We're getting ready to do pre-releases soon and we're working hard to fix bugs.

Changes in 18w19a

• All undead mobs now sink
• Skeleton Horses are rideable underwater
• Updated biomes to have new fancy names
• Seagrass now generates in underwater caves
• New sounds for Conduit and Beacon
• Phantoms are now extra flappy
• Improved the upgrade paths from old versions
• You can now copy the output of the /seed command
• Updated the credits list
• Maybe some other stuff?
• Fixed a couple of bugs

Changes in 18w19b

• You can now open worlds from old snapshots
• A bunch of bugfixes

Fixed bugs in 18w19a

• MC-7908 - Spawning underwater / In the middle of an (lava) ocean
• MC-86016 - Some Mojang staff not mentioned in credits.txt
• MC-121285 - Crash on start when resolution is changed in profile
• MC-121636 - Server commands available in singleplayer with weird/bad effects
• MC-121661 - Typing /help + unavailable command returns "unexpected error" message
• MC-121799 - Cannot summon lightning bolt
• MC-121999 - Incorrect /help behavior for non-ops
• MC-122557 - Setting the size parameter for the dust particle to 0 or very close to it crashes the game
• MC-122596 - Command autocomplete overrides command history navigation
• MC-122628 - /help no longer has pages
• MC-122630 - /help no longer prefixes "/" to commands
• MC-122684 - Connected LAN players are able to kick/ban the server host
• MC-123053 - Game crashes when using an item with a tag in the CanDestroy or CanPlaceOn NBT tag
• MC-123606 - Server crash: Ticking entity 'java.lang.ClassCastException: ass cannot be cast to aui'
• MC-123778 - Team color doesn't work in playerlist and sidebar before reconnecting
• MC-123813 - Team colors no longer show in json results
• MC-123835 - Colored sidebar display slots are not visible
• MC-123852 - Glowing effect doesn't change depending on team color
• MC-123856 - Clicking [Intentional Game Design] on death screen doesn't open a link to MCPE-28723
• MC-124091 - Team color doesn't affect name above head
• MC-124092 - Some team options don't work
• MC-124098 - jeb_ sheep don't change color
• MC-124102 - Book signing shows the author name as string representation of the textcomponent
• MC-124147 - Zombie horses are invisible and replaced with regular zombies on reload
• MC-124237 - Command syntax help doesn't clamp to the right chat line border
• MC-124560 - Server says "type help or ?" but ? is not a valid command anymore
• MC-124633 - Feedback text for "/team option seeFriendlyInvisibles false" when seeFriendlyInvisibles is already disabled is wrong
• MC-124720 - Cannot start server with GUI
• MC-124750 - /particle acting strangely across dimensions
• MC-124889 - You cannot shift click smeltable items into a furnace
• MC-124895 - Trees generate side by side
• MC-124898 - Minerals tab in furnace recipe book displays apple item
• MC-124949 - Tree generating in village house and as part of field
• MC-124956 - Furnace recipe book availability toggle has wrong tooltip ("Showing craftable")
• MC-125060 - Furnace recipe book availability toggle has crafting table icon
• MC-125107 - Mineshafts don't generate support blocks when a block is above it
• MC-125115 - Command suggestions don't order numbers from least to greatest
• MC-125130 - Selector auto-completion tooltips mixed up
• MC-125174 - Ore pockets do not generate in superflat worlds
• MC-125232 - Phantoms attack players in peaceful mode
• MC-125258 - Preparing spawn area spams 0%
• MC-125283 - Jungle Biomes are extremely cluttered
• MC-125381 - Effects from the turtle master potion don't show amplifier
• MC-125442 - Extreme Lag in Jungle Biome
• MC-125466 - Fishing drops don't come towards player
• MC-125550 - Experience orbs don't float up in water
• MC-125607 - Going inside of bubble columns in spectator mode plays bubble column sound
• MC-125675 - Two high sea grass placed on the ocean floor can replace ocean monument parts
• MC-125803 - NoGravity no longers works on items
• MC-125872 - Superflat preset "the void" doesn't generate starting platform anymore
• MC-125915 - Zombies can destroy turtle eggs through a full block and a half above the egg
• MC-125946 - Phantoms can spawn inside/colliding with blocks
• MC-125997 - Deep Frozen Ocean isn't frozen
