Java Edition 16w04a

Minecraft 16w04a

Edition	Java Edition
Release date	January 28, 2016
Type	Snapshot
Snapshot for	1.9
Downloads	Client (.json) Server (.exe)
Protocol version	97
Data version	158
Resource pack format	2
Minimum Java version	Java SE 6
◄◄  1.8.9 1.9 1.9.1 ►► ◄  16w03a 16w04a 16w05a ►

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16w04a is the fifty-first snapshot for Java Edition 1.9, released on January 28, 2016.

Additions

Command format

General

• Running "Searge" as the command in a command block (without a preceding "/", also case insensitive) now sets #itzlipofutzli to the previous output.

Gameplay

Enchanting

• Added a sound for taking damage from thorns.

Weather

• Rain sounds are now more ambient/less loud and sound more realistic.

Changes

Blocks

Lily pads

• Bounding box changed again, now ³⁄₃₂ block tall and inset ¹⁄₁₆ from all sides (since 15w49a, was ¹⁵⁄₂₅₆ block tall and only three of the four edges were inset).

Non-mob entities

Boats

• Now move forward and backwards using the forward and backwards key, and steer left and right using the left and right keys respectively.
  • The boat stays in one place when pressing the left and right keys at the same time, but the paddles are moving.
• Now faster and stay at a consistent speed, unlike previous snapshots.
• Now sink when underwater, or within flowing water of any depth.
• Crafting recipe no longer requires wooden shovel.
• Riding a boat no longer subjects water-sensitive mobs to being damaged by water, and no longer protects sunlight-sensitive mobs from being damaged by sunlight.
• The player now is dismounted onto land if possible.
• Now break lily pads, instead of passing right through them.
• Now no longer pick up mobs larger than the boat

Minecarts

• Players no longer board minecarts when used while crouching.

Fixes

31 issues fixed

From released versions before 1.9

• MC-47636 – Boats appear to be sunken in water.
• MC-54486 – Glass panes and iron bars don't connect to solid, graphically transparent blocks (slime block, end portal frame, and spawner).
• MC-88427 – Endermen & blazes get 'wet' and take damage in boats.
• MC-90052 – Dismounting from a boat drops the player in the water.
• MC-90272 – Zombies/skeletons in boats do not burn from sunlight.

From the 1.9 development versions

• MC-84632 – A chorus flower placed at or growing to Y=255 turns to chorus plant.
• MC-89766 – Items on top of lily pads dance and jump from pad to pad
• MC-89948 – Shulkers spin endlessly when riding in boats.
• MC-89963 – Horse hitbox is larger than boat hitbox.
• MC-89978 – Small mobs drown in boats.
• MC-89985 – Squids ride in the boat when riding over them.
• MC-89987 – An off-hand item is still shown when moving in a boat.
• MC-90011 – Boats point the direction opposite from the direction a player places it.
• MC-90085 – Boats do not break lily pads.
• MC-90124 – Reopening a world when riding an entity/boat dismounts the player for some seconds.
• MC-90175 – The game crashes when boats are summoned as passengers of a living entity.
• MC-90307 – Boats don't lose any speed if directly above air.
• MC-90352 – Placing boats on slime blocks and mounting it propels player & boat up hundreds of blocks.
• MC-90909 – Boat auto-corrects position and overcompensates the angle when making short turns.
• MC-91008 – When changing hand in boats, the item being swapped is still visually in the other hand.
• MC-91446 – Pressure Plate keeps activated if a player disconnect while pressed the same.
• MC-91524 – Entities disappear from boats (are removed, not invisible).
• MC-91857 – Passengers might be broken (the game removes and adds the riding entity from the ridden entity every five seconds).
• MC-92171 – Flicker when standing on boat/falling through boat.
• MC-92346 – The world does not render for passengers of boats or riders of horses.
• MC-92439 – Player facing is awkward when entering a boat from the front.
• MC-92536 – Mobs do not properly fit in the passenger seat of a boat.
• MC-92555 – Boat "lid" rendering entities partially invisible.
• MC-93855 – Skeleton shoot backwards when are on boats.
• MC-95598 – Giving invalid blockstate items by /give only creates error for anvil.
• MC-95599 – Invalid damage property error message is not red.

Video

Video made by slicedlime:

Trivia

• Unlike most of the first-of-the-week snapshots, this was released on a Thursday instead of Wednesday, similar to the snapshots before 14w26a.
• 16w04a was previously removed from the launcher for some time, but was added back in September 2018.