It's time for this week's Snapshot, and we are edging ever closer to the highly anticipated Redstone Update! So, what lies in store for this week's test client?


Changelog

• Made Zombies & Skeletons stronger, scaled to difficulty
• Added a new Dropper block
• Added a Minecart with Hopper item
• Added some new chat options (In multiplayer menu)
• At least 19 bugs squished

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Snapshot Client: Download
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Don't forget, if you come across any bugs, be sure to report them at the official Minecraft bug tracker, so they can be ironed out before release! Also, if you are a texture pack artist, don't forget that blocks and items will no longer load their artwork from one big sheet of sprites. Instead, they’ll have individual files for each image they’re using. The benefit from this is that it will be easier for Mojang to support custom blocks and items in the future. It will also allow Mojang to mix and match block artwork resolutions, and make sure that you get graphics for blocks that your current texture pack isn't updated for. Back to Top

Yesterday's Snapshot has a host of patches and fixes, so if you're helping to test out the newest Snapshots, be sure to get this latest version right away!

Changelog

• The stitcher should now make sure to create textures that have sizes in powers of two (fixes all-white textures)
  
• Trapped Chests can now transmit signal downward through one block. This does not apply horizontally (through walls)
  
• When powered, the hopper can't receive items
  
• Fixed Trapped chests only transmit redstone signal via redstone dust
  
• Fixed Crash at 13w02a Startup [Failed to start game]
  
• Fixed Hopper item looks odd when dropped
  
• Fixed Texture of the furnace and the dispenser in the inventory are not showing the blocks "face"
  
• Fixed Biome's grass color does not get applied to the sides of the grass block in 13w02a
  
• Fixed Looking at certain items crashes the game
  
• Fixed the tnt minecart is missing the ssss sound once triggered
  
• Fixed Minecart with TNT fails to return correct items when removed by player
  
• Fixed Ghast fireball / Fireball texture
  
• Fixed White textures everywhere!
  
• Fixed stitched_terrain.png and stitched_items.png on desktop
  
• Fixed Cauldrons have no bottom texture inside
  
• Fixed TNT Minecarts cannot be dispense from a dispenser onto rails
  
• Fixed TNT Minecarts Disappear on Reload
  
• Fixed [Regression] Brewing Stand does not show water bottles/potions in world.
  
• Fixed Dupe planks
  
• Fixed Hopper still duplicating items

Downloads

Client Download:  Click here

Server Download:  Click here

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Even with the official release of 1.4.7, Mojang isn't slowing down one bit - time for another Snapshot!  What sort of amazing stuff lies in store for today's preview?  Let's take a look!

• Textures for blocks and items now have individual image files
  
• Improved death messages
  
• Improved naming (using the anvil) of containers and mob eggs
  
• Trapped chests now give off the redstone signal through walls
  
• Improved hoppers and made them controllable by redstone
  
• Updated language files
  
• Language files can now be updated via the background downloader (no need for a new Minecraft release)

A Note on Textures

Starting from this snapshot and forward, blocks and items will no longer load their artwork from one big sheet of sprites. Instead, they’ll have individual files for each image they’re using. The benefit from this is that it will be easier for Mojang to support custom blocks and items in the future. It will also allow Mojang to mix and match block artwork resolutions, and make sure that you get graphics for blocks that your current texture pack isn't updated for.  Pretty awesome!

As always, get your Snapshot files below!

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The 1.4.7 Update is officially live! This patch mostly contains fixes for problems discovered in 1.4.6. Don't forget, if you find any bugs while playing, please report them on the official Minecraft bug tracker!

• Fixed crash related to arrows fired from dispensers
• Fixed a multiplayer crash when using fireworks without a fireworks star
• Fixed long timeout when checking SRV records

Your Minecraft client will automatically prompt you to update on start-up. Just accept the prompt, and you're rolling with 1.4.7! Keep in mind, servers and clients running 1.4.6 or 1.4.7 should still be compatible with one-another, so this patch will not shut down your 1.4.6 SMP servers. Be sure to update them when you can, though! Back to Top

An update to yesterday's Snapshot was released to address bugs that players found!  Fixes include:

Updates

• TNT explosion delayed until exiting and re-entering world
  
• Infinite rail duplication glitch
  
• Tile entity crashing bug
  
• Removing a block with a Redstone Torch on it will not remove the Redstone Torch
  
• Crash when using new inventory features
  
• Infinite loop caused by a comparator (on subtractor mode) feedback loop.
  
