[BLOG] Minecraft Snapshot 14w02a Released

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The first snapshot of what Minecraft 1.8 version promises was released yesterday, bringing with it a handful of new block types among other useful updates.



The update has added three new types of stone: granite, diorite and andesite as well as polished versions of all three. All three are naturally occurring stones that appear around lava lakes as well as in extreme hill biomes. The update also includes a slime block which has a slowing effect when walked over as well as being able to break the fall of a player and being bouncy and a recipe to craft mossy stone brick from stone bricks and vines.







As well the update brings useful little updates such as:

- Doors now stack to 64

- Chests able to be locked

- Villagers now have sub-sets to their trading 'classes'

- Optional entity parameter added the the /kill command

- Optional parameters so the /clear command will only remove a certain amount of items as opposed to all

- Many other useful map and game updates.



Snapshot patch notes are here.