Minecraft Changelog

What's new in Minecraft 1.14.4

Jul 22, 2019

Fixed bugs:
Performance improvements:
Suspicious stew made from poppies now gives you night vision instead of speed
Added /debug report for getting more detailed information. Please include this while making bug reports about performance!
Fixed a memory leak
Removed camera pivot offset in first-person
Improved chunk loading when travelling at high speed
Fixed incorrect Pillager texture
/reload and /forceload is now available to gamemasters
function-permission-level is a new setting in server.properties that controls which commands functions have access to
Villagers now stock more items
Villagers will now remember their gossip after becoming a Zombie Villager
Improved performance of Villager pathfinding
Villagers can now work without also restocking at the same time
Gossip about players who converted a zombie villager will now last longer
The Player Activity button on the Realm screen has been removed
Villagers now wait with restocking until they have trades that need restocking
Village sieges no longer occur on mushroom islands
Mobs will no longer try to pathfind their way through bamboo
Pinged the human
FIXED BUGS IN 1.14.4:
MC-150623 - The game crashed whilst rendering overlay: Unable to fit texture
MC-156389 - Game Crashes when Shift + Command + Delete 18 characters at once on Anvil
MC-156407 - Unobtainable (speed) suspicious stew can be obtained from villagers
MC-156574 - Villager demand values increase/decrease indefinitely
MC-149018 - High Idle CPU usage on Server Edition (Minecraft 1.14 Release)
MC-154271 - Rolling shutter issue on MacOS since 1.14.3 Pre-Release 2
MC-149880 - Villager trades wrong book
MC-151282 - Villager trade GUI doesn’t show the correct price on servers if trade demand is high
MC-156042 - Villager demand never goes down over time unless traded with
MC-156349 - Cannot press Enter on Direct Connect
Fixed debug reports in worlds with a dot in their name
Fixed server freeze when Villagers fell into the void
MC-145769 - Villagers aren’t shutting doors behind them
MC-148613 - Aquatic mobs are not spawning / Fish spawned from buckets count towards the aquatic mob cap again
MC-152908 - When a player joins a server, everything that happened during the time offline queued on connecting to the server
MC-153406 - Score JSON Component Crash in items
MC-153749 - Trusting Foxes attack player when self-injured
MC-153852 - Concrete powder deleting waterlogged blocks when falling
MC-155711 - Functions capable of running commands they shouldn’t be able to (publish, debug …)
MC-156013 - Breaking Blocks “re-appear” to nudge player
MC-136318 - Floatable mobs are unable to walk when in waterlogged blocks
MC-151150 - Entities (Villagers) cause massive lag when attempting to pathfind
MC-151376 - Villagers are not pathfinding towards their POI; POI detection range is too small
MC-151810 - Mobs don’t try to avoid fall damage anymore
MC-154214 - Chunks refusing to unload due to incorrect player ticket additions
MC-155147 - Mouse acceleration with the new 1.14.3 update
MC-155906 - Failed to save debug dump if the destination location contains a space
MC-100946 - Bow with mending undraws when receiving XP while drawed
MC-113968 - Zombies of village siege spawn despite gamerule doMobSpawning being false
MC-113970 - Zombies of village siege do not spawn centered on a block
MC-134964 - Unexpected error: java.util.NoSuchElementException
MC-142037 - java.lang.NullPointerException: Initializing game
MC-143755 - Arbitrary score/selector/NBT resolution using lectern without operator rights
MC-143886 - Acacia leaves render improprly from a distance
MC-146289 - Farmer villagers don’t stop to pick up their crops
MC-147844 - Pillagers don’t pathfind around obstacles & out of water
MC-152094 - End city/end ship generation gets cut at chunk borders sometimes
MC-152636 - Killing a zombie right as it converts into a Drowned will drop the loot from zombie while still converting into a Drowned
MC-153498 - Cyrillic letter Є is not included in the Minecraft font
MC-153665 - Full villager inventory creates invisible items
MC-153712 - Java using 100-200% CPU (MacOS)
MC-153766 - Rabbits no longer need sand/grass in order to spawn in deserts/tundras
MC-153892 - Mending slows down breaking blocks
MC-154019 - Beacon deactivate sound not sounds when you break the base
MC-154031 - villagers give away all food if they want to share it
MC-154068 - parrots occasionally disappearing when you take them from a boat
MC-154201 - Trying to trade with villager immediately closes trading menu for some villagers
MC-154362 - Crossbow has to re-load when mending takes place
MC-154509 - Bashkir letters Ҙ, ҙ, Ҡ, ҡ, Ҫ, and ҫ are not included in the Minecraft font
MC-154668 - Invalid characters crash the game in jigsaw block input upon pressing enter
MC-154830 - All wall signs use oak color on maps
MC-155092 - Zombie sieges can happen on mushroom islands
MC-155104 - when closing a menu while moving the mouse, the screen will move in that direction
MC-155172 - Hostile Wolf AI has been broken. Wolves can no longer attack enemies efficiently.
MC-155238 - Villagers picking up workstation through wall
MC-155345 - ConcurrentModificationException when a player leaves an active raid
MC-155571 - Silverfish & Endermite spawners no longer functioning

New in Minecraft 1.14.3 (Jun 25, 2019)

Commands:
/gamerule:
Added /gamerule disableRaids which disables raids when set to true.
When true, the Bad Omen will not be removed from a player when entering a village.
If set to true while a raid is in progress, the raid will stop, but the existing raid mobs will not despawn.
Options:
Languages:
Added Bashkir (Башҡортса) language.
Added Gothic (Gutrazda) language.
Changes:
Blocks:
Lanterns:
Can now be placed on iron bars and glass panes.
Can now be attached below iron bars and glass panes.
Pressure plates and torches
Can now be placed on iron bars and glass panes.
Items:
General:
Items can once again be repaired by crafting them together, as they could before 1.14.
Mobs:
Villagers:
Panicked villagers now have to work and sleep so they cannot be in a state of panic all the time.
The "last slept" and "last worked" properties for villagers are now saved properly.
Panicking villagers now have a higher chance of spawning iron golems.
Farmers now spend more time farming when they are working.
Farmers now always give away food even if other villagers do not need it.
Gameplay:
Illager patrols:
Vindicators are no longer part of patrols.
Doubled the minimum time to spawn from 5 minutes to 10-11 minutes.
Patrols no longer spawn if the block light level disallows monster spawning.
Patrols are now allowed to spawn in any biome except mushroom biomes.
Enchantments:
Protection, Projectile Protection, Fire Protection, and Blast Protection are now mutually exclusive again, as they were prior to 1.14.
Advancements:
Saturation is no longer required for the "How Did We Get Here?" advancement.
General:
Performance:
Improved performance.
Fixes:
69 issues fixed:
From released versions before 1.14:
MC-47699 – Blazes are able to see a player through blocks.
MC-72390 – Rcon is not thread-safe
MC-74407 – Villager inventories can get into a state where villagers cannot do anything useful
MC-93892 – Flame arrows and fireballs set player on fire even when blocking with shield.
MC-99198 – Villagers cannot breed using beetroot
MC-110004 – Endermen and blazes do not drop experience when hit with splash or lingering potion.
MC-123836 – Double blocks are not loaded in structures
MC-124170 – Performance issue with particles causing lag
MC-129491 – Advancement location trigger works inconsistently for structures added in 1.9 or later
MC-135001 – Beds drop as an item when loaded in a structure
From 1.14:
MC-138053 – /gamerule spectatorsGenerateChunks being false prevents chunks from being loaded
MC-139257 – Server crash on reload when world border is modified.
MC-141301 – Illager patrols spawning on blocks mobs should not spawn on, such as slabs, carpets, stairs, etc.
MC-142360 – Pillagers patrols can spawn pillagers on top of trees inside a leaf block
MC-143369 – Wandering trader text implies trades refresh
MC-144107 – Miscalculation of camera position in windowed mode on Linux
MC-144507 – The legs on cats clip through to the top of the model
MC-144929 – When there is water above a water source, other water sources adjacent to the water source flow outwards
MC-145202 – Blazes can see through blocks they shouldn't be able to
MC-145863 – Villagers breed even if there are not enough beds
MC-146429 – Farmer villagers stumble between farming and using their composters
MC-146433 – Double chest does not display custom name
MC-146835 – Illager captain spawned from raids will still give the bad omen effect to its killer, causing raids to never end
MC-147619 – Foxes that trust a player will still avoid wolves and other players they are angry towards instead pursuing them.
MC-147740 – Villagers sometimes don't restock
MC-147851 – Villagers frequently run right into mobs they are trying to avoid
MC-148013 – Farmer villager behavior too lazy / not farming at all
MC-148354 – Guardians require water to spawn from spawners
MC-148600 – Zombie pigmen will spread their anger forever if they can continuously respawn
MC-148610 – Hostile mobs spawning on top of trapdoors, glowstone and sea lanterns
MC-148986 – Low-tier enchants from level 30 standard enchanting setups
MC-149207 – Water with blocks above will convert to flowing water for no reason
MC-149372 – Game crashes when opening a 1.13.2 world
MC-149443 – Iron golems spawn too often
MC-149518 – Skylight appearing under blocks.
MC-149877 – Baby foxes suffocate when jumping under blocks
MC-150319 – Crash after using /kill
MC-150401 – Chickens suffocate if jumping while under a solid block
MC-150954 – Pillager patrol spawning is off: they spawn too close to each other, in odd biomes, and too frequently.
MC-151079 – An employed villager quickly becomes unemployed and employed when he works, even if its workstation has not been deleted.
MC-151084 – Chunk rendering is slow and random
MC-151144 – Hostile mobs in lazy chunks no longer count towards mob cap, breaking mob switches
MC-151185 – Game crash after breaking villager point of interest
MC-151337 – Mob spawn rate too high
MC-151346 – Crash while F3 menu tries to access tags while using /reload
MC-151395 – Farmers create bread only when they pick up at least 3 wheat at once
From 1.14.1:
MC-151225 – Upgrading worlds from 1.14 causes villagers to lose their brain memories
MC-151566 – Pillagers patrols can spawn outside world border
MC-151710 – Enties not functioning in forceloaded chunks.
MC-151753 – More than one raid can happen in a village
MC-151771 – Villagers do not try to run away from zombie villagers
MC-151772 – Mob cap in the hundreds to over 1000 per player.
MC-151802 – Spawning causes massive TPS CPU load on a flat world.
MC-151989 – Players in Survival do not get Dolphins Grace effect if Dolphin cannot path to Player
MC-151995 – Patrol leaders spawn without banner
MC-152044 – Baby trader llamas disappear immediately
MC-152638 – Villager trade GUI does not close when a major change happens to the villager, leading to free trades and quick stock refreshing
From 1.14.2:
MC-152053 – High client-side lag when pistons activate
MC-152182 – Trading halls are non-viable: employed villagers sometimes un-bond from an existing workbench within 2 blocks, Apprentice ranks and above cannot re-bond unless moved 96 blocks away and back.
MC-152228 – Can not /summon trader llama
MC-152542 – Resource warning "Codepoint '1ed0' declared multiple times in minecraft:textures/font/accented.png"
MC-152810 – Cat's natural spawning causes null pointer exception
MC-153221 – Dragon fireball causes FPS to crash
MC-153222 – Broken/incorrect recipe files cause a data pack not to load with nothing in log
MC-153355 – java.util.NoSuchElementException ticking entity crash when a workstation is destroyed near a villager with a job
MC-153470 – Language map does not close internal en_us.json file after reading.
MC-154000 – When dispenser places shulker box it decreases its stack twice.
MC-154080 – Wandering trader'd trading GUI does not close when it changes dimensions allowing infinite trades.
MC-154081 – Opening the survival inventory when opening a world crashes the game.

New in Minecraft 1.14.2 (May 30, 2019)

CHANGES IN 1.14.2:
All light will now be re-calculated the first time you open a world saved in a pervious version
Errors encountered while loading regions now print more diagnostics to the log file
Fixed so parrots can spawn on grass blocks and not only on grass
Added server-side chunk count to debug screen
Modified raider spawning so they can only ever spawn in fully loaded chunks
Increased search radius for bell when starting a raid from 48 to 64 blocks
Fixed bugs:
FIXED BUGS IN 1.14.2:
MC-152824 - Stuck in Doorways and fence gates
MC-147715 - Entities clip through blocks after travelling through an end gateway
MC-142134 - Light sources spontaneously not working in some chunks
MC-147715 - Entities clip through blocks after travelling through an end gateway
MC-148933 - You cannot swim while sneaking
MC-149111 - When hovering over a world that needs to be updated, the game calls the current version a snapshot even if it is a release
MC-149916 - Teleporting long distances on servers causes you to clip into the ground
MC-152272 - Server stops responding after log out error
MC-148898 - Hebrew letters aren't assigned to their correct textures
MC-148627 - Swimming up to a ceiling makes the player crouch
MC-16883 - Villagers play the trade sound multiple times overlapping on shift-click
MC-90423 - Ender Dragon makes breath attack at highest block placed in the center column of the portal
MC-140174 - No item pickup sound when a villager picks up an item
MC-142134 - Light sources spontaneously not working in some chunks
MC-145730 - Iron golem does not attack players when hitting villagers
MC-147431 - Max item stack amount can be skipped using new villager trades menu
MC-148064 - "Ghost" End Crystals stay behind after destruction on ender dragon respawns.
MC-148073 - Beacon beam doesn't have the correct color if the colored glass isn't directly on top of the beacon
MC-148626 - Shulker boxes lose their names
MC-148677 - Mobs do not spawn on soul sand
MC-148805 - Breaking an empty shulker box in Creative mode causes it to drop itself
MC-148847 - Guardian zapping noise is looped when played
MC-149511 - No sounds for villagers planting crops
MC-149993 - Cut Sandstone Slabs aren't part of the slabs block tag
MC-150170 - Animals, Villagers, Item Frames, Armor Stands, etc are disappearing
MC-150414 - Constructing and placing a beacon doesn't give the advancement
MC-150969 - The Wither is attacking undead mobs
MC-151047 - Trader llamas immediately disappear when being bred or spawned with a spawn egg
MC-151062 - Grindstoning an enchanted book without a custom name names the new (unenchanted) book "Enchanted Book"
MC-151185 - Game crash after breaking villager point of interest
MC-151329 - Major FPS drop after running a mob farm for 30 minutes
MC-151365 - Flaming arrows can light waterlogged campfires
MC-151418 - Observers don't update redstone properly
MC-151674 - RegionFiles are not closed when they are evicted from cache

New in Minecraft 1.14.1 (May 14, 2019)

Changes:
Blocks:
Campfire:
Can now be lit by flaming arrows.
Crafting table:
Updated texture to fix incorrect planks texture.
Iron ore:
Changed texture to fix miscolored pixels.
Items:
Iron horse armor:
Tweaked colors slightly.
Leather horse armor:
Updated to the Texture Update.
World generation:
Villages:
Many structures are tweaked to have better lighting.
Fixes:
52 issues fixed
From released versions before 1.14:
MC-44793 – Tamed wolf cannot sit on slime blocks.
MC-110390 – Villager AI has problems with non cubic/not straight houses
MC-126946 – Execution order is reversed when calling a function in some cases.
MC-128441 – /tp uses context dimension rather than destination entity's dimension.
MC-128565 – Function tag ordering is inconsistent across reloads and does not respect datapack ordering.
MC-131014 – Observers and block states not updated by tree growth.
MC-134847 – Mobs cannot pathfind on bottom half slabs.
MC-136442 – Blocks of giant mushrooms do not send block updates after growing.
MC-144496 – Selectors have inconsistent return order
From 1.14
MC-140317 – Ladder in village house does not reach the floor.
MC-142817 – Mobs try to pathfind through corners.
MC-143699 – Trader llamas will not despawn.
MC-144316 – Setblocking/filling a sign without explicitly setting all Text tags, shows 'an unexpected error occurred'.
MC-144562 – Leather horse armor has inconsistent texture.
MC-144904 – Enderman can teleport to the void.
MC-145097 – Leather horse armor is higher in inventory slot.
MC-145265 – Night is not skipped when all but one players on a server are sleeping, and the remaining player leaves the server.
MC-145744 – Villager AI (POI detection) pegs CPU at 100%, causes lag.
MC-145862 – Villagers try to sleep in occupied beds.
MC-146674 – Missing jigsaw blocks for beds in some village structures.
MC-146811 – Enderman AI causing HIGH ms tick lag
MC-146935 – Crafting table uses outdated plank texture.
MC-147013 – Villagers can get hit by their own firework.
MC-147022 – Many village houses are inadequately lit.
MC-147212 – Iron golems can spawn in spaces less than three blocks high and get stuck.
MC-147479 – Villagers continue to shake their head after they found a workstation.
MC-147578 – Beacon NBT Levels is missing.
MC-147590 – Missing floor block in village/desert/houses/desert_medium_house_1.
MC-147643 – Villagers do not sleep in beds.
MC-147676 – The event.raid.horn sound effect cannot always be heard whilst in a village.
MC-147819 – Custom villager with large trades has scroll bar that goes outside GUI screen.
MC-147880 – Pillager outposts do not generate in snowy biomes.
MC-147890 – Hostile mobs are not spawning.
MC-147905 – Mobs and villagers try to pathfind through fences and closed corners.
MC-148165 – Bow with Flame enchantment does not activate TNT when hit on the top.
MC-148179 – The ender dragon flies in circles after shooting projectile at it and never comes down to the portal.
MC-148454 – Villager trade GUI shows incorrect price when a discount is applied on servers.
MC-148476 – Books still have an NBT tag (RepairCost of 0) after removing enchantments using a grindstone.
MC-148529 – Name of enchanted book is lost after removing its enchantments in a grindstone.
MC-148567 – taiga_animal_pen_1 water trough has water recessed 1 block beneath trapdoors.
MC-148580 – Server lighting still broken.
MC-148624 – The banner on the pillager outpost structure is incorrectly named.
MC-148657 – Characters using the nonlatin_european file do not display properly if using the "Programmer Art" resource pack.
MC-148830 – Game crashed while loading chunks.
MC-149040 – Iron ore texture has four miscolored pixels.
MC-149178 – Chunk rendering is extremely slow and random.
MC-149209 – Cats jitter when sitting on slime blocks.
MC-149278 – Wolf AI can cause extremely severe lag spikes when in combat with a distant mob.
MC-149420 – Hostile mobs not despawning at 128+ blocks.
MC-149576 – Villagers will not sleep in their beds.
MC-149835 – Villagers can find a job, but cannot lose their job.
MC-151014 – Illagers can join raids outside of village range and unending raids.