• Only one block dissappears when an Iron Golem or Snow Golem or Wither is created
  
• You can place anything in a container or Minecart or Furnace Minecart with the Hopper
  
• New inventory mechanics can break crafting
  
• TNT explosions that destroy the chest being viewed causes a crash.
  
• You can't smelt the Nether Quartz Ore
  
• Yellow text object counter (displaying a 0)
  
• hopper does not pick up all items dropped into it
  
• Cactus can grow next to blocks
  
• Duplications - ingots/diamonds etc.
  
• Comparator looks activated but has no output.
  
• redstone comparator fixes

All the Snapshot details can be seen by clicking the picture above!

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Yes, it's time for the first Snapshot of the year, 13w01a!  What sort of awesome redstony goodness lies inside?

• Redstones circuits are more consistent, and pistons should be more stable
  
• Added the Redstone Comparator
  
• Added the Daylight Sensor block
  
• Added a Hopper block (still work in progress)
  
  • Places and takes out items in Hoppers, Chests, Furnaces, Chest Minecart, Dispencers, and Brewing Stands. Still W.I.P.
• Added a Trapped Chest that activates redstone
  
  • Gives out a signal depending on the amount of players looking inside. 1 person = 1 signal, 2 people = 2, etc.
    
  • Crafted with a Chest and a Tripwire Hook.
    
  • Large Trapped Chests can be staggered with Large Chests to allow more compact storage.
    
  • Texture is slightly different than a normal chest.
• Added Weighted Pressure Plates that detects item stacks
  
• Added Block of Redstone (works as a pushable redstone torch)
  
• Added a new Nether Quartz Ore to the Nether
  
  • Drops Nether Quartz
• Added a Nether Brick (item) for crafting Nether Brick blocks
  
  • Obtained by smelting Netherrack
    
  • Crafting recipe is 2x2 Nether Bricks.
• Inventory changes
  
  • Holding down the left and right mouse buttons and dragging when holding an item now splits the items across the boxes you dragged over. Left button splits them equally across the boxes and leaves the remainder in your hand. Right mouse button drops them one by one as you drag.
    
  • Double-clicking an item stacks as much of that item in your inventory as possible (up to a full stack) and picks it up without stacking any other loose stacks together.
    
  • Double-shift-clicking an item in a chest moves all of that item into your inventory neatly stacked into as few stacks as possible. The opposite is also true, moving all the items to the chest in as few stacks as possible.

Wow, and that's just one Snapshot!  Are you ready to try this stuff out yourself?  Let's get to the download links!

All the Snapshot details can be seen by clicking the picture above!

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The 1.4.6 update is now live!  There is a massive list of goodies in 1.4.6, so without further delay, let's jump head-first into all it has to offer!

Gameplay

• Added Thorns enchant
  
  • Armor enchant
    
  • 3 tiers
    
  • Deals damage to attackers depending on tier
    
  • Wears armor out quicker
• Improved some enchants
  
  • Fire Protection now extinguishes fire more quickly
    
  • Blast Protection now reduces explosion recoil
    
  • Protection no longer is as good as all specific Protection enchants combined
• Added Touchscreen Mode setting
  
  • Mainly for inventories
    
  • You can drag and drop items - Press long to halve the stack before dragging
• Added & changed many minor things
  
  • Made item drops and framed items render in 3D when using fancy graphics - Screenshot
    
  • Added tool highlight when switching items in the hotbar - After switching, its name shortly appears above the hotbar - options.txt:heldItemTooltips - Screenshot
    
  • Right-clicking while sneaking now uses the held item instead of the selected block
    
  • Dropping items while holding ctrl now drops the whole stack
    
  • Added a default resolution setting - options.txt: overrideWidth:0 & overrideHeight:0
    
  • Added a warning for users playing Minecraft on soon unsupported systems (PowerPCs and Java 5)
    
  • Death messages now appear in server log files
• Fixed many bugs
  
  • Fixed passive mob spawn eggs not depleting when used on a mob
    
  • Fixed minecarts and falling entities flickering
    
  • Fixed using number keys on smelted items in furnaces not giving experience
    
  • Fixed boats always getting placed in the same orientation
    
  • Fixed switching between dimensions resetting the selected hotbar slot
    
  • Fixed leaves obtained using Silk Touch having the wrong tooltip and data value
    
  • Fixed /enchant not accepting Protection enchant id
    
  • Fixed the level up sound not playing
    
  • Fixed F3+B displaying invisible entities' hitboxes
    
  • Fixed the Wither's projectiles sometimes destroying the Nether Star
    
  • Fixed mobs being able to trample farmland when the mobGriefing gamerule is set to false
    
