Minecraft Version History
Additions
Mobs
Chicken jockey
Consist of a baby zombie riding and controlling a chicken.
Because the zombie is riding a chicken, it cannot take fall damage.
As it is a baby zombie, it will not burn up if exposed to daylight.
Extremely rare - every baby zombie spawned has a very small chance of spawning as a chicken jockey.
Zombie pigmen chicken jockeys can spawn in the Nether.
Gameplay
Shaders
New 'Notch' shader.
General
Native broadcasting ...
Release Date: 2013-12-10
Minecraft 1.7.4
Minecraft 1.7.4 included a new splash screen, Twitch.tv broadcasting, and the Chick jockey in the game.
1.7.4 added the large addition of Twitch.tv streaming, which allows Minecraft players to stream their gameplay to Twitch.tv. You can stream gameplay while also streaming sound from your microphone. In addition to Twitch, there were various gameplay changes to Minecraft.
Download Minecraft 1.7.4
Minecraft 1.7.4 can be downloaded by clicking on the download link above! ...
Release Date: 2013-12-10
Fixes
11 issues fixedFrom released versions before 1.7.4
MC-5002 – Some texts cannot be translated in a language file.
MC-11129 – Unicode font text shadow in fullscreen mode.
MC-13046 – Certain supported characters glitch out, clearing out lines of text.
MC-32322 – World loading screen uses wrong font.
MC-33035 – Loading text in Polish (and other languages with Unicode font) isn't showing properly.
MC-34573 – Font file of ...
Release Date: 2013-12-06
Additions
Blocks
Stained glass
Glass can be dyed into all 16 colors.
This is done by putting a colored dye in the center of a crafting table and surrounding it with 8 pieces of normal glass, yielding 8 stained glass.
Stained glass can be crafted into stained glass panes using the same recipe as normal glass panes.
Doing this yields 16 stained glass planes, like normal glass.
Water, nether portals and other stained glass blocks remain visible when looked at through a stained glass ...
Release Date: 2013-10-25
Minecraft 1.4.2
Minecraft 1.4.2 is deemed as the Pretty Scary Update, which added a number of new mobs, wearable and placeable heads, a new boss, the command block, the anvil, the beacon, new food, carrots on sticks for controlling pigs and new decoration items. The name is because some of the items that were added were mostly either "pretty" items or "scary" items.
There were many new additions added to version 1.4.2. Among these additions were new commands that added more ...
Release Date: 2013-10-25
Minecraft 1.7.2
Minecraft 1.7.2 has been deemed The Update that Changed the World because of all of the added features that changed the world generator.
There have been many commands added to the game in 1.7.2. These include /setidletimeout - which will automatically kick players from the game after a set amount of time of being idle, /tellraw - which creates buttons and formatted text in chat, /summon - which is used to spawn any entity in the game, /achievement - which is used by admins ...
Release Date: 2013-10-25