User:Thriplerex

Proposed Mob
Name: Mob Emperor

Health:

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Damage

Easy:

Normal:

Hard:

Hunger Drain Peaceful:  2

Easy:   4

Normal:   7

Hard:  10

Armor Points

Peaceful:  5

Easy:  8

Normal:  11

Hard:  14

Release Info
This mob will be released into a mod that will be downloadable at the time of Minecraft 26.5.4.

Block Info
(This is actually my opinion of Crying Obsidian data if it was added to Minecraft in the future.)

Item Info
This is my depiction of the Camera item if it was added to PC version Minecraft in the future.

Proposed Biome
Name:Urban

Biome Data Value: dec=23 hex=17

Features:Lots of Villagers, populations range from 25-250 Villagers. Apartment-style housing with each room having at least one of each of the blocks or items:

Brewing Stand, Ender Chest, Cauldron, Crafting Table, Furnace, Enchanting Table, Dispenser, Chest (Double), Bed, Command Block, Anvil, and Beacon.

Mobs will not spawn, not even monster spawners will work. Mobs also cannot spawn within a 175 block radius from the biome. Even mobs that span outside 175 blocks of the biome will be killed instantly by an invisible electric fence that only lets players through. Villagers will get pushed back with no damage. The only mobs will spawn in this Urban Biome are:

Iron Golems

Snow Golems

Passive Mobs (not including Bats, Squids, Wolves, or Ocelots.)

Mobs that will not spawn here are:

Hostile, or netural mobs, Ocelots and Squids

Any other boss or utility mob not mentioned in the list above

Apartment buildings each have about 30 19x11 rooms each.

Condos: See Apartments

Biome Notes
Refunished NPC Villages will spawn bordering 1 block from this biome. The villages will all be exactly the same; the buildings will be an exact copy of the buildings in the NPC village featured in MinecraftFurniture's NPC Village Makeover videos, Part 1, 2, and 3.

Pocket Edition Blocks
My depiction of these Pocket Edition blocks if they are added to PC Minecraft in the future.

Removed Block
This is my depiction of Gears if they are added to Minecraft in the future.

Userbox Gallery
#REDIRECT Userboxes

Block GUIs
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Mod Blocks (The Aether)

 * Mods/The Aether/Sun Altar
 * Mods/The Aether/Altar
 * Mods/The Aether/Incubator
 * Mods/The Aether/Freezer

Seecret Friday Updates

 * Infdev
 * Infdev
 * Alpha 1.0.1
 * Alpha 1.0.4
 * Alpha 1.0.6
 * Alpha 1.0.11
 * Alpha 1.0.14
 * Alpha 1.0.17
 * Alpha 1.1.0
 * Alpha 1.1.1

Added Minecart and Rails, Dungeons, Mob Spawners, Saddles, Redstone Ore, Redstone, Redstone Torches, Levers, Buttons, Wooden, Stone Pressure Plates, Winter Mode (Snowfall, Snow and Ice), Boats, Cacti, Large Trees Reeds, Paper, Books, Bookshelves, Clay, Clay Blocks, Bricks, Slimes, Slimeballs, Milk, Fences, Spider Jockeys, SMP updates Chickens, Chicken Eggs, Jukeboxes, Music Discs, Minecarts with Furnace and with Chest, Compass and server-side inventory Sneaking, new Paintings and Fishing Rod.

Halloween Update
(Alpha 1.2.0)

Bug Fixes: New Bugs:
 * New Realm: The Nether; a "Hell" world that can be used for quick travel
 * New Blocks
 * Spawned in Nether: Netherrack, Soul Sand, and Glowstone
 * Pumpkin, Jack-O-Lanterns
 * Portals
 * New Mobs
 * Ghast
 * Zombie Pigman
 * New Item: Clock
 * New terrain generator, featuring Biomes
 * Higher lighting values are required the deeper they are to keep mobs from spawning.
 * Fishing rods serve a purpose by Fishing
 * Stairs, Crafting Tables, Chests, and Furnaces now face the same direction as the player when placed.
 * New music tracks
 * Creepers have new sounds.
 * Grass and leaves are now darker in shade
 * Sunrise now creates a red glow at the horizon
 * Pressing hides the HUD and the viewmodel from the person's view. In 3rd person mode, pressing  will create a view looking back at the player's own face.
 * Fixed bugs in SMP
 * Redstone performance updated
 * Door animation fixes
 * Several performance bugs fixed
 * Rails no longer cause a crash
 * Leaf decay is broken.
 * Going higher than 62 meters above sea level in SMP causes the character to be stuck to the sky.
 * Save file size is calculated incorrectly after you visit the Nether, usually to 0.0MB
 * Fake chunks now render after 32,000,000 blocks away from spawn.
 * On rare occasions, an item will not appear in the inventory when picked up and no more of this item will show up in the inventory. This can be fixed by closing the client.

Adventure Update
(Beta 1.8)

Video


 * New Mobs.
 * Enderman
 * As a placeholder, Endermen used Zombie sounds.
 * Silverfish
 * Cave Spiders
 * New Blocks
 * Stone Brick
 * Stone Brick Slabs
 * Stone Brick Stairs
 * Brick Slabs and Brick Stairs
 * Fence Gates
 * Glass Panes
 * Iron Bars
 * Melons
 * New Creative game mode.
 * New features in the terrain generator.
 * Optionally generated structures
 * NPC Villages
 * Strongholds
 * Abandoned Mine Shafts
 * Ravines
 * New, fractal-based biome code; added and removed some biomes while making all of them more vast than before.
 * Rivers flowing through/in between biomes.
 * Ocean Biomes, that are deeper and much more vast than before.
 * Mountain biome
 * Swamp
 * Snow in Taiga and Tundra biomes do not generate for technical reasons. They return in Beta 1.9.
 * New ocean floor; random mix of sand, dirt, and clay.
 * Because of this, clay is much more common.
 * New combat Mechanics.
 * Hold-to-charge bows.
 * Critical hits.
 * Players can parry with a sword by holding
 * Hostile mobs perform attack animations.
 * Mobs killed by players drop tiny flashing Experience Orbs that add to your experience bar.
 * New Food System.
 * There is now a food meter.
 * Food no longer heals directly but indirectly: if the food meter is above 90%, heals about every 5 seconds.
 * All food (except Mushroom Stew) are now stackable.
 * Food takes 1.6 seconds to consume, accompanied with an animation.
 * 5 new food items.
 * Melon Slices.
 * Raw Chicken.
 * Raw Beef.
 * Cooked Chicken.
 * Steak, which has Cooked Porkchop's old texture. Cooked Porkchops' new texture is a tan shade of the same sprite.
 * Eating any raw food or Rotten Flesh has a chance to give the player food poisoning which makes the Hunger bar decrease three times as fast.
 * New seeds for farming: pumpkin seeds and melon seeds that produce Pumpkins and Melons respectively.
 * A new achievement: "Kill a skeleton with an arrow at 50 meters".
 * Added Sprinting
 * Added Ender Pearl
 * Mob changes
 * Passive mobs will randomly flee if attacked by the player or other mobs (such as Wolves).
 * Zombies drop Rotten Flesh instead of Feathers.
 * The snout on pigs now protrude from their head.
 * Skeletons now hold full-size bows.
 * Player-to-mob damage decreased by half a heart.
 * Arrows that hit a mob visually "stick" into the mob rather than just disappear.
 * Skeleton arrows originate from about their eyes to the bow, instead of above the head.
 * Animals no longer despawn which makes it possible to capture them.
 * Shears can now collect Tall Grass and the new Vine
 * New improved lighting
 * Day/night cycles no longer require chunk updates and is a smooth transition
 * The lighting on a block is given a tint based on the most prominent source of light
 * Redish from Non-sunlight light sources
 * Blue from Moonlight
 * Total darkness keeps the same black tint
 * Sunlight gives the same white tint
 * Non-sky based light now gives a very subtle 'flicker'.
 * New Mojang logo splash screen
 * Main Menu/Options changes
 * The Main Menu's background is now an animated scene.
 * The version tag is now displayed on the bottom-left rather than the top-left
 * New sliders for Field of View and Brightness
 * 4 new entries in control list
 * "Attack", "Use Item", and "Pick Block" can now be remapped.
 * Player list in SMP, defaults to.
 * The 'Multiplayer join screen' has been improved, mainly with a server list.
 * New texture for Moss Stone to match Cobblestone's.
 * Improved sunrise and sunset.
 * Clouds change color during sunrise and sunset to match the sky color.
 * Horizon, specifically haze changes color more vividly during sunset and sunrise.
 * New particle effects.
 * Performing a critical hit on any mob will cause 'sparks' to fly.
 * Explosion particles are now shockwaves instead of smoke.
 * Tiny stationary bubble particles can be seen when underwater.
 * Fog is now thicker and darker deep underground, and gives off particles. Due to this, the void appears black.
 * Changes with debug-view
 * Mobs are no longer visibly labeled with their entity ID
 * The world's numeric seed is displayed in a field below player position.
 * Changing fog by hotkey now requires debug-view to be open in addition with pressing.
 * +Clicking the output item in a crafting square will craft all the items at once, and automatically places them in the inventory.
 * The version tag appears in-game again.
 * User-placed leaf blocks no longer decay.
 * 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.
 * Rain and snow both render faster
 * Armor bar moved to above hearts, due to food bar.
 * Both Wooden and Stone pressure plates can now be placed on fences.
 * Improved chest model with a 3D lock.
 * Players with the OP position on a server can switch back and forth between survival and creative mode.
 * The game's coding now allows for mods to more easily change the(map) height.
 * Holding the left mouse button with a weapon will now only swing once.
 * Holding the right mouse button to place blocks is slightly slower than before.

Bug Fixes:
 * The +Click crash bug from 1.8 pre2 is fixed.
 * Fixed Redstone circuits not working after /time set x glitch is now fixed in SMP.
 * Destroying boats and minecarts now creates particles.
 * Ghast attack sounds are fixed in SMP.
 * The Far Lands had been removed; there is now only ocean.

New Bugs:


 * There is a memory leak mainly occurring on Linux 32 bit.
 * The destruction animation for chests is missing.
 * Lighting persists in water even after the light source is removed.
 * Experience orbs when dropped don't drop in a stack like items do, so when a player dies when they have a large number of experience, each orb has to be processed individually. This will cause a high amount of lag, especially for SMP servers.
 * Double chests placed before 1.8 on multiplayer servers all appear to players to be facing the same direction, even when they should be rotated by 90 degrees.
 * The Item Selection screen in the new Creative game mode is missing pine and birch leaves, tall grass, double slabs, monster spawner, snow cover, and both huge mushroom blocks.
 * NPC villages occasionally spawn over partial water areas and 'float'

Pretty Scary Update
(1.4)


 * 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 while holding  will toggle the auto-pause when the Minecraft window loses focus
 * Pressing while holding   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

Video
Gameplay


 * 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  command to change difficulty
 * = peaceful
 * = easy
 * = normal
 * = hard
 * Added  to change your own or other players' spawnpoint to where you are standing or to specified coordinates
 *   
 * Added, an alias for
 * Added  to change the current weather and optionally set the duration for the new weather
 * Added   to look up and change gamerules regarding Command Block output
 * - Whether fire should spread
 * - Whether mobs should drop items
 * - Whether mobs should naturally spawn
 * - Whether blocks should have drops (does not work for paintings)
 * - Whether the player should keep items in their inventory if they die.
 * - Whether creepers, endermen and withers should be able to change blocks.
 * Added  to clear a specified player's entire inventory or remove only one block/item from it
 * Changed  so it can be used to give and take entire experience levels by appending "L" to the number
 * Changed  to work with relative coordinates
 * Added command target selectors
 * Available selectors:
 * - Closest player
 * - All players
 * - Random player
 * Can have arguments specified in  using the syntax , where   is the argument
 * Available arguments:
 * - Coordinates
 * - Range
 * - Minumum experience level
 * - Maximum experience level
 * - Minimum range
 * Special argument only usable with :
 * - 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
 * Entities will pass through instantly, but at a longer "cooldown"
 * Portals will allow fire burning entities like blazes to leave the Nether and potentially burn things
 * Portals will teleport an entity relative to where it entered
 * 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
 * Pigs now use carrots instead of wheat to breed
 * You can now restore a desolate village or create a completely new village
 * 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  are picked up almost instantly now
 * Doors, trapdoors, levers and buttons are no longer triggerable with the left mouse button
 * 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  command only working for ops
 * Fixed  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
 * Fixed wet wolves looking way too scary

World Generation


 * Made superflat worlds customizable
 * 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 -
 * Tunnelers' Dream -
 * Water World -
 * Overworld -
 * Snowy Kingdom -
 * Bottomless Pit -
 * Desert -
 * Redstone Ready -
 * Preset format with example: 95;35:2;2x20;1;stronghold – 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 and can additionally have   appended to specify   as the data value. Before that, you can put   to specify that this layer should be put   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
 * 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 

