Java Edition 16w02a

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16w02a is the forty-ninth snapshot for Java Edition 1.9, released on January 13, 2016.^[1] This is the first snapshot released in 2016.

Options

• Volume slider labeled "Voice/Speech" under "Music & Sounds".
  • Intended to be used for voice acting in custom maps.^[2]

Air

• Now translatable into other languages, for the purposes of superflat customization.

Beacons

• Now immediately activate when placed on valid pyramids.

Bedrock

• Can no longer drop itself as an item.

Stone buttons

• Now break faster with pickaxes.

Wooden buttons

• Now break faster with axes.

Armor

• Changed damage/armor values again to protect armored players against "backstabbing" creepers.
  • Reduction in effective defense points due to attack strength no longer takes the effective defense below 25% of the armor points.
  • Max (20) armor points damage reduction increased back to 80% (was 66% since 15w36a).

General

• Mobs are now knocked back from non-entity damage sources such as cacti (reverted in 16w03a).

Ender dragons

• When summoned using /summon EnderDragon, stay in the same position no matter what.
  • Unlike summoning a dragon with {NoAI:1b}, it still flaps its wings.
  • These dragons do not show their boss health bar, nor do they take damage from any attack other than /kill.

Armor stands

• Marker ArmorStands now only outlines their equipment when glowing.

/help

• Now outputs various messages prefixed by "Searge says:" when run in a command block.

/playsound

• Now accepts a sound <source> as its second parameter.

Selector

• m
  • Now supports both negation and literal gamemode values.
    • Example: @p[m=!1], @p[m=c], and @p[m=!spectator].

Combat

• Attack cooldown does not have as great an effect on damage: reduction is linear 50%–100% rather than quadratic 0%–100%.

35 issues fixed

From released versions before 1.9

• MC-233 – The portal travel sounds travel.ogg/trigger.ogg swapped/played at wrong time.
• MC-1072 – No translation for "Air" in the superflat customization.
• MC-4040 – Jump Sprinting on redstone wire produces grayscale particles.
• MC-4661 – Chickens (And small mobs) cannot path when standing in/next to fences.
• MC-14722 – Social zombies are not affected by /gamerule doMobSpawning.
• MC-23952 – Bad alignment when using wide Unicode fonts.
• MC-27912 – Hindi: some text is not centered.
• MC-41542 – Displacement of mipmap levels slider in traditional Chinese language pack.
• MC-44140 – Acacia and dark oak stairs do not burn and cannot be lit with flint and steel.
• MC-46258 – The "ø" Character has an extra pixel.
• MC-46690 – Items and experience drop upon death in Spectator mode.
• MC-60692 – The game mode selector m doesn't work with negation.
• MC-73304 – Scoreboard teamkill."color" is not registering entities.
• MC-74072 – Unicode character "Small H with Stroke" (ħ) is one pixel too high.
• MC-74392 – Copying written books creates stacks of size 0, and duplicates the original.
• MC-76313 – Pressing the crouch key while flying will slow player down.
• MC-78557 – Buttons don't have a special tool assigned – compare pressure plates.
• MC-79604 – Explosions do not repel players in Creative mode.
• MC-81687 – Villagers accept fewer items for the same number of emeralds.
• MC-82677 – /give @p minecraft:anvil 1 3 will crash the game.

From the 1.9 development versions

• MC-85304 – Ender dragons go to X,Y,Z = 0,0,0 when spawned in any type of world.
• MC-87894 – Creeper explosion damage is disproportionate to armor protection and to damage from other mobs.
• MC-88268 – Glowing CustomName items have blurry names.
• MC-88668 – Old hopper minecarts have Enabled:0b and do not gather items.
• MC-89592 – Death screen death message still shows when showDeathMessages is false.
• MC-89917 – Using pick block on boats only gives the oak variant.
• MC-92208 – Summoned MinecartHopper defaults to Enabled:0b.
• MC-92783 – Setting LastOutput of a command block to an invalid JSON string causes a crash.
• MC-93083 – Sound sliders not working with the new sounds.
• MC-93093 – Console spam: "PLAYER is sending move packets too frequently (19 packets since last tick)"
• MC-93119 – A survival player can obtain the bedrock item.

From the previous development version

• MC-94466 – Zombies won't climb stairs.
• MC-94776 – Chicken will not follow a player with seeds up stairs.
• MC-95129 – Zombies don't want to walk up a block, in some situations.

Private issues

• MC-59196 – Players can tick themselves arbitrarily.^[1]

• 16w02a was previously removed from the launcher for some time, but was added back in September 2018.