Java Edition 15w14a

15w14a
Edition	Java Edition
Official name	The Love and Hugs Update
Release date	April 1, 2015
Type	Snapshot
Downloads	Client (.json); Server (.exe)
Protocol version	48
Resource pack format	1
Minimum Java version	Java SE 6

This article documents an April Fools' Day joke version.

There is no proper release version or development version of Java Edition called the Love and Hugs Update, Snapshot 15w14a, or Java Edition 15w14a.

	“	As quite a surprising amount of people didn't understand yesterday: Yes, 15w14a was an april fools joke. The hidden QR code however was not.	„
		— Dinnerbone on "1.10" / 15w14a^[1]

15w14a is an April Fools' joke released on April 1, 2015.^[2] It was released as a hoax announcement for "1.10", which Mojang named The Love and Hugs Update (unrelated to the actually released update and the update released with the same version number, the Frostburn Update). No further snapshots were released for the hoax update. This snapshot is a fork of 1.8.3, which was the latest release at the time.

Additions

15w14a block and item additions

Gameplay

"Love" meter

Appears like the health bar, only across the whole top of the experience bar.
Fills up when the player takes damage or left-clicks on mobs.
There is a 10 second (200 tick) cool-down on adding hearts.
Resets upon quitting the world.
One line of hearts is 23 hearts.
Collecting eight lines of hearts unlocks a game called Minescreeper, which is Minesweeper textured like Minecraft.
- On the top of the screen is the Minecraft logo, with "CRAFT" crossed out and "SCREEPER" written over it.
- The game contains a grid of grass block tops, which when left clicked become dirt blocks with the numbers depicting how many bombs are touching that block.
  - The size of the grid varies based on the GUI scale, and the game resolution, though the amount of creepers remains the same. At the default resolution and GUI scale, the grid size is 8×25.
- The flags from Minesweeper are replaced with signs, which can be placed with a right-click.
- The mines are replaced with creepers. Any creeper that was marked with a sign has their mouth upside down.
- Pressing the keys X, Y, Z, Z, Y, ⇧ Shift + ↵ Enter, ↵ Enter in this order (just like the classic Minesweeper) plays the level-up sound and activates a cheat that shows if a square is safe or has a mine under it with a white square in the top left corner.
- Winning the game or placing a sign before the first left click triggers the credits, which upon exiting returns the player to normal Minecraft.

Blocks and items

Obsidian Boat

Sinks instead of floating.
Can be crafted with the following recipe:

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Obsidian

Has an ID name of minecraft:obsidian_boat and an item number of 432.

Potion of Caring

Changes the mob AI to move toward the nearest mob as if it were to attack it.
Replaces the data value of both potions of Slowness and potions of Poison.

Potion of Sharing

Causes affected entities to drop items in a random amount of time, ranging from food to rare items like saddles or diamonds.
Replaces the data value of potions of Weakness.

Changes

A world with the "love" shader and the replaced clouds

General

Options

Removed all graphical settings titles.

Clouds

Now shaped like large, pink hearts.

Particles

All particles were replaced with hearts.

Shaders

The shader love.json, which adds a red tint to everything, is always used.
- Pressing "Super Secret Settings..." doesn't change the shader.

Main menu

Only one splash is displayed, which is "Minecraft is love, Minecraft is life".
Removed the Minecraft Realms button.
Only one world is available.
- Because of this, the game is essentially always in Demo mode.
- The world can be created using the "Create World" button.
  - The world must be named "There can only be one".
    - When viewed with another Minecraft version, the world is named "AF15 Existence", which probably stands for "April Fools 2015 Existence".
  - The only available gamemodes are Survival, which is called "Existence", and Creative.
  - The "Allow Cheats" button now states "Allow Superpowers".
- Once created, it can be played by pressing "Play World" or deleted by pressing "Reset World".
  - When pressing "Reset World", it calls the world "My Beloved World".

Gameplay

Removed the ability to directly harm mobs.
- Hitting mobs with weapons or a fist causes heart particles.
Removed health and hunger.
- As a result, the player is unable to die, including from /kill and the void.
Survival mode is now called Existence mode.
Removed combat.
Removed Hardcore mode.

World generation

The End

Has more obsidian pillars than normal.
Has a bigger island.

Dungeons

Have been replaced with homes.
- The cobblestone and mossy cobblestone wall is replaced with blocks of quartz.
- Some of them have crafting tables and/or furnaces added.

Temples

Desert pyramids no longer contain TNT traps and have a ladder placed going down to the bottom for easier access.
Jungle temples no longer have traps.

Biomes

One-block patches of snow now randomly generate, regardless of biome.
Majority of snow cover in ice plains and cold taiga is melted.

Weather

Rain

Rain in all biomes causes snow to form around the player.
- Even in hot biomes, where it doesn't rain, snow still generates.
Hearts appear when the rain hits the ground.

Snow

Near coordinates X=0, Z=0, there is an area wherein some chunks snow is more frequent than normal chunks while raining and in others there is no snow even when raining, forming a QR code. When this code is scanned, it would reveal the name of the Combat Update (Java Edition 1.9).

