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    1.3 Pre-release 1 Patch notes and other general features

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    General

    • Updated the launcher
      • Includes demo mode
      • No visual changes
    • Improved overall stability and performance
      • Reduced CPU, RAM & bandwidth usage
      • Accelerated chunk loading
      • Decreased lag spike frequency
      • Made the Nether less laggy
      • Decreased unnecessary world updates
      • Made the chat work smoothly even when the server is laggy
      • Decreased packets sent between client and server
    • Made Singleplayer internally use a Multiplayer server[1][2]
      • Decreased world saving intervals
    • Added optional single-player commands called "Cheats" on non-hardcore worlds[3]
      • Type / and then hit tab to autocomplete & get help on various commands
      • Most commands from MP are available
    • Added option to let LAN friends join SP games
      • You can choose which gamemode players join in and whether they are allowed to use cheats
    • Added demo mode for non-premium users[3]
      • Lasts 5 game days per world
      • Singleplayer only
    • Added Chat Settings
      • Change which parts of chat are shown and how opaque it is
      • Toggle chat colors, links being clickable and warning prompts for links
      • Option to rebind the command key, which opens the chat with / in the textfield
    • Added Snooper Settings
      • Allows users to toggle anonymous data being sent to Mojang
      • Shows which data will be sent
    • Added video options
      • Have to be toggled manually in options.txt for now
      • VSync
      • Fullscreen mode
    • Mobs can now spawn on top slabs and upside down stairs
    • Improved F3 mode:
      • Truncated coordinates to 5 fractional digits
      • The y-coordinate now shows both the feet level and the eye level
      • Removed frame rendering time history graph (bottom-left)
      • 3 new values:
        • ws: Walking speed (constant)
        • fs: Flying speed (constant)
        • g: Boolean value, true when you touch the ground
    • Updated language files
      • Added tooltips for all types of Monster Egg blocks and the End Portal Frame
      • Added more descriptive tooltips for different types of tree-related blocks, sandstone and stone bricks[4]
      • Localized server commands
      • Added missing commands-related strings
      • Added missing double chest GUI caption
    • Fixed many bugs
      • Fixed texture packs in folders not showing their icon and description
      • Fixed Man-in-the-middle attack allowing hackers to log in as you when you visit their server
      • Fixed the Open texturepack folder button not working on OS X


