Additions
Items
- Spawn Eggs
- Spawns mobs when used.
- 20 types of spawn eggs, each spawning their respective mob:
- The types were mooshroom, creeper, skeleton, spider, zombie, slime, ghast, villager, zombie pigman, enderman, pig, cave spider, sheep, silverfish, cow, blaze, chicken, magma cube, squid and wolf.
- Creative-exclusive item.
World generation
- World type
- Re-added world types to the Create World menu.
- Types are Default and Superflat.
- Superflat world type
- Generates completely flat worlds composed of grass blocks, dirt and bedrock.
- Villages can generate.
- Beach
- Re-added beaches.
- Are now separate biomes instead of generated structures.
General
- Languages
- Added 56 new translations.
- Includes constructed and fictional languages such as Pirate Speak, Klingon, and Quenya.
- server.properties
- New settings:
level-type
spawn-npcs
generate-structures
Changes
Blocks
- Ladder
- Removed collision box from ladders.
- Fence gate
- The collision box on fence gates now matches that of fences.
- Fence gates can now be opened and closed with redstone.
- Oak leaves
- Oak leaves now have a 1⁄200 chance of dropping apples.
- Melons and pumpkins
- Can now grow onto dirt instead of only farmland.
Items
- Bow
- Bows are now enchantable, with four new possible enchantments specific to bows: Power, Punch, Infinity, and Flame.
- Arrows
- Arrows that are burning now set entities on fire when hit.
- Golden apple
- Golden apple recipe has been changed to use gold nuggets instead of gold blocks.[note 1]
- Golden apples now restore and provide Regeneration I for 5 seconds.[note 1]
- Wheat
- The distance that wheat attracts mobs has increased from 2–3 blocks to 8–9 blocks.
- Music discs
- All music discs except for disc 11 can now be dropped when a creeper is shot and killed by a skeleton.
Mobs
- Mob AI
- Added the infrastructure for improved mob AI.
- Allowed for more complicated behavior than before.
- These behaviors themselves have not been implemented yet.
- Sheep
- Sheep now can eat grass and tall grass, which regrow their wool.
- Baby sheep now eat faster.
- Sheep now drop 1–3 wool per shearing.
- Magma cubes
- Can now drop magma cream upon death.
World generation
- Biomes
- Biomes have more varied elevations of land in previously flatter biomes.
- Smoothed color transitions between biomes.
- Swampland grass, foliage and water smoothly transition into other biomes.
- Taigas now contain snow and ice.
- Villages
- Blacksmith buildings in villages now have a chest that contains loot.
Gameplay
- Brewing
- Reduced brewing time from 30 seconds to 20 seconds.
- Enchanting
- Narrowed the various possibility of enchantment levels.
- The Void
- Removed the void fog in Creative mode.
General
- Servers
- Non-operator users are auto-kicked in multiplayer servers if they spam in chat too much.
- Operators are not notified of the kick; they must assume that the user was auto-kicked.
Fixes
- 3 bugs fixed
- Fixed "Sniper Duel" achievement not working.
- Fixed powered rails not depowering.
- Fixed powered rails not updating when placed.
Release Date: 2012-01-12
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