Minecraft 1.3.1

[Old Crow]

    

General

    Updated the launcher
        Includes demo mode
        No visual changes
    Improved overall stability and performance
        Reduced CPU, RAM & bandwidth usage
        Accelerated chunk loading
        Decreased lag spike frequency
        Made the Nether less laggy
        Decreased unnecessary world updates
        Made the chat work smoothly even when the server is laggy
        Decreased packets sent between client and server
    Made Singleplayer internally use a Multiplayer server[1][2]
        Decreased world saving intervals
    Added optional single-player commands called "Cheats" on non-hardcore worlds[3]
        Type / and then hit tab to autocomplete & get help on various commands
        Most commands from MP are available
    Added option to let LAN friends join SP games
        You can choose which gamemode players join in and whether they are allowed to use cheats
    Added demo mode for non-premium users[3]
        Lasts 5 game days per world
        Singleplayer only
    Added Chat Settings
        Change which parts of chat are shown and how opaque it is
        Toggle chat colors, links being clickable and warning prompts for links
        Option to rebind the command key, which opens the chat with / in the textfield
    Added Snooper Settings
        Allows users to toggle anonymous data being sent to Mojang
        Shows which data will be sent
    Added video options
        Have to be toggled manually in options.txt for now
        VSync
        Fullscreen mode
    Mobs can now spawn on top slabs and upside down stairs
    Improved F3 mode:
        Truncated coordinates to 5 fractional digits
        The y-coordinate now shows both the feet level and the eye level
        Removed frame rendering time history graph (bottom-left)
        3 new values:
            ws: Walking speed (constant)
            fs: Flying speed (constant)
            g: Boolean value, true when you touch the ground
    Updated language files
        Added tooltips for all types of Monster Egg blocks and the End Portal Frame
        Added more descriptive tooltips for different types of tree-related blocks, sandstone and stone bricks[4]
        Localized server commands
        Added missing commands-related strings
        Added missing double chest GUI caption
    Fixed many bugs
        Fixed texture packs in folders not showing their icon and description
        Fixed Man-in-the-middle attack allowing hackers to log in as you when you visit their server
        Fixed the Open texturepack folder button not working on OS X

