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Additions

Blocks

Command blocks

• Runs editable commands when triggered by redstone
• Intended for adventure maps
• Can only be edited by ops in Creative mode, as long as enable-command-block in server.properties is enabled
• Only obtainable using /give <playername> 137
• Can operate in silent mode where it doesn't display commands in the chat box.

Beacons

• Intended as an endgame block
• Continuously glows and gives a selected status effect to players within 16 blocks while beaming a beacon of light directly upwards (as bright as glowstone)
• Activated by building a solid pyramid of iron/gold/emerald/diamond blocks underneath and selecting an effect
  • The cheapest configuration requires 9 blocks, while the best configuration requires 164 blocks
• Has to be directly exposed to skylight to work
• Building square platforms of increasing size and the same material per layer will activate it and increase range and status effect selection
• Viable materials are iron, gold, diamond and emerald blocks
• Changing selected status effects costs 1 emerald, diamond, gold ingot or iron ingot
• Unlockable effects, with increasing amount of required layers of blocks required:
  • Speed and Haste
  • Resistance and Jump Boost
  • Strength
• When all 4 layers of blocks underneath are built correctly, a second status effect can be chosen
  • This second status effect is Regeneration or tier II of the previously chosen effect
• Effects given by the Beacon will have less intrusive particles than others on the screen, such as those of potions

Anvils

• Used for repairing and combining enchanted items as well as for renaming any item/block at the cost of experience levels
• Tools can also be repaired using one piece of their material
• Enchantments that are the same are upgraded by one level as long as they are both the same level and the higher level exists
• Conflicting enchantments will be removed and only the first one will be kept
• Becomes damaged from using and dropping it - Damage persists in inventory and splits up into 3 categories: Anvil, Slightly Damaged Anvil & Very Damaged Anvil
• Can be placed in 4 orientations, but can't be moved by pistons
• Experience level cost depends on enchantment levels & rarities, whether the item will be renamed and whether the item has been used with an anvil before - Maximum experience level cost is 39 levels, unless in Creative mode
  • For a more detailed explanation on how enchantments are combined using the anvil, see the Anvil mechanics page
• Is affected by gravity and does 1 heart of damage to mobs and players it falls on per block it fell, excluding the first one - Players killed by a falling anvil cause the death message "Player was squashed by a falling anvil" to appear in chat
• Certain blocks are destroyed when an anvil falls on them: levers, buttons, torches, redstone torches, redstone repeaters, flower pots, rails & mob heads

Flower Pots

• Lets players plant all kinds of saplings, mushrooms, flowers, cacti, dead shrubs and ferns ^[3]
• Using pick block on it gives the potted plant
• Right-click it with something to plant it, hit it to get both back

Cobblestone walls

• Available in cobblestone and moss stone variants
• Behave like fences - Connect to each other, to other blocks and to fence gates & have a 1.5 blocks high collision box
• Have a different, higher shape in corners and when blocks are placed on them

Mob heads

• Wither skeleton skull has a chance of dropping when a wither skeleton is killed by a player
• Also exist for creepers, zombies, skeletons and players
• Can be put on the ground in 16 orientations and hung on walls
• Can be worn
• Using external editors or mods player skulls can be assigned to specific players - They then have tooltip "Player's Head"
  • Add the NBT tag "SkullOwner" -> (player name) on the skull items.

