What's New in Minecraft Snapshot 16w40a?

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Channel: slicedlime · 2016 · Gaming

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Today Mojang released Minecraft Snapshot 16w40a - a snapshot for Minecraft 1.11 with fixes for the piston translocation bug and many others!

Official announcement: http://blog.mojang.com/2016/10/minecraft-snapshot-16w40a/

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

What's New in Minecraft 1.10? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32VGSY22U5E
What's New in Minecraft 1.9? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xV--fTvRLqs

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

If you want to play this pre-release, edit your profile in the minecraft launcher and check the "use development versions (snapshots)" checkbox.  Keep in mind that snapshots are unstable - they can break your world if you are unlucky - keep backups!

Music: "Easy" by Ceanty (https://soundcloud.com/ceanty/) 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/)

Changes & fixes in this snapshot:
- Fixed the mouse click position always lagging a few frames behind the crosshair

- Fixed evocators & vindicator not displaying custom head item or held items
- Fixed axes dropped by vindicators not being damaged
- Fixed vindicators and mobs with axes not disabling shields
- Fixed {CanPickUpLoot:1b} vindicators not using their better weapon
- New Johnny byte controlling "Johnny" named behavior.

- Fixed pistons warping entities too much
- Fixed some piston placement issues past x/z=16777217
- Fixed piston heads being offset when far away from 0,0

- Fixed arrows fired into updating repeaters/comparators/jukeboxes/command blocks/hoppers/daylight sensors playing the arrow hitting a block noise
- Fixed shooting an arrow and reloading the world giving the arrow potion particles
- Fixed spectral arrows not being shot by skeletons

- Fixed being able to eat placed cakes in creative mode/with a full hunger bar
- Fixed items not being deleted when dropping them in creative mode's survival inventory

- Fixed renamed brewing stands not dropping after being placed
- Fixed being unable to shift-click items into non-full brewing stand ingredient slots

- Fixed silverfish not moving when mobGriefing is false
- Fixed rabbits jumping extra high on non-full blocks
- Fixed animals not running away when on fire
- Fixed some mobs floating above horses when riding them

- Fixed weather changing to clear after sleeping with doWeatherCycle set to false

- Fixed there being no subtitles for shulker boxes and llamas
- Fixed renamed shulker boxes losing their name when placed by a dispenser
- Fixed entities falling through shulker boxes when opened
- Fixed the camera shaking when opening the shulker box you are standing on

- Fixed llamas in caravans not being tameable
- Fixed being unable to leash multiple mobs to the same fence when not holding a lead item
- Fixed being unable to untie more than one llama from a fence
- Fixed leash knots tied while holding a lead item not being breakable

- Fixed stat.talkToVillager not increasing if the villager has no trade

- Fixed the end portal block texture jittering in some cases

- Fixed a crash when trading or picking up filled maps with invalid data values from furnaces

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