Gameplay

    Added Adventure mode[5]
        Only playable using commands
        Building, setting things on fire and using buckets is disabled
        Players can only interact with mobs and the environment
        Players can place and take stuff from a chest, a furnace or a dispenser
    Added trading[6]
        Using emerald as currency, villagers will, depending on profession, offer different trades to players
        There are three kinds of trades: Selling, buying and enchanting
        As displayed in the top-most part of the trading GUI, villagers take one or more items or item stacks and give back something
        After trading, villagers will sometimes emit purple particles for a few seconds to indicate that their trades changed
        Otherwise unobtainable bottles o' enchanting and chainmail armor can be obtained by trading
    Improved Creative mode inventory
        There are categorized tabs for various groups of items and blocks
        Added a search tab which will automatically be switched to when the chat key is hit
        Added survival inventory tab, which shows the full inventory, a 'Destroy item' slot, armor slots including a preview of your character and a 2x2 crafting field
        Items can now be deleted from the inventory by shift-clicking them
        Added layered snow block, Monster Egg Blocks (Silverfish spawning blocks), Ender Portal frame and all potions[7]
        Now shows potion effects' timers like in Survival
    Improved experience collection
        Depending on ore type, experience now drops from ores that drop items
        Taking smelted items out of furnaces gives experience now
        Destroying mob spawners gives experience now
        Adjusted experience level progression:
            Levels 1-15 cost 17 XP points each
            Levels 16-30 cost 3 more XP points than the previous (cost = 17 + (level - 15) * 3)
            Levels 31-∞ cost 7 more XP points than the previous (cost = 62 + (level - 30) * 7)
    Improved enchanting
        The new maximum level with bookshelves is 30, without 8
        15 bookshelves are enough to reach level 30
        The 3rd slot shows the most expensive possible enchantment more often
        Increased chances for multiple enchantments at once
        Adjusted enchantments' to go with the new maximum level
    Added writing in books
        New crafting recipe for books: 3 pieces of paper and one piece of leather in any possible shape
        New item: Book and Quill - Crafting recipe: 1 ink sac, 1 feather and 1 book in any possible shape
        Right-click to write on & edit up to 50 pages or read
        Click 'Done' to save the book, 'Sign' to choose a title and finalize the book
    Improved Multiplayer
        Made entities less likely to glitch through blocks
        Added automagical downloading of standard sized texture packs when joining servers
        Made server commands more descriptive
        Added reason parameter to /ban
        Added /seed command to show the map seed
        Added /defaultgamemode command to choose the gamemode new players start in
        Added /debug command to enable and disable profiling
        /kick messages can now contain "\n" to force a new line
        Blocks other players are mining now show cracks[8]
        /tp can now be used to teleport to specific coordinates
        Made server list re-orderable: shift+click or shift+arrow keys move selected servers
        Server list now scans for LAN servers
        Added hardcore difficulty: Players are banned upon death[9]
        Added SRV Record Lookup support
            Different subdomains of one domain can handle different servers via different port numbers.
            Service name should be "minecraft"; i.e. "_minecraft._tcp.example.com"
    Added & changed many minor things
        Individual, stackable items near each other on the ground now become one item stack
        Added shift clicking support to armor slots, brewing stands & enchantment tables
        Added setting to disable servers offering you texture packs
        Made the stars smaller and brighter[10]
        Villagers spawned from spawn eggs will get a random profession now
        Removed the downwards knockback while drowning
        Doors being broken by zombies now show their damage
        You now spawn with an empty inventory in Creative mode
        The "Mojang" splash screen when opening the game appears for 1 instead of 3 seconds now
        The sky color in the End changed
        Blocks now show cracks when destroying them while the GUI is hidden
        You can now fall 4 blocks without getting hurt (might be a bug as there exist other, higher distances that don't cause damage either)
        Respawning in superflat is no longer random.
    Improved the Pick Block key
        You now get the actual block
        You can now pick paintings, boats, minecarts and mobs, which will give you their spawn eggs
        Picking huge mushroom blocks now gives mushrooms
        You can no longer pick portal blocks
    Fixed many bugs
        Fixed liquids slowing down flying players
        Fixed blocks with the same id but different data/damage values stacking in Creative inventory
        Fixed boats & minecarts not being one-hit breakable in Creative
        Fixed raw fish, dyes, saddles, potions, milk buckets and tools depleting in Creative
        Fixed water destroying non-solid blocks when breaking them from above
        Fixed Silk touch giving you only one slab from double slabs
        Fixed redstone updates not propagating through unloaded chunks[11]
        Fixed repeaters getting stuck when loading their chunk
        Fixed tools taking damage when breaking insta-breakable blocks
        Fixed a few misalignments in the item sprite sheet
        Fixed the arrow representing players on held maps being offset
        Fixed being able to duplicate sand, gravel and powered rail
        Fixed placing a piston in front of another powered, but not extended one resulting in a glitched piston with the head's texture on all sides
        Fixed TNT dropping as a resource on creative mode
        Fixed powering specifically glitched pistons crashing the game
        Fixed the End Portal Frame block not showing as a block in the inventory
        Fixed weather not working correctly in certain biomes
        Fixed Overworld portals above Y=127 not being recognized when leaving the Nether
        Fixed various hacked mob spawners crashing the game
        Fixed thrown splash potions not preserving their type when reloading the world
    Fixed many Multiplayer-specific bugs
        Fixed arrows scooting up to the top of the block they were shot on
        Fixed endermen not opening their jaws
        Fixed fully charged arrows not showing their particle effect
        Fixed many sounds not playing[12][13][14][15]
        Fixed magma cubes' and slimes' jumping animations not showing
        Fixed thunderstorms not darkening the sky
        Fixed weather not fading in or out
        Fixed enchanted armor and tools not glowing to other players
        Fixed explosions not pushing players back
        Fixed TNT not knocking back players
        Fixed pistons not pushing back players
        Fixed players on minecarts, boats or pigs and spider jockeys not being displayed in the correct location
        Fixed glitchy mob prediction[16]
        Fixed fishing lines not showing[14][17]
        Fixed sneaking players' nameplates not staying hidden when loading the chunks they are in
        Fixed Unbreaking-enchanted tools sometimes breaking and then re-appearing a few times
        Fixed potion effects losing their graphical effects when traveling between dimensions
        Fixed blocks disappearing when placing them under yourself and jumping

