This week's snapshot brings you a few tweaks to honey bottles, performance improvements and some bugfixes. 

Changes in 19w44a

• Combining four glass bottles with one honey block now gives you four honey bottles
• Honey bottles now stack (up to 16)
• Vertically moving particles are performing better when they collide with blocks
  
• Improved performance of chunk saving
• Iron Golem's damage progress is now based on ratio of current health to max health
• Fixed bugs

Fixed bugs in 19w44a

• MC-63179 - Clouds move with the player
• MC-106494 - Items despawn after one minute instead of five when dropped from the Creative inventory
• 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-158911 - Fences and walls connect to closed shulker boxes
• MC-161837 - Some biome-affected items are coloured incorrectly when held in the hand
• MC-161841 - Top texture of leaves and grass blocks is gray in 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 colour 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 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-163400 - Parrots can imitate wolves, polar bears, zombie pigmen and endermen
• MC-163403 - Trees now require much more free space around them to grow
• MC-163744 - Missing predicates return true/false rather than failing
• MC-163849 - Stopping Creative flight with double-space triggers elytra flight
• MC-164038 - Serializer for storage nbt component is missing

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