You heard right, it's a double-feature today! The 1.5.2 Pre-Release, as well as the 13w17a Snapshot are now available for testing! So how does this work? You can get these files in one of two ways:
THE EASY WAY
Download the new experimental Minecraft launcher (Click here, and select the launcher for your OS), and select which version of Minecraft you want to play from the dropdown box - no extra installation or effort required!
THE TRADITIONAL WAY
13w17a Client Download
13w17a Server Download
Additionally, you can download the 1.5.2 pre-release by clicking here.
BUGFIXES IN 1.5.2
- Jukebox audio volume doesn’t decrease
- SMP: Anvils charge level for nothing when using languages other than English
- Tamed wolves and cats despawn
- Endermen are rendered hostile if they take environmental damage
- Pick-Block and Furnaces
- Achievement "Hot Topic" Uses Faceless Furnace Icon
- Using the anvil for free
- Arrows visually float when shot into a block
- Improvements to FPS when using high-resolution texture packs
- Many Realms fixes
CHANGELOG FOR 13W17A
- Added a new “Hardened Clay” block
- Added extra tooltip info in the search tab for the creative inventory
- Made deserts more deserty
- Zombies made slightly more sociable
- Bug fixes!
Must follow them on Twiitter.
No really, what the heck does that mean?
What? Works fine on Win8
My dad thinks it sounds like it is missing something it needs. Is there something besides downloading the launcher that I need to do?
deserts will either no longer, or less likelier have bodies of water spawned in them.
Zombies will now have a small chance of spawning zombies in to help them when they take damage...
Spawn a ton of them in to a world in creative mode during the day to see this in action...RAINING ZOMBIES!!!!
They form more groups or what?
"More Deserty" and yes, I am on the newest snapshot.
Pretty indifferent about the snapshot updates. Not a lot of things excite me this week, if anything. The only weird thing is having zombies pop from the sky... pretty weird.
Hahah yeah, nice Vanilla Recipes mod!
As a student with three geology classes under my belt, I can safely tell you that Deserts are known for their extreme temperatures. The heat is what people like to notice the most though. Deserts are just as easily covered in snow, though usually just freezing cold and blistering heat, because of their lack of moisture.
Just sayin, it is possible.
Make terrain gen more likeable? Why would he do that, he loves the ugly worlds! They match his coding skills.
Fix the lighting bug? But jeb needs dark corners to sit in, the accentuate his evil personality!
I could go on, and on, and on, and on with my insults to jeb, but I'm just going to grab MVC and pretend 1.8.1 + never happened.