Minecraft 1.4.2 Update

1.4.2

• Improved server list
  • Server IPs can now be hidden individually when editing or adding a server
    
  • Server version is now displayed left of the connection bars
    
  • Server ping tooltip now shows if the server and client have mismatching protocol versions
    
  • Mismatching servers can't be joined
    
  
  
• Improved settings menu
  • Renamed Chat Settings to Multiplayer Settings
    
  • Added an option for cape-owners to hide their capes in-game
    
  • Added Fullscreen and VSync toggles
    
  • Though this is not in the settings menu, you may go into the options.txt in %appdata% and toggle advancedToolTips. This shows you the item IDs of everything and the durability of tools and armor.
    
  
  
• Improved F3 mode
  • The piechart is now shown when using shift+F3 instead of vice versa
    
  • Added the cardinal direction and the degree value to the f value indicating the direction the player is facing
    
  • Now shows which chunk and where in that chunk the player is in on X and Z values
    
  • Pressing P while holding F3 will toggle the auto-pause when the Minecraft window loses focus
    
  • Pressing H while holding F3 will toggle detailed item descriptions, which additionally show item id, damage value, color code, tool/armor/weapon damage and map zoom level and scale on the tooltip
    
  
  
• Updated language files
  

• Improved Multiplayer
  • Spawn protection now is disabled if there's nothing in ops.txt
    
  • Spawn protection radius can now be changed in the server.properties file
    
  
  
• Improved Creative inventory
  • Items can now be cloned by using Pick Block on them - An item stack with the highest amount of items possible in it will be created
    
  • Items can now be shift-clicked around on the survival inventory screen
    
  
  
• Improved General inventory
  • Pressing the 1-9 hotkeys while hovering over an item will exchange that item with the one from the corresponding hotbar slot
    
  • Status effects now cause the inventory window to be off-center regardless of screen aspect ratio
    
  
  
• Added & improved a few commands
  • Added /difficulty command to change difficulty[1]
    • /difficulty 0 = peaceful
      
    • /difficulty 1 = easy
      
    • /difficulty 2 = normal
      
    • /difficulty 3 = hard
      
    
    
  • Toggling PvP[2]
    
  • Added /spawnpoint to change your own or other players' spawnpoint to where you are standing or to specified coordinates
    • /spawnpoint <player> <x> <y> <z>
      
    
    
  • Added /w, an alias for /tell
    
  • Added /weather to change the current weather and optionally set the duration for the new weather
    • /weather [clear | rain | thunder] <time>
      
    
    
  • Added /gamerule <gamerule> <true/false> to look up and change gamerules regarding Command Block output
    • /gamerule doFireTick - Whether fire should spread
      
    • /gamerule doMobLoot - Whether mobs should drop items
      
    • /gamerule doMobSpawning - Whether mobs should naturally spawn
      
    • /gamerule doTileDrops - Whether blocks should have drops (does not work for paintings)
      
    • /gamerule keepInventory - Whether the player should keep items in their inventory if they die.
      
    • /gamerule mobGriefing - Whether creepers, endermen and withers should be able to change blocks.
      
    
    
  • Added /clear to clear a specified player's entire inventory or remove only one block/item from it
    
  • Changed /xp so it can be used to give and take entire experience levels by appending "L" to the number
    
  • Changed /tp to work with relative coordinates
    
  
  
• Added command target selectors[3][4][5]
  • Available selectors:
    • @p - Closest player
      
    • @a - All players
      
    • @r - Random player
      
    
    
  • Can have arguments specified in [] using the syntax x=0, where x is the argument
    
  • Available arguments:
    • x,y,z - Coordinates
      
    • r - Range
      
    • m - Gamemode
      
    • l - Minumum experience level
      
    • lm - Maximum experience level
      
    • rm - Minimum range
      
    
    
  • Special argument only usable with @a:
    • c - the maximum count of players to return. Numbers below 0 will make it return the last x amount of entries
      
    
    
  
  
• Updated the sound engine
  • Added sounds for placing Wood-, Stone-, Plant-, Sand- and Gravel-like blocks
    
  • Added sounds for walking on Sand, Gravel, Soulsand, Grass and Stone
    
  • Added sounds for zombies, skeletons, cows, pigs, spiders, endermen, ghasts, silverfish, magma cubes, wolves, the ender dragon, bats and the anvil.
    
  • Added sounds for curing a zombie, infecting a villager and a remedy sound.
    
  • Added sounds for setting things on fire and shearing sheep
    
  • Added sounds for climbing ladders and riding minecarts
    
  • Added a sound for levelling up which is played every 5 levels
    
  • Added constant noise to liquids
    
  
  
• Improved Portals
  • Mobs, items and projectiles now pass through them, preserving momentum[6][7][8]
    
  • Entities will pass through instantly, but at a longer "cooldown"[9]
    
  • Portals will allow fire burning entities like blazes to leave the Nether and potentially burn things[10]
    
  • Portals will teleport an entity relative to where it entered[11][12]
    
  • Players are now positioned correctly when going through Nether Portals
    
  • Nether Portals are now instant for players in Creative mode
    
  
  
• Improved Adventure mode
  • Blocks can now be mined with the proper tools
    
  • Blocks can now be placed
    
  
  
