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So another week and another snapshot! This time its a good one!

Today I go through all the main changes.


Changelist:

• Improved fireworks
• Tweaked effects
• Added sounds
• Maybe: Fireworks now scare wolves
• Added enchanted books to villager trading and loot chests
• Added "thorns" enchantment
• Added tool highlight when switching items in the hotbar
• Added a warning for users playing Minecraft on soon unsupported systems (PowerPCs and Java 5)
• Dropping items while sneaking now drops the whole stack
• Made item drops render in 3D
• Screenshot
• Only enabled on fancy graphics
• Works in item frames
• Expanded on enchanted books
• Will be findable in dungeons with special enchants normally not obtainable
• Silk Touch can now be applied to shears on the anvil, cobweb can be harvested this way
• Death messages now appear in server log files, discussed
• You can now use Written books to enchant any item in Creative mode
• Fixed some bugs
• Fixed the Firework Star crafting recipe consuming unneeded items
• Fixed enchanted books allowing enchants to be applied to items that shouldn't get them
• Fixed arrows shot at endermen dissappearing
• Fixed a bug with custom mob spawners not spawning different types of entities correctly
• 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 able to be swapped in the inventory
• Fixed some Z-Fighting with the beacon
• Fixed some graphical issues in the trading GUI
• Fixed /say not showing the text in the original purple color
• Fixed placing double slabs ignoring damage value
• Fixed minecarts being unable to travel through Nether portals
• Fixed lightning not flashing
• Fixed firework star duplication crafting recipe
• Fixed the Nether and the End generating random client-side blocks in MP
• 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

Mind = blown

What are the special enchants that you can't make, I'm guessing they are found in dungeons? Sorry on my phone and the video won't play right now

Looked in the 12w50a items folder. Found cool stuff like "skis.png" and "xmaschest.png" and "largexmaschest.png"!

The enchanting updates sound cool.

I set my date to the 25th December and got this:

Quote from Sculldemon

I set my date to the 25th December and got this:

Nice! would be good if you could make gift boxes all the time!

Crafted with a chest, paper and dye. Would be good on SMP servers.

Quote from Sculldemon

I set my date to the 25th December and got this:

Well thats great, now we know what the suprise is.

Quote from Moranic

Nice video pal! I like the new features, especially the thorns one...

Thanks!

Yeah it was a great update this week Looking forward to the pre-release soon!