Minecraft 1.8.1 Pre-Release & 1.9 News: Knees & Elbows, Idle Ender Dragons, Rabbit Food Bait, Maps

Hey guys it’s adam ak’s swimming bird and welcome to the pre-release for minecraft version one point eight point one we’ve got performance improvements bug fixes a few new features and even some exciting news about minecraft 1.9 in store so let’s get into it now since 1.8 came out the developers

Have been hard at work they have fixed over 70 bugs and the game runs quite a bit better now if you have any problems running 1.8 a lot of that should be alleviated in 181 Maps look way better now if you look at these comparison screenshots here from reddit user

Redstone helper you can see a lot of blocks that in previous versions of the game they’ve just all blended together a lot of them were very gray or they just didn’t have their own color now have a distinct color so it looks much better jump boost potions can now be extended

With redstone so if you get a jump boost potion you can make an 8 minute potion of leaping or a 6 minute splash potion of leaping so you can jump a bit longer there over here I’ve got some player skulls and if you picked block on one in

The past you would just get the normal Steve head but if you now hit control pick block you can get the specific player head with the specific skin there so you can collect your friends heads if you want over here I’ve got some bunny rabbits now in the past if you wanted

Them to follow you you had to use carrots but now they will follow you if you have a golden carrot or even a dandelion that’s a little reference to how the mock miner fed a bunny a dandelion on a golf course and that’s why he added into the game so now if you

Want to breed them you can use any of these items but they’ll also follow you as well when you hold them none of the other flowers work it’s just the dandelion very specific there in the past you couldn’t place any buttons on top of flipped upside down stairs or

Upper slabs but now you can put them on the top still can’t put them on the bottom unfortunately but that’s alright maybe in the future over here I’ve got a horse he’s sitting on an armor stand if you saw baby horses in one-point-eight you probably noticed they looked just

Kind of like smaller horses they didn’t really look right compared to how they originally designed now they have their lanky little awkward full legs as you can see here and they will walk around all cute with their normal horse look from back in 1.6 chicken jockeys there

Were some issues in 1.8 if they went underwater they would actually attached from their chicken but now they will stay together and just hang out with their little mouse there which has had some issues where if you gave them a held item you can actually spawn them in

And make them hold an item it was in the wrong place and it was too small and stuff but now it holds it just like it would a potion and that sticks its nose out which is really weird items were also too high on your arm in third

Person so if you looked when I have my item here especially when you’re sneaking it used to pop way up on your arm with the slim arms as well it was a little weird but now it is in the right spot it’s where your hand should be I

Still think the blocking animations kind of strange it still looks good but it’s I’m used to the one where it like crosses fully over your chest another thing about third person if I just have a normal hand sticking out here if you have another layer over your

Hand like a wristband or something like that it wasn’t shown wrapped all the way around your arm but now it will be in third person so that’s nice over here I can show you guys we have a new game rule so in the past we had do mob loot

If you wanted like a rabbit or any monster anything to not drop whatever it normally would and not drop experience you could do do mob loot false that’s useful for adventure maps if you’re controlling like experience and stuff like that and we also had to do tile

Drops so if I was to break a block you can make it where it doesn’t drop all this stuff for adventure maps for the most part but now we have do entity drops so these are for non alive entities like minecarts we also have boats item frames there and and

Paintings so if I was to break these blocks here with those on them it won’t drop the item frame and it won’t drop the painting and if I hit a mine card it won’t drop that either it just kind of leaves it there but it still is dropping

These blocks because I don’t have title drop turned off so yeah just very useful if you have an adventure map you can now make it where that stuff won’t pop off the wall as well so it’s a little bit better there over here I can show you

Guys we’ve got some other stuff going on this cactus previously if you put a banner next to a cactus or on top of it it would break and just drop like a black banner now you actually can’t put a banner in certain directions around it

I think the same is for signs as well I think it’s just to alleviate it being damaged by that because the the banners are kind of like little entities as well if you were in the nether previously you went through another portal if you’re facing like if I was walking through

Another portal I looked up when I went through I would be facing normal but now it retains your orientation when you go through the nether portal this is one of the oldest bugs it’s like bug 3 they finally fixed that which is kind of funny and speaking of the nether

Glowstone crystal formations now form right they didn’t have bottoms before it was really weird and ender pearls there was a nice little trick in the past where if you threw one and you logged out you could come back and the pearl would drop you in another spot and you

Could do stuff with the nether and pour it around by throwing it through another portal and stuff like that and now you can do that again because the ender pearl will stay in the world and it won’t just disappear after you log I’ve got this little flock of ender dragons

Over here as you can see and they’re all stick the motionless here they’re stationary in the sky that is because the no AI tag now works for ender dragons so if you wanted to summon one in and you didn’t want it to have any AI it will just float there wherever you

Summon it and it won’t move you can still hear it making noise but it just sits there and doesn’t do anything so it’s kind of funny it would work for other mobs in the past but it wouldn’t work for ender dragons but now we can do

It you can have a display under dragon just like growling just kind of funny and also if you do do mob loot false ender dragons will not drop their experience anymore so if you don’t want to get showered and experienced orbs that is something you can turn off now

Bows were upside down also in 1.8 their texture was like weird or something strange so that’s nice and a few other little things before we get into that 1.9 news over here I’ve got iron golems ready to set up you can now use jack-o’-lanterns again to spawn them in

Which is very nice and previously I did a big video on whether creepers or an iron golems would attack each other they have finally ended their feud hopefully once and for all the creepers will not go after the iron golem and now a bug that was still in 1.8 the iron golems

Will not attack the creepers and blow up your base when you’re not around so that is very nice they are a little bit easier to use now you don’t have to worry about babysitting them and stuff he’ll still go after that little chicken jockey just murdered him in cold blood that was a

Villager baby that you did that to but he did it anyways a few of the developers including the MOG minor and sayers are now in the credits they weren’t mentioned in the credits because we I think we still had the same credit sequence when you beat the ender dragon

From back when 1.0 was finally released so yeah we’ve got a few new names added in there which is nice now the 1.9 news that I wanted to mention very exciting stuff the mock miner speaking of him he is rewriting the whole model system for how entities

Work like creepers and you know any of these mobs stuff like that and it’s very complicated but one of the things he said that we’re going to be able to do in 1.9 is that if we have a resource pack we can add knees and elbows to our

Players so we can actually make our player model more complicated and have little knees and elbow joints and stuff like that so that’ll be something that we could just switch out with a resource pack that’s crazy that seems like something you would have to mod in to do

It that sort of thing but it will be in vanilla as long as you have the right resource back in 1.9 very cool stuff thank you guys for watching hopefully you’re excited for one point 8.1 we’re going to get some more fixes here before it’s finally release but thank you for

Tuning in and learning all about it with me I’m excited for 1.9 still no news when we’re going to start getting snapshots at that but hopefully sometime soon they’re already working on it please leave a like if you enjoyed this if you want to follow me on Twitter it’s

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