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
65 bugs fixed
 * – [1-9] clicking an item out of a furnace does not give XP
 * – Mobs walking slow when you hit them
 * – Graphical Issue with trading
 * – Mobs can still revert farmlands to dirt even if mobGriefing gamerule is set on false
 * – Item textures of Spawn Eggs and Firework Stars not aligned properly when stacked
 * – when a bat fly throw the water its get stuck and it will stay stuck
 * – Setting an Enderman on fire with flint and steel, or lava, will not make it teleport away
 * – Items different only in damage cannot be swapped
 * – Water splash sound gets overridden by other sounds
 * – Animals on fire do not flee
 * – Player not shown in actual location after breaking boat
 * – Lost Inventory Items
 * – Mis-identified server version
 * – Fresh install of 1.4.2 on fresh install of OSX 10.6.8 hangs
 * – Boats always get placed in the ame direction and not based on how they get placed
 * – Endermen cannot dodge flame arrow. When the arrow is shot the Enderman moves out of the way but is still set on fire
 * – When you enter the Nether, the game auto-selects the first item on the toolbar
 * – Items do not "update looks" when stacked on ground
 * – Dropped items only auto-stack when moving, not when going through portals
 * – File Handle leak in RegionFileCache (MCP)
 * – Z-Fighting in Beacon Block bottom.
 * – Duplicating Sand/Gravel/Dragon Egg still works with tweaks to an existing design
 * – Leaves have the Incorrect Tool Tip
 * – Destroying a Jukebox NPE&Kick
 * – Minecraft graphics messed up
 * – Placing double slabs ignore damage values
 * – minecarts cant travel through nether portals
 * – "Drowning" in creative
 * – Redstone Directional Bug
 * – Enchant cannot enchant with ID 0 (Protection)
 * – Ghost block bug
 * – Game Freezes At The Start Of A Previously Saved Game
 * – Cannot modify the Render Distance setting - Stays at "Far" regardless of changes.
 * – Shfit-Clicking smelted ores out of furnace cause minor visual bug
 * – I cannot look around while walking or running unless I jump first. It happens on whatever gamemode I play.
 * – Minecraft client crashs when connection times out
 * – Minecarts disappearing
 * – Error 50% of the time I try to join my server.
 * – Zombie Pig Knockback Stunlocks Iron Golem's Defeating their intended purpose
 * – Cannot Change Texture Packs!
 * – blaze fire ball crash
 * – Some textures appear as dark terrain.png images
 * – You don't hear the xp sound you get every 5 levels
 * – Minecraft crashing every time I get on for a little while
 * – Minecarts and falling entities flickering / jittering (updated 1.4.5)
 * – Passsive mob spawn eggs don't consume
 * – Endermen don't open their mouth when attacked by other mobs
 * – Freezes in Nether since 1.4.4
 * – Lightning doesn't flash
 * – Game only loads the chunk I'm currently standing on when I log in. Then freezes and crashes. I have attached the bug report.
 * – Client Crashes when underground near piston and redstone machine
 * – Skeletons will come close to attacker
 * – Particle overload when returning from AFK
 * – Slime Audio BUg
 * – Chest glitch - Server/Client desync
 * – Pressing F3+B displays hitboxes.. rendering invisibility potions useless
 * – wither can sometimes destroy its own star due to the posthumous detonation of wither skulls.
 * – Mine Cart Off track and into Walls
 * – Beacon tiers don't work at y=0
 * – Enchantment Not Showing in Item Frame
 * – Flaming Arrows Take a Bit to "Flame"
 * – Can't remove xp bars from the "xp-1L" command when you're between level 0 and 1
 * – Skeletons not retaliating to Iron Golems/Wolves
 * – minecraft crashed, exception world
 * – Game client gets stuck on 'building terrain' screen