Java Edition 19w04a

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19w04a is the seventeenth snapshot for Java Edition 1.14, released on January 24, 2019,^[1] which changes village generation.

Campfires

• Now generate in taiga villages.
  • Can be found on the ground.
• Can be used as signal campfires.

Composters

• Now generate in village farms.

Scaffolding

• More intuitive placement: placing a floating scaffolding requires the player sneaking to place the scaffolding or scaffolding is placed on the top instead.
• The player can no longer place scaffolding where they or another entity are standing.

Stonecutters

• Can now be crafted with 3 stone blocks and 1 iron ingot.
• Can now be used as a simpler way to craft various stone variants (stairs, slabs, bricks, walls, chiseled, etc).
  • From cobblestone, all types of stone and polished stone, sandstone, brick and nether bricks, quartz, all types of prismarine, end stone and end stone bricks and mossy variants.
• Sound effect added for crafting blocks with stonecutter.

Zombie villages

• Updated desert and taiga zombie villages.

Taiga villages

• Added 1 new building which contains a chimney with a lit campfire inside.
  • Butcher houses also have a chimney with a lit campfire inside.

World generation

• New progress message: "Upgrading structure data".

Miscellaneous

• Improved collision code.

20 issues fixed

From released versions before 1.14

• MC-56562 – Player can walk through worldborder when set to less than 3 if already outside of the border.

From the 1.14 development versions

• MC-137441 – progress.working shows on entering world.
• MC-138361 – The player falls through detracting pistons.
• MC-138565 – Stonecutter don't change their alignment based on player look direction.
• MC-140930 – Hat layer on player heads is offset.
• MC-141901 – Unlit campfires still hurt players that stand on them.
• MC-141913 – Sneaking on a campfire prevents damage.
• MC-142091 – Campfire deals damage to entities that are not touching it.
• MC-142231 – Scaffolding does not show on maps.
• MC-142458 – Unlit campfire texture partially missing.
• MC-142486 – When a player uses /summon command with a wrong entity ID, they will summon a pig.
• MC-142528 – Commands using @e[type=] on chat have broken autofilling.
• MC-142567 – Replacing lava with campfire creates unlit campfire.
• MC-142568 – Pushing a level 7 compost will make it not able to compost their contents.
• MC-142608 – Lightning doesn't appear.
• MC-142621 – "Invalid book tag" is not translatable.
• MC-142762 – When the player has a full inventory, taking the book from the lectern deletes the book.

From the previous development version

• MC-142698 – Locking maps can duplicate them.
• MC-142763 – Clicking recipes in Blast Furnace and Smoker deletes output.
• MC-142766 – Clicking a recipe in blast furnace/smoker returns fuel to inventory and resets cook progress.

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