Blocks & Items


 * Command blocks
 * Runs editable commands when triggered by redstone
 * Intended for adventure maps
 * Can only be edited by OPs, as long as  in server.properties is enabled
 * Only obtainable using
 * Can operate in silent mode where it doesn't display commands in the chat box.
 * 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
 * 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, Slightly Damaged Anvil & Very Damaged Anvil
 * Can be placed in 4 orientations, but can't be moved by pistons
 * Experience level cost depends on enchantment levels & rarities, whether the item will be renamed and whether the item has been used with an anvil before - Maximum experience level cost is 39 levels, unless in Creative mode
 * For a more detailed explanation on how enchantments are combined using the anvil, see the Anvil mechanics page
 * Is affected by gravity and does 1 heart of damage to mobs and players it falls on per block it fell, excluding the first one - Players killed by a falling anvil cause the death message "Player was squashed by a falling anvil" to appear in chat
 * Certain blocks are destroyed when an anvil falls on them: levers, buttons, torches, redstone torches, redstone repeaters, flower pots, rails & mob heads
 * Mob Spawners
 * Added a few NBT tags to change a few key spawning rules
 * Range can now be changed
 * Maximum amount of spawned entities within spawning range can now be changed
 * Horizontal spawning radius can now be changed
 * Spawned mobs can wear and carry any items and blocks as well as have a custom drop rate of held items
 * Added an NBT tag for mobs to decide whether they can despawn
 * Added an NBT tag for mobs to decide whether they are invincible
 * Repeaters
 * Can now be locked by powering their sides with another repeater
 * When locked, they show a little bedrock barrier in place of the delay indicator torch and won't change their output signal
 * Flower Pots
 * Lets players plant all kinds of saplings, mushrooms, flowers, cacti, dead shrubs and ferns
 * Using pick block on it gives the potted plant
 * Right-click it with something to plant it, hit it to get both back
 * Cobblestone Walls
 * Available in cobblestone and moss stone variants
 * Behave like fences - Connect to each other, to other blocks and to fence gates & have a 1.5 blocks high collision box
 * Have a different, higher shape in corners and when blocks are placed on them
 * Wooden logs
 * Changed placement: Instead of facing the player, it will face the surface it is placed on
 * Place it on the side of a block to get a sideways log.
 * Place it on the top or bottom of a block to get a topside log.
 * Stairs
 * Now connect to other stairs to form corner stairs
 * Item Frames
 * All items and blocks can be framed
 * Clocks, compasses and maps function - Maps show only one marker, the frame itself
 * Mounted maps show markers on copies of that map
 * Using pick block on it gives the framed item/block, but only works in Creative
 * Paintings
 * Added Wither painting
 * Mob Heads
 * Are very rarely dropped when mobs are killed by players
 * Only drop from Wither Skeletons, but also exist for creepers, zombies, skeletons and players
 * Can be put on the ground in 16 orientations and hung on walls
 * Can be worn
 * Using external editors or mods player skulls can be assigned to specific players - They then have tooltip "Player's Head"
 * Add the NBT tag "SkullOwner" -> (player name) on the skull items.
 * Trapdoors
 * Can now be placed on the top half of blocks
 * Placement works similar to that of slabs and stairs
 * Buttons
 * Now stays active for 0.2 seconds longer
 * New crafting recipe – Only 1 stone block required
 * Wooden Buttons
 * Additionally can be activated by arrows
 * Requires 1 wooden plank to craft
 * Fire
 * Now spreads more aggressively depending on difficulty
 * Saplings
 * Decreased hitbox size
 * TNT
 * Is now triggered by flaming arrows
 * Potatoes
 * Can be planted on hydrated soil and drop 1-4 potatoes when fully grown
 * Can be grown instantly using bonemeal
 * Can be Smelted to receive a baked potato
 * Rarely drop poisoned potatoes
 * Potatoes give 0.5 hunger points, poisoned potatoes give 1 hunger point and have a chance to poison you, baked potatoes give 3 hunger points
 * Carrots
 * Can be planted on hydrated soil and drop 2-4 carrots when fully grown
 * Can be grown instantly using bonemeal
 * Can be crafted surrounded with 8 gold nuggets to get a golden carrot
 * Carrots give 2 hunger points, golden carrots give 3 hunger points
 * Carrot on a Stick
 * Used to control pigs
 * When held, it dictates the direction pigs players are riding will head in
 * Nearby pigs flock towards players holding it
 * Slowly loses durability when riding pigs
 * Pigs start slow but end up going about 5 blocks per second
 * Can be right-clicked to give the pig a short speed boost - This takes up a chunk of the durability
 * The pigs ‘eat’ the carrot eventually, leaving the player a fishing rod and will require another carrot to continue riding.
 * To craft, the carrot must be placed at a diagonal below the fishing rod
 * Pumpkin Pie
 * Restores 4 hunger points
 * The crafting recipe is shapeless: assemble a Pumpkin, Egg and Sugar into the crafting inventory
 * Nether Star
 * Drops from Withers
 * Used to craft the Beacon
 * Glows like an enchanted item
 * Night Vision Potion
 * Brewed by adding a Golden Carrot to an Awkward Potion
 * Invisibility Potion
 * Effect now hides the nametag and cape
 * Mobs only attack you when you walk into them or attack them
 * Splash potions of invisibility can also make mobs partially invisible, although eyes of some mobs still show
 * Brewed by adding a Fermented Spider Eye to a Potion of Night Vision
 * Potions
 * Can now have any available potion effects, level and duration
 * Data are saved using NBT tags, but potions retain their original color
 * Maps
 * Are now crafted as an Empty Map and will become a real map by right-clicking
 * Start out at their closest zoom level and can be extended by adding more paper
 * Players see other players moving around on the same map
 * Craft an existing map with an empty map to receive an extra copy of the map
 * Removed text overlay
 * Are labelled 'Map #0' and so on
 * Now align to a grid and can be stacked to 64
 * When outside a map's range, the player is displayed as a small circle at the edge
 * Armor
 * Diamond Armor sleeves now have a notch on the inner side
 * Completely revamped leather armor
 * Leather Armor
 * Can now be dyed in 16,777,216 potential different colors
 * Putting it in a crafting grid with dyes applies all colors
 * Dyed armor's tooltip will display ‘’Dyed’’
 * Right-click dyed armor on cauldrons to wash it and remove some water from the cauldron
 * Changed item and model color and texture
 * Now uses two overlayed textures, one being the color

Mobs


 * Wither
 * Three-headed flying player-created boss mob shooting projectiles at mobs that are not undead and players
 * Place 4 pieces of Soulsand in a T-shape and place 3 Wither Skeleton Skulls on top to summon it
 * After spawning, it flashes blue, builds up health, grows slightly and is invincible for a few seconds - Then it explodes and starts attacking players and mobs
 * Each head can fire projectiles, so called Wither Skulls, at different targets - Projectiles explode on impact
 * Shoots two kinds of projectile - a blue one from the little heads, targeting mobs and a dark one from the big head targeting players
 * When hit by projectiles, players get the ‘’Wither II’’ effect, which acts like a slower poison effect that can kill and turns affected players' health bars' hearts black
 * Constantly regenerates health
 * Gains Wither armor when taken down to half health, making it immune to arrows
 * Drops a Nether Star when killed
 * Darkens the sky when spawned in the Overworld
 * Wither Skeletons
 * Carry and rarely drop Stone swords when killed by players
 * Drop bones, coal, and rarely wither skulls
 * Give players Wither effect when hitting them
 * Spawn in Nether Fortresses
 * Will now rarely, depending on difficulty, spawn with the ability to pick up armor, head wear, items, blocks, weapons and tools - Armor and tools & swords are equipped automatically and will be exchanged for better gear when possible        - Items that are picked up will have a 100% chance of dropping after dying - When killed, they drop what they are holding
 * All equipped gear is functional - Swords and tools do more damage on attacks, armor protects the mob
 * Rare tool drops now are damaged when it drops
 * More advanced gear is more likely to spawn with mobs when playing on harder difficulties and rarely drops when the mob is killed by players
 * Witch
 * Looks like an offshoot villager
 * Throws splash potions of poison, slowness, weakness and instant damage at players
 * Holds a potion and wiggles its magical nose with a wart on it when attacking
 * Has a hat, which sometimes emits particles
 * Regenerates health over time
 * Drinks potions of instant health and fire resistance to defend themselves in combat
 * Is immune to 80% of splash potions' effects
 * Drops Sticks, Glowstone, Redstone, Gunpowder, Sugar, Spider Eyes, Empty Bottles & Water Bottles when killed
 * Has a chance to drop the potion it is holding if killed by players
 * Spawn in Witch Huts in swamps
 * Bats
 * Hang on the ceiling when idle, starts flying when players come near
 * Spawn in dark caves
 * Sleep at day
 * Don't trigger pressure plates or tripwire
 * Tamed wolves
 * Their collars can now be dyed by right-clicking the wolf with dye
 * Iron Golems
 * Now attack creepers, Slimes and Magma Cubes
 * All hostile mobs
 * Will now jump down to players as long as they can survive the fall
 * Depending on difficulty, they are willing to take more damage
 * Creepers
 * Will start exploding when they hit the ground, with explosions being more imminent with higher falls
 * Can now have custom explosion radius and fuse timer using edited mob spawners and NBT tags
 * Zombies
 * Will now rarely spawn with armor of all kinds, sometimes enchanted
 * Will now rarely, depending on difficulty, spawn with the ability to pick up armor, head wear, items, blocks, weapons and tools - Armor and tools & swords are equipped automatically and will be exchanged for better gear when possible        - Items that are picked up will have a 100% chance of dropping after dying - When killed, they drop what they are holding
 * All equipped gear is functional - Swords and tools do more damage on attacks, armor protects the mob
 * Rare tool drops now are damaged when it drops
 * More advanced gear is more likely to spawn with mobs when playing on harder difficulties and rarely drops when the mob is killed by players
 * When wearing helmets, they will not burn up - Instead all damage will is applied to the helmet
 * Using modified mob spawners they can have a custom drop rate of items and hold and wear all kinds of items and blocks
 * Now have a chance, depending on difficulty, to infect villagers after killing them - The villager then gets replaced with a villager zombie on death
 * On Normal difficulty, there is a 50% chance of infection and on Hard difficulty there is a 100% chance of infection
 * Infected baby villagers turn into baby villager zombies
 * Baby zombies are 50% faster, don't age, don't burn up in the sun and can wear armor
 * Right-clicking a villager zombie under the influence of a Weakness potion with a golden apple will invert their potion effect, make them wiggle slightly and eventually turn back into a villager
 * Now rarely spawn holding iron swords or iron shovels
 * When holding something in their hands, their arms move upwards when attacking
 * Added baby zombie, which is only spawnable using mods or third-party tools
 * Will now rarely drop carrots and potatoes when killed by players
 * Have a 25% chance of spawning with a pumpkin on their head during Halloween.
 * Skeletons
 * Will now rarely spawn with armor of all kinds, sometimes enchanted
 * Will now rarely, depending on difficulty, spawn with the ability to pick up armor, head wear, items, blocks, weapons and tools - Armor and tools & swords are equipped automatically and will be exchanged for better gear when possible        - Items that are picked up will have a 100% chance of dropping after dying - When killed, they drop what they are holding
 * All equipped gear is functional - Swords and tools do more damage on attacks, armor protects the mob
 * Rare tool drops now are damaged when it drops
 * More advanced gear is more likely to spawn with mobs when playing on harder difficulties and rarely drops when the mob is killed by players
 * When wearing helmets, they will not burn up - Instead all damage is applied to the helmet
 * Using modified mob spawners they can have a custom drop rate of items and hold and wear all kinds of items and blocks
 * Now sometimes, carry enchanted bows - Those items can be dropped when killed by players
 * Have a 25% chance of spawning with a pumpkin on their head during Halloween.
 * Zombie Pigmen
 * Will now rarely, depending on difficulty, spawn with the ability to pick up armor, head wear, items, blocks, weapons and tools - Armor and tools & swords are equipped automatically and will be exchanged for better gear when possible        - Items that are picked up will have a 100% chance of dropping after dying - When killed, they drop what they are holding
 * All equipped gear is functional - Swords and tools do more damage on attacks, armor protects the mob
 * Rare tool drops now are damaged when it drops
 * More advanced gear is more likely to spawn with mobs when playing on harder difficulties and rarely drops when the mob is killed by players
 * Using modified mob spawners they can have a custom drop rate of items and hold and wear all kinds of items and blocks
 * Now rarely carry enchanted golden swords
 * Dropped Golden Swords now sometimes are damaged
 * Added baby Zombie Pigman, which is only spawnable using mods or third-party tools
 * Villagers
 * Improved villagers to make them more self-aware
 * All villagers of one village can now like and dislike specific players
 * Will like players more for trading with them
 * Will like players less for hurting them or their golems
 * When players are really disliked, iron golems of that village can become aggressive towards those players
 * After a villager dies to natural causes, excluding mobs, while a player is within 16 blocks or if a mob kills a villager, no baby villagers will be produced in the next few minutes
 * Changed and added some trades to counteract emerald farming and improve gameplay
 * Will show particle effects indicating a change of liking towards a player
 * Pigs
 * Can now accelerate to up to 5 m/s
 * Now drop their saddle when killed
 * Slimes
 * Now spawn in swamps at night
 * Sheep 
 * Sheep from spawn eggs can now spawn natural colored sheep (white, gray, brown, pink, etc.)

Redstone Update
(1.5)

Planned changes
'''Note: Most of the changes listed here have no detailed references since most of them were mentioned at MineCon 2012. Especially the Future Updates with the Minecraft PC Team respectively the The Future of MOD API talk '''

You can watch the presentation here:

Redstone improvements

 * More predictable and consistent redstone behavior
 * The functionality of BUDs will be affected
 * Eliminating directional quirks
 * Most of the timings of redstone contraptions will change
 * Overall redstone will be more like analog signals
 * Redstone signal strength will matter (for some blocks)
 * A Capacitor Block
 * Only outputs a signal if the input has a specific strength
 * Configurable like a repeater
 * Possibility of a BUD Switch block
 * A way of sucking up items into a container/transport items between containers
 * This will most likely be a revised form of the Allocator idea
 * Weighted pressure plates
 * Outputs a signal with a strength corresponding to the weight of the entity (e.g. storage minecarts) sitting on the pressure plate/detector rail
 * Perhaps a Daylight Detector
 * Outputs a signal with a strength corresponding to the intensity of the sunlight
 * Redstone repeater lock improvements
 * Some Redstone bugfixes
 * Perhaps one or more new ores for crafting the new redstone devices
 * Will most likely be available only in the Nether, encouraging exploration of the dimension

Minecart improvements

 * New ways of transporting items
 * Using minecarts similarly to Railcraft systems
 * New uses for storage minecarts
 * Filling and emptying of storage minecarts
 * Specific rails to empty them
 * The possibility of linking minecarts together (driven by furnace minecarts)
 * Rails to unload mobs and perhaps players when reached

Rendering engine rewrite
The features were:
 * Current engine has some bugs
 * Will require a higher OpenGL feature-set
 * Will include some sort of fallback for older hardware
 * Support for high resolution textures
 * The internal layout of texture packs will change
 * Every block will have its own texture file
 * Supports the use of animated textures for all blocks
 * The geometry of individual textures can differ
 * Not intended to support HD skins
 * Much faster overall rendering, resulting in more frames per second (FPS).
 * Lighting fixes similar to the ones first introduced in snapshots 12w39a/b (during 1.4 development)
 * Support for fancy lighting control
 * Support for more realistic lighting, such as active furnaces only giving off light from their front surface

Other

 * No new mobs.
 * Fireworks for New Year's Eve
 * Will be a safe explosion
 * Perhaps a method of enchanting equipment with paper
 * The player would enchant the paper, then use an anvil to combine it with equipment
 * The anvil cost to do this would be very high
 * The Possibility of editing Ghast Fireballs' sizes with third party programs
 * Will not affect the amount of damage dealt to the Player
 * Slabs made up of Netherrack/Nether Brick
 * A crafting recipe for Nether Brick

Technical Blocks
Note:Some data values may be changed to my liking.

