The people at Mojang are hard at work to get Minecraft 1.4 out the door. Here's what's new:

12w41b

  • Added a new Anvil block for repairing, merging & naming items.Three different damage states: Anvil, Slightly Damaged Anvil, and Very Damaged Anvil.
  • Renamed Chat Settings to Multiplayer Settings
  • Contains the old chat settings menu
  • Option for cape-owners to hide their capes ingame
  • Tweaks to debugging
  • F3+H now shows tool and armor durability on damaged items
  • Now shows which cardinal direction the player is facing on the f value
  • The pie chart on the F3 overlay is now shown when opening it using shift+F3 instead of vice versa
  • Mobs no longer forget that they are aggressive against a player in Creative mode after a few seconds anymore
  • Creepers now can have custom explosion radius and fuse timer using edited mob spawners and NBT tags (ExplosionRadius & Fuse)
  • Effects given by the Beacon will be less intrusive on the screen
  • Level-up sound now only plays every 5 levels
  • Gaining experience from breeding animals.



12w40a

  • Added huts for the witch in swamps
  • Added superflat preset "Redstone Ready" with a 52 layers of sandstone, 3 layers of stone, and 1 layer of bedrock
  • Flatworld configuration now allows you to generate trees, strongholds etc
  • Now pumpkins, tall grass, flowers, trees, mineshafts, dungeons, strongholds, lakes, desert wells, ravines and ores will spawn on superflat maps
  • A number of new NBT tags for items (intended for custom map makers)
  • Better inventory management
  • The pick block action now works on items
  • Pressing the 1-9 hotkeys while hovering over an item will put that item into the inventory bar
  • In creative mode, you can now shift-click items from the hotbar to the survival inventory screen
  • The left-click action will no longer open doors, pull levers, push buttons or open trapdoors. Use the right mouse button!
  • Firespread has been slightly nerfed again to prevent infinitely spreading fires
  • Beacon Texture altered, as well as the beam.
  • Slimes now spawn in Swamps at night.


Bug fixes:

  • Fixed the wither's starting explosion not being disabled by the mobGriefing gamerule
  • Fixed a few crash bugs related to world generation, map item expansion, and other things
  • Reverted previous lighting changes, which corrected such bugs as:
  • The Nether being extremely CPU intensive.
  • Map generation taking extremely long.
  • Fixed mob AI considering cobblestone walls as blocks of normal height
  • Fixed a few texture oddities with the witch
  • Fixed entities in water producing glitchy water sound
  • Gaining multiple levels at a time will no longer play the leveling up sound over itself as many times as leveled.
  • Fixed the "A 64 bit Java installation is recommended for 'Far' render distance (you have 32 bit)" message being covered by the bottom 2 buttons
  • Fixed pets teleporting around randomly
  • Fixed being unable to place paintings larger than 1x2 and them popping off if they have been placed before
  • Fixed destroying blocks under you with Efficiency-enchanted gear
  • Fixed potion spawners crashing the game



You can download the latest client here: http://assets.minecraft.net/12w41b/minecraft.jar