Java Edition 19w45a

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19w45a is the twelfth snapshot for Java Edition 1.15, released on November 7, 2019.^[1]

Tags

• Added the arrows entity tag.

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.

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.

Trees

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

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.

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.

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/ 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.

• Unlike most of the first-of-the-week snapshots, this was released on a Thursday instead of Wednesday, similar to the snapshots before 14w26a.