Minecraft:Java Edition 13w36a

13w36a is the first Minecraft:snapshot for Minecraft:Java Edition 1.7.2, released on September 5, 2013,<ref>Template:Link</ref> which adds many new Minecraft:biomes and Minecraft:flowers, and tweaks Minecraft:fishing.

13w36a was reuploaded on September 6, 2013, to fix a few bugs.<ref name="ninja">Template:Tweet</ref>

Additions

Blocks

Minecraft:Flowers

• Many new variants, some of which are two blocks tall.
  • Applying Minecraft:bone meal to two block tall flowers drops that flower as an item.
  • Thus all two block tall flowers are renewable.
• File:Allium JE6 BE1.png Minecraft:Allium
  • Can be crafted to magenta dye.
• File:Azure Bluet JE6 BE1.png Minecraft:Azure bluet
  • Can be crafted to light gray dye.
• File:Blue Orchid JE6 BE1.png Minecraft:Blue orchid
  • Can be crafted to light blue dye.
• File:Lilac JE3 BE1.png Minecraft:Lilac
  • Can be crafted into 2 magenta dye.
• File:Oxeye Daisy JE6 BE1.png Minecraft:Oxeye daisy
  • Can be crafted to light gray dye.
• File:Peony JE3 BE1.png Minecraft:Peony
  • Can be crafted into 2 pink dye.
• File:Poppy JE6 BE1.png Minecraft:Poppy
  • Replaced the rose flower.
  • Iron golems now drop poppies instead of roses.
• File:Rose Bush JE3 BE1.png Minecraft:Rose bush
  • Can be crafted into 2 red dye.
• File:Sunflower JE1.png Minecraft:Sunflower
  • Faces east.
  • Can be crafted into 2 yellow dye.
• Template:Animate Minecraft:Tulips
  • Comes in white, red, orange and pink varieties.
  • Can be crafted to light gray, red, orange and pink Minecraft:dyes, respectively.

File:Tall Grass JE1.png Minecraft:Tall grass

• Can be created by applying Minecraft:bone meal to Minecraft:grass.

File:Large Fern JE3.png Minecraft:Large fern

• Can be created by applying Minecraft:bone meal to a fern.
• Generates in Minecraft:taiga biomes and their variants.

File:Packed Ice JE1 BE2.png Minecraft:Packed ice

• When broken, does not turn to water like Minecraft:ice does.
• Does not melt.
• Opaque, rather than translucent like normal ice.
• Torches and redstone can be placed on it.

File:Podzol JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Podzol

• New dirt variant.
• Grass is unable to spread on it.
• Can be harvested using tools enchanted with Minecraft:Silk Touch.
• Only found in Minecraft:mega taiga biomes.

File:Dirt JE2 BE2.png Minecraft:Grassless dirt

• Grass is unable to spread on it.
• Only obtainable using Template:Cmd.
• Block ID is 3:1.

Minecraft:Monster egg variants

• Mossy stone brick monster eggs, cracked stone brick monster eggs, and chiseled stone brick monster eggs.
• Have the same appearance as their Minecraft:stone brick variants.

Items

File:Tropical Fish JE1 BE1.png Clownfish

• Restores Template:Hunger when eaten.

File:Raw Salmon JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Raw salmon

• Restores Template:Hunger when eaten.
• Can be cooked in a furnace to get cooked salmon.

File:Cooked Salmon JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Cooked salmon

• Obtained from cooking raw salmon in a furnace.
• Restores Template:Hunger when eaten.

File:Pufferfish (item) JE1.png Pufferfish

• If eaten, inflicts the player with the Hunger, Minecraft:Nausea, and Minecraft:Poison status effects.
• Used to brew a Minecraft:potion of Water Breathing.

Minecraft:Enchanted books

• Multiple enchantments on a book, when combined with a tool using an Minecraft:anvil, give enchantments according to the tool.

