1.8.2^[1] is a minor update for Minecraft which was released on February 19, 2015.^[2] 1.8.2 is compatible with 1.8 and 1.8.1 servers.^[3]

Additions

General

Debug screen

• New frame-time graph.
  • Activated by pressing Alt+F3 to display frame time bar chart in lower left of screen.

Splashes

• Added the following splashes:
  • "Do it all, everything!"
  • "Where there is not light, there can spider!"

Statistics

• Added new statistics.
  • Cake Slices Eaten
  • Cauldrons Filled
  • Water Taken from Cauldron
  • Armor Pieces Cleaned
  • Banners Cleaned
  • Interactions with Brewing Stand
  • Interactions with Beacon
  • Droppers Searched
  • Hoppers Searched
  • Dispensers Searched
  • Noteblocks played
  • Noteblocks tuned
  • Plants potted
  • Trapped Chests Triggered
  • Ender Chests Opened
  • Items Enchanted
  • Records Played
  • Interactions with Furnace
  • Interactions with Crafting Table
  • Chests Opened

Changes

Blocks

Beacons

• Now ignore bedrock above them when determining a clear view to the sky.

TNT

• Reverted explosion physics changes to those before the 14w31a snapshot.
• Explosion force is no longer directionally biased.

Items

Carrot on a stick

• Crafting one now removes all enchantments from the original fishing rod.

Mobs

Ocelots

• Now spawn at or above sea level, rather than at Y=63.

Squid

• Now spawn below sea level, rather than at Y=63.

World generation

Dark oak trees & oak trees

• Oak and dark oak branches no longer replace blocks.

Mushroom biomes

• Now generate with only one kind of giant mushroom, instead of brown and red (MC-77972).

Gameplay

Spectator mode

• Mobs no longer follow/attack the player in spectator mode.

General

Multiplayer

• Now directly takes the player back to the multiplayer screen, instead of the title screen, when leaving a server.

Fixes

48 issues fixed

From released versions before 1.8

• MC-141 – /spawnpoint command fails directly on pressure plates, cobwebs, signs, open fence gates.
• MC-3416 – Player location marker invisible on map (wrong Z-Order). One-line fix included.
• MC-3885 – Arrows shot into the underside of a block appear black.
• MC-4405 – Beacons work inconsistently in the Nether.
• MC-8578 – Hopper sometimes doesn't suck items above when they are overlaying.
• MC-10176 – Oak/dark oak tree branches can replace all solid blocks (including bedrock and barrier).
• MC-13057 – Multiplayer "back to title screen" button incorrect.
• MC-31338 – No eggs with /summon.
• MC-41881 – Hopper minecart acts like it is in a different position.
• MC-42192 – WitherSkulls flash for a brief moment when being summoned.
• MC-44634 – Invulnerable Fireballs are invisible/being client-side rendered on hit.
• MC-47683 – Black particles when breaking a block/torch particles dark.
• MC-48219 – Keyboard input causes mouse look to stutter or jerk (Fixed in LWJGL 2.9.3).
• MC-48969 – Tellraw crashes if clickEvent is a URL without "http://".
• MC-49704 – Mooshroom udder texture does not display correctly.
• MC-50769 – Mooshrooms incorrectly display custom mushroom models.
• MC-51573 – Hostile mobs continue to follow/attack you in spectator mode.
• MC-51804 – Corner fences/cobblestone wall with a block next to them turn black (Smooth lighting off).
• MC-63370 – Baby cows are milkable.
• MC-64444 – Wither skulls are being rendered for a moment.
• MC-65697 – Explosion force on entities is directionally biased.
• MC-66089 – Explosion physics changed, range of some TNT cannons greatly reduced.
• MC-66090 – TNT is no longer colliding with a block placed above it when the TNT is triggered.
• MC-67727 – Beacons in Nether need clear path to "sky".
• MC-71163 – Bed can overlap when placed on grass.
• MC-72574 – /stats command doesn't work on players who aren't op.
• MC-73866 – Game crash when an item is thrown into a nether portal.
• MC-74686 – Marker armor stand block placing issue.
• MC-74866 – Chunk flickering (only Intel HD Graphics/Driver version 10.18.10.3958).
• MC-75083 – Single Player: Can't select any of the previous created worlds in Java 8 (Fixed by installing Java 7) (Windows 8).
• MC-75195 – Armor stands with the "Marker" tag set to 1 don't show their name tag.
• MC-75722 – Buy a realm has no "Back" button with no internet connection.
• MC-75885 – World generator crashes when generating pumpkins (e.g. seed "Cows").
• MC-76239 – Minecraft Realms main menu button's text between quotation marks.
• MC-76611 – villages.dat stores player names instead of UUIDs.
• MC-76650 – Glass pane image flipped.
• MC-76747 – Various particles near world border rendered incorrectly.

From 1.8

• MC-57691 – Water generates above sea level as part of ocean monument generation.
• MC-57769 – Server Console spams "0".
• MC-58184 – Cocoa block texture bug.
• MC-59549 – Graphical arrow glitch in position.
• MC-60859 – Regular stone villages spawning desert biomes.
• MC-61475 – Using /setblock to set block entities with items in their inventory does not update comparators adjacent to the block entity.
• MC-61897 – Crash when dispensing any minecart types out of upside-down dispensers onto powered rails or activator rails.
• MC-67150 – Ocean Monument cuts unnaturally into ocean floor.
• MC-70104 – Arrow visual glitch (fake arrow).

From 1.8.1

• MC-73062 – Ambiguous Realms error "Incompatible client, consider updating" at newest snapshot.
• MC-73406 – Beacon stops working at a certain height.

Video

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Trivia

• At the time, 1.8.2 had the most pre-releases of any update so far, at 7 pre-releases, which is the second-equal most pre-releases of any update.
  • This is broken by 1.13, which has 10 pre-releases, and equaled by 1.12, 1.14.4, 1.15, and 1.20.
• 1.8.2 is tied with 1.14.4 as having the highest number of pre-releases on a minor version, with seven.
• 1.8.2 holds the record of having the longest developmental time in a minor version, taking more than 2 months to complete.

References