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Minecraft 19w45a

Edition	Java Edition
Release date	November 7, 2019
Type	Snapshot
Snapshot for	1.15
Downloads	Client (.json) Server
Obfuscation maps	Client Server
Protocol version	561
Data version	2214
Resource pack format	4
Data pack format	4
Minimum Java version	Java SE 8
◄◄  1.14.4 1.15 1.15.1 ►► ◄  19w44a 19w45a 19w45b ►

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19w45a is the twelfth snapshot for Java Edition 1.15, released on November 7, 2019.

Additions

General

Tags

• Added the arrows entity tag.

Changes

Blocks

Composters

• Now crafted with wooden slabs (like in Bedrock Edition), instead of fences and wooden planks.

End stone bricks

• Now have a hardness of 3.
• Now have a blast resistance of 9.

Mobs

Bees

• Now search up to 10 blocks away from itself in all directions to find a nest/hive to claim.

Parrots

• No longer imitate endermen.

World generation

Trees

• Birch trees generate in the dark forest biome once again.

Gameplay

Advancements

• The advancement "Take Aim" can now be unlocked by damaging an entity with a spectral arrow.

Recipe book

• The composter recipe now unlocks with wooden slabs instead of wooden fences.

Trading

• Librarians now sell one bookshelf for nine emeralds, instead of three bookshelves for six emeralds.

General

Textures

• Shield pattern textures now use alpha level for determining what gets the color, instead of the brightness (i.e., textures no longer store transparency as black).
• Changed the unused textures for the Java Edition 1.13 menu panorama to be 1×1 pixels.
• Removed textures for customized world type preset icons, except Isles.
• Grass and foliage tints no longer vary within a biome, with the exception of swamps.

Fixes

82 issues fixed

From released versions before 1.15

• MC-3591 – Cured zombie villagers do not drop picked up items.
• MC-24336 – Withers are harmed by the explosions of their wither skulls.
• MC-58177 – Night vision rendered darker and orange when nearing light sources with brightness on moody.
• MC-94013 – End stone bricks are less durable than end stone and destroyed by the ender dragon.
• MC-117635 – Rear legs of sitting tamed wolf are displayed hovering.
• MC-133877 – Extreme lag from decaying leaves.
• MC-136757 – End gateway magenta beam height varies based on the distance from the player.
• MC-147548 – Terrible performance with large forest fires.
• MC-149181 – Biome blend causes massive stuttering when loading chunks or when placing/breaking blocks.
• MC-149343 – Chunk block lag when a tall spruce tree is grown in that chunk.
• MC-152159 – Players can hit the dragon during its death animation.
• MC-152683 – Spectral arrow does not count for "Take Aim" achievement.
• MC-153334 – Cured villagers sell bookshelves for 1 emerald and buy books for 1 emerald, allowing players to easily get an unlimited amount of emeralds.
• MC-153697 – Iron golems will occasionally attack players in creative/spectator mode.
• MC-155289 – Mob spawning rate in the Overworld is reduced.
• MC-155758 – Endermen do not pick up non-collidable blocks.
• MC-159496 – Player death uses incorrect sound event.
• MC-160177 – Block breaking animation does not show for other players.
• MC-161002 – Endermen do not turn to face the player when looked at.
• MC-162905 – Kelp naturally generates with age too low.
• MC-164397 – Birches no longer generate in dark forest biome.

