Minecraft 1.3.1 Update Features -PART 2-

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• 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
  • Instead of melting in the nether, it now disappears
  • Can be obtained using Silk Touch-enchanted gear now[19]
• Glass Panes
  • Can be obtained using Silk Touch-enchanted gear now[19]
• 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 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 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
  • Stack up to 16 now[24][25]
  • 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[26]
  • 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[27]
• 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 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 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[28][29]
• Skeletons, Creepers & Zombies
  • Become neutral against players again a few seconds after being hit in Creative
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