• MC-126085 - Pufferfish attack invisible players and creative/spectator players
• MC-126086 - Salmon and tropical fish hitbox on land is wrongly positioned
• MC-126139 - The fins of dying cod and some tropical fish show z-fighting
• MC-126144 - Cods suffocate when touching a solid block from below
• MC-126178 - Can use the water (with fish) bucket to destroy kelp, sea grass, coral and coral fan
• MC-126190 - Salmon mobs often get stuck
• MC-126198 - Only players are poisoned by pufferfish
• MC-126218 - Held turtle eggs are too low in first person
• MC-126261 - Turtle Egg Placement
• MC-126362 - Shift-clicking fuel into non-empty furnaces only moves fuel client-side
• MC-126380 - Getting an uncarved pumpkin gives recipe for jack o' lantern
• MC-126656 - Bubble columns made by Soul Sand only appear every other block
• MC-126762 - Red screen when player attack invalid tropical fish variant
• MC-126800 - The tropical fish item is named "clownfish".
• MC-126815 - Banner and treasure markers on maps show incorrect icons in multiplayer
• MC-126859 - Polar bears and rabbits not spawning in Ice Plains
• MC-126883 - Shulker(box) becomes dark purple when upgrading from 1.12.2
• MC-126950 - Riding floating boats underwater
• MC-127069 - huge phantom crash
• MC-127166 - Parrots don't imitate dolphins, phantoms and drowneds
• MC-127253 - F3+Q list isn't sorted alphabetically anymore
• MC-127274 - F3+C to copy coordinates works even when reduced debug info is enabled
• MC-127291 - Zombies drowning always drop armor items instead of using random chance
• MC-127295 - Zombies can gain tridents or fishing rods when they drown
• MC-127337 - F3+C (copy coordinates) does not copy dimension
• MC-127388 - Pufferfish appear with their most inflated model after world load
• MC-127516 - Duplication and deletion of ingredients, inventory desync and game freezing caused by faulty handling of firework star recipe
• MC-127593 - Waterlogged blocks such as fence sign ladder etc, will not allow bubble columns to spawn next to them
• MC-127924 - Slow falling is considered a negative effect
• MC-127969 - Sea grass doesn't generate correctly above stairs
• MC-127998 - You cannot place sea pickles on top of non solid blocks
• MC-127999 - Glitching in sea pickles when standing on them while placing the fourth one in the block
• MC-128039 - New Phantom skins do not match spawning egg colors
• MC-128242 - Leaving water while swimming causes player's arm to render out of screen
• MC-128243 - Dolphins do not try to get into the water
• MC-128264 - Mobs can spawn on regular ice
• MC-128285 - Dolphins summoned with NoAI take damage and die
• MC-128336 - Kelp spawns on trapdoors, stairs, slabs and chests on sunken ships
• MC-128463 - The "How Did We Get Here" advancement does not require Conduit Power
• MC-128557 - Drowning dolphins don't swim to the surface.
• MC-128666 - Flowing water above magma blocks turns into bubble columns
• MC-128674 - Buffet end island puts you in the void
• MC-128681 - Dolphins don't drop experience
• MC-128712 - Phantoms don't drop experience when killed by player
• MC-128733 - The ice block tag is missing frosted_ice
• MC-128766 - Blue ice doesn't mine fast using pickaxe
• MC-128779 - "Debug Mode" comes before "Buffet" in the world creation menu
• MC-128857 - Sea pickles change hitbox when increasing count, but turtle eggs don't

Fixed bugs in 18w19b

• MC-122308 - Zombies can no longer break wooden doors
• MC-123351 - Growing grass with bonemeal deletes upper block
• MC-124694 - /bossbar create subcommand named inconsistently
• MC-127249 - Drowned don't show armor
• MC-128243 - Dolphins do not try to get into the water
• MC-128681 - Dolphins don't drop experience
• MC-129233 - Items with additional NBT you hold don't show up or "wiggle" up and down; damaged tools partially don't work anymore
• MC-129246 - The sound for Parrots imitating Phantoms is empty

Get the snapshot

To install the snapshot, open up the Minecraft Launcher and enable snapshots in the "Launch Options" tab.

Snapshots can corrupt your world, please backup and/or run them in a different folder from your main worlds.

Cross-platform server jar:

• Minecraft server jar

Report bugs here:

• Minecraft issue tracker!