The Love Update 15w14a

Today we have updated our beloved Snapshot server to run Mojang's latest act of love: 15w14a. It includes loving creepers, flowing cheese, free bonus goodies in chests and much much more.

You can join our Snapshot server at:
snapshot.happydiggers.net:25566

Here is the complete changelog:

Gameplay

• We have removed the ability to directly harm other creatures. You should be rewarded for helping, not hurting.
• Removed Health and Hunger. We feel that these are not appropriate gameplay mechanics for a game about love, sharing and peacefulness.
• Added a new “Love” meter. This fills up the more you help others, and others help you.
• “Survival” mode has been renamed to “Existence”.

Animals

• Bats are now 20% cuter. Squeek.
• Chickens can now be ridden by any player less than two blocks tall.
• Cows will now alert you to important events that you may have missed by means of an audible notification.
• Pigs can no longer fly, but can now climb on walls.
• Rabbits are fluffy.
• Sheep will, if asked nicely, share their wool to keep you warm.
• Squid changed, but we’re still trying to figure out how or why.

Monsters Inhabitants

• “Monsters” are no longer named as such. The preferred term is “Inhabitants”, as they live in this world just like you or me.
• Steve and Alex have realized that the inhabitants are not evil, and just want to hug and get along.
• Creepers no longer explode. They have gotten over their nervous disposition and are much more friendly once you get to know them.
• Skeletons have revealed themselves to be very efficient farmers, having a permanent source of bone meal on them at all times.
• Blazes are actually pretty cool guys and will defend you from harm.
• Guardians have put aside the initial misunderstanding, and now welcome you into their home with arms… erm… eyes… wide open.
• Ghasts are no longer frightened so easily, and will offer you rides throughout the nether.
• Slimes are now pretty fun to hang around with, sharing their secret jumping abilities to those that will listen.
• Witches are super friendly and surprisingly knowledgable. They will help you by sharing their potions.
• Zombies are extremely cuddly and love to hug.
• The Wither has been replaced with his lovable pink counterpart, promoting vitality and nourishment to the environment around him.

Weather & Environment

• Removed rain as it upset a lot of players.
• Falling snow has a chance to make exposed chests mysteriously full of goodies at midnight.

Villagers & Villages

• Trading has been rebalanced. We felt that the previous incarnation wasn’t very fair, and believe the new system is a step towards helping fix this.
• Villagers will offer you help in picking up items or blocks, in exchange for a small fee for their services.
• Iron Golems can appear as a manifestation of the village’s love for you.

Blocks

• Lava has been replaced with liquid cheese. It’s delicious and much safer!
• TNT has been replaced with a much friendlier block: A love bomb.

Items

• As we no longer have a hunger system, food items now give Happiness instead of Saturation.
• Carrot on a Stick has been removed. It was just cruel to pigs and we are very sorry for this.

Combat

• Bows no longer require arrows.
• Shooting things makes them fall in love with the first thing they see.
• Removed combat.

World generation & terrain

• Dungeons have been replaced with homes, offering a much more inviting and comfortable experience for everybody.
• All caves have been checked by the Minecraft Safety Committee to ensure a safer experience for players.
• Desert temples no longer contain TNT traps, and come with a nice, safe way to access the bottom floor.
• Some cliff edges may be lined with fences to avoid accidents by the unwary traveller.
• Jungle temples are no longer trapped, containing instead a new rare Golden Creeper to reward exploration.

Potions

• Some potions such as Strength or Harming have been removed, as we no longer have a place for them in the game.
• Added four (4) new potions:
  
  • Love Potion
  • Happiness Potion
  • Potion of Sharing
  • Potion of Caring
  • Fun Potion
  
  

Transportation

• Horses can no longer be ridden as this was deemed unfair to the horses.
  
  • In compensation to the horses, they can now ride on your shoulders.
  
  
• Minecarts now have a fluffy pink interior.
• Added obsidian boats which are impossible to break.
• Improved regular wooden boats.
• Added dirt bikes.
• Ender pearls no longer transport you to the target, but instead the target to you.

Weather & Environment

• Added rain back as it soothed a lot of players.
• Falling snow has a chance to make exposed chests mysteriously full of goodies at midnight.

Game Settings

• Not everybody had the same experience playing Minecraft under different configurations, so we decided to remove all the graphical settings.
• You may now only have one world, in order to reduce fragmentation and to treat all worlds as equals.
• Some resource packs were prettier than others, giving some players an unfair advantage in the amount of fun they were having. This has been fixed.