  • Fixed endermen not teleporting away when set on fire
    
  • Fixed endermen still being set on fire when hit with a flaming arrow
    
  • Fixed endermen not opening their mouth when attacked by other mobs
    
  • Fixed arrows shot at endermen disappearing
    
  • Fixed animals on fire not running away
    
  • Fixed staying under water in Creative still causing the drowning effects
    
  • Fixed animals appearing to walk through fences in SP
    
  • Fixed some items with multi-layer textures rendering both layers separately when on the ground
    
  • Fixed tools differing only in damage not being swappable in the inventory
    
  • Fixed some Z-Fighting with the beacon
    
  • Fixed a graphical issue in the trading GUI
    
  • Fixed /say not showing the text in the original purple color
    
  • Fixed Pick Block giving double slabs
    
  • Fixed minecarts not travelling through Nether portals
    
  • Fixed lightning not flashing
    
  • Fixed FallingSand spawners failing to save properly and causing crashes
    
  • Fixed the blocks in lowest layer of the map not being recognized by beacons
    
  • Fixed enchants not showing in item frames and on the ground
    
  • Fixed mobs walking slowly for a short while after being hit
    
  • Fixed chests becoming out of sync when a user right-clicks it twice quickly
    
  • Fixed flaming arrows not catching on fire immediately
    
  • Fixed zombies sometimes stopping their attack
    
  • Fixed /xp -1L not working to remove partial xp bars when between level 0 and 1
    
  • Fixed the cursor being positioned wrongly in fullscreen mode

World Generation

• Added enchanted books to village and dungeon chests

Blocks and Items

• Mob spawners
  
  • Can now spawn differently configured mobs with different spawn chances
• Nether Brick Slabs
  
  • Screenshot
    
  • Crafting Recipe
• Enchanted books
  
  • Screenshot
    
  • Enchant books to receive a single enchant on them
    
  • Can be applied to items using anvils, consuming the book
    
  • Enchants can be applied to any item in Creative
    
  • Sold by villagers and found in dungeon and village chests
    
  • Can now be found in loot chests and by trading with villagers
    
  • Unbreaking can be applied to anything with durability
    
  • Efficiency and Silk Touch can be applied to shears, allowing the harvesting of cobwebs
    
  • Sharpness, Smite and Bane of Arthropods can be applied to axes
• Firework Star
  
  • Screenshot
    
  • Used to create Firework Rockets
    
  • Combine gunpowder with dyes to get a Firework Star with those colors used for the sparkles
    
  • Also add glowstone, a fire charge, a diamond, a gold nugget, feather or a mob head to make the firework twinkling, big, trailing, star-shaped, bursting or creeper-shaped
    
  • Craft a Firework Star with dye to change the color the sparkles fade to
• Firework Rocket
  
  • Screenshot
    
  • Non-destructive, rise up in the air and create colorful patterns when shot by dispensers or placed by players
    
  • Combine paper with gunpowder to get a Firework Rocket
    
  • Also add a Firework Star to add effects or gunpowder to increase the flight duration
• Bow
  
  • A sound indicates when you hit a player with an arrow
    
  • Arrows now render from farther away

Mobs

• Skeletons, Zombies & Zombie Pigmen
  
  • The armor and enchants they spawn with now are even harder on harder difficulties

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A big "thank you" to Reddit's RedstoneHelper for compiling this list, and MCF's own ZeroLevels for helping with proofing/checking! Back to Top

That's right, MCX360 is getting updated very soon!  How soon?  December 19th, 2012!  The latest update will bring the XBLA sandbox game nearly up to speed with the 1.0 release of PC Minecraft, including a ton of new features.

• Animal Breeding
  
• Brewing
  
• Experience Points
  
• Enchanting
  
• Mushroom Biome
  
• Nether Fortresses
  
• Skin animations

This is only scratching the surface of all the updates coming on the 19th, and let's not forget about all the awesome new avatars, coming soon!

