Minecraft Snapshot 15w44a

Minecraft version 15w44a, a new snapshot for Minecraft 1.9, has been released.

Find all servers to this version here : https://minecraft-mp.com/version/15w44a/

Additions

Items

• End Crystal
  • Currently drops from Skeletal Horses.
  • Can only be placed on obsidian and bedrock.
  • Has no bottom plate like "normal" end crystals.
  • Used on the exit portal in the end to respawn the dragon.
  • Like nether star, end crystal can't be destroyed by explosions (except Wither)

Changes

Loot tables

• New "enchant_randomly" function.
• Chests in mineshafts, desert pyramids, simple dungeons and bonus chests pull loot from multiple pools, and their items were heavily rebalanced. Pools of valuable items generally precede pools of less valuable items.
  • Saddle and iron horse armor were removed from mineshaft chests; name tag, enchanted and normal golden apple, torch and powered, detector and activator rails were added.
  • Spider eyes, gunpowder, string, sand and golden apple were added to desert temple chests.
  • Salmon was added to bonus chests. This chest now always contains one axe, one pickaxe, some food and some wood items. Sticks and planks were made more plentiful.
  • Bone, rotten flesh, gold ingots, coal, enchanted golden apples, melon, pumpkin and beetroot seeds were added to simple dungeon chests.

Items

• Golden Apple
  • Rebalanced the golden apples.
    • Normal golden apples now have regeneration II for 5 seconds (heal 2 hearts in total) and Absorption for 2 minutes.
    • Enchanted golden apples now have regeneration II for 20 seconds (heal 8 hearts in total) and Absorption for 2 minutes.
    • Enchanted golden apples still have resistance and fire resistance for 5 minutes each.
  • Enchanted golden apples can no longer be crafted.
    • Therefore the achievement "overpowered" can no longer be obtained by crafting a enchanted golden apple, neither by picking one up.

Hunger

• The new saturation -> food mechanic only applies when the player is not hungry.

Mobs

• Ender Dragon
  • Changed the mechanic for respawning the Ender Dragon.
    • To respawn the dragon, one End Crystal must be placed on each side of the exit portal at any one of the three blocks of that side.
    • While respawning, beams shoot out of these crystals, that will reset all the pillars and when done they blow up and spawn the dragon.

Other

• The “buff bar” at the top of the screen now properly respects hidden & ambient effects.

Fixes

18 issues fixed

From released versions before 1.9

• MC-2034 – Brewing stands' input slots do not have normal stacking behavior
• MC-2729 – Normal glass block is darker than the glass panel / glass panel brighter than glass block
• MC-3706 – Items 'walking' randomly / Paintings and item frames fly when broken
• MC-7222 – 1-9 keys, hoppers and shift-clicking ignore stacking restrictions
• MC-29844 – Big Oak Trees fail to generate in Forest Biomes
• MC-45375 – Improper Cake Texture
• MC-50344 – Incorrect Texture Mapping on Some Blocks
• MC-58192 – Brewing stand bottle model rendering incorrect
• MC-58405 – Cauldron bottom model rendering glitch
• MC-61474 – Hoppers/droppers put multiple empty buckets into furnace, they then get replaced by one water bucket when smelting wet sponge
• MC-66485 – Bad Texture Projection in East and West Directions (Severe Model Bug)
• MC-81067 – Entities and particles turning black at eye level Y=256

From the 1.9 development versions

• MC-84735 – Z-Fighting at top of Cobblestone Wall
• MC-89647 – Pick block on items outside the hotbar visually replaces armor/crafting slot with duplicate of the stack that was picked
• MC-90193 – Music disk description names missing - item.record.waitdesc
• MC-90478 – Summoned ItemFrames, Paintings and LeashKnots have the wrong position.

From the previous development version

• MC-91316 – 'Mending' is impossibly rare
• MC-91448 – Can't add Mending enchant to shields

Source : http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/15w44a