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What's New in Minecraft Snapshot 17w16a?

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Channel: slicedlime · 2017 · Gaming

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Today Mojang released Minecraft Snapshot 17w16a with a new mob, lots of fixes and a change to chain command blocks! #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-17w16a

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

What's New in Minecraft 1.11? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXv1U2CbJ3o

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:
Mobs
- Illusioner illager
  - Blinding attack, shoots arrows
  - Summons fake mirror images of himself, all looking like they are attacking. Only one can hit.
- Adjusted shulker and shulker box colors - via
- Fixed parrots on shoulders disappearing when flying up in creative or spectator mode
- Fixed "Parrot" not being translatable in the "imitates" subtitle
- Fixed parrots on your shoulders changing color when wearing an enchanted elytra
- Fixed parrots being invisible when on shoulder

Functionality
- Added a message whenever the Narrator isn't available
- A new "hints" system for beginners
  - Tutorial of sorts
  - Will not show for players that already know
  - Only a couple exist, refer to advancements at the end
  - Only display in survival mode
- Fixed advancement/recipe notifications not showing correctly in F1 mode
- Fixed there being a gap between advancements and recipe toasts
- Fixed toasts darkening in some GUIs and while some tooltips are displayed
- You can now rebind the toolbar saving keys
  - Default: X+number to load, C+number to save
- Fixed being unable to drop items by clicking outside of inventory
  
Blocks
- Renamed Hardened Clay to Terracotta
- Glazed Terracotta blocks don't attach to moving slime blocks anymore
- Fixed fences/panes/walls/bars/torches connecting to some non-solid blocks
- Fixed fences and cobblestone walls connecting to fence gates facing the other direction

Technical
- Optimized chain command blocks
- Improved NBT parsing
  - Better error messages
  - Can quote keys now
  - More strict / correct
  - Can no longer specify indices in lists, and they no longer get printed
  - l/b/i keys for arrays/lists

- Added 'group' to recipe json format, to clump similar recipes together
- Added new 'keybind' text component, to refer to the player's keybindings

Crafting:
- Fixed closing the crafting menu dropping or deleting items in some cases
- Fixed shift-clicking recipes deleting other applicable items with different meta data
- Fixed clicking on coloring white bed recipe selecting the "creating bed" recipe (placing planks in armor slots of player)
- Fixed bows destroying other bows while crafting using recipe book

Stability:
- Fixed the server output showing errors and nothing else
- Fixed a crash when right clicking the underside of a block with a torch in hand
- Fixed shift + F3 crashing the game
- Fixed parrots imitating mobs causing a null pointer exception
- Fixed the client crashing when using the new shift click recipe book in a server
- Fixed a crash when going to statistics/items-blocks or trying to customize superflat settings

Music: "Time Stands Still" and "A Tale Of Unexplored Worlds" by Sappheiros (https://soundcloud.com/sappheirosmusic) 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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