What's New in Minecraft Snapshot 18w21a?

It's time to celebrate World Turtle Day with a snapshot for Update Aquatic! Here's 18w21a with treasure-hunting dolphins and a whole bunch of bug fixes!

Official announcement: https://minecraft.net/en-us/article/m...

Minecraft news playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEqam...

What's New in Minecraft 1.12? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6Hsq...

The Minecraft JIRA (bug tracker): https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC

If you want to play this snapshot, choose the "Snapshots" profile in your launcher. Keep in mind that snapshots are unstable - they can break your world if you are unlucky - keep backups!

Changes in this version:
Mobs:
- Dolphins will now help you find treasures: feed them fish and they will try to guide you towards treasure
- Fixed salmon and tropical fish hitboxes on land being wrongly positioned
- Fixed mobs not suffocating in double slabs
- Fixed dolphins being able to wear armor
- Fixed dolphins becoming permanent after playing with an item

Items:
- Fixed some item names that previously had colors no longer having colors
- Item names now have colors to indicate rarity:
Green: tools and weapon attributes
Blue: beacon, conduit
Yellow: nether star, totem of undying, dragon's breath, heads, bottles of xp, elytra, heart of the sea
Purple: command blocks, structure blocks and dragon eggs

Gameplay:
- Fixed spectators still producing the diving sound
- Fixed dispensers using spawn eggs spawning mobs too high
- Fixed using spawn eggs spawns mobs too high on liquids
- Fixed bone meal placing sea plants in flowing water
- Fixed sea grass generating water sources when placed on flowing water
- Fixed grass and mycelium spreading to underwater dirt blocks

Graphics:
- Fixed the host's skin not being visible to other players when in LAN worlds
- Fixed armor slot icons being backwards
- Fixed item shading inside item frames not accounting for rotation
- Fixed lighting rendering incorrectly on item frames oriented vertically
- Fixed entity head rotation not interpolating on yaw axis
- Fixed carpets and paness not showing the right colors on maps
- Fixed the fence top missing some texture when below fence gates

Worlds:
- Fixed upgrading from 1.6.4 destroying worlds, spamming errors
- Fixed jungle temple redstone wires not being connected
- Fixed structures from old worlds not regenerating when opened with 1.13

Settings:
- New option in options.txt: mouseWheelSensitivity
Defaults to 1.0
Affects hotbar scroll speed

Commands:
- Fixed /spreadplayers showing a wrong error message or large numbers in error message when no entities were spread
- Fixed placing a wall using /setblock without specifying a block state producing an invisible wall

Music: "Diving Bell" by Zircon (https://http://zirconstudios.bandcamp...)

Outro music "The Fire" by Amarante (http://amarante.bandcamp.com) licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)

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