    Gameplay

    • Added Adventure mode[5]
      • Only playable using commands
      • Building, setting things on fire and using buckets is disabled
      • Players can only interact with mobs and the environment
      • Players can place and take stuff from achest, a furnace or a dispenser
    • Added trading[6]
      • Using emerald as currency, villagers will, depending on profession, offer different trades to players
      • There are three kinds of trades: Selling, buying and enchanting
      • As displayed in the top-most part of the trading GUI, villagers take one or more items or item stacks and give back something
      • After trading, villagers will sometimes emit purple particles for a few seconds to indicate that their trades changed
      • Otherwise unobtainable bottles o' enchanting and chainmail armor can be obtained by trading
    • Improved Creative mode inventory
      • There are categorized tabs for various groups of items and blocks
      • Added a search tab which will automatically be switched to when the chat key is hit
      • Added survival inventory tab, which shows the full inventory, a 'Destroy item' slot, armor slots including a preview of your character and a 2x2 crafting field
      • Items can now be deleted from the inventory by shift-clicking them
      • Added layered snow block, Monster Egg Blocks (Silverfish spawning blocks), Ender Portal frame and all potions[7]
      • Now shows potion effects' timers like in Survival
    • Improved experience collection
      • Depending on ore type, experience now drops from ores that drop items
      • Taking smelted items out of furnaces gives experience now
      • Destroying mob spawners gives experience now
      • Adjusted experience level progression:
        • Levels 1-15 cost 17 XP points each
        • Levels 16-30 cost 3 more XP points than the previous (cost = 17 + (level - 15) * 3)
        • Levels 31-∞ cost 7 more XP points than the previous (cost = 62 + (level - 30) * 7)
    • Improved enchanting
      • The new maximum level with bookshelves is 30, without 8
      • 15 bookshelves are enough to reach level 30
      • The 3rd slot shows the most expensive possible enchantment more often
      • Increased chances for multiple enchantments at once
      • Adjusted enchantments' to go with the new maximum level
    • Added writing in books
      • New crafting recipe for books: 3 pieces of paper and one piece of leather in any possible shape
      • New item: Book and Quill - Crafting recipe: 1 ink sac, 1 feather and 1 book in any possible shape
      • Right-click to write on & edit up to 50 pages or read
      • Click 'Done' to save the book, 'Sign' to choose a title and finalize the book
    • Improved Multiplayer
      • Made entities less likely to glitch through blocks
      • Added automagical downloading of standard sized texture packs when joining servers
      • Made server commands more descriptive
      • Added reason parameter to /ban
      • Added /seed command to show the map seed
      • Added /defaultgamemode command to choose the gamemode new players start in
      • Added /debug command to enable and disable profiling
      • /kick messages can now contain "\n" to force a new line
      • Blocks other players are mining now show cracks[8]
      • /tp can now be used to teleport to specific coordinates
      • Made server list re-orderable: shift+click orshift+arrow keys move selected servers
      • Server list now scans for LAN servers
      • Added hardcore difficulty: Players are banned upon death[9]
      • Added SRV Record Lookup support
        • Different subdomains of one domain can handle different servers via different port numbers.
        • Service name should be "minecraft"; i.e. "_minecraft._tcp.example.com"
    • Added & changed many minor things
      • Individual, stackable items near each other on the ground now become one item stack
      • Added shift clicking support to armor slots, brewing stands & enchantment tables
      • Added setting to disable servers offering you texture packs
      • Made the stars smaller and brighter[10]
      • Villagers spawned from spawn eggs will get a random profession now
      • Removed the downwards knockback while drowning
      • Doors being broken by zombies now show their damage
      • You now spawn with an empty inventory in Creative mode
      • The "Mojang" splash screen when opening the game appears for 1 instead of 3 seconds now
      • The sky color in the End changed
      • Blocks now show cracks when destroying them while the GUI is hidden
      • You can now fall 4 blocks without getting hurt (might be a bug as there exist other, higher distances that don't cause damage either)
      • Respawning in superflat is no longer random.
    • Improved the Pick Block key
      • You now get the actual block
      • You can now pick paintings, boats,minecarts and mobs, which will give you their spawn eggs
      • Picking huge mushroom blocks now gives mushrooms
      • You can no longer pick portal blocks
    • Fixed many bugs
      • Fixed liquids slowing down flying players
      • Fixed blocks with the same id but different data/damage values stacking in Creative inventory
      • Fixed boats & minecarts not being one-hit breakable in Creative
      • Fixed raw fish, dyes, saddles, potions, milk buckets and tools depleting in Creative
      • Fixed water destroying non-solid blocks when breaking them from above
      • Fixed Silk touch giving you only one slab from double slabs
      • Fixed redstone updates not propagating through unloaded chunks[11]
      • Fixed repeaters getting stuck when loading their chunk
      • Fixed tools taking damage when breaking insta-breakable blocks
      • Fixed a few misalignments in the item sprite sheet
      • Fixed the arrow representing players on held maps being offset
      • Fixed being able to duplicate sand, gravel and powered rail
      • Fixed placing a piston in front of another powered, but not extended one resulting in a glitched piston with the head's texture on all sides
      • Fixed TNT dropping as a resource on creative mode
      • Fixed powering specifically glitched pistons crashing the game
      • Fixed the End Portal Frame block not showing as a block in the inventory
      • Fixed weather not working correctly in certain biomes
      • Fixed Overworld portals above Y=127 not being recognized when leaving the Nether
      • Fixed various hacked mob spawners crashing the game
      • Fixed thrown splash potions not preserving their type when reloading the world
    • Fixed many Multiplayer-specific bugs
      • Fixed arrows scooting up to the top of the block they were shot on
      • Fixed endermen not opening their jaws
      • Fixed fully charged arrows not showing their particle effect
      • Fixed many sounds not playing[12][13][14][15]
      • Fixed magma cubes' and slimes' jumping animations not showing
      • Fixed thunderstorms not darkening the sky
      • Fixed weather not fading in or out
      • Fixed enchanted armor and tools not glowing to other players
      • Fixed explosions not pushing players back
      • Fixed TNT not knocking back players
      • Fixed pistons not pushing back players
      • Fixed players on minecarts, boats or pigs and spider jockeys not being displayed in the correct location
      • Fixed glitchy mob prediction[16]
      • Fixed fishing lines not showing[14][17]
      • Fixed sneaking players' nameplates not staying hidden when loading the chunks they are in
      • Fixed Unbreaking-enchanted tools sometimes breaking and then re-appearing a few times
      • Fixed potion effects losing their graphical effects when traveling between dimensions
      • Fixed blocks disappearing when placing them under yourself and jumping


