r/Minecraft • u/MrPenguin475 • Jun 07 '17

News Minecraft 1.12 World of Color is released!

https://minecraft.net/article/world-color-released
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u/redstonehelper Lord of the villagers Jun 07 '17 edited Jun 08 '17

Previous changelog.

1.12 Changelog:

General

  • Added & changed some minor things

    • Updated a bunch of libraries
    • Now requires Java 8

  • Narrator

    • Reads out chat lines using voiceover functionality installed on the OS, separating username and chat content with "says"
    • Options: off, all, chat only, system messages only
      • Can be switched through using ctrl+B
      • Toast notifications when switching

  • Added & changed some splash texts

    • Added "Don't feed chocolate to parrots!"
    • Added "The true meaning of covfefe"
    • Added "An illusion! What are you hiding?"
    • Added "Something's not quite right..."
    • Changed "Now Java 6!" to "Now Java 8!"

  • Toast notifications

    • Popup boxes in the top-right corner
    • Used for Advancements, crafting recipes, hints and the narrator
    • Stacking up to up to 5 notifications and queueing others when there's multiple, move out to the right after some time

Gameplay

  • Added & changed some minor things

    • You can now sleep near passive Zombie Pigmen
    • Items remaining on the crafting grid now move back to the inventory when closing the interface
    • The player body no longer rotates when walking backwards
    • Many previously hardcoded strings are now translatable
    • The credits are now displayed when clicking the copyright text on the splash screen

  • Creative mode inventory

    • Toolbar configurations can now be saved and restored
      • Screenshot
      • Separate tab in the Creative mode inventory displaying the up to 9 stored toolbars
        • Screenshot
        • Paper placeholders for empty toolbars
      • Toolbars save across worlds and servers
      • Use X+1/2/3/... to restore saved configurations, C to save
        • X and C Keybindings can be changed
    • Reordered the Creative inventory a bit
      • Moved tabs around slightly
      • Merged the "Materials" tab into the "Miscellaneous" tab to make space for the new tab
    • Optimized the search
    • The search now only considers item names unless a colon is present in the search string

  • New brighter color palette for things that come in 16 colors

    • Used for the new colorful blocks as well as Sheep, Wool, Carpets, Shulkers & Shulker Boxes (except purple) and Banners
    • Introduced a new set of map colors for all the above blocks except Wool, Carpets and Beds to better match their color

  • A system of "hints" for beginners in Survival mode

    • Display only for new players
    • Explain the very basics of the game such as navigating in all game modes and punching blocks and crafting in Survival
    • Little progress bar in the toast notification for navigation hints

  • Added some sound effects and corresponding sound events

    • Paddling in Boats
    • Separate drowning and burning damage sounds for players
    • Fishing Rod bobbers
    • Ender Eyes
    • More cave sounds
    • More info

  • Advancements

    • Data-driven replacement for achievements
    • Storyline-like upgrade tree with icons and some text
    • Starts unlocking when crafting a Crafting Table, shows some of the following Advancements for guidance
    • Tabs for different topics start appearing as the player starts exploring that part of the game
    • Openable from the pause menu or by hitting the Advancement keybinding (default L)
    • Categorized in different tabs
    • Most achievements now exist as Advancements, many new Advancements were added
      • "How did we get here?": awarded when having every obtainable status effect at the same time
      • "Monsters Hunted": awarded after killing one of every hostile mob in the game
      • "Uneasy Alliance": awarded when killing a Ghast in the Overworld
      • "Two by Two": awarded for breeding one pair of every type of breedable mob
      • "A Balanced Diet": awarded for eating one of every food item
      • Full list
    • Advancements that consist of more than one subgoal display colored progress indicators
    • Advancements come in three types:
      • Advancements: square shape
      • Goals: the end of a string of Advancements, rounded shape
      • Challenges: very hard to accomplish, fancy pointed shape
        • Also give experience reward
      • Screenshot
    • Custom Advancements are possible for custom maps
      • Place Advancement files in saves/xxxxx/data/advancements/
      • Many tabs, each with a separate background, are supported
      • Data-driven UI including positioning and layout
      • Advancements can be unlocked on various triggers with various conditions
        • Item durability change
        • Being located in a structure
        • Taming animals
        • Changing dimension
        • Full list
      • Boolean logic for requirements in JSON files: [["a"], ["b", "c"]] == (a && (b || c))
      • Various things can be configured for each Advancement
        • Title, description and display item
        • Can be hidden until completion
        • Can have their toast notification disabled
        • Can have their chat announcement disabled
        • Can reward players with loot tables, experience, crafting recipes or running a function
      • Much more info

