Yet another week and yet another snapshot for Minecraft 1.8 – 14w07a!
Say hello to the Iron Trapdoor! These can be crafted using four iron ingots in a 2x2 square. They can only be opened using a redstone signal, lever or button and they use the same colour and texture combination that iron doors do. A few more small changes have been added as well with blaze rods now held by a character as a stick or sword would rather than sideways like an ingot, and redstone repeaters have had their light level removed and no longer provide any source of light at all.
The /weather clear <time> command has been finally fixed in this update. Previously when the time was input into the command it was ignored and the game immediately cleared the weather. Now the time delay functions correctly!
A few more changes for commands and command blocks have made their way into this snapshot. When a command is input into a command block it may be stored in the new BlockEntity tag. The middle mouse + ctrl key combination stores the NBT tag containing the command within the block when it is broken. This leads in nicely to the fact that dispensers are now able to place command blocks, with or without the tags already loaded.
Scoreboard commands have had some work as well, allowing certain information to be displayed to a player depending on his or her team, and team colours are now able to be displayed on a player’s name tag. The name tag colours are now able to be toggled by a scoreboard command so that nametags are never shown, always shown, hidden for own team or hidden for other teams. The /TellRaw command has been modified to allow the displaying of a players score from an objective. For example it is able to display “Pantzz has killed <x> number of the blue team”. Currently this command crashes the game but should be fixed in the b version of this snapshot.
The TestForBlocks command has been added to the game! This compares the blocks within two specified areas and outputs a signal when they are identical. The TestFor command has also been modified so a player’s inventory may be targeted. A unique player inventory slot number can be used to also target specific inventory slots meaning a redstone signal can be output if a player is wearing a certain item!
Last of all for adventure map makers and players, the ability to package a resource pack with a map has been added. This simplified the installation of new maps for the adventurous!
- Pantzz