Minecraft Snapshot 13w16a Review — Horses, Carpet and More

Welcome back settling here and it’s time for another snapshot of you this time we’re on 13 w 16 a is the first snapshot for the 1.6 Update and as you can see we’ve got horses finally added in the game I know people are requesting it for

A long time this one has been tamed got a saddle on it so I can actually get hop on with a tamed horse it doesn’t move around unless I command it to but I can just use the normal movement key is forward I can strafe left and right back up

I can also jump by holding down space and allowing that jump meter to charge up so you can kind of do like equestrian jumping by using that and the amount you try to charge up to you know control is how much it jumps for some reason you

Don’t right click – to dismount you use left shift and it only says that when you get on the horse so my first time I got on the horse I just had no idea I did this mount because I missed that little press l shift to dismount thing

But yeah so very very cool and they go very fast to different horses have different speeds different jump heights you can see this horse has 12 hearts rather than the normal ten they have different amounts so they kind of get different properties when they spawn and

I’m guessing I don’t know for sure but I’m guessing you can breed them and maybe breed certain properties into them too if you want to stop the horse from going off wherever you can leave some up and okay so there’s also donkeys I think they’re kind of a rarer spawn

I don’t know I think you might be able to you know mate donkeys with horses get mules I’m not really sure but so we have this donkey or maybe this is mule I don’t know it looks kind of like a donkey to me i right-clicked on him with

A chest once I tamed him and he’s got this chest in his hindquarters here you can’t actually use it yet I guess the feature is unfinished so but that’ll be really really cool cuz this this donkey actually you can you know I saddled it and and he actually moves

Pretty fast too so that’s a really really cool way to be able to move around with a bunch of supplies if that works also has 13 health yeah I think there’s gonna be a lot of a lot of fun stuff around breeding these animals and and and and using them they’re certainly

Gonna change that changed a lot about survival minecraft so really cool stuff so the way the way the horses work I can spawn some new horses there’s a there’s a spawn egg for that of course you can see the horse here now you you can right-click on it with wheat to feed it

You’ll notice the mouth opens and that indicates that he’s eating the wheat not the not the greatest eating animation he also has that grazing animation where he’ll put his head down to the ground here you’ll see that horse over there he just did that yeah so I did look at the

Data and for some reason when you feed a horse it also increases its temper I’m not really sure why that is it also does some other stuff I think it might increase certain stats there’s you can spawn baby horses or foals and you can make them grow by fitting them wheat now

In order not tame yet if I right-click on the horse though I can actually hop on but it’s probably gonna throw me off yeah you can see there threw me off and did it again eventually it’s gonna learn to love me hopefully that’s all I ever wanted

Come on buddy I know we can do this you threw me off again maybe this horse is not for me it will eventually work though there we go so now oh no no no no the lava oh so now he’s tamed I can put a saddle on him and ride him away from

The lava they’re gonna graze around hey I press L shift to dismount they’re gonna graze around on their own unless you tie them up to a fence post you can put armor on so there’s three different types of armor let me go into creative mode let’s see yeah so there’s three

Different types of horse armor here iron gold and diamonds and I’m not sure that there’s crafting recipes for those you can put those the horse and by the way if you don’t put a saddle on a team horse you can still get on this back but you can’t control it

But yeah you can put the armor on the on the horse I let’s grab some time and armor just toss it on and I assume that prevents damage to the horse but I haven’t actually tested how much damage defense or anything like that but yeah this is just some really cool stuff

Actually you’ll notice there’s no there’s no health or okay so interesting so when you’re creative mode riding a horse I guess maybe the horse is invincible hi this is I’m just learning about this right now let’s try riding into lava is this a good idea nope horse is not invincible Oh what

Have I done I’m so sorry well when I when he gets done being on fire this is disconcert oh no he died okay and for some reason I got a pig saddle back rather than a horse saddle it’s a different items so I guess that’s probably a bug because they were

