It's that time again - Snapshot time! What goodies lie in this week's test client? Mojang had this to say about the 12w49a Snapshot:
“What’s this? This doesn’t sound like a redstone update at all!”, you say. “Indeed,” we say. Thing is, we* suddenly decided we wanted to make sure that you have fireworks for New Year’s Eve, so we’re working in several parallel branches of the code now. One is for the 1.5 “Redstone Update,” and one is now for a 1.4.6 patch update. This update will be out before Christmas, and 1.5 will wait until January (or possibly February).
*Send complaints to jeb_
Changelog:
- Added fireworks (sound effects will come soon)
- Added enchanted books for enchanting items
- Netherbrick slabs?!
- Plenty of bugs addressed!
Wait a minute - enchanting books?! What the heck are those? As it turns out, Dinnerbone had some pretty awesome plans for the anvil when it first came out, and they included, among other things, the inclusion of sweet enchantment books!
Pictured: sweet enchantment books
As always, get your Snapshot downloads from the links below! Be sure to report any bugs you find at the official bug tracker, and enjoy this delightful addition to your end-of-year Minecraft festivities!
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Snapshot Client: Download
Snapshot Server: Download
To make a firework star is: dye + gunpowder
Add in: dyes for more colors, glowstone for twinkle effect, firecharge for large ball, gold nugget for star shape
You can add a dye to the finished star to make it fade to that color.
To make a rocket is: paper + star + gunpowder
Add in: gunpowder for longer range, another firework star for overlapping explosions
Also, adding a diamond gives it a trail.
1.4.6 will be bugfix and fireworks (To New Year's Eve), and 1.5 is the Redstone update and Mod API.
Read it before you post, pal.
Not another damned update for 1.4. It was a halloween update, and it's STILL being worked on at Christmas... come on, do some proper testing mojang!
if it wern't for those things, the game just wouldn't be the same.
Actually, the 1.4.6 must wait to release or not?
I don't want them to add another item that serves one purpose. The firework star is not needed.
Anyone who thought the mod API was coming in 1.5 is a touch naive. They will probably begin putting pieces of it into the code, but they really don't even have the API designed yet, and it's REALLY hard to code something you have not designed.
As to the fireworks, it would have been an ok mod for someone to do, nothing I would bother downloading or installing, but that seems to be the bulk of what Mojang has been adding for a while now, stuff that would have been an ok mod.
That something went awry involving servers and the nether...
Sadly they don't make colors though...
Anyway pretty awesome update or I think it will be.
Enchanted books might be useful...Will we get to have multiple enchants on them and will they not take as much xp? I'm curious...
Generated the world and the nether in singleplayer, no problems, moved it on over to the server, started it up and it looked all buggy.
I understand you want the API, but , In reality, FML will work just fine up until that point.
I am very pleased that Mojang is adding things to the game like this. The bats and fireworks are cool, and the enchant books are quite helpful