What's New in Minecraft Java Edition 1.14.4?

The fourth minor update to Minecraft Java edition is here - and by the looks of things the last one. Check out this comprehensive guide to all the many fixes and changes in Minecraft 1.14.4! #minecraftemployee

slicedlime works as a Tech Lead for Minecraft at Mojang, but the YouTube and Twitch channels are personal projects run entirely in his spare time. This is an unofficial update video that aims to be the most comprehensive guide possible. Official release announcement: https://www.minecraft.net/sv-se/artic...

What's New in Minecraft 1.14?    • What's New in Minecraft Java Edition ...  

The Minecraft JIRA (bug tracker): https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC

Change highlights in this version:
Gameplay:
- Fixed breaking blocks re-appearing shortly, nudging players
- Suspicious stew made from poppies now gives you night vision instead of speed
- Fixed mending crossbows/bows needing to be reloaded/redrawn after getting mended
- "Fixed" mending slowing down block breaking
- Fixed closing menus while moving the mouse moving the screen in that direction
- Fixed mouse acceleration
- Fixed concrete powder deleting waterlogged blocks when falling
- Fixed players joining servers having all events since their last login queued up

Worlds:
- Fixed end city and end ship generation getting cut at chunk borders sometimes

Villages:
- Villagers now stock more items
- Fixed Villagers trading the wrong book
- Fixed Villager trade GUI not showing the correct price on servers if trade demand is high
- Fixed trying to trade with villagers immediately closing the trading menu for some villagers
- Villagers now wait with restocking until they have trades that need restocking, now restock twice per day with a 2 minute cooldown
- Fixed villagers being unable to pathfind towards their POI
- Fixed villagers not shutting doors behind them
- Curing a Villager now causes a permanent non-spreading memory for the player who did it with that villager
- Villagers will now remember their gossip after becoming a Zombie
- Fixed farmer villagers not stopping to pick up their crops
- Fixed villagers picking up POIs through walls

Sieges:
- Fixed siege zombies spawning when gamerule doMobSpawning is false
- Fixed siege zombies not spawning centered on a block
- Village sieges no longer occur on mushroom islands

Hostile mobs:
- Fixed silverfish and endermite spawners no longer working
- An item duplication glitch involving zombies drowning has been fixed
- If raids are disabled using the disableRaids game rule, you can no longer get bad omen by killing a captain

Mobs:
- Mobs will no longer try to pathfind their way through bamboo
- Fixed floatable mobs not being able to walk when in waterlogged blocks
- Fixed mobs not trying to avoid fall damage anymore
- Fixed parrots occasionally disappearing when you take them from a boat
- Fixed fish spawned from buckets counting towards the aquatic mob cap
- Fixed trusting foxes attacking players when self-injured

Visuals:
- Fixed a rolling shutter issue on MacOS
- Fixed incorrect pillager texture
- Fixed acacia leaves rendering improperly from a distance
- Fixed wall signs using oak color on maps
- Removed camera pivot offset in first-person

Sounds:
- Fixed the beacon deactivation sound not playing when the pyramid becomes incomplete

UI:
- The Player Activity button on the Realm screen has been removed
- Fixed not being able to press Enter to connect on the Direct Connect screen
- Added a splash text: "Ping the human"

Performance & Stability:
- Performance fixes for collision, render changes when placing or destroying blocks, villager pathfinding, structure generation
- Fixed Java using 100-200% CPU on MacOS, even while in the main menu
- Fixed high idle CPU usage on servers
- Fixed a memory leak
- Improved chunk loading when traveling at high speed
- Fixed chunks refusing to unload due to incorrect player ticket additions (2, 3)
- Added /debug report for getting more detailed information - Please include this while making bug reports about performance

Technical:
- /reload and /forceload is now available to gamemasters
- function-permission-level is a new setting in server.properties that controls which commands functions have access to

Some sections made using ReplayMod: https://replaymod.com

Music: "Fissure", "Plan B" and "Depths by Crinkles (https://crinklesmusic.bandcamp.com) and outro music: "The Fire" by Amarante (http://amarante.bandcamp.com) licensed under Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)

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