Minecraft:Java Edition 12w34a

12w34a is the second Minecraft:snapshot for Minecraft:Java Edition 1.4.2, released on August 23, 2012.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/0/http://www.mojang.com/2012/08/weekly-chunk-paxmineconsnapshot</ref>

Additions

Blocks

width=32x32 Minecraft:Flower pots

• Can contain mostly any plant-based block.

width=32x32 Minecraft:Wooden buttons

• They are currently uncraftable.

width=32x32 Minecraft:Cobblestone wall

• Acts like fences.

width=32x32 Minecraft:Mossy cobblestone wall

• Similar to Minecraft:cobblestone walls.

Items

Template:Animate Minecraft:Carrots

• Added carrots and Minecraft:golden carrots.
• Carrots can be planted on farmland.

Template:Animate Minecraft:Potatoes

• Added potatoes, Minecraft:baked potatoes and Minecraft:poisonous potatoes.
• Potatoes can be planted on farmland.

Minecraft:Potions

• width=32x32 Minecraft:Potion of Invisibility.
  • Brewed by adding a Minecraft:fermented spider eye to a Minecraft:potion of Night Vision.
  • A mob will not attack an invisible player unless the player bumps into them.Template:Info needed
  • Being invisible also hides the player's name tag.

Mobs

File:Wither JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Withers

• New boss mob.
• Only available through external modification such as editing mob spawners, mods, or hacks.
• It shoots exploding projectiles, wither skulls, and destroys nearby blocks.
• Also has a Minecraft:boss health bar.

Minecraft:Zombies

• Now have a chance to drop carrots and potatoes.

Non-mob entities

Minecraft:Item frames

• Crafted like a painting but with leather instead of wool.
• Used to hang items on a wall.
• Items in item frames can be rotated in 8 directions.

General

Minecraft:Settings

• Added new fullscreen toggle to the video settings.
• Added new use Vsync toggle in the video settings.
• Added an unused texture in gui/items.png.

Changes

Blocks

Minecraft:Beacons

• Removed the "Work in Progress" block from the Minecraft:Creative menu.

Minecraft:Fire

• Spreads differently based on Minecraft:difficulty.

Mob spawners

• Now give less experience when the player farms them continuously.

Minecraft:Saplings

• Now have a smaller hitbox.

Minecraft:Stairs

• Now auto-arrange into corners.

Minecraft:TNT

• Ignites if shot by a flaming Minecraft:arrow.

Minecraft:Trapdoors

• Can be placed in top-most position (based on cross-hair aim).

Items

Minecraft:Dyes

• Leather Minecraft:armor can be dyed.
  • The default color of leather has changed.
  • The player can right-click a full cauldron with dyed armor to remove dye.
• Tamed Minecraft:wolves' collars can be dyed.

Minecraft:Fire charges

• Shot from a Minecraft:dispenser or a Minecraft:Blaze creates the "fireball" sound effect.

Minecraft:Maps

• Maps now align to a grid, making it easier to create adjacent maps.
• A Minecraft:compass and Minecraft:paper now create an empty map.
  • An empty map has no data on it until the player right click with it.
  • The point on the player's world where the player right clicked it is the map's center.
• A map (with data) can be cloned. Cloned maps are stackable.
• Maps can be zoomed out (but not zoomed in).

Minecraft:Potions

• The Minecraft:potion of Night Vision can now be brewed by adding a Minecraft:golden carrot to an Minecraft:awkward potion.

Mobs

General

• Mobs (and all other entities) can travel through portals.

Minecraft:Villagers

• The particle effect when a trade with a Minecraft:Villager has been successful has changed.

General

Minecraft:Debug screen

• f: item on the debug screen now shows the exact direction the player is looking, between -180 and 180 degrees from the south.
• Template:Key toggles the auto-pause when the window loses focus (mainly for debugging).
• Template:Key toggles detailed item descriptions (also for debugging).

Fixes

4 bugs fixed

• Fixed zombies not burning in the Minecraft:sun.
• Fixed graphical glitch with Minecraft:chests and Minecraft:ender chests.
• Fixed crash bug with Minecraft:beacons.
• [12w32a] Silk Touch now works again.

Trivia

• This snapshot is one of only three snapshots for Template:JE to have its digits consecutively increasing by one. The only other snapshots to have this property are 12w34b and 23w45a.