Java Edition 17w15a
Minecraft 17w15a
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| Release date |
April 12, 2017 | ||||||
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321 | ||||||
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17w15a is the fifth snapshot for Java Edition 1.12, released on April 12, 2017,[1] which adds colored beds.
Additions
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- Added colored beds which can be crafted with colored wool or by dyeing a white bed.
- Now bounce the player like slime blocks, albeit much less.
- Now reduce (but not negate) fall damage when landed on.
- The player can survive a 41 block fall onto a bed.
- Any higher, and the second bounce deal the remaining amount of damage to kill them.
- The player can survive a 45 block fall onto a bed if they don't take further fall damage (e.g. by landing on a platform).
- The player can survive a 41 block fall onto a bed.
- Now a block entity, and each half can be colored individually using the
colortag. - Now use a 3D item model instead of a 2D item because of the new colors.
General
- Added one advancement ("Adventuring Time"), added descriptions to 30 existing advancements and changed titles of most of them.
- Advancements in this version include:
| Minecraft | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Icon | Advancement | In-game description | Parent | Actual requirements (if different) | Resource location | Rewards |
  | Minecraft | The heart and story of the game | — | Have a crafting table in the inventory. | story/root | — |
 | Stone Age | Mine stone with your new pickaxe | Minecraft | Have cobblestone in the inventory. | story/mine_stone | — |
 | Getting an Upgrade | Construct a better pickaxe | Stone Age | Have a stone pickaxe in the inventory. | story/upgrade_tools | — |
 | Acquire Hardware | Smelt an iron ingot | Getting an Upgrade | Have an iron ingot in the inventory. | story/smelt_iron | — |
 | Suit Up | Protect yourself with a piece of iron armor | Acquire Hardware | Have any piece of iron armor in the inventory. | story/obtain_armor | — |
 | Not Today, Thank You | Deflect an arrow with a shield | Suit Up | Block incoming damage from a projectile with a shield. | story/deflect_arrow | — |
 | Isn't It Iron Pick | Upgrade your pickaxe | Acquire Hardware | Have an iron pickaxe in the inventory. | story/iron_tools | — |
 | Diamonds! | Acquire diamonds | Isn't It Iron Pick | Have a diamond in the inventory. | story/mine_diamond | — |
 | Cover Me with Diamonds | Diamond armor saves lives | Diamonds! | Have any piece of diamond armor in the inventory. | story/shiny_gear | — |
 | Enchanter | Enchant an item at an Enchanting Table | Diamonds! | — | story/enchant_item | — |
 | Hot Stuff | Fill a bucket with lava | Acquire Hardware | Have a lava bucket in the inventory. | story/lava_bucket | — |
 | Ice Bucket Challenge | Form and mine a block of Obsidian | Hot Stuff | Have obsidian in the inventory. | story/form_obsidian | — |
 | We Need to Go Deeper | Build, light and enter a Nether Portal | Ice Bucket Challenge | Enter the nether portal block. | story/enter_the_nether | — |
 | Withering Heights | Summon the Wither | We Need to Go Deeper | — | story/summon_wither | — |
 | Bring Home the Beacon | Construct and place a Beacon | Withering Heights | Be near a beacon when it activates. | story/create_beacon | — |
 | Beaconator | Bring a beacon to full power | Bring Home the Beacon | Be near a 4-layer beacon when it activates. | story/create_full_beacon | — |
 | Into Fire | Relieve a Blaze of its rod | We Need to Go Deeper | Have a blaze rod in the inventory. | story/obtain_blaze_rod | — |
 | A Weak Brew | Brew up a potion of Weakness | Into Fire | Retrieve from a brewing stand either a potion of Weakness, a splash potion of Weakness, or a lingering potion of Weakness (neither can be an extended variant). | story/brew_weakness_potion | — |
 | Zombie Doctor | Cure a zombie villager. | A Weak Brew | The advancement is granted when the zombie villager converts into a villager. | story/cure_zombie_villager | — |
 | Eye Spy | Follow an Ender Eye | Into Fire | Use an eye of ender while being within 64 blocks of a stronghold. | story/follow_ender_eye | — |
 | The End? | Enter the End Portal | Eye Spy | Enter the End portal block. | story/enter_the_end | — |
 | Remote Getaway | Defeat the dragon and escape the island | The End? | Enter the End gateway block. | story/enter_end_gateway | — |
 | Sky's the Limit | Find an Elytra | Remote Getaway | Have an elytra in the inventory. | story/elytra | — |
| Adventure | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Icon | Advancement | In-game description | Parent | Actual requirements (if different) | Resource location | Rewards |
 | Adventure | Adventure, exploration and combat. | — | Kill any entity, or be killed by any entity. | adventure/root | — |
 | Sweet Dreams | Change your respawn point | Adventure | Sleep in a bed. | adventure/sleep_in_bed | — |
  | Adventuring Time | Discover every biome | Sweet Dreams | Visit each of these biomes:
| adventure/adventuring_time | — |
 | What a Deal! | Successfully trade with a Villager | Adventure | — | adventure/trade | — |
 | Monster Hunter | Kill any hostile monster | Adventure | Kill one of these 22 mobs:
| adventure/kill_a_mob | — |
 | Monsters Hunted | Kill one of every hostile monster | Monster Hunter | Kill each of the mobs mentioned above. | adventure/kill_all_mobs | — |
 | Take Aim | Shoot something with bow and arrow | Monster Hunter | Hit a mob with a shot arrow. | adventure/shoot_arrow | — |
 | Sniper duel | Kill a skeleton with an arrow from more than 50 meters | Take Aim | Kill any mob with a shot arrow from at least 50 blocks away. | adventure/sniper_duel | — |
- Added a toast notification for toggling the narrator.
