Minecraft Snapshot 18w15a

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Changes in 18w15a

• New entity: Dolphins
• New block: Conduit
• New block: Blue Ice
• New item: Heart of the Sea
• New item: Nautilus Shell
• Icebergs now generate in frozen oceans
• You no longer have "night vision" effect underwater
• Water now has different colours based on the biome
• New video option: Biome blend distance
• Going in and out of swimming should now feel smoother
• You can now swim through 1x1 holes! Again!
• Fog colour underwater now changes much smoother between biomes
• Optimized fog rendering
• Light now goes much further through liquid blocks

Dolphins

It's happening!

• Spawns in any ocean that isn't frozen
• They're just cute, okay?
• Dolphins are very playful and love floating items
• They also love to chase after boats
• If you upset one, you upset them all
• More behaviours coming soon

Water

Blubb blubb blubb blubb

• Water now only blocks 1 light per block, instead of 3
• This only affects newly placed water - we will relight all chunks in an upcoming snapshot
• Every ocean biome has a unique water colour, and swamps are icky and gross
• In newly generated chunks, you're less likely to find frozen ocean next to warm ocean (and similar)

Conduit

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• ????
• I'm not sure.
• What is this?
• Where are we?

Fixed bugs in 18w15a

• MC-25866 - Splash Potion of Saturation has no effect
• MC-63714 - Zombie Pigmen get angry when hit in creative
• MC-121479 - Clicking on world, save and quit to title and quit buttons freeze the game for a second
• MC-122354 - Flying with elytra crash game / kicks player
• MC-123585 - Closing world while debug pie chart is open causes crash
• MC-123853 - Mobs don't burn when standing in double plants/cobweb
• MC-124906 - Underground lava and water lakes and mob spawners generate with air instead of Cave air (cave_air)
• MC-124915 - /locate and eye of ender find strongholds in invalid places
• MC-124918 - Biome-specific structures generate at wrong biomes in superflat
• MC-124953 - Vines generate beneath jungle at y-level 64
• MC-125083 - New world generator doesn't generate snow on trees in snow biomes
• MC-125106 - Liquids in generated structures don't update
• MC-125188 - Releasing the sprint button will no longer stop sprinting until you touch the ground
• MC-125195 - Spectator mode will still allow the swimming animations
• MC-125219 - Logs do not retain their rotation when stripping them
• MC-125240 - Player is unable to swim through one-high water with a solid block above
• MC-125530 - Swimming while touching ground shakes viewport if View Bobbing is enabled
• MC-125578 - Splash turtle potions missing "splash" in translation
• MC-125579 - Tipped turtle potion arrows inconsistently capitalize "The"
• MC-126087 - In creative mode, fish buckets are used when placing the fish
• MC-126097 - Will not drop the grilled fish, when cod and salmon are burned to death
• MC-126185 - Fish unrestricted spawning causing world to inevitably crash from the number of entities
• MC-126557 - Sea grass, kelp and coral can be generated on crevices
• MC-127276 - Zombie transform to Drowned in less than waist-high water

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