After weeks of hard testing, fixing, re-testing, and fixing even more, the 1.5 Pre-Release is now ready for testing!  We are in the final stretch for 1.5, and while it has taken a little longer than many expected, there is a silver lining!  Tons of features were added for the Redstone Update, and a landslide of bugs were swept away, to make sure the final release was as smooth and easy as possible.

Ready to see a feature list this time, instead of just bug fixes?  Here you go!

1.5 Pre-Release Features:

• Added Redstone Comparator (used in Redstone logic)
  
• Added Hopper (collects items and moves them to containers)
  
• Added Dropper (similar to Dispensers, but always drops the item)
  
• Added Activator Rail (activates TNT Minecarts)
  
• Added Daylight Sensor
  
• Added Trapped Chest
  
• Added Weighed Pressure Plate
  
• Added Block of Redstone
  
• Added Nether Brick (item)
  
• Added Nether Quartz and ore
  
• Added Block of Quartz, with half blocks and chiseled variants
  
• New command: /scoreboard
  
• New command: /effect
  
• Containers and mobs can have custom names
  
• Inventory management has been changed, for example you can drag-place items over slots
  
• Texture packs now have separate images for each block and item, and can have animations
  
• Nether Quartz Ore now spawns in the Nether
  
• Smooth lighting now has three settings (none, minimal, maximum)
  
• More detailed death messages
  
• Some hostile mobs now are harder in Hard difficulty
  
• Many, many, bug fixes
  
• Removed Herobrine

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The 1.5 pre-release is expected tomorrow!  In the meantime, help test out the latest round of Snapshot goodness!

Notable changes:

• Dispensers and droppers will now only fire once when they receive a redstone signal. To fire again, the signal must be turned off and on again. (Previously a dispenser would fire whenever it had a signal and a nearby block changed.)
  
• Redstone and components stay powered after unloading chunks
  
• Dispenser and Dropper shooting out when updated
  
• Server crashes if spaces are input on the console
  
• Night Vision Potions that are edited to last longer create a potentially seizure-inducing flashing sky background.
  
• Furnace interface occasionally closes when adding fuel, deleting all items in the furnace
  
• Named Mobs Don't have Named Babies
  
• Getting into a minecart with a mob in it crashes minecraft
  
• 2 Hoppers funneling unstackable items into a 3rd Hopper at the same time cause the 3rd Hopper to not funnel items into a container
  
• Dispensers continually shoot/use certain items like water buckets and flint&steel
  
• Comparators still giving off power when hopper inventory is empty
  
• Animals can breed over distances up to almost 8 blocks when only seperated by fences
  
• Message "THIS TOO" in console
  
• Full hoppers feeding into full hoppers causes the forward hopper to stall
  
• Adding items to brewing stand using dropper does not change state of comparator

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Back-to-back Snapshots can only mean one thing - 1.5 is nearly upon us!  This Snapshot corrects another massive round of bugs, as well as giving the detector rail an animation.  What was fixed this go-around?

Bug Fixes:

• Unicode font text shadow misaligned
  
• Activated detector-rails moved by a piston keep their activated state
  
• Single player mode, creative mode, E to select block, select block from grid, E to return to game, game freezess, crash log created
  
• Furnace Tile Entities reproducing – Internal performance bug
  
• Furnace interface occasionally closes when adding fuel, deleting all items in the furnace
  
• Redstone block and torches don't power dispensers, droppers, TNT and Noteblocks
  
• Adding an item to a hopper with a dropper does not change comparator state.
  
• Piston retracting disapears if pushed out by another piston
  
• Issues with Baby Cows' hitboxes
  
• Last Direct Multiplayerconnection does not get saved
  
• Hard Crash
  
• Hopper Cool-Down is messed up
  
• Slowness 127 and Speed 110 together flip view
  
• Using /clear on more than 1 player will stop clearing inventories once an empty inventory is encountered
  
• /me cannot use @p correctly
  
• updated redstone bug (detectorrail)
  
• "/scoreboard teams empty teamName" error message says "%s" instead of the team's name

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The pre-release will be delayed until no more bugs remain!  Mojang is committed to making sure 1.5 is as bug-free as possible, and they still need your help!  Want to contribute?  Give this Snapshot a test, and report any bugs you find here!


Features:

• All potions are now categorized in Creative Mode
  
• Removed the amplifier effect limit
  
• /effect <Playername> (PotionID) 0 will take away the effect from the player if he/she got the effect
  
• You can now go up to 1.000.000.000 but most of the effects will do weird after 127

Bugfixes:

• TP Bug when you sit in Minecart/Boat/Riding pig
  
• Minecart going in a circle will make any minecart close to them go super fast.
  