- Added the option to toggle narrator between: "off", "chat & system", "chat only", and "system messages only".
- Added "Don't feed chocolate to parrots!"
Changes
Blocks
- The rear face and underside of stairs are now considered "solid".
- Allows for torches, fences, iron bars, glass panes, walls, and snow layers to connect to them properly.
Fences, walls, glass panes, and iron bars
- Now connect to stairs, buttons, signs, all types of rails, banners, string, redstone, pressure plates, levers, tripwire hooks, sticky pistons, and structure voids.
- Removed the recipe to craft white wool using bone meal and white wool.
Mobs
- No longer cycle through parrot colors when dancing.
General
- The icon in the pop-up notification now quickly cycles through all recipes that were unlocked.
Fixes
From released versions before 1.12
- MC-2813 – Snow doesn't form / cannot be placed on upside down slabs / stairs
- MC-8345 – Placing torch on backside of stairs impossible
- MC-9176 – Glass panes not correctly rendering with the back of stairs
- MC-10613 – Fence doesn't connect with stairs
- MC-11963 – bed hind legs not rendered
- MC-109663 – Tamed dogs attack tamed cats
From the 1.12 development versions
- MC-114899 – Recipes removed on gamemode 2
- MC-114907 – Parrots in flight tend to spin around in circles rather than fly in a direction
- MC-114950 – Book crafting recipe doesn't exist in the newest snapshot
- MC-114961 – Multiplayer players get kicked on pickup first item for advancement
- MC-114974 – Clicking on crafting recipe in Spectator mode moves items to crafting grid
- MC-114991 – Crafting recipe list shows 1/0 pages when no recipes were unlocked
- MC-115025 – Clicking on recipe or on book to close crafting help additionally clicks in inventory
- MC-115048 – Parrots sitting on shoulders don't drown in water or burn in lava / Parrots shouldn't go diving
- MC-115050 – Statistics page never loads
- MC-115064 – Custom advancements in world folder use the "minecraft" namespace instead of folder name
- MC-115121 – Credits are not shown when leaving End for the first time but after that are always shown
- MC-115148 – F3 + T does not reload advancements but does reload loot tables
- MC-115157 – No advancements on server
- MC-115159 – Repeated key events are not enabled for crafting search
- MC-115182 – Parrots become invisible when on a players shoulder while player swims up.
- MC-115184 – Parrot imitations show up on subtitles as original sound
- MC-115221 – Certain blocks don't render correctly in crafter helper.
- MC-115277 – Your tamed wolf will attack your tamed parrot
- MC-115341 – Bug with the Narrator
- MC-115361 –
doLimitedCraftingset to 'true' disables ability to combine used tools
From the previous development version
- MC-115423 – Duplicate bug in "Click and hold for more" menu + text message bug
- MC-115426 – Background doesn't become darker in most GUIs
- MC-115427 – Tool info not showing up in most GUIs
- MC-115436 – Item duplication using recipe book
- MC-115443 – 17w14a doLimitedCrafting(true) returns FATAL ERROR on servers when recipe should unlock
- MC-115444 – "Obtain Armor" and "Shiny Gear" advancement notification at each piece of armor.
- MC-115462 – Can craft "incomplete" recipe using alternate ingredients
- MC-115465 – Items can be dropped if you click while hovering over recipe interface
- MC-115466 – 17w14a doLimitedCrafting(true) Crafting Based duplication
- MC-115469 – Parrots do not appear dancing for other players
- MC-115470 – Parrots go to players' shoulders in spectator mode
- MC-115474 – Taken recipes are still available until player relogs
- MC-115481 – 17w14a STDOUT spam when hurting/killing mobs
- MC-115504 – Recipe book does not correctly render character
- MC-115508 – Parrots on your shoulder look darker if many items in your inventory
- MC-115530 – "Recipes unlocked" message only shows up when reloading the world.
- MC-115726 – Tool and armor duplication glitch with
doLimitedCraftingset to true
Videos
Video made by Slicedlime:
Trivia
- 17w15a was previously removed from the launcher for some time, but was added back in September 2018.
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