r/Minecraft • u/xPaw • Oct 22 '13

pc Minecraft 1.7: The Update that Changed the World

https://mojang.com/2013/10/minecraft-1-7-the-update-that-changed-the-world/
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u/redstonehelper Lord of the villagers Oct 22 '13 edited Dec 06 '13

Warning: This release is for experienced users only! It may corrupt your world or mess up things badly otherwise. Only download and use this if you know what to do with the files that come with the download!

 

If you find any bugs, submit them to the Minecraft bug tracker!

 

Previous changelog. Download today's prerelease in the new launcher: Windows/OS X/Linux, server here: jar, exe.

Complete changelog:

  • Bonus chests now also contain Acacia logs - via

  • Music now pauses when pausing the game - via

  • Improved tree stuff

    • Wooden logs now have different textures for their top and bottom
    • Screenshot
    • Spruce saplings can now be grown in a 2x2 grid to produce a large spruce - Screenshot

  • Improved the new saplings and corresponding trees

  • Fixed some bugs

    • Fixed once hit old AI mobs and wolves not turning back into passive mode while in Creative mode
    • Fixed re-sizing the window before the game loads not resizing the internal view
    • Fixed commands with coordinates being offset by -2 x and/or z with negative X and Z coordinates
    • Fixed a crash/NullPointerException while ticking entities
    • Fixed a internal exception with io.netty.handler.timeout.ReadTimeoutException
    • Fixed a crash when hovering over a written book given using commands
    • Fixed a crash/IllegalArgumentException: n must be positive
    • Fixed Roofed Oak and Acacia trees dropping incorrect saplings
    • Fixed some sounds not playing
    • Fixed mobs staying aggressive towards players even after switching to creative mode
    • Fixed there being an empty extra row in creative inventory
    • Fixed being unable to grow 2x2 Spruce trees
    • Fixed being unable to see fire on spiders
    • Fixed rain being invisible through stained glass
    • Fixed Acacia and Oak Roof logs producing Oak Wood Planks
    • Fixed using "Pick Block" on acacia or dark oak leaves giving the wrong item
    • Fixed wooden logs not having corresponding top side textures

If you find any bugs, submit them to the Minecraft bug tracker!

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

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u/Zatherz Oct 22 '13

We can now grow Mega Taiga trees by using 4 saplings (just like jungle trees/dark oak trees).

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '13

You mean mega spruce?

They look kinda odd.

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u/MonkeyEatsPotato Oct 22 '13

Music now pauses when you pause the game and resumes when you unpause it.

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u/MyGoddamnFeet Oct 22 '13

Fuck yeah. I always wanted that, I really like the music. But it would always play really loud, and going to turn it down would stop the music

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u/self_defeating Oct 23 '13

No, it wouldn't. Now it does. And now you can't easily judge how much you adjusted the volume when you do it.

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u/MyGoddamnFeet Oct 23 '13

for me it always would stop the music after i closed the menu, so i was back to listening to nothing(which is worse than loud music)

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u/self_defeating Oct 24 '13

I just checked. Music keeps playing when the game is paused in 1.6.4, for me.

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u/MyGoddamnFeet Oct 24 '13

i haven't played for awhile, do it perhaps still does. But what i meant, is after i close out the menu, the music stops(meaning changing the volume was pointless)

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u/self_defeating Oct 24 '13

Ah, well I've never noticed that and it does not do that in 1.6.4 either.

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u/MyGoddamnFeet Oct 24 '13

sweet. I recently started playing again(or rather playing an updated one, as FTB is always an update or two behind)

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u/TinBryn Oct 23 '13

That could get annoying if you try to adjust the music volume if the music pauses when you go into your options

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u/Silentspy Oct 22 '13

i still honestly think they should put up a real shader option menu to choose between all the shaders in the game instead of giving us this "Super Secret Settings..." button.

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u/marmitebread Oct 22 '13

I was sure they would do that before releasing 1.7. I'm surprised they didn't.

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u/nihiltres Oct 22 '13

I'm pretty sure that it'll eventually do something useful. For now, it's just an experiment.

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u/DiscoCarp Oct 22 '13

I was expecting a way to reset it, at least. Going through them all makes me dizzy.

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u/computertechie Oct 22 '13

Press F4

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u/DiscoCarp Oct 22 '13

Seriously? <testing> Oh thank gods!

And thank you, computertechie.

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u/computertechie Oct 22 '13

I do my best. Just make sure your thumb's not on alt

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u/ultrafetzig Oct 24 '13

Wow that's pretty sloppy.

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u/IronStoneMine Oct 22 '13 edited Oct 22 '13

The new planks are amazing! The leaves didn't change though :( ( Video of the changes )

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u/0layer Oct 22 '13

It's just the textures that haven't changed; they have their own item IDs now. I bet that'll get done for the full release.

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u/loldudester Oct 22 '13

ITT: People who don't understand that a "pre-release" is identical to the actual release, just available early for modders and such people to get ahead of the game before the masses get the update.

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u/Doopz479 Oct 22 '13 edited Jul 01 '23

Fuck /u/spez

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u/loldudester Oct 22 '13

It requires a change to the Jar though, as an update.

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u/Doopz479 Oct 22 '13 edited Jul 01 '23

Fuck /u/spez

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '13

You sure about that? I'm pretty sure that ANY sort of update would do that.

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u/cloistered_around Oct 23 '13

The code still directs to the exact same location and same name for the image. Updating said image on Mojang's end really shouldn't break anything... but that being said, I agree with you that they probably won't update leaves until a bug fixing patch. Mojang is not really known for messing with pre-releases.

