As we all know many people have been waiting for 1.3 and is coming August 1st, 2012. The good and the bad

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Lots and lots of bug fixes and new features. Players who mainly play in multi-player on servers should enjoy a smoother and more stable experience, as this has been our focus of the development. Weo ve looked over the network packets and added encryption to prevent session stealing. Dinnerbone has updated the chatting screen, to allow for easier editing and clickable links.

The single/multi-player merge has added the possibility to share your single-player worlds with friends who are on the same local network. It has also enabled players to use multi-player-like commands in single-player (such as /gamemode and /give), but only if cheats are enabled.

Weo ve added emeralds, emerald ore and a trading system that makes it possible to buy items from villagers. Villagers will add and remove items depending on what you buy.

Weo ve added the possibility write in books and leave stories for other people.

Weo ve added new terrain features, and you can choose to begin the game with a o bonus chest,o to get you started quicker.

Weo ve added tripwire, so you can create new traps and contraptions.

Weo ve also added new stairs, new half-slabs, cocoa plants and tweaked dispensers, leaves, cauldrons, levers, gravel, pressure plates, cookies, buckets, boats, minecarts, ice, furnaceso ¦ Plus you get magic orbs from mining and smelting (and not just killing monsters)!

Minecraft 1.3: The Bad

Since single-player has been turned into a shell on top of a background server, the gameo s resource requirements have increased. When playing single-player, the game needs to be able to both simulate and emulate the world, which take many more CPU cycles. Weo re working on optimizing rendering, but those improvements will not be included until Minecraft 1.4.

Minecraft 1.3: The Ugly

A couple of problems and expected features have been pushed to Minecraft 1.4. The most notable problem is the lighting issues causing black regions in the terrain. Weo re looking into ways to solve this, but lighting is a very expensive calculation and we are struggling with finding a solution that doesno t hurt framerate.

And the most notable missing feature is the modding API. Throwing out single-player was the first step in order to make the API possible, and thato s done now. We decided to release 1.3 without the API, because otherwise it would be an even longer wait for a Minecraft update.

Weo ve also added an extremely basic version of o adventure mode.o Weo ll work more on this in future updates.

To Summarize

The time between Minecraft 1.2.5 and 1.3 has been the longest update interval yet, and that was because we changed so much in the game engine. I (jeb_) was a little scared to push it to the public, but waiting even longer is not a solution.

So pretty much I got this from minecraft forums just to show you the good, the bad, and the ugly of 1.3 and I hope that is ok with the Moderators of PMC.

NOTICE MODERATORS: If you are going to remove this tell me so I can edit this so you don't have to remove it

Also don't abuse the new update Mojang worked hard on it

Thank You!

-Brodimus