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13w16a is the first snapshot for Java Edition 1.6.1, released on April 18, 2013.[1]
13w16a was reuploaded once 13 minutes after release, and twice around an hour after release.
Additions[]
Blocks[]
- Carpets are made using 2 of the player's desired colors of wool in a horizontal line
- Can be placed in all orientations, just like wood.
Items[]
- Exist in diamond, iron and gold variants.
- Crafted with six iron/gold/diamond and a wool block.
- Stack to 32.
- Crafted with five leather and three iron ingots.
- Can be used to bind mobs to fences or lead them around.
- Right-click mob first, then right-click fence or right-click the mob again to get the lead back.
- When used, a different horse breed is created each time.
- Works like any other spawn egg.
Mobs[]
- Ridable by right-clicking them, move with usual movement keys, maximum speed, and jump height differ between horses.
- Have various amounts of maximum health, use wheat and carrots to heal them.
- Drop leather when killed.
- Can be bred using wheat – baby horses can be grown using apples, golden apples, wheat, and hay bales.
- Players can make them jump by pressing and holding the space bar.
- They naturally step up over 1 block, which enables you to walk up hills.
- They can also use ladders, when steered towards them.
- Creation assisted by DrZhark (Creator of the Mo' Creatures mod).
- Like horses, but can carry chests on their back although no inventory is currently available.
- Can be bred with horses to make a mule.
- Mules can be obtained by breeding a donkey and a horse.
- Require NBT editing to view in-game.
- It's an unused mob.
- Require NBT editing to view in-game.
- It's an unused mob.
Changes[]
Mobs[]
- General
- Changed the idea of mob difficulty.[2]
- Regional difficulty: The longer the player stays in one area, the harder it gets.
- Scales with difficulty – Items, enchants or AI improve with difficulty.
- Game window
- Now displays the client's version in the window title.
- Example: "Minecraft 13w16a"
Gameplay[]
- Improved Respiration.
- Now also helps seeing underwater (this depends on the enchantment level, ranging from 1–3).
- Riding
- Add mob's health bar to the Heads-up display when riding on it (both pigs and horses).
- When riding something, like a mob or a boat, dismounting is only possible using the Sneak key, ⇧ Left Shift by default.
General[]
- Credits
- Added Mo' Creatures developers to
credits.txt
.
- Directory structure
.minecraft
directory structure is changed:assets
folder; stores resources such as language packs and sounds.- All music discs now use
.ogg
format instead of.mus
format.
- All music discs now use
library
folder; stores Java libraries such as LWJGL andjinput.jar
.versions
folder; there are filesversion.json
(meta data) and folders that storesminecraft.jar
for each versions (but its name is the same as its version; the jar for 13w16a isversions/13w16a/13w16a.jar
).
Trivia[]
- This is the earliest snapshot available in the Minecraft launcher. Although earlier snapshots are not available in the launcher, they are archived.
- This is the first snapshot which allowed launching with Java 9 or higher.
Fixes[]
- 6 issues fixed
- From released versions before 1.6.1
- MC-3090 – Unable to play game unless LWJGL is manually replaced.
- MC-4253 – Endermen are rendered hostile if they take environmental damage.
- MC-5674 – Client can control if they take damage and abuse this / ALT or F10 freezes client in windowed mode.
- MC-11229 – Using the anvil for free.
- MC-12017 – Can get permanently stuck in a minecart in a nether portal.
- MC-12369 – Minecraft crashing on 1.5.1 prerelease server.
References[]
- ↑ "Minecraft Snapshot 13w16a and New Launcher" – Mojang.com, April 18, 2013.
- ↑ "I may as well say it: I'm trying to change the idea of mob difficulty. Don't know if it'll be finished for 1.6, but I'm part done already." – @Dinnerbone (Nathan Adams) on X, April 10, 2013