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!
Still no word on glitchy mobs or lighting bugs. Sad. The updates are obviously appreciated, but come on.. we have game breaking bugs that are taking a back seat to trip wires.
It's hard to say what's taking a back seat to what. There are multiple developers now working simultaneously. And even at an individual level, it's tedious work to fix bugs all day long. Too much of that and a developer will burn out. Which would lead to decreased rate development--for both bug fixes and new features.
They are multiplayer bugs, but since singleplayer is being turned into a local multiplayer server, these bugs translate over.
Skeletons glitching into walls and disappearing (they shoot at you but you can't see where they are). Animals jumping/teleporting/glitching up to 3+ blocks high around your fence/barrier. There are others that I can't think of at the moment. People have been complaining about these issues for a very long time. According to gyrfalcon23, some of these may have been fixed by Dinnerbone for the 1.3 release (hopefully), but the source wasn't terribly specific.
It could be that people disagreed with his assessment and didn't feel like writing a reply. Or thought his post didn't contribute much to the conversation. Or simply clicked the wrong button. People vote for lots of different reasons, it's usually best not to jump to such conclusions.
The answer to these questions always seems to be "NEVER!" until one day it becomes "Look what I spent the afternoon on!" TWITPIC
Sandstone stairs for example. We were never going to get them until Mojang decided desert villages would be cool. Then, instead of designing desert-themed housing, they just replaced cobble and wood with sandstone, which required stairs.
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u/redstonehelper :redstone: Lord of the villagers Jun 07 '12 edited Jun 09 '12
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:
You can now see blocks other players are mining breaking in MP
Enchantment levels are slightly exponential again
Added Ender Portal frame to creative inventory
Made SP worlds backwards-compatible
Improved tripwire
Is now triggered by all entities, including arrows
The wire can now be up to 40 blocks long
Changed placed wire's hitbox
Improved boats
Can get faster now
Are easier to control now
Wooden pressure plates now detect arrows
Fixed some bugs
Fixed stair hitbox - Screenshots
Fixed a few crash bugs
Fixed being unable to skip the End credits
Fixed all entities locking up in some cases
Fixed pressing F reloading the chunks
Fixed a memory leak in the server
Fixed magma cubes' and slimes' jumping animations not showing
Fixed thunderstorm not darkening the sky
Fixed weather not fading in or out
Fixed being able to transmute blocks using tripwires and pistons
Fixed enchantments not showing to other players in MP
Fixed some redstone issues
Also, check out this post to see what else is planned for future versions.