Java Edition 1.4.6

Minecraft 1.4.6
Edition	Java Edition
Release date	Pre-release: December 17, 2012 Release: December 20, 2012
Downloads	Original pre-release client (.json) Reuploaded pre-release client (.json) Release client (.json) Server (.exe)
Protocol version	51
See also other instances of 1.4.6	Minecraft Launcher Minecraft Dungeons

1.4.6 is an update to Minecraft (Java Edition) that was released on December 20, 2012. It introduced fireworks, enchanted books and the Thorns enchantment. It also added a warning for users playing on soon-to-be unsupported systems (PowerPC and Java 5). While it was not the last update to 1.4, it was the last one before the snapshots of 1.5 started.

A pre-release version of 1.4.6 was released on December 17, 2012; this pre-release version was later re-uploaded to fix an issue with mobs spinning. The release version of 1.4.6 differs from the reuploaded pre-release by fixing a crash issue.

Additions

Blocks

Nether brick slabs

• Crafted using nether bricks.

Items

Enchanted books

• Enchant books to receive a single enchantment on them.
• Can be applied to items using anvils, consuming the book.
  • Enchants can be applied to any item in Creative mode.
• Sold by villagers and found in dungeon and village chests.
• Can now be found in loot chests and by trading with villagers.
• Unbreaking can be applied to anything with durability.
• Efficiency and Silk Touch can be applied to shears, allowing the harvesting of cobwebs.
• Sharpness, Smite, and Bane of Arthropods can be applied to axes.

Firework star

• Used to create firework rockets.
• Combine gunpowder with dyes to get a firework star with those colors used for the sparkles.
• Add Glowstone Dust, a fire charge, a diamond, a gold nugget, feather, or a mob head to make the firework twinkling, big, trailing, star-shaped, bursting, or creeper-shaped, respectively.
• Craft a firework star with dye to change the color that the sparkles fade to.

Firework rocket

• Non-destructive, rise up in the air, and create colorful patterns when shot by dispensers or placed by players.
• Combine paper with gunpowder to craft a firework rocket.
• Add a firework star to add effects, or gunpowder to increase the flight duration.

Gameplay

Thorns

• A new armor enchantment.
• Deals damage depending on tier to attackers.
• Wears armor out faster.

Changes

Blocks

Monster spawners

• Can now spawn differently configured mobs with different spawn chances

Items

Bows

• A high pitched sound is now played when a player hits another player from far away with a bow.

Mobs

Ghasts

• Fireballs' blast radius can now be customized

Skeletons, zombies, and zombie pigmen

• The armor and enchants they spawn with now are even harder on harder difficulties.

Non-mob entities

Arrows

• Now render from farther away.

Items and item frame entities

• Now render in 3D when using fancy graphics.

World generation

Dungeons and Villages

• Now have a random chance to have enchanted books in their chests.

Gameplay

Inventory

• Items can now be dragged and dropped.
  • Long pressing will halve the stack before dragging.

Hotbar

• Items now show their name when switching in the hotbar.
  • Can be disabled by changing heldItemTooltips to false in options.txt.
• Dropping items while holding ctrl now drops the whole stack.

Enchantments

• Fire Protection now extinguishes fire more quickly.
• Blast Protection now reduces explosion recoil.
• Protection is not as protective as it used to be in order to make specific enchantments more worthwhile.

Sneaking

• Pressing use while sneaking now uses the held item instead of the currently selected block.

Death messages

• Now appear in server log files.

General

Display

• Added a default resolution setting to options.txt: overrideWidth:0 and overrideHeight:0.

Options

• Added an option to toggle touchscreen mode.

Removals

General

Distance effects

• Falling block behavior has changed - they are no longer capable of infinitely producing dropped items at high coordinate values.

Fixes

28 issues fixed

From 1.4.2

• MC-133 – Mobs walking slow when you hit them.
• MC-255 – Graphical issue with trading.
• MC-256 – Mobs can still revert farmlands to dirt even if mobGriefing gamerule is set on false.
• MC-312 – Item textures of spawn eggs and firework stars not aligned properly when stacked.
• MC-498 – Setting an enderman on fire with flint and steel or lava will not make it teleport away.
• MC-674 – Items that are different only in damage cannot be swapped.
• MC-721 – Animals on fire do not flee.
• MC-1140 – Boats always get placed in the same direction and not based on how they get placed.
• MC-1240 – Endermen are set on fire when trying to dodge arrows on fire.
• MC-1311 – When you enter the Nether, the game auto-selects the first item on the toolbar.
• MC-1626 – Z-fighting in beacon block's bottom.
• MC-1847 – Leaves have an incorrect tooltip.
• MC-1969 – Minecarts cannot travel through nether portals.
• MC-2145 – Drowning in creative.

