Posted Feb. 17, 2012
If you haven't heard, Minecraft 1.2 is a fairly big update. The major changes include:
- Worlds can now be up to 256 blocks high, double the height of current worlds (!)
- A new jungle biome has been added
- A new ocelot (a feline) mob has been added that you can tame
- Improved mob AI for all mobs; mobs will be able to pathfind and follow you around corners and obstacles!
Unfortunately, these changes (namely the new biome) necessitate a new world because the algorithm has changed. As planned, Vincent and James will be getting a world reset, but with the following caveats:
- James and Vincent may be merged.
- You will be able to keep your items and houses from Vincent, though this will be a manual process where we move your house over from the old world.
At the moment, we have
no plans to make any major changes to Alice's world.
A full list of all the new Minecraft features for 1.2 so far is below:
- Ladders regained their collision box.
- Vines are climbable if you push into a solid block while next to them.
- Added jungle biome (requires a new world) and new wood and leaf types.
- Dispensers dispensing Spawn Eggs will place Mobs instead of simply dispensing the eggs.
- Spawn eggs are now stackable.
- Wolves have new AI and can be bred by using Chicken (Raw or Cooked), Porkchops (Raw or Cooked), Steak/Beef, and Rotten Flesh when tamed.
- New jungle-specific Ocelot mob that can be tamed with Raw Fish into Cats.
- Mobshave new a AI with new and improved behaviors.
- Skeletons and Zombies burning from sunlight will flee to darkness or jump in water.
- Mobs no longer attempt to jump over wooden fences.
- Path finding is much improved.
- New Items:
- Changed Dispenser and Oak Sapling textures. (
) - Added Desert Wells, which are newly generated structures.
- Players are slowed when going through Vines due to their nature of being a collisionless ladder.
- Lava sounds now function.
- Ocelots are easier to tame, and Cats can be told to sit.
- Villagers will try to detect village houses and live in them.
- Creepers run away from cats.
- Creepers now stalk the player.
- Abandoned mine shafts now bridge over ravines
- Enchantment tables no longer require experience in creative mode
- You can get Dead Bushes by using shears on them.
- Cats will now sit if right-clicked with an empty hand.
- Death screen has a slight delay before buttons become active, to avoid accidentally clicking buttons when killed.
- NPC Villagers now have the ability to open and close doors.
- Creepers will "run" away from tamed Cats and Ocelots.
- Cobwebs will prevent the player from receiving fall damage.
- Doors have been changed to properly detect if they are open or closed. Double Doorsin existing maps will need to be updated.
- Placing two Pressure Platesdirectly in front of doors and stepping on them will open them correctly.
- Villager's AI has been improved.
- When a player is targeted by a hostile mob, it will continue to track the player despite being attacked by other mobs.
- Zombie's AI has been improved.
- Added new sounds.
- Cats meow, cry, howl, purr and hiss.
- Doors make banging sounds when Zombies attack them.
- Better movement for mobs in Water.
- Added rare Itemdrops for mobs.
- Pressing F1 to hide the HUD additionally disables hitbox outlines on blocks and the block breaking animation.
- Monster Spawners now show correct mobs in multiplayer.
- Snow Golems take damage from rain and water.
- Redstone Dust can now be placed over Glowstone.
- World file format changed to format called Anvil.
- World height is now 256 blocks instead of 128 blocks.
- Up to 4096 block IDs can be used.
- Multiplayer light calculations no longer cause affected blocks to be transmitted to the clients, instead the clients will recalculate the light on their own.
- Villagers will repopulate villagesbased on how many houses there are available.
- The player may add houses to villages, provided they are enclosed with a roof and wooden door.
- Some nights in villages will be worse than others.
- Added Redstone Lamp.
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