Java Edition 1.8.1/Development versions

This is a list of Java Edition 1.8.1 development versions.

1.8.1-pre1

1.8.1-pre1 is the first pre-release for Java Edition 1.8.1, released on October 15, 2014.^[1]

Additions

Command format

Game rules

doEntityDrops: Works like doTileDrops but applies to entities instead.^[2]

Changes

Blocks

Jack o'lanterns

Can be used to create iron golems and snow golems again.

Items

Bows

Bows are no longer upside down when held in the inventory.

Maps

Changed some colors.

Potion of Leaping

Can now be extended with redstone, like any other potion.

Mobs

General

No longer run from creepers.

Armor stands

Added Marker tag.

World generation s

Witch huts

Newly generated witch huts can spawn witches on Y 64 to 71.
This allows for three spawning floors in witch farms.

Command format

Game rules

doTileDrops no longer affects entities.

Gameplay

Credits

Ryan Holtz (TheMogMiner) and Michael Stoyke (Searge) are now mentioned in the credits.

General

Options

Renamed "Multiplayer Settings" to "Chat Settings" from 1.5.x and lower.

Performance

Various improvements.

Fixes

65 issues fixed

From released versions before Java Edition 1.8.1

MC-3 – Player facing changes when passing through nether portals in certain cases.
MC-1607 – Ghost End Portal in The End / Missing layer with AMD/ATI graphics cards.
MC-6594 – Non-living entities (boats, minecarts, falling sand, item frames, paintings) drop items even if doTileDrops is set to false
MC-37782 – Items held by witches are too small and held incorrectly.
MC-45537 – Cannot place buttons under stairs or slabs, or on top of upside-down stairs or slabs.
MC-46579 – Items are too high on the arm in 3rd person mode while sneaking.
MC-48011 – Ender dragon experience drops are not affected by doMobLoot gamerule.
MC-48130 – /fill replace command not filling when clicking tab.
MC-49126 – Glowstone crystal formations are missing their bottom layers.
MC-49538 – Achievement "Overpowered" Has misleading icon.
MC-53718 – Chicken jockey riding inside chicken.
MC-54551 – Resizing window while in Customized World Settings snaps back to Customized Settings page 1.
MC-54707 – Command: /setblock minecraft:sign produces a confusing error message.
MC-56574 – /tellraw open_url isn't showing url.
MC-58307 – Air bubbles appear after drowning and still dead.
MC-59216 – Unable to build iron golem and snow golem with jack o'lantern.
MC-59360 – Levers pop off non-solid blocks.
MC-62140 – 2 block tall flowers generated in previous version removes the 2nd block.
MC-62758 – Tall flowers drop two items when block below is broken.
MC-63466 – Ctrl +Pick Block gives a Steve head instead of a head with the owner's skin.
MC-64082 – Enchantment options for individual players are reset after death. KeepInventory does not have any effect.
MC-64427 – /worldborder , /scoreboard and /debug with invalid arguments don't print an error message.
MC-64773 – /particle auto-completion.
MC-64846 – Cannot extend Potion of Leaping to eight minutes using redstone in a brewing stand.
MC-65603 – Ender dragon does not obey NoAI tag.
MC-65834 – Snow layers placed against the side of a block are placed one block too far out.
MC-65945 – Enderman blocks look weird when invisible.
MC-66324 – /clone has incomplete syntax.
MC-66658 – /kill does not tab auto-complete with a player's name.
MC-66786 – Incorrect death message for dispensed harming potions.
MC-66861 – when press Tab ↹ on /entitydata, players pop up.
MC-66922 – <effect> argument in /effect does not show clear in help syntax.
MC-68160 – Placing a colored banner on a cactus drops a black banner.
MC-68247 – Beacon Beam disappears while looking upwards from it.
MC-68400 – Creative Inventory vert. scrollbar changes without scrolling.
MC-68654 – Tab Complete - /effect and /enchant.
MC-68745 – /resourcepacks/ folder is not automatically created when initially starting the game.
MC-68891 – Mobs think daylight sensor is a full block, causing them to jump while trying to get off it.
MC-69266 – Snow layer placing behavior buggy and inconsistent.
MC-69323 – Certain commands do not allow tab completing coordinate arguments.
MC-69823 – /debug help text wrong.
MC-69983 – Multiplayer Settings named wrongly.
MC-69984 – The "Defaults" popup on the customized world generation options screen doesn't disable hovering over stuff behind it.
MC-69989 – Debug worlds generate one column twice.
MC-70054 – Rabbits don't follow players holding golden carrots or dandelions.
MC-70111 – When a thrown enderpearl is in the air, it disappears after relogging.
MC-70305 – "Sprint" is in the wrong category in controls screen.
MC-70308 – Bottom outline is missing in the Controls screen buttons.
MC-70338 – Hopper: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space - creating debug image whilst stitching textures.
MC-70359 – Block breaking remains when eating/blocking with a sword.
MC-70431 – Minecraft 1.8 skin bug! (Layered skin in the right arm, is not completely shown in first person).
MC-70565 – When opening a chest in modded servers Minecraft crashes continuously.
MC-70675 – End credits make no mention of Ryan Holtz (TheMogMiner) or Michael Stoyke (Searge).
MC-71777 – /achievement take taking too many achievements.
MC-71981 – Uploading a hardcore world to Realms retains auto-ban.
MC-72583 – doTileDrops affects item frames.
MC-72868 – Mobs glitch through the ground under certain conditions.
MC-72869 – The 'Defaults' button on the Customized world screen does not disable itself after use.
MC-72871 – Resizing the game makes buttons on "Defaults" popup on Customized world GUI disappear.