Blocks and items

Lava

No longer damages players or mobs.

Carrot on a stick

Removed.

Lava bucket

Renamed to "Cheese Bucket".

Banners

Have a heart pattern on them by default.

Boats

Sink when the player rides them, but float again when the player exits.
Have a heart-shaped hole in the bottom.

Bows and arrows

Bows no longer require arrows.
Arrows have a heart on the end of the texture.
Shooting two of the same animal with arrows makes them breed.

TNT

Renamed to "Love Bomb".
No longer damages blocks when it explodes.
- Still damages mobs.
- Does not affect nearby TNT.

Potions

Potions of Strength now give upgrades to "Love Power".
Potions of Harming were renamed to "Potion of Love", though they still damage mobs.
Potions of Slowness were renamed to "Potion of Caring" and no longer slow down the player or mobs.
Potions of Invisibility were renamed to "Potion of Fun".
Potions of Leaping were renamed to "Potion of Happiness".
Removed potions of Weakness and potions of Poison.

Swords

Renamed to "Hearts" and have a heart on the end of the texture.
Not damaged when used on mobs.

Entities

Creepers

Now burst into poppies when close to the player.
- The poppies cannot be picked up.
Mouth flipped upside down, appearing to be a smile.

Ghasts

Can now be ridden, though cannot be controlled.

Elder guardians

Give the player Mining Fatigue like usual, but the ghostly image does not appear.

Horses

Can no longer be ridden, instead they ride on the player's shoulders.
- Only dismount if killed, or if the player is submerged in water (at least 3 blocks deep).

Iron golems

Can appear as a manifestation of the villager's love and peaceful nature.

Magma cubes

Now known as "Cheese Cubes".
Similarly to slimes, they also give the player Happiness upon attacking or pressing use on them.

Pigs

Can now climb walls.
- Because of this, it may sometimes cause a glitch where pigs "dance" at one place.

Sheep

Can shear their wool without shears now by using the use key on them.

Skeletons

Now randomly drop bone meal, similar to chickens dropping eggs.
No longer burn under sunlight.

Slimes

Now give the player Happiness when attacked.
- Can also give the Happiness effect by using the use key on them.

Squid

Can now fly.

Villagers

Rather than trading, they take the player's items in exchange for a piece of paper saying "Thanks for your donation".
- This also occurs when the player takes their items back instead of trading.
Offer the player help in picking up items or blocks, in exchange for a small fee (of the item they pick up) for their services.

Witches

Now throw random beneficial potions at players.

Withers

Recolored to pink with smiles on its faces.
Skulls now explode with bone meal.
The explosion upon creation still damages blocks.
About the same as the pink wither from Java Edition 2.0.
- Spawns with all 3 heads instead of 1.
- Is summoned with the normal wither spawn instead of pink wool with a flower pot.

Zombies

No longer burn under sunlight.

Minecarts

Now have a fluffy pink interior.

Fake "changes"

Some changes were on the official change log, but were not included in the actual version.

Bat

Now supposedly 20% cuter.

Chicken

Can now supposedly be ridden by any player less than two blocks tall.

Monsters

"Renamed" to Inhabitants.

Resource packs

"Fixed" some being "prettier than others".

Cliff edges

"Added" fences to them to prevent accidental falls.

Cow

Now supposedly alerts a player to important events using an audible notification.

Blaze

Now supposedly defends players from harm.

Rain

Removed, and then readded.
Falling snow now supposedly has a chance to make exposed chests "mysteriously full of goodies" at midnight.

Dirt bikes

"Added".

Caves

Are now checked for safety.

Issues

15w14a is not supported due to being an April Fools' joke, and therefore issues affecting it will be closed as "Invalid" in the issue tracker.^[3]

Trivia

15w14a was previously removed from the launcher for some time, but was added back in September 2018.
Worlds created in this version get saved as "existence.af15", presumably standing for "Existence [Reference to the world name] April Fools 2015".
The reason for why the update skipped release version 1.9 may be reference to the joke "seven ate (eight) nine".

Gallery

Screenshots

Title screen after creating a world, with new buttons "Play World" and "Reset World".
Create New World screen.
Video settings.
A chicken that laid an iron ingot instead of an egg.
Particles in water are replaced by small hearts that float to the surface.
An explosion of heart particles after destroying an end crystal.
The texture of the heart clouds.
Wither.
Flying squid.
The love-themed iron golem.
A smiling creeper.
A very comfortable minecart.
A boat with a heart-shaped hole at the bottom.
A horse is riding on the player.
A dungeon turned into a house.
A snow patch in a forest biome.
An ice plains with almost all of the snow melted.
A cold taiga with almost all of the snow melted.
Zombie pigmen wielding heart-shaped swords.
Wooden, stone and iron heart swords.
Banners, obsidian boat, normal boat, and diamond heart.
The texture of the heart arrows.
If the player gets 8 lines of hearts, the Minescreeper game pops up.
The Minescreeper logo.
The hidden QR code in a map.
The QR code from the previous screenshot, only recolored to be scannable.
The previous QR code, but with the Creeper face removed.
A squid out of water.