• Sounds: Fire extinguish sound does not work in survival
  
• Redstone and components stay powered after unloading chunks
  
• Breaking Doors moves the other part of the door sometimes
  
• Swords do not lose durability when used on the Ender Dragon
  
• Creative Menu potion values are not the same as when brewed (issue redo)
  
• Brewing stand comparator output inconsistent
  
• Non-standard resolutions (and small standard resolutions) not detected properly
  
• Nether cave/tunnel generator produces incorrect/cut tunnels
  
• Missing quartz, hopper, and comparator textures
  
• Quartz slabs and double slabs using wrong texture
  
• Inconsistent distribution system (based on hopper, hopper bug) using rails and minecart-chest over hoppers
  
• Powered mechanisms react when receiving a 0 tick redstone signal
  
• Comparator use off state texture / do not emit any light when powered
  
• Minecarts with Hoppers duplicating items when multiple carts are in the same space
  
• Hitting mobs with a sharpness I wooden sword and weakness III crashes the game
  
• Powering 2 pistons extends the wrong piston!
  
• Mobs with the old AI have inverted head movement
  
• Rows of Vertical Down Piston Extenders have a >50% failure rate
  
• Minecraft crashes when a saddled pig you ride dies or when changing between rideable entities
  
• Animations for items and blocks do not work properly
  
• Unable to craft with blocks which have a damage value greater than 0
  
• Invisible entities infinite spawn loop (client side) using minecart spawners causing severe performance issues.
  
• Crash when near crops
  
• View Upside Down with Speed 5 and FOV Quake Pro
  
• Minecraft has stopped running because it encountered a problem; Ticking player
  
• Same redstone line, two different redstone level
  
• Internal error when using /effect with an id >31

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Here is an update to yesterday's Snapshot!  Keep an ear to the ground, as the 1.5 pre-release won't be far off now...

Bugfixes Aplenty:

• crowdin.net: Entry entity.WitherBoss.name is missing – German translation is "Withern"
  
• Self-Powered Redstone Lamp / Breaking a repeater with a piston pointing at a block won't stop the circuit
  
• Potatoes are not affected by the Fortune enchantment
  
• Items with NBT data do not stack correctly due to serialization
  
• Cannot Drop Items in Creative Mode
  
• texturepacks no longer work
  
• Rail Duplication glitch
  
• World crashes after a few seconds
  
• blocks keep the redstone state when breaking a comparator that powers that block
  
• Pistons can't destroy comparators
  
• Crash with 512x texture pack
  
• Fortune doesn't affect the drop rate of apples and saplings
  
• "Pick Block" on certain items then switching to survival creates infinite or ghost items
  
• When removing "Ghost Items" from the inventory, the number may be negative or zero
  
• /clear with command blocks not working with armor that has been worn with custom damage values.
  
• Minecraft crashes when a saddled pig you ride dies or when changing between rideable entities
  
• Pressing Single or Multiplayer Button crashes the game
  
• Mining Fatigue broken
  
• Added an /effect command

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It's time for another round of mini-golf!  Wait, no...it's Snapshot Day!  What lies in store for us this go-around?  Not a revised lighting engine, unfortunately; Dinnerbone has said that the lighting engine is still being worked on, but isn't quite ready for public consumption just yet.  Fear not, though!  While it might be taking a little bit of extra time to optimize the lighting, it is certainly better to take a little extra time and get it right, than rush something that might not work correctly.

In the meantime, let's see what bugfixes await!


Bug Fixes:

• Slight optimizations to lighting
  
• Map item placed in item frame experiences Z-fighting
  
• Nametag of certain mobs too low / too high
  
• Team colors/prefixes/suffixes are not displayed with "@a, @p\, @r"

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A new Snapshot is out and about, ready for your testing pleasure! Here's what is on offer this week:

Snapshot Bugfixes:
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The following items were corrected, test them and see!

• Some lighting optimizations, no bug fixes yet sorry :(
• Pigs constantly jumping, when player control them on half slabs and stairs.
• Z-fighting of iron bars / glass panes with the block below / above
• Leaves replace transparent blocks
• Clouds have a transparency when you are above/in them but not when you're underneath them.
• Baby mob collision boxes are too large.
• Village lamp post floating torches
• Corner Fence Has Incorrect Collision Box
• Wither skeletons have wrong hitbox
• Double Trapped chest, makes two sounds when opening and closing.
• No sound from some trapped chests
• Villager trade menu missing name
• Placing a block East of the Hopper makes the inside appear black
• Piston pushing piston bugs / piston duplicating piston
• Comparators do not update their output signal
• Team option "friendlyfire" is not saved to disk; resets upon map reload
• Scoreboard name duplication
• FallingSand support for block IDs > 128

Testing the Snapshot:
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A new Snapshot is out and about, ready for your testing pleasure!  Here's what is on offer this week:

Snapshot Features:
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• Added team based functionality to scoreboards
  
• Adjusted balancing of bone meal
  
• Implemented multiple snow heights
  
• Drops more snowballs
  
• 4th height fork as slab
  
• Crafting recipe for snow

Wait, that's not a very big list of features at all, especially considering how meaty the last few Snapshots have been!  Well, that can only mean one thing: since this Snapshot is mostly bug-fixes and minor tweaks, the launch of the 1.5 Redstone Update is nearly upon us!  Keep an ear to the ground, but in the meantime, give this Snapshot a test run!

