Minecraft 1.3.1 Update Features -PART 1-

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Note : Very few references are provided here since most of this content has been directly released in weekly snapshots 12w15a to 12w30e.

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[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
• 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
  • VSync
  • 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)
  • 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
• 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[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]
  • 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.
• Improved the Pick Block key
  • You now get the actual block
  • You can now pick paintings, boats, minecarts and mobs, which will give you theirspawn eggs
  • Picking huge mushroom blocks now gives mushrooms
  • You can no longer pick portal blocks
• Fixed many bugs
  • Fixed flying slowly in liquids
  • 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[11]
  • Fixed repeaters getting stuck when loading their chunk
  • Fixed tools taking damage when breaking insta-breakable blocks
  • Fixed ender pearls and eyes of ender not being aligned in the inventory
  • 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 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[12][13][14][15]
  • 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[16]
  • Fixed fishing lines not showing[14][17]
  • 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
• Beaches look closely to what they looked like in Beta 1.7.3 when using "Large Biomes" world type
• Added optional starting chest on non-hardcore worlds[3]
  • Contents: wooden & stone tools, bread, apples, logs, planks and sticks
• Added large biomes world type, increasing biome sizes immensely[4]
• 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 andemeralds
• 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[18]
  • 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[19]
• Tripwire Hook[20][21]
  • String in between needs to be placed manually[22]
  • 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[23]
  • String can be up to 40 blocks long[23]
  • Crafting recipe:&am

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