Snapshot 12w26a Available For Testing

This week's Snapshot is both a little early, and mostly bugfixes. 1.3 is very near on the horizon, and Team Mojang wants to make sure that it's the best release it can be!

Changes:

Monster Spawners now support extra information for the mobs it spawns. This allows unmodified games to have spawners for special variants of mobs. The player still requires external or modified means to set these parameters, though. Some examples of what Monster Spawners can spawn are Charged Creepers, Endermen holding specific blocks, Green Robe Villagers, and Villagers with custom trade offers.
Performance improvement.
Added crafting recipes for wooden stairs
Fixed changing the name of a world, loading that world, saving and quitting it undoing the world rename
Fixed the game crashing when it automatically selects the "Scanning for LAN Worlds" item in the server list and you delete it
Fixed the arrow representing the player on the map item not pointing in the right direction
Fixed clicking "Save and Quit" or "Disconnect" twice quickly crashing the game
Fixed the SMP server fairly regularly dropping all players and showing many NullPointerExceptions in the console every few hours
Fixed save files being closed each time the world was auto-saved
Fixed being able to duplicate sand and gravel
Fixed placing a piston in front of another which is powered, but not extended, causing the placed piston to become broken and have the same texture on all sides
TNT no longer drops as a ressource on creative mode
Numerous bugfixes

Want to give this Snapshot a go? Download links are below!

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Special thanks to Reddit's RedstoneHelper for help with compiling the list!

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ArkEneru
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Posted Jun 27, 2012
I haven't tested it yet, can you do the spanner options thingy with tmi?

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Posted Jun 27, 2012
sounds cool so far, all of the improvements. but there is still one major thing that needs to get fixed: survival has always been intended to be hard, at least it used to be. it would be nice if survival was actually hard after you finished building your home, farm and a trading rout to villages.

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Posted Jun 27, 2012
yes but how do you place mob spawners?

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Posted Jun 27, 2012
Quote from Mattgeek1997

You didn't put the minecraft.jar in the right place. Make sure it is in you "bin" folder.

I placed the minecraft jar that I donwloaded on the bin folder in ".minecraft" and deleted the old one but after I log in it appears a screen that says "done loading" and above that it says "Updating minecraft".
Nothing happens after that, it freezes.

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Posted Jun 27, 2012
hope they fixed that slab bug

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Posted Jun 27, 2012
Quote from Mattgeek1997

Funny, it was Vechs' idea. He brought it up in an interview with dinnerbone.

VECHS YOU JERK!
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hope they fixed that slab bug

they did alooooonng time ago.
Quote from redsquadron6

sounds cool so far, all of the improvements. but there is still one major thing that needs to get fixed: survival has always been intended to be hard, at least it used to be. it would be nice if survival was actually hard after you finished building your home, farm and a trading rout to villages.

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can an enderman place spawners that spawn enderman with spawners

that would be awesome!

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Posted Jun 28, 2012
Quote from RAMAONARA

can an enderman place spawners that spawn enderman with spawners

Spawner in Desert Temples? or Jungle Temples?

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Posted Jun 28, 2012
Am I the only one who noticed they spelled resource wrong? LMAO

ahh mojang though.... charged creeper spawners?!?!?! uh oh

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Posted Jun 28, 2012
LOVE the new changes. Good work Mojang team! I just wish they would come out with 1.3 now...

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Posted Jun 28, 2012
Can't shift click items from creative mode, I think that was in 1.2.5

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Posted Jun 28, 2012
Nether render/viewable distance is still much smaller/shorter than it was back in 1.0, or 1.1, there abouts. I never saw anything in any of the patch notes, so I am assuming this wasn't an intentional change.

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Posted Jun 28, 2012
Quote from Razermilk

I placed the minecraft jar that I donwloaded on the bin folder in ".minecraft" and deleted the old one but after I log in it appears a screen that says "done loading" and above that it says "Updating minecraft".
Nothing happens after that, it freezes.

Make sure the file you downloaded is "minecraft.jar" if not then rename it to that, but don't actually rename it "minecraft.jar" just rename it "minecraft" because if you put it into the file first you wouldn't have to delete the first "minecraft.jar" file

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Posted Jun 28, 2012
Quote from lolcreeper200

Who else noticed that this snapshot come out on a Wednesday, not a Thursday?

This week's Snapshot is both a little early, and mostly bugfixes.

First words of the entire post.

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Posted Jun 28, 2012
oh good i think 1.3s almost here, i was pretty sure 1.3 was coming sooner but whatever it builds up the excitement.

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Dont tell vechs about the charged creepers

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Posted Jun 28, 2012
There more snapshots that approach, I gain two feelings...

1, What did they add now?! It's always something fantastic!

2. The psych it brings you for 1.3's release.

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Posted Jun 28, 2012
Not sure if this is a bug, or what's going on, but I've enchanted 3 or 4 bows now at lvl 30 (which is max lvl, right?) and I keep getting Power III (3), and I believe Power 5 is the max. I'm wondering if this is working as intended, like Power 5 is rare, even at 30, or not.

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Posted Jun 28, 2012
Quote from Annlaw_Clayshaper

according to http://www.minecraft...t/wiki/Snapshot

mobs now spawn on half slabs ???

I seriously hope the don't consider adding THAT to the final version

They can spawn on top slabs but not bottom. Also upside down stairs where you can put redstone.

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Posted Jun 28, 2012
I can say that I am very happy to hear that 1.3 may be coming out in a very short time! I don't think I will like having charged creepers killing me in custom maps! We'll wait and see (Vechs' maps will be harder!!! Aren't they hard enough?)

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Posted Jun 28, 2012
u should add one thing a friend gui where u can add friend and u can folow him to the server he is on

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