It seems that every version of Minecraft is going through a series of very exciting changes as we approach the end of 2012.  PC Minecraft is edging ever-closer to the Modding API, Pocket Edition adds more blocks, tools, monsters, and features with every iteration, and MCX360 is rapidly closing the gap between itself and PC Minecraft, while adding some special goodies unique to itself.

Don't forget - when MCX360 updates, it will prompt you to patch the game.  Once it does, you are good to go!  Stay tuned as we bring you more exciting updates!  Check out all the update details by clicking here! Back to Top

1.4.6 will be out before Christmas, but what to do in the meantime?  How about another Snapshot?  Yay!  This week's offering is quite robust indeed - let's take a look.

• Items now show their enchantments when dropped on the ground
  
• Added Enchanted Book to Villagers and Chests
  
• Tweaked fireworks effect and sounds
  
• Item entities are rendered as 3d objects in the world
  
• Corrected how enchanted books work, and added them to villagers and chests
  
• Added “thorns” enchantment
  
• Added tool highlight when switching items in the hotbar
  
• Added a notice/warning for users still playing on PowerPCs or Java 5 (Java 1.5)
  
• Various bug fixes and enchantment adjustments

Don't forget: if you are testing out a Snapshot, and encounter a bug you want to report, please visit the official Minecraft Bug Tracker, Mojira, and write up the bug in question with as much detail as possible!

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Snapshot Server:  Download

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The 1.8.2 Update for MCX360 is live!  What changes come with this awesome patch?  Well:

Changes and Additions:

• Added an option to clear the quick select bar in the creative interface.
  
• Added an option to enable or disable bedrock fog, and set to off by default.
  
• Added an option to toggle the HUD off/on.
  
• Added an option to turn the player hand off/on.
  
• Added a crafting recipe for Golden Apples.
  
• Added a crafting recipe for Pumpkin Seeds.
  
• Made cakes stackable.
  
• Added a How To Play page for Host and Player options

Fixes:

• Fix for a problem with signs in online games causing crashes.
  
• Fix for save renaming deleting the wrong save due to input received during the confirmation flow.
  
• Fix to the mob generation code to increase the number of animals in the world.
  
• Fix for chests being incorrectly lit, and rotated for maps from previous versions.
  
• Fix for problem with the eating animation being shown for players who weren't eating.
  
• Fix for problem with chest lids not behaving properly.
  
• Fix for animals looking like they were taking damage when they shouldn't.
  
• Fix for some sounds not playing when the player has an empty hand.
  
• Fix for lever sounds.
  
• Fix for fence gate sounds.
  
• Fix for splitscreen players sometimes having their settings zeroed.
  
• Fix for being damaged while flying over lava.
  
• Fix to stop lava, milk and water buckets being empty after use in creative mode.
  
• Fix for Leader of the Pack achievement being awarded incorrectly.
  
• Fix for leaderboard stats issue where value stored was incorrect.
  
• Fix for hitbox problems with glass panes and iron fence.
  
• Fix for small character display changing color to green.
  
• Fix for map rendering incorrectly in some situations with clouds disabled.
  
• Fix for block rendering problem at the edge of the map.
  
• Fix for splitscreen players not being able to mine in the tutorial.
  
• Fix for players not being able to sprint/sprint-fly in creative mode if the player was previously in survival mode with a low food bar.
  
• Fix for arrow damage not being ignored when PvP is turned off.
  
• Fix for activated pressure plates not working correctly.
  
• Fix for the low food bar hint appearing when loading a game in creative mode (usually the tutorial world saves).
  
• Fix to remove the player shadow when the Invisible option in the Host Privileges is used.
  
• Fix for Red Roses not being generated on the terrain.
  
• Fix for paintings being pushed by pistons.
  
• Fix so that players who can't eat, due to the Trust Players option being off, do not get exhausted.
  
• Fix for the interface disappearing after a Share to Facebook action.
  
• Fix to limit the number of Slimes, Ghasts and Silverfish that can be spawned in a world.
  
• Fix for the cursor position in creative mode being able to go offscreen.
  
• Fix for players showing on maps when they should not be, after the player dies and respawns.
  
• Fix for capes displaying wrongly when sprint-flying.
  
• Fix for capes not displaying in the Nether.
  
• Fix for capes not displaying when the player respawns.
  
• Fix for tools taking damage in Creative Mode.
  
• Fix so Bows don't need or use up Arrows in Creative Mode.
  
• Reduced the volume of the chest open/close sound effect

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