Java Edition 19w44a

19w44a is the eleventh snapshot for Java Edition 1.15, released on October 30, 2019.^[1] It makes honey bottles stackable and adds improvements for iron golems, chunks, and certain particles.

Additions

Combining four glass bottles with one honey block in a crafting table now returns four honey bottles.
Are now stackable (up to 16).

Many recipes changed to only require one material instead of nine to unlock.
- The recipes affected are:

Many recipes for items that are crafted by placing one of the above blocks in a crafting table no longer unlock when the player has nine of the material.
- The recipes affected are:

From released versions before 1.15

MC-63179 – Clouds move with the player.
MC-93932 – Blocks/items held by witches are flipped upside-down.
MC-106494 – Items despawn after one minute instead of five when dropped from the creative inventory.
MC-108666 – Chest/trapped chest/ender chest/shulker box/bed/conduit held by witches are too small.
MC-132211 – Book edits occur on network thread.
MC-151962 – The last use of a shear will not drop the item on one high blocks.
MC-156197 – Using shears with 1 durability remaining drops nothing or wrong drop.
MC-158911 – Fences and walls connect to closed shulker boxes.
MC-161083 – Inconsistency with how multi-block objects display cracking animations.
MC-163400 – Parrots can imitate wolves, polar bears and zombie pigmen.

From the 1.15 development versions

MC-161835 – Shulker boxes and chests in the inventory are shaded very light.
MC-161837 – Some biome-affected items are colored incorrectly when held in the hand.
MC-161841 – Top texture of leaves and grass blocks is gray in the first-person mode when being held in the hand.
MC-161846 – Shulkers on walls (facing east or west) are sometimes incorrectly oriented.
MC-161918 – Item and experience orb shadows turn completely black during pickup animation.
MC-161941 – Some items lose their color when being picked up.
MC-162026 – Some blocks held by the witch, the rendering is very strange.
MC-162361 – Potions and water bottles are incorrectly colored when held in the hand.
MC-162526 – Edge of spawn eggs are incorrectly colored when held in the hand.
MC-162530 – Grass block and leaves sides are not colored correctly in the first-person mode when being held in the hand.
MC-162606 – Evoker fangs are rendered too big.
MC-163028 – Experience orbs turn white when being picked up.
MC-163403 – Trees now require much more free space around them to grow.
MC-163744 – Missing predicates return true/false rather than failing.

From the previous development version

MC-163840 – Witch nose is always high when holding item, but item doesn't render.
MC-163849 – Stopping creative flight with double-space triggers elytra flight.
MC-163877 – Banners are still discolored when viewing from certain angles.
MC-164038 – Serializer for storage nbt component is missing.

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