What's New in Minecraft Snapshot 18w07a?

The first snapshot with Update Aquatic features is here! Come with me on an underwater journey through 18w07a!

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:
Blocks
- Sea grass block, generates in all oceans (temporary)
- Also tall sea grass
- Kelp blocks, doesn't generate in deep oceans (temporary)
- Kelp grows upwards towards surface
- Kelp can be smelted to get dry kelp, which is food
- Dried kelp blocks, currently uncraftable but supposed to be crafted from dry kelp, work as fuel
- You can now strip logs by using an axe on them
- Stripped logs act like regular logs
- Added prismarine stairs and slabs for all variants

Mobs:
- "The Phantom" - "The Monster of the Night Skies", mob B for the Minecon vote
- Manta-ray-like flying monster
- Spawns at high altitudes in the overworld and the end
- Attracted to insomnia: seeks out players who haven't slept for many days, swoops down in groups and bites
- Drops leather, but this may change
- Has a Size data value, can be summoned huge
- Squids now shoot ink to defend themselves
- Fixed horses, rabbits, parrot, llamas and sheep generating in their default color/variant only-
- Turtles
- Only spawn on warm beaches, (temporary)
- Lay eggs on their home beach throughout various biomes for baby turtles to hatch from
- Eggs progressively develop
- Players can trample turtle eggs.
- Also, zombies intentionally trample them.
- Can be picked up using silk touch
- Cracking texture
- Hatch during the night
- Baby turtles will scamper down to the water when hatched
- Turtles drop turtle shell pieces

Items:
- New helmet: Turtle shells crafted from shell pieces
- Constantly give 10 seconds of water breathing effect while not underwater
- Turtle shell also brews awkward potions into Potions of the Turtle Master
- Turtle Master I: Slowness IV, Resistance IV for 1 minute, 3 minutes extended
- Turtle Master II: Slowness VI, Resistance VI
- Trident - a throwable and melee weapon
- Works under water and when raining
- Currently unobtainable in survival, that will change
- Can be picked up again when thrown
- Can also be picked up by mobs!
- Super overpowered, to be balanced later
- UI icon is not yet implemented
- Enchantments:
- "Loyalty" makes tridents come back to the thrower
- "Riptide" pushes the player forward when thrown while swimming or in rain
- "Impaling": "very useful against creatures of the sea"
- "Channeling": Trident calls down lightning when thrown in thunderstorm

Gameplay:
- Swimming animation - "Sprint underwater!"
- Fixed sneak animation not being smooth
- Bubble columns generate above magma blocks underwater
- Items and other entities fall down into bubbles
- Items float on the surface otherwise
- Shakes and sinks boats
- Refills air meter when at the bottom of a column
- Water physics
- Slabs, stairs, kelp, sea grass, tall sea grass and bubble columns share a block space with water
- Signs, fences still displace water
- Implemented using minecraft:water_hacked block tag
- Fixed being unable to insert charcoal into furnaces
- Fixed furnace recipes working in crafting interfaces and interfering with crafting recipes

World generation:
- Fixed the big tree generator handling tree height variable incorrectly
- Fixed the "Balloon oak" tree variant generating upside down
- Fixed chorus plant generation being broken
- Fixed large oak trees not generating with the new generator
- Fixed the debug world not generating
- Fixed the world generator not being fully cleaned before making new world, causing world features from one world to be generated in another

Music: "Phantom Thieves" and "Airship" by Crinkles (http://crinklesmusic.bandcamp.com) and 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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