World Generation

    Made sub-biome type mountains like Desert Hills or Ice Mountains taller
    Made cocoa beans appear on some small jungle trees
    Added optional starting chest on non-hardcore worlds[3]
        Contents: wooden & stone tools, bread, apples, logs, planks and sticks
    Added large biomes world type, increasing biome sizes immensely[4]
        Beaches look closely to what they looked like in Beta 1.7.3
    Added desert-specific villages
    Added Desert Temples
        Built out of various kinds of sandstone and wool
        Include hidden chest room and TNT trap, with loot including rotten flesh, bones, iron ingots and gold ingots, diamonds and emeralds
    Added Jungle Temples
        Built out of various kinds of cobblestone
        Contain multiple tripwire traps triggering dispensers filled with arrows
        Loot chests include bones, rotten flesh, gold ingots, iron ingots, diamonds and emeralds
    Added Emerald Ore
        Only generates in Extreme Hills biomes
        Occurs up to 8 times per chunk in veins of 1
        Generates between layers 4 and 31, inclusive

Blocks & Items

    Emerald Ore
        Drops Emerald
    Emerald
        Is used to trade with villagers
    Block of Emerald[18]
        Crafted by putting 9 emeralds on a crafting table
    Ender Chest
        Crafted by surrounding an eye of ender with 8 pieces of obsidian
        Stores each player's contents across dimensions and all Ender Chests
        Contents are preserved even if all Ender Chests are destroyed
        Explosion-resistant
        Emits light and purple particles
        Unless mined using a Silk Touch-enchanted pickaxe, they drop 8 obsidian[19]
    Tripwire Hook[20][21]
        String in between needs to be placed manually[22]
        Breaking the string triggers a redstone signal, cutting it using shears doesn't
        Entities like boats, mobs, arrows or players touching the string trigger a redstone signal[23]
        String can be up to 40 blocks long[23]
        Crafting recipe: Iron ingot on top of a stick on top of a wooden plank
    String
        Can now be placed on the ground decoratively
    Wooden logs
        Can now be placed in 3 different directions
        Placement works like similar to piston placement
    Furnaces
        Can be fueled by wooden tools now
        Return an empty bucket when using lava buckets as fuel now
    Ice
        Instead of melting in the nether, it now disappears
        Can be obtained using Silk Touch-enchanted gear now[19]
    Glass Panes
        Can be obtained using Silk Touch-enchanted gear now[19]
    Nether portal
        Leaks into the Overworld now: Depending on difficulty, zombie pigmen rarely spawn in them
    Slabs
        Added all wood types
        Wooden slabs crafted after the update act like wood
    Stairs
        Added Sandstone Stairs
        Added wooden stairs for all kinds of wood
        Adjusted hitbox
    Slabs and Stairs
        Will now be placed upside-down when placed on the upper half of a block's side
        When placed upside down, rails, pressure plates, levers, doors, torches, redstone torches, repeaters, redstone dust and beds can be placed on them - Redstone dust behaves like on glowstone - It transmits power horizontally and upwards, but not downwards. Redstone torches don't power redstone placed on slabs/stairs above them.
    Leaves
        Water slowly drips through them when it's raining
    Cauldrons
        Slowly fill up when it's raining
    Dispensers
        Minecarts & boats will now be placed if there's rails/water in place
        Instead of dispensing buckets, dispensers will now suck in or place water or lava in front of them
    Gravel
        Changed texture
    Jungle leaves
        Have a 1/200 chance to drop a cocoa bean when destroyed now
    Lever
        Can be placed on the ceiling now
    Wooden pressure plates
        Are triggered by arrows now
    Pistons
        Now take 0.05 seconds to expand
    TNT
        Depending on difficulty, does different amounts of damage now:
            Peaceful: no damage
            Easy: ~50% less damage
            Normal: same damage as before
            Hard: 33.3…% more damage
    Cocoa beans
        Retextured item
        Can be planted & grown on jungle wood now
        Can be grown instantly using bone meal
    Cookies
        Give a full hunger point now
    Nether Warts
        Can now be grown in the Overworld and in the End
    Book
        Changed crafting recipe: 3 pieces of paper and one piece of leather in any possible shape
    Book and Quill
        Crafting recipe: 1 ink sac, 1 feather and 1 book in any possible shape
        See above for more information
    Written Book
        Can only be obtained by signing a Book and Quill
        Can be sold to villagers
    Empty buckets
        Stack up to 16 now[24][25]
        Stacked buckets work just like stacked glass bottles do
    Signs
        Stack up to 16 now
        Crafting now gives 3 signs instead of 1
    Golden Apple[26]
        Has two crafting recipes now, the new one replacing gold nuggets with gold blocks
        Second tier gives Regeneration IV, Resistance and Fire resistance effects
        Only second tier glows like enchanted tools
        Has attributes the Golden Apple had before 1.1[27]
    Spawners
        Added NBT tags to further customize spawned mobs
        Only changeable using map editors or mods
    Boats
        Are not broken by lilypads anymore, instead they run straight through the lilypad now, breaking and sometimes dropping it
        Are less glitchy and more responsive now
        Increased maximum speed
        When exiting, players will be moved from the boat
        When broken by a player, they drop a boat now
    Minecarts
        When on rails, they can be accelerated a bit while sitting in them
        When exiting, players will be moved from the minecart

