Minecraft 1.9 has finally arrived! Here is a comprehensive look at all the new things in the game!
If you want to skip ahead to any certain section, click on the index text at the top of the video.
Minecraft news playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEqam0f7VN8&list;=PL4ZS2guXqa_jrD_9AGgzp9ZEntWkNDOsm
Music by Ason ID (https://soundcloud.com/ason-music/) and outro music "
The Fire" by Amarante (
http://amarante.bandcamp.com/) used under a
Creative Commons CC-BY 3.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/
3.0/).
Some highlights!
Weapons &
Combat:
-
Off hand slot
-
Shields & No blocking on swords
-
Weapon stats on tools
-
Attack indicator
- Attack speed
- Weapon special abilities
-
Damage indicators
-
Armor protection rebalancing
-
Protection enchant rebalancing
-
Sharpness enchant rebalancing
-
Spectral arrows
- Potion tipped arrow types
Core gameplay mechanics:
-
Natural health regen now depends on saturation
- Elytra (wings), have cape texture, lets players glide around
-
Flying into blocks hurts
-
Riding is now client-side, fixes glitchyness of fast movement
- Middle-click in survival
-
Collision!
- Ender pearls cooldown
- Ender pearls usable in creative
World generation:
- Igloos! With a rare chance for a basement structure!
-
Stronghold limit is now 128, up from 3
The End:
- New end pillar layout
-
Caged end crystals
-
Fixed end portal location
- Ender dragon fight
-
Dragon fireballs
-
Dragon's breath
- Ender crystal recipe
- Ender dragon respawn (no egg)
- End gateways
- Outer end island
-
Chorus fruits, chorus plants
- Purpur blocks and its variants
- End stone bricks
- End rods
- End cities
- Shulkers & bullets
-
Levitation
- Flying ships
-
Dragon's head
- Elytra
- Dragon head
- Beetroots,
Beetroot seeds,
Beetroot soup
Enchants,
Potions, Buffs, Debuffs:
-
Buff / debuff
GUI
- Lingering potions
- Brewing needs fuel
-
Treasure enchants. Can only be looted off chests, fished or traded
- Frostwalker enchant
- Mending enchant
- No repair cost for renaming an item
- No silk touch on shears.
Shears harvest spider web blocks by default
-
Notch apples nerfed, recipe removed
-
Overpowered achievement now requires eating one
Enemies & AI:
- Wearing mob head conceals player from that mob type
-
Zombie villager professions and skins
-
Skeletons now strafe around as they shoot
- Pathfinding fixes!
-
Skeleton horse traps: chance to spawn in thunderstorms
-
Traps activate on proximity, spawning
3-4 skeletal riders
- Killing rider leaves the horse for player use
- Hostile mobs no longer spawn on minecart rails
- XP
Orbs now circle your chest instead of your head
Passive Mobs &
Villagers:
-
Rabbits now run from the player and are smaller, have less health, 1½ hearts
- Their pelt color and pattern is affected by which biome they spawn in
- Rabbits now eat all types of crops, but rather than destroy them them one stage less grown
-
Horses will stop accepting food once at 0 temper and
100% likely to tame
- The default wolf collar color has changed from orange to red
-
Pets dying now always show a chat notification
- New snow golem type, shearing head off
- Villagers no longer sell eyes of ender, instead sell ender pearls
- Villagers no longer slam doors endlessly while trying to move in or out
Blocks:
-
Trap doors no longer require a block
- No flowing water texture next to glass in water
-
Landing on hay bales when falling causes less fall damage
-
Grass path block!
Boats:
- Can be made in all kinds of wood
- Oars and rowing animation
- Can now have a passenger
-
Don't instantly break on contact
- Can now be used on land
Redstone & Mechanisms:
-
Block collisions fixed, item elevators broken
- Blocks moved by pistons no longer have glitchy collisions, breaking shifting floor farms
-
Piston heads now pull entities in
- Redstone hitbox now depends its connections
Sounds:
- Lots of new sounds!
- Subtitles!
World
Creation:
- World thumbnails
- World version numbers
-
Edit world screen
-
The Void superflat preset & The Void biome
- Spectate button when dying in hardcore
Command Blocks:
- New command block types: inpulse, chain, repeat
- Conditional command blocks
- Needs redstone/always active
-
Tab completion in command blocks
F3 & F5:
-
Camera doesn't auto-switch back out of F5 mode anymore.
- F3
function list on F3+Q.
You can find all my inventions and maps at my web site, http://www.slicedlime.tv
Leave me a comment, or find me elsewhere:
Twitter: http://twitter.com/slicedlime
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SlicedlimeYT
Reddit: http://reddit.com/u/sliced_lime
PlanetMinecraft: http://www.planetminecraft.com/member/slicedlime/
Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/slicedlime
- published: 29 Feb 2016
- views: 607