Chickens, cows and pigs have been the only meat-giving animals in
Minecraft for a long time now, and, in one of the most welcome changes included in the game’s latest big patch, they are now joined by sheep.
On October 25, 2009, sheep were added as passive, wool-giving mobs to the then-heavily-in-pre-alpha
Minecraft. Shortly after, pigs appeared in the game, and later on, in the game’s alpha, they were joined by two other passive mobs, cows and chickens—eventually, all three got their own meat drops. The sheep, however, remained meatless.
So, with the
now-official 1.8 “Bountiful Update,” hunger management is that much easier thanks both to the addition of mutton, and the introduction of rabbits, which also drop meat (and probably make you feel more guilty when you cut them down).
Of course, new meat types is far from the only thing added in the Bountiful Update which, clocking in at
ten+ months, is the longest-developed update the game has seen so far. There are several new block types, two new enemy mobs: the underwater Guardian and the teleporting Endermite, a new dungeon called the Ocean Monument, and a lot of additional features for the game’s scripting engine, which lets mapmakers do much more with an unmodded Minecraft—like last week’s Simburbia, for example.
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Courtesy of Mojang, here’s a list of major changes in 1.8:
Added Granite, Andesite, and Diorite stone blocks, with smooth versions
Added Slime Block
Added Iron Trapdoor
Added Prismarine and Sea Lantern blocks
Added the Ocean Monument
Added Red Sandstone
Added Banners
Added Armor Stands
Added Coarse Dirt (dirt where grass won’t grow)
Added Guardian mobs, with item drops
Added Endermite mob
Added Rabbits, with item drops
Added Mutton and Cooked Mutton
Villagers will harvest crops and plant new ones
Mossy Cobblestone and Mossy Stone Bricks are now craftable
Chiseled Stone Bricks are now craftable
Doors and fences now come in all wood type variants
Sponge block has regained its water-absorbing ability and becomes wet
Added a spectator game mode (game mode 3)
Added one new achievement
Added “Customized” world type
Added hidden “Debug Mode” world type
Worlds can now have a world barrier
Added @e target selector for Command Blocks
Added /blockdata command
Added /clone command
Added /execute command
Added /fill command
Added /particle command
Added /testforblocks command
Added /title command
Added /trigger command
Added /worldborder command
Added /stats command
Containers can be locked in custom maps by using the “Lock” data tag
Added logAdminCommands, showDeathMessages, reducedDebugInfo, sendCommandFeedback, and randomTickSpeed game rules
Added three new statistics
Player skins can now have double layers across the whole model, and left/right arms/legs can be edited independently
Added a new player model with smaller arms, and a new player skin called Alex?
Added options for configuring what pieces of the skin that are visible
Blocks can now have custom visual variations in the resource packs
Minecraft Realms now has an activity chart, so you can see who has been online
Minecraft Realms now lets you upload your maps
Difficulty setting is saved per world, and can be locked if wanted
Enchanting has been redone, now costs lapis lazuli in addition to enchantment levels
Villager trading has been rebalanced
Anvil repairing has been rebalanced
Considerable faster client-side performance
Max render distance has been increased to 32 chunks (512 blocks)
Adventure mode now prevents you from destroying blocks, unless your items have the CanDestroy data tag
Resource packs can now also define the shape of blocks and items, and not just their textures
Scoreboards have been given a lot of new features
Tweaked the F3 debug screen
Block ID numbers (such as 1 for stone), are being replaced by ID names (such as minecraft:stone)
Server list has been improved
A few minor changes to village and temple generation
Mob heads for players now show both skin layers
Buttons can now be placed on the ceiling
Lots and lots of other changes
LOTS AND LOTS of other changes
Removed Herobrine
And, if you want to know more, the Minecraft Wiki has
a long and detailed list of every change made by the 1.8 patch, including the various bugfixes, of which there’s almost four hundred.
This is one of Minecraft’s biggest updates yet, so if you haven’t looked at the game in a while, now might be a good time.
Minecraft 1.8 – The Bountiful Update [Mojang]
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