12w38a Ready for Testing!

By Sacheverell Sep 20, 2012
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Mojang is ramping up to release the Very Scary Update (1.4), but what to do in the meantime? Well, this week's Snapshot is out, and ready for your viewing pleasure! What awaits us this week?

Nether loads faster when going through a portal
In creative mode, teleportation is instantaneous
Updated and added new sounds by C418
Added a sound for climbing up Ladders
New block-placing sounds: Wood, Stone, Plants, Sand, Gravel, although unintended by C418
New footstep sounds: Sand, Gravel, Soulsand, Grass Block, and Stone
New mob sounds: Cow, Pigs, Enderman, Zombie, and Skeleton
New tool sounds: Flint and Steel, Shears (when shearing sheep)
Lava and Flowing Water now have constant noise
Added level up sound, but will be changed later for a shorter one
Added a passive mob (Bat)

Spawns in dark caves
Sleeps during the day
Hangs on the ceiling when idle, starts flying when players come near

Added a hostile mob (Witch)

Throws splash potions of poison, slowness, weakness and instant damage at you
Regenerate health over time
Hold an empty bottle and rise their noses when attacking
Drink potions of instant health and fire resistance to defend themselves in combat
Rarely drop potions of instant health and fire resistance
Is immune to some splash potions
Does not spawn naturally (yet), but a Spawn Egg exists for it in Creative Mode

Command block target parameters have been upgraded, click here for details
Beacon artwork was changed
The beam of light was changed
Item Frames no longer despawn when 20 blocks away.
Wood blocks are now rotated differently. Instead of using the player’s position, it will rotate based on the face it is placed upon, like a lever (this is mainly a test).
Silverfish Source Blocks have a chance of spawning in caves

As always, you can get this week's Snapshot files below!

Client: Click to download

Server: Click to download

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mightbedylan
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Posted Sep 20, 2012
Love the new Enderman sounds! Absolutely terrifying!

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Posted Sep 20, 2012
Mob interaction suggestion for next snapshot : these are clearly vampire bats (they have fangs) let them scare cows!

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Posted Sep 20, 2012
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Can you please implement a way to select which mobs spawn normally in the world, so we can turn off things like endermen, witches, ect.

I bought minecraft as a survival game, not a fantasy game filled with magic, and I would like the play my game without having to deal with all these fantasy elements. I can choose to not enchant, I can choose to not make potions, I can choose to not go to the end, but I am FORCED to deal with these mobs like witches and the like. I like the difficulty of being zerged by spiders, creepers, zombies,and skeletons. I simply do not want to be forced to deal with some new game feature I cannot stop. (For instance, you don't like mine shafts and strongholds, you can turn them off in the generation options no problem. But you are forced to deal with mobs.)

Bottom line is, the implementation of First-Party mob control would allow one to enjoy their game and play it how they want (like turning off creepers for some, or spiders for others) without resorting to Third-Party mods.
Mobs can be toggled with difficulty, but that's an on/off switch. And peaceful can get very boring with nothing to kill besides cows.

TL;DR
Implement individual spawn toggles for mobs without needing mods to do so.

Also, please don't impliment trash mobs like zombies drop diamond items, it takes the little remaining challenge and hard work remaining (some call it the fun aspect) out of the endgame. Minecraft was a lot more difficult without the hunger bar regenerating health. So please don't remove ALL the challenge aside from fighting monsters from the game. Note this is a survival game, not a hack and slash dungeon crawler, if i wanted to play Diablo 3 I would do so. I don't want to just be using my fists and suddenly get a random diamond tier item and just like that be almost invincible. So please reconsider the diamond drops from mobs. (iron whatever, it's everywhere anyways, but diamonds by design are RARE and hard to get.)

loling at you telling mojang what their game is and isn't. what a loon.

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Posted Sep 20, 2012
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I'm 90% sure that the update is called the "Pretty Scary Update", not the "Very Scary Update".

Minecraft Forum, I am disappoint.

