Sorry that I am a little late to report on this, but I have been extremely busy today with my midterm studies. :) Anyway, here is the changelog, courtesy of Mojang:
"The first snapshot of Minecraft 1.8 has arrived! This update will be split into two primary focuses: Survival gameplay & improvements, and new fancy abilities for adventure maps! We’ve done a whole bunch of optimizing for both the client and server (with more to come!) and lots more work towards the Plugin API in the background. As this is the very first snapshot of 1.8, do remember to backup your worlds before trying it!
Major Enchanting & Repairing changes!
Mossy stone bricks recipe!
Updated Villager trading!
Lots of other tweaks, changes, bug fixes and secret features!
Big Adventure Map changes:
Adventure Mode no longer lets you place/destroy blocks.
Added Entity Selectors! Use @e in certain commands to target entities. You can limit it with [type=Chicken] or [type=!Skeleton]
Added a /blockdata command!
Added ‘Lock’ (String) NBT tag on most containers.
Added an optional entity parameter to /kill (try: /kill @e[type=!Player]
Added optional arguments to /clear for max item count (use 0 to not actually delete anything) & NBT data
Lots of other tweaks, changes, bug fixes and secret features!"
There are lots of cool new stuff coming down the road here with the next update. I really like the idea of the bouncy slime blocks and I am happy that enchanting and repairing is getting worked on too. More importantly, I am excited to see more work being done in adventure mode. There is some awesome stuff being done in terms of adventure/custom maps from the community, and I'm glad to see Mojang supporting mapmakers with the new changes.
So, go out and download the new 1.8 snapshot and check this stuff out for yourself!
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