What's New in Minecraft 1.14.4 Pre-release 1?

The first pre-release for Minecraft 1.14.4 is out with quite a few bug fixes, gameplay tweaks and performance improvements. Check them all out in this comprehensive guide! #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 based on the official changelog as well as information gathered by the community and public posts by the developers. You can find the official announcement here: https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/artic...

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New in this version:
Villages:
Villagers now wait with restocking until they have trades that need restocking
Villagers can now restock at any point during the day, but only twice per day with a 2 minute cooldown
Villager restocks now work even when the doDaylightCycle game rule is off
Curing a Villager now causes a permanent memory for the player who did it with that villager, which does not spread to other villagers
Fixed trying to trade with villagers immediately closing the trading menu for some villagers
Fixed farmer villagers not stopping to pick up their crops
Fixed full villager inventories creating invisible items
Fixed villagers giving away all food if they want to share it
Fixed villagers picking up workstations through walls
Fixed village siege zombies spawning when gamerule doMobSpawning is false
Fixed village siege zombies not spawning centered on a block
Village sieges no longer occur on mushroom islands

Gameplay:
Suspicious stew made from poppies now gives you night vision instead of speed
Fixed bows with mending undrawing when receiving XP while drawn
Fixed mending crossbows needing to be reloaded after getting mended
Fixed mending slowing down block breaking
Fixed closing menus while moving the mouse moving the screen in that direction

Mobs:
Fixed rabbits no longer needing sand/grass to spawn in deserts/tundras
Fixed parrots occasionally disappearing when you take them from a boat
Fixed hostile wolves no longer attacking enemies efficiently
Fixed silverfish and endermite spawners no longer working
Fixed pillagers not pathfinding around obstacles and out of water
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 will no longer try to pathfind their way through bamboo

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

Visuals:
Fixed acacia leaves rendering improprly from a distance
Fixed wall signs using oak color on maps
Fixed the cyrillic letter Є not being included in the font
Fixed the bashkir letters Ҙ, ҙ, Ҡ, ҡ, Ҫ, and ҫ not being included in the font

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

Performance & Stability:
Fixed Java using 100-200% CPU on MacOS
Added /debug report for getting more detailed information - Please include this while making bug reports about performance

Tech:
The Realms library has been removed - realms is now a part of the game

Music: "Like Before" by Silencyde (  / silencyde  ) 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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