Wooden Buttons

• Unlike stone buttons, can be activated by arrows
• Requires 1 unit of wood planks to craft

Items

Potatoes

• Can be planted on hydrated soil and drop 1-4 potatoes when fully grown
• Can be grown instantly using bone meal
• Can be Smelted to receive a baked potato
• Rarely drop poisonous potatoes
• Potatoes give 0.5 hunger points, poisoned potatoes give 1 hunger point and have a chance to poison the player, baked potatoes give 3 hunger points

Carrots

• Can be planted on hydrated soil and drop 2-4 carrots when fully grown
• Can be grown instantly using bone meal
• Can be crafted surrounded with 8 gold nuggets to get a golden carrot
• Carrots restore 4 () hunger and golden carrots restore 6 () hunger

Carrot on a stick

• Used to control pigs
• When held, it dictates the direction pigs players are riding will head in
• Nearby pigs flock towards players holding it
• Slowly loses durability when riding pigs
• Pigs start slow but end up going about 5 blocks per second
• Can be used to give the pig a short speed boost - This takes up a chunk of the durability
• The pigs ‘eat’ the carrot eventually, leaving the player a fishing rod and will require another carrot to continue riding
• To craft, the carrot must be placed at a diagonal below the fishing rod

Pumpkin pie

• Restores 4 hunger points
• The crafting recipe is shapeless: assemble a pumpkin, egg and sugar into the crafting inventory

Nether star

• Drops from withers
• Used to craft beacons
• Glows like an enchanted item

Potion of Night Vision

• Brewed by adding a golden carrot to an awkward potion

Potion of Invisibility

• Effect now hides the nametag and cape
• Mobs only attack the player when they walk into them or attack them
• Splash potions of invisibility can also make mobs partially invisible, although eyes of some mobs still show
• Brewed by adding a fermented spider eye to a Potion of Night Vision

Mobs

Wither

• Three-headed flying player-created boss mob shooting projectiles at any mob that isn't undead and players
• Place 4 pieces of soul sand in a T-shape and place 3 wither skeleton skulls on top to summon it
• After spawning, it flashes blue, builds up health, grows slightly and is invincible for a few seconds - Then it explodes and starts attacking players and mobs
• Each head can fire projectiles, so-called wither skulls, at different targets - Projectiles explode on impact
• Shoots two kinds of projectile - a blue one from the little heads, targeting mobs and a dark one from the big head targeting players
• When hit by projectiles, players get the ‘’Wither II’’ effect, which acts like a slower poison effect that can kill and turns affected players' health bars' hearts black
• Constantly regenerates health
• Gains wither armor when taken down to half health, making it immune to arrows
• Drops a nether star when killed
• Darkens the sky when spawned in the Overworld

Wither skeletons

• Carry and rarely drop Stone swords when killed by players
• Drop bones, coal, and rarely wither skulls
• Give players Wither effect when hitting them
• Spawn in nether fortresses
• Will rarely, depending on difficulty, spawn with the ability to pick up armor, head wear, items, blocks, weapons and tools - Armor and tools & swords are equipped automatically and will be exchanged for better gear when possible - Items that are picked up will have a 100% chance of dropping after dying - When killed, they drop what they are holding
• All equipped gear is functional - Swords and tools do more damage on attacks, armor protects the mob
• Rare tool drops are now damaged
• More advanced gear is more likely to spawn with mobs when playing on harder difficulties and rarely drops when the mob is killed by players

Witch

• Looks like an offshoot villager
• Throws splash potions of poison, slowness, weakness, and instant damage at players
• Holds a potion and wiggles its nose when attacking
• Has a hat, which sometimes emits particles
• Drinks potions of instant health and fire resistance to defend themselves in combat
• Is immune to 80% of splash potions' effects
• Drops sticks, glowstone, redstone, gunpowder, sugar, spider eyes, and glass bottles when killed
• Has a chance to drop the potion it is holding if killed by players
• Spawn exclusively in Witch Huts in swamps

Bats

• Hang on the ceiling when idle, starts flying when players come near
• Spawn in low light levels
• Sleep during the day
• Don't trigger pressure plates or tripwire

All boss mobs

• Now show their name above health bars

Non-mob entities

Item frames

All items and blocks can be framed

• Clocks, compasses and maps function - Maps show only one marker, the frame itself
• Mounted maps are marked on copies of the map
• Using pick block on it gives the framed item/block

