Minecraft The Combat Update - Minecraft 1.9 Overview

(This thread will be updated every now and then, so stay tuned!)

The Combat Update - Minecraft​

Hello and welcome to my summary/overview of the upcoming Minecraft version 1.9. This thread contains the most important things that will be added. And please take time to read this thread and think twice about what you will comment. Also I'd like you to vote. So enjoy!

1. Facts about the 1.9:

• Release date: unknown
• First snapshot: 15w31a
• Development began the day after the release of the 1.8.8 version.
• 1.9 got it's name on April 1st 2015.
• This is now the longest wait for a major update to Minecraft, with 388 days now having elapsed since the release of 1.8 on September 2, 2014. Until this point, the longest waits had been those between 1.7.2 and 1.8 (312 days), and between 1.2.1 and 1.3.1 (153 days).

2. Additions

• Singleplayer: Worlds now display the version they were last played in or "unknown" if the version was older than snapshot 15w32a.
• Dual wielding: Players can now use both hands to perform different actions using the left and right mouse buttons. For example, if a player has a pickaxe in his/her main hand and a torch in their other hand, right clicking will place the torch.
• New “attack strength” combat mechanic. A meter shows up after switching items or attacking. Damage done depends on the fullness of the meter. Fills at different rates depending on the new attack speed attribute. Can be displayed next to the hotbar. A cooldown animation is displayed of the tool slowly being lifted up, when first switching to it.
• New effect: Levitation
  
  • Listed as a negative effect due to the potential to kill from fall damage.
  • Received when the player is hit by shulker projectiles.
  • Makes player involuntarily float high into the air.
• New effect: Glowing
  • Received when players or mobs are hit by spectral arrows.
  • Makes player's outline glow, even through non-transparent blocks.
  • Listed as a negative effect because it prevents players from hiding from other players.
• Blocks
  Chorus flower
  
  • Spawn on the top of the chorus trees.
  • Breaks if the supporting block below is broken.
  • Can only be planted on end stone in any dimension.
  Dragon head
  
  • While a player wears the head and moves, the head's mouth opens and closes repeatedly.
  • When powered with redstone while it's placed on solid block, the jaw starts to open and close.
  End rod
  
  • Generates in the end city dungeons.
  • Placeable horizontally and vertically.
  • Produces white particles.
  • Used as a lighting source with the same efficacy as torches.
  End stone brick
  
  • Generates in the End city dungeons.
  • Can be crafted with 4 blocks of end stone.
  Purpur block
  
  • Generates in the End city dungeons.
  • Can be crafted with popped chorus fruit.
• Items
  Lingering potion
  • Thrown like a splash potion.
    • Leaves a patch of the potion particle effect on impact.
      • Entities that walk into it get the effect.
  • Has all the potion types, and works with potions whose effect are instant.
  • Brewed with dragon's breath and a splash potion.
  Shield
  • Crafted using 6 planks and one iron ingot.
  • The player cannot attack while blocking.
  • Can only be repaired on the anvil.
  Beetroot
  • Spawns naturally in villages.
  • Can be used to craft beetroot soup.
  • Used to be a pocket edition exclusive.
• Mobs
  Shulker
  • Short for "Shell Lurker".
  • A hostile mob with the appearance and some behavior of a solid purple block.
  • When attacking, it opens its shell on a spinning animation revealing the creature inhabiting.
    • The creature looks a like a little white cube with big eyes.
    • The projectiles chase the player until he/she is out of range.
    • Getting hit by a projectile causes 2 of damage and inflicts the levitation status effect.

3. The End

• Generates many islands in every direction from the main island.
  • Mini islands generate between the center and main islands.
  • End islands and mini end islands (except for the main one).

End city

• Generates on the new outer end islands.
• Dungeon-type structure fashioned like a branching tower made of endstone and many of the new blocks.
  • Resembles a tree house.
• Contains loot inside of chests.

End ship

• It sometimes generates up in the air next to the end city dungeon.
• Has a hopper, a dragon head, a brewing stand with potions of healing, 8 blocks of iron and other various loot.
  • The hopper generates in the middle of the 8 blocks of iron.
  • The hopper has a written book in it, by Searge.

Chorus trees

• Generate on the outer islands of the End.
• Tree-like arrangements of the new chorus plant and chorus flower blocks.
• The whole structure is destroyed when the bottom-most block is destroyed, like cacti.
• Can be farmed by planting the chorus fruit flowers that come from the top of the plants, on top of endstone.

Many more things will be added, but noone would read this thread then because it would have been too long. A full list with all things being added can be found here: http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/1.9

Thank you for reading this thread in anyway. I put lot of effort in it. Thanks for taking your precious time.

~ n00bhouse

 

I like the effort you put into typing all of this. It really allows people that are LAZY to know what 1.9 will be about. And by Lazy, I mean some people deny that fact that most people don't check the Mojang website. Seriously though, good job with this.

 

Thank you :)

 

You Are Welcome :):):):):)

 

You forgot that 1.9 facked up pvp

 

You've clearly forgotten that you've said that about a hundred times.

 

You forgot that you're a hater

 

Honestly all you do, from what I've seen, is go on threads and whine, complain, and be hateful to others.

 

stop i dont do that

 

Well then you obviously are in denial because you do.

 

i only hate updates not people unless theyre mean to me

 

This is not a thread to insult, please. :)

 

But you're still hating, then calling us haters lol

 

because you guys are being mean

 

We're being 'mean' because we're tired of your constant complaining.

 

Hey! I love 1.9! It now requires skill and tactics!




I'm not complaining happy now...

 

We never said you had to reverse your opinions, but there have been times where people are just chatting in the shout box and you just type "1.9 sucks.", when MC wasn't even the subject.

 

Enough now!

 

*cough*Mojang website*cough*