Minecraft:Java Edition 1.6.1

1.6.1,<ref>https://mcupdate.tumblr.com/post/54337149404/minecraft-161</ref> the release of the Minecraft:Horse Update, is a major update to Template:JE released on July 1, 2013,<ref>Template:Cite</ref><ref>Template:Tweet</ref> which added many new features including Minecraft:horses and their relatives, Minecraft:leads, Minecraft:coal blocks, Minecraft:carpets, new Minecraft:commands, Minecraft:resource packs and a new Minecraft:launcher.

A pre-release version of 1.6.1 was released on June 28, 2013.<ref>Template:Tweet</ref> This pre-release is identical to the full release of 1.6.1.

Additions

Blocks

Template:Animate Minecraft:Carpets

• Crafted with 2 matching colors of wool in a horizontal line, yields 3 carpets.
• Can be placed on any block.

File:Hay Bale (UD) JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Hay bale

• Can be placed in all orientations.
• Crafted with Minecraft:wheat placed in a 3×3 arrangement.

File:Terracotta JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Hardened clay

• Obtained by smelting a Minecraft:clay block in a Minecraft:furnace.

File:Block of Coal JE2 BE1.png Minecraft:Block of coal

• Crafted with coal placed in a 3×3 arrangement.
  • Charcoal cannot be used to craft this block.
• Can be used as furnace fuel and smelts 80 items, more than 9 coal (72 smelted items).
• Was originally added in an April Fools' update, 2.0.

Template:Animate Minecraft:Stained clay

• Comes in 16 colors, one for each Minecraft:dye.
• Crafted by surrounding any Minecraft:dye with Minecraft:hardened clay in a crafting table.

Items

Template:Animate Template:Animate Minecraft:Horse armor

• Comes in diamond, iron, and gold variants.
• Cannot be crafted and can only be found in most types of generated chests, including in Minecraft:dungeons, Minecraft:mineshafts, Minecraft:Nether fortresses, Minecraft:desert temples, and Minecraft:jungle temples.

File:Lead JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Lead

• Can be used to bind mobs to fences or lead them around.
• Right-click mob first, then right-click fence or right-click the mob again to get the leash back.
• Crafted with 4 Minecraft:string and 1 Minecraft:slimeball, yields 2 leads.

File:Horse Spawn Egg JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Horse spawn egg

• Can be used to spawn horses and Minecraft:donkeys.

File:Name Tag JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Name tag

• Found in dungeon chests.
• Name it on an Minecraft:anvil, then right-click a mob to name it.

Mobs

Template:Animate Minecraft:Horses

• Creation assisted & inspired by DrZhark's Mo' Creatures mod.
• To tame, ride them, and get thrown off a few times until hearts appear.
• Can be bred using Minecraft:golden apples and Minecraft:golden carrots.
• Drop Minecraft:leather when killed.
• Health can be restored using Minecraft:bread, Minecraft:sugar, Minecraft:hay bales, Minecraft:wheat, Minecraft:apples, golden apples, and golden carrots.
  • Baby horses can be grown the same way.
• Players riding saddled horses are granted full control over the horses' movement.
• Color, markings, maximum health, jump height, and speed vary between horses.
• Press the Template:Control control while mounting a horse, or press the Template:Control control while Template:Control and looking at a horse to access its inventory to deal with its storage, armor, and saddle.
• Rarely spawn in small groups.

File:Donkey JE1.png Minecraft:Donkeys

• Like horses, but smaller and gray, and can carry chests with 15 slots on their saddles.

File:Mule JE1.png Minecraft:Mules

• Obtained by breeding a horse with a donkey.
• Can wear chests on their saddles, just like donkeys.
• Not breedable with horses, donkeys, or other mules.

File:Skeleton Horse Revision 1.png Skeleton and File:Zombie Horse Revision 1.png Minecraft:zombie horses

• Require third-party modifications to be used in-game.

