Minecraft news » Snapshot 15w41b Ready for Testing: WINGS AND BOATS!

Patch notes compiled via Redstonehelper!

Today's snapshot isn't like your regular snapshots, oh no. It comes with two awesome updates: Jeb's secret wing item, and boat fixes! BOAT FIXES! Okay, enough wasting time - what exactly is in today's snapshot?

• Jeb's secret feature: Wings for gliding

  • Animation/Animation
  • Wings fold while not gliding - Screenshot
  • Cape not displayed while wearing
  • "Styled as the cape", dragon wings default (?) texture
  • Not craftable, only findable
  • Placed in the chestplate slot

• Replaced the riding tag (now broken) with a passengers tag allowing for multiple passengers

  • /summon syntax: <code>/summon Cow ~ ~ ~ {passengers:[{id:Pig}]}</code>

• Boat improvements

  • MCPE-like boats
  • Changed how player movement is sent and processed by the server

• Fixed some bugs

  • Fixed regenerating health while not at a high hunger level
  • Fixed high resolution texture pack loading being broken
  • Fixed end world generating breaking at large coordinates
  • Fixed getting kicked from the server with the console spamming "Netty Epoll Server IO #6/ERROR"
  • Fixed multiplayer not working
  • Fixed hoppers not sucking up items inside themselves
  • Fixed player disconnects with "Netty Epoll Server IO #26/ERROR" when doing large /clone operations
  • Fixed tamed cats resetting chunks

Please report any and all bugs you find in Minecraft to bugs.mojang.com. If nobody reports a bug, the world will literally explode!

To get snapshots, open your launcher and press the “New Profile” button. Call it “snapshots” and check the box saying “Enable experimental development snapshots” and save. To switch to the normal version, you can select it in the dropdown at the bottom left corner of the launcher. Back up your world first or run the game on in a different folder (See the “new profile” dialog).

Snapshots can corrupt your world, please backup and/or run them in a different folder from your main worlds.

Cross-platform server jar: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/15w41b/minecraft_server.15w41b.jar