1.14

Minecraft 1.14, Village & Pillage, rebuilt villages with biome-specific styles, reworked villager professions, and added pillager raids and many workstation blocks. It was released on April 23, 2019 as one of the game's numbered feature updates.

At its heart, 1.14 is rebuilding villages and the threats that raid them. The standout addition is redesigned villages, pillager raids, and crossbows, with foxes and bamboo. Shipped the JAPPA texture overhaul that updated nearly every block and item texture.

This page breaks 1.14 down into 17 headline features, 3 notable gameplay or technical changes and 2 documented fixes, and a plain-language summary of why the update matters. Java Edition is the original PC version of Minecraft, available on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

The most talked-about part of the Village & Pillage update is redesigned villages, pillager raids, and crossbows, with foxes and bamboo.

In full, 1.14 adds complete village overhaul with biome-specific architecture, villager profession and trading system rework, Pillager Outposts, raids triggered by Bad Omen effect, ravagers (Illager beasts), bamboo and Scaffolding, crossbows, and campfires, with several further additions listed on the right. Together these are what make Village & Pillage worth updating to, and each appears in the Major Features list on this page.

Beyond new content, 1.14 reworks how parts of the game behave. The notable changes include new texture pack by JAPPA (all textures updated), added accessibility settings, and new lighting engine. Adjustments of this kind reshape day-to-day play for existing worlds as much as new ones.

On the bug-fixing side, 1.14 resolves fixed many village-related bugs and performance improvements for large worlds. Several of these are performance-focused, so the update can feel smoother even where nothing visible changed.

To play Minecraft 1.14 on Java Edition, open the official Minecraft Launcher, select the Java Edition tab, and use the version dropdown beside the Play button to choose 1.14. As a full release it appears in the standard release list by default.

Before updating an existing world to 1.14, it is good practice to copy the save folder first. Worlds from 1.13 upgrade in place, but newly generated chunks will use 1.14's world generation while older chunks keep their original terrain.