Mobs

Minecraft:Skeletons and Minecraft:zombies

• Now spawn with and drop armor, bows, and swords enchanted with Minecraft:Unbreaking.

World generation

Minecraft:Biomes

• Minecraft:Birch forest
  • A forest made of birch trees.
• Minecraft:Cold beach
  • A variant of normal beaches which generates when a snowy biome borders an ocean.
• Minecraft:Deep ocean
  • An ocean biome variant, about twice as deep as it.
  • Can reach a maximum depth of the Y-coordinate in the low 20s.
  • The floor is covered with gravel.
• Minecraft:Extreme hills+
  • A variant of extreme hills which contains spruce trees.
• Minecraft:Flower forest
  • A variant of forest biomes.
  • Contains every flower in the game, except for sunflowers and blue orchids.
• Minecraft:Ice plains spikes
  • Contains giant spikes made of Minecraft:packed ice, shaped similarly to upside down icicles.
• Minecraft:Mega taiga
  • Contains 2×2 spruce Minecraft:trees,
  • Much of what is typically grass blocks in most biomes is replaced by Minecraft:podzol.
  • Contains grassless Minecraft:dirt.
  • Contains scattered "boulders" made up of Minecraft:moss stone.
  • Allows the generation of Minecraft:dead bushes, Minecraft:mushrooms, and Minecraft:ferns.
• Minecraft:Mesa
  • Composed primarily of Minecraft:hardened clay in multiple colors.
  • Generates Minecraft:dead bushes.
• Minecraft:Roofed forest
  • Has dark grass, giant mushrooms, and 2×2 dark oak trees.
  • Has extremely dense trees and leaves, sometimes dark enough for monsters to spawn during the daytime.
  • This is the first biome aside from the mushroom island that naturally spawns with huge mushrooms.
• Minecraft:Savanna
  • Generates curved acacia trees.
  • Savannas are one of the two biomes where Minecraft:horses now spawn naturally, the other being plains.
  • Villages may generate in savanna biomes.
• Minecraft:Stone beach
  • Consists primarily of Minecraft:stone.
  • Composed of hills which are steep but not completely vertical.
• Minecraft:Sunflower plains
  • Exactly the same as plains, but with the ability to spawn sunflowers.
• Minecraft:Taiga
  • A non-snowy taiga variant.
    • The old taiga biome is now called cold taiga.

Minecraft:Biome variants

• Hill biomes
  • More hills variants to fit with the new biomes.
    • Minecraft:Birch forest hills, Minecraft:cold taiga hills, and Minecraft:mega taiga hills can now be generated.
• M biomes
  • Variants of other biomes with an "M" added to the end of them.
  • Much rarer than their normal biome or any of its other variants.
    • Minecraft:Extreme hills M, Minecraft:taiga M, Minecraft:roofed forest M, Minecraft:extreme hills+ M, Minecraft:savanna M, Minecraft:mesa plateau M, and Minecraft:mesa plateau F M are more mountainous versions of their normal biome.
    • Minecraft:Swampland M, Minecraft:jungle M, Minecraft:jungle edge M, Minecraft:birch forest hills M, Minecraft:cold taiga M, and Minecraft:savanna plateau M are other rare biome variants.
    • Desert M contains Minecraft:water lakes, unlike normal deserts.
    • Birch forest M has taller birch trees than usual.
• Plateau biomes
  • Variants of other biomes with "Plateau" added to the end of them. All of them are like their normal biome or its variants, but flattened at the top.
  • The only plateaus in the game are Minecraft:savanna plateau and Minecraft:mesa plateau.

Minecraft:World type

• Minecraft:AMPLIFIED
  • Requires a powerful computer to run well.
  • Mountains in this world type can reach up to Y=256.

Miscellaneous

• Whether snow generates or not now depends on altitude, with noise variation.
  • Minecraft:Biome dependent.

