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Minecraft News and Upcoming Features!

Updated on Jun 9th, 2012, 6/9/12 11:43 am | 7 logs
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Here I shall talk about the new Minecraft News and new Updates and upcoming features. I will update this blog every time Minecraft has a new update coming soon.
  • Trading with villagers has been updated
    • Villagers can now trade 2 items with you (e.g. 1 emerald + 10 gravel -> 10 flint)
    • Priests will offer to enchant items (e.g. 3 emerald + 1 iron pickaxe -> 1 iron pickaxe with Fortune I)

  • Enchantment system has been rebalanced
    • The maximum enchantment level has been lowered from 50 to 30.
      • As a result enchantment tables now require only 15 bookcases around them to allow maximum level enchantments.

    • With a full enchantment table set with bookshelves, at the bottom of the 3 enchantments, it always shows you the highest number possible
    • Using level 30 enchantments, the player has a lot more luck; almost all items get at least 2 enchantments
    • Various actions will now reward the player with Experience Orbs, such as mining ores (except Gold Ore and Iron Ore), using furnaces, and getting achievements
    • Levels are now awarded linearly. It takes 17 Experience to go up one level.

  • Smelting in a furnace with a lava bucket now leaves an empty bucket for the player to retrieve.
  • Added Jungle temples.
  • Added Tripwire Hooks.
    • String can now be placed to create a tripwire between the hooks

  • Added potions to the Creative inventory; found in "brewing" category.
  • Added Block of Emerald.
  • Added delete item, armor and crafting to survival inventory when in creative.
  • Shift clicking an item while in the creative menu will delete the item.
  • Pausing now works again in singleplayer.
  • Some minor terrain changes.
  • Added an "adventure" game mode (/gamemode 2).
    • The player cannot break or place any blocks.
    • The player can interact with any blocks, like doors and levers, and can buy from Villagers.
    • The player can still damage mobs.

  • Added Silverfish Cobblestone and Stone Brick Egg blocks to the Creative inventory.
  • Rain will slowly drip through leaves.
  • Extremely rarely, Nether Portals will spawn Zombie Pigmen.[2]
  • When exposed to rain, Cauldrons have a possibility of slowly filling with water [3][4].
  • Blocks seen in inventory are oriented to the right instead to the left.
  • Half-slabs can now be placed upside-down when pointing at the upper half of the side of a block. This does not work with stairs.
  • Ender Chests now spawn inside blacksmith villager's house.[citation needed]


Debug Features:
  • Pressing F will reload the chunks.


Bug Fixes:
  • In the redstone tab of the creative inventory, the redstone torch is now on instead of being off.
  • In the decoration tab of the creative inventory, the redstone torch has been removed.
  • Fixed the size of Slimes which was sometimes wrong in the previous snapshot.
  • Fully charged arrows now show their particle effect again.
  • Arrows are now stuck at the correct position in the block they hit.
  • The language English (US) is available again.
  • Fixed Enderman often not shaking and opening their jaws when looked at.[5]
  • Fixed repeaters sometimes being stuck when loading the chunks they are in. [6]


Notable Bugs (Complete bug list):
  • Duplication bug when a block with a data value is pushed into a Tripwire the data value gets removed and the block changes e.g Birch wood turns to Oak wood.
  • Tripwire breaks if a solid block below it is broken.
  • You can't hear TNT when you are out of an 16 block range.
  • When closing the Trading GUI, any items left in the right trading box, will be deleted and do not drop.
  • Duplication bug when crafting in the survival tab of the creative inventory. You will receive the items as normal but when you exit the inventory you will drop the block you were crafting with. e.g. you craft a diamond block back into diamonds: you receive both the diamonds and the diamond block upon exiting the inventory.
  • When trading for enchanted items, villagers ignore durability, and give you a fully repaired item
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  • Enchantment levels are slightly exponential again
    • It now takes 825 experience to reach level 30.
    • The first 16 levels are linear, while level 17+ require more points per level to the maximum level of 30.

  • Added End Portal Frame to creative inventory.
  • Tripwire adjusted
    • Tripwire is now activated by most entities, including arrows (but not an eye of ender).
    • The max distance has been increased to 40 blocks.

  • Boats adjusted
    • Boats can accelerate to faster than previous speeds.
    • Boats are now easier to control.

  • Wooden Pressure Plates detect arrows.
  • A lot of smaller changes and fixes.
  • Texture Packs that are in folders and not in a zip file are recognized as a texture pack.
    • Texture Pack image is displayed for folder-based texture packs.

  • The player can now see the cracking effect on blocks when other players mine blocks in multiplayer[4].


Bug Fixes:
  • Pressing F no longer reloads chunks.
  • Fixed a bug when pistons pushed a wire.
  • NPC Villagers procreate again.
  • Mining ores gives 3 times less experience orbs.
  • Weather transitions are back.
  • Slime and Magma Cube jumping animations have been fixed.
  • Armor and Tool enchantments now show to other players on multiplayer.
  • Players are now able to skip The End Credits again.
  • Pumpkins now face the correct direction on the player's head.


Notable Bugs: (Complete bug list):
  • In some cases when writing on a Sign and clicking done the text is deleted.
  • Repairing items using creative mode in the inventory crafting grid will duplicate the item.
  • Frequent null pointer exceptions in survival mode[5]
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  • Fixed frequent null pointer exceptions in survival mode.[2][3]


Notable bugs (Complete bug list):
  • Because Singleplayer acts similar to Multiplayer, Minecraft sometimes doesn't save your progress, or it may just stop generating chunks and freeze all the mobs
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