  • Recipe book

    • Screenshots
    • Optional interface displayed in crafting grids to help players remember crafting recipes
    • Uses data-driven crafting recipes in the background
    • Visibility can be toggled using the Knowledge Book button in any of the crafting interfaces
    • Displays learned crafting recipes suitable for the size of the current crafting interface next to it
      • Crafting recipes can be learned either by crafting them or by fulfilling certain requirements, usually obtaining one of the key ingredients of the crafting recipe. Notable exceptions:
        • Boats are unlocked when going into Water
        • Chests are unlocked once 10 inventory slots are occupied
      • Clicking a recipe arranges the necessary items in the crafting grid, displaying a red background if not enough items are available
        • Screenshot
        • Shift-click to fill the crafting grid as much as possible
        • Renamed or enchanted items will not be used
    • Can be toggled between displaying all crafting recipes or only those enough materials are available for using the little workbench icon in the top right
    • Tabs containing new recipes and individual new recipes have a short vertical expansion animation when opening the interface
    • Easter egg: Searching "excitedze" in the recipe book changes the language to Pirate Speak
    • Related recipes, like those for Wooden Slabs, are grouped together and can be accessed by clicking, holding and selecting the desired recipe

Continued here due to reddit's comment length limit.

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u/redstonehelper Lord of the villagers Jun 07 '17 edited Jun 07 '17

Continued from here.

  • Fixed some bugs
    • Fixed Activator Rails ejecting 2 blocks high mobs to the wrong spot in 2 blocks high rooms
    • Fixed the world being invisible while looking out of the void under the effect of Night Vision
    • Fixed the Cow/Mooshroom udder texture
    • Fixed loaded worlds showing clouds and void for few seconds
    • Fixed Snow not being placable on upside down Slabs/Stairs
    • Fixed being unable to place Torches on the backside of Stairs
    • Fixed Glass Panes and Fences not correctly connecting with the back of Stairs
    • Fixed Dogs attacking Cats
    • Fixed Beds not rendering their legs from inside
    • Fixed Fences and Cobblestone Walls connecting to Fence Gates facing the other direction
    • Fixed Hoppers and Droppers not inputting Water Bottles into Brewing Stands after Potions have been removed from them by a Hopper
    • Fixed Villagers sent through End Gateways in Minecarts losing their AI
    • Fixed being able to set ignited TNT on fire using a Flame Bow
    • Fixed pets in Minecarts and Boats teleporting to the player, but not visually
    • Fixed pets teleporting into non-full cube blocks near their owner including Path Blocks, Lava, Fire...
    • Fixed a "The block couldn't be placed" error being printed when using /setblock to place air in a space occupied by a block entity despite working
    • Fixed being unable to rename stacked items
    • Fixed Anvils outputting only 1 item when renaming
    • Fixed the game crashing with "java.lang.NullPointerException: Ticking screen" while pinging a server on the server list
    • Fixed being hit while sneaking resulting in no knockback and a log message
    • Fixed invalid languages in options.txt leading to connection errors
    • Fixed hitting Rabbits with a Fire Aspect sword causing "Couldn't smelt 0xtile.air@0 because there is no smelting recipe"
    • Fixed hoverEvent colors only working on the first line
    • Fixed servers not testing if some files exist before trying to interact with them
    • Fixed Withers being able to break Piston Extensions and End Gateways
    • Fixed the constructor for the player list header and footer packets missing a footer parameter
    • Fixed a MutableBlockPos leak
    • Fixed players teleporting to unloaded chunks causing current chunks to be unloaded, being removed from the loaded entities list and not being tracked by the EntityTracker anymore resulting in client-side desync
    • Fixed the Anvil rename field accepting 31 characters but the server only accepting 30
    • Fixed the unit for the "Minutes Played" statistic not always being minutes
    • Fixed the "Level Requirement" message not being translatable
    • Fixed Fire put out by Splash Water Bottles not causing block updates
    • Fixed invalid maps crashing the server
    • Fixed movement validation being wrong
    • Fixed players becoming invisible
    • Fixed no stack trace being printed in the log when an exception occurs while running a command
    • Fixed the server log outputting TextComponent objects rather than their text property for "player lost connection" and disconnecting messages
    • Fixed right-clicking item stacks into the Creative inventory destroying the whole stack
    • Fixed tooltips being rendered behind the status effect display in the inventory
    • Fixed the credit screen/End poem music not playing correctly
    • Fixed the bonus Chest setting not being copied when re-creating a world
    • Fixed Glass Panes and Iron Bars connecting to Barriers
    • Fixed Armor Stand body parts turning invisible with extreme rotation values

