Searge, one of the Minecraft development team, has today posted on the Mojang Blog that snapshot 15w47a is now available to download.
Searge started off the announcement by thanking fans of the game for taking time to not only report bugs and issues but for voting on them: adding that it is helping the team “to focus on the important tickets”. The notable changes in this snapshot include “better support for transparency in skins, preparing the game for the upcoming holidays and balancing tweaks.”
The update naturally fixes a number of bugs, a full list can be found below.
• [Issue MC-1777] – Placing a painting “behind” a button makes button unclickable
• [Issue MC-1973] – Items placed into a beacon are lost upon destroying it or reloading a world
• [Issue MC-2844] – Doors have no placement sound.
• [Issue MC-5927] – Daylight Sensor outputting signal when encased
• [Issue MC-7519] – Clearing Nausea Potion Effect will stop it but show portal tint
• [Issue MC-9089] – Suicide from potions gives player a point in playerKillCount
• [Issue MC-12959] – TNT mesh rotated wrongly placed vs primed
• [Issue MC-33384] – Noteblocks and jukeboxes play the wrong walk, place and break sounds
• [Issue MC-42150] – On Christmas trapped chests don’t have texture of presents
• [Issue MC-46772] – Skin hat layer translucency only works in the end dimension
• [Issue MC-59777] – Endermen lose ability to dodge melee attacks after being hit
• [Issue MC-65240] – Banner pole texture mis-aligned
• [Issue MC-65699] – Armor Stand Duplication
• [Issue MC-67017] – The small cube in slime blocks isn’t displayed in inventory and when dropped
• [Issue MC-84625] – Mobs don’t navigate correctly in contact with Chorus Plants
• [Issue MC-89141] – Shulker spawn instant position is crooked (not aligned to block grid)
• [Issue MC-89882] – Shulkers Don’t Drop Experience
• [Issue MC-92202] – Villagers stand outside opening and closing doors instead of entering
• [Issue MC-92443] – Typo in soundevent name “enttiy.zombie.infect”
• [Issue MC-92556] – Mobs bouncing and spinning on grass
• [Issue MC-92559] – Splash potions are broken / All thrown potions are water potions
• [Issue MC-92562] – Redstone blocks emit power through blocks
• [Issue MC-92595] – Redstone blocks don’t update adjacent blocks’ power state correctly
• [Issue MC-92866] – Purpur Slab variant displays “DEFAULT” in capital letters