Mojang is heeding the words of Smokey the Bear with its new snapshot, which is funny, because I'm pretty sure they don't have Smokey in Sweden. Or Englands for that matter, and I have that on good authority.
Forest fire prevention representatives aside, the snapshot fixes some of the issues associated with putting out a spreading fire, so you can stop it before it engulfs your whole cabin in a fire that would put TLC's pyromania to shame.
You can see the full changelog below, courtesy of PCGamesN:
- Added /setworldspawn and /setworldspawn to set the world's default spawn point
- Maps in item frames now display the item frame again, but still on a full block scale
- Jukeboxes now loop
- Changed the texture for pufferfish
Fixed bugs:
- Fixed being unable to type certain characters in chat under certain conditions
- Fixed cauldron water not putting out fire or damage blazes
- Axes accelerate the speed at which Slabs are broken
- when typing /help with a number higher than 4, it produces the wrong message
- Boats cannot be steered by using the "left" and "right" keys
- Minecraft has advice on an error report that should be deleted.
- Players appear offset for other clients after going through nether portals
- Spawn eggs can be used on top of water, but not lava
- Typo on "Unable to Load Worlds" screen
- Sound warnings in console
- Master sound level resets on reboot and RP Change
- Numbers render behind enchanted stacked enchanted items
- Splash potions making throw sound but not breaking sound.
- OS X: Pressing Del / Backspace on signs shows "DEL" character instead of deleting characters
- Multiple Background Songs Playing At One Time / Automatic music overlap
- German Umlauts and ß are not correctly centered at sign
- Partially Transparent Maps
- Typing ƒ, ∞ œ, π, Ω, ≈, √, ≤, ≥ and many more symbols on a sign or in the chat crashes the game.
- "Format Error" In the Book and Quill
- Cake FallingSand Entity not landing correctly regenerates chunk
- "Force Unicode Font" is displayed in currently active language, whereas "Done" is displayed in highlighted language
- "Format error" in language selection menu
- RCON Messages: TranslatableComponent
To get the snapshot as per Mojang, "open your launcher and press the "New Profile" button. Call it "snapshots" and check the box saying "Enable experimental development snapshots" and save. To switch to the normal version, you can select it in the dropdown at the bottom left corner of the launcher.
Links to the server files can be found below. As usual, report all bugs to the Minecraft issue tracker.
* Cross-platform jar
* Windows EXE