World generation

Witch hut

• Generates in swamps

Gameplay

Sounds

• Added sounds for placing wood, stone, plant, sand and gravel-like blocks
• Added sounds for walking on sand, gravel, soul sand, grass block and stone
• Added sounds for zombies, skeletons, cows, pigs, spiders, endermen, ghasts, silverfish, magma cubes, wolves, the ender dragon, bats and the anvil.
• Added sounds for curing a zombie, infecting a villager and a remedy sound.
• Added sounds for setting things on fire and shearing sheep
• Added sounds for climbing ladders and riding minecarts
• Added a sound for leveling up which is played every 5 levels
• Added constant noise to liquids

NBT tags

• Tag for items to have lore
• Tag for mobs to determine whether they can despawn

Command format

Specific commands

• /difficulty
  • Changes difficulty
  • /difficulty 0 = peaceful
  • /difficulty 1 = easy
  • /difficulty 2 = normal
  • /difficulty 3 = hard
• /spawnpoint
  • Changes the player's own or other players' spawnpoint to where they are standing or to specified coordinates
  • /spawnpoint <player> <x> <y> <z>
• /w
  • Alias for /tell
• /weather
  • Changes the current weather and optionally set the duration for the new weather
  • /weather [clear | rain | thunder]
• /gamerule <gamerule> <true/false>
  • Look up and change gamerules regarding command block output
  • /gamerule commandBlockOutput - Whether or not the output of command blocks executing commands should be sent to the chat as if a player had executed them
  • /gamerule doFireTick - Whether fire should spread
  • /gamerule doMobLoot - Whether mobs should drop items
  • /gamerule doMobSpawning - Whether mobs should naturally spawn
  • /gamerule doTileDrops - Whether blocks should have drops (does not work for paintings)
  • /gamerule keepInventory - Whether the player should keep items in their inventory if they die.
  • /gamerule mobGriefing - Whether creepers, endermen, withers and villagers should be able to change blocks.
• /clear
  • Clears a specified player's entire inventory or remove only one block/item from it

Command target selectors

• Available selectors:
  • @p - Closest player
  • @a - All players
  • @r - Random player
• Can have arguments specified in [] using the syntax x=0, where x is the argument
• Available arguments:
  • x,y,z - Coordinates
  • r - Range
  • m - Gamemode
  • l - Minimum experience level
  • lm - Maximum experience level
  • rm - Minimum range
• Special argument only usable with @a:
  • c - the maximum count of players to return. Numbers below 0 will make it return the last x amount of entries

Changes

Blocks

Logs

• Placement now depends on the surface it is placed on, rather than the direction of the player
  • Placed on the side of a block, the log will be horizontal
  • Placed on the top or bottom of a block, the log will be vertical

Stairs

• Now connect to other stairs to form corner stairs

Spawners

• Added NBT tags to change a few key spawning rules
• Spawning range can now be changed
• Maximum amount of spawned entities within spawning range can now be changed
• Horizontal spawning radius can now be changed
• Spawned mobs can wear and carry any items and blocks as well as have a custom drop rate of held items
• Added an NBT tag for mobs to decide whether they can despawn
• Added an NBT tag for mobs to decide whether they are invincible

Repeaters

• Can now be locked by powering their sides with another repeater
  • When locked, they show a little bedrock barrier in place of the delay indicator torch and won't change their output signal

Trapdoors

• Can now be placed on the top half of blocks
• Placement works similar to that of slabs and stairs

Buttons

• Now stays active for 0.2 seconds longer
• New crafting recipe – Only 1 stone block required

Fire

• Now spreads more aggressively depending on difficulty

Saplings

• Decreased hitbox size

TNT

• Is now triggered by flaming arrows

Doors, Trapdoors, Levers & Buttons

• No longer triggerable with the left mouse button

Items

Potions

• Can now have any available potion effects, level and duration
• Data is saved using NBT tags, but potions retain their original color

