This is the first alpha for the 1.8 content update. Things may change, and more content is still planned.

New

• Maim trap. Permanently lowers the max health of mobs on contact and will continue to do so until they have 1 heart left. Players and bosses are excluded from this and will take damage instead.
• Player trap. Similar to the damage trap, but all damage is from a player source.
• Monolith of Spawning. Overrides spawn checks in the same chunk, to allways allow the mob to spawn. Spawned mobs have 20% more health and attack damage.
• Monolith of Experience. Absorbs experience orbs in the same chunk as it. EXP can be pulled from the reclaimed from the monolith.
• Using wither dust on a skeleton will turn it into a wither skeleton.
• Dispensing wither dust will turn skeletons into wither skeletons.
• Pearl Ender Hopper. An upgrade to the old ender hopper that is instant, and doesn't spawn particles.

Changes

• Fire trap now does 2 fire damage instead of 1.
• Items and blocks with sub types (like traps) now have specific information pages in JEI.
• The null charm now has 27 slots rather than 5.
• Charms will now work in Baubles again.
• Ender tether crafting now requires an unstable ender pearl. Normal pearl recipe removed.
• Removed the recipe for the block update detector. Added a recipe to replace existing ones with Vanilla's BUD block.
• Changed the recipes for lore tags, and added recipes for previously uncraftable lore tag colours.
• Rewrote the recipe system to work better with ore dictionary and metadata.

Fixes

• The wither trap would not do damage to mobs if they stand on the plate.
• Removed duplicate JEI information recipe registrations.
• Ender Tethers are now significantly more performant.
• Shulkers would not drop their pearls if you kill them.
• Fixed a client side freeze when shift clicking items into the null charm.
• Fixed being able to move the null charm item while accessing it's inventory.