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13w38a was the fifth snapshot released for Java Edition 1.7.2.

Additions[]

Command format[]

Commands
  • Added /setidletimeout <minutes until kick> to automatically kick idle players after a set length of time.
    • Multiplayer-only command, can be used only by server operators.
NBT format
  • Added <structure>.dat files in data folder for storing structure data.
  • NBT structure consists of the individual parts of each structure, labeled "children," the chunk it originates in, a tag called BB, and an ID for what type of structure it is.
    • The children tags have information on each part of the structure and the type of part it is

General[]

Achievements
  • Added the achievement "Diamonds to you!", which is obtained by throwing diamonds at another player.
Lighting
  • The sky near the horizon now darkens when the player has blocks between them and the sky.
    • The greater the distance between the player and an area open to the sky, the darker the sky appears.

Changes[]

Items[]

Maps

Mobs[]

Zombies
  • Reduced lag from the zombies.

General[]

Achievements
  • Improved achievements.
  • When a player earns an achievement, it is now announced in chat.
Options
  • Super Secret Settings
    • The button now applies different experimental shaders.
    • List of available shaders: antialias, deconverge, outline, art, desaturate, pencil, bits, flip, phosphor, blobs, fxaa, scan_pincushion, blobs2, green, sobel, blur, invert, wobble, color_convolve, NTSC.
  • Video Settings
    • Render distance is now a slider ranging from 2 to 16 chunks.
    • The sky is now visible on Short (4 chunks) render distance.
    • The chunks can now render past 12 chunks.
    • Max framerate is now a slider ranging from 10 to 250 fps, then unlimited.
    • Added mipmapping, anisotropic filtering, and FSAA (as a shader).
    • Mipmap levels setting is a slider ranging from off to 1 through 4.
    • Anisotropic filtering can be disabled or set to 2, 4, 8 or 16.
    • Post-Processing (shaders) can be toggled.
      • They now display on the whole block.
Fog
  • Re-adjusted fog distance to appear near the render distance limit, reverting changes made in 13w36a.
  • Fog now covers 25% of the view distance, compared to 75% before 13w36a.

Removals[]

General[]

Distance effects
  • Item frames now no longer simply follow the camera at extreme coordinates.
    • This is due to them being affected by an even more extreme bug as of this snapshot.

Fixes[]

7 issues fixed
From released versions before 1.7.2
From the 1.7.2 development versions
  • MC-3973 – Players who mine redstone lamps with Silk Touch would get a lit redstone lamp in their inventory.
  • MC-30483 – When the player sets their render distance too far it stays on normal.
  • MC-30694Endermen stare sound still plays when the enemy mobs sound slider is at 0%.
  • MC-30822Enchanted books with no metadata.
  • MC-30858 – A player selector with only one matching player outputs as " and USERNAME .."

Trivia[]

  • 13w38a was previously removed from the launcher for some time but was added back in September 2018.
  • As with 13w38b, this snapshot was released on the same day as 1.6.4.

References[]

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