Java Edition guides/Pretty Scary Update

Pretty Scary Update
Edition	Java Edition
Official name	Pretty Scary Update
Released versions
1.4.2 1.4.4 1.4.5 1.4.6 1.4.7
◄ 1.3 releases
◄ 1.3 releases
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This guide is a simplified overview of all the changes in the Pretty Scary Update (Java Edition 1.4.x releases), which assumes at least some knowledge of the Java Edition 1.3.x releases.

Mobs

New

Name	Image	Habitat	Drops	Note
Wither		Can only be spawned by placing 4 blocks of soul sand in a T shape, and putting 3 wither skeleton skulls on top of the three upper blocks (see image below).	Nether Star (1) 50 (when killed by a player or tamed wolf)	Three-headed flying player-created boss mob shooting projectiles at any mob (that isn't undead) and players After spawning, it flashes blue, builds up health, grows slightly and is invincible for a few seconds - Then it explodes and starts attacking players and mobs Each head can fire projectiles, so-called wither skulls, at different targets Shoots two kinds of projectiles - a blue one from the little heads, targeting mobs and a dark one from the big head targeting players When hit by projectiles, players get the wither II effect, which acts like a slower Poison effect that can kill and turns affected players' health bars' hearts black Constantly regenerates health Gains 'wither armor' when taken down to half health, making it immune to arrows Darkens the sky when spawned in the Overworld
Wither Skeleton		Nether Fortress	Coal (0–1) Bone (0–2) 5, plus 1–3 per equipment piece (when killed by a player or tamed wolf) Rare Drops Wither Skeleton Skull Spawned Equipment Stone Sword	Give players wither effect when hitting them Will rarely, depending on difficulty, spawn with the ability to pick up armor, head wear, items, blocks, weapons and tools Items that are picked up will have a 100% chance of dropping after dying More advanced gear is more likely to spawn with mobs when playing on harder difficulties and rarely drops when the mob is killed by players
Zombie Villager		Anywhere in the overworld where the light level is 7 or less	Rotten Flesh (100% chance) Iron Ingot (2.5% chance) Carrot (2.5% chance) Potato (2.5% chance) 5, plus 1–3 per equipment piece (when killed by a player or tamed wolf)	Have a 5% chance of spawning instead of a normal zombie. Have a chance of spawning when a villager is killed by a zombie (0% chance in easy, 50% chance in normal, 100% chance in hard). Can be cured into a villager using a golden apple and a splash potion of weakness. Have the same bodies as normal zombies, only the head is different.
Baby Zombie and Baby Zombie Villager		Anywhere in the overworld where the light level is 7 or less	Rotten Flesh (100% chance) Iron Ingot (2.5% chance) Carrot (2.5% chance) Potato (2.5% chance) 12, plus 1–3 per equipment piece (when killed by a player or tamed wolf)	Smaller and faster than normal zombies.
Witch		Swamp Witch Hut	Glass Bottle (12.5% chance) Glowstone Dust (12.5% chance) Gunpowder (12.5% chance) Redstone (12.5% chance) Spider Eye (12.5% chance) Sugar (12.5% chance) Stick (25% chance) 5 (when killed by a player or tamed wolf) They make 1–3 drops of 0–2 items each, for a maximum of 6 items total.	Throws splash potions of poison, slowness, weakness, and instant damage at players
Bat		Spawn in groups of two in the Overworld at a light level of 3 or less on opaque blocks below layer 63. Between October 20 and November 3, they only require a light level of 6 or less to spawn. On Superflat worlds, bats spawn below the top non-air layer, ignoring the usual layer-63 limitation.	None	Hang on the ceiling when idle, starts flying when players come near Sleep during the day Don't trigger pressure plates or tripwire