From 1.4.4

• MC-1959 – Placing double slabs ignore damage values.
• MC-2504 – Enchant cannot enchant with ID 0 (Protection).
• MC-4510 – Enchantments not showing in item frames.
• MC-4528 – Flaming arrows take a moment to burn.

From 1.4.5

• MC-3332 – The XP sound doesn't play after getting each 5th level.
• MC-3490 – Minecarts and falling entities flickering / jittering (updated 1.4.5).
• MC-3501 – Passive mob spawn eggs don't consume.
• MC-3565 – Endermen don't open their mouth when attacked by other mobs.
• MC-3593 – Lightning doesn't flash.
• MC-4024 – Chest glitch - Server/Client desynchronization.
• MC-4069 – Pressing F3+B displays hitboxes.. rendering invisibility potions useless.
• MC-4117 – Wither can sometimes destroy its own star due to the posthumous detonation of wither skulls.
• MC-4499 – Beacon tiers don't work at y=0.
• MC-4634 – Cannot remove XP bars from the /xp -1 command when between level 0 and 1.

Release fixes

These fixes occurred between the last snapshot for 1.4.6, 12w50b, and the full release of 1.4.6.

37 issues fixed

• MC-429 – Bats get stuck when flying through water.
• MC-678 – Water splash sound gets overriden by other sounds.
• MC-756 – Player not shown in actual location after breaking boat.
• MC-833 – Inventory items are lost.
• MC-971 – Mis-identified server version.
• MC-1005 – Fresh install of 1.4.2 on fresh install of OSX 10.6.8 hangs.
• MC-1347 – Items do not "update looks" when stacked on ground.
• MC-1348 – Dropped items only auto-stack when moving, not when going through portals.
• MC-1599 – File Handle leak in RegionFileCache (MCP).
• MC-1957 – Minecraft graphics messed up.
• MC-2442 – Bug with redstone's direction.
• MC-2568 – Ghost block bug.
• MC-2610 – Game freezes at the start of a previously saved game.
• MC-2622 – Cannot modify the render distance setting - stays at "Far" regardless of changes.
• MC-2673 – Shift-clicking smelted ores out of furnace cause minor visual bug.
• MC-2712 – Cannot look around while walking/sprinting unless jumping at first (happens on all gamemodes).
• MC-2873 – Minecarts disappearing.
• MC-2879 – Error 50% of the time when trying to join a server. Failed to login: Error.
• MC-2904 – Zombie pigman's knockback stunlocks iron golem's defeating their intended purpose.

From 1.4.4

• MC-1734 – Duplicating falling blocks (sand, gravel, dragon eggs...) still works with tweaks to an existing design.
• MC-1883 – Destroying a Jukebox NPE&Kick.
• MC-2747 – Minecraft client crashes when connection times out.
• MC-3122 – Cannot change texture packs.
• MC-3255 – Crash due to blaze fireballs.
• MC-3280 – Some textures appear as dark terrain.png images.
• MC-3346 – Minecraft crashing every time I get on for a little while.
• MC-3934 – Particle overload when returning from AFK.

From 1.4.5

• MC-3632 – Game only loads the chunk I'm currently standing on when I log in, and then freezes and crashes.
• MC-3860 – Client crashes when underground near a piston-and-redstone machine.
• MC-3899 – Skeletons will come close to attacker.
• MC-3988 – Slime audio bug.
• MC-4432 – Minecart goes off track and into walls.
• MC-4784 – Skeletons not retaliating to iron golems or wolves.
• MC-4792 – Minecraft crashed, exception world.
• MC-4829 – Game client gets stuck on 'building terrain' screen.

From the previous development version

• MC-4644 – Mobs running in circles and not jumping when chasing/running away.

From the current version, hotfixed

• MC-4872 – Crash when shot by skeleton.

Other fixes

• Fixed mouse wrongly positioned in fullscreen.

Trivia

• 1.4.6 is the first minor update to have snapshots.