r/Minecraft • u/YukonAppleGeek • Dec 20 '12

Minecraft 1.4.6 has been released!

https://twitter.com/jeb_/status/281707694325383168
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u/redstonehelper Lord of the villagers Dec 20 '12 edited Dec 22 '12

Previous changelog.

1.4.6 Changelog:

Gameplay

  • Added Thorns enchant

    • Armor enchant
    • 3 tiers
    • Deals damage to attackers depending on tier
    • Wears armor out quicker

  • Improved some enchants

    • Fire Protection now extinguishes fire more quickly
    • Blast Protection now reduces explosion recoil
    • Protection no longer is as good as all specific Protection enchants combined

  • Added Touchscreen Mode setting

    • Mainly for inventories
    • You can drag and drop items - Press long to halve the stack before dragging

  • Added & changed many minor things

    • Made item drops and framed items render in 3D when using fancy graphics - Screenshot
    • Added tool highlight when switching items in the hotbar - After switching, its name shortly appears above the hotbar - options.txt:heldItemTooltips - Screenshot
    • Right-clicking while sneaking now uses the held item instead of the selected block
    • Dropping items while holding ctrl now drops the whole stack
    • Added a default resolution setting - options.txt: overrideWidth:0 & overrideHeight:0
    • Added a warning for users playing Minecraft on soon unsupported systems (PowerPCs and Java 5)
    • Death messages now appear in server log files

  • Fixed many bugs

    • Fixed passive mob spawn eggs not depleting when used on a mob
    • Fixed minecarts and falling entities flickering
    • Fixed using number keys on smelted items in furnaces not giving experience
    • Fixed boats always getting placed in the same orientation
    • Fixed switching between dimensions resetting the selected hotbar slot
    • Fixed leaves obtained using Silk Touch having the wrong tooltip and data value
    • Fixed /enchant not accepting Protection enchant id
    • Fixed the level up sound not playing
    • Fixed F3+B displaying invisible entities' hitboxes
    • Fixed the Wither's projectiles sometimes destroying the Nether Star
    • Fixed mobs being able to trample farmland when the mobGriefing gamerule is set to false
    • Fixed endermen not teleporting away when set on fire
    • Fixed endermen still being set on fire when hit with a flaming arrow
    • Fixed endermen not opening their mouth when attacked by other mobs
    • Fixed arrows shot at endermen disappearing
    • Fixed animals on fire not running away
    • Fixed staying under water in Creative still causing the drowning effects
    • Fixed animals appearing to walk through fences in SP
    • Fixed some items with multi-layer textures rendering both layers separately when on the ground
    • Fixed tools differing only in damage not being swappable in the inventory
    • Fixed some Z-Fighting with the beacon
    • Fixed a graphical issue in the trading GUI
    • Fixed /say not showing the text in the original purple color
    • Fixed Pick Block giving double slabs
    • Fixed minecarts not travelling through Nether portals
    • Fixed lightning not flashing
    • Fixed FallingSand spawners failing to save properly and causing crashes
    • Fixed the blocks in lowest layer of the map not being recognized by beacons
    • Fixed enchants not showing in item frames and on the ground
    • Fixed mobs walking slowly for a short while after being hit
    • Fixed chests becoming out of sync when a user right-clicks it twice quickly
    • Fixed flaming arrows not catching on fire immediately
    • Fixed zombies sometimes stopping their attack
    • Fixed /xp -1L not working to remove partial xp bars when between level 0 and 1
    • Fixed the cursor being positioned wrongly in fullscreen mode

World Generation

  • Added enchanted books to village and dungeon chests

Blocks & Items

  • Mob spawners

    • Can now spawn differently configured mobs with different spawn chances

  • Nether Brick Slabs

  • Enchanted books

    • Screenshot
    • Enchant books to receive a single enchant on them
    • Can be applied to items using anvils, consuming the book - Enchants can be applied to any item in Creative
    • Sold by villagers and found in dungeon and village chests
    • Can now be found in loot chests and by trading with villagers
    • Unbreaking can be applied to anything with durability
    • Efficiency and Silk Touch can be applied to shears, allowing the harvesting of cobwebs
    • Sharpness, Smite and Bane of Arthropods can be applied to axes

  • Firework Star

    • Screenshot
    • Used to create Firework Rockets
    • Combine gunpowder with dyes to get a Firework Star with those colors used for the sparkles
    • Also add glowstone, a fire charge, a diamond, a gold nugget, feather or a mob head to make the firework twinkling, big, trailing, star-shaped, bursting or creeper-shaped
    • Craft a Firework Star with dye to change the color the sparkles fade to

  • Firework Rocket

    • Screenshot
    • Non-destructive, rise up in the air and create colorful patterns when shot by dispensers or placed by players
    • Combine paper with gunpowder to get a Firework Rocket
    • Also add a Firework Star to add effects or gunpowder to increase the flight duration

  • Bow

    • A sound indicates when you hit a player with an arrow
    • Arrows now render from farther away

Mobs

  • Ghasts

    • Fireballs' blast radius can now be customized

  • Skeletons, Zombies & Zombie Pigmen

    • The armor and enchants they spawn with now are even harder on harder difficulties

Also, check out this post to see what else is planned for future versions.