New in Minecraft 1.14.0 (Apr 24, 2019)

VILLAGE & PILLAGE CHANGELOG:
FEATURES:
Lots of accessibility improvements!
Added bamboo blocks into the game
Added bamboo jungles in the world
Added barrels
Added the bell
Added yummy sweet berries and sweet berry bushes to the game! Be careful skipping merrily through those bushes though...
Added blast furnace
Rewrote the book & quill editing to be more intuitive
Added campfire
Added cartography table
Split cats and ocelots to their own creatures and updated cats with new features!
Added composter
Added crossbows
Added lots of new blocks!
Added lots of new decorative blocks!
Added fletching table
Added new dyes and flowers
Added some community suggestions
Updated the credits list
Added in-game buttons for reporting bugs or giving feedback
Improvements to invisibility to allow it to correctly work in many cases where it didn't but you'd expect it to
Added grindstone functionality
Added 'Hero of the Village' effect
Added leather horse armor
Added lantern
Added lectern
Added loom
Existing special banner patterns can now be crafted into a new item that is not consumed when used, Banner Patterns
Added a new "Globe" banner pattern and item
We're now using the new textures!
Added new noteblock sounds
Added pandas
Added foxes
Added Illager patrols
Added Pillagers
Added Pillager outpost
Added raids
Added Ravager
Added Wandering Trader
Added scaffolding
Rewrote the sign editing to be more intuitive
Added smithing table
Added smoker
Added stonecutter
Added suspicious stew – hmmmm!
Trading changes
Villager changes
Biome based architecture for villages
ACCESSIBILITY:
There's a new Accessibility menu which provides a useful place for all of our accessibility features to be toggled
When the narrator is turned on, buttons will be narrated on focus
Most screens allow tab and shift+tab navigation through buttons, edit boxes and other UI elements
Most lists allow up/down arrow keys to navigate through them
We've added a new option for turning up the background of all transparent text elements, which should help make them more readable for some people
BAMBOO:
They call it exotic. Which is just people talk for awesome. Which it is, which is why we're so happy that we added it to the game.
Can be found in Jungles and the two new biomes: bamboo jungle and bamboo jungle hills
Can grow to a max height of 12 to 16 blocks
When sprinkled with bone meal, bamboo will grow with one or two bamboo blocks on the top
When struck with a sword, bamboo will instantly break
Two bamboo can be crafted into a single stick
Can be used as fuel, with four bamboo required to smelt a single item
Bamboo can be placed into flower pots
Bamboo can also be found in shipwrecks and jungle temples
BARRELS:
Do a barrel roll!
Store things in them!
Rotate them!
Find them in villages!
BELLS:
Ding dong, who's there? A RAID? GET INSIDE!!!
Trade with certain villagers to obtain the bell
Use the bell to alert villagers of nearby danger
A villager will ring the bell to alert other villagers of an impending raid
Ringing bells reveals all nearby mobs that can appear in raids
BERRIES:
Delicious!
Not very filling!
Plant your berries in the ground and look with your special eyes as they grow up into a strong, independent bush!
BERRY BUSHES:
Commonly found in taiga, taiga hills, and taiga mountains
Rarely found in snowy taiga and snowy taiga hills and snowy taiga mountains
You can stand inside them, but be careful, it will hurt to move
Has four stages of growth: sapling, no berries, some berries, full berries
Drops one or two berries in younger stage, then two or three in full growth stage
Supports bone meal!
Doesn't support silk touch!
BIOME BASED ARCHITECTURE FOR VILLAGES:
Villages have recieved an updated look, with several new themes
The theme depends on the biome the village is in, taking both climate and to available resources into consideration
Uses the new mysterious jigsaw block for generation
Adds new structure files, quite many actually
BLAST FURNACE:
A new furnace upgrade that allows for smelting ores and melting metals faster than the traditional furnace
Can be crafted via three smooth stone, one furnace, and five iron ingots
Added to world gen in some villager buildings
CAMPFIRES:
Come one, come all, and toast your buns around the campfire!
A decorative fireplace without fire spread
Cooks up to four foods, but slowly
Acts as a smoke signal you can see very (VERY!) far away when a hay bale is below (hint: think note blocks!)
Cosy light source
Can be lit/unlit
CARTOGRAPHY TABLE:
New functional block that provides an easier and simpler way of cloning, extending, and locking of maps
New map functionality with cartography table
Map Locking: allows you to lock maps in the cartography table with a glass pane so that they can no longer be modified
Fancy UI to more closely represent what the recipes actually do functionally
Crafted with two planks and two paper
CAT AND OCELOT SPLIT:
Anti-fusion!
Stray cats can be tamed
Tamed cats can give lovely (or less lovely) morning gifts to their owners
Ocelots can't be tamed, but might start trusting you if you feed them with fish
Phantoms are terribly scared of cats - how convenient!
Cat collars can now be dyed
Added several new cat skins!
COMMUNITY SUGGESTIONS:
As it turns out, you guys have GREAT suggestions!:
Leaves now have a small chances to drop sticks
Chorus fruit flowers now break when shot by an arrow
Dead bushes can now be used as furnace fuel
Rabbit stew and beetroot soup have been changed to a shapeless recipe
Creepers will now drop records when killed by Stray in addition to skeletons
Dispensers with shears in them will now shear sheep that have wool in front of them
TNT and TNT minecart explosions now have 100% drop rate
COMPOSTER:
Instead of eating your veggies you can make fertilizer from it!
Crafted with 3 planks and 4 fences
CROSSBOWS:
This is such a fearsome weapon that it makes us quiver!:
Shoots arrows with base power slightly stronger than the bow, but has less durability
Three unique enchantments
Fun, challenging advancements
New loading mechanics
Unique load animation
ENCHANTMENTS:
Choose between the following three enchantments for your crossbow:
MULTISHOT (I):
Ever wanted to shoot more than one arrow at once? Look no further! With multishot, your crossbow splits your arrow into three, shooting the usual arrow straight ahead and two more at angles off to the sides!
Cannot be combined with piercing
PIERCING (I, II, III, IV):
With this pointy enchantment, arrows shot from your crossbow can travel through mobs, hitting more than one per shot
The number of mobs that can be damaged by a single arrow is equal to the level of this enchantment + 1
Cannot be combined with multishot
QUICK CHARGE (I, II, III):
Each level of quick charge decreases the amount of time it takes to fully charge your crossbow by .25 seconds
LOADING MECHANICS:
To charge the crossbow, hold down the "Use" button
Once the crossbow string has been pulled all the way back, let go
Boom! Your crossbow is now loaded and ready to shoot with a single click of the "Use" button
DECORATIVE BLOCKS:
Oh my, a bunch of new blocks!:
Changed all existing stone slabs to smooth stone slabs (same look, new name!)
Changed all existing signs to oak signs (same look, new name!)
Made smooth stone slabs craftable from smooth stone
Added spruce, birch, jungle, acacia and dark oak signs
You can now right click on signs with dyes to change the text colour
Added stone stairs and slabs
Added granite stairs, slabs and walls
Added polished granite stairs and slabs
Added diorite stairs, slabs and walls
Added polished diorite stairs and slabs
Added andesite stairs, slabs and walls
Added polished andesite stairs and slabs
Added sandstone walls
Added smooth red sandstone stairs and slabs
Added smooth quartz stairs and slabs
Added brick walls
Added stone brick walls
Added mossy stone brick stairs, slabs and walls
Added nether brick walls
Added end stone brick stairs, slabs and walls
Added prismarine walls
Added red sandstone walls
Added red nether brick stairs, slabs and walls
Added smooth sandstone stairs and slabs
Added mossy cobblestone stairs and slabs
Made smooth stone obtainable by smelting stone
Made smooth sandstone obtainable by smelting sandstone
Made smooth red sandstone obtainable by smelting red sandstone
Made smooth quartz obtainable by smelting quartz block
Changed the recipe of nether brick fence to four brick blocks and two brick items
Changed the recipe of signs to require all of the same wood type, not any wood type
DYES:
We've been dyeing to tell you more about this!
Separated bone meal, ink sac, cocoa beans, and lapis lazuli into their own dyes
Unified all dye names (red, yellow, and green dyes no longer have special names)
Added new recipes to obtain coloured stained glass and coloured carpet
FLETCHING TABLE:
Crafted with four planks and two flint
Villagers use it as a work site
FLOWERS:
Get your green fingers!
To celebrate our new dyes, we added... flowers! Say hello to cornflower, wither rose and lily of the valley
Be careful of the wither rose! Don't let its subdued beauty lull you into a false sense of security...
FOX:
What do they say? ...but really, what do they say?
Foxes come in two variants: red and snowy
Foxes are nocturnal
Foxes will hunt rabbits, chickens, and fish
Foxes are hunted by wolves and polar bears
Foxes are nimble and quick, so sneak up on them carefully!
Breed foxes with berries
If you breed two foxes, their offspring will trust you forever
Trusting foxes will defend you, but will still eat your chickens
Foxes like to eat any and every food item they find on the ground
You may find a fox exploring a nearby village at night
GRINDSTONE:
Moved inventory and crafting table repairing into the grindstone, this will be its new home
Has the ability to remove all non-curse enchantments from an item; for each enchant removed some XP is reimbursed
HERO OF THE VILLAGE
Hero of the Village effect causes the cost of trades with villagers to be reduced by a percentage and scales with level of the effect.
Hero of the Village additionally causes Villagers to occassionally toss items to you to thank you!
HORSE LEATHER ARMOR
Added a new armour type for horses
Dye it in lots (yes, LOTS!) of different colours
ILLAGER PATROLS:
Spawn in the world as a pack of five random illagers
Spawn in all variations of the Plains, Taiga, Deserts, Savanna
Scary-spooky new banner can be found a top the patrol leaders head
LANTERN:
Wait, another new block!?
The lantern is a new light source
The lantern can be placed either hanging under a block or on top of a block
It gives slightly more light than the torch
LECTERN:
Ermahgerd berks... holder... thingy?
Right-click an empty lectern to place book
Right-click a lectern with book to open
Current page is persistent and shared between all readers
Emits redstone pulses when page is changed
Use a comparator to get book reading progress
LOOM:
Bröther, may I have some lööm?
New and easier way of being able to apply patterns to banners, can still only apply six max patterns to a banner
Generic patterns now only require one dye in order to create patterns, instead of one to eight (depending on the pattern)
Special banner patterns (oxeye daisy, creeper skull, wither skeleton skull, enchanted golden apple) can now be crafted. These patterns don't consume the pattern item when used in the loom
Old pattern recipes in the crafting table for apply patterns to banners have been removed
NEW BLOCKS:
Even more! Can you believe it?!
Added barrel
Added smoker
Added blast furnace
Added cartography table
Added fletching table
Added grindstone
Added lectern
Added smithing table
Added stonecutter
Added village bell
NEW TEXTURES:
The extraordinary Minecraft Texture Update has been available at minecraft.net for quite a while, and now it’s finally available by default in the game
We’ve renovated the old textures of Minecraft and polished them for a new beginning
If you're feeling nostalgic you can always enable the old "Programmer Art" textures in the resource pack menu
NOTEBLOCK
5 new Noteblock sounds have been added: Iron Xylophone, Cow Bell, Didgeridoo, Bit, and Banjo
1 previously existing, but unused, sound effect has now been made available: Pling
The new Noteblock sounds can be heard by using Iron Blocks, Soul Sand, Pumpkins, Emerald Blocks, Hay Blocks, or Glowstone
PANDA:
We bring pandamonium!
Pandas come in different types and personalities! There is even a rumour about a brown panda...
Pandas love bamboo! They kinda like cake as well
Pandas can be bred, and the cubs can inherit traits through a special panda inheritance system
Pandas spawn naturally in the new bamboo forest biome
Pandas drop bamboo when killed. Don't kill pandas :(
Most importantly: pandas are cute and terribly silly!
The babies are, in general, even more silly than their parents. Silly panda cubs!
PILLAGER:
A new type of illager that, well, pillages!
Pillagers wield a new weapon, the crossbow!
PILLAGER OUTPOST:
As if finding pillager patrols out in the wild wasn't scary enough, keep an eye out during your explorations and you may just find one of their outposts
Can be found in any biome villages generates in
Takes advantage of the new mystery block, the jigsaw, for generation
RAIDS:
If you find an illager wearing a banner on its head, be careful not to kill it!
If you do kill it, you might find yourself facing a 'Bad Omen'
If you find yourself with a bad omen buff, be especially careful not to walk into a village
If you do walk into a village with it? Best of luck!
RAVAGER
A fearsome new foe who packs quite a wallop. Grab your sword and shield and prepare to get knocked around!
REWRITE OF BOOK & QUILL EDITING:
The pen is mightier than the sword. Unless you're fighting a pillager!
Movable cursor for free text editing
Selection support
Copy & paste
Keyboard and mouse handling
Improved page filling and line wrapping
Increased book length (100 pages)
REWRITE OF SIGN EDITING:
Movable cursor for free text editing
Selection support
Copy & paste
SCAFFOLDING:
Here to make your life easy! No strings attached.
Easily buildable
Easily destroyable
Easily climbable
Easily the best use of your Bamboo
SMITHING TABLE
Crafted with 4 planks + 2 iron ingots
Villagers use it as a work site
SMOKER:
New furnace upgrade that allows for the smelting of foods faster than the traditional furnace
Can be crafted via four Logs, and one furnace
Added to world gen in some villager buildings
STONECUTTER
New functional block that provides a simpler way to craft various stones (stairs, slabs, chiseled, and more)
Crafted with three stone + one iron ingot
SUSPICIOUS STEW:
Hmmmm...
Found in buried ship treasure chests
Also craftable!
Whoever eats this stew will be imbued with an unknown effect for several seconds!
Whoever crafts the stew will know what effect they gave it
TRADING CHANGES:
Lots of new trades have been added
Villagers now level up in a new way
The trading UI is updated (WIP)
The trading prices now depend on your reputation and on demand
The villagers will restock up to two times per day (if they can work at their work station!)
Added visual trading; villagers will display the item they want to trade for your in-hand item
VILLAGER CHANGES:
Villagers and zombie villagers now have new fancy skins
Added mason profession
Cured zombie villagers retain their trades
Villagers now have a daily schedule. They will for example go to work and meet up at the village bell
Each villager will try to find their own bed and work station
Each profession has a specific block that works as a work station for them (e.g. lectern for the librarian and cauldron for the leatherworker)
Village detection is now based on beds, job sites, and meeting points instead of doors
Iron Golems will spawn when enough villagers meet
WANDERING TRADER:
A mysterious trader that can be randomly found around
Provides various random trades from a variety of different biomes
Is escorted around by a few llama with some sweet new decorations! (Careful! They can be temperamental)
TECHNICAL:
New optional tag for block items: BlockStateTag - contains map of block state properties to be overwritten after block is placed (note: item model is not affected).
Creative menu search box now accepts tags (starting with #)
Tooltip in creative search menu now lists item's tags
New item model property custom_model_data, backed directly by CustomModelData integer NBT field
Extended NBT path syntax
New sub-commands for NBT manipulation and querying
New chat component for displaying values from NBT
Textures for potion effects, paintings and particles are now split into individual files. As a side effect, they can now be animated in the same way as blocks and items.
Sprites for particles can now be configured in resource packs (though particle still controls how they will be used).
Added entity type tags. They work exactly the same as other ones (blocks, items and fluids, etc). Stored in tagsentity_types
Added a feature registry
Added a registry for decorators
Added a registry for carvers
Added a registry for surface builders
Item lore tag now uses chat component syntax
Profiler now lists time spent waiting for next tick (mostly idling or waiting for asynchronous tasks). Previous root is now listed under tick
Paintings and item frames in item form now support EntityTag(same as spawn eggs)
Command parser now accepts ' as string quotes. Inside '-quoted string " is handled as normal character and requires no escaping (and vice-versa) - so now it's easier to input text components in NBT
New Light engine!
loot command - evaluates loot commands items in various contexts
Block drops are now controlled by loot tables
Players, armor stands and wither now have loot tables
Performance Improvements
Added schedule command for delaying execution of functions
Time arguments in time set, time add and schedule function can now have units (t - ticks, s - seconds, d - days). Fractions are allowed (for example 0.5d), but result will be rounded to nearest integer.
teammsg command - Sends a message to all players on your team.
ADVANCEMENTS:
Entity type predicates now accept tags (#baz)
DAMAGE SOURCE PREDICATE:
Damage source predicate now has option: is_lightning
ENTITY EQUIPMENT PREDICATE:
Entity predicate now accepts equipment field
This predicate can contain up to six fields: head, chest, legs, feet, mainhand, offhand
If this predicate is non-null, test will fail for entities that have no equipment (i.e. not mobs, players or armor stands)
ENTITY FLAGS PREDICATE:
Entity predicate now accepts flags field
Available tests: is_on_fire, is_sneaking, is_sprinting, is_swimming, is_baby
CHAT COMPONENTS:
NBT CHAT COMPONENT:
Block variant {"nbt": , "block":""}, where field uses same format as /setblock
Entity variant {"nbt": , "entity":}, where selector field uses same format as /kill
Additionaly, if field interpret is present and set to true, contents of selected tags will be interpreted as chat components
Works same as selector components:
if there are no elements, returns empty string
if there are multiple elements, merges them with ,
COMMANDS:
type field in @ selectors now accepts entity type tags (type=#fooand type=!#bar)
Item frame contents can now be modified with /replaceitem
DATA:
data modify
Apply operation to selected fields
Basic operation: set - replaces value
List operations: insert | prepend | append
Object operations: merge
Sources:
from - copies value from existing tag
value - uses NBT literal
EXECUTE:
execute if data (and execute unless)
when used as command, return count of matched elements
when used as part of command, continues on non-zero(if) or zero(unless) count
LOOT:
General syntax: loot
SOURCES:
fish [tool |mainhand|offhand] - uses fishing context
loot - uses loot chest context (can be also used for advancement awards and cat gifts)
kill - simulates entity drops
mine [tool |mainhand|offhand] - simulates block drops
TARGETS:
spawn - drops in world
replace - works similar to /replaceitem. If count is missing, command will try to place all returned items. If count is higher than number of items, remaining slots will be cleared.
entity [] - replaces range of slots.
block [] - replaces range of slots.
give - inserts items into player's inventory (similar to /give)
insert - inserts items into container (similar to shift left-click)
SCHEDULE:
Schedules function or tag to run in gametime ticks. Returns trigger time. Any tag or function can be scheduled only once. Calling this command for already scheduled function or tag will replace older record.
TEAMMSG:
General syntax: teammsg Sends to all players on the team of the player who runs the command. Available to all players on a team.
ALIAS:
NBT PATHS:
Can now return multiple values. When used as target, modification will be applied to every element
When setting location and no elements are found, new matching element will be created:
For example writing to Items[{Slot:10b}] will either found element in Items for slot 10 or create new one
Add [{k1:v1,k2:v2}] to match objects in list that have matching fields
Add {k1:v1,k2:v2} to match objects (selects 0 or 1 elements, mostly as safeguard against mismatched entries)
Note: this also works with root object: {} is valid path for referencing root object
Allow negative indices in [index] to select element from end (i.e. [-1] is last element, [-2] second to last, etc)
Add [] to select all elements from list
DEDICATED SERVER:
SERVER.PROPERTIES:
difficulty and gamemode settings now accept string names (integer values are still allowed as legacy option)
Server will exit faster is eula.txt is not set
COMMAND LINE:
Added new option --help. Not going to tell you what it does.
New command line option initSettings initializes eula.txt and server.properties with defaults, then exits
LIGHT ENGINE:
We are de-lighted to have a new light engine!
Moved light storage from chunks to a separate structure
Moved light calculation from all over the code to a self-contained place
Moved light computation off the main thread (on the server)
Added support for directional opacity of blocks (used by slabs, stairs, snow layers, non-full-block dirt-related blocks and extended piston base blocks)
Also made enchanting table, end portal frame block and piston base block block light correctly
LOOT TABLES:
Note: Some functions and predicates (like set_name, set_lore, fill_player_head, entity_properties) accept entity target parameter. Possible values are:
Block drops are now controlled by loot tables (stored in loot_tables/blocks/)
Tables and pools accept functions
Added new loot table entry types: dynamic, tag, alternatives, sequence, group
Added new loot table functions: apply_bonus, explosion_decay, copy_name, limit_count, set_contents, set_loot_table, set_lore, fill_player_head, copy_nbt
Added new loot table conditions: survives_explosion, block_state_property, table_bonus, match_tool, damage_source_properties, location_check, weather_check and two special modifiers: inverted and alternative
Integer values can now specify random number generator (available types: constant, uniform, binomial). If omitted, defaults to uniform
Loot tables have optional type, used to validate function usage (available types: empty, chest, fishing, entity, advancement_reward, block). Using function that references data not available in given context (for example, block state in fishing table) will cause warning
New entity parameter in predicates: direct_killer - allows access to projectiles etc.
this - usually entity performing action
killer_player
killer - primary source of damage
direct_killer - direct source of damage (may be different than killer - for example, when killing with bow, killer will be bow user, while direct_killer will be arrow entity)
MODIFIED CONDITIONS
ENTITY_PROPERTIES
Now uses same predicate syntax as advancements (like player_killed_entity). Parameters are now described in predicatefield. If this field is empty object, any entity is accepted (but still has to be present).
MODIFIED FUNCTIONS:
SET_NAME:
Added new parameter entity (see note about entity target parameter for values). If present, name will be resolved with that entity (allows using selector and score components).
NEW CONDITIONS:
ALTERNATIVE:
Joins conditions from parameter terms with "or" ("disjunction").
BLOCK_STATE_PROPERTY:
Check properties of block state.
Parameters
block - id of block. Test will fail, if broken block does not match
properties - map of property:value pairs
DAMAGE_SOURCE_PROPERTIES:
Checks damage source. Same syntax as entity_properties, but uses damage source predicate (see player_hurt_entity advancement trigger).
INVERTED:
Inverts condition from parameter term
LOCATION_CHECK:
Applies advancement location predicate.
Parameters
predicate - predicate applied to location. Uses same structure as advancements.
MATCH_TOOL:
Checks tool (available for block breaking and fishing).
Parameters
predicate - predicate applied to item. Uses same structure as advancements.
SURVIVES_EXPLOSION:
Return true with 1/explosion radius probability.
TABLE_BONUS:
Passes with probability picked from table, indexed by enchantment level.
Parameters
enchantment - id of enchantment
chances - list of probabilities for enchantment level, indexed from 0
WEATHER_CHECK:
No surprise here.
Parameters
raining - optional boolean
thundering - optional boolean
NEW ENTRIES:
ALTERNATIVES:
Tests conditions of child entries and executes first that can run. Has no weight or quality, but may have conditions.
DYNAMIC:
Gets block specific drops. Currently implemented:
minecraft:contents - block entity contents, for shulker boxes
minecraft:self - for banners and player skulls
GROUP
Executes child entries when own conditions pass. Has no weight or quality.
SEQUENCE:
Executes child entries until first one that can't run due to conditions. Has no weight or quality, but may have conditions.
TAG:
Adds contents of item tag. Fields:
name - id of tag
expand - if false, entry will return all contents of tag, otherwise entry will behave as multiple item entries (all with same weight and quality)
NEW FUNCTIONS:
APPLY_BONUS:
Applies one of predefined bonus formulas.
Common fields
enchantment - id for enchantment level used for calculation
formula - type of used bonus formula
parameters - values required for formula (depend on type)
Formulas (based on existing fortune bonuses):
binomial_with_bonus_count:
parameters: extraRounds : int, probability : float
adds random value using binomial distribution with n

