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Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Minecraft 1.3.1 Update is Now Live!

Minecraft  the pc survival sandbox game has released another update. 1.3.1  More info can be found here.  http://www.minecraftforum.net/news/568-131-is-now-live/  Shown below is a copy and paste from the Minecraft Wiki.


General
  • Updated the launcher
    • Includes demo mode. Note: Clicking on demo mode without the game installed will not work, and instead freeze at game updating and not download.
    • The "Loading update news" message which appears when the launcher attempts to load the release feed is now styled, rather than the plain html it was prior.
  • 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[1][2]
    • Decreased world saving intervals.
  • Added optional single-player commands called "Cheats" on non-hardcore worlds[3]
    • 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[3]
    • 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.
    • Vertical Synchronization.
    • Fullscreen mode can now be enabled at startup.
  • Mobs can now spawn on top of upside down all slabs and 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).
    • 3 new 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.[4]
    • Localized server commands.
    • Added missing commands-related strings.
    • Added missing double chest GUI caption.
Gameplay
  • Added Adventure mode[5]
    • Only playable using commands.
    • Building, setting things on fire and using buckets is disabled.
    • Players can only interact with mobs and the environment.
    • Players can place and take stuff from a chest, a furnace or a dispenser.
  • Added trading[6]
    • 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, armor slots including a preview of your character and a 2x2 crafting field.
    • 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.[7]
    • 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 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 most expensive possible enchantment more often.
    • Increased chances for multiple enchantments at once.
    • Adjusted enchantments' to go with the new maximum level.
  • Added writing in books
    • New crafting recipe for books: 3 pieces of paper and one piece of leather in any possible shape.
    • New item: Book and Quill - Crafting recipe: 1 ink sac, 1 feather and 1 book in any possible shape.
    • Right-click to write on & edit up to 50 pages or read.
    • 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.
    • 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.[8]
    • /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.[9]
    • Connections are now encrypted to prevent eavesdropping.
    • Added SRV Record Lookup support
      • Different subdomains of one domain can handle different servers via different port numbers.
      • Service name should be "minecraft"; i.e. "_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.[10]
    • Villagers spawned from spawn 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 damage either).
    • Respawning in superflat is no longer random.
    • Main domain of skin database is now skins.minecraft.net instead of s3.amazonaws.com.
  • 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.
World Generation
Blocks & Items
  • Emerald Ore
  • Emerald
  • Block of Emerald[11]
    • 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.[12]
  • Tripwire Hook[13][14]
  • String
    • Can now be placed on the ground decoratively.
  • Wood
    • 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
    • Instead of melting in the nether, it now disappears.
    • Can be obtained using Silk Touch-enchanted gear now.[12]
  • Glass Panes
    • Can be obtained using Silk Touch-enchanted gear now.[12]
  • 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.
  • Levers
    • Can be placed on the underside of blocks now.
  • Wooden Pressure Plates
    • Can be triggered by arrows now.
  • Pistons
    • Now take 2 redstone ticks (4 game ticks) seconds to expand.
  • TNT
    • Depending on difficulty, does different amounts of damage now:
      • Peaceful: no damage
      • Easy: 1/2 less damage
      • Normal: same damage as before
      • Hard: 1/3 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 point 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.
    • See above for more information.
  • Written Book
    • Can only be obtained by signing a Book and Quill.
    • Can be sold to villagers.
  • Empty buckets
  • Signs
    • Stack up to 16 now.
    • Crafting now gives 3 signs instead of 1.
  • Golden Apple[19]
    • 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.
    • Has attributes the Golden Apple had before 1.1.[20]
  • Monster Spawners
    • Added NBT tags to further customize spawned mobs.
    • 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 porkchops 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 more 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[21][22]
  • Skeletons, Creepers & Zombies
    • Become neutral against players again a few seconds after being hit in Creative.
Bug Fixes: [Collapse]
  • General
    • 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
    • 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.[23]
      • 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.[24][25][26][27]
      • 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 glitchy mob prediction.[28]
      • Fixed fishing lines not showing.[26][29]
      • 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.
Notable bugs (Complete bug list):
  • Ping in the Multiplayer Servers List is now +10000ms instead of the normal ping.
    • This bug also applies to "localhost".
  • It now takes more time to connect to a server (+10s).
    • This bug also applies to "localhost".
  • In the "Reset Demo World" screen, the "Cancel" button does nothing. So we are forced to click "Delete", or close the game to avoid that.
  • In multiplayer, the player might be blocked trying to walk through an open door if it is within the spawn protection area.
  • In multiplayer, some signs may appear to have no text on them. Which one has and which one hasn't changes between logging out and in.
  • Server list is not saved after re-ordering.
  • When shift clicking on armor in creative, on survival inventory it just deletes it instead of equipping.
  • When trapped between water flowing east or west and a block, the player will take suffocation damage.
  • Players can destroy entity-like blocks in adventure mode such as paintings or minecarts.

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