Java Edition 1.4.6

1.4.6 introduced fireworks, enchanted books and the Thorns enchantment. It also added a warning for users playing on soon unsupported systems (PowerPC and Java 5).

Gameplay

 * Thorns enchantment
 * Armor enchantment
 * Deals damage depending on tier to attackers
 * Wears armor out more quickly.

Blocks & Items

 * Nether Brick Slabs
 * Crafted much like other slabs, using Netherbrick
 * Enchanted books'''
 * Enchant books to receive a single enchant on them
 * Can be applied to items using anvils, consuming the book - Enchants can be applied to any item in Creative
 * Sold by villagers and found in dungeon and village chests
 * Can now be found in loot chests and by trading with villagers
 * Unbreaking can be applied to anything with durability
 * Efficiency and Silk Touch can be applied to shears, allowing the harvesting of cobwebs
 * Sharpness, Smite and Bane of Arthropods can be applied to axes
 * Firework Star
 * Used to create Firework Rockets
 * Combine gunpowder with dyes to get a Firework Star with those colors used for the sparkles
 * Also add glowstone, a fire charge, a diamond, a gold nugget, feather or a mob head to make the firework twinkling, big, trailing, star-shaped, bursting or creeper-shaped
 * Craft a Firework Star with dye to change the color the sparkles fade to
 * Firework Rocket
 * Non-destructive, rise up in the air and create colorful patterns when shot by dispensers or placed by players
 * Combine paper with gunpowder to get a Firework Rocket
 * Also add a Firework Star to add effects or gunpowder to increase the flight duration

General

 * Display
 * Added a default resolution setting -  &

Gameplay

 * Inventory
 * You can drag and drop items - Press long to halve the stack before dragging
 * Enchantments
 * Fire Protection now extinguishes fire more quickly
 * Blast Protection now reduces explosion recoil
 * Protection isn't as protective as it used to be in order to make specific enchantments more worthwhile
 * Minor improvements'''
 * Made item drops and framed items render in 3D when using fancy graphics
 * Items now show their name when switching in the hotbar
 * Can be disabled by changing heldItemTooltips to false in options.txt
 * Right-clicking while sneaking now uses the held item instead of the selected block
 * Dropping items while holding ctrl now drops the whole stack
 * Death messages now appear in server log files

World Generation

 * Dungeons & Villages
 * Now have a random chance to have enchanted books in their chests.

Blocks & Items

 * Monster Spawners'''
 * Can now spawn differently configured mobs with different spawn chances
 * Bow
 * A sound indicates when you hit a player with an arrow
 * Arrows now render from farther away

Mobs

 * Ghasts
 * Fireballs' blast radius can now be customized
 * Skeletons, Zombies & Zombie Pigmen
 * The armor and enchants they spawn with now are even harder on harder difficulties

Fixes
? bugs fixed
 * Fixed passive mob spawn eggs not depleting when used on a mob
 * Fixed minecarts and falling entities flickering
 * Fixed using number keys on smelted items in furnaces not giving experience
 * Fixed boats always getting placed in the same orientation
 * Fixed switching between dimensions resetting the selected hotbar slot
 * Fixed leaves obtained using Silk Touch having the wrong tooltip and data value
 * Fixed  not accepting Protection enchant id
 * Fixed the level up sound not playing
 * Fixed  displaying invisible entities' hitboxes
 * Fixed the Wither's projectiles sometimes destroying the Nether Star
 * Fixed mobs being able to trample farmland when the  gamerule is set to false
 * Fixed endermen not teleporting away when set on fire
 * Fixed endermen still being set on fire when hit with a flaming arrow
 * Fixed endermen not opening their mouth when attacked by other mobs
 * Fixed arrows shot at endermen disappearing
 * Fixed animals on fire not running away
 * Fixed staying under water in Creative still causing the drowning effects
 * Fixed some items with multi-layer textures rendering both layers separately when on the ground
 * Fixed tools differing only in damage not being swappable in the inventory
 * Fixed Z-Fighting with the beacon
 * Fixed a graphical issue in the trading GUI
 * Fixed  not showing the text in the original purple color
 * Fixed Pick Block giving double slabs
 * Fixed minecarts not travelling through Nether portals
 * Fixed lightning not flashing
 * Fixed  spawners failing to save properly and causing crashes
 * Fixed the blocks in lowest layer of the map not being recognized by beacons
 * Fixed enchants not showing in item frames and on the ground
 * Fixed mobs walking slowly for a short while after being hit
 * Fixed chests becoming out of sync when a user right-clicks it twice quickly
 * Fixed flaming arrows not catching on fire immediately
 * Fixed zombies sometimes stopping their attack
 * Fixed  not working to remove partial xp bars when between level 0 and 1