Technical blocks are blocks that cannot be acquired without commands or mods, but have independent block IDs, and serve various purposes during events within the game.

Piston related technical blocks
These blocks serve a purpose when a piston is used.

Piston Extension
Block 34 is a block used by the piston's extension arm. One of the data bits of this block defines if it is a normal piston or a sticky piston extension. Many players use this block as a table instead of the standard pressure plate on fence. Block 34 can be obtained by using the pick block key on Block 34 in creative. Block 34 cannot be placed even if the player has it. It can, however, be placed with some programs. For example---MCEdit or certain modifications.

It is possible to create a piston arm that will not disappear when the block next to it updates, but it will disappear if the piston that created it is moved or destroyed (The piston is both extended and retracted at the same time.) This can only be done with sticky pistons. To replicate this, one must create a "smart piston" (a piston that will push a block away as soon as the block is placed in front of the piston). This is accomplished by putting a redstone torch underneath the space where the block will be, and connecting wire from next to the space where the block will be to the piston. Since the pulse that will be created is less than 1 tick (1/10 of a second), the sticky piston will not stick to the block. Next, place blocks in front of the piston until it can't push any more, and destroy the block immediately in front of the piston (again, this must be a sticky piston.) The piston will extend and retract several times, then stay extended and retracted at the same time until either the piston or the arm is destroyed (Destroying the arm will not destroy the piston, but moving or destroying the piston will destroy the arm.) (Tested horizontally in Minecraft 1.2.5.)

Piston Moving
Piston Moving is a block used by pistons. It is a side effect of the method of storing moving blocks as tile entities instead of entities. It is used by the piston extension for the effect of the animation coming out of the piston base. This block's color, when located next to a block in the world, is black. When a block next to it is removed, it becomes invisible, can be walked through, and when light passes through it the light level decreases by 1. They are unbreakable by traditional methods, though they can be removed by simply right-clicking. The game treats the block as a stone block when it comes to their breaking animation and the sound of the player's footsteps. In the inventory it has a top of a gray grass block texture and it cannot be placed. Block 36 has no name other than its block code, 36. It is impossible to obtain block 36 without mods, the /give command, or using pick block while rapid-firing a piston. This block, if hacked into the game, can be used as a method to block fluids. Block 36 is transparent, and entities can pass through it.

Burning Furnace
This is a block used to make furnaces shed light when smelting. It has a different texture than the normal furnace and emits particles. It will replace the normal furnace block while the furnace is burning fuel, but once the fuel runs out it will revert. Through /give or other means you can place this block and it will "burn" for as long as you don't use it. Strangely, if hacked into the game as an item, it looks as if it were the regular furnace, it also has the same tooltip, "Furnace", instead of something like "Burning Furnace" or "Fueled Furnace".

The block is able to be seen at all times on Pocket Edition through a glitch. It is not a common glitch, but the furnace will stay burning even if no fuel is being burned.

Glowing Redstone Ore
This is a block used to make Redstone Ore glow when stepped on, right-clicked, or left-clicked. Glowing Redstone maintains its glow if pushed or pulled by a piston, but eventually stops glowing as if it had been touched by the player when placed.

In Creative Mode, middle-clicking Glowing Redstone Ore will select it as a different block than normal Redstone Ore.

Block 75
Block 75 is a block representing an off-state Redstone Torch. When a normal Redstone Torch receives power it turns off, turning to this block, and stops giving power. When the torch stops getting power it turns back to the normal on-state torch, and gives power again. For the game to know the torch stopped getting power the game must update the block - this happens when a block near the torch changes, and when it turned off because of Redstone current, this is not a problem, but when spawned into the world it will be turned off, and because no block is updated, it will stay this way, until a block updates. When the block is removed it will turn to a normal on-state torch. This can be used to create 'burnt out' torches. This block used to be available in the new creative inventory (12w21b) under the Redstone section, and the normal Redstone Torch was under Decoration. However, this was fixed later in 12w22a. Removing 'off' torch.

Block 94
Block 94 is the "on" state of the Redstone Repeater. If one tries to hack this in, the picture will be the top of a stone slab, or the bottom of a Redstone Repeater. If placed, it will lose the charge after one tick, making it a way to start one-tick pulses in creative or through use of the /give command.

Block 124
Block 124 is the "on" state of the Redstone Lamp When placed, it immediately turns off. This block can be obtained using Silk Touch, but when placed will turn off because nothing is powering it.

Flowing Water
The flowing water block tells the game to check for any air blocks around it and put some water into them if applicable. This is distinct from whether or not the fluid appears to be moving, and whether or not it is a source block. When placed using a water bucket or a mod it will flow 8 blocks.

Flowing Lava
The flowing lava block tells the game to check for any air blocks around it and put some lava into them if applicable. This is distinct from whether or not the fluid appears to be moving, and whether or not it is a source block. Lava flows for 4 blocks in overworld and 8 in the Nether (flowing the same distance as water, but still at the speed of lava).

Trivia

 * Even when a source block is removed, lava can continue flowing for a considerable amount of time.
 * Flowing lava does not set nearby flammable blocks on fire.

Bugs

 * Flowing lava still burns but depending on the direction of the flow, the graphic is changed.


 * In Creative mode, lava always starts flowing. But, in a 1 x optional pit, it will never do so. un-box it and it will start flowing.


 * In Creative mode, if lava is flowing, then you box it into a 1x1 box, it will continue flowing.

Infinite Lava Source
Similar to the Infinite Water Source, the Infinite Lava Source was a block that created infinite lava which would replicate infinitely to fill up volumes. The block was removed after infinite worlds were introduced. They flowed placing a lava source next to them in all four directions. They could be broken with one click.

Infinite Water Source
The Infinite Water Source was a block that would create infinite water, which would replicate infinitely to fill up volumes. They were added orignally to allow for infinite lakes on floating maps. The block was removed after infinite worlds were introduced. They flowed placing a Water source next to them. They could be broken with one click.

Farmland
Farmland is a block on which seeds can be planted and grown. To make farmland, you can use a hoe on dirt or grass. If you destroy a farmland block, which can be destroyed without a tool, it will drop dirt. After using a hoe on a block of dirt, the top of the dirt's appearance changes, becoming ridged and bumpy like tilled soil and the top layer is removed. A block of farmland becomes darker to replicate the appearance of wet soil when it is hydrated by a nearby block of water. If left alone for a period of time, unhydrated farmland will "decay" and become dirt. Grass and Mycelium do not spread onto farmland.

Natural occurrence
Farmland occurs naturally in NPC Villages where wheat, potatoes and carrots are grown on them. Patches of farmland are surrounded by logs or sandstone. However, sometimes these farmland blocks are trampled by mobs causing them to become dirt blocks instead.

Farming
Farmland is required to grow five of the game's types of crops - wheat, pumpkin, potato, carrot and melon. Melon and pumpkin blocks don't need farmland to spawn onto, as they can grow on normal dirt or grass blocks, but their seeds still need to be planted on farmland. To begin farming you need to craft a hoe. The hoe can be used to till dirt or grass into farmland by right-clicking.

A farmland block will be created dry. If it is near water, the farmland block will become hydrated. Seeds can be planted in any farmland block where they will eventually grow. By placing torches close to sown farmland, crops can be grown at night or even underground. This will also prevent aggressive Mobs from spawning near them.

Pumpkin and melon blocks are not affected by being walked or jumped on, but the parent plant may be. When blocks are placed on farmland, it reverts to dirt. This includes naturally generated blocks, such as when a melon or pumpkin is produced. Different types of seeds grow differently on dry farmland and also differently on hydrated farmland.

Plants such as saplings, ferns, tall grass and flowers may be planted on farmland, but they can also be planted on normal dirt anyway. Mushrooms, sugarcane and cactus cannot be planted on farmland. Jumping on farmland causes it to revert to plain dirt, and 'harvests' seeds planted in it, but other plant types are not uprooted.

As of 1.4 snapshot update 12w34a, you can also plant carrots and potatoes.

Wheat Stalks
This block appears when wheat seeds are planted on farmland.

Pumpkin Stem
The block that is planted on farmland when pumpkin seeds are used on it. It starts off-set under-ground, and rises up as the plant grows, as opposed to the method wheat seeds uses, where each growth stage is an individual texture. The stem is coloured green by the game, and then brown once fully grown.

The stem will change to the second image once a pumpkin has grown off the stem. A single stem will connect to any Pumpkin in an adjacent square, thus there are 5 possible appearances to a stem. When the pumpkin is removed, the stem will return to its original image.

A single pumpkin will grow off a full grown stem at a time, but once that pumpkin is removed, another can grow in its place.

Destroying a fully-grown stem yields 0-3 pumpkin seeds.

Melon Stem
The block that is planted on farmland when melon seeds are used on it. The colouring and growth method is the same as the Pumpkin Stem's.

The stem will change to the second image once a melon has grown off the stem. A single stem will connect to any Melon in an adjacent square, thus there are 4 possible appearances to a stem with a melon on it and 1 without. When the melon is removed, the stem will return to its original image.

A single melon will grow off a full grown stem at a time, but once that melon is removed, another can grow in its place.

Destroying a fully-grown stem yields 0-4 melon seeds.

Monster Egg
Monster Egg (also known as Silverfish Block or Block 97) is a block that spawn Silverfish when broken. Monster Eggs have identical looks to either stone, cobblestone, or stone brick, and are naturally found in strongholds, hiding among the true blocks. When breaking it with a pickaxe it takes noticeably longer to mine than regular stone, cobblestone, or stone brick, making it relatively easy to distinguish from the regular blocks, if one is careful enough. The block can also be destroyed by hand fairly quickly, unlike regular stone blocks. Mining a Monster Egg with a Silk Touch enchantment does not give the player a Monster Egg block, but the type of block that the Monster Egg is disguised as.

Monster Eggs are meant to deceive players. When mined, it will spawn a Silverfish which will instantly attack the player. Also, if the player attacks a Silverfish directly with a sword, bow or potion of harming, nearby Monster Eggs will break, spawning other aggressive Silverfish. If the block is destroyed by an explosion (e.g., creepers, TNT, etc.), the Silverfish will die inside of the block, which gives no experience points. The Ender Dragon is also able to destroy Monster Eggs, and prevent a Silverfish from spawning. When a Silverfish is not pursuing the player, the Silverfish will go to the nearest stone, cobblestone, or stone brick and go inside it, converting the block into a Monster Egg. When mined, the spawned Silverfish will have full health.

Monster Eggs are available in the inventory in creative mode, and can also be made by placing a stone, cobblestone, or stone brick block, and right-clicking on it with a Silverfish spawn egg. The block will then convert into a Monster Egg. Attempting to add more Silverfish into the block will result in the silverfish spawning normally.

Nether Portal
Nether Portal blocks are generated when a portal is formed, standing in them will teleport the player from The Overworld to the Nether and vice versa. However, they disappear when a block is placed next to it. In creative mode you can break this block and it will play the glass breaking sound.It can be obtained with the use of mods or the /give command on a server. The portal block's animated texture is procedurally generated, like water or lava. Nether Portal icon in Inventory are different in Overworld and Nether.

Trivia

 * Although one cannot legitimately activate a Nether Portal in The End, Nether Portal blocks will function properly and take you to a place in the Nether that corresponds to the location in the Overworld from where you first entered The End.
 * As of 12w16a, one can obtain a portal block using cheats.
 * The inside of the Nether Portal block is hollow.
 * Despite popular belief, you only need one portal block, without a frame, to warp to the Nether. This applies to both Nether and The End portals.
 * Though this block must be obtained with an inventory editor, it is not possible to place two nether portal blocks next to each other in the vanilla game simply because the block updates, then realizes it's not in a frame, and so, disappears.
 * Placing portals next to each-other can however be done via Third-Party modifications.


 * If obtained with an inventory editor, or using the 'Pick Block' button to get the block, the block can be broken with a sound similar to glass while in creative mode.
 * While in your inventory, it appears as a full block unless it is rendered in the world. (Example, it looks like a normal full block, but when you place the hacked portal in your inventory, it will then render as it looks in Minecraft)
 * If pushed by a piston, this block disappears and causes the piston to glitch out, showing both an extended arm and a retracted arm.
 * When looking through a Nether Portal, rain and waterblocks become invisible
 * When looking through ice blocks, the portal blocks become invisible.

End Portal
The End Portal is a block that will teleport the player into or out of The End dimension. It looks like a hole to a three-dimensional void with layers of blue and greenish stars, and emits light and black smoke particles. Only the top and the sides of the block are technically visible, and the bottom side is transparent‏. In addition, the bottom and top cannot be passed through, although the sides can be. The collision box for this block takes up the lower 1/16th of the block, similar to Snow.

Wherever the End Portal block exists, there is also a tile entity named “Airportal”. This tile entity has no additional data and is presumably responsible for the special visual effect only. When a player touches an End Portal block, they are teleported to the End if they are in the Overworld, or to the Overworld if they are in the End.

Trivia

 * The End Portal is technically the only block without a conventional texture, or entity texture; it uses the same image as the background of The End, with an additional effect added on top.
 * When the End Portal is destroyed, it releases gray particles, because it has no texture as such - it is rendered differently to normal blocks in-game, using multiple textures, and so for the inventory icon and the particle texture, it just uses the texture at (0, 0) in terrain.png, the default, which is grass.