New in Minecraft 1.12.2 (Sep 18, 2017)

New in Minecraft 1.12.1 (Aug 3, 2017)

New in Minecraft 1.12 (Jun 8, 2017)

New in Minecraft 1.11.2 (Dec 21, 2016)

New in Minecraft 1.11 (Nov 17, 2016)

New in Minecraft 1.11 Pre-Release 1 (Nov 8, 2016)

New in Minecraft 1.10.2 (Jun 23, 2016)

New in Minecraft 1.10 (Jun 13, 2016)

New in Minecraft 1.10 Pre-Release 1 (Jun 3, 2016)

[Bug MC-3437] - Flowers/tall grass being placed on top of Gravel by the World Generator
[Bug MC-90659] - Mobs that are on fire will not jump into water
[Bug MC-98430] - Endermen forces cacti to have a missing texture
[Bug MC-98654] - Legacy ender dragon not moving
[Bug MC-101118] - Mobs’ pathfinding is confused by grass paths
[Bug MC-101325] - Loading Village.dat containing player reputation causes NullPointerException
[Bug MC-102048] - Particle Blockdust (assuming that is the title of the new particle under suspended sand) does not collide with blocks below it.
[Bug MC-102049] - witches dont drink fire resistance potion while on magma block
[Bug MC-102051] - Unable to place anything on Nether Wart Blocks
[Bug MC-102070] - Nether Wart Block Unable to be set on fire
[Bug MC-102081] - Mob the oxygen value is too low
[Bug MC-102096] - Some stairs in Villages generate with path blocks instead of dirt below
[Bug MC-102119] - Polar Bear gets stuck in blocks when trying to chase the player
[Bug MC-102135] - Structure block: Empty names allowed
[Bug MC-102146] - Cannot type / or : into structure blocks
[Bug MC-102159] - Gravel spawns around Village Wells instead of Grass Paths
[Bug MC-102178] - Structure block border lines invisible in spectator mode (gamemode 3)
[Bug MC-102203] - Strucure blocks don’t rotate skulls
[Bug MC-102207] - Crash when using fishing rod in same tick as @e command with type= or name=
[Bug MC-102270] - Village paths generate incorrectly under trees.
[Bug MC-102278] - Mob pathfinding do not avoid the magma block
[Bug MC-102372] - Fences in Savanna and Taiga villages use oak fence instead of acacia/spruce fence
[Bug MC-102378] - Signs, banners, end rods and anvils mirrored incorrectly
[Bug MC-102401] - Relative teleportation interrupts elytra flight
[Bug MC-102455] - Mob pathfinding AI not to regard as nether wart block is obstructions / Unable to path finding on top
[Bug MC-102460] - “Zombie Villages” generating without zombies/zombies despawning
[Bug MC-102530] - AreaEffectCloud (wrong) fallingsand particle command does not show mobSpell default particle
[Bug MC-102557] - Wrong item frames place after loading by structure block
[Bug MC-102575] - In crash reports, the “CPU” is “bcw$7@"
[Bug MC-102598] - /tping entities results in teleportation relative to the player
[Bug MC-102607] - Villagers don’t run away from zombies during the day
[Bug MC-102614] - Able to paste invalid characters into structure blocks
[Bug MC-102679] - Villager are attacked by husks but they don’t run away from them
[Bug MC-102835] - Hostile mobs can spawn on magma block

New in Minecraft 1.9.4 (May 10, 2016)

New in Minecraft 1.9.3 Pre-Release 3 (May 3, 2016)

New in Minecraft 1.9.3 Pre-Release 2 (Apr 28, 2016)

New in Minecraft 1.9.3 Pre-Release 1 (Apr 21, 2016)

New in Minecraft 1.9.2 (Mar 31, 2016)

New in Minecraft 1.9.1 Pre-Release 3 (Mar 14, 2016)

New in Minecraft 1.9.1 Pre-Release 2 (Mar 11, 2016)

New in Minecraft 1.9.1 Pre-Release 1 (Mar 10, 2016)

New in Minecraft 1.9 (Mar 1, 2016)

New in Minecraft 1.9 Pre-Release 4 (Feb 29, 2016)

New in Minecraft 1.8.9 (Dec 10, 2015)

New in Minecraft 1.8.8 (Jul 29, 2015)

New in Minecraft 1.8.7 (Jun 5, 2015)

New in Minecraft 1.8.6 (May 26, 2015)

New in Minecraft 1.8.5 (May 25, 2015)

New in Minecraft 1.8.2 (Feb 20, 2015)

Additions:
New statistics:
Cake Slices Eaten
Cauldrons Filled
Water Taken from Cauldron
Armor Pieces Cleaned
Banners Cleaned
Interactions with Brewing Stand
Interactions with Beacon
Droppers Searched
Hoppers Searched
Dispensers Searched
Noteblocks played
Noteblocks tuned
Plants potted
Trapped Chests Triggered
Ender Chests Opened
Items Enchanted
Records Played
Interactions with Furnace
Interactions with Crafting Table
Chests Opened
New frame time graph in debug screen:
Activated by pressing Alt+F3 to display frame time bar chart in lower left of screen
Changes:
Spectator Mode:
Mobs no longer follow/attack you in spectator mode
TNT:
Reverted explosion physic changes to those before the 14w31a snapshot.
Explosion force is no longer directionally biased
Oak and dark oak trees:
Oak and Dark oak branches no longer replace blocks
Beacons:
Now ignore bedrock above them when determining a clear view to the sky.
Mobs:
Ocelots now spawn at or above sea level, rather than at Y=63.
Squids now spawn below sea level, rather than at Y=63.
Carrot on a Stick:
Crafting one now removes all enchantments from the original fishing rod.
Fixes:
From released versions before 1.8.2:
MC-141 – /spawnpoint command fails directly on Pressure Plates, Cobwebs, Signs, Open Fence Gates
MC-417 – Arrows first bounce back then appear at correct location
MC-1973 – Items placed into a beacon are lost upon destroying it or reloading a world
MC-3416 – Player location marker invisible on map (wrong Z-Order). One-line fix included.
MC-3885 – Arrows shot into the underside of a block appear black
MC-4405 – Beacons work inconsistently in the Nether
MC-8578 – Hopper sometimes doesn't suck items above when they are overlaying
MC-10176 – Oak/Dark Oak Tree Branches can replace all solid blocks (including Bedrock and Barrier)
MC-13057 – Multiplayer "back to title screen" button incorrect
MC-31338 – No eggs with /summon
MC-40275 – Credit screen/End Poem music not playing correctly
MC-41881 – Hopper minecart acts like it is in a different position
MC-42192 – WitherSkulls flash for a brief moment when being summoned
MC-44634 – Invulnerable Fireballs are invisible/being client-side rendered on hit
MC-47683 – Black particles when breaking a block / Torch particles dark
MC-48219 – Keyboard input causes mouse look to stutter or jerk (Fixed in LWJGL 2.9.3)
MC-48969 – Tellraw crashes if clickEvent is an URL without "http://"
MC-49704 – Mooshroom udder texture does not display correctly
MC-50769 – Mooshrooms incorrectly display custom mushroom models
MC-51573 – Hostile mobs continue to follow/attack you in spectator mode
MC-51804 – Corner fences / cobblestone wall with a block next to them turn black (Smooth lighting off)
MC-63370 – Baby Cows are Milkable
MC-64444 – Wither Skulls are being rendered for a moment
MC-65697 – Explosion force on entities is directionally biased
MC-66089 – Explosion physics changed, range of some TNT cannons greatly reduced
MC-66090 – TNT is no longer colliding with a block placed above it when the TNT is triggered
MC-67727 – Beacons in Nether need clear path to "sky"
MC-71163 – Bed can overlap when placed on grass
MC-72574 – /stats command doesn't work on players who aren't op
MC-73866 – Game crash when an item is thrown into a nether portal.
MC-74686 – Marker armorstand block placing issue
MC-74866 – Chunk flickering (only Intel HD Graphics / Driver version 10.18.10.3958)
MC-75083 – Single Player: Can't select any of the previous created worlds in Java 8 (Fixed by installing Java 7) (Windows 8)
MC-75195 – Armor stands with the "Marker" tag set to 1 don't show their nametag
MC-75722 – Buy a realm has no "Back" button with no internet connection
MC-75885 – World generator crashes when generating pumpkins (e.g. seed "Cows")
MC-76239 – Minecraft Realms main menu button's text between quotation marks
MC-76611 – villages.dat stores player names instead of UUIDs
MC-76650 – Glass Pane image flipped
MC-76747 – Various particles near world border rendered incorrectly.
From the 1.8 development versions:
MC-47832 – Certain entities can't be selected by type
MC-57691 – Water generates above sea level as part of ocean monument generation
MC-57769 – Server Console spams "0"
MC-58184 – Cocoa block texture bug
MC-59549 – Graphical Arrow Glitch in Position
MC-60859 – Regular stone villages spawning desert biomes
MC-61475 – Using /setblock to set block entities with items in their inventory does not update comparators adjacent to the block entity
MC-61897 – Crash when dispensing any minecart types out of upside-down dispensers onto powered rails or activator rails
MC-67150 – Ocean Monument cuts unnaturally into ocean floor
MC-70104 – Arrow visual glitch (fake arrow)
From the 1.8.1 development versions:
MC-73062 – Ambiguous Realms error "Incompatible client, consider updating" at newest snapshot
MC-73406 – Beacon stops working at a certain height
From the 1.8.2 development versions:
MC-77656 – When Exiting Realms get taken to Multiplayer scanning screen

New in Minecraft 1.8.2 Pre 7 (Feb 17, 2015)

New in Minecraft 1.8.2 Pre 5 (Jan 28, 2015)

New in Minecraft 1.8.2 Pre 4 (Jan 17, 2015)

New in Minecraft 1.8.2 Pre 1 (Dec 18, 2014)

New in Minecraft 1.8.1 (Nov 25, 2014)

Gamerules:
doTileDrops no longer affects entities
Jack o'Lanterns:
Can be used to create iron golems and snow golems again
Maps:
Changed some colors
Mobs:
No longer run from creepers
Performance:
Various improvements
Many optimizations
Potion of Leaping:
Can now be extended with redstone
Witch huts:
Newly generated witch huts can spawn witches on Y 64 to 71
This allows for three spawning floors in witch farms
Options:
Renamed "Multiplayer Settings" to "Chat Settings".
Off/fancy/fast clouds
Off/on entity shadows
Fast/fancy now only controls leaves and rain particles
Dropped items:
Now rotate on fast graphics
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1.8.1
Release date
November 24, 2014
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1.8.1[1] is an update for Minecraft which was released on November 24, 2014.[2]
Contents [hide]
1 Additions
2 Changes
3 Fixes
4 Trivia
5 References
Additions[edit]
GamerulesdoEntityDrops - Works like doTileDrops but applies to non-mob entities (minecarts, paintings etc.) instead.[3]
Changes[edit]
CreditsRyan Holtz (TheMogMiner) and Michael Stoyke (Searge) are now mentioned in the credits
GamerulesdoTileDrops no longer affects entities
Jack o'LanternsCan be used to create iron golems and snow golems again
MapsChanged some colors
MobsNo longer run from creepers
PerformanceVarious improvements
Many optimizations
Potion of LeapingCan now be extended with redstone
Witch hutsNewly generated witch huts can spawn witches on Y 64 to 71
This allows for three spawning floors in witch farms
OptionsRenamed "Multiplayer Settings" to "Chat Settings".
Off/fancy/fast clouds
Off/on entity shadows
Fast/fancy now only controls leaves and rain particles
Dropped itemsNow rotate on fast graphics
Fixes:
117 issues fixedFrom released versions before 1.8.1MC-3 – Player facing changes when passing through nether portals in certain cases
MC-349 – Villagers ignore data tags in trading
MC-460 – Experience orb position client-server desync
MC-954 – Air Blocks floating in Water
MC-1237 – Anvil GUI truncating long item names and showing garbage at the end
MC-1279 – Slow (Choppy) Rotating Beacon Block
MC-1607 – Ghost End Portal in The End / Missing layer with AMD/ATI graphics cards
MC-2545 – Persistent Chunk error / Corrupted world / Wrong location spam
MC-3448 – Statistic screen icons messed up
MC-4158 – Nether Portal sometimes places you a fraction of a block in the air
MC-4167 – EXP orbs will switch locations after a second or so from killing a mob.
MC-6261 – Brewing Stand Dosen't Drop Custom Potions
MC-6594 – Non-living entities (boats, minecarts, falling sand, item frames, paintings) drop items even if doTileDrops is set to false
MC-10808 – Sprinting and breaking particles of piston arms use same particles as piston even though there is no stone on the arms
MC-12013 – Experience Orbs are invisible for one second right after spawning
MC-25646 – Music keeps playing when putting in a disc in a jukebox and breaking it at the same time
MC-37586 – Ghost Players in Multiplayer / Item Duplication
MC-37782 – Items held by witches are too small and held wrongly
MC-38372 – Sprint glitch
MC-38385 – Hopper: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: bad Base64 input character at 4036: 5 (decimal)
MC-44542 – Tools with CanDestroy set to allow the breaking of certain blocks don't display proper block name on the tooltip (English (US) language only)
MC-45537 – Cannot place buttons under stairs or slabs, or on top of upside down stairs or slabs
MC-46579 – Items are too high up on the arm in 3rd person mode while sneaking
MC-48011 – Ender dragon experience drops are not affected by doMobLoot gamerule
MC-48130 – /fill replace command not filling when clicking tab
MC-49126 – Glowstone crystal formations are missing their bottom layers
MC-49538 – Achievement "Overpowered" Has Misleading Icon
MC-52717 – Placing heads / skulls break existing blocks
MC-53718 – Chicken jockey riding inside chicken
MC-54551 – Resizing window while in Customized World Settings snaps back to Customized Settings page 1
MC-54707 – Command: /setblock minecraft:sign produces a confusing error message
MC-55661 – Animals don't teleport to Player when target is air block
MC-56574 – /tellraw open_url isn't showing url
MC-58307 – Air bubbles appear after drowning and still dead
MC-58568 – Item frames with items in them do not frustum culling properly causing sevre FPS lag.
MC-59216 – Unable to build iron golem and snow golem with jack o'lantern
MC-59358 – "/spawnpoint " (without coordinates) is not working
MC-59360 – Levers Pop Off Non-Solid Blocks
MC-61587 – /summon Rotation
MC-61640 – Snow layers can't be placed on top of another full snow layer block
MC-62140 – 2 block tall flowers generated in previous version removes the 2nd block
MC-62758 – Tall flowers drop two items when block below is broken
MC-63466 – Ctrl +Pick Block gives a steve head instead of a head with the owner's skin
MC-64082 – Enchantment options for individual players are reset after death. KeepInventory does not have any affect.
MC-64427 – /worldborder,/scoreboard and /debug with invalid arguments don't print an error message
MC-64484 – Fire charge plays no sound due to incorrect sound file reference
MC-64653 – /execute particle Leaves a False Particle Trail to 0,0,0
MC-64773 – /particle autocompletion
MC-64846 – Cannot extend Potion of Leaping to eight minutes using redstone in a brewing stand.
MC-65603 – Ender Dragon does not obey NoAI tag
MC-65834 – Snow layers placed against the side of a block are placed one block too far out
MC-65945 – Enderman blocks look weird when invisible
MC-66324 – /clone has incomplete syntax
MC-66658 – /kill does not tab autocomplete with a player's name
MC-66786 – Incorrect death message for dispensed harming potions
MC-66861 – when press Tab ↹ on /entitydata, players pop up
MC-66922 – argument in /effect does not show clear in help syntax
MC-67437 – Lightning gives AI to Witches and Zombie Pigman that were originally Pigs and Villagers that had NoAI set to 1
MC-68160 – Placing a coloured banner on a cactus drops a black banner
MC-68247 – Beacon Beam disappears while looking upwards from it
MC-68400 – Creative Inventory vert. scrollbar changes without scrolling.
MC-68497 – Cut/Copy function updates clipboard even if nothing is selected
MC-68654 – Tab Complete - /effect and /enchant
MC-68745 – /resourcepacks/ folder is not automatically created when initially starting the game
MC-68891 – Mobs think daylight sensor is a full block, causing them to jump while trying to get off it
MC-69266 – Snow layer placing behavior buggy and inconsistent
MC-69323 – Certain commands do not allow tab completing coordinate arguments
MC-69823 – /debug help text wrong
MC-69983 – Multiplayer Settings named wrongly
MC-69984 – The "Defaults" popup on the customized world generation options screen doesn't disable hovering over stuff behind it
MC-69989 – Debug worlds generate one column twice
MC-70054 – Rabbits don't follow players holding golden carrots or dandelions
MC-70111 – When a thrown ender pearl is in the air, it disappears after relogging.
MC-70305 – "Sprint" is in the wrong category in Controls screen
MC-70308 – Bottom outline is missing in the Controls screen buttons
MC-70338 – Hopper: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space - creating debug image whilst stitching textures
MC-70359 – Block breaking remains when eating/blocking with a sword
MC-70431 – Minecraft 1.8 skin bug!
MC-70472 – Crash when trying to connect to a server with more than 73 characters address
MC-70565 – when opening a chest in modded servers Minecraft crashes continuously
MC-70675 – End credits make no mention of Ryan Holtz (TheMogMiner) or Michael Stoyke (Searge)
MC-71436 – Screen goes black when "highlighting" players in spectator mode
MC-71777 – /achievement take taking too many achievements
MC-71973 – Tab list headers and footers stay even when rejoining a different server
MC-71981 – Uploading a hardcore world to Realms retains auto-ban
MC-72166 – Banners disappear at some angles.
MC-72524 – Can't place buttons on top of redstone blocks
MC-72583 – doTileDrops affects item frames
MC-72688 – /execute Detect gives false positive when in different dimension
MC-72806 – When using /stop server executes the shutdown sequence twice (and hangs if players are online)
MC-72868 – Mobs glitch through the ground under certain conditions
MC-72869 – The 'Defaults' button on the Customized world screen does not disable itself after use
MC-72871 – Resizing the game makes buttons on "Defaults" popup on Customized world GUI disappear

New in Minecraft 1.8.1-pre5 (Nov 20, 2014)

New in Minecraft 1.8.0 (Sep 2, 2014)