Gameplay

Minecraft:Status effects

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  • Gives a player Template:Hp base health; extra health vanishes when the effect ends.
  • Can be acquired in-game using the command Template:Cmd.
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  • Gives a player Template:Hp "absorption" health that cannot be replenished by natural regeneration or other effects, but would return every 30 seconds, regardless of the state of the rest of the health bar; absorption health vanishes when the effect ends.
  • Can be acquired in-game using the command Template:Cmd or by eating either tier of Minecraft:golden apple.
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  • Causes food meter to be replenished by Template:Hunger per tick.
  • Can be acquired in-game using the command Template:Cmd.
  • Affects the hunger bar.
  • Does nothing if hunger bar is full.

Command format

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• Spreads certain players from an origin point.
• Has a max spread and minimum distance from player to player.
• Can be used with the team's scoreboard functionality to spread team members to the same location.

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• Can be used to play sounds to players.
• The pitch and volume of sounds played using this command can be customized.
• Can use sounds from Minecraft:resource packs.

Template:Cmd arguments

• naturalRegeneration
  • Toggles natural health regeneration.
• doDaylightCycle
  • Toggles the day-night cycle.

General

Minecraft:Resource pack system

• Replaces the Minecraft:texture pack system.
  • A conversion tool that converts texture packs into resource packs was released by Dinnerbone and is available here.
• Contains:
  • Textures
  • Minecraft:Sounds
  • Minecraft:Fonts (partially)
  • Language files
  • Credits
  • Minecraft:End Poem
  • Minecraft:Splash text
• New "missing texture" texture

Minecraft:Attribute system

• Item attributes using NBT tags:
  • Attributes can be additive, subtractive, and multiplicative using a set value.
  • Some items have default modifiers in place of previously hard-coded attributes.
  • Examples of possible changes players could make: a Minecraft:bow that slows the holder, a Minecraft:helmet that buffs health, etc.
• Entity attributes:
  • These properties can now be changed as easily as any other NBT attribute.
  • Entity speed, base health, base attack.
• Other properties like weapon damage/bow draw speed/sword swing speed are yet to follow.

Minecraft:Splash screens

• "HURNERJSGER?"
• "What's up Doc?"

Changes

Blocks

File:Block of Lapis Lazuli JE2 BE2.png Minecraft:Lapis lazuli block

• Retextured subtly; it now has a border around it.

File:Redstone Comparator (item) JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Redstone comparator

• Now gives out a signal for Minecraft:cauldrons and Minecraft:end portal frames depending on their state.
  • Cauldrons give from zero signal (empty) to three signal strength (full) depending on the water level inside.
  • End portal frame varies between zero and fifteen signal strength, depending on if an Minecraft:eye of ender is present.

File:Impulse Command Block JE1.png Minecraft:Command blocks

• Can no longer be mined or destroyed in Minecraft:Survival mode.

File:Lava JE15.png Minecraft:Lava

• Now decays properly.

Items

File:Charcoal JE3 BE3.png Minecraft:Charcoal

• Retextured, with more brown shading to differentiate from Minecraft:coal.

File:Saddle JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Saddle

• The player can now put a saddle on a horse.

File:Golden Apple JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Golden apple

• Now requires Minecraft:gold ingots instead of Minecraft:gold nuggets to craft.
• Now gives Minecraft:Regeneration II for 10 seconds and both tiers give Minecraft:Absorption for 1 minute and 30 seconds.

File:Glistering Melon Slice JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Glistering melon

• Now requires 8 gold nuggets.

Template:Animate Minecraft:Spawn eggs

• Now work on water.

File:Flint and Steel JE3 BE1.png Minecraft:Flint and steel

• Now loses durability when igniting Minecraft:TNT.

Mobs

All Minecraft:mobs

• Mobs named "Dinnerbone" or "Grumm" are now flipped upside down.
• Now spawn in groups again.