 * Unlike a Nether Portal, the player is instantly teleported to The End. As such, the player has no time to fall into the lava below the portal.
 * Despite popular belief, if you manage to obtain a portal block, you only need one, without a frame, to be transported to the End.
 * As of Beta 1.9 Pre-release 4, End Portal blocks can be destroyed in Creative Mode. This does not affect the effects of adjacent End Portal blocks.
 * If the Portal is viewed from underneath it will be invisible, allowing you to see through the portal.
 * If a player moves from an End Portal Frame (which does not have an Eye of Ender in it) onto a Soul Sand block placed on the sides of an End Portal Frame, they will briefly sink an extra distance while crossing over.
 * If TNT is detonated on an end portal no blocks in its blast radius will be destroyed the same as if TNT is detonated in water.
 * Passing the End Portal while riding a minecart will not teleport you to the end, instead you will simply pass through the portal straight into the lava below, because the portal does not check for riding entities, but only the hitting entity itself.
 * When a player properly passes through an End Portal, they maintain their vertical speed. Jumping from a very tall height into an End Portal usually results in massive fall damage (and usually death) when they land on the Obsidian panel that is created at the spawn point. This can be avoided by placing layers of water directly above the End Portal, which will negate fall damage upon entering the other dimension.
 * In multiplayer, hacked end portal frames making an end portal will disconnect the player because they "moved too fast", and when they respawn, they will spawn a distance from the end "island" above the void, falling in the void.
 * The Player can obtain some of the technical blocks in creative mode by clicking the scroll-wheel on their mouse and the portal will appear in their slot.
 * As of the 12w23b snapshot, the endportal frame block can be found in in the creative menu.
 * However, by using the "pick block" you may select an End Portal Frame block in an open inventory space.
 * Mobs that would typically teleport or catch on fire (Zombies, Skeletons, and Endermen) will ignite/teleport if standing in an End portal block.
 * This block can be destroyed by the Ender Dragon when said mob passes through it.
 * Though this block cannot be pushed or pulled by pistons, when placed next to a piston which is then turned on, if you delete the portal block the piston glitches out, showing both an extended piston arm and a retracted arm.
 * Interestingly, the selection box for an end portal block appears on the bottom of the block, even though the actual location of the texture is at the top of the block.

Purple Default Block
The Purple Default Block is the non-textured version of blocks, and is the base template for textured/existing blocks. It may appear when the texture for a block has been removed or cannot be found, such as for the Locked Chest, or when the player edits the inventory or uses the /give command to spawn blocks with an incorrect data value, such as a wool block at data value 16. In this case, it will appear as wool when placed but will appear as the untextured block to the player while in their inventory.

Properties
This image is what blocks look like without a texture. The block data still exists for the textured block it is supposed to be.

This block cannot be placed unless hacked into it by using programs such as MCEdit, since when placed by a player it will appear as the block it was supposed to be, say if you used a data value, like wool with the value of 16, placing it would force it to revert to white wool as the source block is wool.

This is technically not a block, but it is the grid block to the terrain.png file that would otherwise be invisible, therefore not allowing any cheating by default.

This texture glitch also happens when looking at a block with an outdated texture pack, such as using a 1.1 texture pack in 1.2.5, would result in the Redstone Lamp being this texture, although it will keep its properties.

There is a way to correct this texture error, if you find the slot in terrain.png that the block is looking for a texture for, simple either create a texture or use a version of the game with that texture present. It also happens using a texture pack from 1.2.5 in 1.3.2.

Invisible Bedrock
A wall of Invisible Bedrock surrounds Pocket Edition maps. When placed, it is possible to see through walls, but cannot be destroyed. When held, the item texture looks like that of a stone-like item. Ladders can be placed on it, allowing you to climb over the invisible wall surrounding the maps. If you go high enough in Creative mode, you can go around it. You will see through the blocks lined up against the Invisible Bedrock.

If you shoot an arrow into Invisible Bedrock it will continue until it has reached the level of visible Bedrock. There is a glitch where putting blocks at max height next to Invisible Bedrock and walking into it will cause you to clip through the Invisible Bedrock and appear to float on nothing.

Update Game Block


The Update Game Block is a placeholder for nonexistent data values. It is a block with a Dirt texture with "update!" written on it. The Update Game Block was added in 0.1.3.

Version History 1.8 Beta+
Starting in the period between Beta 1.7.3 and Beta 1.8, Mojang began to publicly release testing versions of full updates in order to get major feedback, especially for bug reporting, so that the official update is considerably more stable. While these versions were public, they were not auto-installed by the game and are completely optional.

In Beta, these versions went under the tag of "Pre-Release", candidates subject to release for 1.0.0 as "RC#", and post-1.0.0 were given a name under a special syntax (see below).

To install a development version, simply download the minecraft.jar file, place "minecraft.jar" in your .minecraft/bin/ directory and run Minecraft as usual. For GNU/Linux, some extra work needs to be done to get the snapshots going.

Note: This is not a page for reporting bugs; they should be posted on the official bug tracker instead. For more information see the Issues page.''

Minecraft 1.5 Snapshots & Pre-releases
YY is the two-digit year, WW is the two-digit week number within the year, and x is a unique identifier, starting with "a", in case there is more than one release per week, and "w" simply stands for "week".

Minecraft 1.4 (The Pretty Scary Update) Snapshots & Pre-releases
Because Mojang wishes to have fireworks in-game for New Year's Eve, but cannot complete the Redstone Update within that time period, they have decided to work in "several parallel branches of code", with the features of snapshot 12w49a being released before Christmas as 1.4.6, and the Redstone Update being released January or February 2013 as 1.5.

{| class="collapsible wikitable" style="width:100%" |- !width="75"|Version !width="90"|Date of Addition !Additions Summary !width="80"|Download | 12w49a | December 6, 2012 | | Client Server (or .exe) | 1.4.5 Pre-release | November 16, 2012 | | Client Server (or .exe) | 1.4.4 Pre-release | November 8, 2012 | | Client Server (or .exe) | 1.4.3 Pre-release | November 1, 2012 | | Client Server (or .exe) | 1.4.2 Pre-release | October 24, 2012 | | Client Server (or .exe) | 1.4.1 Pre-release | October 23, 2012 |
 * Added Firework Rocket (sound effects will come soon)
 * Added Firework Star
 * Fireworks are customizable by crafting
 * Added Enchanted Books for enchanting items
 * Added Nether Brick Slabs
 * When holding sneak, the player can place blocks and items (like redstone, repeaters, and levers) directly onto blocks such as crafting tables, furnaces, and dispensers.
 * The blast radius of fireballs a specific Ghast shoots can be customized with an editor
 * Mostly a client-side update, thus staying at protocol version 49 (1.4.4)
 * No server update necessarily needed
 * Baby mobs are spawnable by right-clicking a mob with a corresponding mob egg
 * Added /enchant command to give specific enchants
 * Squids now die on land after a few seconds
 * When in creative, flying through cobwebs does not slow you down, but walking through them in creative will.
 * Bats spawn less frequently
 * Activated the Wither painting
 * Tweaked naming costs in the anvil
 * Tweaked experience points reward for smelting

| Client Server (or .exe) | 1.4.0 Pre-release | October 19, 2012 | | Client Server (or .exe) |- | 12w42b | October 18, 2012 | | Client Server (or .exe) |- | 12w42a | October 17, 2012 |
 * Level cap on anvils removed in creative mode.
 * New sound effects for the Wither, Bats, the Anvil and Ender Dragon.
 * New sound effects for Zombies. (Curing a Zombie, infecting a Villager and a Remedy sound).
 * Servers show their version in Multiplayer menu if not matching the client.
 * Falling sand now properly “pops” when falling on non-solid blocks (such as torches).
 * The redstone repeater lock mechanism is now slightly more stable / predictable. It’s still not 100% as Mojang wants it, but fixing it completely will require bigger changes planned for Minecraft 1.5.
 * Fixed tooltip width for renamed items.
 * Added a number of sound events, but the sound effects are not added yet.
 * Added new step sound for silverfish.
 * Added three new sound effects for zombies.
 * Added new sounds for zombie pigmen.
 * Added bat sounds.
 * (More sounds to come)
 * Server ping will now tell if the server and client have mismatching protocol versions.
 * Updated translation files.
 * Server IPs can now be individually hidden
 * Changed repeaters
 * When powering the either side of a repeater directly with another repeater, it will lock the current state of the other repeater until the signal to the powering repeater is turned off.
 * If a repeater that is on is locked, it will stay on.
 * If a repeater that is off is locked, it can not output a signal
 * When locked, the repeater's second torch will no longer be visible and a bar textured similarly to bedrock will appear
 * Anvil tweaks
 * New crafting recipe, now is 31 iron ingots instead of 55
 * Minor visual changes
 * The player can repair tools and armor using their source material. To get a tool or piece of armor to its maximum durability when it is nearly broken, one must use four of its source material (wooden planks, cobblestone, iron, gold or diamonds). However, hoes are not able to be repaired.
 * Reduced experience level cost
 * Bats no longer trample crops, activate pressure plates or tripwire
 * Updated language file

| Client Server (or .exe) |- | 12w41b | October 12, 2012 | | Client Server (or .exe) |- | 12w41a | October 11, 2012 | | Client Server (or .exe) |- | 12w40b | October 5, 2012 |
 * Anvils will be damaged by falling depending on distance fallen.
 * Added a new Anvil Block for repairing, merging & naming items.
 * Three different damage states: Anvil, Slightly Damaged Anvil, and Very Damaged Anvil.
 * Anvils can not only rename tools and armor, but any item.
 * Renamed placeable items will not retain their name if placed.
 * Anvils can merge enchantments
 * Items with two different enchantments will give an item with both
 * Items with the same enchantment will increase the level of the enchantment if they have the same level or take only the highest if they don't
 * Some enchantments can be lost during the merging because of incompatibility (ex: Sharpness I + Smite I)
 * The first item seems to have the priority (the lost enchantments are on the second item)
 * Anvils can also be dropped in a similar manner to Sand, Gravel, and Dragon Eggs.
 * When landing on a mob, the anvil will deal damage relative to the distance it fell.
 * Renamed "Chat Settings" to "Multiplayer Settings".
 * Contains the old chat settings menu.
 * Option for cape-owners to hide their capes ingame.
 * Tweaks to debugging
 * F3+H now shows tool and armor durability on damaged items - On maps it shows the zoom level.
 * Now shows which cardinal direction the player is facing on the f value.
 * The pie chart on the F3 overlay is now shown when opening it using shift+F3 instead of vice versa.
 * Mobs no longer forget that they are aggressive against a player in Creative mode after a few seconds anymore.
 * Creepers now can have custom explosion radius and fuse timer using edited mob spawners and NBT tags.
 * Potion-like effects given by the Beacon now use semi-transparent particles, to be less intrusive.
 * Normal potions remain unchanged.
 * Level-up sound now only plays every 5 levels and has been tweaked.
 * Gaining experience from breeding animals.
 * Added a way to teleport a player relative to their current coordinates.
 * Use ~ to represent current position and then + or -.
 * For example, "/tp (player) ~+500 ~-5 6.13" teleports adds +500x, -5y, and moves the player to 6.13z.

| Client Server (or .exe) |- | 12w40a | October 4, 2012 | | Client Server (or .exe) |- | 12w39b | September 28, 2012 | | Client Server (or .exe) |- | 12w39a | September 27, 2012 | Client Server (or .exe) Client Server (or .exe)
 * Added Swamp Hut structures, for Witches to spawn in
 * Added superflat preset "Redstone Ready" with a 52 layers of sandstone, 3 layers of stone, and 1 layer of bedrock
 * Flatworld configuration now allows you to generate trees, strongholds etc
 * Now pumpkins, tall grass, flowers, trees, mineshafts, dungeons, strongholds, lakes, desert wells, ravines and ores will spawn on superflat maps
 * Custom Item naming NBT tags (intended for custom map makers)
 * Using the NBT, it is possible to add custom names to items, as well as a lore list for that item
 * Better inventory management
 * The pick block action now works on blocks that are represented as items in the inventory. (Eg: Repeaters, redstone dust, tripwire)
 * Pressing the 1-9 hotkeys while hovering over an item will put that item into the inventory bar.
 * In creative mode, you can now shift-click items from the hotbar to the survival inventory screen
 * The left-click action will no longer open doors, pull levers, push buttons or open trapdoors. Use the right mouse button!
 * Firespread has been slightly nerfed again to prevent infinitely spreading fires
 * Beacon Texture altered, as well as the beam.
 * Eye of Ender can now be used in superflat worlds. (only if stronghold generation is enabled)
 * Slimes now spawn in Swamp biomes at low light level.
 * Custom potions
 * Only available by editing in with a world editor
 * Able to create potions with multiple effects
 * Command blocks had arguments added
 * Added "l" and "lm" arguments for indicating players with a maximum level, and minimum level, respectively
 * Added "r" and "lr" arguments for indicating the maximum and minimum range to which players will be affected
 * Added a command variable to the "/xp" command
 * Use "L" after number to represent number of levels, not number of xp.
 * For example "/xp 4L" will give a player 4 levels.
 * Added more options to customize spawners
 * Spawners can now have their range and maximum spawn limit customized.
 * Lighting system overhauled.
 * Many blocks previously incorrectly lit now interact correctly with lighting now (stairs, slabs, pistons, etc.)
 * Several sound tweaks
 * Changed Witch texture dimensions.
 * More bugfixes & slight tweaks.
 * Debug screen shows which chunk the player is in, as well as where in that chunk, next to the X and Z coordinates.
 * 12w38b
 * September 21, 2012
 * Updated sound engine and fixed wrong sounds.
 * Added minecart sounds.
 * Changed level-up sound.
 * Changed fall-damage sound.
 * Changed the new block placing sounds (implemented in 12w38a) back to original sounds.
 * New cave sound.
 * The fire charge makes the same sound as flint and steel when used
 * A few tweaks to the witch mob.
 * Can't hurt themselves now.
 * Texture changed slightly.
 * New drops
 * Misc potion ingredients
 * Sticks
 * Chance to drop what they're holding at the time of death
 * New creeper fall mechanics
 * Creepers will explode if they fall on you from a certain height.
 * Chance to drop what they're holding at the time of death
 * New creeper fall mechanics
 * Creepers will explode if they fall on you from a certain height.
 * 12w38a
 * September 20, 2012
 * The Nether loads faster when going through a portal.
 * In Creative mode, teleportation is instantaneous.
 * The water overlay is more saturated blue.
 * Updated and added new sounds by C418.
 * New footstep sounds: sand, gravel, soul sand, grass block, ladders, snow, and stone.
 * New block-placing sounds: wood, stone, plants, sand, gravel and torch. New sounds are unintended and are the same as in the Pocket Edition.
 * New block breaking sounds: wood, snow, glass.
 * New mob sounds: cow, chickens, pigs, Enderman (watched/observed, attacked, etc.), zombie, spiders, skeleton, and slime.
 * New tool sounds: flint and steel, shears (when shearing sheep) and hoe when you till dirt.
 * Lava and flowing water now have constant noise.
 * Added level up sound, but will be changed later for a shorter one.
 * Added sound when Withers break blocks.
 * Added bats
 * A passive mob
 * Spawns in dark caves.
 * Spawns in Peaceful mode.
 * Sleeps during the day.
 * Hangs on the ceiling when idle, starts flying when players come near.
 * Added a hostile mob (witch).
 * Its nose slowly bobs up and down when not hostile.
 * Throws splash potions of poison, slowness, weakness and instant damage at you.
 * Regenerates health over time.
 * Hold an empty bottle and raise their noses when attacking.
 * Drink potions of instant health and fire resistance to defend themselves in combat.
 * Rarely drop potions of instant health and fire resistance.
 * Is immune to some splash potions.
 * Does not spawn naturally (yet), but a spawn egg exists for it in Creative mode.
 * Command block target parameters have been upgraded.
 * Beacon artwork was changed.
 * The beam of light was changed.
 * The texture of bedrock under the beacon is removed.
 * Wood blocks have a different rotation algorithm. Instead of using the player’s position, they rotate based on the face they are placed upon, like a lever (this is mainly a test).
 * Stone monster egg blocks (which spawn Silverfish) will rarely generate underground in Extreme Hills biomes.
 * The texture of bedrock under the beacon is removed.
 * Wood blocks have a different rotation algorithm. Instead of using the player’s position, they rotate based on the face they are placed upon, like a lever (this is mainly a test).
 * Stone monster egg blocks (which spawn Silverfish) will rarely generate underground in Extreme Hills biomes.