From the 1.8 development versions

MC-46809 – /say not showing villager entity data if 'CustomName' provided.
MC-47987 – Entering a mobs view in spectator mode does not change if world is changed.
MC-61844 – Creepers target iron golems, causing terrain damage without interaction of a player.
MC-64598 – Creative search tab text becomes offset.
MC-65276 – Bow is upside down when held.
MC-70992 – textures_X.png in .minecraft directory.

1.8.1-pre2

1.8.1-pre2 is the second pre-release for Java Edition 1.8.1, released on October 16, 2014.^[3]

Fixes

6 issues fixed

From released versions before 1.8.1

MC-10808 – Sprinting and breaking particles of piston arms use same particles as piston even though there no stone on the arms.
MC-52717 – Placing heads/skulls break existing blocks.
MC-72166 – Banners disappear at some angles.

From the 1.8 development versions

MC-69562 – Can't play LAN whilst offline.

From the 1.8.1 development versions

MC-73025 – Falling blocks do not animate.
MC-73026 – Unable to hit the ender dragon.

1.8.1-pre3

1.8.1-pre3 is the third pre-release for Java Edition 1.8.1, released on October 23, 2014, which fixes bugs.^[4]

Fixes

29 issues fixed

From released versions before Java Edition 1.8.1

MC-1279 – Slow (choppy) rotating beacon block.
MC-3448 – Statistic screen icons messed up.
MC-4158 – Nether portal sometimes places you a fraction of a block in the air.
MC-4167 – EXP orbs will switch locations after a second or so from killing a mob.
MC-6261 – Brewing stand Doesn't drop custom potions.
MC-12013 – Experience orbs invisible for one second right after spawning.
MC-55661 – Animals don't teleport to player when target is air block.
MC-67437 – Lightning gives AI to witches and zombie pigman that were originally pigs and villagers that had NoAI set to 1.
MC-68497 – Cut/Copy function updates clipboard even if nothing is selected.
MC-71973 – Tab list headers and footers stay even when rejoining a different server.
MC-72524 – Can't place buttons on top of redstone blocks.
MC-72806 – When using /stop server executes the shutdown sequence twice (and hangs if players are online).

From the 1.7.2 development versions

MC-30937 – /summoned mobs riding XP orbs phase out of existence.