Added Granite, Andesite, and Diorite stone blocks, with smooth versions
Added Slime Block
Added Iron Trapdoor
Added Prismarine and Sea Lantern blocks
Added the Ocean Monument
Added Red Sandstone
Added Banners
Added Armor Stands
Added Coarse Dirt (dirt where grass won’t grow)
Added Guardian mobs, with item drops
Added Endermite mob
Added Rabbits, with item drops
Added Mutton and Cooked Mutton
Villagers will harvest crops and plant new ones
Mossy Cobblestone and Mossy Stone Bricks are now craftable
Chiseled Stone Bricks are now craftable
Doors and fences now come in all wood type variants
Sponge block has regained its water-absorbing ability and becomes wet
Added a spectator game mode (game mode 3)
Added one new achievement
Added “Customized” world type
Added hidden “Debug Mode” world type
Worlds can now have a world barrier
Added @e target selector for Command Blocks
Added /blockdata command
Added /clone command
Added /execute command
Added /fill command
Added /particle command
Added /testforblocks command
Added /title command
Added /trigger command
Added /worldborder command
Added /stats command
Containers can be locked in custom maps by using the “Lock” data tag
Added logAdminCommands, showDeathMessages, reducedDebugInfo, sendCommandFeedback, and randomTickSpeed game rules
Added three new statistics
Player skins can now have double layers across the whole model, and left/right arms/legs can be edited independently
Added a new player model with smaller arms, and a new player skin called Alex?
Added options for configuring what pieces of the skin that are visible
Blocks can now have custom visual variations in the resource packs
Minecraft Realms now has an activity chart, so you can see who has been online
Minecraft Realms now lets you upload your maps
Difficulty setting is saved per world, and can be locked if wanted
Enchanting has been redone, now costs lapis lazuli in addition to enchantment levels
Villager trading has been rebalanced
Anvil repairing has been rebalanced
Considerable faster client-side performance
Max render distance has been increased to 32 chunks (512 blocks)
Adventure mode now prevents you from destroying blocks, unless your items have the CanDestroy data tag
Resource packs can now also define the shape of blocks and items, and not just their textures
Scoreboards have been given a lot of new features
Tweaked the F3 debug screen
Block ID numbers (such as 1 for stone), are being replaced by ID names (such as minecraft:stone)
Server list has been improved
A few minor changes to village and temple generation
Mob heads for players now show both skin layers
Buttons can now be placed on the ceiling
Lots and lots of other changes
LOTS AND LOTS of other changes
Removed Herobrine

New in Minecraft 1.8.0 Pre-release 3 (Sep 1, 2014)

New in Minecraft 1.8.0 Pre-release 2 (Sep 1, 2014)

New in Minecraft 1.7.9 (Apr 15, 2014)

New in Minecraft 1.7.8 (Apr 11, 2014)

New in Minecraft 1.7.7 (Apr 10, 2014)

New in Minecraft 1.7.6 (Apr 9, 2014)

New in Minecraft 1.7.5 (Feb 28, 2014)

New in Minecraft 1.7.4 (Dec 10, 2013)

New in Minecraft 1.7.2 (Oct 25, 2013)

New in Minecraft 1.6.2 (Jul 9, 2013)

MC-149 – Powered pistons drop as items in creative
MC-1545 – Player's and Horses head while riding having strange behaviour when looking at the skin in the inventory
MC-5686 – Entities cooldown timer is reset when the entity touches a nether portal
MC-5770 – When putting a sign in front of water it keeps running
MC-7486 – Trapped Chest looks like Regular Chest in inventory / item frame
MC-12962 – Attacking wild Wolves with any kind of projectiles (Arrows, Snowballs, Potions) will cause any nearby tamed Wolves to attack their owner
MC-13167 – Reloading a world while player is in moving Minecart or riding a horse is glitchy in F5 mode
MC-13632 – Horses can be pushed into blocks and then take suffocation damage
MC-13695 – Ctrl+Click = Right Click on Mac not working
MC-13949 – Leads attached to mobs drop as items when right clicked in creative
MC-14157 – Numlock Enter not recognized as Return
MC-14359 – Direct Connect does not remember port
MC-14415 – Rope part of the leash turns invisible in some angles
MC-15024 – Hay blocks can not be crafted back into wheat
MC-15161 – Gliding crosshair when on a saddled horse
MC-15547 – "Nether-Fortress-Only" Mobs no longer spawning in previously generated Fortresses
MC-16170 – Unarmored horses appear as wearing diamond armor
MC-16222 – Baby Zombies are far too fast
MC-16267 – Cannot change Horse Armor like Player Armor by clicking with another armor piece on slot
MC-16761 – Sprint does not happen straight away
MC-17673 – Distorted fonts when using a converted texturepack on startup
MC-18365 – Breaking sound and particles appear when placing water/lava into another source block
MC-18627 – The "clear" command is causing a player in creative mode to be unable to move items in their inventory.
MC-18828 – /clear command causes problems with animations of held items
MC-18976 – Health boost resets additional health every 30 seconds
MC-19082 – Signs placed on Fences don't have Text
MC-19585 – Trying to jump on an unsaddled Horse, then equipping it with a saddle makes the Horse jump automatically
MC-19592 – 1.5.2 clients show server 1.6.1 as 1.3 in Multiplayer screen
MC-19605 – the /playsound command does not work with @a when >1 player passes the query
MC-20050 – Minecraft 1.6.1 demo has crashed
MC-20169 – Missing library starting the game
MC-21145 – Demo crashes when unable to find 'name' of a bound mousebutton
MC-21172 – resourcepack crashes
MC-21436 – nested colors in json chat don't work
MC-22401 – Cannot pick block lead in creative.

New in Minecraft Pre-release 1.6.2 (Jul 6, 2013)

[MC-149] – Powered pistons drop as items in creative
[MC-1545] – Player's and Horses head while riding having strange behaviour when looking at the skin in the inventory
[MC-2025] – Animals going out of fenced areas/suffocate in blocks when loading chunks
[MC-2840] – Chat concurrency issues
[MC-2841] – Packet flood degrades server peformance
[MC-5770] – When putting a sign in front of water it keeps running
[MC-7486] – Trapped Chest looks like Regular Chest in inventory / item frame
[MC-12962] – Attacking wild Wolves with any kind of projectiles (Arrows, Snowballs, Potions) will cause any nearby tamed Wolves to attack their owner
[MC-13167] – Reloading a world while player is in moving Minecart or riding a horse is glitchy in F5 mode
[MC-13632] – Horses can be pushed into blocks and then take suffocation damage
[MC-13695] – Ctrl+Click = Right Click on Mac not working
[MC-13949] – Leads attached to mobs drop as items when right clicked in creative
[MC-14157] – Numlock Enter not recognized as Return
[MC-14359] – Direct Connect does not remember port
[MC-14415] – rope part of the leash turns invisible in some angles
[MC-15024] – Hay blocks can not be crafted back into wheat
[MC-15161] – Gliding crosshair when on a saddled horse
[MC-15547] – "Nether-Fortress-Only" Mobs no longer spawning in previously generated Fortresses
[MC-16170] – Unarmored horses appear as wearing diamong armor
[MC-16222] – Baby Zombies are far too fast
[MC-16267] – Cannot change Horse Armor like Player Armor by clicking with another armor piece on slot
[MC-16761] – Sprint does not happen straight away
[MC-17673] – Distorted fonts when using a converted texturepack on startup
[MC-18365] – Breaking sound and particles appear when placing water/lava into another source block
[MC-18627] – The "clear" command is causing a player in creative mode to be unable to move items in their inventory.
[MC-18828] – /clear command causes problems with animations of held items
[MC-18976] – Health boost resets additional health every 30 seconds
[MC-19082] – Signs placed on Fences don't have Text
[MC-19585] – Trying to jump on an unsaddled Horse, then equipping it with a saddle makes the Horse jump automatically
[MC-19592] – 1.5.2 clients show server 1.6.1 as 1.3 in Multiplayer screen
[MC-19599] – Item Dupe
[MC-19605] – the /playsound command does not work with @a when >1 player passes the query
[MC-20050] – Minecraft 1.6.1 demo has crashed
[MC-21145] – Demo crashes when unable to find 'name' of a bound mousebutton
[MC-21172] – resourcepack crashes
[MC-21436] – nested colors in json chat don't work
[MC-22315] – Item Duplication by Mules/Donkeys
[MC-22401] – Cannot pick block lead in creative.

New in Minecraft Stable 1.6.1 (Jul 1, 2013)

GENERAL:
Additions:
Resource pack system
Replaces the texture pack system.
A conversion tool which converts texture packs into resource packs was released by Dinnerbone
Contains:
Textures
Sounds
Fonts (partially)
End credit
End Poem
Splash text
New "missing texture" texture
Attribute system
Item attributes using NBT tags:
Attributes can be additive, subtractive and multiplicative using a set value
Some items have default modifiers in place of previously hard-coded attributes
Examples of possible changes players could make: A bow that slows the holder, a helm that buffs health, etc.
Entity attributes:
These properties can now be changed as easily as any other NBT attribute
Entity speed, base health, base attack
Other properties like weapon damage/bow draw speed/sword swing speed are yet to follow
Splash screens
"HURNERJSGER?"
"What's up Doc?"
Improvements & changes:
Support for Java 5 and PowerPC users will be dropped
If you have a PowerPC based computer and/or Java 5 installed, a warning will be shown at the main menu.
Internal chat system
Lots of messages should be translated now that were not previously
Messages are now better modularized
Server messages can be sent by their code-defined name, allowing the client to utilize the correct translation according to their language settings
Color can be specifically designated, preventing leakage into further messages
Launcher
Increases performance and stability
Allows LWJGL to be updated, fixing many launcher bugs
Supports multiple versions/installs
Self updatable.
New password storing system
More user friendly.
A major step towards the Plugin API.
New authentication system - "Yggdrasil", which is more secure and has more features
GAMEPLAY:
Additions:
Status effects
Health Boost effect
Gives player 4 (Empty Heart.svgEmpty Heart.svg) base health; extra health vanishes when the effect ends
Can be acquired ingame by the command /effect 21
Absorption effect
Gives player 4 (Heart.svgHeart.svg) "absorption" health that cannot be replenished by natural regeneration or other effects, but would return every 30 seconds, regardless of the state of the rest of the health bar; extra health vanishes when the effect ends
Can be acquired ingame by the command /effect 22 or by eating either tier of Golden Apple
Saturation effect
Causes food meter to be replenished by 1 (Half Hunger.svg) per tick.
Can be acquired ingame by the command /effect 23
Commands
/spreadplayers
Spreads certain players from an origin point
Has a Max Spread and Minimum Distance from player to player
Can be used with the teams scoreboard functionality to spread team members to the same location
/playsound
Can use to play sound to player
Can change the pitch and/or volume
Can use sound from resource pack
Added /gamerule arguments
naturalRegeneration
Toggles natural health regeneration
doDaylightCycle
Toggles the day-night cycle (the sun stops moving and stays where it is)
Improvements & changes:
Riding mounts
When riding a mob, its health is on the Heads-up display
When riding on an entity, dismounting has changed from right-clicking the entity to using the Sneak key (? Left Shift by default)
Boat controls have been changed from the A, S, and D keys to mouse control
Respiration enchantment
Now also helps seeing underwater
Changed the idea of mob difficulty
Regional difficulty: The longer you spend in one area, the harder it gets
Scales with difficulty - items, enchants or AI improve with difficulty
Tooltips
Added extra tooltip info in the search tab for the creative inventory, which shows what category a block/item is in
Tooltips for swords, pickaxes, shovels, axes, and potions show how much damage the sword/tool does and what effect a potion will give
Status effect
Balanced to improve gameplay
Instant Health nerfed by 33% (heals only 4 health points/2 hearts at level I)
Regeneration nerfed by 50% (takes 50 ticks/2.5 seconds to restore 1 health point/.5 heart at level I)
Invisibility potions now work better with teams
Hunger
Natural health regeneration now costs hunger points/saturation points
Creative mode
It is no longer possible to break blocks with swords in Creative mode
BLOCK & ITEMS:
Additions:
Horse Armor
Exist in diamond, iron and gold variants
Cannot be crafted. Can only be found in most types of generated chests, including in dungeons, Nether Fortresses, Desert Temples, and Jungle Temples
Horse Spawn Egg
Works like any other spawn egg
Just like naturally spawned Horses, these Horses will have one of seven base colours and one of five variations of markings
Sometimes a Donkey will be spawned instead
Hay Bale
Can be placed in all orientations
Crafted with wheat in a 3x3 arrangement
Lead
Can be used to bind mobs to fences or lead them around
Right click mob first, then right-click fence or right-click the mob again to get the leash back
Crafted with 4 string and 1 slimeball, yields 2 leads
Carpets
Crafted with 2 colors of wool in a horizontal line, yields 3 carpets
Can be placed on any block (even translucent ones)
Name Tag
Found in dungeon chests
Name it in an anvil, then right click a mob to name it.
Hardened Clay
Obtained by smelting a clay block in a furnace
Stained Clay
Comes in 16 colors, one for each dye.
Similar to wool.
Made by surrounding any dye with hardened clay
Block of Coal
Crafted with 3x3 coal.
Crafted only with coal, not charcoal.
Can be used as furnace fuel and smelts 80 items, more than 9 coal (72 smelted items).
Improvements & changes:
Charcoal
Retextured, with more brown shading to differentiate from coal
Lapis Lazuli Block
Retextured subtly, it now has a border around it
Saddle
You can now put a saddle on a horse
Redstone Comparator
Now give out a signal for Cauldrons and End Portal frames depending on their state
Cauldrons give from zero signal (empty) to three signal strength (full) depending on water inside
End Portal frame varies between zero and fifteen signal strength, depending on if an Eye of Ender is present
Golden Apple
Golden apples now require gold ingots instead of gold nuggets to craft
Golden apples now give Regeneration II for 10 seconds and both tiers give Absorption for 1 min 30 seconds
Glistering Melon
Glistering melons now require 8 gold nuggets
Spawn Eggs
Spawn eggs work on water
MOBS:
Additions:
Horses
Must be tamed before use
Ridable by right-clicking them with a saddle - Hold the jump key to fill up their jump bar, release it to jump accordingly, steer them by using the usual movement keys - maximum movement speed and jump height differ between horses
Have various amounts of maximum health - Regenerates naturally, but wheat can be used to speed it up
When killed they drop leather, as well as any equipment that they were wearing
Can be bred using wheat - Baby horses can be grown using apples, golden apples and wheat
Creation assisted by DrZhark
Donkeys
Like horses, but smaller and grey, and can carry chests on their saddles that can be opened if sneaking and then right-clicking the donkey or mule. The chest has 15 inventory slots.
Mules
Similar to donkeys, just brown and taller than a normal donkey
Obtained by breeding a horse and a donkey
Can wear chests on their saddles, just like donkeys
Not breedable with horses, donkeys, or other mules
Skeleton and Zombie Horses
Introduced as the code of the normal Horse, although require third-party modifications to be used in the game. There is no current use at this time.
Improvements & changes:
All mobs
Mobs named "Dinnerbone" or "Grumm" are now flipped upside down
Zombies
Now have a small chance to spawn additional zombies when damaged or not being looked at
Able to lock onto the player from 40 blocks away (formerly 16 blocks).
Mobbing zombies can now move when further than 32 blocks from player
Villagers
Now have sounds.
Spiders
Now have a chance to spawn with potion effects
WORLD GENERATION:
Additions:
Improvements & changes:
Deserts
No longer contain water lakes
The Nether
Added chest generation in Nether Fortresses
BUG FIXES
MC-73 - Green arrow bug on maps in frames
MC-137 - Ping packet doesn't include host information
MC-188 - 'doFiretick' makes fire to not extinguish. Lighting makes fire all over the place!
MC-483 - Keyboard Unresponsive on OS X
MC-507 - Teleporting to Large Numbers Creates a Broken Error
MC-552 - Command block choosing wrong people / Selecting players cross-dimensional
MC-590 - Mobs not realizing they killed their attacker and trying to attack empty space
MC-607 - Running at a high resolution causes large portions of the screen to be UNCLICKABLE
MC-671 - Minecarts with Furnace consume coal in creative mode
MC-820 - Death messages in english regardless of the selected language (Multiplayer)
MC-1038 - Beacon Block Incorrect Texture When Surrounded by Blocks
MC-1124 - Mouse "Back" and "Forward" open menu in windowed mode.
MC-1126 - Server Command "/whitelist list" doesn't display the full list of players
MC-1202 - Mobs spawn and then quickly despawn in peaceful. Looks like the "ender-porting-out-of-water" effect.
MC-1320 - Dogs wont stop snarling after punched by someone else
MC-1497 - Damaged Anvils do not show damage in inventory or item frame
MC-1903 - Console Command and Set Console for Block in Command Block merges when in windowed mode
MC-1980 - Zombie villagers are able to despawn during curing process
MC-2097 - You can't get "The End?" achievement
MC-2200 - Sleeping while in a Minecart produces a graphical glitch
MC-2419 - Persistence Required Tag Freezes Mobs
MC-2453 - Jack-o-lantern name is mispunctuated
MC-2559 - Squids taking damage while in water
MC-2692 - Hard to spawn Squids
MC-3008 - Regular skeleton's melee damage is unaffected by the sword type
MC-3090 - Unable to play game unless LWJGL is manually replaced
MC-3304 - Infinite Looting Sword bug
MC-3695 - Boats/Minecarts and Ender Pearls don't mix
MC-3737 - Placing Water Source into some blocks yields no drops
MC-3798 - 3D Anaglyph Biome Colour Corruption
MC-3960 - After the last use of a bow you get a glitch bow that when dropped and picked up again duplicates
MC-4266 - Death counter does not update
MC-4631 - Lava decay fails to schedule block update
MC-4822 - Skeletons attacking like zombies when hit in creative
MC-6721 - Ctrl + Alt + Esc crashes minecraft
MC-6828 - Brewing stand feet's sides are transparent when placed against a wall
MC-7134 - Silverfish breaking blocks when "mobGriefing" is set to false
MC-8073 - Switching from windowed to fullscreen and back moves the point of view
MC-8220 - Water/Lava from Bucket replacing Ladder
MC-9026 - Splash potions particles are incorrect
MC-9317 - /scoreboard syntax missing (/help scoreboard)
MC-9355 - Argument "team" do not work with "!" for other players
MC-9584 - Cactus texture error when near a wall
MC-9917 - In multiplayer screen holding shift and pressing "down" without selecting any server crashes the game
MC-10601 - Cant use scroll wheel in crash reports
MC-10976 - Single player: "java.io.IOException: Stream Closed" when quitting game
MC-11033 - Item count / numbers randomly flickering in item bar, inventory, workbench
MC-11199 - Eye of Ender does not always lead to the nearest Stronghold
MC-11385 - Scoreboard problem with "seeFriendlyInvisibles"
MC-11439 - Memory leak switching texture packs
MC-11595 - 1.5 HD Texture pack stitched images greater than 2048 resolution results in massive performance drops.
MC-11605 - Certain death message will print "null" as the player/mob name that caused the death
MC-11765 - Command Blocks breaking easily in survival
MC-12017 - Can get permanently stuck in a minecart in a nether portal
MC-12241 - Minecart collision boxes are briefly positioned wrong
MC-12526 - Minecarts off track float
MC-12569 - Sitting in minecart is higher than it should be
MC-12733 - Minecart hit box too large
MC-13177 - New Client and Server Outputs Increase Loading Time
MC-13276 - Zombies with increased health don't deal damage
MC-13559 - Pick block from inventory in creative doesn't preserve size of stacks
MC-14218 - Minecraft can't handle 4096x4096 or larger cloud textures
MC-14757 - Stacked Entity Spawner creating mass duplicate ghost entities
MC-14926 - Cannot use resolution clock and compass textures with resolutions higher than 16x16
MC-15145 - Receiving very high amount of damage at once creates ghost mode in multiplayer
MC-15732 - Achievement "We Need to Go Deeper" rewarded for going through an End Portal
MC-16075 - Entities other than the player can't leave the end
MC-16530 - When under resistance effects above 5, /kill command does not work.
MC-16554 - lang files for en_US is gramaticly incorrect at death.fell.finish.item
MC-17037 - No error report when minecraft crashes
MC-17280 - Freezes When Moving
MC-17701 - Fire Animation Jumps and skips frames.
MC-18088 - Sticky and unregistering keys during normal Minecraft play only, AMD processor driver conflict?
MC-18324 - Text misplaced on Direct connect, Rename World screen
MC-18483 - Shift clicking on the destroy item button in multiplayer doesn't work.
MC-18640 - Crash when language file of currently selected language is missing
MC-18713 - If a team name has "-" in it, the argument for seeing if anyone is in the team doesn't work
MC-19029 - Instant health effect set to a 29, 61, 93...253 value kills any player without any death message