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 * 12w37a
 * September 13, 2012
 * Tweaks to the Wither.
 * It creates an explosion around itself once it is done regenerating from spawning.
 * The Wither now will randomly shoot slow blue-colored versions of wither skull projectiles when idle.
 * Added "Re-Create" option to the World selection menu.
 * Allows you to create a new world as a copy of an existing save, defaulting all of the world options and the world seed to match the original.
 * 'Carrots' are now singularly 'Carrot'.
 * Added pumpkin pie.
 * Tweaks to a couple of item sprites.
 * Bread, raw chicken, cooked chicken, raw beef, steak, raw porkchop, cooked porkchop, red apple, and Nether Star no longer have a dark outline.
 * Carrots changed to match their singular title.
 * Golden Carrot sprite changed to match new carrot sprite.
 * Heads are now correctly centered.
 * Baked potates do not have steam above the main texture anymore.
 * Leather armor now has a non-dyed layer.
 * Time of the redstone signal of the wooden/stone button extended from 9 to 12 redstone ticks
 * Superflat customization GUI:
 * Comes with 7 presets: Classic Flat, Tunnelers' Dream, Water World, Overworld, Snowy Kingdom, Bottomless Pit (Broken), and Desert.
 * Custom starts off with Classic Flat with three options: Add Layer, Edit Layer, Remove Layer. Adding and editing are not yet included.
 * You can customize superflat without add/edit layer option using the "seed" in the preset list.
 * Fishing now gives the player XP.
 * Pigs are now able to jump when players ride on them.
 * Pigs will cease to move when ridden in water. (player weight or bug?)
 * Added  command to empty the inventory.
 * Hostile mobs are now a little bit more fearless in hard difficulty.
 * Mobs will risk taking fall damage to reach the player, provided it will not be deadly to themselves.
 * Seems to be more Wither skeletons in Nether Fortresses.
 * Heads can now be customized to be player heads using an NBT tag
 * Mobs will risk taking fall damage to reach the player, provided it will not be deadly to themselves.
 * Seems to be more Wither skeletons in Nether Fortresses.
 * Heads can now be customized to be player heads using an NBT tag
 * 12w36a
 * September 6, 2012
 * Updated Wither
 * Place 4 pieces of Soul Sand in a vertical T-shape and place 3 Wither Skeleton Skulls on top to create it.
 * Drops one Nether Star upon death.
 * When spawned in the Overworld, the sky will get darker.
 * Gives players "Wither II" effect when hitting them.
 * Its name is now displayed correctly above its HP bar.
 * Added Wither Skeleton mob which only shows up in the Nether.
 * Gives players "Wither" effect when hitting them.
 * Carry and rarely drop stone swords when killed by players.
 * Drops bones and coal.
 * Has a high chance to spawn from an skeleton egg if the player is in the Nether
 * Wither skeletons can replace skeletons on spider jockeys.
 * Spawned by using a spider spawn egg in the Nether.
 * First mob to be exclusive to Creative mode.
 * Added one new painting depicting the creation of a Wither.
 * Added Carrot on a Stick.
 * Used to maneuver pigs.
 * Pigs follow the player when holding carrots
 * Can also attract pigs similarly to wheat.
 * Main purpose is to control saddled pigs while ridden.
 * Added Nether Star
 * Used as a crafting ingredient for the Beacon block
 * Added heads
 * Five types in this version:
 * Skeleton Skull
 * Wither Skeleton Skull
 * Zombie head
 * Creeper head
 * Human head
 * Wither Skeleton Skulls are dropped very rarely by Wither Skeletons.
 * Other heads are only available via the creative inventory.
 * Can be used as hats
 * Updated the Beacon block, now shows up as Beacon.
 * New model and textures.
 * Can now be crafted by surrounding a Nether Star with 3 blocks of obsidian on the bottom and 5 blocks of glass around the top
 * Retextured the Golden Carrot.
 * Chickens now use seeds instead of wheat to breed.
 * Chickens now follow the player when a seed is in hand.
 * Pigs can be bred with carrots.
 * Zombies and skeletons that pick up items will now always drop them after dying.
 * Saddled pigs will now always drop saddles on death.
 * Minor changes to dyeing.
 * Leather armor now uses two overlayed textures, one being the color.
 * Minor changes to the leather dyeing - the colors will attempt to maintain intensity and not dilute as much
 * Carrots and potatoes can now be found in either Villages or growing in Jungle biomes.
 * The zombie and Zombie Pigman models and textures have changed.
 * No visual difference, except that it breaks old texture packs.
 * Carrots and potatoes can now be found in either Villages or growing in Jungle biomes.
 * The zombie and Zombie Pigman models and textures have changed.
 * No visual difference, except that it breaks old texture packs.

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 * 12w34b
 * August 24, 2012
 * Changed recipes for buttons. They now require 1 stone block/wooden plank to craft.
 * Leather and diamond armor textures slightly changed:
 * Leather armor sleeves are extended by one pixel.
 * Their item texture has been changed to match the new texture.
 * Diamond armor sleeves now have a notch on the inner side.
 * Removed "map_#/#" on the map and added "Map #" in the tool tip
 * Added boss names above boss health.
 * When taken down to half health, Withers will gain Wither armor, making them immune to arrows.
 * Occasionally, zombies, skeletons, and zombie pigmen will spawn with the ability to pick up items on the ground.
 * Armor will automatically equip. Items will instantly be held, which is not exclusive to weapons. This means these zombies can be found holding items they have come across, such as rotten flesh.
 * This will cause zombie pigmen to drop their sword.
 * This will cause skeleton to drop their bow.
 * The attribute applied to allow them to pick up items is called CanPickUpLoot.
 * Arrows caught on fire (or by enchantments) are able to ignite TNT when on contact.
 * In the Overworld, Zombie Pigmen are eager to get back in the Nether Portal (e.g., if the player makes a portal and spawn Zombie Pigmen in Creative, it will run into the portal).
 * Client
 * In the Overworld, Zombie Pigmen are eager to get back in the Nether Portal (e.g., if the player makes a portal and spawn Zombie Pigmen in Creative, it will run into the portal).
 * Client
 * 12w34a
 * August 23, 2012
 * Added item frames.
 * Crafted like a painting but with leather instead of wool.
 * Added cobblestone wall and mossy cobblestone wall.
 * Added flower pot.
 * Added new Full-screen toggle to the Video settings.
 * Added new use Vsync toggle in the Video settings.
 * Improved maps
 * Maps now align to a grid, making it easier to create adjacent maps.
 * A compass and paper do now create an empty map
 * An empty map has no data on it until you right click on it. The point on your world where you right clicked it is the map's center
 * A map (with data) can be cloned. Cloned maps are stackable
 * Maps can be zoomed out (but not zoomed in)
 * Stairs now auto-arrange into corners. This is a test and may change based on feedback.
 * Mobs (and all other entities) can travel through portals.
 * Fire charges shot from a dispenser or a Blaze create the "fireball" sound effect.
 * Leather armor can be dyed.
 * The default color of leather has changed.
 * You can right-click a full cauldron with dyed armor to remove dye.
 * Tamed wolves' collars can be dyed.
 * Removed the “Work in Progress block” from the Creative menu.
 * Added two new crops (carrots and potatoes) and associated items.
 * Carrots
 * Golden carrots
 * Potatoes
 * Baked potatoes
 * Poisonous potatoes
 * Carrots and potatoes can be planted in tilled soil.
 * Zombies have a chance to drop a carrots and potatoes.
 * F3+P will toggle the auto-pause when the window loses focus (mainly for debugging).
 * F3+H will toggle detailed item descriptions (also for debugging).
 * Added arrow-sensitive wooden buttons.
 * The particle effect when a trade with a Villager has been successful has changed.
 * Trapdoors can be placed in top-most position (based on cross-hair aim).
 * Added a mob called a Wither, only available through external modification such as editing mob spawners, mods, or hacks. It shoots exploding projectiles called Wither Skulls and destroys nearby blocks. It also has a boss health bar.
 * Added Potion of Invisibility.
 * Mobs do not attack you until you bump into them.
 * Potion also hides the player's name tag.
 * Fire spreads differently based on difficulty.
 * Brewing recipes for Potions of Night Vision and Invisibility added:
 * Potion of Night Vision is brewed by adding a golden carrots to an Awkward Potion.
 * Potion of Invisibility is brewed by adding a Fermented Spider Eye to a Potion of Night Vision.
 * Added an unused texture in gui/items.png.
 * Mob grinders now give less XP when you farm them continuously.
 * Saplings now have a smaller hitbox.
 * The f: item on the F# debug screen now shows the exact direction the player is looking, between -180 and 180 degrees from south.
 * Client
 * The f: item on the F# debug screen now shows the exact direction the player is looking, between -180 and 180 degrees from south.
 * Client
 * 12w32a
 * August 9, 2012
 * Villagers will now react positively on new trades, and negatively if you hurt them
 * This effect only takes place if the villager recognizes nearby housing, most commonly with naturally spawned villagers
 * There is a third, unused particle effect added of a villager's face looking angry. Angry Villager Particle.png
 * Villagers will not remove trades, but trading something else may be required to renew the old ones
 * Zombies, skeletons and Zombie Pigmen sometimes spawn wearing equipment including enchanted weapons and any type of armor, depending on the difficulty level.
 * Added Zombie Villagers
 * Villagers have a chance of turning into zombies after being killed by one.
 * Zombie spawn eggs may spawn zombie villagers.
 * Zombie villagers can naturally spawn.
 * Zombie villagers can be cured, becoming normal Villagers again.
 * To do this, first use a Splash Potion of Weakness on it. Then, right-click on it with a level one Golden Apple. After several minutes, it will turn back into a normal villager.
 * Rarely, villagers can spawn in the Nether near nether portals.
 * New "villages.dat" file in the data folder of world saves
 * Added the Command Block intended for adventure maps.
 * It can run server commands when triggered by a redstone signal.
 * You can use @player or @p as a placeholder for the nearest player.
 * This block will not be craftable and is currently not available in the creative mode inventory, but can be obtained via the command /give 137
 * New commands:
 * /difficulty
 * /gamerule [value]. Value can be defined as false / true. All rules except keepInventory are true by default. The available rules are as follows:
 * doFireTick (false=fire cannot spread)
 * mobGriefing (false=creeper explosions do not damage blocks)
 * keepInventory (true=keep inventory on death)
 * doMobSpawning (false=mobs do not spawn)
 * doMobLoot (false=mobs do not drop loot)
 * doTileDrops (false=blocks do not drop items when breaking)
 * /spawnpoint [player] [  ]
 * /weather  [duration in seconds]
 * Added the Beacon block (Named "Work in Progress" ingame).
 * By building a pyramid composed of storage blocks such as Blocks of Emerald or Blocks of Diamond and placing this block on top, the player gains access to several powers.
 * A full pyramid can provide level II powers, should the player select the level I variation in the primary powers section.
 * It can not be crafted, although a crafting recipe is planned.
 * It can be obtained via the "Miscellaneous" tab in the creative inventory, or with the /give 138</tt> command.
 * The minimum range is 16 blocks
 * Gives off a light level of 15, as bright as Glowstone
 * Players within the blocks' range will be given the selected effects every 4 seconds
 * The best configuration of blocks requires 164 blocks
 * A working Potion of Night Vision is in the creative inventory.
 * Zombie attack animation shows when it's holding a weapon.
 * Iron Golems now attack slimes and Magma Cubes.
 * The attribution of the quotation at the end of the credits was changed from "Mark Twain" to "Unknown".
 * Iron Golems now attack slimes and Magma Cubes.
 * The attribution of the quotation at the end of the credits was changed from "Mark Twain" to "Unknown".

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 * Client
 * }

Beta 1.9 Pre-releases
Considered the "Lost Update", a full version under the name "Beta 1.9" never came. Instead, Mojang opted to delay the release of this update until MineCon 2011 and release it under the name "Minecraft 1.0.0". This decision was made after a few development versions tagged as Beta 1.9 were already sent out, so the name Beta 1.9 was kept for all of the development versions in the gap between Beta 1.8.1 and Minecraft 1.0.0, other than the Release Candidates.

