Minecraft 1.4.1 Prerelease

Today brings a mild disappointment in the realm on minecraft releases... today they announced that the 1.4 release date would be push back from the 24th to the 25th of October, one whole day! This is another bug fix release, almost the entireity of the changelog is bugfixes or tweaks.

Changelog:

• Fixed mobs glitching through wooden floors
• Fixed players glitching through Beacons
• Fixed Redstone Repeaters getting stuck in ‘on’ state
• Bats spawn less frequently
• A number of minor font fixes
• Activated the Wither painting
• Fixed wet wolves looking way too scary
• Tweaked naming costs in the Anvil
• Tweaked enchantment points reward for smelting
• Fixed bug that allowed any item to be placed in the armor slots
• Fixed mob spawners spawning too quickly

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ANVILS! (Minecraft 12w41a/b)

This weeks weekly chunk brings EXCITING new features to the minecraft 1.4 Pretty Scary Update! New in this feature is the Anvil, the anvil like its name would suggest is used for the repair of items like armour and pickaxes in minecraft. In addition to the repair features of the anvil, you are also about to "name" your items, if you wanted to you could rename your sword "Hrunting" (Beowulf  reference!) and it also allows for the combination of the different enchantments that are on two items. Of course to make anvil you'll need alot of iron, 55 ingots. And the anvil has a damage value, it appears to be a random feature at  the moment and has three different stages of decay. In order to use the anvil you need ALOT of experience. The anvil also has some more classic effects, it drops much like other blocks in the game, sand and gravel, but if it hits a player or mob it causes damage! This gives for a kind of ACME effect :D. Besides the anvil there aren't that many new features in this snapshot, nearing the release date (October 24th) much of the time is spent of bug fixing and getting ready for the final release.

Crafting Recipe (thanks to minecraftwiki.net)

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Changelog:

• Added a new Anvil block for repairing, merging & naming items
• Added an option for cape-owners to hide their capes ingame
• Effects given by the Beacon will be less intrusive on the screen
• Level-up sound now only plays every 5 levels
• More bugfixes & tweaks!

Minecraft Archive 12w40a

Changelog below:

• Added Swamp Hut structures, for Witches to spawn in^[2]
• Added superflat preset "Redstone Ready" with a 52 layers of sandstone, 3 layers of stone, and 1 layer of bedrock
• Flatworld configuration now allows you to generate trees, strongholds etc
  • Now pumpkins, tall grass, flowers, trees, mineshafts, dungeons, strongholds, lakes, desert wells, ravines and ores will spawn on superflat maps^[3]
• Custom Item naming NBT tags (intended for custom map makers)^[4]
  • Using the NBT, it is possible to add custom names to items, as well as a lore list for that item
• Better inventory management
  • The pick block action now works on items
  • Pressing the 1-9 hotkeys while hovering over an item will put that item into the inventory bar
  • In creative mode, you can now shift-click items from the hotbar to the survival inventory screen
• The left-click action will no longer open doors, pull levers, push buttons or open trapdoors. Use the right mouse button!
• Firespread has been slightly nerfed again to prevent infinitely spreading fires
• Beacon Texture altered, as well as the beam.
• Eye of Ender can now be used in superflat worlds. (only if stronghold generation is enabled)
• Slimes now spawn in Swamp biomes at low light level.

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12w39a Minecraft Archive

Changelog below:

• Lighting system overhauled.
• Lots of blocks interact correctly with lighting now (stairs, slabs)
• Few sound tweaks
• Fixed witch being white for some
• More bugfixes & slight tweaks!

Some bugs have been reported and there might be another "b" release soon... according to @Dinnerbone:
"So farmland is broken. Okay, that's a start! Yay mass testing. Also stairs are darker than you'd expect but that's three characters to fix."

