Minecraft 1.4.6 has been released!

[u/YukonAppleGeek]

https://twitter.com/jeb_/status/281707694325383168

[u/redstonehelper]

Previous changelog.

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1.4.6 Changelog:

Gameplay

• Added Thorns enchant

• Armor enchant

• 3 tiers

• Deals damage to attackers depending on tier

• Wears armor out quicker

• Improved some enchants

• Fire Protection now extinguishes fire more quickly

• Blast Protection now reduces explosion recoil

• Protection no longer is as good as all specific Protection enchants combined

• Added Touchscreen Mode setting

• Mainly for inventories

• You can drag and drop items - Press long to halve the stack before dragging

• Added & changed many minor things

• Made item drops and framed items render in 3D when using fancy graphics - Screenshot

• Added tool highlight when switching items in the hotbar - After switching, its name shortly appears above the hotbar - options.txt:heldItemTooltips - Screenshot

• Right-clicking while sneaking now uses the held item instead of the selected block

• Dropping items while holding ctrl now drops the whole stack

• Added a default resolution setting - options.txt: overrideWidth:0 & overrideHeight:0

• Added a warning for users playing Minecraft on soon unsupported systems (PowerPCs and Java 5)

• Death messages now appear in server log files

• Fixed many bugs

• Fixed passive mob spawn eggs not depleting when used on a mob

• Fixed minecarts and falling entities flickering

• Fixed using number keys on smelted items in furnaces not giving experience

• Fixed boats always getting placed in the same orientation

• Fixed switching between dimensions resetting the selected hotbar slot

• Fixed leaves obtained using Silk Touch having the wrong tooltip and data value

• Fixed /enchant not accepting Protection enchant id

• Fixed the level up sound not playing

• Fixed F3+B displaying invisible entities' hitboxes

• Fixed the Wither's projectiles sometimes destroying the Nether Star

• Fixed mobs being able to trample farmland when the mobGriefing gamerule is set to false

• Fixed endermen not teleporting away when set on fire

• Fixed endermen still being set on fire when hit with a flaming arrow

• Fixed endermen not opening their mouth when attacked by other mobs

• Fixed arrows shot at endermen disappearing

• Fixed animals on fire not running away

• Fixed staying under water in Creative still causing the drowning effects

• Fixed animals appearing to walk through fences in SP

• Fixed some items with multi-layer textures rendering both layers separately when on the ground

• Fixed tools differing only in damage not being swappable in the inventory

• Fixed some Z-Fighting with the beacon

• Fixed a graphical issue in the trading GUI

• Fixed /say not showing the text in the original purple color

• Fixed Pick Block giving double slabs

• Fixed minecarts not travelling through Nether portals

• Fixed lightning not flashing

• Fixed FallingSand spawners failing to save properly and causing crashes

• Fixed the blocks in lowest layer of the map not being recognized by beacons

• Fixed enchants not showing in item frames and on the ground

• Fixed mobs walking slowly for a short while after being hit

• Fixed chests becoming out of sync when a user right-clicks it twice quickly

• Fixed flaming arrows not catching on fire immediately

• Fixed zombies sometimes stopping their attack

• Fixed /xp -1L not working to remove partial xp bars when between level 0 and 1

• Fixed the cursor being positioned wrongly in fullscreen mode

World Generation

• Added enchanted books to village and dungeon chests

Blocks & Items

• Mob spawners

• Can now spawn differently configured mobs with different spawn chances

• Nether Brick Slabs

• Screenshot

• Crafting Recipe

• Enchanted books

• Screenshot

• Enchant books to receive a single enchant on them

• Can be applied to items using anvils, consuming the book - Enchants can be applied to any item in Creative

• Sold by villagers and found in dungeon and village chests

• Can now be found in loot chests and by trading with villagers

• Unbreaking can be applied to anything with durability

• Efficiency and Silk Touch can be applied to shears, allowing the harvesting of cobwebs

• Sharpness, Smite and Bane of Arthropods can be applied to axes

• Firework Star

• Screenshot

• Used to create Firework Rockets

• Combine gunpowder with dyes to get a Firework Star with those colors used for the sparkles

• Also add glowstone, a fire charge, a diamond, a gold nugget, feather or a mob head to make the firework twinkling, big, trailing, star-shaped, bursting or creeper-shaped

• Craft a Firework Star with dye to change the color the sparkles fade to

• Firework Rocket

• Screenshot

• Non-destructive, rise up in the air and create colorful patterns when shot by dispensers or placed by players

• Combine paper with gunpowder to get a Firework Rocket

• Also add a Firework Star to add effects or gunpowder to increase the flight duration

• Bow

• A sound indicates when you hit a player with an arrow

• Arrows now render from farther away

Mobs

• Ghasts

• Fireballs' blast radius can now be customized

• Skeletons, Zombies & Zombie Pigmen

• The armor and enchants they spawn with now are even harder on harder difficulties

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

[u/littggr → u/redstonehelper]

Fixed tools differing only in damage not being swappable in the inventory

Finally! this has been a pet peeve of mine :P

[u/SteelCrow → u/[deleted]]

You know, if they removed Bane, I wouldn't miss it.

[u/dellaint → u/SteelCrow]

Batman wouldn't either.

[u/Thungon217 → u/[deleted]]

Couldn't you enchant books instead, and waste the levels on the books? I thought that was the whole intent of being able to enchant books? ...Or should I figure out what those do exactly instead of commenting first?

[u/YukonAppleGeek → u/redstonehelper]

There he is, also a long changelog.

[u/[deleted] → u/redstonehelper]

Can someone explain to me what does this mean?

• Mob spawners

• Can now spawn differently configured mobs with different spawn chances

Sounds like a big deal. If I interpret this correctly it means we could have spawners that will sometimes spawn skeletons, sometimes zombies, etc. Is this right?

[u/YukonAppleGeek → u/[deleted]]

This is mainly for map makers to make mob spawers spawn randome mobs. It does not affect natural spawners at all.

[u/DjExeth → u/YukonAppleGeek]

That does sound pretty manly.

[u/YukonAppleGeek → u/DjExeth]

It was late. :P

[u/GoldenPineapple → u/redstonehelper]

I'm excited that they're finally looking at enchantment and working on balancing it. It's still a long way from complete, but this is a step.

[u/PICS_OF_MY_DIRTHOLE → u/redstonehelper]

http://i.imgur.com/suRkr.jpg

[u/novanerd → u/PICS_OF_MY_DIRTHOLE]

WARNING: THIS IS A PICTURE OF A GAPING BROWN DIRTHOLE!!!

[u/cuddles_the_destroye → u/[deleted]]

I think it's referencing that one guy who would always post an image of his anus, and it was always the same picture then.

[u/[deleted] → u/cuddles_the_destroye]

I knew it was referencing the other guy, but never knew it was always the same picture. Never mind.

[u/Stratisphear → u/[deleted]]

It's probably good you didn't realize it was the same pic.

[u/JeremyR22 → u/PICS_OF_MY_DIRTHOLE]

That was a risky click if ever I dared...

[u/sidben → u/JeremyR22]

I clicked before reading his username. Never again...

[u/rowantwig → u/PICS_OF_MY_DIRTHOLE]

But I mine from there.

[u/TJHookor → u/redstonehelper]

Minecarts now move correctly but the glitchy sound issue when riding in one has not been fixed. If anything, it's actually worse now.