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Update 1.8.8
Update 1.8.8 is an update to all Legacy Console Editions except Nintendo Switch Edition. It adds features from The Update that Changed the World and the Bountiful Update.
Moss stone, mossy stone bricks, and chiseled stone bricks
Not to be confused with Java Edition 1.8.8.
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Update 1.8.8
| Release date | Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation 4 editions: December 18, 2015 PlayStation Vita Edition: December 21, 2015 Wii U Edition: February 26, 2016 |
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Update 1.8.8 is an update to all Legacy Console Editions except Nintendo Switch Edition. It adds features from The Update that Changed the World and the Bountiful Update.
Additions
Blocks
Podzol
Granite
Polished granite
Andesite
Polished andesite
Diorite
Polished diorite
Prismarine
Dark prismarine
Prismarine bricks
Red sand
Red sandstone
Smooth red sandstone
Chiseled red sandstone
Red sandstone stairs
Sea lantern
Wet sponge
Slime block
Coarse dirt
Packed ice
Acacia leaves
Dark oak leaves
Acacia sapling
Dark oak sapling
Barrier
Blue orchid
Azure bluet
Red tulip
Orange tulip
White tulip
Pink tulip
Oxeye daisy
Sunflower
Lilac
Poppy (replaces roses)
Rose bush
Peony
Double tall grass
Large fern
Items
Armor stand
Raw rabbit
Cooked rabbit
Rabbit stew
Raw mutton
Cooked mutton
Rabbit's foot
Rabbit hide
Potion of Leaping
Potion of Water Breathing
Raw salmon
Cooked salmon
Clownfish
Pufferfish
Prismarine crystals
Prismarine shard
Rabbit spawn egg
Endermite spawn egg
Guardian spawn egg
Mobs
World generation
Mesa
Mega taiga
Roofed forest
Birch forest
Forest
Savanna
Extreme hills+
Deep ocean
Snowless taiga- 20 technical biomes
- Terrain generation changes to the Nether.
- Added a new tutorial world
Enchantments
Creative Inventory
- Added mossy stone brick, cracked stone brick, and chiseled stone brick variants of silverfish blocks to the Creative inventory
Changes
Blocks
All acacia and dark oak related blocks
- Are now obtainable in Survival mode.
- Repairing has been rebalanced.
- Can now be placed on the top and bottom of blocks.
- Will put out burning entities if filled with water, taking away one water level each time.
Cracked stone bricks and sponges
- Are now obtainable via smelting.
- Can place pumpkins or wither skeleton skulls to spawn iron golems, snow golems, and withers, provided the body is built in a valid configuration.
- When it runs out of fuel, the smelting progress will rewind at 2× speed.
- Empty furnaces will only accept fuel and empty buckets in the fuel slot.
- When harvested with Silk Touch enchantment, now drop blocks with corresponding mushroom texture (red or brown) on all sides, rather than the one with spores.
- Can now have the mob they spawn change by placing the corresponding spawn egg
Moss stone, mossy stone bricks, and chiseled stone bricks
- Are now obtainable via crafting.
- Can now detect the rotation of an item in an item frame and output an equivalent power signal.
- Are now obtainable in survival mode and now soak up contiguous water source blocks out to a taxicab distance of 5 when placed, thereupon turning into a new wet sponge.
- No longer connect to Nether brick fences.
Items
- Arrows decelerate much more quickly underwater and extinguish if on fire.
- Updated audio for minecarts.
- Poppy and dandelion now only yield 1 dye item instead of 2.
Mobs
- Most mobs can now swim.
- Babies' growth can be accelerated by feeding them.
- Updated sounds
Skeletons and rabbits
- Now flee from wolves.
- Can now be ignited with flint and steel.
- Zombies, skeletons, wither skeletons, and creepers drop their head when killed by a charged creeper. Charged creeper explosions do not yield more than one mob head, regardless of how many mobs were killed by it.
Iron golems, snow golems, and withers
- Can be spawned by arranging the blocks, in equivalent rotations of the default on the horizontal plane.
- This does not affect the orientation of the spawned mob.
- Updated sounds.
- Now drop mutton when they die.
- Can now drop wheat seeds.
- Can no longer be placed in flower pots. Potted shrubs in old worlds are retained.
- Can be spawned by arranging the blocks, in equivalent rotations of the default on the horizontal plane.
- This does not affect the orientation of the spawned mob.
- No longer see players through solid blocks.
Tamed ocelots & tamed wolves
- Have additional professions and trades .
- Will now harvest crops if they are farmers
- Will only breed when willing
- Will turn into witches when struck by lightning.
- Can now drink and drop potions of Water Breathing.
- Can be spawned by arranging the blocks, in equivalent rotations of the default on the horizontal plane.
- This does not affect the orientation of the spawned mob.
- No longer visibly catch fire when going into fire or lava.
- Baby zombies now drop experience.
- Adult zombie pigmen will forgive after a short time (and lose the aggression speed boost), but will continue to attack until the player escapes their aggression distance.
Non-mob entities
- Now start with an empty map instead of an already drawn map.
- Can now rotate in 8 directions.
- Are no longer broken with one click when punched if they have an item inside. Now only the item is taken out.
World generation
- Melons can now be found in jungle biomes similar to pumpkins.
- Swamp biomes now spawn with blue orchid flowers and the coast is covered in staggered dirt blocks with lily pads between them.
- Plains biomes now generate with azure bluets, oxeye daises, tulips, and double tall grass.
- Extreme hills biomes now have snow at higher elevations, gravel, flat valleys near sea level, and are slightly higher.
- Ocean biomes contains only gravel on the floor instead of sand, dirt, and gravel.
- Desert temples now spawn with stained clay instead of dyed wool.
- Gravel roads in villages have cobblestone underneath, to prevent them from collapsing into caves.
- Chests in Nether fortresses now have the possibility of containing obsidian.
Gameplay
- Now has particle effects - bubbles will show up moving towards the bobber just before the player has something on the hook. This has the appearance of a fish swimming towards the hook.
- New items can be caught from fishing
- Treasure: enchanted fishing rod, enchanted bow, enchanted book, name tag, tripwire hook, lily pad, and saddle.
- Junk: damaged fishing rod, water bottle, rotten flesh, string, leather, bowl, stick, bone, tripwire hook, ink sac, and damaged leather boots.
- Now consumes lapis lazuli and has been rebalanced.
- Enchanted books can receive multiple enchants at once.
General
- Chat messages of the set day and set night host options now say "day" or "night" instead of displaying the time as numbers.
- Falling has particle effects.
- Particle circumference size depends on distance fallen.
- Particle appearance depends on the block landed.
- Added end portal frames and all types of logs to the custom superflat block selection menu.
- Removed sponges from the custom superflat block selection menu.
- Mobs can now spawn above the nether roof.
- The End has been downscaled from using overworld size to match its building area of 288x288 blocks.
- New Nether portal building rules: any rectangular shape from 4×5 to 23×23.
- If the portal in the Nether is big enough, ghasts can travel through.
- Will now be activated by any fire block within the frame.
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