Minecraft upgraded to beta version 1.2

14 January 2011

Following on from yesterday’s triumphant announcement that the game has sold over a million copies, Minecraft has now also cashed in its supplies of Vespene Gas (or something), and upgraded to beta version 1.2.

This latest version features new stuff (and cake!), as well as some bug fixes. According to dev Notch’s blog, the full list includes:

New features

•    Note blocks (right click to tune, trigger to play)
•    15 wool dyes
•    A new water dwelling mob
•    New tree types
•    Reeds magically turned into sugar canes. They still make paper.
•    A bunch of new crafting recipes
•    One secret useful block
•    One secret pretty block
•    Cake
•    AND MOAR, probably. I forget!

Bugfixes

•    Paintings work in multiplayer
•    Disconnecting while riding no longer keeps the player in the world
•    A bunch more state is properly synched in multiplayer
•    Fixed colors going weird on PowerPC
•    Fixed a horrible chunk reload loop in singleplayer
•    Fixed most lighting bugs in newly generated SMP maps
•    Falling sand behaves better in SMP
•    Fixed a few crash on load level bugs

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