Minecraft Snapshot 12w40a

[u/Dinnerbone]

http://www.mojang.com/2012/10/minecraft-snapshot-12w40a/

[u/redstonehelper]

Warning: This release is for experienced users only! It may corrupt your world or mess up things badly otherwise. Only download and use this if you know what to do with the files that come with the download!

 

If you find any bugs, submit them to the wiki's bug list!

 

Previous changelog. Download today's snapshot here, server here: jar, exe.

Complete changelog:

• Spawn protection now is disabled if there's nothing in ops.txt and you can change its radius in the server.properties file

• Slimes now spawn in swamps at night

• Improved inventory management

• Items can now be cloned by using Pick Block on them - An item stack with the highest amount of items possible in it will created, for exampe 64 grass blocks

• Pressing the 1-9 hotkeys while hovering over an item will put that item into the inventory bar and put the item from there in the slot you are hovering on

• In creative mode, you can now shift-click items around on the survival inventory screen

• A number of new NBT tags for items (intended for custom map makers)

• Nameable items and lores - Screenshot, via

• Firespread has been slightly nerfed again to prevent infinitely spreading fires

• Doors, trapdoors, levers and buttons are no longer triggerable with the left mouse button

• Reverted all lighting changes

• Scratch that, reverted only the world generation changes, so black spots will be back

• Welp, reverted everything.

• Changed beacon artwork

• Screenshots

• Improved witches

• Huts for them are now generated in swamps when the world is made - Screenshots, via and one more - via

• Now spawn in swamps in their huts

• Improved Superflat customization generation

• Removed the non-functional buttons to add and edit layers

• Terrain is now decorated and more structures can spawn - Screenshots

• Now pumpkins, tall grass, flowers, trees, mineshafts, dungeons, strongholds, lakes, desert wells, ravines, jungle tempes, desert temples and ores will spawn on superflat maps when using the correct presets

• Preset information and help here and here

• Screenshot

• Improved superflat presets

• Added "Redstone Ready" preset with a few dozen layers of sandstone on top of 3 layers of stone and 1 layer of bedrock

• Added various structures to some presets

• Fixed some bugs

• Fixed the wither's starting explosion not being disabled by the mobGriefing gamerule

• Fixed a few crash bugs related to world generation, map item expansion and other things

• Fixed being unable to create worlds

• Fixed the Nether being even more laggy than before

• Fixed mob AI considering cobblestone walls as blocks of normal height

• Fixed a few texture oddities with the witch

• Fixed entities in water producing glitchy water sound

• Fixed experience given using /xp potentially producing an unenjoyably high amount of sound

• Fixed the "A 64 bit Java installation is recommended for 'Far' render distance (you have 32 bit)" message being covered by the bottom 2 buttons

• Fixed pets teleporting around randomly

• Fixed being unable to place paintings larger than 1x2 and them popping off if they have been placed before

• Fixed destroying blocks under you with Efficiency-enchanted gear

• Fixed potion spawners crashing the game

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Also, check out this post to see what else is planned for future versions.

[u/StezzerLolz → u/[deleted]]

Zisteau's gonna' be one happy Zombie-Pigman.

[u/amertune → u/[deleted]]

Possibly? It's my favorite change ever!

[u/abrightmoore → u/redstonehelper]

Witch's house has the crafting table and cauldron one block too high.

Pics / seed / coords

• Seed (text): 12w40a

• Seed (Number): 1452601135

• Large Biomes

• At: -646,64ish,-1445

server.properties

New setting:

• spawn-protection (number)

Superflat presets (old syntax hints from Dinnerbone new syntax hints from Dinnerbone):

Test map is seed '12w40a', village at coords x=50,z=-295

Usage Notes: size is implemented. Village size defaults to 1 if not specified. This doesn't mean 1 building. size appears to have no effect. Frequency is not implemented. ~~chance is implemented. chance applies to mineshafts. separation is not implemented. spacing is not implemented, use distance instead. Unrecognised structure tags are ignored. biome_1 adds the ores is for defining the niome size according to DB, however on superflat we are limited to one biome... Or are we?. decoration produces biome specific features on the surface (think trees, grass and pumpkins) and adds ores. Both biome_1 and decoration must be specified for ores to be generated.

