What's New in Minecraft Snapshot 17w50a?

A new snapshot has been released - here's 17w50a with item frames on floors and ceilings, no more ghost blocks, local command coordinates and more! #minecraftemployee

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Official announcement: https://minecraft.net/en-us/article/m...

Minecraft news playlist:    • What's New in Minecraft Snapshot 15w31c?  

What's New in Minecraft 1.12?    • What's New in Minecraft 1.12?  

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

If you want to play this pre-release, choose the "Snapshots" profile in your launcher. Keep in mind that snapshots are unstable - they can break your world if you are unlucky - keep backups!

Changes in this version:

Item frames can now be placed on the top or bottom of a block
Ghost blocks caused by speed mining has been fixed
Beds no longer take strange shapes when placed sometimes
Fixed that beds could be placed in water, because of what it breaks and does not drop
Fixed cactus can be placed under water
Fixed double blocks break after replacing Tall Grass/Large Fern

Redstone torches no longer causing unreliable timings when updated after already being updated the same tick
Container inventory changes now update nearby comparators
Fixed detecting a 2 redstone tick repeater with an observer creates 2 pulses
Hoppers can now pick up items thrown in from the side again
Fixed pistons lose piston head when pushing the block which powers it
Carpets don't drop their item when pushed onto air

Water and lava flow are no longer affected by random ticks

Added new local coordinate type in commands using ^
x_rotation selector argument no longer behaves like y_rotation
OS locale is used for coordinate tab-completion
Custom tags can match air if they contain an invalid block name

Tags can now include other Tags (of the same type)
"#namespace:tag"
When overriding a tag, you can choose to replace instead of append
add "replace": true
Invalid function tags prevent world from loading
stone_button/iron_door is not included in #buttons/doors

Fixed falling blocks top/bottom texture change rotation as they fall
The top of walls are transparent when there is a skull above

Fixed cullface on the tops and bottoms of glass panes aren't triggered by other glass panes on top or below.
Fixed random rotation for Blocks like sand, concrete powder, grass and custom block models doesn't work properly

Things crash a little less easily than before. A little.


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