Gameplay

Minecraft:Enchanting

• New enchantments for Minecraft:fishing rods that change the player's luck of catching an item when fishing.
  • Minecraft:Lure - increases chance of catching fish.
  • Minecraft:Luck of the Sea - increases chance of getting treasure.

Command format

Template:Cmd

• Used to spawn entities.
  • Usage: Template:Cmd.

General

Particle effects

• Fishing now has many different particle effects.
  • Bubbles show up moving towards the player's bobber just before the player has something on their hook.
  • Has the appearance of a fish swimming towards the hook.
• Falling now has particle effects.
  • Particle size depends on distance fallen.

Changes

Blocks

Minecraft:Command blocks

• Now show what command it ran recently.

Minecraft:Dead bushes

• Can now be placed on Minecraft:hardened clay and Minecraft:stained clay.

Minecraft:Ferns

• Ferns and large ferns display their coloring from foliage.png.

Minecraft:Flowers

• Are now flammable.
• Cannot be placed dead center on a block, but have certain variations in which they are placed.

Minecraft:Grass

• Grass and tall grass display their coloring from foliage.png.

Minecraft:Item frames

• Now drop the item inside them when punched, then drop themselves if they are punched when empty.
• Display the name of the item they hold (if it is custom named) when looked at up close.

Minecraft:Melons

• Now generate in jungles.

Minecraft:Sugar cane

• Changes color depending on biome.
  • Texture is unchanged, adding biome color makes it appear different.

Minecraft:Weighted pressure plates

• Now output a signal relative to the number of entities on them, always starting at 1 signal strength if any entities are present.
  • For light weighted pressure plates, every entity adds 1 strength to the signal.
  • For heavy weighted pressure plates, starting at 1, every 10 entities adds 1 strength to the signal.
    • Example: 11 entities increases signal strength to 2.

Minecraft:Written books

• Can now be cloned the same way Minecraft:maps can, but by using Minecraft:books and quills instead of Minecraft:empty maps.
• Can clone multiple copies of the same book by putting more book and quills in the crafting grid.

Items

Minecraft:Flint and steel

• Now a shapeless recipe.

Mobs

Minecraft:Creepers

• Can now be manually exploded after igniting the mob with a Minecraft:flint and steel.

World generation

File:Minecraft 1.6 and 1.7 biome map comparison.png

Comparsion between biome maps of Minecraft 1.6 and 1.7.

Minecraft:Biomes

• Are now put into four main categories.
  • Snow-covered
  • Cold
  • Medium
  • Dry/Warm
• Biomes attempt to avoid getting placed next to a biome that is too different to themselves.

Minecraft:Extreme hills

• Generation tends to include more flat areas, and more extreme mountainous regions.
• Stone is generated more frequently than in the previous versions, even outside of extreme hills+ biomes.

Minecraft:Oceans

• Are now smaller and take up much less of the map.

Minecraft:Rivers

• Now have gravel patches.

Minecraft:Swampland

• Grass is greener and fluctuates more in color, depending on biome temperature.
• In shallower parts, the coast is covered in staggered dirt blocks.

Minecraft:Taiga

• Taiga biomes no longer receive snowfall below Y=120.

Gameplay

Minecraft:Fishing

• Changes to the mechanics to make it better.
• More rewards: treasure and junk.
  • Treasure: 6 items total, including enchanted Minecraft:fishing rods, enchanted Minecraft:bow, Minecraft:enchanted books, Minecraft:name tags, Minecraft:lily pads, Minecraft:saddles
  • Junk: 13 items total, including damaged fishing rods, Minecraft:water bottles, Minecraft:rotten flesh, Minecraft:string, Minecraft:leather, Minecraft:bowls, Minecraft:sticks, Minecraft:bones, Minecraft:tripwire hooks, ten stacked Minecraft:ink sacs, or damaged leather Minecraft:boots.

Minecraft:Fog

• The distance where fog appears has been doubled.