New in Minecraft Pre-Release 1.6 (Jun 26, 2013)

New in Minecraft Snapshot 13w25c (Jun 21, 2013)

New in Minecraft Stable 1.5.2 / Snapshot 13w25a (Jun 19, 2013)

New in Minecraft Snapshot 13w24a (Jun 14, 2013)

New in Minecraft Snapshot 13w23a (Jun 8, 2013)

New in Minecraft Snapshot 13w22a (May 31, 2013)

New in Minecraft Snapshot 13w21b (May 24, 2013)

New in Minecraft Snapshot 13w19b (May 11, 2013)

New in Minecraft Stable 1.5.2 (May 3, 2013)

New in Minecraft Snapshot 13w18b (May 3, 2013)

New in Minecraft Snapshot 13w17a (Apr 26, 2013)

New in Minecraft Pre-Release 1.5.2 (Apr 26, 2013)

New in Minecraft Snapshot 13w16a (Apr 19, 2013)

New in Minecraft Pre-release 1.5.1 (Mar 25, 2013)

New in Minecraft Snapshot 13w11a (Mar 15, 2013)

New in Minecraft Stable 1.5 (Mar 13, 2013)

General:
Engine optimizations:
Support for more realistic lighting
Lighting interacts correctly with slabs and stairs
Texture Packs:
New format
Textures use one PNG file per block or item, which are stitched together at runtime, texture sizes don't need to be consistent
Textures can be animated.
Animation frames are underneath each other in the same image
Use a separate text file to specify frame order and duration
Special rules apply for water, lava, compass, and clock
Vanilla textures will be used if texture files are missing
Support for HD texture packs.
Support for HD fonts
Gameplay:
Scoreboard system
Commands
/testfor command
Tests for whether specified player is online (testfor [player]), or at specified coordinate and/or in radius (testfor @p[x,y,z], testfor @p[r=radius] or testfor @p[x,y,z,r=radius])
Signal output to any Redstone Comparators surrounding the command block like testing content of a chest
/effect command
Usage: /effect player effect [seconds] [amplifier]
To remove effects: /effect player effect 0
Inventory:
Double click items to fill the stack up as much as possible.
Drag item stacks around to divide them up over the dragged-over slots.
Drag item stacks around with the right mouse button to place one of that stack in each dragged-over slot, if that slot is not occupied already.
Shift+ double click items in a crafting area to place all items in the inventory.
Shift+ double click an item stack to move all other item stacks of that kind to that part of the inventory.
Pressing Q while the mouse is over an item in the inventory or a container to drop it
Held armor can be equipped by right-clicking.
Detailed Death Messages
Renaming:
Improved renaming of Spawn Eggs
Mobs spawned from renamed eggs have the name of the egg and the names will appear in the death message
Mobs spawned from named Spawn Eggs display their name over their head when viewed within a 6 block radius
Improved renaming of Containers
Renamed Chests, Trapped Chests, Dispensers, Furnaces, Brewing Stands, and Enchantment Tables display the new name in their GUI
Renamed Command Blocks use their name in the chat
Updated Language files
Options & Title Screen:
Moved Texture Packs button to options menu, instead of title screen
New chat settings in Multiplayer Settings
Scale, Focused Height, Unfocused Height and Width is configurable
Smooth Lighting can be changed to Minimum, Maximum & Off
Minimum uses the old Smooth Lighting, and Maximum fixes a bug with stairs
Creative Mode:
All potions are categorized
In Creative mode, you can hit mobs or players from five blocks away
Blocks & Items:
Activator Rail:
The crafting recipe is 2 sticks, 6 iron ingots and 1 redstone torch
Used to trigger Minecart with TNT
Used to stop item passing on Minecart with Hopper
Block of Redstone:
The crafting recipe is 9 Redstones
Stores 9 Redstone
Emits constant redstone signal
Works as pushable redstone power source
Daylight Sensor:
The crafting recipe is 3 Wooden Slabs, 3 Nether Quartz and 3 Glass blocks
Outputs a signal with a strength corresponding to the intensity of the sun
Only works with the sun's light (not man made light such as torches)
Rain affects the sensor's output
Dropper:
The crafting recipe is 7 Cobblestones and 1 Redstone
Places items in containers in front of them, if there is no container it will dispense the item without using it
A dispenser 'shoots' items at you, while a dropper 'throws' items at you
Can face all 6 directions, with a different texture when facing up or down
Need redstone signal to drop items
Hopper:
The crafting recipe is 5 iron ingots and 1 Chest
Places and takes out items in Hoppers, Chests, Furnaces, Minecart with Chests, Minecart with Hoppers, Dispensers, Droppers, and Brewing Stands
Allows for the automation of many processes collecting drops
Powering the Hopper stops it from [taking] in items and releasing them
Redstone signal emitted when a Redstone Comparator is placed against it directly - signal length depends on its fullness
1 item will give a signal strength of 1, a third of a stack (21 for items which stack to 64) gives a signal strength of 2
Minecart with Hopper:
Crafting recipe is a hopper on top of a minecart
Can only be emptied by passing over a hopper
Can pick up items from containers when it passes over
Minecart with Spawner entity:
Only obtainable with world editors
Uses the same NBT format as a normal Spawner
Minecart with TNT:
The crafting recipe is 1 TNT and 1 Minecart
Triggered by Activator Rails
Explodes even more violently the faster it goes
Doesn't destroy rails and supporting blocks
Still blows up redstone materials
Redstone Comparator:
The crafting recipe is 3 Redstone Torches, 1 Nether Quartz and 3 Stone
It is the same as a repeater, but with 2 inputs
If input A is stronger or equal to input B, it either repeats the signal or outputs the difference between A and B, so this can be used as an easier way make redstone contraptions like Piston Doors
Output is toggleable by right clicking
If input A is weaker than input B, then there is no output
All containers output a redstone signal when a Redstone Comparator is placed against it directly. The strength of it depends on how full the container is and what disc number is used in a Jukebox
This works with Trapped Chests as well, meaning it can provide two redstone signals with different causes at the same time
Trapped Chest:
The crafting recipe is 1 Chest, and 1 Tripwire Hook
Gives out a signal depending on the amount of players looking inside
Large Trapped Chests can be staggered with Large Chests to allow more compact storage
Transmit signal downward through one block. This does not apply horizontally
Texture is slightly different than a normal chest, with a red stain around the latch
Weighted Pressure Plate(s):
Used to detect item drops
Gold(light) version reaches full strength at 60 items
Iron(heavy) version reaches full strength at 600 items
Nether Brick (item):
Obtained by smelting Netherrack
Used to make Netherbrick
Nether Quartz:
Picked up when you break or smelt Nether Quartz Ore
Is a crafting ingredient for Daylight Sensors and Redstone Comparators
Can be crafted into decorative blocks
Nether Quartz Ore:
Drops 1 Nether Quartz item when mined
Can be smelted in a Furnace to obtain Nether Quartz
Can be legitimately obtained by Silk Touch enchantment
Block of Quartz:
The crafting recipe is 4 Nether Quartzes in a square
Quartz Slab
Quartz Stairs
Chiseled Quartz Block
The crafting recipe is 2 Quartz Slabs
Pillar Quartz Block
The crafting recipe is 2 vertical Block of Quartz
can be placed sideways, using the side of the block to place similar to sideways Wood.
Multiple snow heights:
Fully implemented - previously, a world editor could be used for different heights of snow
Drops one snowball for every layer of snow
Crafting recipe is 3 snow blocks in a row to create 6 snow layers
Changes:
Beacon:
Increased range
Bone Meal:
Now picks a random stage of growth each time as opposed to automatically pushing them to the final growth stage
Gives off green particles when used
Brewing Stand:
Redstone signal emitted when a Redstone Comparator is placed against it directly - signal length depends on its fullness
Chest:
Redstone signal emitted when a Redstone Comparator is placed against it directly - signal length depends on its fullness
Detector Rail:
Redstone signal emitted when a Redstone Comparator is placed against it directly - signal length depends on the fullness of the container on the rail
Added activated detector rail texture
Dispenser:
Now equip armor to players that are up to 1 block away
Can place and activate TNT
Now use Bone Meal on a crop or sapling in front of them
Can create fire in front of them with Flint and Steel, which consumes durability
They can now face all 6 directions, and use a different texture when facing up or down
Redstone signal emitted when a Redstone Comparator is placed against it directly - signal length depends on its fullness
Jukebox:
Redstone signal emitted when a Redstone Comparator is placed against it directly - signal length depends on the number of the disc used.
Lava:
Updated texture
Locked Chest:
Removed texture
Now uses the "Missing Texture" texture
Nether Brick:
The crafting recipe is now 4 Nether Brick (item)
Stairs:
Improved lighting
Stairs no longer prevent sprinting
Stone Double Slab:
Double stone slabs now have a block ID of 43:8
This allows double stone slabs to be given through commands
Water:
Creating an infinite water source no longer needs a block underneath, but has to have a water source block.
World Generation:
Nether:
Nether Quartz Ore
Abandoned Mineshaft:
Now spawn items in Minecart with Chests, instead of Chests
Mobs:
Skeleton:
Now shoot from 16 blocks away, instead of 10
They now shoot faster when their target is closer
Slimes:
Slime spawn rates in swamps now depend on the current moon phase.
Zombie:
They now alert other Zombies within a radius when they see a player
They get more powerful as they lose health
When on fire, they can now set players on fire
Now become aggressive and come towards you when shot from farther away
All Mobs:
Mobs no longer walk over rails unless they are pursuing the player
Mobs can now be spawned riding other mobs
Bug Fixes:
Fixed 105 bug

New in Minecraft 1.5 Pre-Release (Mar 7, 2013)

New in Minecraft Snapshot 13w10b (Mar 6, 2013)

New in Minecraft Snapshot 13w10a (Mar 5, 2013)

New in Minecraft Snapshot 13w09c (Mar 2, 2013)

Features:
All potions are now categorized in Creative Mode
Removed the amplifier effect limit
effect Playername (PotionID) 0 will take away the effect from the player if he/she got the effect
You can now go up to 1.000.000.000 but most of the effects will do weird after 127
Bugfixes:
TP Bug when you sit in Minecart/Boat/Riding pig
Minecart going in a circle will make any minecart close to them go super fast.
Sounds: Fire extinguish sound does not work in survival
Redstone and components stay powered after unloading chunks
Breaking Doors moves the other part of the door sometimes
Swords do not lose durability when used on the Ender Dragon
Creative Menu potion values are not the same as when brewed (issue redo)
Brewing stand comparator output inconsistent
Non-standard resolutions (and small standard resolutions) not detected properly
Nether cave/tunnel generator produces incorrect/cut tunnels
Missing quartz, hopper, and comparator textures
Quartz slabs and double slabs using wrong texture
Inconsistent distribution system (based on hopper, hopper bug) using rails and minecart-chest over hoppers
Powered mechanisms react when receiving a 0 tick redstone signal
Comparator use off state texture / do not emit any light when powered
Minecarts with Hoppers duplicating items when multiple carts are in the same space
Hitting mobs with a sharpness I wooden sword and weakness III crashes the game
Powering 2 pistons extends the wrong piston!
Mobs with the old AI have inverted head movement
Rows of Vertical Down Piston Extenders have a >50% failure rate
Minecraft crashes when a saddled pig you ride dies or when changing between rideable entities
Animations for items and blocks do not work properly
Unable to craft with blocks which have a damage value greater than 0
Invisible entities infinite spawn loop (client side) using minecart spawners causing severe performance issues.
Crash when near crops
View Upside Down with Speed 5 and FOV Quake Pro
Minecraft has stopped running because it encountered a problem; Ticking player
Same redstone line, two different redstone level
Internal error when using /effect with an id >31

New in Minecraft Snapshot 13w09b (Feb 28, 2013)

New in Minecraft Snapshot 13w09a (Feb 26, 2013)

New in Minecraft Snapshot 13w07a (Feb 15, 2013)

New in Minecraft Snapshot 13w06a (Feb 8, 2013)

New in Minecraft Snapshot 13w05a (Feb 1, 2013)

New in Minecraft Stable 1.4.7 / Snapshot 13w04a (Jan 25, 2013)

New in Minecraft Snapshot 13w03a (Jan 18, 2013)

New in Minecraft Snapshot 13w02b (Jan 12, 2013)

New in Minecraft Snapshot 13w02a (Jan 11, 2013)

New in Minecraft Stable 1.4.7 (Jan 9, 2013)

New in Minecraft Stable 1.4.6 / Snapshot 13w01b (Jan 5, 2013)

New in Minecraft Snapshot 13w01a (Jan 4, 2013)

New in Minecraft 1.4.6 (Dec 21, 2012)

New blocks & items:
Firework Rocket
Firework Star used to create Firework Rockets
Enchanted Books for enchanting items
Nether Brick Slabs
New chest textures in Christmas.
Gameplay:
Improved some enchantments:
Unbreaking enchantment for all items with durability[1]. Some unregular tools (e.g. Shears, Fishing rods) requires Enchanted Books.
Silk Touch can now be applied to shears and swords on the anvil using Enchanted Books. Cobweb can be harvested this way.
Added Thorns enchantment. When a mob hits the player, it gets damage. It can be cast on armor.
Thorns damage is customizable.[2]
Fire Protection now extinguishes players more quickly.
Blast Protection now reduces explosion recoil.
You are now required to use the proper tool on a block, even if the tool you are using has efficiency
Improved drops:
3D rendering for dropped items.[3]
Only renders with Fancy graphics.[4]
When pressing CTRL+Q, the player drops a full stack instead of one item.
Items now show their enchantments when dropped on the ground and in items frames, only in fancy graphics mode.
Improved the block placement on chests, crafting tables, furnaces, beacons, anvils, enchantment tables, brewing stands, etc.
When sneaking, the player can place blocks and items on it.
New notice features:
Added tool highlight when switching items in the hotbar
To disable it, open options.txt and change heldItemTooltips to false.
Added a notice/warning for users still playing on PowerPCs or Java 5 (Java 1.5)
New option:
Added an option to toggle touchscreen in-game.
NBT code:
The blast radius of fireballs a specific Ghast shoots can be customized with an editor.
Bug Fixes:
Fixed mouse wrongly positioned in fullscreen
Fixed mobs walking slowly when you hit them
Fixed server/client desync of chests
Fixed flame effect on arrows when fired into a pressure plate and player immediately engages flight mode
Fixed zombies which sometimes stop attacking
Fixed the inability to remove partial XP bars from the "xp -1L" command when you're between level 0 and 1
Fixed arrows shot at Endermen disappearing
Fixed a bug with custom mob spawners not spawning different types of entities correctly
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 able to be swapped in the inventory
Fixed some Z-Fighting with the beacon
Fixed some graphical issues in the trading GUI
Fixed /say not showing the text in the original purple color
Fixed placing double slabs ignoring damage value
Fixed minecarts being unable to travel through Nether portals
Fixed lightning not flashing
Fixed the Nether and the End generating random client-side blocks in MP
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 enchantments not showing in Item Frames, but fixed only in fancy graphics mode.
Fixed 1-9 clicking an item out of a furnace not giving XP
Fixed mobs reverting farmland to dirt when mob griefing gamerule is set to false
Fixed setting an Enderman on fire with lava or flint and steel not making it teleport away
Fixed animals on fire not fleeing
Fixed boats being placed in the wrong direction
Fixed Endermen not being able to dodge flaming arrows
Fixed the game auto-selecting the first item on the toolbar when entering the Nether
Fixed leaves having the incorrect tooltip
Fixed drowning in creative mode
Fixed the /enchant command not enchanting with ID 0 (Protection)
Fixed not hearing the XP sound every 5 levels
Fixed minecarts and falling entities jittering
Fixed passive mob spawn eggs not being consumed
Fixed Endermen not opening their mouths when being attacked by other mobs
Fixed F3+B hitboxes rendering invisibility potions
Fixed the Wither sometimes destroying its own star

New in Minecraft 1.4.5 (Dec 14, 2012)

Tweaked Fireworks effect and sounds
Item entities are rendered as 3d objects in the world when in Fancy graphics mode
This includes items placed in Item Frames
Items now show their enchantments when dropped on the ground
Added Enchanted Book to Villagers and Chests
Can be found in dungeons with special enchantments normally not obtainable
Overall Protection enchantment is no longer as effective as all the other Protection enchantments combined[2]
Silk Touch can now be applied to shears by using the anvil
Cobweb can be harvested utilizing this feature
Unbreaking enchantment can be applied to anything with durability using Enchanted Books
Added “Thorns” enchantment for armor
When hit by a mob, the mob will receive damage
Added tool highlight when switching items in the hotbar
Renamed items will display the changed name
To disable it, open options.txt and change heldItemTooltips to false.
Added a notice/warning for users still playing on PowerPCs or Java 5 (Java 1.5)
Mojang plans to drop support for Java 5 by Minecraft 1.6.[3] This is due to the most recent versions of LWJGL no longer supporting Java 5, with PowerPC also no longer supported by Apple to be made compatible with Java 6 or newer.[4]
When pressing CTRL+Q, you drop a full stack instead of one item
Removed Firework Rocket in Creative inventory
Added xmaschest.png, largexmaschest.png, and skis.png textures
Chest will use these textures on December 25
Bug Fixes:
Fixed the Firework Star crafting recipe consuming unneeded items
Fixed arrows shot at Endermen disappearing
Fixed a bug with custom mob spawners not spawning different types of entities correctly
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 able to be swapped in the inventory
Fixed some Z-Fighting with the beacon
Fixed some graphical issues in the trading GUI
Fixed /say not showing the text in the original purple color
Fixed placing double slabs ignoring damage value
Fixed minecarts being unable to travel through Nether portals
Fixed lightning not flashing
Fixed Firework Star duplication crafting recipe
Fixed the Nether and the End generating random client-side blocks in MP
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 enchantments not showing in Item Frames

New in Minecraft 12w49a Snapshot (Dec 8, 2012)

New in Minecraft 1.4.5 (Nov 21, 2012)

New in Minecraft 1.4.5 Pre-release (Nov 16, 2012)

New in Minecraft 1.4.4 (Nov 15, 2012)