From the 1.8 development versions

MC-44474 – Smooth teleportation while falling glitches player back up.
MC-46670 – Withers trapped in a barrier box attacks barriers, killing it.
MC-48633 – Operation, test and enable doesn't show up as options when typing /scoreboard players.
MC-53558 – World generator crash when creating a custom new world (different than others).
MC-53983 – Loading world on new world or loading screen disappears if the window size is changed.
MC-54575 – Part of stair becomes invisible when placing a block near it.
MC-54626 – Chicken jockey falls into solid block when chicken dies.
MC-54929 – Fast creeper bug (aka creeper zurg rush).
MC-58908 – /help for /worldborder not updated.
MC-61610 – Bedrock at Y0 has wood log in it at x0 y0 z0.
MC-64515 – Inconsistency in piston timing.
MC-68880 – Rabbit falls through snow layers and suffocates.

From the 1.8.1 development versions

MC-73060 – Named ender dragon crashes the game.
MC-73061 – Realms not compatible with 1.8.1-pre1/-pre2.
MC-73114 – Entity UUID records remain in scoreboard teams.
MC-73123 – Entities lose scoreboard scores when in unloaded chunk.

1.8.1-pre4

1.8.1-pre4 is the fourth pre-release for Java Edition 1.8.1, released on November 6, 2014.^[5]

Changes

General

Options

Off/fancy/fast clouds.
Off/on entity shadows.
Fast/fancy now only controls leaves and rain particles.

Performance

Many optimizations.

Fixes

11 issues fixed

From released versions before Java Edition 1.8.1

MC-349 – Villagers ignore data tags in trading.
MC-954 – Air blocks floating in water.
MC-25646 – Music keeps playing when putting in a disc in a jukebox and breaking it at the same time.
MC-38372 – Sprint glitch.
MC-58568 – Item frames with items in them do not frustum culling properly causing severe FPS lag.
MC-59226 – 3D-dropped items not spinning.
MC-61587 – /summon Rotation.
MC-70472 – Crash when trying to connect to a server with more than 73 characters address.
MC-72688 – /execute Detect gives false positive when in different dimension.

From the 1.8 development versions

MC-55767 – Unable to hide wither skull names.

From the Java Edition 1.8.1 development versions

MC-73147 – Can't place blocks in certain areas at certain angles.

1.8.1-pre5

1.8.1-pre5 is the fifth and final pre-release for Java Edition 1.8.1, released on November 19, 2014, which fixes bugs.^[6]

Fixes

4 issues fixed

From released versions before Java Edition 1.8.1

MC-61640 – Snow layers can't be placed on top of another full snow layer block.
MC-64653 – /execute particle leaves a false particle trail to 0,0,0.
MC-71436 – Screen goes black when "highlighting" players in spectator mode.

From 1.8

MC-58132 – Spectator mode layer glitch.

Notes and references

↑ "Minecraft 1.8.1 Pre-release 2" (archived) by Dinnerbone – Mojang.com, October 15, 2014.
↑ Non-living entities (boats, minecarts, fallingsand, item frames, paintings) drop items even if doTileDrops is set to false
↑ "Minecraft 1.8.1 Pre-release 2" (archived) by Dinnerbone – Mojang.com.
↑ "Minecraft 1.8.1 Pre-release 3" (archived) by Dinnerbone – Mojang.com.
↑ "Minecraft 1.8.1 Pre-release 4" (archived) by Dinnerbone – Mojang.com.
↑ "Minecraft 1.8.1 Pre-release 5" (archived) by Dinnerbone – Mojang.com.

Navigation

[1] "Minecraft 1.8.1 Pre-release 2" (archived) by Dinnerbone – Mojang.com, October 15, 2014.

[bugfixcomment-2] Non-living entities (boats, minecarts, fallingsand, item frames, paintings) drop items even if doTileDrops is set to false

[3] "Minecraft 1.8.1 Pre-release 2" (archived) by Dinnerbone – Mojang.com.

[4] "Minecraft 1.8.1 Pre-release 3" (archived) by Dinnerbone – Mojang.com.

[5] "Minecraft 1.8.1 Pre-release 4" (archived) by Dinnerbone – Mojang.com.

[6] "Minecraft 1.8.1 Pre-release 5" (archived) by Dinnerbone – Mojang.com.

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