This is a blog on some of the upcoming features.

Farmland will no longer be trampled on.

Oak Leaves Will now have a 1/200 of droping a red apple

Language Support 28 languages

Spwner Eggs lets you spawn any mob in creative mode

Sheep Regain Wool by eating grass

Sheep will only drop 1-3 per shear

11 New Splash Texts there the things which pop up at the minecraft logo

Cocoa Bean Trees Jed has said he may add in cocoa bean tree/bushes

Capture The Flag hinted on Notches blog

Custom Paintings Notch said they may happen in the future

Dual Wielding Jeb stated that Notch is working on this

Villager AI now they wont be stupid Squidwards

Puppies Jeb has stated he would like to add puppies to the game

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