What's New in Minecraft Snapshot 18w14b?

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Channel: slicedlime · 2018 · Gaming

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One more snapshot for this week - here's 18w14b with bug fixes and sea pickles! #minecraftemployee

slicedlime works as a Tech Lead for Minecraft at Mojang, but the YouTube and Twitch channels are personal projects run entirely in his spare time. 

Official announcement: https://minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-snapshot-18w14a

Minecraft news playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEqam0f7VN8&list=PL4ZS2guXqa_jrD_9AGgzp9ZEntWkNDOsm

What's New in Minecraft 1.12? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6HsqQMHuSs

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:

- Sea pickles added
- Generate either by themselves in warm oceans, or with coral
- Up to 4 pickles can be placed in the same block
- Emits light underwater depending on how many pickles there are per block
- Can be smelted into green dye
- Fixed smelting cacti not being possible

- Blocks of coral are now called "coral block", coral plants are now called "coral"
- Blue coral is now called "tube" coral
- Pink coral is now called "brain" coral
- Purple coral is now called "bubble" coral
- Red coral is now called "fire" coral
- Yellow coral is now called "horn" coral
- New coral fan textures

- Destroying waterlogged blocks will now keep the water

- Fixed the "Create new world" screen showing an alias command
- Fixed F3 not working

- Fixed slow falling replacing levitation
- Fixed slow falling being considered a negative effect

- Fixed tridents with the riptide enchantment disappearing when thrown in survival

- Fixed the description of the "A Throwaway Joke" advancement having a capitalization mistake
- Fixed the "A Furious Cocktail" and "How Did We Get Here" advancements not being updated

- Fixed drowned causing crashes

Music: "Elevation" by Crinkles (https://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/by/3.0/)

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