What's New in Minecraft Snapshot 18w01a?

The first snapshot of the year is out! Here's 18w01a with lots of bug fixes and some new fancy command functionality.

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 pre-release, 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:
Gameplay:
- Fixed being unable to open chests under leaves/glowstone/sea lanterns/ice/frosted ice
- Fixed mobs controlling minecarts they ride
- Fixed vanilla structure files being outdated
- Fixed tables in villages still being oak instead of village wood
- Fixed bowls not being fuel in furnace
- Fixed boats falling through blocks when slightly intersecting water
- Fixed placing a grass path under a block making it disappear
- Fixed placing tall grass on the lower half of a double grass removing the upper half
- Fixed banners/skulls being treated as full blocks
- Fixed being unable to eat plantable items when looking at blocks
- Fixed "Pick Block" not working on flower pots

Graphics:
- Fixed strange lighting by slabs, stairs, grass paths, farmland
- Fixed standing on slabs, stairs, grass path, farmland darkening sky
- Fixed item frames placed on ground z-fighting with pressure plates

UI:
- Fixed hitting a key in the creative mode inventory search resetting scrollbar
- Fixed advanced tooltips hiding map numbers
- Fixed tab list ignoring the initial display name of players
- Fixed mouse wheel/touchpad scroll amount being ignored
- Fixed the enchantment GUI's book opening and closing animation
- Changed all custom names to translatable text components

Redstone:
- Fixed redstone torches scheduling updates when they should not
- Fixed hopper item pickup areas being too small/low
- Fixed falling blocks not falling when the block underneath is pulled by a piston
- Fixed comparators being able to lock repeaters without them appearing locked

Commands and Map making:
- set_name function for loot tables
- Removed team prefix/suffix
- Added facing part of /teleport
- Fixed x_rotation, y_rotation being swapped for /teleport
- Fixed /tp @s ~ ~ ~ acting like an absolute teleport, killing momentum
- Fixed /teleport trying to centre-correct the y-axis
- minecraft:load function tag, causes functions to run once after a (re)load
- Added noon, midnight to /time set
- Fixed selectors, scoreboards not working for signs
- Fixed /title,tellraw score component with fake players returning "No entity was found"
- Fixed '/scoreboard players reset * objective'
- Fixed too long objectives and team names not being detected when parsing commands
- Fixed /publish being executable from command blocks
- Fixed execute sub-commands only running (for each entity), if the next sub-command runs at least one command for each entity
- Fixed 'execute if/unless score' setting the score to 0 if unset
- Fixed "execute store" on "double" data types using only 'float' rather than 'double' precision
- Fixed the particle command not working with blocks/items deriving models from entity textures
- Fixed structures placed by structure blocks not updating connecting blocks
- Fixed functions, advancements, loot tables allowing invalid filetypes
- Fixed 32768 specified as the maximum allowed area size for the fill command, but not being allowed
- Fixed JSON text throwing syntax error when more than 1024 characters

Resource packs:
- Fixed randomized blockstates not applying full models
- Fixed blockstates not working properly with two model options

Technical stuff:
- Fixed log files becoming huge in size because Brigadier logs errors continuously
- Now able to get a dump of our blocks/items/commands/etc from the game without opening the game
- java -cp minecraft_server.18w01a.jar net.minecraft.data.Main --help

- Crash reports now list what data packs are enabled

Music: "The Awakening" and "Parkway Drive" by Silencyde (http://soundcloud.com/silencyde) 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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