Java Edition 15w33a

Minecraft 15w33a
Edition	Java Edition
Release date	August 12, 2015
Type	Snapshot
Snapshot for	1.9
Downloads	Client (.json); Server (.exe)
Protocol version	55
Data version	111
Resource pack format	2
Minimum Java version	Java SE 6

15w33a is the seventh snapshot for Java Edition 1.9, released on August 12, 2015,^[1] which adds dragon's breath and lingering potions.

Additions

Items

Dragon's breath

Found in the brewery section of the Creative inventory.
Can be used to brew lingering potions by brewing it with a splash potion.
Can be obtained by right clicking with a glass bottle while the ender dragon breathes the homonymous attack.
Stacks to 64.

Lingering potion

Thrown like a splash potion.
Leaves a particle cloud made of the effect particles of the corresponding potion.
- Entities that walk into the cloud get the corresponding effect.
Has variants for every potion type, and works with potions whose effect are instant, like Harming.
Brewed with dragon's breath and the corresponding splash potion.
- The only way to do this is to brew the splash potions from normal potions and leave them in the slots of the brewing stand. Then add the dragon's breath.
The cloud duration can be controlled through a data tag.

Command format

NBT format

Added entity AreaEffectCloud (ID 3), child of Entity.
Added tags Age, Duration, WaitTime, ReapplicationDelay, DurationOnUse, RadiusOnUse, RadiusPerTick, Radius, OwnerUUIDLeast, OwnerUUIDMost, Particle, Color, and Effects to AreaEffectCloud.
Added ExactTeleport to EndGateway.
Added Linger to ThrownPotion.

Scoreboard

New objective types: armor and level.
- "armor" tracks the armor bar, that indicates the total protection from all currently worn armor pieces.
- "level" tracks the level of the player which is the number above the experience bar and not the amount of xp points.

General

Statistics

Per-item statistics for number dropped and number picked up.
- stat.pickup and stat.drop.

Splashes

Added "More Digital!"

Changes

Blocks

Command block

The character limit is now 32500 instead of 32767.

End gateway block

Changed texture to be both angle and face independent.
- The footprint of the visible faces always displays the same texture without deforming due to perspective.
  - Therefore any edges of the block that are not part of the footprint are invisible.
Changed the beam texture to be unique.

Items

Potions

Extended potion of Poison, potion of Poison II, and extended potion of Regeneration had their duration reduced.
Potion of Strength changed from 130% bonus to damage to 3HP of bonus damage (from relative to absolute).
Potion of Weakness changed from 0.5HP × 0.25 reduction to damage to 4HP.
Throwable potions now behave like other projectiles when used in dispensers.
- They travel a much greater distance.

Spawn eggs

Can no longer address spawn eggs by numeric data ID, like: give @p spawn_egg 1 50.
- The spawnable item from a spawn egg is now addressed by a datatag: give @p spawn_egg 1 {EntityTag:{id:"Creeper"}}.

Mobs

General

The HealF float tag has been renamed to Health.
- As a result, the original Health tag is now a float type rather than short.

Ender dragon

Now shoots the previously added ender acid entities.
- A fireball-like projectile.
- On impact it spawns dragon breath and lights the ground on fire.
  - The dragon breath acts like a lingering potion, creating a special entity cloud.
    - Players in the cloud get damaged.
Arrows get deflected and set on fire while the dragon is on top of the portal.

Command format

NBT format

CommandStats can be used to obtain the number of scoreboard tags an entity has via QueryResult.
- Example: /scoreboard players tag <targetname> list will return the number of "scoreboard tags" applied to the target.
  - If the target previously had 3 tags added, a score of "3" is returned.
Removed DataVersion from Entity. It is now only applied to Player only, child of LivingBase.
HealF under LivingBase has become deprecated.
Health under LivingBase has changed from type "Short" to "Float".
Life renamed to Age for EndGateway entity.
Equipment removed from ArmorStand and Living entity, its usage replaced by HandItems and ArmorItems which were added earlier.

General

Pick block

In Survival, pick block now works on items outside of the hotbar but inside the player's inventory.
In Creative, using pick block normally gives the player a new one instead of existing ones with NBT.
ctrl+middle click no longer replaces items.
- Existing items are put into the inventory instead of being deleted.

Tooltips

Now show absolute damage instead of damage increase.

Fixes

7 issues fixed

From the 1.9 development versions

MC-82945 – UUID error: Tried to add entity with duplicate UUID spam.
MC-83731 – Using /kill on the ender dragon doesn't end the fight.
MC-84509 – End gateway block effect looks weird in third person.
MC-85288 – "Save World" and "Cancel" button have been switched.
MC-85382 – Attempting to use a spawn egg on a block thats out of range throws error.
MC-85542 – Ender dragon can destroy end_portal and end_gateway blocks.

From the previous development version

MC-85397 – Adult mobs spawned with mob eggs are "invalid", they can't be selected with @e.

Video

Video made by slicedlime:

Trivia

15w33a was previously removed from the launcher for some time, but was added back in September 2018.

References

↑ "Minecraft snapshot 15w33b" (Archive) by Dinnerbone – Mojang.com, August 12, 2015.

Navigation

[1] "Minecraft snapshot 15w33b" (Archive) by Dinnerbone – Mojang.com, August 12, 2015.

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