Java Edition 14w20a

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14w20a is the twenty-third snapshot for Java Edition 1.8, released on May 15, 2014,^[1] which adds the /title command.

/title

• Can make text display on a player's screen in the form of a title and/or subtitle.
  • /title <player> times <fadeIn> <stay> <fadeOut>
    • Set the fade in time, the stay on screen time and the fade out time for the title.
  • /title <player> title <raw json message>
    • Set and start showing the title.
  • /title <player> subtitle <raw json message>
    • Set and start the subtitle.
  • /title <player> clear
    • Clear titles immediately.
  • /title <player> reset
    • Reset all title parameters to defaults (fade times).

Splashes

• Added the following splashes:
  • "Run, coward! I hunger!"
  • "Blue warrior shot the food!"
  • "Warning! A huge battleship "STEVE" is approaching fast!"
  • "Rise from your grave!"

General

• Blocks no longer have bits for metadata, the freed up bits are now used for block ids (dynamically).

Slimes

• "Slime sizing was moved to a post-spawn method, so the slime's canSpawn() method would report spawnability based on the initial size, not the final size. There is an added secondary check which fixes the issue."^[2][3]

Caverns

• Now generate on the surface of desert, mesa, mega taiga and mushroom biomes.

World border

• If a player is stuck outside the world border, it is possible for them to freely fly/walk around (not possible to freely walk through the border).

/tellraw

• Now has a selector argument.
  • Allows to print player's names.
  • Example: /tellraw @a {selector:"@a[team=TeamRed]"} prints everyone who is on TeamRed.
  • Also works with /title.

Spectator mode

• Adjusting fly speed in Spectator mode now works vertically too.

Player list

• Made tab-list more consistent and a little prettier when using health display objective.
• Now groups together teams.
• Now sorts players by name.

Debug screen

• The 'Towards Positive/Negative X/Z' was re-added.

23 issues fixed

From released versions before 1.8

• MC-8881 – Mobs treat any layered snow as non-solid.
• MC-26203 – Scoreboard: player does not appear in sidebar after setting initial score to zero.
• MC-33084 – /give command at dead players.
• MC-41234 – "/summon"ed or spawned LeashKnots always spawn at 0, 0, 0.
• MC-51776 – 32000 Command block character limit only works as a 16000 character limit within Minecraft.
• MC-52881 – Knockback distance incorrect, depends on login order.

From the 1.8 development versions

• MC-44331 – Interacting with invalid villagers crashes the game.
• MC-45303 – Surface dungeons generating without spawner, chests, and most of floor.
• MC-46765 – Leaves, Block of Redstone, TNT and Glowstone cause suffocation damage.
• MC-48442 – Mob Dungeon spawning without floor / with broken chests / overwritten spawner.
• MC-48535 – Creeper explosion animation missing if mobGriefing set to false.
• MC-49577 – Slime spawning bug.
• MC-50275 – Leads don't show knot on fence posts and cannot be right clicked.
• MC-50323 – Chest not openable with item frame on, standing too close.
• MC-50852 – /scoreboard players reset * objective clears sidebar for other scoreboard objectives.
• MC-50974 – Renamed items not displaying name in item frames after respawn.
• MC-51080 – Endermite ignore PersistenceRequired tag.
• MC-53380 – Staying outside border makes you unable to move at all.
• MC-53435 – Debug screen: Facing towards negative/Positive X/Z removed.
• MC-53469 – Sliders have incorrect values causing world to never be created (java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: n must be positive).
• MC-54164 – footstep, hugeexplosion and largeexplode particles don't appear.
• MC-54228 – Respawning after death outside of world border places player at Y=256.
• MC-54381 – /scoreboard players operation doesn't work on a player that's not on a scoreboard, but also does work.

• 14w20a was previously removed from the launcher for some time, but was added back in September 2018.
• "Warning! A huge battleship "STEVE" is approaching fast!" is a reference to Darius, a series of games with the same sentence, showing before boss fights.