Version
{| class="wikitable" style="width:100%" !width="75"|Version !width="90"|Date of Addition !Additions Summary


 * 1.4.5 || November 20, 2012 ||
 * 1.4.5 || November 20, 2012 ||

1.4.5

 * 1.4.4 || November 14, 2012 ||
 * 1.4.4 || November 14, 2012 ||

1.4.4
(Includes 1.4.3)
 * Creepers now drop music disc "11"
 * The missing music disc “where are we now” is now available, but called “wait”
 * Over 120 bugs and glitches fixed
 * Baby mobs are spawnable by right-clicking a mob with a corresponding mob egg
 * Added /enchant command to give specific enchants
 * Squids now die on land after a few seconds
 * When in creative, flying through cobwebs does not slow you down, but walking through them in creative will.


 * 1.4.2 (Pretty Scary Update)|| October 25, 2012 ||
 * For information on the update, see Pretty Scary Update.
 * For information on the update, see Pretty Scary 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 while holding  will toggle the auto-pause when the Minecraft window loses focus
 * Pressing while holding   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

Gameplay


 * 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  command to change difficulty
 * = peaceful
 * = easy
 * = normal
 * = hard
 * Added  to change your own or other players' spawnpoint to where you are standing or to specified coordinates
 * <x> <y> <z>
 * Added, an alias for
 * Added  to change the current weather and optionally set the duration for the new weather
 * Added  <true/false> to look up and change gamerules regarding Command Block output
 * - Whether fire should spread
 * - Whether mobs should drop items
 * - Whether mobs should naturally spawn
 * - Whether blocks should have drops (does not work for paintings)
 * - Whether the player should keep items in their inventory if they die.
 * - Whether creepers, endermen and withers should be able to change blocks.
 * Added  to clear a specified player's entire inventory or remove only one block/item from it
 * Changed  so it can be used to give and take entire experience levels by appending "L" to the number
 * Changed  to work with relative coordinates
 * Added command target selectors
 * Available selectors:
 * - Closest player
 * - All players
 * - Random player
 * Can have arguments specified in  using the syntax , where   is the argument
 * Available arguments:
 * - Coordinates
 * - Range
 * - Minumum experience level
 * - Maximum experience level
 * - Minimum range
 * Special argument only usable with :
 * - 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
 * Entities will pass through instantly, but at a longer "cooldown"
 * Portals will allow fire burning entities like blazes to leave the Nether and potentially burn things
 * Portals will teleport an entity relative to where it entered
 * 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
 * Pigs now use carrots instead of wheat to breed
 * You can now restore a desolate village or create a completely new village
 * 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  are picked up almost instantly now
 * Doors, trapdoors, levers and buttons are no longer triggerable with the left mouse button
 * 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  command only working for ops
 * Fixed  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
 * Fixed wet wolves looking way too scary

World Generation


 * Made superflat worlds customizable
 * 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 -
 * Tunnelers' Dream -
 * Water World -
 * Overworld -
 * Snowy Kingdom -
 * Bottomless Pit -
 * Desert -
 * Redstone Ready -
 * Preset format with example: 95;35:2;2x20;1;stronghold – 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 and can additionally have   appended to specify   as the data value. Before that, you can put   to specify that this layer should be put   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
 * 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 

Blocks & Items


 * Command blocks
 * Runs editable commands when triggered by redstone
 * Intended for adventure maps
 * Can only be edited by OPs, as long as  in server.properties is enabled
 * Only obtainable using
 * Can operate in silent mode where it doesn't display commands in the chat box.
 * 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
 * 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, Slightly Damaged Anvil & Very Damaged Anvil
 * Can be placed in 4 orientations, but can't be moved by pistons
 * Experience level cost depends on enchantment levels & rarities, whether the item will be renamed and whether the item has been used with an anvil before - Maximum experience level cost is 39 levels, unless in Creative mode
 * For a more detailed explanation on how enchantments are combined using the anvil, see the Anvil mechanics page
 * Is affected by gravity and does 1 heart of damage to mobs and players it falls on per block it fell, excluding the first one - Players killed by a falling anvil cause the death message "Player was squashed by a falling anvil" to appear in chat
 * Certain blocks are destroyed when an anvil falls on them: levers, buttons, torches, redstone torches, redstone repeaters, flower pots, rails & mob heads
 * Mob Spawners
 * Added a few NBT tags to change a few key spawning rules
 * Range can now be changed
 * Maximum amount of spawned entities within spawning range can now be changed
 * Horizontal spawning radius can now be changed
 * Spawned mobs can wear and carry any items and blocks as well as have a custom drop rate of held items
 * Added an NBT tag for mobs to decide whether they can despawn
 * Added an NBT tag for mobs to decide whether they are invincible
 * Repeaters
 * Can now be locked by powering their sides with another repeater
 * When locked, they show a little bedrock barrier in place of the delay indicator torch and won't change their output signal
 * Flower Pots
 * Lets players plant all kinds of saplings, mushrooms, flowers, cacti, dead shrubs and ferns
 * Using pick block on it gives the potted plant
 * Right-click it with something to plant it, hit it to get both back
 * Cobblestone Walls
 * Available in cobblestone and moss stone variants
 * Behave like fences - Connect to each other, to other blocks and to fence gates & have a 1.5 blocks high collision box
 * Have a different, higher shape in corners and when blocks are placed on them
 * Wooden logs
 * Changed placement: Instead of facing the player, it will face the surface it is placed on
 * Place it on the side of a block to get a sideways log.
 * Place it on the top or bottom of a block to get a topside log.
 * Stairs
 * Now connect to other stairs to form corner stairs
 * Item Frames
 * All items and blocks can be framed
 * Clocks, compasses and maps function - Maps show only one marker, the frame itself
 * Mounted maps show markers on copies of that map
 * Using pick block on it gives the framed item/block, but only works in Creative
 * Paintings
 * Added Wither painting
 * Mob Heads
 * Are very rarely dropped when mobs are killed by players
 * Only drop from Wither Skeletons, but also exist for creepers, zombies, skeletons and players
 * Can be put on the ground in 16 orientations and hung on walls
 * Can be worn
 * Using external editors or mods player skulls can be assigned to specific players - They then have tooltip "Player's Head"
 * Add the NBT tag "SkullOwner" -> (player name) on the skull items.
 * Trapdoors
 * Can now be placed on the top half of blocks
 * Placement works similar to that of slabs and stairs
 * Buttons
 * Now stays active for 0.2 seconds longer
 * New crafting recipe – Only 1 stone block required
 * Wooden Buttons
 * Additionally can be activated by arrows
 * Requires 1 wooden plank to craft
 * Fire
 * Now spreads more aggressively depending on difficulty
 * Saplings
 * Decreased hitbox size
 * TNT
 * Is now triggered by flaming arrows
 * Potatoes
 * Can be planted on hydrated soil and drop 1-4 potatoes when fully grown
 * Can be grown instantly using bonemeal
 * Can be Smelted to receive a baked potato
 * Rarely drop poisoned potatoes
 * Potatoes give 0.5 hunger points, poisoned potatoes give 1 hunger point and have a chance to poison you, baked potatoes give 3 hunger points
 * Carrots
 * Can be planted on hydrated soil and drop 2-4 carrots when fully grown
 * Can be grown instantly using bonemeal
 * Can be crafted surrounded with 8 gold nuggets to get a golden carrot
 * Carrots give 2 hunger points, golden carrots give 3 hunger points
 * Carrot on a Stick
 * Used to control pigs
 * When held, it dictates the direction pigs players are riding will head in
 * Nearby pigs flock towards players holding it
 * Slowly loses durability when riding pigs
 * Pigs start slow but end up going about 5 blocks per second
 * Can be right-clicked to give the pig a short speed boost - This takes up a chunk of the durability
 * The pigs ‘eat’ the carrot eventually, leaving the player a fishing rod and will require another carrot to continue riding.
 * To craft, the carrot must be placed at a diagonal below the fishing rod
 * Pumpkin Pie
 * Restores 4 hunger points
 * The crafting recipe is shapeless: assemble a Pumpkin, Egg and Sugar into the crafting inventory
 * Nether Star
 * Drops from Withers
 * Used to craft the Beacon
 * Glows like an enchanted item
 * Night Vision Potion
 * Brewed by adding a Golden Carrot to an Awkward Potion
 * Invisibility Potion
 * Effect now hides the nametag and cape
 * Mobs only attack you when you walk into them or attack them
 * Splash potions of invisibility can also make mobs partially invisible, although eyes of some mobs still show
 * Brewed by adding a Fermented Spider Eye to a Potion of Night Vision
 * Potions
 * Can now have any available potion effects, level and duration
 * Data are saved using NBT tags, but potions retain their original color
 * Maps
 * Are now crafted as an Empty Map and will become a real map by right-clicking
 * Start out at their closest zoom level and can be extended by adding more paper
 * Players see other players moving around on the same map
 * Craft an existing map with an empty map to receive an extra copy of the map
 * Removed text overlay
 * Are labelled 'Map #0' and so on
 * Now align to a grid and can be stacked to 64
 * When outside a map's range, the player is displayed as a small circle at the edge
 * Armor
 * Diamond Armor sleeves now have a notch on the inner side
 * Completely revamped leather armor
 * Leather Armor
 * Can now be dyed in 16,777,216 potential different colors
 * Putting it in a crafting grid with dyes applies all colors
 * Dyed armor's tooltip will display ‘’Dyed’’
 * Right-click dyed armor on cauldrons to wash it and remove some water from the cauldron
 * Changed item and model color and texture
 * Now uses two overlayed textures, one being the color

Mobs


 * Wither
 * Three-headed flying player-created boss mob shooting projectiles at mobs that are not undead and players
 * Place 4 pieces of Soulsand in a T-shape and place 3 Wither Skeleton Skulls on top to summon it
 * After spawning, it flashes blue, builds up health, grows slightly and is invincible for a few seconds - Then it explodes and starts attacking players and mobs
 * Each head can fire projectiles, so called Wither Skulls, at different targets - Projectiles explode on impact
 * Shoots two kinds of projectile - a blue one from the little heads, targeting mobs and a dark one from the big head targeting players
 * When hit by projectiles, players get the ‘’Wither II’’ effect, which acts like a slower poison effect that can kill and turns affected players' health bars' hearts black
 * Constantly regenerates health
 * Gains Wither armor when taken down to half health, making it immune to arrows
 * Drops a Nether Star when killed
 * Darkens the sky when spawned in the Overworld
 * Wither Skeletons
 * Carry and rarely drop Stone swords when killed by players
 * Drop bones, coal, and rarely wither skulls
 * Give players Wither effect when hitting them
 * Spawn in Nether Fortresses
 * Will now rarely, depending on difficulty, spawn with the ability to pick up armor, head wear, items, blocks, weapons and tools - Armor and tools & swords are equipped automatically and will be exchanged for better gear when possible        - Items that are picked up will have a 100% chance of dropping after dying - When killed, they drop what they are holding
 * All equipped gear is functional - Swords and tools do more damage on attacks, armor protects the mob
 * Rare tool drops now are damaged when it drops
 * More advanced gear is more likely to spawn with mobs when playing on harder difficulties and rarely drops when the mob is killed by players
 * Witch
 * Looks like an offshoot villager
 * Throws splash potions of poison, slowness, weakness and instant damage at players
 * Holds a potion and wiggles its magical nose with a wart on it when attacking
 * Has a hat, which sometimes emits particles
 * Regenerates health over time
 * Drinks potions of instant health and fire resistance to defend themselves in combat
 * Is immune to 80% of splash potions' effects
 * Drops Sticks, Glowstone, Redstone, Gunpowder, Sugar, Spider Eyes, Empty Bottles & Water Bottles when killed
 * Has a chance to drop the potion it is holding if killed by players
 * Spawn in Witch Huts in swamps
 * Bats
 * Hang on the ceiling when idle, starts flying when players come near
 * Spawn in dark caves
 * Sleep at day
 * Don't trigger pressure plates or tripwire
 * Tamed wolves
 * Their collars can now be dyed by right-clicking the wolf with dye
 * Iron Golems
 * Now attack creepers, Slimes and Magma Cubes
 * All hostile mobs
 * Will now jump down to players as long as they can survive the fall
 * Depending on difficulty, they are willing to take more damage
 * Creepers
 * Will start exploding when they hit the ground, with explosions being more imminent with higher falls
 * Can now have custom explosion radius and fuse timer using edited mob spawners and NBT tags
 * Zombies
 * Will now rarely spawn with armor of all kinds, sometimes enchanted
 * Will now rarely, depending on difficulty, spawn with the ability to pick up armor, head wear, items, blocks, weapons and tools - Armor and tools & swords are equipped automatically and will be exchanged for better gear when possible        - Items that are picked up will have a 100% chance of dropping after dying - When killed, they drop what they are holding
 * All equipped gear is functional - Swords and tools do more damage on attacks, armor protects the mob
 * Rare tool drops now are damaged when it drops
 * More advanced gear is more likely to spawn with mobs when playing on harder difficulties and rarely drops when the mob is killed by players
 * When wearing helmets, they will not burn up - Instead all damage will is applied to the helmet
 * Using modified mob spawners they can have a custom drop rate of items and hold and wear all kinds of items and blocks
 * Now have a chance, depending on difficulty, to infect villagers after killing them - The villager then gets replaced with a villager zombie on death
 * On Normal difficulty, there is a 50% chance of infection and on Hard difficulty there is a 100% chance of infection
 * Infected baby villagers turn into baby villager zombies
 * Baby zombies are 50% faster, don't age, don't burn up in the sun and can wear armor
 * Right-clicking a villager zombie under the influence of a Weakness potion with a golden apple will invert their potion effect, make them wiggle slightly and eventually turn back into a villager
 * Now rarely spawn holding iron swords or iron shovels
 * When holding something in their hands, their arms move upwards when attacking
 * Added baby zombie, which is only spawnable using mods or third-party tools
 * Will now rarely drop carrots and potatoes when killed by players
 * Have a 25% chance of spawning with a pumpkin on their head during Halloween.
 * Skeletons
 * Will now rarely spawn with armor of all kinds, sometimes enchanted
 * Will now rarely, depending on difficulty, spawn with the ability to pick up armor, head wear, items, blocks, weapons and tools - Armor and tools & swords are equipped automatically and will be exchanged for better gear when possible        - Items that are picked up will have a 100% chance of dropping after dying - When killed, they drop what they are holding
 * All equipped gear is functional - Swords and tools do more damage on attacks, armor protects the mob
 * Rare tool drops now are damaged when it drops
 * More advanced gear is more likely to spawn with mobs when playing on harder difficulties and rarely drops when the mob is killed by players
 * When wearing helmets, they will not burn up - Instead all damage is applied to the helmet
 * Using modified mob spawners they can have a custom drop rate of items and hold and wear all kinds of items and blocks
 * Now sometimes, carry enchanted bows - Those items can be dropped when killed by players
 * Have a 25% chance of spawning with a pumpkin on their head during Halloween.
 * Zombie Pigmen
 * Will now rarely, depending on difficulty, spawn with the ability to pick up armor, head wear, items, blocks, weapons and tools - Armor and tools & swords are equipped automatically and will be exchanged for better gear when possible        - Items that are picked up will have a 100% chance of dropping after dying - When killed, they drop what they are holding
 * All equipped gear is functional - Swords and tools do more damage on attacks, armor protects the mob
 * Rare tool drops now are damaged when it drops
 * More advanced gear is more likely to spawn with mobs when playing on harder difficulties and rarely drops when the mob is killed by players
 * Using modified mob spawners they can have a custom drop rate of items and hold and wear all kinds of items and blocks
 * Now rarely carry enchanted golden swords
 * Dropped Golden Swords now sometimes are damaged
 * Added baby Zombie Pigman, which is only spawnable using mods or third-party tools
 * Villagers
 * Improved villagers to make them more self-aware
 * All villagers of one village can now like and dislike specific players
 * Will like players more for trading with them
 * Will like players less for hurting them or their golems
 * When players are really disliked, iron golems of that village can become aggressive towards those players
 * After a villager dies to natural causes, excluding mobs, while a player is within 16 blocks or if a mob kills a villager, no baby villagers will be produced in the next few minutes
 * Changed and added some trades to counteract emerald farming and improve gameplay
 * Will show particle effects indicating a change of liking towards a player
 * Pigs
 * Can now accelerate to up to 5 m/s
 * Now drop their saddle when killed
 * Slimes
 * Now spawn in swamps at night
 * Sheep 
 * Sheep from spawn eggs can now spawn natural colored sheep (white, gray, brown, pink, etc.)
 * 1.3.2 || August 16, 2012 ||
 * 1.3.2 || August 16, 2012 ||

