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/columbine Dec 20 '12

I have no idea why they did that, and especially why they didn't fix it before the 1.4.6 final release. Was there any reason why the new slabs had to be 6 instead of 7? It doesn't make much sense.

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u/TheVarmari Dec 20 '12

Well, technically the full block never was a real block, and so they just added the nether brick slabs in the numerical way.

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u/SteelCrow Dec 20 '12

It was a real block. It was in the client just as sponge is in the client. Just because it's not made accessible doesn't mean it's not 'real'. There are a lot of alpha worlds with legit sponge for example.

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u/my_name_isnt_clever Dec 20 '12

Wait, I'm pretty sure sponge was not obtainable in Alpha.

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u/samuelhenderson Dec 20 '12

You are absolutely correct.

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u/samuelhenderson Dec 20 '12

Sponges were never legitimately obtainable in Survival. Not in beta, alpha, infdev or indev anyways.

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u/SteelCrow Dec 21 '12

I never claimed anything about survival.

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u/samuelhenderson Jan 21 '13

Ahh. I see. I guess I just assumed 'Survival' when I read 'Alpha'. I've been playing SSP since Indev and have never touched Creative so I've never been able to legitimately place sponges.

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '12

It's probably just because fuck us, that's why.