Java Edition 15w47a

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15w47a is the forty-first snapshot for Java Edition 1.9, released on November 18, 2015.^[1]

Beacon

• Now is able to keep an item in its inventory slot.
  • No longer drops the item from the slot if the beacon is destroyed or the interface is exited before the 'accept' button is pressed.
• Now interacts with hoppers.

Daylight sensor

• No longer emits a signal at night when sufficiently shaded.

Redstone comparator

• Side inputs now take power from redstone blocks.

Redstone block

• Now updates adjacent blocks' power state correctly.
• Never transmits power through blocks.

Trapped chest

• Now changes its texture when the computer time is set to the 24th to 26th of December to suit Christmas.

Shulker

• Now drops experience.

Armor stands

• Wobbles slightly when being hit.

Jungle bushes

• Leaves no longer replace blocks other than air or leaves when generating the tree.

NBT format

• Beacon block entity
  • PaymentItem Item held in the beacon's slot.

Sound events

• Added entity.armorstand.place, entity.armorstand.fall, entity.armorstand.hit, and entity.armorstand.break.
  • These are used for the armor stand.

Skins

• Overlay layers (hat, jacket, sleeves, and pants) correctly render semitransparent pixels, instead of only fully opaque and fully transparent pixels.

Hitbox Margin

• Removed the default hitbox margin for entities.

26 issues fixed

From released versions before 1.9

• MC-1310 – Dispensed boats get stuck on the dispenser block.
• MC-1777 – Placing a painting "behind" a button makes button unclickable.
• MC-2844 – Doors have no placement sound.
• MC-5927 – Daylight Sensor outputting signal when encased.
• MC-9089 – Suicide from potions gives player a point in playerKillCount.
• MC-12959 – TNT mesh rotated wrongly placed vs primed.
• MC-28235 – Confirming beacon with items in hand makes items disappear, then drop on ground.
• MC-30157 – Lighting glitch with ender crystals in the overworld.
• MC-33384 – Noteblocks play the wrong walk, place and break sounds.
• MC-46772 – Skin hat layer translucency only works in the end dimension.
• MC-59777 – Endermen lose ability to dodge melee attacks after being hit.
• MC-65699 – Armor stand Duplication.
• MC-67017 – The small cube in slime blocks isn't displayed in inventory and when dropped.
• MC-72739 – Pillar quartz has no block state defining axis.
• MC-91314 – No sound when placing beds.

From the 1.8 development versions

• MC-65240 – Banner pole texture misaligned.

From the 1.9 development versions

• MC-84625 – Mobs don't navigate correctly in contact with chorus plants.
• MC-87864 – Shulker monster spawner rotation animation is weird.
• MC-89882 – Shulkers don't drop experience.
• MC-92443 – Typo in soundevent name "enttiy.zombie.infect".
• MC-92866 – Purpur slab variant displays "DEFAULT" in capital letters.

From the previous development version

• MC-92556 – Mobs bouncing and spinning on grass.
• MC-92559 – Splash potions are broken/all thrown potions are water potions.
• MC-92562 – Redstone blocks emit power through blocks.
• MC-92588 – Crash: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Cannot get property ... as it does not exist in aqu{block=minecraft:unpowered_comparator, properties=[facing, mode, powered]}.
• MC-92595 – Redstone blocks don't update adjacent blocks' power state correctly.

• 15w47a was previously removed from the launcher for some time, but was added back in September 2018.
• This snapshot was released exactly 4 years after the full release of Java Edition.
  • It has since remained the most recent version of Java Edition to be released on the exact anniversary of the game's full release.