File:Zombie JE2 BE1.png Minecraft:Zombies

• Now have a small chance to spawn additional zombies when damaged or not being looked at.
• Able to lock onto a player from 40 blocks away (formerly 16 blocks).
• Mobbing zombies can now move when further than 32 blocks from a player.
• No longer attack when provoked by players in Minecraft:Creative mode.

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• Now have sounds for trading, getting hurt and other things.

File:Wither JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Withers

• Armor has been retextured.<ref group=note name="Release change" />

Template:Animate Minecraft:Spiders

• Now have a chance to spawn with potion effects.

File:Creeper JE3 BE1.png Minecraft:Creepers, File:Skeleton JE4 BE2.png Minecraft:skeletons, File:Witch Revision 2.png Minecraft:witches and File:Wolf JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:wolves

• No longer attack when provoked by players in Minecraft:Creative mode.

File:Ghast JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Ghasts and File:Zombified Piglin JE3 BE2.png Minecraft:zombie pigmen

• No longer visibly catch fire when going into fire or lava.

World generation

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• No longer contain water lakes.

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• Added chest generation in Minecraft:nether fortresses.

Gameplay

Riding mounts

• When riding a mob, its health is on the Minecraft:heads-up display.
• When riding an entity, dismounting has changed from right-clicking the entity to using the Template:Control control.
• New boat physics with lower inertia.
• Boat controls have been changed from the Template:Key, Template:Key, and Template:Key keys to mouse control.
• Boats now take damage and break when colliding with many lily pads in a short time.

Respiration enchantment

• Now also helps seeing underwater.

Changed the idea of mob difficulty

• Regional difficulty: the longer player spend in one area, the harder it gets.
• Scales with difficulty - items, enchants, or AI improve with difficulty.

Tooltips

• Added extra tooltip info in the search tab for the creative inventory, which shows what category a block/item is in.
• Tooltips for swords, pickaxes, shovels, axes, and potions show how much damage the sword/tool does and what effect a potion gives.

Minecraft:Status effects

• Balanced to improve gameplay:
  • Minecraft:Instant Health nerfed by 33% (heals only 4 health points/2 hearts at level I).
  • Minecraft:Regeneration nerfed by 50% (takes 50 ticks/2.5 seconds to restore 1 health point/.5 heart at level I).

File:Hunger (icon).png Minecraft:Hunger

• Natural health regeneration now costs hunger/saturation points.

Minecraft:Creative mode

• It is no longer possible to break blocks with swords in Creative mode.
• The experience level is no longer displayed in Creative mode.

General

Technical

• Support for Java 5 and PowerPC users was dropped.

Internal chat system

• Lots of messages should be translated now that were previously not.
• Messages are now better modularized.
• Server messages can be sent by their code-defined name, allowing the client to utilize the correct translation according to their language settings.
• Color can be specifically designated, preventing leakage into further messages.
• Updated language files and fixed missing strings.

New Minecraft:launcher

• Increases performance and stability.
• Minecraft game icon changed to a crafting table, presumably to differentiate between game and launcher.
• Allows LWJGL to be updated, fixing many launcher bugs.
• Supports multiple versions/installs.
• Self-updatable.
• New password storing system.
• More user-friendly.
• A major step towards the Minecraft:Plugin API.
• New authentication system - "Yggdrasil", which is more secure and has more features.
• If downloaded for free, it only lets users play the demo world.
• Accounts are mandatory.

Minecraft:Realms

• Added handling of invitations.
• Added resetting realm with one of the provided realm templates.
• Added viewing backups for a realm and the ability to restore them.
• Added setting the owner of a realm as game master operator.
• Added confirmation screens for various actions such as deleting a realm.
• Ability to leave someone else's realm that previously accepted an invitation for.
• Fixed game mode and game difficulty issue.
• Minor GUI fixes for better usability.

Minecraft:NBT

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