Minecraft 1.14.4
Released on 19 July 2019, Minecraft Java Edition 1.14.4 is the final release of Village & Pillage (1.14). It fixes more than 50 bugs and a memory leak, improves performance and villager trading, and adds the /debug report command. Suspicious Stew made from a Poppy now gives Night Vision instead of Speed.
Key takeaways
- Final 1.14 release: 1.14.4 fixes more than 50 bugs, a memory leak and slow chunk loading at high speed, before 1.15 on 10 December 2019.
- Villages: villages take their style from their biome, and villagers follow a daily schedule, claim a bed and a work station and trade at prices set by reputation and demand.
- Raids: killing an illager wearing a banner can give you Bad Omen, and a villager rings the Bell to warn the village of a raid.
- New mobs: Pandas, Foxes and the Wandering Trader. Cats and Ocelots are separate mobs.
- New blocks and items: the Crossbow, Bamboo, Scaffolding and functional blocks such as the Stonecutter, the Grindstone and the Bell.
Headline features
The changes you will notice first, with the pages that go deeper.
Work station blocks
Each villager profession has its own work station, such as the Smoker, the Blast Furnace or the Stonecutter. The Bell alerts villagers when a raid comes.
Pandas, Foxes, Wandering Trader
Pandas have several personalities and live in the Bamboo Jungle. Foxes come in red and snowy variants, and the Wandering Trader sells random trades.
What changed
Mods & loaders for 1.14.4
Mods must be rebuilt for each version. Counts from the files published on Modrinth and CurseForge, in our catalog.
139 mods in our catalog have a 1.14.4 file → 91 texture packs and 35 maps in our catalog support 1.14.4. →How to play 1.14.4
- 01
Open the Minecraft Launcher and select Minecraft: Java Edition.
- 02
Go to Installations, create a new installation and choose version 1.14.4.
- 03
Back up your worlds before opening them in a new version.
From first snapshot to release
0 snapshots, 7 pre-releases and 0 release candidates over 16 days.
- 1.14.4-pre103 Jul 2019
- 1.14.419 Jul 2019
Minecraft 1.14.4 FAQ
When was Minecraft 1.14.4 released?
On 19 July 2019. It is the final release of Village & Pillage, which launched as 1.14 on 23 April 2019. The next major version was 1.15 Buzzy Bees, on 10 December 2019.
What changed with villagers in 1.14.4?
They stock more items, restock only when a trade needs it and remember gossip after turning into a Zombie Villager. Demand values no longer climb indefinitely, and villager pathfinding is faster.
What does /debug report do?
It produces a detailed performance report. Mojang added it in 1.14.4 and asked players to attach it to bug reports about performance.
Should I update from 1.14.3 to 1.14.4?
Yes. It fixes more than 50 bugs, including crashes and a memory leak, and improves performance. Select Latest Release in the Minecraft Launcher to install it.




