Minecraft news » 16w05a Ready For Testing

The update cycle is starting to wind down! Each snapshot that comes out has a little bit fewer changes, and even less bugs ironed out. This isn't a bad thing! As fewer bugs are discovered, it only means many more have been fixed over the development cycle, and when 1.9 goes live, it will be as bug-free* as possible. Neat!

CHANGELOG

• Tweaked boats a bit more

• Changed crafting recipe for trapped chests, now shapeless

BUGFIXES

• Fixed the doMobLoot gamerule preventing player XP from dropping
• Fixed being unable to use /enchant on entities
• Fixed endermites being positioned too low in boats

Please report any and all bugs you find in Minecraft to bugs.mojang.com. If nobody reports a bug, it will multiply, and create even more bugs!

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: Minecraft server jar