Minecraft Java Edition 1.8 Version History
Minecraft Java Edition 1.8 is called the Bountiful Update and was released on September 2, 2014. It is considered to be a major update to the game that added banners, armor stands, rabbits, guardians and lots of new game commands.
| Update Name | Bountiful Update |
|---|---|
| Platform | Java Edition |
| Version Number | 1.8 |
| Release Date | September 2, 2014 |
| Revision Type | Major Release |
Here is what's new in Minecraft Java Edition (PC/Mac) 1.8.
Items
Blocks and Items
- Added Slime Block
- Added Diorite, Polished Diorite
- Added Granite, Polished Granite
- Added Adesite, Polished Andesite
- Added Iron Trapdoor, Coarse Dirt
- Added Prismarine, Dark Prismarine, Prismarine Bricks, Prismarine Crystals, Prismarine Shard, Sea Lantern, Wet Sponge
- Added Red Sandstone, Smooth Red Sandstone, Chiseled Red Sandstone, Red Sandstone Slab, Red Sandstone Stairs
- Added Banners (White, Orange, Magenta, Light Blue, Yellow, Lime, Pink, Gray, Light Gray, Cyan, Purple, Blue, Brown, Green, Red, Black)
- Added Banners with a pattern (Lozenge, Black Field Masoned, Per Bend, Black Thing)
- Added Armor Stand
- Added Raw Mutton, Cooked Mutton
- Added Raw Rabbit, Rabbit Stew, Rabbit Hide, Rabbit's Foot, Cooked Rabbit
- Added Potion of Leaping and Splash Potion of Leaping (various durations)
Spawn Eggs
- Added Endermite Spawn Egg
- Added Guardian Spawn Egg
Mobs
Status Effects
New Status Effects
- Added Jump Boost
Enchantments
New Enchantments
- Added Depth Strider
Game Commands
New Commands
- Added /blockdata command
- Added /clone command
- Added /entitydata command
- Added /execute command
- Added /fill command
- Added /particle command
- Added /replaceitem command
- Added /stats command
- Added /testforblocks command
- Added /title command
- Added /trigger command
- Added /worldborder command
Changes
- Added
logAdminCommands,showDeathMessages,reducedDebugInfo,sendCommandFeedbackandrandomTickSpeedoptions to the /gamerule command - Added @e target selector for Command Blocks
Changes
Structures
- Added Ocean Monument
General Changes
- Villagers will harvest crops and plant new ones
- Mossy Cobblestone and Mossy Stone Bricks are now craftable
- Chiseled Stone Bricks are now craftable
- Doors and fences now come in all wood type variants
- Sponge block has regained its water-absorbing ability and becomes wet
- Added a spectator game mode (game mode 3)
- Adventure mode now prevents you from destroying blocks, unless your items have the CanDestroy data tag
- Added an invisible block called a barrier
- Added one new achievement
- Added "Customized" world type
- Worlds can now have a world barrier
- Containers can be locked in custom maps by using the "Lock" data tag
- Added three new statistics
- Player skins can now have double layers across the whole model, and left/right arms/legs can be edited independently
- Added a new player model with smaller arms, and a new player skin called Alex
- Added options for configuring what pieces of the skin that are visible
- Blocks can now have custom visual variations in the resource packs
- Minecraft Realms now has an activity chart, so you can see who has been on
- Minecraft Realms now lets you upload your maps
- Difficulty setting is saved per world, and can be locked if wanted
- Enchanting has been redone, now costs lapis lazuli in addition to enchantment levels
- Villager trading has been rebalanced
- Anvil repairing has been rebalanced
- Considerable faster client-side performance
- Max render distance has been increased to 32 chunks (512 blocks)
- Resource packs can now also define the shape of blocks and items, and not just their textures
- Scoreboards have been given a lot of new features
- Tweaked the F3 debug screen
- Block ID numbers (such as 1 for stone) are being replaced by ID names (such as stone)
- Server list has been improved
- A few minor changes to village and temple generation
- Mob heads for players now show both skin layers
- Buttons can now be placed on the ceiling
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