Maps

• Are now crafted as an Empty Map and will become a real map by right-clicking
• Start out at their closest zoom level and can be extended by adding more paper
• Players see other players moving around on the same map
• Craft an existing map with an empty map to receive an extra copy of the map
• Removed text overlay
• Are labeled 'Map #0' and so on
• Now align to a grid and can be stacked to 64
• When outside a map's range, the player is displayed as a small circle at the edge

Armor

• Diamond Armor sleeves now have a notch on the inner side
• Completely revamped leather armor
  • Can now be dyed in 16,777,216 potential different colors
  • Putting it in a crafting grid with dyes applies all colors
  • Dyed armor's tooltip will display ‘’Dyed’’
  • Right-click dyed armor on cauldrons to wash it and remove some water from the cauldron
  • Changed item and model color and texture
  • Now uses two overlayed textures, one being the color

New textures

• Updated textures for leather armor, bread, raw chicken, cooked chicken, raw beef, steak, raw porkchop, cooked porkchop, apple and baked potatoes.

Mobs

Tamed wolves

• Collars can now be dyed by using dye on the wolf

Iron golems

• Now attack creepers, slimes and magma cubes
• Can become aggressive towards players depending on whether the player is liked or disliked by the villagers of a village

All hostile mobs

• Will now jump down to players as long as they can survive the fall
• Depending on difficulty, they are willing to take more damage

Villagers

• Improved villagers to make them more self-aware
• The inhabitants of a village can now like and dislike specific players
  • Trading will make the villagers like the player
  • Hurting villagers or their iron golems will make the villagers dislike a player
    • When players are highly disliked, iron golems of that village can become aggressive towards those players
• After a villager dies to natural causes (mobs excluded) while a player is within 16 blocks or if a mob kills a villager, no baby villagers will be produced in the next few minutes
• Changed and added some trades to counteract emerald farming and improve gameplay
• Will show particle effects indicating a change in player reputation

Pigs

• Can now accelerate to up to 5 m/s
• Now drop their saddle when killed

Slimes

• Now spawn in swamps at night

Sheep

• Sheep from spawn eggs can now spawn natural colored sheep (white, pink, etc.)

Creepers

• Will start exploding when they hit the ground, with explosions being more imminent with higher falls
• Can now have custom explosion radius and fuse timer using edited mob spawners and NBT tags

Zombies

• Will now rarely spawn with armor of all kinds, sometimes enchanted
• Will now rarely, depending on difficulty, spawn with the ability to pick up armor, head wear, items, blocks, weapons and tools
  • Armor and tools & swords are equipped automatically and will be exchanged for better gear when possible
    • Items that are picked up will have a 100% chance of dropping after dying
• All equipped gear is functional - Swords and tools do more damage on attacks, armor protects the mob
• Rare tool drops are now damaged
• More advanced gear is more likely to spawn with mobs when playing on harder difficulties and drops rarely when the mob is killed by players
• When wearing helmets, they will not burn up - Instead, all damage is applied to the helmet
• Using modified mob spawners they can have a custom drop rate of items and hold and wear all kinds of items and blocks
• Now have a chance, depending on difficulty, to infect villagers after killing them - The villager then gets replaced with a villager zombie on death
  • On Normal difficulty, there is a 50% chance of infection and on Hard difficulty there is a 100% chance of infection
• Infected baby villagers turn into baby villager zombies
• Right-clicking a zombie villager under the influence of a weakness potion with a golden apple will invert their potion effect, make them wiggle slightly and eventually turn back into a villager
• Rarely spawn holding iron swords or shovels
• When holding something in their hands, their arms move upwards when attacking
• Added baby zombie, which is only spawnable using mods or third-party tools
  • Baby zombies are 50% faster, don't age, don't burn up in the sun and can wear armor
• Will now rarely drop carrots and potatoes when killed by players
• Have a 25% chance of spawning with a pumpkin on their head during Halloween.

