Java Edition 1.4.3

1.4.3-pre is the first pre-release for Java Edition 1.4.4.

Fixes
104 bugs fixed


 * The disc "11" is now dropped by creepers in the same way as the other discs.
 * Enchanted book exploit fixed.
 * Slimes have correct collision box.

From released versions before 1.4.4
 * – Enchanted items show its background on the beacon-block.
 * – Emerald ore can be broken with a minimum iron pickaxe, but the block emerald can be broken with all the pickaxes.
 * – Minecart sound doesn't stop.
 * – Skeletons holding swords will shoot arrows.
 * – Arrows do not stick (and stay) in mobs.
 * – Item drops drop into transparent blocks and cannot be picked back up.
 * – Anvil block collision box appears "sunken".
 * – Getting door drop in creative.
 * – Falling out of the world while chunks are loading.
 * – Some of the regular sounds are now server-sided.
 * – Placing 2 wooden slabs will play the sounds from 12w38a.
 * – Pink dye on sheep appears white on top.
 * – Using on a player in a different world will teleport to needed coordinates, but not change the world.
 * – Fence Gate Texture flips inside out.
 * – Mobs in minecarts can vanish when minecarts are broken.
 * – Calculate name plate length based on username stripped of color codes.
 * – Silmes are invincible.
 * – Duplication of Dragon Eggs, sand and gravel.
 * – Mobs are immediately transferred back to the overworld upon spawning in the Nether.
 * – Broken or missing animations with potion of invisibility.
 * – Anvil rendering error in item frames.
 * – Score doesn't work anymore.
 * – When a block is placed next to an end portal block with an Eye of Ender in it, the block is see-through.
 * – Item frames in multiplayer don't store item NBT data.
 * – Graphical glitch with cactus in a flower pot near a wall.
 * – Odd chance where you take fall damage when sprinting off 2 or 1 blocks.
 * – Breaking effects sometimes duplicate sounds & effects.
 * – Music discs reverting to original name after being played, even if they've been renamed by the anvil.
 * – Dying dogs collar doesn't use your dye.
 * – Signs missing text.
 * – Tree leaves break half slabs.
 * – Multiple consecutive newlines in books do not create a space between lines in editor.
 * – Wither de-spawns in Peaceful and shouldn't.
 * – Death from a 2-4 block drop while changing gamemodes.
 * – Dragon egg particles are missing.
 * – Potatoes and carrots uproot themselves.
 * – Map item placed in item frame experiences Z-fighting.
 * – Teleporting a player triggers a pressure plate sometimes.
 * – Minecart flickers when looking backwards.
 * – Falling anvils do not maintain orientation while falling.
 * – Breaking a block touching an open trapdoor closes it.
 * – Vines, fern, grass and lilypad appear gray when held in F5 mode.
 * – Teleport through walls glitch.
 * – Different stacking slab sound.
 * – Skeletons shoot arrows faster than humanly possible.
 * – Text misplaced in demo mode window and 4:3 screen.
 * – "Your game mode has been changed" shows in log when it hasn't.
 * – Dropped items stop minecarts on their track.
 * – If the player puts an anvil (or a few other items) into a display case and turn it upside down, the orange from the case will start to overlay the item in the case.
 * – Chest hitbox is wrong.
 * – Dropped items with NBT tags do not stack.
 * – Open doors and levers don't work together.
 * – The sound for cows are cut off early instead of playing all the way through.
 * – Squids spawning rates are everywhere.
 * – Structures generating in wrong biomes.
 * – Particles don't show correctly when sprinting on blocks with different variations like wool, wood and biome colored grass.
 * – Ladders breaking glitching out.
 * – Mobs try to jump nether brick fence.
 * – Buggy fall damage in 1-deep water.
 * – Flaming arrows won't trigger TNT when shot from above.
 * – When the player have detailed item descriptions on, renamed item's name is not in italic.
 * – Zombies can pick up items while dying.
 * – Items at the top-left corner of a container cannot be duplicated with the pick block key.
 * – TNT sometimes makes item drops when it is ignited by the explosion of another TNT.
 * – Invisibility potions not completed in correct time displayed.
 * – More ender egg render problems.
 * – Creating a world with seed and map world "QUATREPOINTDEUX" fails.
 * – Death by bat.
 * – Server Crash when client logs in with invalid difficulty.
 * – Item frames do not show directly after entering the game.
 * – Snow Golems won't die.
 * – The "where are we now" disc is unavailable.
 * – Bat noises are painful and cause headaches.
 * – When riding a minecart, fall damage lags.
 * – Custom spawners with no delay variance crash the game.
 * – Potion of Weakness removes ability to destroy paintings and item frames.
 * – Missing pitch rotations in OpenAL implementation.
 * – Lightning strikes can create client side fires (ghost fires).
 * – Minecraft crashes in creative inventory.
 * – Nether portals create a huge lag, especially when several entities have to be teleported.
 * – Ender pearls (and other throwable objects) loose their link to the thrower when reloaded.
 * – When the player jumps on wheat crops, usually the farmland becomes dirt, then seeds and wheat are dropped; however, if the player jumps on potato and carrot crops, farmland become dirt, but crops stay there.
 * –  lost when breaking a player skull block.
 * – Beacon particles show if below beacon.
 * – Escape key doesn't take you back to main menu from Multiplayer screen.
 * – Wither breaks End Portals.
 * – When breaking an item frame that contains an item frame, only 1 item frame drops.
 * – Named maps lose their title after copying.
 * – By placing a bed at the same time as throwing it away makes it a half bed.
 * – Getting bed drop in creative.
 * – Cobblestone wall has fence-collisions.
 * – Death caused by lag spikes on minecart over a lava field.
 * – Adventure mode graphical issue breaking blocks.
 * – Placing trapdoors on half-slabs.
 * – Block textures held by players (third-person view) are mirrored.
 * – Flying through cobwebs in creative affects the player and shouldn't.
 * – Shift (crouch) will not stop you from falling off of an anvil.
 * – Falling sand appears on fire when falling into lava.
 * – Fire doesn't show if the player shoots a mob in a minecart.
 * – Spinning while placing a bed creates a triangular bed.
 * – Can't destroy glass in Adventure Mode.
 * – Minecraft crashes if connection is lost when editing signs.