[MC-2] - Enchanted items show its background on the beacon-block
[MC-5] - In Minecraft ore emerald can be broken with a minimum iron pickaxe, but the block emerald can be broken with all the pickaxes.
[MC-6] - Minecart sound doesn’t stop
[MC-7] - Skeletons holding swords will shoot arrows!
[MC-13] - Arrows do not stick (and stay) in mobs
[MC-15] - Item drops drop into transparent blocks and cannot be picked up.
[MC-17] - Anvil block collision box appears “sunken”
[MC-20] - Getting door drop in creative
[MC-23] - Falling out of the world while chunks are loading
[MC-30] - Some of the regular sounds are now server-sided
[MC-33] - Placing 2 wooden-slabs will play the sounds from 12w38a
[MC-34] - Pink dye on Sheep appears white on top
[MC-36] - Using /tp on a player in different world will teleport to needed coordinates, but not change the world
[MC-38] - Fence Gate Texture flips inside out
[MC-39] - Mobs in minecarts can vanish when minecarts are broken
[MC-40] - Calculate name plate length based on username stripped of color codes
[MC-47] - Cant kill slimecubes
[MC-51] - You Can Duplicate Dragon Eggs, Sand, and Gravel
[MC-54] - mobs are immediately transfered back to the overworld upon spawning in the nether
[MC-56] - Broken or missing animations with potion of invisibility
[MC-57] - Anvil rendering error in item frames
[MC-66] - score doesn’t work anymore
[MC-74] - when a block is placed next to an end portal block with an eye of ender in it, you can see through it
[MC-81] - Item Frames in Multiplayer don’t store item NBT data
[MC-86] - Graphical glitch with cactus in a flower pot near a wall.
[MC-100] - Odd chance where you take fall damage when sprinting off 2 or 1 blocks
[MC-110] - Breaking effects sometimes duplicate sounds & effects
[MC-116] - Music discs reverting to original name after being played, even if they’ve been renamed by the anvil
[MC-118] - Dying dogs collar doesn’t use your dye
[MC-125] - Signs missing text
[MC-141] - /spawnpoint command block fails directly on tripwire string / pressure plate
[MC-147] - Tree leaves break half slabs
[MC-154] - Multiple consecutive newlines in books do not create a space between lines in editor
[MC-155] - Wither Despawns in Peaceful and Shouldn’t
[MC-159] - Death from a 2-4 block drop while changing gamemodes
[MC-160] - Dragon egg particles are missing
[MC-166] - Potatoes and carrots uproot themselves
[MC-176] - Map item placed in item frame experiences Z-fighting
[MC-187] - teleporting a player triggers a pressure plate sometimes
[MC-191] - Minecart flickers when looking backwards
[MC-196] - Falling anvils do not maintain orientation while falling
[MC-212] - Faulty fall damage when logging out and logging back in while falling
[MC-218] - Breaking a block touching an open trapdoor closes it.
[MC-222] - Vines, Fern, Grass and Lily Pad appear grey when held in F5 mode
[MC-231] - Teleport through walls glitch
[MC-264] - Different stacking slab sound
[MC-270] - Skeletons shoot arrows faster than humanly possible
[MC-298] - Text misplaced in demo mode window and 4:3 screen
[MC-303] - “Your game mode has been changed” shows in log when it hasn’t.
[MC-310] - Dropped items stop minecarts on their track
[MC-311] - If you put an anvil ( or a few other items) into a display case and turn it upside down then the orange from the case will start to overlay the item in the case
[MC-313] - Chest Hitbox Wrong
[MC-335] - Dropped items with NBT tags do not stack
[MC-347] - Open Doors and Levers hate each other
[MC-388] - Squids spawning everywhere.
[MC-398] - Structures generating in wrong biomes
[MC-418] - Particles don’t show correctly when sprinting on blocks with different variations like wool, wood and biome colored grass.
[MC-491] - Ladders breaking glitching out
[MC-504] - Mobs try to jump nether brick fence
[MC-529] - Buggy fall damage in 1-deep water
[MC-541] - Flaming arrows won’t trigger tnt when shot from above.
[MC-598] - When you have detailed item descriptions on, renamed item’s name is not in italic.
[MC-606] - zombies can pick up items while dying
[MC-645] - Items at the top-left corner of a container cannot be duplicated with the pick block key
[MC-647] - Tnt sometimes makes item drops when it is ignited by the explosion of another Tnt
[MC-652] - Books allow client to apply any name and enchantment
[MC-740] - Invisibility Potions not completed in correct time displayed
[MC-743] - More Ender Egg Render Problems
[MC-760] - Denial of Service with LAN worlds if someone logs into a LAN server with the host’s username
[MC-767] - Creating world with seed and map world “QUATREPOINTDEUX” fails
[MC-771] - Death by Bat
[MC-827] - Server Crash when client logs in with invalid difficulty
[MC-853] - Item frames do not show directly after entering the game
[MC-864] - Snow Golem won’t die
[MC-894] - “where are we now” disc is unavailable
[MC-973] - Bat noises are painful and cause headaches.
[MC-977] - When riding a minecart, fall damage lags.
[MC-1004] - Custom spawners with no delay variance crash the game
[MC-1023] - Potion of Weakness removes ability to destroy paintings and item frames
[MC-1037] - Missing pitch rotations in OpenAL implementation
[MC-1088] - Lightning strikes can create client side fires (ghost fires)
[MC-1102] - Minecraft crashes in creative inventory
[MC-1132] - Netherportals create a huge lag, especially when serveral entities have to be teleported
[MC-1136] - Enderpearls (and other throwable objects) loose their link to the thrower when reloaded
[MC-1162] - When you jump on wheat crops usually the farmland become dirt, then seeds and wheat be dropped. However if you jump on potatoes and carrots crops farmland become dirt, but crops stay there.
[MC-1181] - SkullOwner lost when breaking a player skull block
[MC-1195] - Beacon particles show if below beacon
[MC-1236] - Escape key doesn’t take you back to main menu from Multiplayer screen
[MC-1243] - Wither Breaks End Portals
[MC-1285] - Put An Item Frame In A Item Frame And Sometimes You Only Get 1 Item Frame Back!
[MC-1301] - Named maps lose their title after copying
[MC-1318] - By placing a bed at the same time as throwing it away makes it a half bed.
[MC-1319] - Getting bed drop in creative
[MC-1332] - Cobblestonewall has fence-collisions
[MC-1378] - Adventure mode graphical issue breaking blocks
[MC-1381] - Mushrooms spawn on the top of the Nether
[MC-1385] - Placing Trapdoors on half-slabs
[MC-1399] - Block textures held by players (third person view) are mirrored
[MC-1444] - Flying through cobwebs in creative affects the player and shouldn’t
[MC-1454] - Shift (crouch) will not stop you from falling off of an anvil.
[MC-1464] - Falling sand appears on fire when falling into lava
[MC-1473] - Fire doesn’t show if you shoot a mob in a minecart
[MC-1547] - Spinning while placing a bed creates a triangular bed
[MC-1574] - Can’t destroy glass in Adventure Mode
[MC-1586] - Minecraft crashes if connection is lost when editing signs
[MC-2196] - Reopened - Map item placed in item frame experiences Z-fighting
[MC-2417] - serious balance issues regarding bookshelf recipes
[MC-2483] - Pushing and knocbacking bugs
[MC-9] - Dropped anvil makes no sound when it breaks
[MC-334] - Tab key not working for any function on mac
[MC-450] - Chicken head movement is inverted
[MC-473] - Linux users can’t open to lan because it’s binded to 127.0.0.1
[MC-515] - Chest glitch that lets them appear as if they are opened while they are not.
[MC-527] - “seed” command doesn’t work in Minecraft server command line
[MC-936] - Squids are flying!
[MC-984] - Internal exception: java.io.IOException: Bad packet id 249
[MC-1079] - Killing animals with fire aspect on the first hit does not cook the drops
[MC-1153] - Torch texture
[MC-1608] - Iron Golems crash the player when they walk
[MC-1622] - Enderchest doesn´t have the right hitbox.
[MC-1647] - Cannot fall into void
[MC-1661] - Crash when placing minecart on powered rail.
[MC-1741] - Loading a world that has been moved or deleted causes a crash
[MC-1745] - player can jump over cobblestone walls
[MC-1789] - Squids do not suffocate on land
[MC-1793] - Nether Brick Fence bad texture
[MC-1845] - Crash with rendering item entities
[MC-1871] - Running on leaves produces grey particles
[MC-2229] - Fences are not rendered correctly from underneath
[MC-2362] - Item frames disappear without drop when a block is placed in their position
[MC-2400] - disappearing mobs and items after dying
[MC-2574] - Slimes on water

New in Minecraft 1.4.2 / 1.4.4 Pre-release (Nov 8, 2012)

New in Minecraft 1.4.2 (Oct 25, 2012)

Improved server list:
Server IPs can now be hidden individually when editing or adding a server
Server version is now displayed left of the connection bars
Server ping tooltip now shows if the server and client have mismatching protocol versions
Mismatching servers can't be joined
Improved settings menu:
Renamed Chat Settings to Multiplayer Settings
Added an option for cape-owners to hide their capes in-game
Added Fullscreen and VSync toggles
Improved F3 mode:
The piechart is now shown when using shift+F3 instead of vice versa
Added the cardinal direction and the degree value to the f value indicating the direction the player is facing
Now shows which chunk and where in that chunk the player is in on X and Z values
Pressing P while holding F3 will toggle the auto-pause when the Minecraft window loses focus
Pressing H while holding F3 will toggle detailed item descriptions, which additionally show item id, damage value, color code, tool/armor/weapon damage and map zoom level and scale on the tooltip
Pressing T while holding F3 will reload the texture pack
Updated language files
GAMEPLAY:
Improved Multiplayer:
Spawn protection now is disabled if there's nothing in ops.txt
Spawn protection radius can now be changed in the server.properties file
Improved Creative inventory:
Items can now be cloned by using Pick Block on them - An item stack with the highest amount of items possible in it will be created
Items can now be shift-clicked around on the survival inventory screen
Improved General inventory:
Pressing the 1-9 hotkeys while hovering over an item will exchange that item with the one from the corresponding hotbar slot
Status effects now cause the inventory window to be off-center regardless of screen aspect ratio
Added & improved a few commands:
Added /difficulty command to change difficulty
/difficulty 0 = peaceful
/difficulty 1 = easy
/difficulty 2 = normal
/difficulty 3 = hard
Toggling PvP[2]
Added /spawnpoint to change your own or other players' spawnpoint to where you are standing or to specified coordinates
/spawnpoint
Added /w, an alias for /tell
Added /weather to change the current weather and optionally set the duration for the new weather
/weather [clear | rain | thunder]
Added /gamerule to look up and change gamerules regarding Command Block output
/gamerule doFireTick - Whether fire should spread
/gamerule doMobLoot - Whether mobs should drop items
/gamerule doMobSpawning - Whether mobs should naturally spawn
/gamerule doTileDrops - Whether blocks should have drops (does not work for paintings)
/gamerule keepInventory - Whether the player should keep items in their inventory if they die.
/gamerule mobGriefing - Whether creepers, endermen and withers should be able to change blocks.
Added /clear to clear a specified player's entire inventory or remove only one block/item from it
Changed /xp so it can be used to give and take entire experience levels by appending "L" to the number
Changed /tp to work with relative coordinates
Added command target selectors:
Available selectors:
@p - Closest player
@a - All players
@r - Random player
Can have arguments specified in [] using the syntax x=0, where x is the argument
Available arguments:
x,y,z - Coordinates
r - Range
m - Gamemode
l - Minumum experience level
lm - Maximum experience level
rm - Minimum range
Special argument only usable with @a:
c - the maximum count of players to return. Numbers below 0 will make it return the last x amount of entries
Updated the sound engine:
Added sounds for placing Wood-, Stone-, Plant-, Sand- and Gravel-like blocks
Added sounds for walking on Sand, Gravel, Soulsand, Grass and Stone
Added sounds for zombies, skeletons, cows, pigs, spiders, endermen, ghasts, silverfish, magma cubes, wolves, the ender dragon, bats and the anvil.
Added sounds for curing a zombie, infecting a villager and a remedy sound.
Added sounds for setting things on fire and shearing sheep
Added sounds for climbing ladders and riding minecarts
Added a sound for levelling up which is played every 5 levels
Added constant noise to liquids
Improved Portals:
Mobs, items and projectiles now pass through them, preserving momentum
Entities will pass through instantly, but at a longer "cooldown"
Portals will allow fire burning entities like blazes to leave the Nether and potentially burn things
Portals will teleport an entity relative to where it entered
Players are now positioned correctly when going through Nether Portals
Nether Portals are now instant for players in Creative mode
Improved Adventure mode:
Blocks can now be mined with the proper tools
Blocks can now be placed
Improved Breeding:
Chickens now use seeds instead of wheat to breed
Pigs now use carrots instead of wheat to breed
You can now restore a desolate village or create a completely new village
Added & changed many minor things:
Added Boss Names above boss health bars
Experience is now awarded for fishing and breeding
Worlds can now be re-created from the world selection screen
Changed many items, improving item icon style to be more consistent
Items spawned using /give are picked up almost instantly now
Doors, trapdoors, levers and buttons are no longer triggerable with the left mouse button
Added an NBT tag for items to have lores
Added an NBT tag for mobs to decide whether they can despawn
Fixed many bugs:
Fixed /me command only working for ops
Fixed /tell not working correctly
Partially cured lighting glitches
Fixed held items being colored when wearing tinted blocks/armor
Fixed the second layer on skins not being placed correctly when sneaking
Blazes now properly spawn in Nether Fortresses
Fixed pets teleporting around randomly
Fixed pvp-disabled servers still allowing players to set other players on fire using Fire Aspect enchanted swords
Fixed entities in minecarts becoming invisible
Fixed mobs randomly suffocating
Fixed stairs, slabs & fences glitching visually sometimes
Fixed mobs falling through blocks
Fixed wet wolves looking way too scary
WORLD GENERATION:
Customizable World generation:
Made superflat worlds customizable
Are now made up of layers specified with block id, data value and height
Biome can now be changed
All generation settings are stored in a preset, which can be shared and re-used
Terrain can now be decorated and structures other than villages can spawn
Default presets:
Classic Flat - 2;7,2x3,2;1;village
Tunnelers' Dream - 2;7,230x1,5x3,2;3;stronghold,biome_1,decoration,dungeon,mineshaft
Water World - 2;7,5x1,5x3,5x12,90x9;1;biome_1,village
Overworld -2;7,59x1,3x3,2;1;stronghold,biome_1,village,decoration,dungeon,lake,mineshaft,lava_lake
Snowy Kingdom - 2;7,59x1,3x3,2,78;12;biome_1,village
Bottomless Pit - 2;2x4,3x3,2;1;biome_1,village
Desert - 2;7,230x1,5x3,2;3;stronghold,biome_1,decoration,dungeon,mineshaft
Redstone Ready -
Preset format with example: 95;35:2;2x20;1;stronghold – 95 is the format version, followed by a semicolon and the layer information. Every new layer is separated by a comma and must consist of the block id (35) and can additionally have :2 appended to specify 2 as the data value. Before that, you can put 2x to specify that this layer should be put 2 times. After a semicolon follows the biome id. After another semicolon follow all structures to be generated, including their options.
Added Witch Huts in swamps
Silverfish blocks now rarely generate in Extreme Hills biomes
On average, nearly one Silverfish block is generated per Extreme Hills chunk
Carrots and potatoes can now be found growing in village
BLOCKS & ITEMS:
Command blocks:
Runs editable commands when triggered by redstone
Intended for adventure maps
Can only be edited by OPs, as long as enable-command-block in server.properties is enabled
Only obtainable using /give playername 137
Can operate in silent mode where it doesn't display commands in the chat box.
Beacons:
Intended as an endgame block
Continuously glows and gives a selected status effect to players within 16 blocks while beaming a beacon of light directly upwards (as bright as glowstone)
Activated by building a solid pyramid of iron/gold/emerald/diamond blocks underneath and selecting an effect
The cheapest configuration requires 9 blocks, while the best configuration requires 164 blocks
Has to be directly exposed to skylight to work
Building square platforms of increasing size and the same material per layer will activate it and increase range and status effect selection
Viable materials are iron, gold, diamond and emerald blocks
Changing selected status effects costs 1 emerald, diamond, gold ingot or iron ingot
Unlockable effects, with increasing amount of required layers of blocks required:
Speed and Haste
Resistance and Jump Boost
Strength
When all 4 layers of blocks underneath are built correctly, a second status effect can be chosen
This second status effect is Regeneration or tier II of the previously chosen effect
Effects given by the Beacon will have less intrusive particles than others on the screen, such as those of potions
Anvils:
Used for repairing and combining enchanted items as well as for renaming any item/block for experience levels
Tools can also be repaired using one piece of their material
Enchantments that are the same are upgraded by one level as long as they are both the same level and the higher level exists
Conflicting enchantments will be removed and only the first one will be kept
Becomes damaged from using and dropping it - Damage persists in inventory and splits up into 3 categories: Anvil, Slightly Damaged Anvil & Very Damaged Anvil
Can be placed in 4 orientations, but can't be moved by pistons
Experience level cost depends on enchantment levels & rarities, whether the item will be renamed and whether the item has been used with an anvil before - Maximum experience level cost is 39 levels, unless in Creative mode
For a more detailed explanation on how enchantments are combined using the anvil, see the Anvil mechanics page
Is affected by gravity and does 1 heart of damage to mobs and players it falls on per block it fell, excluding the first one - Players killed by a falling anvil cause the death message "Player was squashed by a falling anvil" to appear in chat
Certain blocks are destroyed when an anvil falls on them: levers, buttons, torches, redstone torches, redstone repeaters, flower pots, rails & mob heads
Mob Spawners:
Added a few NBT tags to change a few key spawning rules
Range can now be changed
Maximum amount of spawned entities within spawning range can now be changed
Horizontal spawning radius can now be changed
Spawned mobs can wear and carry any items and blocks as well as have a custom drop rate of held items
Added an NBT tag for mobs to decide whether they can despawn
Added an NBT tag for mobs to decide whether they are invincible
Repeaters:
Can now be locked by powering their sides with another repeater
When locked, they show a little bedrock barrier in place of the delay indicator torch and won't change their output signal
Flower Pots:
Lets players plant all kinds of saplings, mushrooms, flowers, cacti, dead shrubs and ferns
Using pick block on it gives the potted plant
Right-click it with something to plant it, hit it to get both back
Cobblestone Walls:
Available in cobblestone and moss stone variants
Behave like fences - Connect to each other, to other blocks and to fence gates & have a 1.5 blocks high collision box
Have a different, higher shape in corners and when blocks are placed on them
Wooden logs:
Changed placement: Instead of facing the player, it will face the surface it is placed on
Place it on the side of a block to get a sideways log.
Place it on the top or bottom of a block to get a topside log.
Stairs:
Now connect to other stairs to form corner stairs
Item Frames:
All items and blocks can be framed
Clocks, compasses and maps function - Maps show only one marker, the frame itself
Mounted maps show markers on copies of that map
Using pick block on it gives the framed item/block, but only works in Creative
Paintings:
Added Wither painting
Mob Heads:
Are very rarely dropped when mobs are killed by players
Only drop from Wither Skeletons, but also exist for creepers, zombies, skeletons and players
Can be put on the ground in 16 orientations and hung on walls
Can be worn
Using external editors or mods player skulls can be assigned to specific players - They then have tooltip "Player's Head"
Add the NBT tag "SkullOwner" -> (player name) on the skull items.
Trapdoors:
Can now be placed on the top half of blocks
Placement works similar to that of slabs and stairs
Buttons:
Now stays active for 0.2 seconds longer
New crafting recipe – Only 1 stone block required
Wooden Buttons:
Additionally can be activated by arrows
Requires 1 wooden plank to craft
Fire:
Now spreads more aggressively depending on difficulty
Saplings:
Decreased hitbox size
TNT:
Is now triggered by flaming arrows
Potatoes:
Can be planted on hydrated soil and drop 1-4 potatoes when fully grown
Can be grown instantly using bonemeal
Can be Smelted to receive a baked potato
Rarely drop poisoned potatoes
Potatoes give 0.5 hunger points, poisoned potatoes give 1 hunger point and have a chance to poison you, baked potatoes give 3 hunger points
Carrots:
Can be planted on hydrated soil and drop 2-4 carrots when fully grown
Can be grown instantly using bonemeal
Can be crafted surrounded with 8 gold nuggets to get a golden carrot
Carrots give 2 hunger points, golden carrots give 3 hunger points
Carrot on a Stick:
Used to control pigs
When held, it dictates the direction pigs players are riding will head in
Nearby pigs flock towards players holding it
Slowly loses durability when riding pigs
Pigs start slow but end up going about 5 blocks per second
Can be right-clicked to give the pig a short speed boost - This takes up a chunk of the durability
The pigs ‘eat’ the carrot eventually, leaving the player a fishing rod and will require another carrot to continue riding.
To craft, the carrot must be placed at a diagonal below the fishing rod
Pumpkin Pie:
Restores 4 hunger points
The crafting recipe is shapeless: assemble a Pumpkin, Egg and Sugar into the crafting inventory
Nether Star:
Drops from Withers
Used to craft the Beacon
Glows like an enchanted item
Night Vision Potion:
Brewed by adding a Golden Carrot to an Awkward Potion
Invisibility Potion:
Effect now hides the nametag and cape[44]
Mobs only attack you when you walk into them or attack them
Splash potions of invisibility can also make mobs partially invisible, although eyes of some mobs still show
Brewed by adding a Fermented Spider Eye to a Potion of Night Vision
Potions:
Can now have any available potion effects, level and duration
Data are saved using NBT tags, but potions retain their original color
Maps:
Are now crafted as an Empty Map and will become a real map by right-clicking
Start out at their closest zoom level and can be extended by adding more pape
Players see other players moving around on the same map
Craft an existing map with an empty map to receive an extra copy of the map
Removed text overlay
Are labelled 'Map #0' and so on
Now align to a grid and can be stacked to 64
When outside a map's range, the player is displayed as a small circle at the edge
Armor:
Diamond Armor sleeves now have a notch on the inner side
Completely revamped leather armor
Leather Armor:
Can now be dyed in 16,777,216 potential different colors
Putting it in a crafting grid with dyes applies all colors
Dyed armor's tooltip will display ‘’Dyed’’
Right-click dyed armor on cauldrons to wash it and remove some water from the cauldron
Changed item and model color and texture
Now uses two overlayed textures, one being the color
MOBS:
Wither:
Three-headed flying player-created boss mob shooting projectiles at mobs that are not undead and players
Place 4 pieces of Soulsand in a T-shape and place 3 Wither Skeleton Skulls on top to summon it
After spawning, it flashes blue, builds up health, grows slightly and is invincible for a few seconds - Then it explodes and starts attacking players and mobs
Each head can fire projectiles, so called Wither Skulls, at different targets - Projectiles explode on impact
Shoots two kinds of projectile - a blue one from the little heads, targeting mobs and a dark one from the big head targeting players
When hit by projectiles, players get the ‘’Wither II’’ effect, which acts like a slower poison effect that can kill and turns affected players' health bars' hearts black
Constantly regenerates health
Gains Wither armor when taken down to half health, making it immune to arrows
Drops a Nether Star when killed
Darkens the sky when spawned in the Overworld
Wither Skeletons:
Carry and rarely drop Stone swords when killed by players
Drop bones, coal, and rarely wither skulls
Give players Wither effect when hitting them
Spawn in Nether Fortresses
All equipped gear is functional - Swords and tools do more damage on attacks, armor protects the mob
Rare tool drops now are damaged when it drops
More advanced gear is more likely to spawn with mobs when playing on harder difficulties and rarely drops when the mob is killed by players
Witch:
Looks like an offshoot villager
Throws splash potions of poison, slowness, weakness and instant damage at players
Holds a potion and wiggles its magical nose with a wart on it when attacking
Has a hat, which sometimes emits particles
Regenerates health over time
Drinks potions of instant health and fire resistance to defend themselves in combat
Is immune to 80% of splash potions' effects
Drops Sticks, Glowstone, Redstone, Gunpowder, Sugar, Spider Eyes, Empty Bottles & Water Bottles when killed
Has a chance to drop the potion it is holding if killed by players
Spawn in Witch Huts in swamps
Bats:
Hang on the ceiling when idle, starts flying when players come near
Spawn in dark caves
Sleep at day
Don't trigger pressure plates or tripwire
Tamed wolves:
Their collars can now be dyed by right-clicking the wolf with dye
Iron Golems:
Now attack creepers, Slimes and Magma Cubes
All hostile mobs:
Will now jump down to players as long as they can survive the fall
Depending on difficulty, they are willing to take more damage
Creepers:
Will start exploding when they hit the ground, with explosions being more imminent with higher falls
Can now have custom explosion radius and fuse timer using edited mob spawners and NBT tags
Zombies:
All equipped gear is functional - Swords and tools do more damage on attacks, armor protects the mob
Rare tool drops now are damaged when it drops
More advanced gear is more likely to spawn with mobs when playing on harder difficulties and rarely drops when the mob is killed by players
When wearing helmets, they will not burn up - Instead all damage will is applied to the helmet
Using modified mob spawners they can have a custom drop rate of items and hold and wear all kinds of items and blocks
Now have a chance, depending on difficulty, to infect villagers after killing them - The villager then gets replaced with a villager zombie on death
On Normal difficulty, there is a 50% chance of infection and on Hard difficulty there is a 100% chance of infection
Infected baby villagers turn into baby villager zombies
Baby zombies are 50% faster, don't age, don't burn up in the sun and can wear armor
Right-clicking a villager zombie under the influence of a Weakness potion with a golden apple will invert their potion effect, make them wiggle slightly and eventually turn back into a villager
Now rarely spawn holding iron swords or iron shovels
When holding something in their hands, their arms move upwards when attacking
Added baby zombie, which is only spawnable using mods or third-party tools
Will now rarely drop carrots and potatoes when killed by players
Skeletons:
Will now rarely spawn with armor of all kinds, sometimes enchanted
All equipped gear is functional - Swords and tools do more damage on attacks, armor protects the mob
Rare tool drops now are damaged when it drops
More advanced gear is more likely to spawn with mobs when playing on harder difficulties and rarely drops when the mob is killed by players
When wearing helmets, they will not burn up - Instead all damage is applied to the helmet
Using modified mob spawners they can have a custom drop rate of items and hold and wear all kinds of items and blocks
Now sometimes, carry enchanted bows - Those items can be dropped when killed by players
Zombie Pigmen:
All equipped gear is functional - Swords and tools do more damage on attacks, armor protects the mob
Rare tool drops now are damaged when it drops
More advanced gear is more likely to spawn with mobs when playing on harder difficulties and rarely drops when the mob is killed by players
Using modified mob spawners they can have a custom drop rate of items and hold and wear all kinds of items and blocks
Now rarely carry enchanted golden swords
Dropped Golden Swords now sometimes are damaged
Added baby Zombie Pigman, which is only spawnable using mods or third-party tools
Villagers:
Improved villagers to make them more self-aware
All villagers of one village can now like and dislike specific players
Will like players more for trading with them
Will like players less for hurting them or their golems
When players are really disliked, iron golems of that village can become aggressive towards those players
After a villager dies to natural causes, excluding mobs, while a player is within 16 blocks or if a mob kills a villager, no baby villagers will be produced in the next few minutes
Changed and added some trades to counteract emerald farming and improve gameplay
Will show particle effects indicating a change of liking towards a player
Pigs:
Can now accelerate to up to 5 m/s
Now drop their saddle when killed
Slimes:
Now spawn in swamps at night
Sheep:
Sheep from spawn eggs can now spawn natural colored sheep (white, gray, brown, pink, etc.)

