1.9 snapshot

Darkglasses · 29-07-2015 11:01pm #1

Has anyone else been playing around with the snapshot? There's actually sooo much stuff in the snapshot, and yet some of the best stuff seems to be left out! A really great update coming up for sure.

My two favourite things are actually really simple improvements - you can make pathway grass blocks by just right-clicking a grass block. Sooo simple to make good looking pathways in survival now.

Second favourite thing, the new way single glass panes and iron bars render. No more clunky looking cross shape.

I haven't even had a chance to look at the actual new blocks yet or the new End set up. There's new End dungeons and pirate ships apparently?

Oh, and there's beetroot.

Darkglasses · 30-07-2015 2:33pm

Very important - do not use this snapshot on your main world without a rock-solid back up. There are multiple ways this snapshot can corrupt your world badly.

OldGoat · 31-07-2015 8:44am

Is that the voice of experience? Did you fup up some of your worlds?

Darkglasses · 31-07-2015 10:37am

OldGoat wrote: »

Is that the voice of experience? Did you fup up some of your worlds?

Nope no harm done, I have backups of all my worlds. There are all kinds of problems with signs, it corrupts your world to where you need MCedit to fix it.

mhiggy09 · 01-08-2015 12:50am

Tryed these today they are pretty cool hope they are added

Darkglasses · 21-08-2015 1:49pm

So much more stuff being added in the last few snapshots, too much to mention. Shields are in, and there's loads and loads of combat changes. Some kind of ice mob is on the way too.

Darkglasses · 31-08-2015 1:33pm

Controversial change incoming - Players will once again bump into each other instead of ghosting through. I way prefer this, it's more challenging.

mhiggy09 · 31-08-2015 11:08pm

Oni's King of the Tower game is going to be alot more fun now. :-)

Solitaire · 01-09-2015 1:27am

All hail the return of The Game Of Boop!

Strange to think of exactly how much of the last 4 years of my life have revolved around booping juju and bland off bridges into rivers... ^_^

Darkglasses · 07-10-2015 4:00pm

More big changes coming in - there is now a kind of hang glider thingy that can be found in the End dungeons, and boats are fixed!

EoinHef · 07-10-2015 9:25pm

Darkglasses wrote: »

More big changes coming in - there is now a kind of hang glider thingy that can be found in the End dungeons, and boats are fixed!

Hehe,if i had a penny for everytime Mojang said boats were fixed id be a rich man:D

Darkglasses · 08-10-2015 11:45am

EoinHef wrote: »

Hehe,if i had a penny for everytime Mojang said boats were fixed id be a rich man:D

Well at the very least, they've changed the crafting recipe and appearance! You now need to put a shovel into the recipe, as an oar.

Not going to play test any of these new things until the release version is...released..

EoinHef · 08-10-2015 9:20pm

Is there an animation for the oar? Havent seen that

Im interested to see how the changes will affect the game,wont get to see any of it till the changes make there way through to mods though. Dont really play vanilla at all anymore

Darkglasses · 10-10-2015 8:38pm

http://gfycat.com/SlowExaltedGoat

Hope this isn't patched out. You have to love the creativity to find these shortcuts.

Darkglasses · 13-10-2015 5:50pm

Apparently this is part of a new enchantment.

Darkglasses · 14-10-2015 3:47pm

^^^ It's frost walker, so water turns to ice for a few seconds. Makes travelling across oceans much easier!

There's also a really awesome new enchantment called mending - When holding a tool with mending, any XP orbs you pick up will now automatically go towards repairing the tool.

Darkglasses · 14-10-2015 3:47pm

^^^ It's frost walker, so water turns to ice for a few seconds. Makes travelling across oceans much easier!

There's also a really awesome new enchantment called mending - When holding a tool with mending, any XP orbs you pick up will now automatically go towards repairing the tool.

Solitaire · 14-10-2015 7:04pm

*looks up* I think our server hamsters could do with a Mending enchant right about now...

Darkglasses · 14-10-2015 7:45pm

Solitaire wrote: »

*looks up* I think our server hamsters could do with a Mending enchant right about now...

http://instantrimshot.com/

Solitaire · 14-10-2015 11:35pm

Oi! You can't use that link except when responding to a comment ending with :pac:!

Rachel_Ann · 15-10-2015 3:57pm

Ice mobs eh....hmm. I've only just adjusted to the sea monsters. The bumping into each other is a pain in the swiss especially when you mine in tunnels like I do and some wise ass runs up behind you :P

Darkglasses · 15-10-2015 4:01pm

Rachel_Ann wrote: »

Ice mobs eh....hmm. I've only just adjusted to the sea monsters. The bumping into each other is a pain in the swiss especially when you mine in tunnels like I do and some wise ass runs up behind you :P

It looks like I was wrong about the ice mobs, they haven't appeared in any snapshots yet and I assume the full release isn't too far off now

The bumping sounds like even more fun now

Rachel_Ann · 16-10-2015 12:32pm

I'd be in favour of the addition of an Abominable Snowman / Yeti for snow biomes or extreme hills. That'd be pretty cool. Kinda like a iron golem style mob.

He'd be super rare though.... & offer you yellow snow cones :P

Darkglasses · 20-10-2015 4:16pm

Pretty sure Igloos are coming in the next snapshot. Wish the full release would hurry up! I assumed it would be out by now. Maybe a hallowe'en release?

Darkglasses · 21-10-2015 10:19pm

Yup, igloos are in the latest snapshot.

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They are not always the same inside...Check them!

[CrimsonGhost] · 28-10-2015 10:58am

Remove the carpet inside, some have a dungeon below.

Darkglasses · 29-10-2015 9:40pm

Big improvement in the paintings, at least in breaking them. Still nothing to fix the classic pain in the butt for getting the one you want.

Ender crystals are now craftable, which is awesome, and Notch apples are no longer craftable.

bnt · 31-10-2015 8:16pm

I'm liking the ambidexterity - quite often I switch between two tools or blocks while building something.

EoinHef · 27-11-2015 5:50pm

Any ideas when the update will be ready for release?

Longest time i can remember between updates. Which is a little worrying as its the first since MS took over. They probably have mojang flat out on the Windows 10 edition.

Darkglasses · 27-11-2015 6:08pm

EoinHef wrote: »

Any ideas when the update will be ready for release?

Longest time i can remember between updates. Which is a little worrying as its the first since MS took over. They probably have mojang flat out on the Windows 10 edition.

Won't be released til around January. They've been doing weekly snapshots, so the Dev team is heavily focused on the normal version. It is a huge release, easily the most new stuff, and there's a hell of a lot of bugs to be ironed out.

Darkglasses · 10-12-2015 12:05am

So 1.8.9 has just been released. What's on it? F*ck all.

1.9 snapshot

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