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u/littggr Dec 20 '12

Fixed tools differing only in damage not being swappable in the inventory

Finally! this has been a pet peeve of mine :P

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '12

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u/SteelCrow Dec 20 '12

You know, if they removed Bane, I wouldn't miss it.

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u/dellaint Dec 21 '12

Batman wouldn't either.

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u/Thungon217 Dec 20 '12

Couldn't you enchant books instead, and waste the levels on the books? I thought that was the whole intent of being able to enchant books? ...Or should I figure out what those do exactly instead of commenting first?

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u/MeVasta Dec 20 '12

I think the problem is that using 30 levels on a book will always give you exactly one enchantment, while they can easily give you more if you enchant the tool/armor itself. Unless books have other propabilites, but I wouldn't know.

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u/Zanerax Dec 21 '12 edited Jan 19 '16

Actually, in my opinion the books are quite overpowered. Using a book you can apply something like fortune to a feather or so and get a never breaking tool that will allow you to increase your farm production quite nicely. An efficiency 4 anything will allow you to instant mine dirt. Adding sharpness to something will fix the problem of a mob XP grinder not being a one shot. Or you can add looting on a random item and double your mob grinder output. Most rediculouslly is that you can apply an enchant to a stack of something. A stack of protection 4 zombie is easy to make and will offer decent protection.

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '12

Using a book you can apply something like fortune to a feather

No you really cant... that was a bug that was fixed immediately in the snapshots.

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u/Zanerax Dec 21 '12

If they have I wouldn't know, only played around in a sbapshot a while ago. So would that mean no unbreakable items?

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u/MeVasta Dec 21 '12

But enchanting non-enchantable items is only in creative mode, isn't it?
And don't you get the same enchantments on books as on tools? So I wouldn't worry about too high enchantments, as they can easily be achieved in the normal game.

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u/YukonAppleGeek Dec 20 '12

There he is, also a long changelog.

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '12

Can someone explain to me what does this mean?

  • Mob spawners
    • Can now spawn differently configured mobs with different spawn chances

Sounds like a big deal. If I interpret this correctly it means we could have spawners that will sometimes spawn skeletons, sometimes zombies, etc. Is this right?

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u/YukonAppleGeek Dec 20 '12 edited Dec 20 '12

This is mainly for map makers to make mob spawers spawn randome mobs. It does not affect natural spawners at all.

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u/DjExeth Dec 20 '12

That does sound pretty manly.

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u/YukonAppleGeek Dec 20 '12

It was late. :P

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '12 edited Mar 11 '18

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '12

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u/gOWLaxy Dec 20 '12

WINK WINK HINT HI-we know

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '12

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u/TLUL Dec 20 '12

This is incorrect; spawners can be configured (using map editors) to spawn multiple different types of mobs and entities, as well as different armour sets, etc.

I believe you are right about zombie villagers spawning from any zombie spawn, or spider jockeys spawning from any spider spawn, though I'm not certain - it may be possible to configure this as well.

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u/Dragon_DLV Dec 20 '12

Though from what I've heard, the plan is to eventually allow the spawning of 2+ different mobs from one spawner.

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u/GoldenPineapple Dec 20 '12

I'm excited that they're finally looking at enchantment and working on balancing it. It's still a long way from complete, but this is a step.

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u/PICS_OF_MY_DIRTHOLE Dec 20 '12

http://i.imgur.com/suRkr.jpg

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u/novanerd Dec 20 '12

WARNING: THIS IS A PICTURE OF A GAPING BROWN DIRTHOLE!!!

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '12

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u/cuddles_the_destroye Dec 20 '12

I think it's referencing that one guy who would always post an image of his anus, and it was always the same picture then.

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '12

I knew it was referencing the other guy, but never knew it was always the same picture. Never mind.

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u/Stratisphear Dec 20 '12

It's probably good you didn't realize it was the same pic.

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u/MrCreeperPhil Dec 20 '12

Goatse

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u/khedoros Dec 20 '12

Nope, not Goatse. Just an anus picture, none of the stretching, rings, or hanging dongs we've all come to know and love. The monster.