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12w38b Minecraft Archive

Changlog Below:

• Updated sound engine and fixed wrong sounds
  • Added minecart sounds
  • Changed level-up sound
  • Changed fall-damage sound
  • Changed the new block placing sounds (implemented in 12w38a) back to original sounds
  • New cave sound
  • The fire charge makes the same sound as flint and steel when used
• A few tweaks to the witch mob.
  • Can't hurt themselves now.
  • Texture changed slightly.
  • New drops
    • Misc potion ingredients
    • Sticks
    • Chance to drop what they're holding at the time of death
• New creeper fall mechanics
  • Creepers will explode if they fall on you from a certain height.^[2]  

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12w38a Minecraft Archive

Change Log below:

• The Nether loads faster when going through a portal
  • In Creative mode, teleportation is instantaneous^[5]
• The water overlay is more saturated blue.
• Updated and added new sounds by C418
  • New footstep sounds: sand, gravel, soul sand, grass block, ladders, snow, and stone
  • New block-placing sounds: wood, stone, plants, sand, gravel and torch. New sounds are unintended and are the same as in the Pocket Edition^[6]
  • New block breaking sounds: wood, snow, glass
  • New mob sounds: cow, chickens, pigs, Enderman (watched/observed, attacked, etc.), zombie, spiders, skeleton, and slime
  • New tool sounds: flint and steel, shears (when shearing sheep) and hoe when you till dirt
  • Lava and flowing water now have constant noise
  • Added level up sound, but will be changed later for a shorter one ^[7]
  • Added sound when Withers break blocks.
• Added a passive mob (bat)
  • Spawns in dark caves
  • Spawns in Peaceful mode
  • Sleeps during the day
  • Hangs on the ceiling when idle, starts flying when players come near
• Added a hostile mob (witch)
  • Their nose slowly bobs up and down when not hostile.
  • Throws splash potions of poison, slowness, weakness and instant damage at you
  • Regenerate health over time
  • Hold an empty bottle and raise their noses when attacking
  • Drink potions of instant health and fire resistance to defend themselves in combat
  • Rarely drop potions of instant health and fire resistance
  • Is immune to some splash potions^{[more information needed]}
  • Does not spawn naturally (yet), but a spawn egg exists for it in Creative mode
• Command block target parameters have been upgraded
• Beacon artwork was changed
  • The beam of light was changed
  • The texture of bedrock under the beacon is removed.
• Wood blocks have a different rotation algorithm. Instead of using the player’s position, they rotate based on the face they are placed upon, like a lever (this is mainly a test).
• Stone monster egg blocks (which spawn Silverfish) will rarely generate underground in Extreme Hills biomes.^[8]

**NOTE that a "12w38b" was released shortly after to fix the /say command in the servers

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12w37a Minecraft Archive

Change log below:

• Tweaks to the Wither.
  • It creates an explosion around itself once it is done regenerating from spawning.
• Added "Re-Create" option to the World selection menu.
  • Allows you to edit a world as if you are creating a new one without changing the existing world, e.g. bonus chest, cheats, world type.
• 'Carrots' are now 'Carrot'.
• Added Pumpkin Pie.
• Tweaks to a couple of item sprites.
  • Bread, Raw Chicken, Cooked Chicken, Raw Beef, Steak, Raw Porkchop, Cooked Porkchop, Red Apple, and Nether Star no longer have a dark outline.
  • Golden Carrot now matches Carrot.
  • Heads are now correctly centered.
  • Baked Potatoes don't have fume anymore.
• Leather armor now has a non-dyed layer.
• Time of the redstone signal of the wooden/stone button extended from 9 to 12 redstone ticks
• Superflat customization GUI:
  • Comes with 7 presets: Classic Flat, Tunnelers' Dream, Water World, Overworld, Snowy Kingdom, Bottomless Pit (Broken^[2]), and Desert.
  • Custom starts off with Classic Flat with three options: Add Layer, Edit Layer, Remove Layer. Adding and editing are NYI.
    • You can customize superflat without add/edit layer option using the "seed" in the preset list.
• You now get XP for fishing.
• Pigs are now able to jump when players ride on them.
• Added /clear command to empty the inventory.
• Evil mobs are now a little bit more fearless in hard difficulty.
• Various bug fixes.

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1.3.2 Minecraft Archive

This post is obviously a bit out dated, this is just to start a series of what I'm going to call my Minecraft Archives, for every major release (maybe snapshots too) I'll post one of these with a link to both Mojang's official download link and one hosted on mediafire or the like.

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