New in Minecraft 12w42b Snapshot (Oct 17, 2012)

New in Minecraft 12w41b Snapshot (Oct 12, 2012)

New in Minecraft 1.3.2 / 12w41a Snapshot (Oct 12, 2012)

New in Minecraft 1.3.2 / 12w40a Snapshot (Oct 5, 2012)

New in Minecraft 1.3.2 / 12w39a Snapshot (Sep 28, 2012)

New in Minecraft 12w37a Snapshot (Sep 14, 2012)

New in Minecraft 12w36a Snapshot (Sep 6, 2012)

New in Minecraft 12w34b Snapshot (Aug 27, 2012)

New in Minecraft 12w34a Snapshot (Aug 24, 2012)

New in Minecraft 1.3.2 (Aug 16, 2012)

New in Minecraft 12w32a Snapshot (Aug 10, 2012)

New in Minecraft 1.3.1 (Aug 1, 2012)

General:
Updated the launcher
Includes demo mode.
No visual changes.
Improved overall stability and performance
Reduced CPU, RAM & bandwidth usage.
Accelerated chunk loading.
Decreased lag spike frequency.
Made the Nether less laggy.
Decreased unnecessary world updates.
Made the chat work smoothly even when the server is laggy.
Decreased packets sent between client and server.
Made Singleplayer internally use a Multiplayer server
Decreased world saving intervals.
Added optional single-player commands called "Cheats" on non-hardcore worlds
Type / and then hit tab to autocomplete & get help on various commands.
Most commands from MP are available.
Added option to let LAN friends join SP games
You can choose which gamemode players join in and whether they are allowed to use cheats.
Added demo mode for non-premium users
Lasts 5 game days per world.
Singleplayer only.
Added Chat Settings
Change which parts of chat are shown and how opaque it is.
Toggle chat colors, links being clickable and warning prompts for links.
Option to rebind the command key, which opens the chat with / in the textfield.
Added Snooper Settings
Allows users to toggle anonymous data being sent to Mojang.
Shows which data will be sent.
Added video options
Have to be toggled manually in options.txt for now.
Fullscreen mode
Mobs can now spawn on top slabs and upside down stairs.
Improved F3 mode:
Truncated coordinates to 5 fractional digits.
The y-coordinate now shows both the feet level and the eye level.
Removed frame rendering time history graph (bottom-left).
Added 3 values:
ws: Walking speed (constant).
fs: Flying speed (constant).
g: Boolean value, true when you touch the ground.
Updated language files
Added tooltips for all types of Monster Egg blocks and the End Portal Frame.
Added more descriptive tooltips for different types of tree-related blocks, sandstone and stone bricks.
Localized server commands.
Added missing commands-related strings.
Added missing double chest GUI caption.
Fixed many bugs
Fixed texture packs in folders not showing their icon and description.
Fixed Man-in-the-middle attack allowing hackers to log in as you when you visit their server.
Fixed the Open texturepack folder button not working on OS X.
Gameplay:
Added Adventure mode
Only playable using commands.
Building, setting things on fire and using buckets is disabled.
Players can only interact with mobs and the environment.
Added trading
Using emerald as currency, villagers will, depending on profession, offer different trades to players.
There are three kinds of trades: Selling, buying and enchanting.
As displayed in the top-most part of the trading GUI, villagers take one or more items or item stacks and give back something.
After trading, villagers will sometimes emit purple particles for a few seconds to indicate that their trades changed.
Otherwise unobtainable bottles o' enchanting and chainmail armor can be obtained by trading.
Improved Creative mode inventory
There are categorized tabs for various groups of items and blocks.
Added a search tab which will automatically be switched to when the chat key is hit.
Added survival inventory tab, which shows the full inventory, a 'Destroy item' slot and armor slots including a preview of your character.
Items can now be deleted from the inventory by shift-clicking them.
Added layered snow block, Monster Egg Blocks (Silverfish spawning blocks), Ender Portal frame and all potions.
Now shows potion effects' timers like in Survival.
Improved experience collection
Depending on ore type, experience now drops from ores that drop items.
Taking smelted items out of furnaces gives small amounts of experience now.
Destroying mob spawners gives experience now.
Adjusted experience level progression:
Levels 1-15 cost 17 XP points each.
Levels 16-30 cost 3 more XP points than the previous (cost = 17 + (level - 15) * 3).
Levels 31-∞ cost 7 more XP points than the previous (cost = 62 + (level - 30) * 7).
Improved enchanting
The new maximum level with bookshelves is 30, without 8.
15 bookshelves are enough to reach level 30.
The 3rd slot shows the highest possible enchantment more often.
Increased chances for multiple enchantments at once.
Adjusted enchantments to go with the new maximum level and balance gameplay.
Added writing in books
Right-click with a Book and Quill to write on or read up to 50 pages.
Click 'Done' to save the book, 'Sign' to choose a title and finalize the book.
Improved Multiplayer
Made entities less likely to glitch through blocks. Comparison: before(http://minus.com/mbgKLB1J1f) and [after]
Added automagical downloading of standard sized texture packs when joining servers.
Made server commands more descriptive.
Added reason parameter to /ban.
Added /seed command to show the map seed.
Added /defaultgamemode command to choose the gamemode new players start in.
Added /debug command to enable and disable profiling.
/kick messages can now contain "\n" to force a new line.
Blocks other players are mining now show cracks.
/tp can now be used to teleport to specific coordinates.
Made server list re-orderable: shift+click or shift+arrow keys move selected servers.
Server list now scans for LAN servers.
Added hardcore difficulty: Players are banned upon death.
Added SRV Record Lookup Support - Explanation - Service name should be "minecraft"; ie "_minecraft._tcp.example.com"
Added & changed many minor things:
Individual, stackable items near each other on the ground now become one item stack.
Added shift clicking support to armor slots, brewing stands & enchantment tables.
Added setting to disable servers offering you texture packs.
Made the stars smaller and brighter.
Villagers spawned from spawning eggs will get a random profession now.
Removed the downwards knockback while drowning.
Doors being broken by zombies now show their damage.
You now spawn with an empty inventory in Creative mode.
The "Mojang" splash screen when opening the game appears for 1 instead of 3 seconds now.
The sky color in the End changed.
Blocks now show cracks when destroying them while the GUI is hidden.
You can now fall 4 blocks without getting hurt - might be a bug as there exist other, higher distances that don't cause damaga either.
Improved the Pick Block key:
You now get the actual block.
You can now pick paintings, boats, minecarts and mobs, which will give you their spawn eggs.
Picking huge mushroom blocks now gives mushrooms.
You can no longer pick portal blocks.
Fixed many bugs:
Fixed liquids slowing down flying players.
Fixed blocks with the same id but different data/damage values stacking in Creative inventory.
Fixed boats & minecarts not being one-hit breakable in Creative.
Fixed raw fish, dyes, saddles, potions, milk buckets and tools depleting in Creative.
Fixed water destroying non-solid blocks when breaking them from above.
Fixed Silk touch giving you only one slab from double slabs.
Fixed redstone updates not propagating through unloaded chunks.
Fixed repeaters getting stuck when loading their chunk.
Fixed tools taking damage when breaking insta-breakable blocks.
Fixed a few misalignments in the item sprite sheet.
Fixed the arrow representing players on held maps being offset.
Fixed being able to duplicate sand, gravel and powered rail.
Fixed placing a piston in front of another powered, but not extended one resulting in a glitched piston with the head's texture on all sides.
Fixed TNT dropping as a resource on creative mode.
Fixed powering specifically glitched pistons crashing the game.
Fixed the End Portal Frame block not showing as a block in the inventory.
Fixed weather not working correctly in certain biomes.
Fixed Overworld portals above Y=127 not being recognized when leaving the Nether.
Fixed various hacked mob spawners crashing the game.
Fixed thrown splash potions not preserving their type when reloading the world.
Fixed many Multiplayer-specific bugs:
Fixed arrows scooting up to the top of the block they were shot on.
Fixed endermen not opening their jaws.
Fixed fully charged arrows not showing their particle effect.
Fixed many sounds not playing.
Fixed magma cubes' and slimes' jumping animations not showing.
Fixed thunderstorms not darkening the sky.
Fixed weather not fading in or out.
Fixed enchanted armor and tools not glowing to other players.
Fixed explosions not pushing players back.
Fixed TNT not knocking back players.
Fixed pistons not pushing back players.
Fixed players on minecarts, boats or pigs and spider jockeys not being displayed in the correct location.
Fixed sneaking players' nameplates not staying hidden when loading the chunks they are in.
Fixed Unbreaking-enchanted tools sometimes breaking and then re-appearing a few times.
Fixed potion effects losing their graphical effects when traveling between dimensions.
Fixed blocks disappearing when placing them under yourself and jumping.
World Generation:
Made sub-biome type mountains like Desert Hills or Ice Mountains taller
Made cocoa beans appear on some small jungle trees
Added optional starting chest on non-hardcore worlds
Contents: wooden & stone tools, bread, apples, logs, planks and sticks
Added large biomes world type, increasing biome sizes immensely
Added desert-specific villages
Added desert temples:
Built out of various kinds of sandstone and wool
Include hidden chest room and TNT trap, with loot including rotten flesh, bones, iron ingots and gold ingots, diamonds and emeralds
Added jungle temples:
Built out of various kinds of cobblestone
Contain multiple tripwire traps triggering dispensers filled with arrows
Loot chests include bones, rotten flesh, gold ingots, iron ingots, diamonds and emeralds
Added emerald ore:
Only generates in Extreme Hills biomes
Occurs up to 8 times per chunk in veins of 1
Generates between layers 4 and 31, inclusive
Blocks & Items:
Emerald Ore:
Drops Emerald
Emerald:
Is used to trade with villagers
Block of Emerald:
Crafted by putting 9 emeralds on a crafting table
Ender Chest:
Crafted by surrounding an eye of ender with 8 pieces of obsidian
Stores each player's contents across dimensions and all Ender Chests
Contents are preserved even if all Ender Chests are destroyed
Explosion-resistant
Emits light and purple particles
Unless mined using a**Silk Touch*-enchanted pickaxe, they drop 8 obsidian
Tripwire Hook:
String in between needs to be placed manually
Breaking the string triggers a redstone signal, cutting it using shears doesn't
Entities like boats, mobs, arrows or players touching the string trigger a redstone signal
String can be up to 40 blocks long
Crafting recipe: Iron ingot on top of a stick on top of a wooden plank
String:
Can now be placed on the ground decoratively
Wooden logs:
Can now be placed in 3 different directions
Placement works like similar to piston placement
Furnaces:
Can be fueled by wooden tools now
Return an empty bucket when using lava buckets as fuel now
Ice:
No longer creates water in the Nether
Can be obtained using Silk Touch -enchanted gear now
Glass Panes:
Can be obtained using Silk Touch -enchanted gear now
Nether portal:
Leaks into the Overworld now: Depending on difficulty, zombie pigmen rarely spawn in them
Slabs:
Added all wood types
Wooden slabs crafted after the update act like wood
Stairs:
Added Sandstone Stairs
Added wooden stairs for all kinds of wood
Adjusted hitbox
Slabs and Stairs:
Will now be placed upside-down when placed on the upper half of a block's side
When placed upside down, rails, pressure plates, levers, doors, torches, redstone torches, repeaters, redstone dust and beds can be placed on them - Redstone dust behaves like on glowstone - It transmits power horizontally and upwards, but not downwards. Redstone torches don't power redstone placed on slabs/stairs above them.
Leaves:
Water slowly drips through them when it's raining
Cauldrons
Slowly fill up when it's raining
Dispensers:
Minecarts & boats will now be placed if there's rails/water in place
Instead of dispensing buckets, dispensers will now suck in or place water or lava in front of them
Gravel:
Changed texture
Jungle leaves
Have a 1/200 chance to drop a cocoa bean when destroyed now
Lever:
Can be placed on the ceiling now
Wooden pressure plates
Are triggered by arrows now
Pistons:
Now take 0.05 seconds longer to expand
TNT:
Depending on difficulty, does different amounts of damage now:
Peaceful: no damage
Easy: ~50% less damage
Normal: same damage as before
Hard: 33.3…% more damage
Cocoa beans:
Retextured item
Can be planted & grown on jungle wood now
Can be grown instantly using bone meal
Cookies
Give a full hunger poi:nt now
Nether Warts:
Can now be grown in the Overworld and in the End
Book:
Changed crafting recipe: 3 pieces of paper and one piece of leather in any possible shape
Book and Quill:
Crafting recipe: 1 ink sac, 1 feather and 1 book in any possible shape
Written Book:
Can only be obtained by signing a Book and Quill
Can be sold to villagers
Empty buckets:
Stack up to 16 now
Stacked buckets work just like stacked glass bottles do
Signs:
Stack up to 16 now
Crafting now gives 3 signs instead of 1
Golden Apple:
Has two crafting recipes now, the new one replacing gold nuggets with gold blocks
Second tier gives Regeneration IV,Resistance and Fire resistance effects
Only second tier glows like enchanted tools
Spawners:
Added NBT tags to further customize spawned entities
Only changeable using map editors or mods
Boats:
Are not broken by lilypads anymore, instead they run straight through the lilypad now, breaking and sometimes dropping it
Are less glitchy and more responsive now
Increased maximum speed
When exiting, players will be moved from the boat
When broken by a player, they drop a boat now
Minecarts:
When on rails, they can be accelerated a bit while sitting in them
When exiting, players will be moved from the minecart
Mobs:
Pigs:
Drop 1-3 meat now
Slimes:
Reduced spawn rate in superflat maps
Silverfish:
When suffering from poison potions, they will now spawn more silverfish from nearby silverfish blocks more often
Creepers:
Increased knockback effect
Depending on difficulty, they do different amounts of damage now:
Easy: ~50% less damage
Normal: same damage as before
Hard: 33.3…% more damage
Creepers & Spiders:
Become aggressive towards the last mob or player that hit them now
Skeletons, Creepers & Zombies:
Become neutral against players again a few seconds after being hit in Creative

New in Minecraft Pre-release 1.3 (Jul 27, 2012)