Command format

Commands Template:Cmd

• Can now give items to players with custom names and lore.
• It can also give enchanted items.
  • Example: Template:Cmd.
• It can also give items to players with custom NBT data, such as SkullOwner to obtain the Minecraft:head of a specific player.
  • This removes the necessity to use an NBT editing program to obtain these items.
• Attribute modifiers have been added to the Template:Cmd command (not completely investigated as of yet).
  • Example: To give a diamond sword with +50 attack damage to the nearest player, use the command Template:Cmd.
• This enables the possibility of additional attributes to items using commands without the use of an NBT editing program.

Template:Cmd

• Now sets the time to 1000 instead of 0.

Minecraft:Scoreboard

• Can now use Minecraft:statistics to create objectives; anything that statistics can track can be used as an objective.
• Can also track Minecraft:achievements.
  • This is the reason why statistics/achievements were changed to be stored per world/server.

General

Minecraft:Achievements

• Rewrite of the achievement system.
  • Are now per world/server.
  • Added 744 new objective criteria.
• New achievements: "Repopulation", "Adventuring Time", "The Beginning?", "The Beginning.", and "Beaconator".
• Achievements screen can now be zoomed in and out using the mouse wheel.
• Achievements do not appear on the achievements screen if more than five achievements need to be achieved first.
  • Example: "DIAMONDS!" does not appear until "Getting Wood" is achieved.

Minecraft:Controls

• Rewrote key configuration.
• Function and Minecraft:sprint keys can be changed.
  • By default, sprinting can be activated by holding down the left control key.
  • In Creative mode, this can also be done while flying.
  • The original sprinting controls (double-tap forward or double-tap backward while holding down forward) still function.
• Smooth mouse, formerly available by pressing F8, now uses F4 by default.

Minecraft:Inventory

• The display item for the "Decoration Blocks" tab in the Creative mode inventory is the peony.
  • Changed from the old rose flower.

Minecraft:Lighting

• A lot fewer "black spots" appear in the terrain generator.
• Minecraft:Torch bugs in Minecraft:strongholds and Minecraft:mineshafts have been fixed.

Minecraft:Options

• Rewrite of several option screens.
• A completely new options menu.
• A new "Select Resource Pack" menu.

Minecraft:Death screen

• Added a prompt which asks the player if they are sure they want to quit when they die.

Minecraft:Resource packs

• The ability to select multiple resource packs at once.
  • Resource packs at the top take precedence over those below.
  • Allows for non-manual merging of textures from multiple packs, a sound pack, and a different texture pack, etc.

Minecraft:Statistics

• New statistics: distance by horse, animals bred, junk fished, treasure fished.
• Rewrite of the system.
• Now ties in with the scoreboard system.
  • Added 744 new objective criteria that were previously tracked with statistics and achievements.
• Are now per world/server.
• Data for a block, item, or mob does not appear in their respective tab in the Statistics screen unless the player has crafted/placed/mined that block, crafted/used/depleted that item, or killed/was killed by that mob.

Minecraft:Sounds

• The volume of in-game music, Minecraft:jukebox and Minecraft:note block music, hostile mobs, passive mobs, players, weather, blocks/environment, and the master volume can now all be modified separately.

Fixes

From the original version of 13w36a

• Fixed "weird language selection".<ref name="ninja"/>
• Fixed the names of Minecraft:grass blocks and Minecraft:dirt.<ref>Template:Bug</ref>
• Attempted to fix a bug with Minecraft:mesa biomes, but the fix did not work.<ref>Template:Bug</ref>

Trivia

• Until Minecraft:15w31a, 13w36a held the record as having the most content added to the game in one developmental release, with as much new content in it as the full release of the Minecraft:Pretty Scary Update had.
• 13w36a was previously removed from the Minecraft:launcher for some time, but was added back in September 2018.

Gallery

• Terrain in this version.
  Terrain in this version.