1.3.2

 * Large Oak Trees now generate with sideways logs.
 * You can now toggle showing server addresses in the server list using the F1 key.
 * 1.3.1 || August 1, 2012 ||
 * 1.3.1 || August 1, 2012 ||

1.3.1
General
 * Updated the launcher
 * Includes demo mode. Note: Clicking on demo mode without the game installed will not work, and instead freeze at game updating and not download.
 * The "Loading update news" message which appears when the launcher attempts to load the release feed is now styled, rather than the plain html it was prior.
 * Improved overall stability and performance
 * Reduced CPU, RAM & bandwidth usage.
 * Accelerated chunk loading.
 * Decreased lag spike frequency.
 * Made the Nether less laggy.
 * Decreased unnecessary world updates.
 * Made the chat work smoothly even when the server is laggy.
 * Decreased packets sent between client and server.
 * Made Singleplayer internally use a Multiplayer server
 * Decreased world saving intervals.
 * Added optional single-player commands called "Cheats" on non-hardcore worlds
 * Type / and then hit tab to autocomplete & get help on various commands
 * Most commands from MP are available.
 * Added option to let LAN friends join SP games
 * You can choose which gamemode players join in and whether they are allowed to use cheats.
 * Added demo mode for non-premium users
 * Lasts 5 game days per world.
 * Singleplayer only.
 * Added Chat Settings
 * Change which parts of chat are shown and how opaque it is.
 * Toggle chat colors, links being clickable and warning prompts for links.
 * Option to rebind the command key, which opens the chat with / in the textfield.
 * Added Snooper Settings
 * Allows users to toggle anonymous data being sent to Mojang.
 * Shows which data will be sent.
 * Added video options
 * Have to be toggled manually in options.txt for now.
 * Vertical Synchronization.
 * Fullscreen mode can now be enabled at startup.
 * Mobs can now spawn on top of all upside down slabs and stairs
 * Improved F3 mode:
 * Truncated coordinates to 5 fractional digits.
 * The y-coordinate now shows both the feet level and the eye level.
 * Removed frame rendering time history graph (bottom-left).
 * 3 new values:
 * : Walking speed (constant)
 * : Flying speed (constant)
 * : Boolean value, true when you touch the ground
 * Updated language files
 * Added tooltips for all types of Monster Egg blocks and the End Portal Frame.
 * Added more descriptive tooltips for different types of tree-related blocks, sandstone and stone bricks.
 * Localized server command responses.
 * Added missing commands-related strings.
 * Added missing double chest GUI caption.

Gameplay


 * Added Adventure mode
 * Only playable using commands.
 * Building, setting things on fire and using buckets is disabled.
 * Players can only interact with mobs and the environment.
 * Players can place and take stuff from a chest, a furnace or a dispenser.
 * Added trading
 * Using emerald as currency, villagers will, depending on profession, offer different trades to players.
 * There are three kinds of trades: Selling, buying and enchanting.
 * As displayed in the top-most part of the trading GUI, villagers take one or more items or item stacks and give back something.
 * After trading, villagers will sometimes emit purple particles for a few seconds to indicate that their trades changed.
 * Otherwise unobtainable bottles o' enchanting and chainmail armor can be obtained by trading.
 * Improved Creative mode inventory
 * There are categorized tabs for various groups of items and blocks.
 * Added a search tab which will automatically be switched to when the chat key is hit.
 * Added survival inventory tab, which shows the full inventory, a 'Destroy item' slot, armor slots including a preview of your character and a 2x2 crafting field.
 * Items can now be deleted from the inventory by shift-clicking them.
 * Added layered snow block, Monster Egg Blocks (Silverfish spawning blocks), Ender Portal frame and all potions.
 * Now shows potion effects' timers like in Survival.
 * Improved experience collection
 * Depending on ore type, experience now drops from ores that drop items.
 * Taking smelted items out of furnaces gives experience now.
 * Destroying mob spawners gives experience now.
 * Adjusted experience level progression:
 * Levels 1-15 cost 17 XP points each
 * Levels 16-30 cost 3 more XP points than the previous (cost = 17 + (level - 15) * 3)
 * Levels 31-8 cost 7 more XP points than the previous (cost = 62 + (level - 30) * 7)
 * Improved enchanting
 * The new maximum level with bookshelves is 30, without 8.
 * 15 bookshelves are enough to reach level 30.
 * The 3rd slot shows the most expensive possible enchantment more often.
 * Increased chances for multiple enchantments at once.
 * Adjusted enchantments' to go with the new maximum level.
 * Added writing in books
 * New crafting recipe for books: 3 pieces of paper and one piece of leather in any possible shape.
 * New item: Book and Quill - Crafting recipe: 1 ink sac, 1 feather and 1 book in any possible shape.
 * Right-click to write on & edit up to 50 pages or read.
 * Click 'Done' to save the book, 'Sign' to choose a title and finalize the book.
 * Improved Multiplayer
 * Made entities less likely to glitch through blocks.
 * Added automagical downloading of standard sized texture packs when joining servers.
 * Made server commands more descriptive.
 * Added reason parameter to.
 * Added  command to show the map seed.
 * Added  command to choose the gamemode new players start in.
 * Added  command to enable and disable profiling.
 * messages can now contain "\n" to force a new line.
 * Blocks other players are mining now show cracks.
 * can now be used to teleport to specific coordinates.
 * Made server list re-orderable: shift+click or shift+arrow keys move selected servers.
 * Server list now scans for LAN servers.
 * Added hardcore difficulty: Players are banned upon death.
 * Connections are now encrypted to prevent eavesdropping.
 * Added SRV Record Lookup support
 * Different subdomains of one domain can handle different servers via different port numbers.
 * Service name should be "minecraft"; i.e. "_minecraft._tcp.example.com".
 * Added & changed many minor things
 * Individual, stackable items near each other on the ground now become one item stack.
 * Added shift clicking support to armor slots, brewing stands & enchantment tables.
 * Added setting to disable servers offering you texture packs.
 * Made the stars smaller and brighter.
 * Villagers spawned from spawn eggs will get a random profession now.
 * Removed the downwards knockback while drowning.
 * Doors being broken by zombies now show their damage.
 * You now spawn with an empty inventory in Creative mode.
 * The "Mojang" splash screen when opening the game appears for 1 instead of 3 seconds now.
 * The sky color in the End changed.
 * Blocks now show cracks when destroying them while the GUI is hidden.
 * You can now fall 4 blocks without getting hurt (might be a bug as there exist other, higher distances that don't cause damage either).
 * Respawning in superflat is no longer random.
 * Main domain of skin database is now skins.minecraft.net instead of s3.amazonaws.com.
 * Improved the Pick Block key
 * You now get the actual block.
 * You can now pick paintings, boats, minecarts and mobs, which will give you their spawn eggs.
 * Picking huge mushroom blocks now gives mushrooms.
 * You can no longer pick portal blocks.

World Generation


 * Made sub-biome type mountains like Desert Hills or Ice Mountains taller
 * Made cocoa beans appear on some small jungle trees
 * Added optional starting chest on non-hardcore worlds
 * Contents: wooden & stone tools, bread, apples, logs, planks and sticks
 * Added large biomes world type, increasing biome sizes immensely
 * Beaches look closely to what they looked like in Beta 1.7.3 and prior.
 * Added desert-specific villages
 * Added Desert Temples
 * Built out of various kinds of sandstone and wool.
 * Include hidden chest room and TNT trap, with loot including rotten flesh, bones, iron ingots and gold ingots, diamonds and emeralds.
 * Added Jungle Temples
 * Built out of various kinds of cobblestone.
 * Contain multiple tripwire traps triggering dispensers filled with arrows.
 * Loot chests include bones, rotten flesh, gold ingots, iron ingots, diamonds and emeralds.
 * Added Emerald Ore
 * Only generates in Extreme Hills biomes.
 * Occurs up to 8 times per chunk in veins of 1.
 * Generates between layers 4 and 31, inclusive.

Blocks & Items


 * Emerald Ore
 * Drops Emerald.
 * Emerald
 * Is used to trade with villagers
 * Block of Emerald
 * Crafted by putting 9 emeralds on a crafting table.
 * Ender Chest
 * Crafted by surrounding an eye of ender with 8 pieces of obsidian.
 * Stores each player's contents across dimensions and all Ender Chests.
 * Contents are preserved even if all Ender Chests are destroyed.
 * Explosion-resistant.
 * Emits light and purple particles.
 * Unless mined using a Silk Touch-enchanted pickaxe, they drop 8 obsidian.
 * Tripwire Hook
 * String in between needs to be placed manually.
 * Breaking the string triggers a redstone signal, cutting it using shears doesn't.
 * Entities like boats, mobs, arrows or players touching the string trigger a redstone signal.
 * String can be up to 40 blocks long.
 * Crafting recipe: iron ingot on top of a stick on top of a wooden plank.
 * String
 * Can now be placed on the ground decoratively.
 * Wood
 * Can now be placed in 3 different directions.
 * Placement works like similar to piston placement.
 * Furnaces
 * Can be fueled by wooden tools now.
 * Return an empty bucket when using lava buckets as fuel now.
 * Ice
 * Instead of melting in the nether, it now disappears.
 * Can be obtained using Silk Touch-enchanted gear now.
 * Glass Panes
 * Can be obtained using Silk Touch-enchanted gear now.
 * Nether Portal
 * Leaks into the Overworld now: Depending on difficulty, zombie pigmen rarely spawn in them.
 * Slabs
 * Added all wood types.
 * Wooden slabs crafted after the update act like wood.
 * Stairs
 * Added Sandstone Stairs.
 * Added wooden stairs for all kinds of wood.
 * Adjusted hitbox.
 * Slabs and stairs
 * Will now be placed upside-down when placed on the upper half of a block's side.
 * When placed upside down, rails, pressure plates, levers, doors, torches, redstone torches, repeaters, redstone dust and beds can be placed on them - Redstone dust behaves like on glowstone - It transmits power horizontally and upwards, but not downwards. Redstone torches don't power redstone placed on slabs/stairs above them.
 * Leaves
 * Water slowly drips through them when it's raining.
 * Cauldrons
 * Slowly fill up when it's raining.
 * Dispensers
 * Minecarts & boats will now be placed if there's rails/water in place.
 * Instead of dispensing buckets, dispensers will now suck in or place water or lava in front of them.
 * Gravel
 * Changed texture
 * Levers
 * Can be placed on the underside of blocks now.
 * Wooden Pressure Plates
 * Can be triggered by arrows now.
 * Pistons
 * Now take 2 redstone ticks (4 game ticks) seconds to expand.
 * TNT
 * Depending on difficulty, does different amounts of damage now:
 * Peaceful: no damage
 * Easy: 1/2 less damage
 * Normal: same damage as before
 * Hard: 1/3 more damage.
 * Cocoa Beans
 * Retextured item.
 * Can be planted & grown on jungle wood now.
 * Can be grown instantly using bone meal.
 * Cookies
 * Give a full hunger point now.
 * Nether Warts
 * Can now be grown in the Overworld and in the End.
 * Book
 * Changed crafting recipe: 3 pieces of paper and one piece of leather in any possible shape.
 * Book and Quill
 * Crafting recipe: 1 ink sac, 1 feather and 1 book in any possible shape.
 * See above for more information.
 * Written Book
 * Can only be obtained by signing a Book and Quill.
 * Can be sold to villagers.
 * Empty buckets
 * Stack up to 16 now.
 * Stacked buckets work just like stacked glass bottles do.
 * Signs
 * Stack up to 16 now.
 * Crafting now gives 3 signs instead of 1.
 * Golden Apple
 * Has two crafting recipes now, the new one replacing gold nuggets with gold blocks.
 * Second tier gives Regeneration IV, Resistance and Fire resistance effects.
 * Only second tier glows like enchanted tools.
 * Has attributes the Golden Apple had before.
 * Monster Spawners
 * Added NBT tags to further customize spawned mobs.
 * Only changeable using map editors or mods.
 * Boats
 * Are not broken by lilypads anymore, instead they run straight through the lilypad now, breaking and sometimes dropping it.
 * When they crash they can sometimes drop themselves.
 * Are less glitchy and more responsive now.
 * Increased maximum speed.
 * When exiting, players will be moved from the boat.
 * When broken by a player, they drop a boat now.
 * Minecarts
 * When on rails, they can be accelerated a bit while sitting in them.
 * When exiting, players will be moved from the minecart.