New in Minecraft 1.2.5 Stable / 12w30c Snapshot (Jul 25, 2012)

New in Minecraft 1.2.5 Stable / 12w30a Snapshot (Jul 23, 2012)

Improved performance
Accelerated chunk loading
Decreased lag spike frequency
Made the Nether less laggy
Made chat work smoothly even when the server is laggy
Decreased unnecessary world updates
Decreased packets sent between client and server
Added VSync
Has to be toggled manually in options.txt
Added Fullscreen mode
Has to be toggled manually in options.txt
You can now use decimals when /tp'ing to specific coordinates
Fixed some bugs
Fixed existing signs not showing text
Fixed Mob Spawners all looking like pig spawners
Fixed cmd+c, cmd+x & cmd+v not working on OS X
Fixed sneaking players' nameplates not staying hidden when loading the chunks the sneaking players are in
Fixed multiple chunks often not displaying
Fixed trying to spawn an entity that is not a mob via spawner editing crashing the game
Fixed higher server-set view distances instantly kicking joining players
Fixed sections above Y=191 becoming invisible when loading worlds
Fixed not completely generated chunks not updating to visually when walking into them
Fixed compasses not pointing to spawn but to X=8 & Z=8 after respawning
Fixed other players' fishing lines looking like they start from their feet
Maybe: Fixed a bug with Unbreaking-enchanted tools and destroying blocks
Fixed being able to move LAN servers in the server list and crashing the game
Fixed opening SP worlds to LAN, saving and quitting it leaving the server running and showing up in the server list
Fixed pushing a minecart with the movement keys causing the camera to shake in the direction pressed
Fixed potion effects losing their graphical effects when traveling between dimensions
Fixed ghast's fireballs getting stuck mid-air when unloading their chunk, might apply to fire charges and blaze's fireballs as well
Fixed the last slot in the opened creative inventory's hotbar being one pixel too short on all but the survival inventory tabs and a few pixels being off on the survival inventory tab
Fixed blocks disappearing when you placing them under yourself and jumping
Fixed the client trying to trample crops instead of letting the server dictate trampling

New in Minecraft 1.2.5 Stable / 12w27a Snapshot (Jul 6, 2012)

New in Minecraft 1.2.5 Stable / 12w26a Snapshot (Jun 28, 2012)

New in Minecraft 1.2.5 Stable / 12w25 Snapshot (Jun 22, 2012)

New in Minecraft 12w24a Snapshot (Jun 15, 2012)

New in Minecraft 12w23a Snapshot (Jun 8, 2012)

New in Minecraft 12w22a Snapshot (May 31, 2012)

New in Minecraft 12w19a Snapshot (May 11, 2012)

New in Minecraft 12w18a Snapshot (May 3, 2012)

New in Minecraft 12w17a Snapshot (Apr 26, 2012)

New in Minecraft 12w16a Snapshot (Apr 19, 2012)

New in Minecraft 1.2.5 (Apr 5, 2012)

New in Minecraft 1.2.5 Snapshot (Mar 30, 2012)

New in Minecraft 1.2.4 (Mar 23, 2012)

New Features:
Chat history and much better chat editing
You can click on links in chat.
Scroll up/down for history.
Up/down keys for recently sent messages.
Tab complete for player names.
Copy & paste in chat.
Just like type §k in chat displays random characters, §l §m §n and §o creates bold, striked, underlined and italic text respectively. Whilst §r resets any set states. These can not be typed using vanilla clients.
A few new decoration blocks
Wooden planks now have the color of the type of wood they came from instead of the original wooden plank texture.
New Sandstone Blocks.
Back” and “Quit” buttons added to “Out of memory” screen.
Cats will now purposely sit on chests, furnaces, and beds, preventing players from using them.
Added a “minimal” debug menu for testing with. It can be accessed with ? Shift+F3 and is the same as the regular F3 menu, except without the graph/profiler.
Armor outlines in the inventory are back.
Bug Fixes:
Made placing half blocks on existing half blocks (to make a full block) easier.
Limit framerate on menu screens, no longer uses 100% CPU.
Fixed fatal crash for converted worlds to anvil, when there’s blocks at max height.
Fixed an old bug with signs clearing text while you’re editing them in SMP.
Fixed crash when logging in while there are blocks at maxheight at spawn.
Fixed TNT ghosts in multiplayer.
Fixed storage minecarts dropping enchanted items.
Fixed crashes on invalid server addresses when joining a server.
Fixed entities being uninteractable if they existed at login in multiplayer.
Fixed dupe exploit with paintings.
Fixed furnaces and dispensers dropping enchanted items.
Fixed the “flickering” of chat as it vanishes off the screen.
Fixed text rendering over items in the container screens.
Fixed exploit with jungle saplings (turns other saplings into jungle ones).
Fixed launcher opening minecraft dir if the path contains a space.
Fixed an off-by-one lighting bug.
Fixed block transmuting (turning one block into another via pistons).
Fixed placing mushrooms in daylight, where they can’t survive.
Fixed redstone lamps dropping powered block items when destroyed while on.
save-all” (server command) now works even when you have toggled “save-off”.
Fixed turning half-blocks into full-blocks while you’re standing on them.
Fixed seed displaying in F3 debug when the seed is unknown in multiplayer.
Fixed villager texture changing clientside per profession.
Fixed falling off ledge corners while holding shift.
Fixed players falling when reconnecting to servers where they were previously flying.
Glass can again be picked up using Silk Touch enchanted tools.
Bugs:
When you type a full bar of chat, then backspace, you crash your client.
Text being typed in SMP will disappear if the Minecraft window is resized. Chat already entered remains visible.
⌘ chat shortcuts don't work on Macs.
The buttons in the "do you want to click this link" screen are positioned incorrectly.
Snow Golems die in snow biomes when it's snowing.
The following text [(Otra razón para odiarte...nn) (Translation: Another reason to hate you)] still remains inside [Uruguayo (Uruguay)].
[Uruguayo (Uruguay)] under translations should be correctly labeled as [(Español (Uruguay)]
[Español Venezolano (Venezuela)] under translations should be correctly labeled as [Español (Venezuela)]
The translation [Quenya (Arda)] has "Lever" labeled as "Mechanic Pen*s".
[Español (MX)] should be correctly labeled as [Español (México)]
[Castellano (Argentina)] should be correctly labeled as [Español (Argentina)]

New in Minecraft 1.2.3 (Mar 3, 2012)

New in Minecraft 1.2.2 (Mar 3, 2012)

New in Minecraft 1.2.1 (Mar 3, 2012)

New map file format called Anvil, allowing a new height limit (256 instead of 128).
However, in the Nether, layers 128 to 256 are only accessible in creative mode, due to the unchanged ceiling bedrock at layer 127.
New Jungle biome.
Added Ocelots.
Added Cats.
Added Iron Golems.
New AI for mobs
Tame wolves can have puppies.
Villagers will have children if there is room in their village.
Zombie sieges will occur occasionally at night.
Zombies break down doors on hard difficulty.
New items and blocks.
Crafting recipe for ladder now yields 3 ladders instead of 2
Crafting recipe for slab now yields 6 slabs instead of 3
Added rare drops for mobs.
Added the items Fire Charge and Bottle of Enchanting.
Added Redstone Lamps.
Added 3 new blocks textures ( ), that aren't yet used in survival (Circle Stone Brick is accessible in creative).
Changed Dispenser and Oak Sapling textures. ()
Slabs and Stairs can be placed upside-down by placing them below a block.
Placing blocks on Grass will replace it.
Lava now has a faint rumbling sound effect, and large particles that hop out of the lava produce a popping sound.
Very rare Desert Wells can be found in Desert biomes.
Third person view may now show the sides of the player's head when rotating.
F3 has some changes and additions:
lc:
b: Shows what biome you are in.
bl: Block brightness.
sl: Sky brightness.
rl: Raw brightness.
Due to popular demand, Seed info is now "0" in SMP to avoid people recreating the world in SSP
Clouds cast very faint shadows onto the terrain and when an undead or enderman mob is in the shadows, they can resist the daylight.
Vines can now be climbed like Ladders.
Many other minor tweaks and fixes.
When in the Nether, Snow Golems will turn red and die.
Apparently Mobs spawn often
Zombies will break doors even in Normal difficulty.
Bug Fixes:
Doors have been updated so that double-doors work better with redstone
Ambience works in Multiplayer
Mob spawners show the correct mob in SMP (instead of a pig)
Bugs:
Big trees are very rare in Forest, birches, pines in Taiga, swamp trees in Swamps, giant mushrooms in Mushroom Biomes
99% of the big trees are replaced by small trees, so no big trees in biomes like Mountains that could generate rare big trees
Snow doesn't appear on maps
F3 takes more resources than before (but less in SMP), making the game unplayable on old computers
The biome "FrozenRiver" and "DesertHills" does not have a space like other biomes (e.g. "Ice Mountains")
Mushrooms are generated on bedrock layer in The Nether
In SMP, the cloud shadows aren't sometimes under a cloud, because clouds are different at each client, but the shadow remains same.

New in Minecraft 1.2 (Mar 1, 2012)

New in Minecraft 12w08a Snapshot (Feb 23, 2012)

New in Minecraft 12w07b Snapshot (Feb 16, 2012)

New in Minecraft 1.1 (Jan 13, 2012)

New in Minecraft 1.0.1 (Nov 26, 2011)

New in Minecraft 1.0 (Nov 19, 2011)

Fixes & Changes:
New achievements
Glowstone changed from "stone" to "glass".
Amount of Experience Orbs dropped by a player on death now limited.
The ability of Endermen to carry blocks reduced in some way.
Minor changes to some textures (most notable Monster Spawner).
Ghast fireballs have a different texture.
On death, a proper score is given based on how many experience orbs the player has collected.
When flowing lava hits a water source directly from above, it creates Stone where previously the lava would flow through the water.
You can toggle between three states when pressing F5 (first person, third person back, third person front), having the addition of 3rd person view from the front.
Ender Pearls have a unique ability. When thrown, the player will teleport to the Ender Pearl's impact location, but take 2 and 1/2 hearts of fall damage. They will not work in Creative.
Golden Apples now glow purple in inventory.
Fences no longer block you from moving onto their space. You can now stand next to them, like you can with glass panes and iron bars.
They will also connect to solid blocks.
There is a slight delay between jumps when holding down the jump button, so that the player no longer bounces between ceiling and floor in two-block-high spaces.
Labels for items have a blue border.
Random loot chests in Strongholds.
Blocking now moves the player's arm, rather than the sword just floating right in front of the player.
Weapon and tool damage has been nerfed to make space for the increased damage enchantments (Diamond swords do 3.5 hearts now instead of 5).
Some mob health has been changed (Sheep, Spiders, Zombies)
Many blocks mining speeds have been decreased. This is mostly blocks that used to take a long time to mine.
Redstone Ore
Iron Doors
Stone Brick
Iron Block
Gold Block
Diamond Block
Furnace
Dispenser
Wood Door
Obsidian (from about 15 seconds to about nine seconds)
Nether Brick
Nether Brick Fences
New Features:
In the Nether:
Nether Bricks.
Nether Fence.
Nether Stairs.
Nether Fortresses.
"The End" (unofficially called "The Ender", or "Enderlands"), which replaces the previously announced Sky Dimension.
End Portals take the player from the Overworld to The End. To go back to the Overworld, one must defeat the Enderdragon and jump through the portal that appears.
End Portal Frame (Name not confirmed)
End Portal Block (Name not confirmed)
Endgame/Credit screen (You can still play your world)
End Stone
New Items:
Ghast Tear
Blaze Rod
Nether Wart
Gold Nugget
Glass Bottle
Spider Eye
Fermented Spider Eye
Blaze Powder
Magma Cream
Glistering Melon
Eye of Ender
Activates Ender Portal Frame blocks.
new Music Discs.
Finished Biome code and new Biomes.
Snowy Biomes.
Swamp Biomes adjusted to appear "swampier."
Darker Grass
Darker Water
Lily Pads
Mushroom Biomes.
Naturally generated Huge Mushrooms.
New Mushroom Cow, the Mooshroom.
Mycelium blocks.
New sound effects, including:
Minecart sounds.
Shears sounds.
Additional Bow sounds.
Big Slime sounds.
The true sounds of Endermen and Silverfish.
Changes in already existing sounds:
A change in the sound of Rain.
New sounds for Doors.
New sounds for the Skeletons' walk to make them sound more skeleton-y.
Bow models now appear in third-person larger and in 3D.
Bows no longer have an infinite number of uses.
If water or lava is above a ceiling that is a single block thick, particles of water or lava will drip through, provided you are within 13 blocks of the ceiling.
New Mobs:
Enderdragon (Boss Mob)
Enderdragon eggs
Mooshroom Cows.
NPCs in Villages, as Villager Mobs.
Snow Golem mob.
Can be crafted.
Melts in hot biomes.
Spreads snow around when it walks.
Passive, but throws snowballs at enemies.
At least two new aggressive mobs for the Nether.
Magma Cube
Blaze
Experience (skills) is now enchantments.
Each Experience Orb is worth one Score Point.
Animal Breeding.
Wheat Bundles feed animals and make them come towards you.
Feeding animals makes them enter "love mode".
Hearts will come out of animals while in love mode.
Breeding will produce Baby Animals. Smaller versions of the parents with large heads that have a faster animation and a higher pitched sound.
Unlimited Strongholds per map (changed from three).
New/Improved Armor system.
Increased armor durability.
Sun and moon changes:
Moon phases.
Sun and moon now rise in the east.
Game mechanics changes:
Hardcore Mode - Locks the difficulty to Hard and forces you to delete your world if you die. The health bar changes appearance to indicate you are playing in Hardcore mode.
Item Repair
Potions, Splash Potions, Potion effects, Brewing Stand, and Brewing.
Enchantment Table, and Enchanting

New in Minecraft Beta 1.8.1 (Sep 16, 2011)

New in Minecraft Beta 1.8 (Sep 14, 2011)

Rollover labels for items.
User-placed leaf blocks nlonger decay.
Cloud height raised tthe top of the map, sclouds nlonger gthrough buildings.
Pressing F3 will nlonger show numbers above the mobs heads.
Rain and snow renders faster.
Cloud movement syncs with the time.
Skeletons now hold full-size bows.
Skeleton arrows originate from about their eyes tthe bow, instead of above the head.
The snout on pigs now protrude from their head.
Passive mobs will randomly flee if attacked by the player or other mobs (such as Wolves).
More Mob-To-Mob interactions.
Armor bar moved tabove hearts, due tfood bar.
Clay is now commonly found under shallow Water.
Player tmob damage decreased by half a heart.
Right clicking with a sword lets you parry.
new crafting recipes.
Stone Brick.
Stone Brick Slabs.
Stone Brick Stairs.
Brick Slabs.
Brick Stairs.
Fence Gates.
Glass Panes
Iron Bars
Melons
Melon Seeds
Pressure plates can now be placed on fences.
New Creative game modes.
Flying by double tapping Space
Unlimited resources
A new screen, the Unlimited Item Selection screen
Three new mobs.
New Enderman mob.
They take damage from water.
They emit black smoke particles.
They drop Ender Pearls.
They open their mouth when hostile/looked at.
New Silverfish mob.
Will spawn from rarely generated blocks, that look identical tstone, or stone bricks.
New Cave Spider mob.
They spawn in Abandoned Mine Shafts.
Their attacks are venomous, and turn the player's health yellow upon being poisoned (will not kill you but will make you lose 4 health bars, if you are below 4 health bars then it will bring you down tHalf heart).
Have a unique mob spawner.
They are smaller than regular spiders.
Zombies drop Rotten Flesh instead of Feathers.
New features in the terrain generator; things which will only appear in new worlds/chunks.
Optional NPC Villages with farms and "town borders".
Wells for villages.
Made of: Cobblestone, Mossy Cobblestone, Wooden Planks, Wood, Torches, Cobblestone Stairs, Gravel, Fence, Glass and/or Glass Panes, Ladders, Wooden Doors, Crops, Farmland, Water, Lava, Furnaces, Iron Bars, Black Wool, and Pressure Plates.
Contain "Smithies".
Will spawn only on flat areas.
Underground Ravines including canyons on the surface and ledges twalk on.
Strongholds, consisting of 4 new blocks: Stone Brick, Mossy Stone Brick, Cracked Stone Brick, and Iron Bars.
Will only spawn 3 times in a map.
Abandoned Mine Shafts.
Naturally found Cobweb.
New, fractal-based biome code.
new biomes.
New "Mushroom biome". which will include Huge Mushrooms, both brown and red.
Rivers flowing through/in between biomes.
Ocean Biomes, that are deeper and larger than before.
Mountain biomes.
Swamp biome.
Taiga biome removed until Beta 1.9
Larger Biomes.
New combat Mechanics.
Hold-to-charge bows.
different charged states; takes less than 1 second tfully charge.
Fully charged bows causes the player twalk slower.
Critical hits.
When the player hits a mob while jumping.
When the bow is fully charged.
Player blocking attack animation and hostile mob attack animations.
Block "stance".
New farming options, more interesting farming.
Plantable pumpkins and melons, each with a central stem that grows tmax size and spawns a fruit next tit.
Melon Seeds.
Pumpkin Seeds.
New Food System.
There is now a food meter.
Food nlonger heals directly but indirectly.
If the food meter is above 80%, heals Half about every 5 seconds.
All food (except Mushroom Stew) is stackable.
Food takes 1.6 seconds tconsume.
There is now a food eating animation.
new food items.
Cooked Chicken.
Raw Chicken.
Has a chance t"give you a disease".
Raw Beef.
Steak.
Melon Slices.
Cooked Porkchops have a different texture.
New achievement.
Kill a skeleton with an arrow at 50 meters.
Sprinting: By double pressing the forward button, the player will move faster.
Sprinting is limitless, but will deplete your hunger bar.
Hitting a mob while sprinting sends them flying.
Jumping while sprinting boosts the jump ta length of about 4 blocks.
Sprinting makes particles come up from the ground.
While sprinting, the field of view slightly increases.
Glass Panes.
Can be mined and picked up without breaking.
Arrows get stuck on mobs when they hit.
Vine blocks.
They are not climbable.
Players can walk through them.
Improved chest model with a 3D lock and an open state/animation.
They are now slightly smaller than one full block.
New uses for shears.
Vine
Tall Grass
C418 mentioned new Minecraft music.
New improved lighting - day/night cycles nlonger require chunk updates. Lighting is updated via a texture, whose coordinates are the block's sky light and block light levels.
Warmer light from torches.
Moonlight is blue.
New texture for Moss Stone.
Sliders for field of view and Brightness in videoptions.
Redesigned HUD, including twnew features, food and experience bars.
Killing a mob gives you tiny flashing Experience Orbs that add tyour experience.
New particle effects.
Performing a critical hit on any mob will cause 'sparks' tfly.
Explosion particles are now shockwaves instead of smoke.
The ability tsee the world seed when pressing F3.
New animated main menu background.
The version in the main menu is in the lower left, instead of the upper left.
Tiny stationary bubble particles can be seen when underwater.
Fog is now thicker and darker deep underground.
The void is now black and gives off particles.
Multiplayer server list.
Improved server join screen: The server join screen features a list of servers.
Player List - Press tab in multiplayer and player list comes up.
The ability tallow moderators tenter creative mode in SMP.
Modding Support.
Easier changing of the max level (map) height.
The terrain generation code is tidier.
Toggle Fog is now F3 + F
May already be in place ; Brown and Red Mushrooms spawn frequently under trees in the swamp biome
Shift-Clicking items will craft the maximum possible amount of what you are trying tcraft with the limit at 64. (e.g. You have 16 coal above 16 sticks and you shift click the torches, a stack of torches (64) will appear in your bottom usage bar)
Bug Fixes:
Shift+Click on items now work correctly.
Fixed Redstone circuits not working after /time set x glitch going tbe fixed in SMP.
Destroying boats and minecarts now creates particles.
Ghast attack sounds are fixed in SMP.

New in Minecraft Beta 1.7.3 (Jul 9, 2011)

New in Minecraft Beta 1.7.2 (Jul 2, 2011)

New in Minecraft Beta 1.7.01 (Jul 1, 2011)

New in Minecraft Beta 1.6.5 (May 30, 2011)