Mobs

    Pigs
        Drop 1-3 meat now
    Slimes
        Reduced spawn rate in superflat maps
    Silverfish
        When suffering from poison potions, they will now spawn more silverfish from nearby silverfish blocks more often
    Creepers
        Increased knockback effect
        Depending on difficulty, they do more damage now:
            Easy: ~50% less damage
            Normal: same damage as before
            Hard: 33.3…% more damage
    Creepers & Spiders
        Become aggressive towards the last mob or player that hit them now[28][29]
    Skeletons, Creepers & Zombies
        Become neutral against players again a few seconds after being hit in Creative

[Hair Slut]

is it out yet?

[Old Crow]

is it out yet?

Today

[Dante]

is it out yet?

Today

So does that mean the server is going to be Reset now with Tekkit Pack?

[Doc. Mentalist S.]

So Minecraft 1.3.1 and Tekkit 3.1.1

[Pillz]

You forgot the part where they removed Herobrine, again.

Also, Endermen feel retarded strong now.. I dunno if they buffed them but I don't remember getting my ass kicked so bad by them, I wouldn't of looked at him if I knew it meant I was going to lose all 30 levels of EXP; Q_Q

[Nelth]

They keep trying to remove him.... BUT HE KEEPS COMING BACK 

[OMG_ZombiePenguin]

They updated bukkit isn't out yet. which was what our server was using atm.

[zeroblackout]

stupid bukkit update my life depends on it

[Pillz]

Any word yet? X.x Also are we doing supergiant biomes or no?

[zeroblackout]

ooh if we make a shop we should put a bunch of villagers in one part  so we could trade with em 

[Old Crow]

Supergiant biodomes? What are those?

I've been working on it, not having any luck so I need Injects help with it, between the two of us we should get it up this weekend if not sometime during next week, as I'm quite busy til Sunday and I don't know what injects schedule is like.

[zeroblackout]

i tired the biome thing and its just really big biomes which i guess makes sense because of the name

[Pillz]

Yeah, it basically triples-quadruples the biome size and makes beaches bigger, etc. It made it really hard to find tree's because I spawned in a plain/desert area and had to use the wood from the villagers to make things, until I finally explored enough to find trees, dunno if I'll be able to find my way back though, lol. It seems villagers are more frequent though as I've already found two separate villages, and quite a few desert temples. Big biomes feels realistic though because it's not like a patch of desert, then a patch of snow, then a forest, all within 100 blocks.

Also good luck with Inject given he's away and PC'less.. Q_Q So we won't have a server till like.. next week?

[Old Crow]

Yeah, it basically triples-quadruples the biome size and makes beaches bigger, etc. It made it really hard to find tree's because I spawned in a plain/desert area and had to use the wood from the villagers to make things, until I finally explored enough to find trees, dunno if I'll be able to find my way back though, lol. It seems villagers are more frequent though as I've already found two separate villages, and quite a few desert temples. Big biomes feels realistic though because it's not like a patch of desert, then a patch of snow, then a forest, all within 100 blocks.

Also good luck with Inject given he's away and PC'less.. Q_Q So we won't have a server till like.. next week?

He could guide me though it via vent, and FTP