Template:Console version/2012-10-16

General

 * Added Bedrock fog
 * Added a countdown timer to the auto-save to stop it from being a surprise
 * Added the ability to rename an existing world
 * Added map icons to the in-game player list to match their color in the map
 * Added a confirmation dialog on the player choosing to exit without saving
 * Added new items to the crafting menu - melon, melon seeds, glass panes, fence gates, iron bars, stone bricks, stone brick slabs, stone brick stairs, brick slabs, brick stairs
 * Added Superflat world type
 * : The Nether is also flat in this world type.

Gameplay

 * Creative mode
 * Added a simple tutorial for creative mode.
 * Added flying and sprint-flying to creative mode.
 * Disabled achievements and leaderboard updates if the player is in Creative mode or if the world has been previously saved in Creative mode.
 * Food bar and hunger
 * Eating animation
 * Sprinting
 * Added a character display when sprinting or flying.
 * Added death messages.

Blocks

 * Iron bars, fence gate, stone bricks, stone brick slabs, stone brick stairs, brick slab, brick stairs, cobweb, vines, sponge, huge mushroom, melon

Items

 * Melon, melon seeds, pumpkin seeds, raw beef, steak, raw chicken, cooked chicken, rotten flesh, ender pearl (not usable yet), 10 more music discs, chain armor

Mobs

 * Enderman, silverfish, cave spider, charged creeper

World generation

 * Generated structures
 * Villages, mineshafts, strongholds, ravines
 * Biomes
 * Swampland, Ice Plains, Extreme Hills, Ocean

General

 * Tutorial
 * Changed the Tutorial world to enable the new terrain features in it.
 * Added mini tutorial for sprinting in the Tutorial world.
 * Added mini tutorial for eating in the Tutorial world.
 * Added music disc quests in the Tutorial world - players can search the world for the 12 chests, each containing one of the music discs that can be played in a jukebox.
 * 1.2.3 Feature : Mining speed changes
 * Updated the How to Play HUD with food bar information.
 * Added descriptions for Creative mode and sprinting to the How to Play menus.
 * Updated the Download Content menu with pictures of the DLC available.

Blocks and items

 * Foods are now stackable except mushroom stew and cake.
 * Changed the TNT explosion sound.
 * Changed the bow to have drawing and firing action.
 * Added quick move to the dispenser.
 * Added quick equip for armor to the inventory interface.
 * Added the blocking move with swords.
 * Shears can now collect tall grass and the new vine.
 * Improved chest model with a 3D lock and opening and closing animation.
 * Pressure plates can now be placed on fences.
 * Changed all the text descriptions for food to show how much they refill the food bar.
 * User-placed leaf blocks no longer decay.
 * 1.2.5 Feature : Quick move for the furnace interface
 * 1.1 Feature : Apples drop from leaf blocks
 * 1.2.3 Feature : Pumpkins and melons grow from stems much faster and not require farmland around the stem to grow on.
 * 1.2.3 Feature : Fix to vines to stop them spreading too much.
 * 1.2.3 Feature : Shapeless mushroom stew recipe

Mobs

 * Passive mobs will now flee when hit.
 * The snout on pigs now protrude from their head.
 * Skeletons now hold full size bows.
 * Animals no longer despawn which makes it possible to capture them.
 * Zombies now drop rotten flesh instead of feathers.
 * Updated some mob sounds.

World generation

 * Cloud height raised to the top of the map, so clouds can no longer phase through blocks.
 * Cloud movement syncs with the game's time.
 * Improved sunrise and sunset.
 * Improved the rain edges (when looking up in rain)
 * Removed the Void by making it impossible to break the bottom/top layer of bedrock.
 * Removed biomes - rainforest, seasonal forest, savanna, shrubland and tundra.

Fixes

 * Fix for duplication glitch.
 * Fix for aspect ratio of things in hand when in splitscreen mode.
 * Fix for issue with player data not saving (player starting world with no items they had when they saved).
 * Fix for redstone tiles burning out when they shouldn't.
 * Fixed issue with minecart with furnace not being able to move another minecart.
 * Fixed particle code for flipped 3rd person view.