Java Edition 14w28a

14w28a
Java Edition 14w28a.png: Infobox image for 14w28a the version in Minecraft
Edition

Java Edition

Release date

July 9, 2014

Type

Snapshot

Snapshot for

1.8

Downloads

Client (.json)
Server (.exe)

Protocol version

27

Resource pack format

1

Minimum Java version

Java SE 6

14w28a is the thirty-fourth snapshot for Java Edition 1.8, released on July 9, 2014.[1][2]

Additions

Command format

/stats <entity|block> ...

  • Usage:
    • /stats entity <selector> <mode>.
    • /stats block [x] [y] [z] <mode>.
    • Alternative and more featureful way of interacting with CommandStats.
      • Updates a scoreboard objective based on the number of entities/blocks which has been affecting the command, it updates the objective for the entity that ran the command, fake players can be used when run in a command block.
      • After the mode there are currently 4 possible stats that can be updated: SuccessCount, AffectedBlocks, AffectedEntities and AffectedItems.
      • For example: /stats entity @a set AffectedBlocks @a Test updates a scoreboard objective named 'Test' for all players whenever a command is performed relative to them, the objective updates by the number of blocks affected by the command since the stat was set to AffectedBlocks.

Changes

Blocks

Cakes

  • Produce a signal for comparators to detect.
    • Each slice is equivalent to 2 redstone signal strength, for a maximum of 14.

Sloped powered rails, activator rails and detector rails

  • No longer decrease their hitbox height to be 2 pixels high when activated.

Gameplay

Enchantments & effects

  • Now accept named IDs as well as numerical IDs.

General

Block states

  • Chunks now use block states instead of metadata.

Performance & rendering

  • Improved performance with rendering.
  • Many optimizations to both the server (including singleplayer) and the client.

Servers

  • Can now customize network compression in server.properties.

Video settings

  • Added "Alternative Block" option to disable (or enable) weighted alternative block models.
    • When turned off, the least complex highest priority model is always used for each block.

Mobs

Rabbit

  • The chance of a killer bunny spawning was reduced from 1/1000 to 1/2500.

Removals

General

Distance effects

Fixes

43 issues fixed

From released versions before 1.8

  • MC-1532 – TNT flashing graphic when lit looks cut up and faded./Z-fighting.
  • MC-2990 – Heads, beds, and doors can't be placed where there is thin snow.
  • MC-8858 – Rain goes through upside-down stairs.
  • MC-13633 – Horse's jump bar appears even when the horse isn't saddled yet.
  • MC-16608 – Text color in hopper and brewing stand GUI changes.
  • MC-18477 – Iron golems can see and attack invisible hostile mobs.
  • MC-23940 – If a player sleeps in a bed near a transparent block, said player can get in the block.
  • MC-36718 – New fragmented sentences in translation.
  • MC-43984 – Normal players can use player selectors.
  • MC-53166 – Horses do not convert their owner to UUID.
  • MC-55490 – Spawning cows on mooshrooms.

From the 1.8 development versions

  • MC-45046 – Player skin doesn't render at Y:254.3 or more.
  • MC-45067 – Player skin (model) disappears when under -1.8 height level (void).
  • MC-45512 – Entities disappear in the void.
  • MC-46674 – Tools can't break packed ice faster.
  • MC-49407/effect and /enchant still uses IDs.
  • MC-53022 – Mobs not being targeted by team selector.
  • MC-54845 – Rain particles not rendering.
  • MC-55515sign.edit with §(color) changes the sign color.
  • MC-56041 – Wheat sprouts revert to seed at low light level blocks at night.
  • MC-56251 – "/weather rain" executed when weather is clear sets the weather to thunder.
  • MC-56835 – Pressure plate /fill disappearing glitch.
  • MC-56884 – Negative color crosshair when using resource pack.
  • MC-58067 – Smooth & chiseled sandstone & chiseled quartz has incorrect bottom texture.
  • MC-59491 – Performance on Linux server tick-rate.
  • MC-59848 – Grass blocks held by endermen have wrong texture.
  • MC-59897 – Logs not generating in the right position in structures.
  • MC-59996 – Falling sand entities are invisible or show a solid colored (red/green/black) texture.
  • MC-60035 – Double slabs become seamless.
  • MC-60039 – Server logging broken.
  • MC-60077 – End portals (end_portal_frame) has eye in it.

From the previous development version

  • MC-60093 – Blacksmith roof slabs oriented wrong.
  • MC-60126 – Pistons retract on placement as if they were powered.
  • MC-60150 – Fence gates placed open.
  • MC-60151 – Redstone repeaters are inverted.
  • MC-60152 – Powered rail, detector rail, and activator rail are flipped when on an east/west slope.
  • MC-60153 – Iron door and wood door.
  • MC-60156 – Command blocks don't trigger when dispensed onto a redstone block.
  • MC-60193 – Doors generating weirdly in strongholds.
  • MC-60208 – Pumpkin/melon seeds fully grown when planted.
  • MC-60349 – TNT spawns ignited on desert temples.
  • MC-60483 – When placing fire on side of TNT it only renders on the side.
  • MC-60523 – Tripwire hook block placed sound bug.

Trivia

  • 14w28a was previously removed from the launcher for some time, but was added back in September 2018.

References

  1. "The 14w28a snapshot is now available"@SeargeDP (Michael Stoyke) on X (formerly Twitter), July 9, 2014
  2. "Minecraft snapshot 14w28b" (archived) by Dinnerbone – Mojang.com, July 9, 2014.

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