Blocks

New

Name	Image	Obtaining	Tool Required	Uses
Command Block		Only obtainable using /give <playername> 137	Cannot be broken in Survival mode nor without operator permissions	Runs editable commands when triggered by redstone Intended for adventure maps Can only be edited by operators in Creative mode, as long as enable-command-block in server.properties is enabled
Beacon		Ingredients Crafting recipe Glass + Nether Star + Obsidian	Any It will always take exactly 4.5 seconds to break it, regardless of tool used	Continuously glows and gives a selected status effect to players within a set amount of blocks while beaming a beacon of light directly upwards Activated by building a solid pyramid of iron/gold/emerald/diamond blocks underneath (can be used interchangeably) and selecting an effect The cheapest configuration requires 9 blocks (one layer), while the best configuration requires 164 blocks (four layers) Unlockable effects, with increasing amounts of required layers of blocks When all 4 layers of blocks underneath are built correctly, a second status effect can be chosen
Anvil		Ingredients Crafting recipe Block of Iron + Iron Ingot	Pickaxe	Used for repairing and combining enchanted items as well as for renaming any block or item at the cost of experience levels Tools can also be repaired using one piece of their material Enchantments that are the same are upgraded by one level as long as they are both the same level and the higher level exists Conflicting enchantments will be removed and only the first one will be kept Becomes damaged from using and dropping it Damage persists in the inventory and splits up into 3 categories: Anvil, Slightly Damaged Anvil & Very Damaged Anvil
Flower Pot		Ingredients Crafting recipe Brick	Any	Lets players plant all kinds of saplings, mushrooms, flowers, cacti, dead shrubs and ferns Right-click it with something to plant it, hit it to get both back
Cobblestone Wall and Mossy Cobblestone Wall		Ingredients Crafting recipe Cobblestone or Mossy Cobblestone	Pickaxe	Available in cobblestone and mossy cobblestone variants Behave like fences - Connect to each other, to other blocks and to fence gates & have a 1.5 blocks high collision box Have a different, higher shape in corners and when blocks are placed on them
Mob Head		Wither skeletons have a 2.5% chance of dropping a wither skeleton skull when killed by a player or tamed wolf All other heads are only obtainable from the creative inventory	Any If a player head has a custom skin, the skin will be preserved when broken.	Can be put on the ground in 16 orientations and hung on walls Can be worn
Wooden Button		Ingredients Crafting recipe Oak Planks	Axe	Unlike stone buttons, can be activated by arrows When pressed, will stay activated longer that stone buttons
Carrot and Potato Crops		Created by planting carrots and potatoes on farmland.	Any	Drop multiple carrots or potatoes when fully grown.
Nether Brick Slab		Ingredients Crafting recipe Nether Bricks 6	Pickaxe	Can be used as a building block Added in 1.4.6

Changed

Name	Image	Changed
Chest / Ender Chest		When the computer's clock is set to a date between December 24 and 26, Chests and Ender Chests become retextured to look like presents. Added in 1.4.6.

