Additions
Items
- Music disc
- Added the music disc "wait".
Command format
/enchant
- Used to give specific enchantments to tools and weapons.[note 1]
Changes
Blocks
- Cobwebs
- When in creative mode, flying through cobwebs does not slow the player down, but walking through them will.
Mobs
- Baby mobs
- Spawnable by right-clicking a mob with a corresponding spawn egg.
- Creepers
- Can now drop the music disc "11" when killed by a skeleton
- Squid
- Now die when they are not underwater.
Fixes
- 29 bugs fixed
- Random falling damage due to lag fixed.
- Falling damage when riding minecarts fixed.
- Enchanted book exploit fixed.
- Slimes have correct collision box.
- Signs no longer lose their text client-side on servers.
- From released versions before 1.4.4
- MC-334 – Tab key not working for any function on Mac.
- MC-450 – Chicken head movement is inverted.
- MC-527 – "seed" command doesn't work in Minecraft server command line.
- MC-984 –
Internal exception: java.io.IOException: Bad packet id 249
. - MC-1079 – Killing animals with fire aspect on the first hit does not cook the drops.
- MC-1153 – Torch texture is rendered incorrectly.
- MC-1478 – Walking from ground level onto anvil.
- MC-1622 – Enderchest doesn't have the right hitbox.
- MC-1793 – Nether Brick Fence has an incorrect texture.
- MC-1860 – Block and item duplication.
- MC-2229 – Fences are not rendered correctly from underneath.
- MC-2362 – Item frames disappear without drop when a block is placed in their position.
- MC-2422 – Pistons are invisible and make blocks invisible while pushing.
- From the 1.4.4 prereleases
- MC-1608 – Iron Golems crash the player when they walk.
- MC-1611 – Torches don't place properly, get adjacent to wall.
- MC-1612 – Water current too strong / Can't swim up in deep water.
- MC-1647 – Cannot fall into void.
- MC-1661 – Crash when placing minecart on powered rail.
- MC-1741 – Loading a world that has been moved or deleted causes a crash.
- MC-1745 – player can jump over cobblestone walls.
- MC-1789 – Squids do not suffocate on land.
- MC-1845 – Crash when rendering entities.
- MC-1871 – Running on leaves produces gray particles.
- MC-2304 – Redstone repeaters above 1 tick do not receive a pulse at all when sent a 1-tick pulse from redstone wire or repeaters.
- MC-2400 – disappearing mobs and items after dying.
- MC-2447 – Cannot break block behind gravel, sand, dirt with Efficiency V diamond pickaxe.
Release Date: 2012-11-14
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