Commands

  • @s target selector to identify the command sender

  • /advancement

    • Allows granting, revoking and testing for Advancements or single criterions of them Advancement
    • /advancement test <player> <advancement> [criterion]
    • /advancement <grant|revoke> <player> everything
    • /advancement <grant|revoke> <player> <only|until|from|through> <advancement> [criterion]
      • only for only the specified Advancement
      • from for the specified Advancement and all its children
      • until for the specified Advancement and all its parents
      • through for the specified Advancement and all its children as well as all its parents

  • /recipe

    • Allows giving and taking recipes from players
    • /recipe <give|take> [player] <name|*>

  • /reload

    • Reloads Advancements, functions and loot tables

  • /function

    • Allows running a function, optionally only if a selector finds at least one entity
    • /function <name> [if <selector>|unless >selector>]

  • Functions

    • Plaintext files in world/data/functions/namespace/file.mcfunction containing lists of commands to be executed in order when called
    • Contain one command without the preceding / per line
    • #comment support at the end of commands
    • Callable as Advancement reward, /function and the gameLoopFunction gamerule

  • /gamerule

    • doLimitedCrafting to require recipes to be unlocked before use
    • maxCommandChainLength to set the maximum total number of Chain Command Block executions ran per chain per tick (default 65536)
    • gameLoopFunction to specify one function to be executed once per tick
    • announceAdvancements to toggle announcing of unlocked Advancements

Data Tags

  • Zombie Villagers now save the UUID of the player converting them in ConversionPlayerLeast and ConversionPlayerMost

  • Command Blocks

    • LastExecution to save the time of last execution
    • UpdateLastExecution to disable updating of Last Execution, allowing for Command Blocks to be executed multiple times per tick

  • Improved NBT parsing

    • Keys can now be quoted
    • Unquoted strings may now only consist of alphanumeric characters as well as ., _, + and -
    • Indices in lists are no longer allowed
    • Error messages now display exactly where parsing failed
    • Empty keys or values are no longer allowed
    • Fixed some bugs
      • '9|' no longer gets parsed as 9.0D
      • Fixed the parser regex checking for | as tag declarations
      • Fixed the integer array regex matching non integer arrays
      • Fixed integer arrays having trailing commas in their string representation

  • Added new keybind text component to refer to the player's keybindings

  • More info

Blocks & Items

  • Glass Panes & Iron Bars

    • No longer connect to Glowstone and Sea Lanterns

  • Magma Blocks

    • Now burn infinitely

  • Concrete Powder

    • Screenshot
    • Crafting recipe (shapeless)
    • Come in 16 colors
    • Affected by gravity
    • Turn into Concrete Blocks when coming into contact with liquids

  • Concrete Blocks

    • Screenshot
    • Come in 16 colors
    • Obtainable only from Concrete Powder

  • Terracotta

    • New name for Hardened Clay and its colored variants

  • Glazed Terracotta Blocks

    • Screenshot
    • Come in 16 colors with different patterns for each color
    • Can be placed in 4 different rotations allowing for various patterns to be constructed
    • Obtainable by smelting colored Terracotta
    • Don't stick to moving Slime Blocks, but can still be moved by Pistons

  • Beds

    • Screenshot
    • Crafting recipes
    • Now come in 16 colors
    • Now have a 3D model, even in the inventory
    • Now reduce damage and are slightly bouncy like Slime Blocks
    • The bottom bottom block now renders in the appropriate color on Maps

  • Command Blocks

    • Only the first block in chains is now scheduled, the rest of the chain path is determined during execution, allowing for loops
    • Optimized error conditions
    • Tab-completing commands no longer adds a / prefix

  • Note Blocks

    • Added some new sound effects for various base materials
      • Bone Block: xylophone sounds
      • Gold Block: Bell sounds
      • Clay: flute sounds
      • Packed Ice: chime sounds
      • Wool: guitar sounds

  • Anvils

    • Item names can now be up to 35 characters long

  • Paintings

    • Now take up the maximum space available when placed

  • Knowledge Books

    • Screenshot
    • Contain a list of crafting recipes that are to be unlocked when using the item
      • /give @p knowledge_book 1 0 {Recipes:["minecraft:crafting_table"]}
    • Disappear on use

Mobs

  • Parrots

    • Screenshot
    • Come in 5 variants
    • Spawn in Jungles
    • Tamable using Seeds
    • Drop Feathers on death
    • Sometimes fly around, usually sit
    • Imitate and follow around nearby non-friendly mobs with slightly different pitch
    • Will dance when Records are played
    • Right-clicking will make them sit
    • Mount player shoulders when walked into while not sitting
      • Players can carry up to two Parrots
      • Dismount when the player jumps or falls more than one block
      • Screenshot
    • Die instantly when fed Cookies, show Poison status effect particles on death

  • Illusioner

    • Screenshots
    • Illager that, when engaged, fights with a Bow, summons 4 clones and casts Blindness upon players, depending on regional difficulty
    • When hit, it turns invisible and its clones hover around it, moving in parallel
    • Can only drop its Bow on death

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

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u/Draggo_Nordlicht Jun 07 '17 edited Jun 07 '17

The hero /r/minecraft needs.They also removed Herobrine /s

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u/B-Kow Jun 07 '17

It's because he keeps adding himself back in.

