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Minecraft 1.15 Pre-Release 1 optimizations to TNT and all the other bug fixes and changes.

Features:

Stability & Performance:

• A number of crash fixes.
• Optimized chunk rendering.
• Fixed chunks not loading correctly/not rendering.
• Optimized explosions.

Gameplay:

• Dark prismarine is now crafted from black dye instead of ink sacs.
• Increased scaffolding burn time when used as fuel in a furnace to 20 seconds.
• Fixed leads in unloaded chunks breaking, becoming invisible or connecting to an invisible target far away.
• Fixed leaves being considered solid faces for block placement.
• Berry bushes once again slow down the player.
• Fixed dramatic speed up after falling through cobweb.
• Fixed “Bee Our Guest” advancement is only triggered when more then one bottle is in the players hand while right clicking the hive.
• Fixed falling blocks glitching through shulkers when the shulker is opening / closing.
• Fixed falling blocks on top of non-full block without block below not breaking.

Mobs:

• Fixed aquatic mobs not move below sea level.
• Fixed pillagers spawning in trees.
• Zombie pigman spawn eggs used on zombie pigmen now spawn baby zombie pigmen.
• Fixed bees immediately entering their nests/hives after leaving them.
• Fixed subtitles showing footsteps when mobs slide down honey blocks.

Redstone:

• Comparator in subtraction mode does not update visually under certain conditions.
• Comparator Timing Issue.
• Comparator affected through gap.

Visual:

• Fixed actual render distance being 2 chunks lower than render distance setting.
• Ignited TNT once again appears in the right location.
• Fixed entities rendered too dark when in the ground or riding boats, minecarts or other entities and, standing on soul sand or snow layer or when changing heights.
• Fixed ligthing of slimes and magma cubes becomes dark when they land to the ground.
• Fixed dragon texture flickering issue.
• Fixed Transparent texture parts of invisible entities are rendered black when looking at them in spectator mode.
• Fixed block hitboxes not rendering behind transparent blocks.
• Fixed Transparent block items no longer rendering behind transparent blocks.
• Programmer art shield pattern textures have now been updated to the new resource pack format.
• Fixed sand particles and some other particles not having gravity anymore.

UI:

• Changed the button highlight to make it easier to distinguish which button is selected.
• Fixed advancement menu background being rendered in front of toasts.
• Fixed item of advancement pop up is visible on text in the advancement menu.

Technical:

• The resource pack version is now 5.
• The game now tries to make out of date resource packs work as much as possible.
• Owner tag of item entities is ignored if entity is destroyed in 200 ticks (Age above 5800).
• Item entity merging ignores Owner tag.
• Fixed /fill command not creating block entities for all blocks.
• Fixed /playsound using the wrong feedback message for multiple targets.
• Command starting with / in command block shows error but still works.

Minimum System Requirements:

CPU:  Intel P4/NetBurst Architecture or AMD Equivalent (AMD K7)
RAM:  2 GB
OS:  Windows XP or Better
Video Card :  Intel GMA 950 or AMD Equivalent
Sound Card:  Yes
HDD:  200 MB Free Space

Recommended System Requirements:

CPU:  Intel Core i3 or AMD Athlon II (K10) 2.8 GHz
RAM:  4 GB
OS:  Windows XP or Better
Video Card:GeForece 2xx Series or AMD Radeon HD 5xxx Series(Excluding Integrated Chipsets) With OpenGL 3.3
Sound Card:  Yes
HDD:  1 GB Free Space

How to install:

• To install the pre-release, open up the Minecraft Launcher and enable snapshots in the “Launch Options” tab.
• Pre-releases can corrupt your world, please backup and/or run them in a different folder from your main worlds.

Minecraft 1.15 Pre-Release 1 Download Links:

Server: Download from Server 1