Mobs


 * Pigs
 * Drop 1-3 porkchops now.
 * Slimes
 * Reduced spawn rate in superflat maps.
 * Silverfish
 * When suffering from poison potions, they will now spawn more silverfish from nearby silverfish blocks more often.
 * Creepers
 * Increased knockback effect.
 * Depending on difficulty, they do more damage now:
 * Easy: ~50% less damage
 * Normal: same damage as before
 * Hard: 33.3…% more damage.
 * Creepers & spiders
 * Become aggressive towards the last mob or player that hit them now
 * Skeletons, Creepers & zombies
 * Become neutral against players again a few seconds after being hit in Creative.


 * 1.2.5 || April 4, 2012 ||
 * 1.2.5 || April 4, 2012 ||

1.2.5
New Features:
 * Added shift-clicking support in furnaces.
 * Added method to easily acquire blocks you have selected in the world in Creative mode using the "Pick block" key.
 * Made the Direct Connect dialog remember the last IP for the current session.
 * Made cats less eager to sit on things and less patient.
 * Made using a stack of bowls on Mooshrooms not consume the whole stack of bowls.
 * Made punching a TNT block with flint and steel in hand destroy and drop a TNT block (right-clicking will immediately activate the TNT).
 * Inside the META-INF folder in Minecraft.jar, the digital signature files (MOJANG_C.DSA, MOJANG_C.SF) have been renamed CODESIGN.RSA and CODESIGN.SF; their function remains the same.


 * 1.2.4 || March 22, 2012 ||
 * 1.2.4 || March 22, 2012 ||

1.2.4
New Features:


 * Chat history and much better chat editing
 * Links are now clickable in chat. When clicked, a screen appears that warns you not to click on links you do not trust and asks if you want to continue. Below that, three buttons appear, one with “Yes” (opens default web browser and takes you to the link), another with “Copy to Clipboard” (copies the link so that when you paste anywhere the link is pasted), and “No” (closes the message and does not link you to the website).
 * Mouse wheel can be used to scroll up/down for history. and  keys can also be used.
 * Up/down keys for recently sent messages.
 * If you start typing a player's name, and press, it'll automatically type the rest of the username for you.
 * Copy & paste in chat.
 * Just like type §k in chat displays random characters, §l §m §n and §o creates bold, striked, underlined and italic text respectively. Whilst §r resets any set states. These can not be typed using vanilla clients.
 * Pressing the “/” acts like a command key: it opens the chat with a “/” in it. In other keyboard layouts, it might be another key.
 * Pressing or  will move the insertion point (text pointer) in the respective direction, allowing you to edit text instead of using  to go back.
 * A few new decoration blocks
 * Wooden planks now have the color of the type of wood they came from instead of the original wooden plank texture.
 * New Sandstone Blocks.
 * Slightly changed all colored wools' colors (removing saturation). Comparison
 * “Back” and “Quit” buttons added to the "Out of memory” screen.
 * Cats in standing position will now purposely go and sit on nearby chests, active furnaces, and beds, preventing players from using them.
 * Added a “minimal” debug menu for testing with. It can be accessed with + and is the same as the regular menu, except without the graph/profiler.
 * Armor outlines in the armor slots in the inventory have returned.


 * 1.2.3 || March 2, 2012 ||
 * 1.2.3 || March 2, 2012 ||

1.2.3

 * 1.2.2 || March 1, 2012 ||
 * 1.2.2 || March 1, 2012 ||

1.2.2

 * 1.2.1 || March 1, 2012 ||
 * 1.2.1 || March 1, 2012 ||

1.2.1

 * New map file format called Anvil, allowing a new height limit (256 instead of 128).
 * However, in the Nether, layers 128 to 255 are only accessible in creative mode, due to the unchanged ceiling bedrock at layer 127.
 * New Jungle biome.
 * Added ocelots.
 * Added cats.
 * Added Iron Golems.
 * New AI for mobs.
 * Tame wolves can have puppies.
 * Villagers will have children if there is room in their village.
 * Zombie sieges will occur occasionally at night.
 * Zombies break down doors on Hard and Hardcore Mode.
 * New items and blocks.
 * Crafting recipe for ladder now yields 3 ladders instead of 2.
 * Crafting recipe for slab now yields 6 slabs instead of 3.
 * Added rare drops for mobs.
 * Added the items Fire Charge and Bottle of Enchanting.
 * Added Redstone Lamps.
 * Added 3 new blocks (NewSandstoneGrid1.png NewSandstoneGrid2.png [[File:Grid Chiseled Stone Brick.png]]), that aren't yet used in survival, and only the Chiseled Stone Brick is accessible in creative.
 * Changed Dispenser and Oak Sapling textures. (Dispenser.png[[File:Grid Sapling.png]])
 * Slabs and Stairs can be placed upside-down by placing them below a block.
 * Placing blocks on grass will replace it.
 * Lava now has a faint rumbling sound effect, and large particles that hop out of the lava produce a popping sound.
 * Very rare Desert Wells can be found in Desert biomes.
 * Third person view now has a slight delay on the speed at which the head moves on the player, making it possible to see the sides of the player's head.
 * Collision Box on ladders readded.
 * Vines can now be climbed like ladders.
 * Many other minor tweaks and fixes.
 * When in the Nether, Snow Golems will turn red, melt, and die same as when they are in Desert biomes.
 * Abandoned Mineshafts can generate with wooden bridges now when generated over a cave or over top another tunnel.
 * F3 has some changes and additions:
 * lc: Largest section height
 * b: Shows what biome you are in.
 * bl: Block brightness.
 * sl: Sky brightness.
 * rl: Raw brightness.
 * Due to biome data saving to chunks, SMP servers no longer send clients their world seed, displaying as "0" to the client.


 * 1.1 || January 12, 2012 ||
 * 1.1 || January 12, 2012 ||

1.1

 * Bows are now enchantable, with four new enchantments specific to bows: Power, Punch, Infinity, and Flame.
 * Arrows which are on fire now set entities they hit on fire.
 * Golden Apple recipe changed to use gold nuggets instead of gold blocks.
 * Golden Apples now restore rather than  and cause regeneration for 5 seconds rather than 30.
 * 56 new language translations, including fictional ones such as Pirate, Klingon, and Quenya.
 * Infrastructure for improved mob AI added, allowing for more complicated behavior than before. These behaviors themselves have not been implemented yet.
 * Slightly smoothed color transitions between biomes.
 * Swamp land and water colors now smoothly transition to other biomes.
 * Re-added beaches.
 * Taiga biomes now contain snow and ice.
 * Decreased randomness of enchantment levels at Enchantment Tables.
 * Biomes are slightly more varied, with differing elevations of land in previously flatter biomes.
 * Reduced brewing time to 20 seconds from 30.
 * Added Spawn Eggs to creative mode.
 * Added a world type option (available types: Superflat and Default).
 * Removed collision box from ladders.
 * Sheep eat grass (converting it to dirt) and Tall Grass to regain their Wool.
 * Sheep only drop 1-3 wool per shearing.
 * The collision box on Fence Gates now matches that of Fences instead of being square.
 * Fence Gates can now be opened and closed with Redstone.
 * Oak (default tree) leaves now have a 1/200 chance of dropping Red Apples.
 * Blacksmith buildings in NPC Villages now hold chests with loot of the same type as strongholds.
 * Void fog removed in creative mode.
 * Melons and pumpkins can now grow on dirt, instead of only on farmland.
 * New settings in Server.properties:
 * Magma Cubes can now drop Magma Cream on death.
 * In SMP servers, non-ops are kicked if they spam in chat too much (Ops are not notified of the kick, they must assume that the player was auto-kicked)
 * The distance that Wheat attracts friendly mobs has increased from 2-3 blocks to 8-9 blocks.
 * All Music discs except for "11" can be dropped from creepers killed by skeletons.
 * In SMP servers, non-ops are kicked if they spam in chat too much (Ops are not notified of the kick, they must assume that the player was auto-kicked)
 * The distance that Wheat attracts friendly mobs has increased from 2-3 blocks to 8-9 blocks.
 * All Music discs except for "11" can be dropped from creepers killed by skeletons.


 * 1.0.1 || November 24, 2011 ||
 * 1.0.1 || November 24, 2011 ||

1.0.1
This was a server-only update, 1.0.0 remained the current client version.


 * 1.0.0 || November 18, 2011 || Fixes & Changes:
 * For information on the update, see Minecraft 1.0.
 * For information on the update, see Minecraft 1.0.

1.0.0

 * New achievements
 * Glowstone changed from "stone" to "glass".
 * Amount of Experience Orbs dropped by a player on death now limited.
 * The ability of Endermen to carry blocks reduced in some way.
 * Minor changes to some textures (most notables Block of Iron and Monster Spawner).
 * Ghast fireballs have a different texture.
 * On death, a proper score is given based on how many experience orbs the player has collected.
 * When flowing lava hits a water source directly from above, it creates stone where previously the lava would flow through the water.
 * You can toggle between three states when pressing F5 (first person, third person back, third person front), having the addition of third person view from the front.
 * Ender Pearls have a unique ability. When thrown, the player will teleport to the Ender Pearl's impact location, but take 2 and 1/2 hearts of fall damage. They will not work in Creative.
 * Golden Apples now glow purple in inventory.
 * Fences no longer block you from moving onto their space. You can now stand next to them, like you can with glass panes and iron bars.
 * They will also connect to solid blocks.
 * There is a slight delay between jumps when holding down the jump button, so that the player no longer bounces between ceiling and floor in two-block-high spaces.
 * Labels for items have a blue border.
 * Random loot chests in strongholds.
 * Blocking now moves the player's arm, rather than the sword just floating right in front of the player.
 * Weapon and tool damage has been nerfed to make space for the increased damage enchantments (Diamond swords do 3.5 hearts now instead of 5).
 * Most mobs got their health changed. Sheep now have 4 hearts, Ghasts 9.5 hearts, zombies 10 hearts and 1 armor point...
 * Many blocks' mining speeds have been decreased. This is mostly blocks that used to take a long time to mine.
 * Redstone Ore (mines at other ores speed)
 * Iron Doors
 * Wooden Door
 * Monster Spawner
 * Iron Block
 * Gold Block
 * Diamond Block
 * Stone Brick
 * Iron Bars
 * Furnace
 * Dispenser
 * Brewing Stand
 * Obsidian (from 15 to 10 seconds)

New Features:
 * Server:
 * The "/give" command can now set the damage value of the wanted item: /give username itemID quantity damage (For example: "/give player 35 12 1" to give 12 orange wool.)
 * In the Nether:
 * Nether Bricks.
 * Nether Fence.
 * Nether Stairs.
 * Nether Fortresses.
 * "The End" (unofficially called "The Ender", or "Enderlands"), which replaces the previously announced Sky Dimension.
 * End Portals take the player from the Overworld to The End. To go back to the Overworld, one must defeat the Enderdragon and jump through the portal that appears.
 * End Portal Frame
 * End Portal Block
 * Endgame/Credit screen (world is still playable afterwards)
 * End Stone
 * New Items:
 * Ghast Tear
 * Blaze Rod
 * Nether Wart
 * Gold Nugget
 * Glass Bottle
 * Spider Eye
 * Fermented Spider Eye
 * Blaze Powder
 * Magma Cream
 * Glistering Melon
 * Eye of Ender
 * Activates Ender Portal Frame blocks.
 * 9 new Music Discs.
 * Finished biome code and new biomes.
 * Snowy biomes.
 * Swamp biomes adjusted to appear "swampier."
 * Darker grass
 * Darker water
 * Lily Pads
 * Mushroom biomes.
 * Naturally generated Huge Mushrooms.
 * New Mushroom Cow, the Mooshroom.
 * Mycelium blocks.
 * New sound effects, including:
 * Minecart sounds.
 * Shears sounds.
 * Additional Bow sounds.
 * Big slime sounds.
 * Tool breaking sounds.
 * The true sounds of Endermen and Silverfish. ( Enderman and Silverfish have new sounds instead of just zombie sounds for Enderman and spider sounds for Silverfish).
 * Changes in already existing sounds:
 * A change in the sound of Rain.
 * New sounds for Doors.
 * New sounds for the skeleton' walking to make them sound more skeleton-y.
 * Bow models now appear in third-person larger and in 3D.
 * Bows no longer have an infinite number of uses. (385 shots before breaking)
 * If water or lava is above a ceiling that is a single block thick, particles of water or lava will drip through, provided you are within 13 blocks of the ceiling.
 * 6 New Mobs:
 * Enderdragon (Boss Mob)
 * Enderdragon eggs
 * Mooshroom Cows.
 * NPCs in Villages, as Villager Mobs.
 * Snow Golem mob.
 * Can be crafted.
 * Melts in hot biomes.
 * Spreads snow around when it walks.
 * Passive, but throws snowballs at enemies.
 * Two new aggressive mobs for the Nether.
 * Magma Cube
 * Blaze
 * Experience (skills) can now be used for enchantments.
 * Each Experience Orb is worth one Score Point.
 * Animal Breeding.
 * Wheat bundles feed animals and make them come towards you.
 * Feeding animals makes them enter "love mode".
 * Hearts will come out of animals while in love mode.
 * Breeding will produce Baby Animals. Smaller versions of the parents with large heads that have a faster animation and a higher pitched sound.
 * New/Improved armor system.
 * Increased armor durability.
 * Sun and moon changes:
 * Moon phases.
 * Sun and moon now rise in the east.
 * Game mechanics changes:
 * Hardcore Mode - Locks the difficulty to Hard and forces you to delete your world if you die. The health bar changes appearance to indicate you are playing in Hardcore mode.
 * Item Repair
 * Potions, Splash Potions, Potion effects, Brewing Stand, and Brewing.
 * Enchantment Table, and Enchanting


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