Download Links:
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Snapshot Client:  Download

Snapshot Server:  Download

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Click here to update to 0.6.0 in iTunes!

The most recent patch for Minecraft Pocket Edition is now live!  Click on the image above, or visit iTunes (or the Android app store) to update your version now!  If it isn't currently available, give it a few hours, to account for regional distribution time differences.

What is new in 0.6.0?

• Signs
  
• Armor
  
  • Applying process is similar to smelting: choose from armour on the left and see a preview of the player on the right
• Baby animals: Unclear how they are obtainable, as Breeding is not going to be added in 0.6.0
  
• The Sky and Clouds (Appearance varies between fast and slow devices)
  
• Improved D-pad
  
• Design is more blocky and less rounded
  
• When in flight mode, there is a "wing" icon on the jump button
  
• Sheep can be colored with dyes
  
• Blocks:
  
  • Netherrack
    
  • Nether Brick
    
  • Block of Quartz
    
  • Chiseled Quartz Block
    
  • Pillar Quartz Block
    
  • Cracked Stone Brick (creative only)
    
  • Mossy Stone Brick (creative only)
    
  • Stone Cutter
    
  • Chiseled Sandstone
    
  • Smooth Sandstone
• Stairs:
  • Nether Brick Stairs
    
  • Sandstone Stairs
    
  • Stone Brick Stairs
    
  • Quartz Stairs
• Slabs:
  • Sandstone Slab
• Items:
  • Nether Brick (item) (smelted from netherrack and crafted into nether brick tile)
    
  • Upside-down stairs, corner stairs
    
  • Slabs can be placed in up position (needs testing on small screens)
    
  • Sand and Gravel are affected by gravity
• Tweaks:
  • Recipes for crafting slabs give 6 slabs instead of 3 (as in PC version)
    
  • Nether Reactor spawns Netherrack blocks instead of Obsidian
    
  • The fog and sky color have changed
    
  • The Nether Reactor now spawns more items
    
  • Cows drop Leather
• Bug Fixes:
  • Melons had several bugs where they would spawn too fast and where they shouldn’t

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That's right, the PC version of Minecraft has surpassed 9 million sales! Minecraft as a game continues to have a phenomenal level of success, with humble beginnings in the hands of Mojang founding member Markus "Notch" Persson, and growing over a period of years into one of the most successful indie game titles in gaming history. In addition, the recent changes to Minecraft in 1.4.7 - and future changes planned the game, including Mod API support, more adventure map options, and all sorts of customization options, including the highly anticipated Redstone Update - Mojang continues to push the game to new heights, even as they get involved in the community, with everything from direct-feedback bug fixing to real-life renewal projects.



Pocket Edition Update 0.6.0 Now Submitted

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That's right, a new update for Pocket Edition was recently submitted! It can take up to a week before the update becomes available for iOS or Android, so don't worry if you don't get it right away! Some of the changes include:

New features:

• Signs
• Armor
• Baby animals
• Fancy clouds
• Improved D-pad
• Stonecutter for crafting stone blocks
• Sheep can be colored with dyes
• New block types: Netherrack, Nether Brick, Block of Quartz with 2 variants (pillar and chiseled), mossy/cracked Smooth Stone Brick variants (creative only), chiseled/smooth Sandstone variants
• New stairs: Nether Brick, Sandstone, Smooth Stone Brick, Quartz
• New slabs: Sandstone
• New item: Nether Brick (smelted from netherrack and crafted into nether brick tile)
• Upside-down stairs, corner stairs
• Slabs can be placed in up position (needs testing on small screens)
• Sand and Gravel are affected by gravity
  
  Tweaks:
  
  
• Recipes for crafting slabs give 6 slabs instead of 3 (as in PC version)
• Nether Reactor spawns Netherrack blocks instead of Obsidian
• The fog and sky color have changed
• The Nether Reactor now spawns more items
• Cows drop Leather
  
  Bug fixes:
  
  
• Melons had several bugs where they would spawn too fast and where they shouldn’t

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