Java Edition 16w33a

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16w33a is the third snapshot for Java Edition 1.11, released on August 17, 2016.^[2]

Splashes

• Added "Should not be played while driving" and "You're going too fast!".

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Shields

• Now keep enchantments and durability when crafted with banners.

Subtitles

• Some of elder guardians' and zombie villagers' subtitles are now distinct from the subtitles for guardians and zombies.

Smelting

• More things can be used as fuel:
  • 1 wool smelts 0.5 items
  • 1 carpet smelts 0.33 items, just less than ¹⁄₃ items (increased in 16w35a)
  • 1 ladder smelts 1.165 items, just less than 1 ¹⁄₆ items (increased in 16w35a)
  • 1 wooden button smelts 0.5 items
  • 1 bow smelts 1.5 items
  • 1 fishing rod smelts 1.5 items
  • 1 sign smelts 1 item
  • 1 bowl smelts 0.5 items
  • 1 wooden door smelts 1 item
  • 1 boat smelts 2 items

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Cauldrons

• Can now be refilled with water bottles.

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Beds

• If the player clicks on the bed, but is not right beside it, it now shows a message:
  • "You may not rest now, the bed is too far away"
  • Previously the player would get no message, but would be unable to sleep.

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Banners

• Now require a dye when applying a pattern that uses a non-dye item, such as a creeper head or enchanted golden apple.
  • Previously the lack of a dye would have applied the black variant of the pattern.

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Farmer Villagers

• Now sells 5–7 apples, where before they sold 5
• Now sells 6–10 cookies, where before they sold 6

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Elder Guardians

• Now drop a wet sponge rather than a dry sponge.

34 issues fixed

From released versions before 1.11

• MC-4582 – Can't eat, throw, or shoot while looking at an iron door/iron trapdoor
• MC-5330 – Range for using bed is lower than normal range
• MC-9691 – Inconsistency: Some wooden items don't burn in furnaces
• MC-14525 – Name tag item doesn't work on entities with right click ability
• MC-30630 – Double grass and fern use 2 different biome colors for top and bottom
• MC-49666 – Trades not randomized for farmer villager
• MC-59888 – Tall grass (top) particles are sunflower texture with broken pallete
• MC-75726 – Broken error message when loading (broken?) resource packs
• MC-82811 – Attempting to use currently unusable items bobs item up and down
• MC-82965 – Main hand item use animation plays when using offhand (3rd person mode)
• MC-87048 – Putting design on shield will cause shield to lose enchantment
• MC-90538 – Elytra not placeable on Armor Stand
• MC-91209 – Inconsistent word separation in chat help for F3+[key] combinations (resourcepacks, renderdistance)
• MC-92294 – Elder guardians drop normal sponge instead of wet sponge
• MC-93371 – No armor stand breaking sound in Creative mode
• MC-94303 – Filling/emptying bucket/bottle sound doesn't play for cauldrons
• MC-94597 – Shooting an arrow prints "added speed" in the Game Output
• MC-97808 – Not canceled that draw a bow
• MC-98779 – Skeletons spawned with /summon or natural spawning algorithm are not in the correct height
• MC-102683 – Elder Guardians use the same subtitles as normal Guardians
• MC-106168 – Using spawn egg on side of block spawns mobs inside transparent blocks

From the 1.11 development versions

• MC-106030 – No longer receives xp when shift-clicking ingots in furnace
• MC-106043 – Placing a banner that was in a stack of 1 causes it to lose it's data
• MC-106045 – Fishing rod does not appear cast in offhand
• MC-106067 – Unable to dye banners
• MC-106133 – Skeletons / stray / wither skeleton with tipped arrow in offhand no longer shoot tipped arrows
• MC-106152 – Zombie villager has no independent subtitles
• MC-106172 – Wither skeleton / zombie pigman emits a constant hissing sound despite not being on fire when standing on a submerged fence
• MC-106190 – Husk / zombie villager drop zombie head when killed by charged creepers

From the previous development version

• MC-106072 – Resource pack loaded as FOLDER doesn't show ingame anymore
• MC-106100 – Hopper: java.lang.NullPointerException: Ticking block entity
• MC-106101 – Hopper: java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 1
• MC-106116 – Achievements which rely on crafting the item (such as Benchmarking or Time to strike!) don't unlock when shift-clicking
• MC-106193 – No enchantment books when the player is fishing

• The two new splashes reference the game Pokémon GO.
• 16w33a was previously removed from the launcher for some time, but was added back in September 2018.