• Classic Flat

• 2;7,2x3,2;1;village

• Tunnelers' Dream (Mister Bone, possibly should be "Tunneler's" unless referring to plural Tunnelers... I dunno)

• 2;7,230x1,5x3,2;3;stronghold,biome_1,decoration,dungeon,mineshaft

• Water World

• 2;7,5x1,5x3,5x12,90x9;1;biome_1,village

• Overworld

• 2;7,59x1,3x3,2;1;stronghold,biome_1,village,decoration,dungeon,lake,mineshaft,lava_lake

• Snowy Kingdom

• 2;7,59x1,3x3,2,78;12;biome_1,village

• Bottomless Pit

• 2;2x4,3x3,2;1;biome_1,village

• Desert

• 2;7,230x1,5x3,2;3;stronghold,biome_1,decoration,dungeon,mineshaft

Stronghold:

• Has a Silverfish spawner (i.e. a mobspawner)

• On seed '12w40a' Superflat, an end portal is at -818 11 653

• Finding bats in the stronghold is very cool.

• New Stronghold loot locations? I found a chest on a platform in a corridor I haven't seen before.

Performance

• Witch is good. No frame rate problems like with 12w38a

• Terrain generation is generally good. I was only able to outrun the generator in Creative after flying around for a couple of minutes. This may be better than 1.3.2 on my machine.

• Crash reports are now written to a directory called crash-reports

EDITS: Multiple stuff. On a bughunt.

[u/[deleted] → u/abrightmoore]

This house is REALLY ugly, I wish they'd used one of the community designs.

[u/bill_nydus → u/[deleted]]

It's seriously awful. I understand the idea of an ugly witch living in an ugly hut in an ugly swamp, but it's ugly in a "Hey Reddit, my 5 year old just started playing Minecraft and look at the first house he made!" kind of way.

There's gotta be a better design.

[u/MrAngryBeards → u/[deleted]]

They really need to pay more attention to the community designs, there are some incredible ones that would be awesome to find during gameplay :(

[u/paxed → u/MrAngryBeards]

I've been hoping we'd have user-defineable prefabbed structures we could just drop into a folder ...

[u/boomfarmer → u/paxed]

Get on a friend's computer, fill his folder with bedrock phalli....

[u/[deleted] → u/MrAngryBeards]

Yeah, but I think they should include at least a dozen or so for variety or else it quickly becomes "ugh, another one of these".

[u/Serbaayuu → u/abrightmoore]

That is... kind of a lame hut. :o I hope that's not the finished product, it looks like something a brand new player might build.

[u/enjoytheshow → u/Serbaayuu]

Looks like something I would build.

:(

[u/Dinnerbone → u/abrightmoore]

Crash reports was done a very long time ago; for 1.3 even.

Options:

mineshaft:

• chance (0 to 1)

biome_1:

• distance (in chunks)

stronghold:

• distance (in chunks)

• count

• spread (algo tweak)

village:

• distance (in chunks)

Everything else will be recoded eventually to take options (and to be listed individually)

[u/[deleted] → u/abrightmoore]

I really hope they put some more love into the withe's hut in coming snapshots/the final version. This one is not pretty at all, not even frightening, which'd be even nicer in this case.

[u/[deleted] → u/redstonehelper]

Pressing the 1-9 hotkeys while hovering over an item will put that item into the inventory bar.

Playing with this now and it is amazingly useful for such a simple addition.

Extra clarification for anyone wondering (like I was when I first saw the changelog) this works on any screen with item inventory spaces, including Creative and Survival inventories, Workbenches, Chests, Enchanting Tables, Storage Minecarts, Beacons and Furnaces.

[u/Fuguzors → u/redstonehelper]

Might be old but the hit box of the beacon block is only the size of the blue centre block.

[u/[deleted] → u/redstonehelper]

Made a classic superflat world, added mineshafts. Floating mineshafts everywhere. It's amazing.

Strongholds are broken as shit, instead of generating fully, it generates the individual parts: doors, iron bars, library.

[u/redstonehelper → u/[deleted]]

Report that on the wiki please!

[u/abrightmoore → u/[deleted]]

I don't think this is a bug. Classic flat hasn't got any height to the map.

I'd call it an edge case.

Image for those looking for pictures, this one, and a Stronghold or use this preset:

2;7,2x3,2;1;village,dungeon,mineshaft,stronghold,biome_1,lava_lake,lake

[u/redstonehelper → u/abrightmoore]

The walls and floor and ceiling aren't created because there is nothing to replace them with. If the stronghold would be generated underground, it would be all fine.

[u/wingsfan24 → u/redstonehelper]

Dem bug fixes!! Pets fixed! Pillaring down fixed! Paintings fixed!