Items

New

Name	Image	Obtaining	Uses
Potato, Poisonous Potato, and Baked Potato		Potatoes can be obtained by farming, as drops (from zombies and zombie villagers), or from chest loot Poisonous potatoes rarely drop when farming potatoes Name Ingredients Smelting recipe Baked Potato Potato + Any fuel	Potatoes can be planted on hydrated soil and drop 1-4 potatoes when fully grown Can be grown instantly using bone meal Poisonous potatoes have a 60% chance to poison the player when eaten Potatoes restore 1 () hunger and 0.6 saturation Poisonous potatoes restore 2 () hunger and 1.2 saturation Baked potatoes restore 6 () hunger and 6 saturation
Carrot and Golden Carrot		Carrots can be obtained by farming, as drops (from zombies, husks, and zombie villagers), or from chest loot Name Ingredients Crafting recipe Golden Carrot Gold Nugget + Carrot	Carrots can be planted on hydrated soil and drop 2-4 carrots when fully grown Can be grown instantly using bone meal Carrots restore 4 () hunger and 3.6 saturation Golden carrots restore 6 () hunger and 14.4 saturation
Carrot on a Stick		Ingredients Crafting recipe Fishing Rod or Damaged Fishing Rod + Carrot Damaged Carrot on a Stick	Used to control pigs When held, it dictates the direction pigs players are riding will head in Nearby pigs flock towards players holding it Pigs start slow but end up going about 5 blocks per second Slowly loses durability when riding pigs The pigs 'eat' the carrot eventually, leaving the player a fishing rod and will require another carrot to continue riding Can be used to give the pig a short speed boost This takes up a chunk of the durability
Pumpkin Pie		Ingredients Crafting recipe Pumpkin + Sugar + Egg	Restores 8 () hunger and 4.8 saturation
Nether Star		Drops from the new wither	Used to craft the new beacon Glows like an enchanted item When dropped, it cannot be destroyed by explosions and will take more than twice as long to despawn than other items However, it can still be destroyed by fire, lava, and cacti
Music Disc (Wait)		Has a chance to drop when a skeleton kills a creeper.	Plays the song "Wait" by C418. Added in 1.4.4.
Enchanted Book		Created by enchanting a book using an Enchanting Table.	Used to apply enchantments to items using an Anvil. Added in 1.4.6.
Firework Rocket		Ingredients Crafting recipe Description Paper + Gunpowder 3 When crafted this way (without a firework star), the rocket does not have explosion effects. More or less Gunpowder affects the Flight Duration Any Firework Star + Paper + Gunpowder 3 Adding more gunpowder increases the duration of the rocket. Up to three gunpowder can be used. Up to five firework stars can also be used with three gunpowder. Up to seven firework stars can be used by using firework stars instead of additional gunpowder. All firework stars explode almost simultaneously when the rocket detonates.	Projectiles which can be launched into the air and explode. added in 1.4.6.
Firework Star		Ingredients Crafting recipe Description Gunpowder + Matching Dye + Extra ingredients (optional) Up to eight dyes can be added. One head, gold nugget, feather, or fire charge can be added. Both the diamond and the glowstone dust can be added with any of the other ingredients. Matching Firework Star + Any Dye Adds a "fade to color" effect to the firework star, overwriting any existing fades. Up to eight dyes can be added. Ingredients Crafting recipe Description Gunpowder + Bone Meal or Lapis Lazuli or Cocoa Beans or Ink Sac + Head or Gold Nugget or Feather or Fire Charge + Glowstone Dust + Diamond ‌ Up to eight dyes can be added. One head, gold nugget, feather, or fire charge can be added. Both the diamond and the glowstone dust can be added with any of the other ingredients. White Firework Star or Blue Firework Star or Brown Firework Star or Black Firework Star + Bone Meal or Lapis Lazuli or Cocoa Beans or Ink Sac ‌ Adds a "fade to color" effect to the firework star, overwriting any existing fades. Up to eight dyes can be added.	Used to determine the color and shape of firework explosions. Added in 1.4.6.
Bat and Witch Spawn Eggs		Available in the creative inventory.	Can be used to spawn the respective mob.

Changed

Name	Image	Changed
Music Disc (11)		Can now drop from creepers killed by skeletons like other music discs.

Potions

New

Name	Obtaining	Effects
Potion of Night Vision	Ingredients Brewing recipe Golden Carrot + Awkward Potion	Night Vision
Potion of Invisibility	Ingredients Brewing recipe Fermented Spider Eye + Potion of Night Vision	Invisibility

Non-mob entities

New

Name	Image	Creation	Drops	Note
Item Frame		Ingredients Crafting recipe Stick + Leather	Item Frame (and any item in it)	All items and blocks can be framed Clocks, compasses and maps function Maps show only one marker, the frame itself Mounted maps are marked on copies of the map

Changed

Name	Image	Changed
Painting		Added a new painting depicting the creation of the Wither. This is the only painting not based on a real painting by Kristoffer Zetterstrand, and is also the only painting to have been added in a post-release version so far.

Structures

New

Name	Image	Generates	Chests	Mobs	Description
Witch Hut		Generates in Swamp biomes	None	Witch	The witch hut is a structure, which is the only place where witches spawn naturally. The structure consists mainly of spruce planks and oak logs, and has a cauldron and a crafting table inside it

Enchantments

New

Enchantment	Max Level	Applicable Items	Notes
Thorns	III		Damages attackers.

Effects

New

Name	Image	Causes	Description
Wither		Withers and Wither Skeletons	Inflicts damage over time. Unlike Poison, it has the potential to be fatal on its own.

Sounds

New

Name	Trigger	Sound
Zombie, Skeleton, Cow, Pig, Spider, Enderman, Ghast, Silverfish, Magma Cube, Wolf, Ender Dragon, Bat, and Anvil	Added sounds
Wood, Stone, Sand, Gravel, Plants	Added sounds for placing blocks
Sand, Gravel, Soul Sand, Grass Block, and Stone	Added sounds for walking on the block
Zombie Villager	Added sounds for curing, infecting, and a remedy sound
Fire	Added sounds for setting things on fire
Sheep	Added sounds for shearing sheep
Ladder	Added sounds for climbing ladders
Minecart	Added sounds for riding minecarts
Experience	Added a sound for leveling up, which is played every five levels
Liquids	Added constant noise to liquids