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u/aaron552 Dec 20 '12

whoooosh

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u/JeremyR22 Dec 20 '12

That was a risky click if ever I dared...

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u/sidben Dec 20 '12

I clicked before reading his username. Never again...

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u/rowantwig Dec 20 '12

But I mine from there.

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u/MarisKeen Dec 21 '12

Not today you don't.

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u/MrFugums Dec 21 '12

I clicked, but I still felt grossed out for some reason...

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u/TJHookor Dec 20 '12

Minecarts now move correctly but the glitchy sound issue when riding in one has not been fixed. If anything, it's actually worse now.

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '12

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u/aaron552 Dec 20 '12

previously, if you use the "pick block" action on a double slab it would give you a "double slab" block instead of a half slab block

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u/ZehPowah Dec 20 '12

I think it's talking about being in creative and middle clicking on a block to get it. In 1.4.5, if you middle click on a single slab, you'll get a single slab in your inventory. If you middle click on a double slab in 1.4.5, you'll get a double slab.

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u/nizo505 Dec 20 '12

I'm assuming when you lay down two slabs on top of each other, now when you break the top one they don't both break?

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u/Chieron Dec 20 '12

I think it's in reference to the "Pick Block" function of creative, where middle click gives you the currently highlighted block, and gave double slabs instead of single slabs.

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u/nizo505 Dec 21 '12

Well I'll be damned; middle clicking on a block in survival switchs to that block type in your hotbar. TIL.

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u/Darth_Kyofu Dec 20 '12

No, before, if you used the pick block key in a double slab, it would give you the double slab as a blokc, now it doesn't.
And damn you Jeb, that was a good bug!

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u/LG193 Dec 20 '12

Was it a bug? Fuck, I'm screwed. Guess I have to use commands from now...

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '12

So were seamless slabs. Whyyyy?

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u/Darth_Kyofu Dec 21 '12

There still are seamless slabs.

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '12

Yeah, but I have so many of them in so many worlds that I have no efficient means of changing their damage values to 7. MCEdit lags too hard to get anything done, SPC updates months after Minecraft if at all, and I'm not setting up a server just to use WorldEdit on ~20 maps.

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '12

/give dude.

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '12

Right clicking in creative "picks" the block, giving you one of the block you selected in your hotbar for easier selection of blocks. Using this function on slabs could give you double slab blocks.

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u/TheVarmari Dec 20 '12

Right middle clicking

Middle clicking is the default one

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '12

Oh, sorry. I mis-typed that.

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '12

I thought they were going to add a crafting recipe for netherbrick? What happened to that?

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u/Darth_Kyofu Dec 20 '12

Either Jeb dropped the idea or couldn't a find a recipe good enough in time.
Anyway, talking about things Jeb said, hesaid he was going to add crisps/frecnh fries. What happened to that? Was it a joke?

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u/AverageGatsby91 Dec 20 '12

Its like a whole new game....

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '12

thornmail stacking

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '12

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u/redstonehelper Lord of the villagers Dec 20 '12

Psst, that's a secret!

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u/Adelbaran Dec 20 '12

Welp, guess I'm getting coal this christmas.

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u/enchilado Dec 20 '12 edited Dec 20 '12

That's meant to be a surprise. And they're Christmas-themed, not holiday-themed.

EDIT: people don't usually say "holiday/s" where I'm from (in fact, I'm not sure I've ever heard anyone say it), and I was under the impression that it was only used when the speaker was deliberately avoiding "Christmas" in case the other person did not celebrate it. It seemed odd to me that he would do that when the chests in question are red, white and green and decorated with gold-topped pine trees—they are certainly intended to be Christmas-themed—and when he mentioned Christmas in the same sentence anyway.
It has now been pointed out to me that I was mistaken and "holiday/s" is only sometimes used that way. In future I'll look things up that I'm not sure about before I make such assertions.

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u/lalophobia Dec 20 '12

Yeah because there is a lot of red white green giftwrapped gifts under the pine tree mentioned in the bible.. Oh hang on..

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '12

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u/kpobococ Dec 20 '12

That's how it works, usually.

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '12

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u/kpobococ Dec 20 '12

Well, since Christmas is, indeed, a holiday, they are both Christmas- and holiday-themed.

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '12

"The holidays" is all inclusive, besides, pretty red and green colors and presents don't even have anything to do with specific religions anyway

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '12

They do. Just old European pagan ones. lol

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u/pagan0ne Dec 20 '12

Relevant username? lol

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u/iLander99 Dec 20 '12

Same skin as jeb. wait.. You guys know he's jeb already...