    World Generation


    Blocks & Items

    • Emerald Ore
    • Emerald
    • Block of Emerald[18]
      • Crafted by putting 9 emeralds on a crafting table
    • Ender Chest
      • Crafted by surrounding an eye of ender with 8 pieces of obsidian
      • Stores each player's contents across dimensions and all Ender Chests
      • Contents are preserved even if all Ender Chests are destroyed
      • Explosion-resistant
      • Emits light and purple particles
      • Unless mined using a Silk Touch-enchanted pickaxe, they drop 8obsidian[19]
    • Tripwire Hook[20][21]
    • String
      • Can now be placed on the ground decoratively
    • Wooden logs
      • Can now be placed in 3 different directions
      • Placement works like similar to piston placement
    • Furnaces
      • Can be fueled by wooden tools now
      • Return an empty bucket when using lava buckets as fuel now
    • Ice
      • Instead of melting in the nether, it now disappears
      • Can be obtained using Silk Touch-enchanted gear now[19]
    • Glass Panes
      • Can be obtained using Silk Touch-enchanted gear now[19]
    • Nether portal
      • Leaks into the Overworld now: Depending on difficulty, zombie pigmen rarely spawn in them
    • Slabs
      • Added all wood types
      • Wooden slabs crafted after the update act like wood
    • Stairs
      • Added Sandstone Stairs
      • Added wooden stairs for all kinds of wood
      • Adjusted hitbox
    • Slabs and Stairs
      • Will now be placed upside-down when placed on the upper half of a block's side
      • When placed upside down, rails, pressure plates, levers, doors, torches, redstone torches, repeaters, redstone dust and beds can be placed on them - Redstone dust behaves like on glowstone - It transmits power horizontally and upwards, but not downwards. Redstone torches don't power redstone placed on slabs/stairs above them.
    • Leaves
      • Water slowly drips through them when it's raining
    • Cauldrons
      • Slowly fill up when it's raining
    • Dispensers
      • Minecarts & boats will now be placed if there's rails/water in place
      • Instead of dispensing buckets, dispensers will now suck in or place water or lava in front of them
    • Gravel
      • Changed texture
    • Jungle leaves
      • Have a 1/200 chance to drop a cocoa beanwhen destroyed now
    • Lever
      • Can be placed on the ceiling now
    • Wooden pressure plates
    • Pistons
      • Now take 0.05 seconds to expand
    • TNT
      • Depending on difficulty, does different amounts of damage now:
        • Peaceful: no damage
        • Easy: ~50% less damage
        • Normal: same damage as before
        • Hard: 33.3…% more damage
    • Cocoa beans
      • Retextured item
      • Can be planted & grown on jungle wood now
      • Can be grown instantly using bone meal
    • Cookies
      • Give a full hunger point now
    • Nether Warts
      • Can now be grown in the Overworld and in the End
    • Book
      • Changed crafting recipe: 3 pieces of paper and one piece of leather in any possible shape
    • Book and Quill
      • Crafting recipe: 1 ink sac, 1 feather and 1 book in any possible shape
      • See above for more information
    • Written Book
      • Can only be obtained by signing a Book and Quill
      • Can be sold to villagers
    • Empty buckets
    • Signs
      • Stack up to 16 now
      • Crafting now gives 3 signs instead of 1
    • Golden Apple[26]
      • Has two crafting recipes now, the new one replacing gold nuggets with gold blocks
      • Second tier gives Regeneration IV, Resistance and Fire resistance effects
      • Only second tier glows like enchanted tools
      • Has attributes the Golden Apple had before1.1[27]
    • Spawners
      • Added NBT tags to further customize spawned mobs
      • Only changeable using map editors or mods
    • Boats
      • Are not broken by lilypads anymore, instead they run straight through the lilypad now, breaking and sometimes dropping it
      • Are less glitchy and more responsive now
      • Increased maximum speed
      • When exiting, players will be moved from the boat
      • When broken by a player, they drop a boat now
    • Minecarts
      • When on rails, they can be accelerated a bit while sitting in them
      • When exiting, players will be moved from the minecart


    Mobs

    • Pigs
      • Drop 1-3 meat now
    • Slimes
      • Reduced spawn rate in superflat maps
    • Silverfish
      • When suffering from poison potions, they will now spawn more silverfish from nearby silverfish blocks more often
    • Creepers
      • Increased knockback effect
      • Depending on difficulty, they do more damage now:
        • Easy: ~50% less damage
        • Normal: same damage as before
        • Hard: 33.3…% more damage
    • Creepers & Spiders
      • Become aggressive towards the last mob or player that hit them now[28][29]
    • Skeletons, Creepers & Zombies
      • Become neutral against players again a few seconds after being hit in Creative

    Bugs:

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    • Tamed wolves will growl at the player after attacking wild ones

     

    Endermen Lovers Unite!

    in PC Gaming

    Posted

    Just now, haloman30 said:

    I love endermen! They're really great for killing and leveling unarmed, swords, and axes skill! YAY!

    a bit disturbing seeing how my character is half enderman but okay..o.O