Skeletons

• Will now rarely spawn with armor of all kinds, sometimes enchanted
• Will now rarely, depending on difficulty, spawn with the ability to pick up armor, head wear, items, blocks, weapons and tools
  • Armor and tools & swords are equipped automatically and will be exchanged for better gear when possible
    • Items that are picked up will have a 100% chance of dropping after dying
• All equipped gear is functional - Swords and tools do more damage on attacks, armor protects the mob
• Rare tool drops are now damaged
• More advanced gear is more likely to spawn with mobs when playing on harder difficulties and rarely drops when the mob is killed by players
• When wearing helmets, they will not burn up - Instead all damage is applied to the helmet
• Using modified mob spawners they can have a custom drop rate of items and hold and wear all kinds of items and blocks
• Rarely spawn with enchanted bows which can be dropped when killed by players
• Have a 25% chance of spawning with a pumpkin on their head during Halloween.

Zombie Pigmen

• Will now rarely, depending on difficulty, spawn with the ability to pick up armor, head wear, items, blocks, weapons and tools - Armor and tools & swords are equipped automatically and will be exchanged for better gear when possible - Items that are picked up will have a 100% chance of dropping after dying - When killed, they drop what they are holding
• All equipped gear is functional - Swords and tools do more damage on attacks, armor protects the mob
• Rare tool drops are now damaged
• More advanced gear is more likely to spawn with mobs when playing on harder difficulties and rarely drops when the mob is killed by players
• Using modified mob spawners they can have a custom drop rate of items and hold and wear all kinds of items and blocks
• Rarely carry enchanted golden swords
• Dropped Golden Swords now sometimes are damaged
• Added baby Zombie Pigman, which is only spawnable using mods or third-party tools

Non-mob entities

Paintings

• Added Wither painting

World generation

Extreme Hills biome

• Silverfish blocks now rarely generate in Extreme Hills biomes
• On average, nearly one Silverfish block is generated per Extreme Hills chunk

Villages

• Carrots and potatoes can be found in farms in villages

Gameplay

Multiplayer

• Spawn protection now is disabled if there's nothing in ops.txt
• Spawn protection radius can now be changed in the server.properties file

Creative inventory

• Items can now be cloned by using Pick Block on them - An item stack with the highest amount of items possible in it will be created
• Items can now be shift-clicked around on the survival inventory screen

Inventory

• Pressing the 1-9 hotkeys while hovering over an item will exchange that item with the one from the corresponding hotbar slot
• Status effects now cause the inventory window to be off-center regardless of screen aspect ratio

Portals

• Mobs, items and projectiles now pass through them, preserving momentum
• Entities will pass through instantly, but at a longer "cooldown"
• Portals will allow fire burning entities like blazes to leave the Nether and potentially burn things
• Portals will teleport an entity relative to where it entered
• Players are now positioned correctly when going through Nether Portals
• Nether Portals are now instant for players in Creative mode

Adventure mode

• Blocks can now be mined with the proper tools
• Blocks can now be placed

Breeding

• Chickens now use seeds instead of wheat to breed
• Pigs now use carrots instead of wheat to breed

Village mechanics

• The player can now restore a desolate village or create a completely new village

Experience

• Now awarded for fishing and breeding

Command format

• /xp
  • Can be used to give and take entire experience levels by appending "L" to the number
• /tp
  • Works with relative coordinates
• /give
  • Items spawned are picked up almost instantly now

General

Server list

• Server IPs can now be hidden individually when editing or adding a server
• Server version is now displayed left of the connection bars
• Server ping tooltip now shows if the server and client have mismatching protocol versions
• Mismatching servers can't be joined

Settings menu

• Renamed Chat Settings to Multiplayer Settings
• Added an option for cape-owners to hide their capes in-game
• Added Fullscreen and VSync toggles
• Though this is not in the settings menu, the user may go into the options.txt in %appdata% and toggle advancedToolTips. This shows them the item IDs of everything and the durability of tools and armor.
• Worlds can now be re-created from the world selection screen

