Minecraft Version History
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
Additions
General
server.properties
Added server.properties option player-idle-timeout.
Kicks players from a server when they are idle for a set amount of minutes
Defaults to disabled (0).
Fixes
2 bugs fixed
MC-15547 – Structures (witch huts, nether fortresses etc.) don't get saved with the world file
In order for current structures (Witch Huts, Nether Fortresses, etc.) to be saved to the world file, the player must load the appropriate chunks within ...
Release Date: 2013-09-19
Minecraft 1.6.4
Minecraft 1.6.4 is an update that focuses on a bug that made structures fail to save to the world file on Minecraft servers, and locally. Version 1.6.4 had other bugs fixes as well, but primarily focused on that major structure saving issues that caused a lot of issues with the game.
Download Minecraft 1.6.4
If you are interested in downloading Minecraft 1.6.4, click on the download link above. If you want to host a Minecraft server, make sure to check out Minecraft ...
Release Date: 2013-09-19