Wii U Edition Patch 15

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Patch 15 is a version of Wii U Edition released on December 22, 2016.^[1] This version is equivalent to Java Edition 1.10. It is also known as the Holiday Update.^[2]

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• Added new tutorial world.
• Added Fallout Mash-up pack trial.
• Added Developer Alex and Developer Steve skins to the default skin pack.
• Added a camera animation when the Tumble mini game starts.
• Added Levitation, Luck, Bad Luck, and Glowing effects.
• Falling dust particles have been added, which appear underneath gravity-affected blocks that are generated or placed suspended in midair.

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  Chorus flower
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  Chorus plant
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  Dragon head
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  End rod
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  Purpur block
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  Purpur pillar
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  Purpur stairs
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  Purpur slab

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  Chorus fruit
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  Popped chorus fruit
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  Dragon's breath
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  Elytra
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  End crystal
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  Lingering potion
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  Splash water bottle
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  Lingering potion
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  Potion of Luck
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  Tipped arrow
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  Spruce boat
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  Birch boat
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  Jungle boat
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  Acacia boat
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  Dark oak boat

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  Shulker
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  Stray
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  Husk
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  Skeleton Horse

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  End gateway
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  Chorus tree
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  End city
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  End ship

Beacons

• Effect duration depends on pyramid levels, 9 seconds plus 2 seconds per level (formerly a constant 9 seconds).

Brewing stands

• Now require blaze powder to use.
• Added sound when the brewing finishes.

Doors

• Now have sounds for placing and make different sounds when opening and closing.
• Are now placed facing left/right depending on which half of the block the player clicks on, unless neighboring doors cause them to place a certain way.

Ender chests

• Now have unique sounds for opening and closing.

End portal block

• Height of hitbox was changed to 0.75 (was previously 0.0625).

Enchanting tables

• Now play a sound when enchanting an item

Fence gates

• Updated opening and closing sounds.

Glass panes

• Glass panes without any connecting blocks are now 2×2 pixels in footprint.
  • This is compared to the big cross configuration that was default.

Hay bales

• Falling onto a hay bale inflicts 20% of normal fall damage.

Iron bars

• Iron bars without any connecting blocks are now 2×2 pixels in footprint.

Lily pads

• Collision box and hitbox were raised from ¹⁄₄ of a pixel to 1 pixel in height and the width has been changed to be inset from three edges of the block by 1 pixel (¹⁄₁₆ of a block).
• Added sound when placed.

Rails

• All sloped rail types' hitbox heights are increased from 10 pixels of block to a full block.

Redstone

• Hitbox for redstone is now smaller based on the connections, similarly to fences.

Sugar cane

• Color/shade is affected by the biome color (similar to leaves, grass, and vines).

Trapdoors

• Updated opening and closing sounds.
• No longer require supporting blocks.
• May be climbed like a ladder if placed directly above one and on the same side of the block.

Wheat, carrots, potatoes, beetroot, and Nether warts

• Now change their hitbox as the plant grows.

Armor

• Changed equipping sounds.
• Now show armor points in tooltips.

Bows

• Now show an animation for drawing back an arrow in the hotbar.
• Version exclusive: Can now also be drawn by using any type of arrow.

Buckets

• Now have sounds.

Enchanted golden apples

• Now give Absorption IV instead of I.

Fishing rods

• Can now pull items towards the player.

Glass bottles

• Can now be used to collect dragon's breath.
• Added sound when filling it with water and dragon's breath.

Hoes

• Added new sounds.

Potions

• Potion of Strength changed from 130% bonus damage to 3HP👁 ❤️
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  , i.e. an absolute bonus rather than a relative one.
• Potion of Weakness changed from 0.5 (HP👁 ❤️
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• Extended potion of Poison and extended potion of Regeneration have the durations reduced from 2:00 to 1:30.
  • Enhanced potions of Poison have the duration reduced from 0:22.5 to 0:21.6.
• Splash potions now have the same duration as drinkable potions.

All mobs

• Have a 5% chance to spawn left-handed.
  • Mobs able to hold items hold them according to their dominant hand.

Endermen

• Have a punch animation.
• Drop the block they were holding when killed.

Iron golems

• Now spawn with 100% knockback resistance.

Skeletons

• Skeletons can now walk, strafe and shoot at the same time.
  • They walk away from players that are too close and toward players that are too far.
    • They also sprint toward the player when very far away.