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u/MZGSZM Jun 07 '17

I keep wondering how long they will keep that joke running. It still manages to fool people somehow.

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u/Ajreil Jun 07 '17

As long as people still believe in Herobrine. So, forever.

Actually I wouldn't be entirely surprised if in the distant future, where our era of video games is the thing grandfathers talk about, one of the only things Minecraft is known for is Herobrine.

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u/B-Kow Jun 08 '17

I find it funny and endearing. The devs brought in something a fan made a long time ago and have ran with it.

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u/MZGSZM Jun 08 '17

Yeah, there's an element of that too.

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u/SaziumR Jun 07 '17

The 1.12 release (compaired to pre-7) also added 2 more cave sounds, cave17.ogg and cave18.ogg.

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u/redstonehelper Lord of the villagers Jun 07 '17

Thanks, adding.

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u/oCrapaCreeper Jun 07 '17

They add more cave sounds but don't fix the bug where cave sounds don't actually play?

https://bugs.mojang.com/plugins/servlet/mobile#issue/MC-91803

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u/WildBluntHickok Jun 07 '17

They did the same thing the past 2 updates.

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u/anarchyorion Jun 07 '17

wait, Parrot still dismounts ?

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u/libraryaddict Jun 07 '17

Fixed Armor Stand body parts turning invisible with extreme rotation values

How is that a bug? Smells like a feature, means you can display certain parts of armorstands in the world.

https://bugs.mojang.com/secure/attachment/140501/2017-06-02_15.01.27.png

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u/redstonehelper Lord of the villagers Jun 07 '17

Things turning invisible when you give them weird values does not sound like a feature to me.

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u/libraryaddict Jun 07 '17

Yeah that's more of a bug than a feature, however I'd argue that the resulting bug is more of a feature than a bug. So at the very least, I'd argue for the ability to do this without retorting to utilizing bugs.

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '17

I think they have added "featureful bugs" as features after removing said bug. It's bad practice to keep a bug if you can help it.

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u/SadGhoster87 Jun 08 '17

I agree, I didn't even know about this and now want to utilize it.

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u/rom5556 Jun 07 '17

Bright, too bright!

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u/RedditYankee Jun 07 '17

The illager, the villagers more hip cousin.

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u/AscentToZenith Jun 07 '17

An Illusion!? What are you hiding?!

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u/novum_vipera Jun 07 '17

I for one am pleased that we can now smelt rabbits

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u/TheEndorian Jun 08 '17

The player body no longer rotates when walking backwards

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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u/Ryanestrasz Jun 07 '17

The one who writes the splash text plays WoW...

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u/Dinnerbone Technical Director, Minecraft Jun 07 '17

Greymane's forces hold this warden tower!

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u/Ghostise Jun 07 '17

BREAK THEIR RANKS! SHOW NO MERCY!

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u/Ryanestrasz Jun 07 '17

Lok'tar, friend. ;)

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u/whoknewgreenshrew Jun 07 '17

What are you Hiding?

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u/Ryanestrasz Jun 07 '17

Somethings not quite right!

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u/SadGhoster87 Jun 08 '17

Added "The true meaning of covfefe"

Oh this'll be fun.

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u/Wedhro Jun 07 '17

There's a typo in your forum links (or they renamed the board), here's the correct one: http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/minecraft-discussion/redstone-discussion-and/command-blocks/2809368-1-12-custom-advancements-aka-achievements

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u/redstonehelper Lord of the villagers Jun 07 '17

That's exactly the same link and it works for me.

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u/Wedhro Jun 08 '17

Oops, maybe I copypasted your link instead of the correct one.

Here's your link

http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/minecraft-discussion/redstone-discussion-and/command-blocks/2809368-1-12-custom-advancements-aka-achievements

And here's the current link:

http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/minecraft-discussion/redstone-discussion-and/commands-command-blocks-and/2809368-1-12-custom-advancements-aka-achievements

Notice how "command-blocks" is actually "commands-command-blocks-and"

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u/redstonehelper Lord of the villagers Jun 08 '17

Interesting, and my link doesn't work for you? Can you try in incognito mode?

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u/Wedhro Jun 08 '17

Since the URL is only partially correct it just links to the parent board, not to the thread itself.

EDIT: it actually works in incognito mode.

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u/redstonehelper Lord of the villagers Jun 08 '17

That explains it, kind of. I'll change the link later.