• Improved Breeding
  • Chickens now use seeds instead of wheat to breed[13]
    
  • Pigs now use carrots instead of wheat to breed
    
  
  
• You can now restore a desolate village or create a completely new village[14]
  
• Added & changed many minor things
  • Added Boss Names above boss health bars
    
  • Experience is now awarded for fishing and breeding
    
  • Worlds can now be re-created from the world selection screen
    
  • Changed many items, improving item icon style to be more consistent
    
  • Items spawned using /give are picked up almost instantly now
    
  • Doors, trapdoors, levers and buttons are no longer triggerable with the left mouse button[15]
    
  • Added an NBT tag for items to have lores
    
  • Added an NBT tag for mobs to decide whether they can despawn
    
  
  
• Fixed many bugs
  • Fixed /me command only working for ops
    
  • Fixed /tell not working correctly
    
  • Partially cured lighting glitches
    
  • Fixed held items being colored when wearing tinted blocks/armor
    
  • Fixed the second layer on skins not being placed correctly when sneaking
    
  • Blazes now properly spawn in Nether Fortresses
    
  • Fixed pets teleporting around randomly
    
  • Fixed PvP-disabled servers still allowing players to set other players on fire using Fire Aspect enchanted swords
    
  • Fixed entities in minecarts becoming invisible
    
  • Fixed mobs randomly suffocating
    
  • Fixed stairs, slabs & fences glitching visually sometimes
    
  • Fixed mobs falling through blocks
    
  • Fixed wet wolves looking way too scary
    
  
  

• Customizable World generation[16]
  
• Made superflat worlds customizable[17][18]
  • Are now made up of layers specified with block id, data value and height
    
  • Biome can now be changed
    
  • All generation settings are stored in a preset, which can be shared and re-used
    
  • Terrain can now be decorated and structures other than villages can spawn
    
  • Default presets:
    • Classic Flat - 2;7,2x3,2;1;village
      
    • Tunnelers' Dream - 2;7,230x1,5x3,2;3;stronghold,biome_1,decoration,dungeon,mineshaft
      
    • Water World - 2;7,5x1,5x3,5x12,90x9;1;biome_1,village
      
    • Overworld -2;7,59x1,3x3,2;1;stronghold,biome_1,village,decoration,dungeon,lake,mineshaft,lava_lake
      
    • Snowy Kingdom - 2;7,59x1,3x3,2,78;12;biome_1,village
      
    • Bottomless Pit - 2;2x4,3x3,2;1;biome_1,village
      
    • Desert - 2;7,230x1,5x3,2;3;stronghold,biome_1,decoration,dungeon,mineshaft
      
    • Redstone Ready -
      
    
    
  • Preset format with example: 95;35:2;2x20;1;stronghold o 95 is the format version, followed by a semicolon and the layer information. Every new layer is separated by a comma and must consist of the block id (35) and can additionally have :2appended to specify 2 as the data value. Before that, you can put 2x to specify that this layer should be put 2 times. After a semicolon follows the biome id. After another semicolon follow all structures to be generated, including their options.
    
  
  
• Added Witch Huts in swamps[19]
  
• Silverfish blocks now rarely generate in Extreme Hills biomes
  • On average, nearly one Silverfish block is generated per Extreme Hills chunk
    
  
  
• Carrots and potatoes can now be found growing in villages [20]
  

• Command blocks
  • Runs editable commands when triggered by redstone
    
  • Intended for adventure maps
    
  • Can only be edited by OPs, as long as enable-command-block in server.properties is enabled
    
  • Only obtainable using /give playername 137[21][22]
    
  • Can operate in silent mode where it doesn't display commands in the chat box. [23]
    
  
  
• Beacons
  • Intended as an endgame block
    
  • Continuously glows and gives a selected status effect to players within 16 blocks while beaming a beacon of light directly upwards (as bright as glowstone)
    
  • Activated by building a solid pyramid of iron/gold/emerald/diamond blocks underneath and selecting an effect
    • The cheapest configuration requires 9 blocks, while the best configuration requires 164 blocks
      
    
    
  • Has to be directly exposed to skylight to work
    
  • Building square platforms of increasing size and the same material per layer will activate it and increase range and status effect selection
    
  • Viable materials are iron, gold, diamond and emerald blocks
    
  • Changing selected status effects costs 1 emerald, diamond, gold ingot or iron ingot
    
  • Unlockable effects, with increasing amount of required layers of blocks required:
    • Speed and Haste
      
    • Resistance and Jump Boost
      
    • Strength
      
    
    
  • When all 4 layers of blocks underneath are built correctly, a second status effect can be chosen
    • This second status effect is Regeneration or tier II of the previously chosen effect
      
    
    
  • Effects given by the Beacon will have less intrusive particles than others on the screen, such as those of potions
    
  
  
• Anvils[24]
  • Used for repairing and combining enchanted items as well as for renaming any item/block for experience levels
    
  • Tools can also be repaired using one piece of their material
    
  • Enchantments that are the same are upgraded by one level as long as they are both the same level and the higher level exists
    
  • Conflicting enchantments will be removed and only the first one will be kept
    
  • Becomes damaged from using and dropping it - Damage persists in inventory and splits up into 3 categories: Anvil, Sligh