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12w04a is the second snapshot for Java Edition 1.2.1, released on January 26, 2012,[1] which adds ocelots, jungle saplings, bottles o' enchanting, and fire charges.

Additions[]

Blocks[]

Jungle Sapling JE1 Jungle sapling
  • Can be grown into the new jungle trees.
  • Growing a 4×4 square of jungle saplings to create large jungle trees.

Items[]

Bottle o' Enchanting JE1 BE1 Bottle o' enchanting
  • Can be thrown similarly to splash potions and spawns experience orbs upon breaking.
Fire Charge JE1 BE1 Fire charge
  • Can be shot out of dispensers to launch fireballs and can be placed to create fire.
Ocelot spawn egg

Mobs[]

Ocelot JE1 BE1Red Cat JE1 BE1Tuxedo Cat JE1 BE1Siamese Cat JE1 BE1 Ocelots and Cats
  • New jungle-specific mob that can be tamed with raw fish.
  • Ocelots turn into cats when tamed.
  • Cats will scare off creepers, can be told to sit, and will teleport to their owner similarly to wolves.

World generation[]

Desert wells
  • Added desert wells, which are newly generated structures which are exclusive to desert biomes.

Changes[]

Blocks[]

Dispenser JE2 BE1 Dispensers
  • Texture changed from Dispenser JE1
Oak Sapling JE11 move Oak Saplings
  • Texture changed from Oak Sapling JE4.
Vines
  • Players are slowed when going through vines due to their nature of being a collisionless ladder.

Items[]

Spawn Eggs
  • Eggs set to spawn arbitrary data IDs (such as giants, ender dragons, ender crystals) no longer spawn those entities.
  • Now only spawn those mobs also available in the creative inventory.

Mobs[]

General
  • Mobs have a new AI with new and improved behaviors.
  • Skeletons and zombies burning from sunlight will flee to darkness or jump in water.
  • Mobs no longer attempt to jump over wooden fences.

General[]

Languages
  • Updated language files.

Trivia[]

  • When the language is set to Afrikaans, this snapshot includes a phrase in English calling the user a racial slur in place of the Singleplayer button's text.

References[]

  1. "Minecraft Snapshot 12w04a" (archived) by Jens Bergensten – Mojang.com, January 26, 2012.
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