It really is the "Pretty, Scary Update", with equal emphasis on both "pretty" and "scary". The point is that there is equally stuff to be scary (witches, bats, wither, and "wither skeletons") as well as pretty stuff like the flower pots, item frames, and other decorative items.

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Posted Sep 20, 2012
Regarding the bats:
I can hear Simon's "AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW" from here. And I'm in the USA.

I can also hear him complaining about how the spiders now make creepy scuttling noises whilst walking.

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Quote from Jake0997

Can you please implement a way to select which mobs spawn normally in the world, so we can turn off things like endermen, witches, ect.

I bought minecraft as a survival game, not a fantasy game filled with magic, and I would like the play my game without having to deal with all these fantasy elements. I can choose to not enchant, I can choose to not make potions, I can choose to not go to the end, but I am FORCED to deal with these mobs like witches and the like. I like the difficulty of being zerged by spiders, creepers, zombies,and skeletons. I simply do not want to be forced to deal with some new game feature I cannot stop. (For instance, you don't like mine shafts and strongholds, you can turn them off in the generation options no problem. But you are forced to deal with mobs.)

One of the interesting plans that Mojang has for Minecraft is to not only simply implement the API, but to base most of the content related items as plug-ins unto themselves. In other words blocks, items, and mobs are all going to be implemented as plug-ins that will automatically be downloaded when you install Minecraft onto your computer.

When that happens, you will be able to toss out some mob you think is lame, as well as add or replace that mob with something else. Do you want new ores? Just add in the plug-in. You hate emeralds? Just yank that plug-in out of the plug-in folder.

Doing that will make Minecraft extremely customizable and will really blur the line between the "vanilla" game and one that is heavily modded. Just wait and be patient before all of that happens though and don't be a jerk telling these guys what they should and shouldn't be doing.

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Posted Sep 20, 2012
Quote from ZeroLevels

Regarding the bats:
I can hear Simon's "AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW" from here. And I'm in the USA.

I can also hear him complaining about how the spiders now make creepy scuttling noises whilst walking.

Is that what that was?

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Posted Sep 20, 2012
very nice and stop complaining about the sounds they are great and is the witch going to be in like a nether village or something? cause it is pretty much an evil npc

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Posted Sep 20, 2012
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I wish minecarts had sound when you ride them

Give the Matmos Environmental Sounds mod a try. I love it.

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Was spawning bats all over the place in a village - turns out low-flying bats trample crops! They're not real good at staying out of lava, either. Maybe if they tried to stay 2+blocks off the ground that would help with both.

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Was spawning bats all over the place in a village - turns out low-flying bats trample crops! They're not real good at staying out of lava, either. Maybe if they tried to stay 2+blocks off the ground that would help with both.

I find this very funny, actually. but yea, they should get an improved AI to avoid danger

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Posted Sep 20, 2012
Silverfish spawning in caves... has Vechz been talking with dinnerbone again?

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oh god, silverfish in caves

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Posted Sep 20, 2012
****.
Now I need to worry about a silverfish infestation.

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Bats? YESSSSS!

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This is going to be big, and bats are awesome!

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havent heard the new sounds, hopefully the enderfarm in my world isnt annoying. love the update though

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Posted Sep 20, 2012
Quote from Brinjal66

The bats are too small! Considering spiders are almost 2 meters wide, bats should be MUCH bigger!

But giant bats would be annoying and awkward to look at.
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havent heard the new sounds, hopefully the enderfarm in my world isnt annoying. love the update though

New Enderman sounds are just the unimplemented ones.

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Posted Sep 20, 2012
Woah! Big update! Nice job Mojang! Bats are a good idea, but witches sound a bit OP. Hopefully they have a low spawn rate.

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Posted Sep 20, 2012
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I don't think the Level Up! sound is too loud. But the walking sounds were strange at the beginning. At first I thought they were made by the bats.

The level up scared the crap outta me the first time I heard it!

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