changed.
• Maximum amount of spawned entities within spawning range can now be changed.
• Horizontal spawning radius can now be changed.
• Spawned mobs can wear and carry any items and blocks as well as have a custom drop rate of held items.
• Added a tag for mobs to decide whether they can despawn.
• Added a tag for mobs to decide whether they are invincible.

• Can now be locked by powering their sides with another repeater.
  • When locked, they show a little bedrock barrier in place of the delay indicator torch and won't change their output signal.

• Can now be placed on the top half of blocks.
• Placement works similar to that of slabs and stairs.

• Now stays active for 0.2 seconds longer.
• New crafting recipe – only 1 stone block required.

• Potatoes can be obtained by farming, as drops (from zombies and zombie villagers), or from chest loot.^[verify]
• Poisonous potatoes rarely drop when farming potatoes.

Name	Ingredients	Smelting recipe
Baked Potato	Potato + Any fuel

• Potatoes can be planted on hydrated soil and drop 1-4 potatoes when fully grown.
  • Can be grown instantly using bone meal.
• Poisonous potatoes have a 60% chance to poison the player when eaten.
• Potatoes restore 1 () hunger and 0.6 saturation.
• Poisonous potatoes restore 2 () hunger and 1.2 saturation.
• Baked potatoes restore 6 () hunger and 6 saturation.

• Carrots can be planted on hydrated soil and drop 2-4 carrots when fully grown.
  • Can be grown instantly using bone meal.
• Carrots restore 4 () hunger and 3.6 saturation.
• Golden carrots restore 6 () hunger and 14.4 saturation.

• Used to control pigs.
  • When held, it dictates the direction pigs players are riding head in.
• Nearby pigs flock towards players holding it.
• Pigs start slow but end up going about 5 blocks per second.
• Slowly loses durability when riding pigs.
• The pigs 'eat' the carrot eventually, leaving the player a fishing rod, and require another carrot to continue riding.
• Can be used to give the pig a short speed boost.
  • This takes up a chunk of the durability.

• Used to craft the new beacon.
• Glows like an enchanted item.
• When dropped, it cannot be destroyed by explosions and take more than twice as long to despawn than other items.
  • However, it can still be destroyed by fire, lava, and cacti.

• Plays the song "Wait" by C418.
• Added in 1.4.4.

• Used to apply enchantments to items using an anvil.
• Added in 1.4.6.

• Projectiles which can be launched into the air and explode.
• Added in 1.4.6.

• Used to determine the color and shape of firework explosions.
• Added in 1.4.6.

• Are now crafted as an empty map and become a real map by right-clicking.
• Start out at their closest zoom level and can be extended by adding more paper.
• Players see other players moving around on the same map.
• Craft an existing map with an empty map to receive an extra copy of the map.
• Removed text overlay.
• Are labeled 'Map #0' and so on.
• Now align to a grid and can be stacked to 64.
• When outside a map's range, the player is displayed as a small circle at the edge.

• Item Frame (and any item in it)

• All items and blocks can be framed.
• Clocks, compasses and maps function.
  • Maps show only one marker, the frame itself.
  • Mounted maps are marked on copies of the map.

• Added a new painting depicting the creation of the wither.
• This is the only painting made by Jeb.

• Items can now be dragged and dropped.
  • Long pressing halves the stack before dragging.

• Items now show their name when switching in the hotbar.
  • Can be disabled by changing heldItemTooltips to false in options.txt.
• Dropping items while holding ⎈ Control now drops the whole stack.

• Fire Protection now extinguishes fire more quickly.
• Blast Protection now reduces explosion recoil.
• Protection is not as protective as it used to be in order to make specific enchantments more worthwhile.