Probably originally gonna use Pig saddles for for that or maybe they’re switching over to use two pigs headless I personally think they should use the same saddle for both horses and pigs but we’ll see what happens there so yeah I guess it just doesn’t display their health bar in creative mode anyway

There’s gonna be a lot of stuff I’m sure being added to horses you know the chests on the mules don’t work yet and anyway so but that’s a really really cool feature and and there’s there’s gonna be a lot to that and I’m sure people are gonna figure out

How to breed them and everything that should be really cool let’s see there are some other new features in the snapshot there’s a hay bale oops that’s right I don’t think has a name yet I just have to scroll down to it or maybe it’s in one of the menus here

Yeah hay-bale so here we are yeah it doesn’t have a name yet so I don’t think as a crafting recipe either you can place it just like you could you do logs so yeah you can build with that I think horses interact with hay bales somehow I

Mean you can feed them hay bales rather than feeding and wheat so if I go into survival mode right click the hay bale goes away and the horse liked it but I’m not really sure what how that’s different than being a tweets I would imagine that a hay bale is just going to

Be made out of a block of wheat but the crafting recipe doesn’t appear to be in yet so so there’s that that’s just a decorative block for now although I guess horses interact with it somehow let’s see there’s carpet which is a nice let me go back into creative mode carpet

Which is a really nice decorative block and so you can put the carpet down here it doesn’t have a hitbox so you kind of walk through it likes no you don’t you know you don’t raise your altitude by a sixteenth of a meter or anything and so I suppose the decorative although there

Is one cool thing about it and I have a sample over here it actually interacts with Pistons so and sticky pistons could even pull them so that could actually be really cool because it’s it’s another block like fence gates that can have no hitbox even though it you know you can

Be pushed around by Pistons I’m actually kind of curious what if I put I put sand on there what’s experiments it’s sand so if the sand starts out on top of it it’s fine if it falls in it breaks so there’s that too anyway there’s carpet and you can

Probably use that for some actual uses with with Pistons where you want a block to be pushed around but you don’t want a hitbox on that block you know so that you can have a player in there or whatever pretty cool there are some other changes I let’s see oh there’s

There’s one more I want to show you and then I’ll just mention there’s a new launcher by the way so you download a new minecraft XE see and okay so I have this respiration helmet so if I hop down into this water here it’s dark you know it’s really hard

To see you probably can’t see much of anything on YouTube if I put on this respiration 3 helmet you can actually see pretty much as if it was you know you were outside still dark everywhere except for where the glowstone is but you can you know actually see stuff and

I imagine in an actual world you know not not a creative Sandstone world like this it would actually really help being able to see all the different stuff maybe there’s you know caves or something on the floor of the ocean so that’s pretty cool I like that and I’m

Gonna be wearing a respiration 3 helmet around and creative actually I might even see if there’s a higher enchantment that’ll allow me to see even better but I think this is actually just about as good as you can see in water cuz yeah I’m not sure that you could see any

Better it’s just dark down there okay and then the last thing I want to mention is there are some changes to difficulty apparently I haven’t tested them at all but apparently the longer you stay in an area the more difficult the modest ponds will get so you’ll get

Harder and chant mints on the mobs you know higher level enchantments on the mobs they’ll get different properties there are some changes to the NBT tags on mobs and I’m gonna be investigating those but there are like attributes that the mobs can have so they get better

Health and that’s kind of that’s what we were seeing with these horses where some of the horses get you know eleven health the donkey gets 13 so mobs can now have spawn with different amounts of health and stuff and I think that’s that’s related to the difficulty changes but

Again this is just a you know preliminary snapshot video so I’m not gonna go into that right now but yeah we’ll be seeing more of that I’m sure and and that’ll be that feature will be changing as we go on but really excited for these horses for now these are

Really cool and and also the carpet might have some potential is with some redstone contraptions so I’m excited for that too but I guess that’s about it for a 13 w 16 a thanks for watching you