From the 1.15 development versions

• MC-159350 – Bees freeze if they cannot execute their current AI task / bees do not seem to have a wandering AI.
• MC-159368 – Bees do not follow players holding tall flowers.
• MC-159410 – Bees with NoAI can get angry.
• MC-159418 – Bees do not update their home hive even if there are empty hives nearby.
• MC-159447 – Bees occasionally get stuck on fences, fence gates, and walls.
• MC-159514 – Bees are flying back to original nest.
• MC-159576 – Yiddish is displayed left-to-right instead of right-to-left.
• MC-159646 – Bees get stuck on cocoa beans.
• MC-159648 – Bees can claim hives behind walls.
• MC-159803 – Bees wander too far from their nest and get lost.
• MC-160291 – Bees leave their nest/hive when it is sheared or used to fill bottles, even there is a campfire below it and it is night time.
• MC-160978 – Foxes do not consume food anymore.
• MC-161009 – Bee nests and hives drop-in Creative mode even if /gamerule doTileDrops is set to false.
• MC-161277 – Graphics card information displays method calls on the debug/F3 screen.
• MC-161302 – Banners appear blank white for a split of a second when placing them.
• MC-161849 – Items in inventory, subtitles, background, chat, notifications on the screen and game menu are darker and have a blue tint when players have the night vision effect.
• MC-161896 – Some transparent items make transparent blocks and beacon beams do not render behind them.
• MC-161923 – Breaking animation is rendered behind water and nether portals.
• MC-161927 – Pillagers do not have any arms if they are not carrying a crossbow.
• MC-161948 – Models with alpha channels do not render all faces consistently.
• MC-161976 – Enchanted trident loses enchanted glint when thrown into the ground.
• MC-162013 – Player model in inventory is affected by light level.
• MC-162078 – Bees cannot pathfind if they are submerged in water.
• MC-162279 – Beacon beam loses color at high altitudes.
• MC-162338 – Entity shadows do not display properly on transparent blocks.
• MC-162368 – Burning mobs are no longer bright.
• MC-162519 – Block hitboxes are rendered transparent.
• MC-162569 – Placing torches in water causes serious lag and stuttering.
• MC-162736 – Text cursor disappears when editing sign text.
• MC-162808 – Poppies are positioned incorrectly when held by an iron golem.
• MC-163012 – Bees no longer have an animation while pollinating flowers.
• MC-163048 – Barrier particle changes to a random texture after changing resource pack.
• MC-163054 – Bee Flower tracking/pollination AI broken.
• MC-163064 – Character skin is too dark in inventory.
• MC-163079 – Chunk borders are rendered in front of all non-transparent blocks.
• MC-163084 – Beacon beam lighting depends on viewing angle.
• MC-163113 – Placing a banner cause an error in the game output.
• MC-163144 – World border is rendered in front of all non-transparent blocks.
• MC-163233 – Entity shadows render in front of block hitboxes.
• MC-163242 – Blocks on armor stands render shadows based on camera vector.
• MC-163282 – Shadows are z-fighting when riding an entity.
• MC-163353 – Left wings and legs of the ender dragon are shaded darker than right wings and legs.
• MC-163412 – Elder guardian particle is rendering too dark.
• MC-163789 – Mysterious blinking pixels when in lava.
• MC-163854 – Breaking animation is flipped horizontally on some sides.
• MC-163870 – Advancements menu still is not clipped properly on small GUI scale.
• MC-164012 – 3D inventory models transformed into 2D inventory models have a non-transparent background.
• MC-164020 – Bees are not taking pollen from tall flowers anymore.
• MC-164070 – Dispensed armor stands only face south.
• MC-164114 – Falling blocks no longer support glowing effect.
• MC-164121 – Entities in spawners are rendered too dark.
• MC-164289 – Entity shadows cause clouds behind them to not render.
• MC-164448 – While trading with villagers, the experience progress bar shoots beyond the GUI.
• MC-164485 – Superflat preset icons cause text to not render.
• MC-164514 – Blazes and ghasts can light campfires even when mobGriefing is false.
• MC-164593 – Transparent block model displays do not render inside faces like normal blocks.

From the previous development version

• MC-164732 – When lighting a campfire below a beehive, the campfire does not light up and instead, the hive starts to burn.
• MC-164759 – Potions held by witches float above their arm.
• MC-164778 – Parrots can still imitate endermen.

Private issues

• MC-136984 – Game crash exploit.
• MC-164383 – Game crash exploit.

Video

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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.