14 DAY TRIAL // Last month Mojang released a major Minecraft update called Christmas Gift Edition, which brought lots of new features and improvements but also some issues that are currently being worked on.
Since its launch back in December 2014, Minecraft 1.8.2 Christmas Gift Edition has received no less than five updates and the last one dropped only recently.
The update contains performance tweaks and bug fixes for the most part, but also “a bonus hug” from developers. You can find the full changelog below:
– Items placed into a beacon are lost upon destroying it or reloading a world – Beacons work inconsistently in the Nether – Keyboard input causes mouse look to stutter or jerk (fixed in LWJGL 2.9.3) – Tellraw crashes if clickEvent is an URL without “http://” – Mooshroom udder texture does not display correctly – Mooshrooms incorrectly display custom mushroom models – Beacons in Nether need clear path to “sky” – Beacon stops working at a certain height – Single Player: Can't select any of the previous created worlds in Java 8 (Fixed by installing Java 7) (Windows 8) – Able to hit a block behind out of range entity. – villages.dat stores player names instead of UUIDs – Preexisting vines on east and west sides of blocks are rendered at the wrong face of the block (floating) – Glass Pane image flipped – Huge Mushrooms Generate Incorrectly – Hopper: java.lang.NullPointerException: Updating screen events – Various particles near world border rendered incorrectly. – Hoppers grab items from minecarts, that aren't standing directly above them – Changing owner of Enderpearl doesn't work.
Don't download the update yet, as the patch breaks some of rendering code
Although Mojang published the update’s changelog and confirmed it was already released, they also said that Minecraft players might want to wait 24 hours before downloading it.
There seem to be some issues with the game after applying the update, which is why they need a little bit of extra time to patch it up.