Snow golems

• Using shears on them now removes the pumpkin.
  • The pumpkin is not dropped.

Villagers

• Clerics now sell ender pearls instead of eyes of ender.

Zombie villagers

• Now have different skins for different professions.

• Boats are now controlled differently and can have multiple passengers.
• Projectiles such as snowballs, eggs, ender pearls, splash potions, bottles o' enchanting, and arrows now take the thrower's motion into account when fired.

• The End has changed when generating a new world and can also be updated for old worlds. To get the new End in an old world, select "Reset The End" in the "More Options" menu when loading a world.
• After killing the ender dragon in the new End, an End gateway will spawn nearby. Throwing an ender pearl into this will teleport the player to a new area in the End with an End city and End ship.
• The central island has been downscaled from 288×288 to 192×192 blocks.
  • The End platform has been moved from X=100, Y=49, Z=0 to X=60, Y=49, Z=60, due to the downscaling of the End central island.
• Within the End city and the End ship, the player can find shulkers, elytra, and a dragon head.
• Villages now generate naturally in Taiga biomes.

• Updated crafting interface to allow crafting firework stars and firework rockets.
• Reordered potion effects in the Brewing tab in the Creative inventory to be more like Java Edition.
• Removed all five types of extended-enhanced potion variants for five potion effects from the Creative inventory.
• Removed the strength indicator from potions in inventory screens.
• Golden apples, enchanted golden apples, and chorus fruits can now be eaten in creative mode.
• Traveling through Nether portals and End portals now plays a sound after arriving in the other dimension.
• Sneaking now lowers the player's hitbox to 1.65 blocks.
• The animation for picking up items or shot arrows now plays at a random speed, sometimes causing it to play slower than before.
• Removed End portal frames from the custom superflat block selection menu.

Combat

• Knockback no longer changes the Y-axis speed of flying and falling mobs.
• Holding down the attack key in survival or adventure mode now attacks slower while punching into the air (every half second).
• Added sound when critical hitting a player or mob.
• Attacking a player or mob now shows black heart particles, indicating the amount of damage that was dealt.
• Added sounds for the Thorns enchantment.

Crosshair

• No longer shows in 3rd person view.

Death messages

• Are now displayed on the player's death screen as well as in the chat.

33 issues fixed

• MCCE-1303 – When "0" is typed in as the seed the seed "48" is used instead
• MCCE-1788 – TNT rendering 1 block up
• MCCE-1920 – Wither skelleton heads go invisible after being places.
• MCCE-2187 – Stairs and slabs act like full blocks
• MCCE-2257 – Game crashes upon entering the end
• MCCE-2295 – Eating one food item causes the player to eat multiple of the food
• MCCE-2477 – Sea Lanterns are in two places in crafting table
• MCCE-2482 – Invisible banners
• MCCE-2484 – German version has the same item name "Hohes Gras" for both tall grass and fern
• MCCE-2494 – Enchanting is off balance
• MCCE-2501 – Trapdoor glitch
• MCCE-2517 – New duplication glitch
• MCCE-2567 – Items despawn so fast that time feels limited to picking items up.
• MCCE-2570 – Silverfish bug
• MCCE-2580 – Default Texture Pack screenshot is too compressed to be useful
• MCCE-2585 – Controls bug
• MCCE-2603 – Spawning inside blocks
• MCCE-2606 – Witches Potions
• MCCE-2613 – Particles bounce on slime blocks
• MCCE-2642 – Anvil/crafting glitch in Survival
• MCCE-2644 – Crash after dying in Battle mini game
• MCCE-2681 – Lily pads are duplicated when placed while on a boat
• MCCE-2718 – Buckets cannot collect water from cauldrons.
• MCCE-2723 – Flower pots have a crack in them.
• MCCE-2724 – Taiga village bug
• MCCE-2725 – Duplication glitch destroys legitimate survival and worlds.
• MCCE-2730 – Enchanted Books in a random Order
• MCCE-2737 – X-ray glitch
• MCCE-2765 – Infinite item bug
• MCCE-2766 – Enchanting
• MCCE-2840 – Elytra splitscreen does not work
• MCCE-2914 – End is broken
• MCCE-3257 – Grass, ladder, and tallgrass X-ray bug

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• Java Edition 1.10
• Xbox 360 Edition TU46
• Xbox One Edition CU36
• PlayStation 3 Edition 1.38
• PlayStation 4 Edition 1.38
• PlayStation Vita Edition 1.38