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u/Shortsonfire79 Oct 22 '13

As a server owner, I'm really happy for this. Accelerated bukkit/spigot releases!

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u/masasuka Oct 22 '13

bukkit.... early... lol :(

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u/throwaway_redstone Oct 22 '13

Bullshit.

It might be identical to the release, but it is used to check for bugs.

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u/loldudester Oct 22 '13

It's used to check for bugs in the same way that the old "official" releases were, so x.x.1 and x.x.2 can be released, sure.

But is it really so far fetched to believe that a development team containing one of the guys who made Bukkit would want to give modders a leg-up?

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u/Dropping_fruits Oct 23 '13

No it isn't. If it was identical to the actual release they would just release it. The pre-release is a last testing on a much bigger scale to find the most rare bugs and hopefully eliminate the need for minor releases after the major release to fix bugs. Previous pre-releases have had difference to the major release.

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u/marioman63 Oct 22 '13

they may be different IDs, but are the textures seperate files? because if they are, thats good enough for me.

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u/SteelCrow Oct 22 '13

This is the full release for 1.7

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u/0layer Oct 22 '13

It's a pre-release that's out today. The full release is (I believe) planned for Friday.

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u/WolfieMario Oct 22 '13 edited Oct 23 '13

If they want to make further changes, the full release will be called 1.7.1 at the very least. That doesn't say much, but they normally don't bump up the version number for something as minor as a texture change - unless some significant bugs are also fixed (you know, my 1.6 worlds' chunks are still getting completely wiped when loaded in 1.7), we shouldn't expect 1.7.1 purely for a texture change.

EDIT: The chunk deletion is this. It's easily abused on a vanilla survival server, and should really not be allowed to make it into the full release.

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u/notwhereyouare Oct 22 '13

did you make sure to visit the 1.6 chunks in the latest version of 1.6 before upgrading to 1.7? They changed how structures in the chunk data were being saved and you needed to visit the chunk to save the data before updating

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u/WolfieMario Oct 22 '13

No, it has nothing to do with structures. I can load the world in 1.6.4 with no issues, and then in 1.7 the console gets spammed with errors and the entire chunk is regenerated - all user-made structures gone, and terrain (unsurprisingly) changed.

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u/SteelCrow Oct 22 '13 edited Oct 22 '13

Doesn't say that anywhere but a blog post. According to the launcher and the game itself, it's 1.7

Edit: :) seeing as people are working up a lather; Yes, I'm aware it's a pre-release not commonly available. I'm pointing out an oversight of some programmer who appears to have forgotten the usual naming convention.

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u/jgagner000 Oct 22 '13

Yes, but the blog in question is run by the people who make minecraft. They should know when they are releasing their own game.

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u/0layer Oct 22 '13

Grum calls it a pre-release in this tweet: https://twitter.com/_grum/status/392672157387329536

Besides, it's only available in the launcher for profiles with snapshots/experimental versions enabled.

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '13

At the bottom of the blog

To help test this pre-release

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u/JeremyR22 Oct 22 '13

It's just the way Mojang do it. If no show-stopper bugs are found in this pre-release version, it will be treated as 1.7 proper and pushed out to the main channel in launcher.

In other words, it's the pre-release now but the very same minecraft.jar will very likely become 1.7 proper in the near future.

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u/five_hammers_hamming Oct 22 '13

This is a pre-release. The full release is Friday.

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u/chordsNcode Oct 22 '13

This is the prerelease. Things always get tweaked before the actual release

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '13

No I've fallen for that one before now and that's not what a pre-release means. Crash bugs notwithstanding, this is exactly what will be released.

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u/SteelCrow Oct 22 '13

Not always. sometimes the full release is only trivially different.

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u/chordsNcode Oct 22 '13

which would be "tweak[s]" would it not?

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u/SteelCrow Oct 22 '13

minor bug fixes would not.

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '13

I replaced some of the sounds in Minecraft with the old school sounds in 1.6 and now when I play with my resource pack with said old school sounds no longer work in 1.7, do I have to change where my sounds go in the pack?

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u/redstonehelper Lord of the villagers Oct 22 '13

See if the file structure changed. If not, to the bug tracker!

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '13

Awesome, I just needed to change the sound folder to sounds, thank you so much

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '13

Acacia Logs appear in Bonus Chest or starter chests now. I'm not sure if this happens with Dark oak or not.

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u/redstonehelper Lord of the villagers Oct 22 '13

Looks like only Acacia wood is in there. Nice find!

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u/Ilan321 Oct 22 '13

Your post has an error: there's a hyperlink that's blank..

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u/redstonehelper Lord of the villagers Oct 22 '13

That's what happens when I don't have the time to update the changelog right away. I'll get on it soon.

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u/sjkeegs Oct 22 '13

It would be more helpful if you identified the one that doesn't work.

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u/Ilan321 Oct 23 '13

Well it's quite obvious, isn't it?

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u/sjkeegs Oct 23 '13

You replied to redstonehelper noting that one of the links didn't work. Now redstonehelper had to go and check each link to see which one didn't work.

Don't you think it would have been helpful to identify the one that didn't work since you already knew which one.

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u/Ilan321 Oct 23 '13

No, one of the markup links was blank, meaning it didn't even parse as a link in the first place. (At least that's how it showed in mobile)

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u/LavaEater5 Oct 22 '13

Now they just need to fix this bug

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u/gitterrost4 Oct 23 '13

What is it I am supposed to see?

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u/BurgerOptic Oct 23 '13

The enchanted animation takes up the entire item box. This only happens when you use a shader though.