F3 debug screen

• The piechart is now shown when using shift+F3 instead of vice versa
• Added the cardinal direction and the degree value to the f value indicating the direction the player is facing
• Now shows which chunk and where in that chunk the player is in on X and Z values
• Pressing P while holding F3 will toggle the auto-pause when the Minecraft window loses focus
• Pressing H while holding F3 will toggle detailed item descriptions, which additionally show item id, damage value, color code, tool/armor/weapon damage and map zoom level and scale on the tooltip

Language files

• Updated language files

Superflat world type

• Now customizable and made up of layers specified with block id, data value and height
• Biome can now be changed
• All generation settings are stored in a preset, which can be shared and re-used
• Terrain can now be decorated and structures other than villages can spawn
• Default presets:
  • Classic Flat - 2;7,2x3,2;1;village
  • Tunnelers' Dream - 2;7,230x1,5x3,2;3;stronghold,biome_1,decoration,dungeon,mineshaft
  • Water World - 2;7,5x1,5x3,5x12,90x9;1;biome_1,village
  • Overworld -2;7,59x1,3x3,2;1;stronghold,biome_1,village,decoration,dungeon,lake,mineshaft,lava_lake
  • Snowy Kingdom - 2;7,59x1,3x3,2,78;12;biome_1,village
  • Bottomless Pit - 2;2x4,3x3,2;1;biome_1,village
  • Desert - 2;7,3x1,52x24,8x12;2;stronghold,biome_1,village,decoration,dungeon,mineshaft
  • Redstone Ready -2;7,3x1,52x24;2
• Preset format with example: 95;35:2;2x20;1;stronghold – 95 is the format version, followed by a semicolon and the layer information. Every new layer is separated by a comma and must consist of the block id (35) and can additionally have :2 appended to specify 2 as the data value. Before that, the player can put 2x to specify that this layer should be put 2 times. After a semicolon follows the biome id. After another semicolon follows all structures to be generated, including their options.

Fixes

29 bugs fixed

• Mobs glitching through wooden floors
• Mob AI considering cobblestone walls as blocks of normal height
• Mobs randomly suffocating
• Mobs falling through blocks
• Zombies not burning in the sun
• Mob Spawners spawning mobs too quickly
• Redstone Repeaters getting stuck in 'on' state
• A number of minor font issues
• A bug that allowed any item to be placed in the armor slots
• Invisible falling sand entities
• /me command only working for ops
• /tell not working correctly
• /say not working correctly
• Graphical glitch with chests and Ender Chests
• Partially fixed lighting issues
• The second layer on skins not being placed correctly when sneaking
• Blazes not properly spawning in Nether Fortresses
• Various Nether Portal fixes
• Pets teleporting around randomly
• Wet wolves looking way too scary
• PvP-disabled servers still allowing players to set other players on fire using Fire Aspect enchanted swords
• Entities in minecarts becoming invisible
• Stairs, slabs & fences glitching visually sometimes
• Fixed a severe memory leak in the server
• Corrected rendering of fences and cobblestone walls
• The player can no longer attempt to connect to an outdated server (only when the version is shown)

Release fixes

These fixes occurred between the 1.4.1 pre-release and 1.4.2.

• Fixed a severe memory leak in the server.
• Corrected rendering of fences and cobblestone walls.
• The player can no longer attempt to connect to an outdated server (only when the version is shown).

From 1.4.1

• MC-1 – Cracked effect sometimes remains when a zombie is interrupted while attempting to break down a door.
• MC-27 – Fireballs float in mid-air.
• MC-80 – Entities such as villagers and cows fall through blocks and suffocate.
• MC-183 – setWalkSpeed is ignored by the client.
• MC-230 – Stairs can glitch in weird places.