Minecraft:Java Edition 1.2.4

1.2.4 is a minor update to Template:JE released on March 22, 2012,<ref>Template:Cite</ref> which adds new Minecraft:planks and sandstone blocks, improves chat editing, and fixes some of the bugs and crashes in 1.2.3.

Additions

Blocks

File:Birch Planks JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Birch wood planks

File:Spruce Planks JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Spruce wood planks

File:Jungle Planks JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Jungle wood planks

• All planks currently have the same tooltip: "Wooden Planks".

File:Cut Sandstone JE1 BE1.png File:Chiseled Sandstone JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Sandstone variants

• Use a modified version of the unused sandstone texture from 1.2.1.
• Have the same name as the normal sandstone.

Changes

Blocks

File:Glass JE3 BE1.png Minecraft:Glass

• Now drops itself when broken using a tool with Minecraft:Silk Touch.

File:Sandstone JE2 BE2.png Minecraft:Sandstone

• Texture changed from File:Sandstone JE1 BE1.png.

Template:Animate Minecraft:Wool

• Slightly desaturated every color, changing from File:Beta color spectrum.png to File:1.2.4 color spectrum.png.

Mobs

Template:Animate Minecraft:Cats

• When in a standing position, cats now purposely go and sit on nearby Minecraft:chests, active Minecraft:furnaces, and Minecraft:beds.
  • This prevents players from using them.

File:Baby Saddled Pig JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Pigs

• Saddles can no longer be put on baby pigs. Saddled baby pigs from previous versions can update to this version and still be ridden.

Gameplay

Minecraft:Chat

• Added chat history and improved chat editing.
  • Links are now clickable in chat.
    • When clicked, a warning screen appears that asks players if they want to continue.
  • Players can copy and paste links in chat.
  • The mouse wheel can be used to scroll up/down for history.
    • Template:Key and Template:Key keys can also be used
  • Up/down keys scroll through recently sent messages.
  • The chat edit box is no longer prefixed with a greater-than sign (Template:Key).
• When typing a player's name, pressing Template:Key automatically fills in the rest of the username.
  • Text can now be copied and pasted.
  • Similar to how the Minecraft:formatting code Template:Key displays random characters in chat, Template:Key, Template:Key, Template:Key and Template:Key creates bold, striked, underlined and italic text respectively, while Template:Key resets any set states
    • These cannot be typed using vanilla clients
  • Pressing Template:Key acts as a Minecraft:command key: it opens the chat with a Template:Cd in place.
  • Pressing Template:Key or Template:Key moves the insertion point (text pointer) in the respective direction, allowing text to be modified.

Out of Memory screen

• Added "Back" and "Quit" buttons

Minecraft:Debug screen

• Added a "minimal" debug menu
  • The same as the regular Template:Key menu, except without the graph/profiler.
  • Accessible by Template:Key.

Minecraft:Inventory

• Re-added armor outlines in the armor slots in the inventory.
• Text color lightened to Template:Color.

Fixes

25 bugs fixed

• Made placing half blocks on existing half blocks (to make a full block) easier.
• Limited framerate on menu screens; no longer uses 100% CPU.
• Fixed fatal crash for converted worlds to anvil, when there's blocks at max height.
• Fixed signs clearing text while being edited in Minecraft:multiplayer.
• Fixed a crash when logging in while there are blocks at the maximum height level at spawn.
• Fixed TNT ghost blocks in multiplayer.
• Fixed Minecraft:chest minecarts turning enchanted tools placed in them unenchanted upon being broken.
• Fixed crashes on invalid server addresses when joining a server.
• Fixed entities being uninteractable if they existed at login in Minecraft:multiplayer.
• Fixed duplication exploit with paintings.
• Fixed furnaces and dispensers turning enchanted tools placed in them unenchanted upon being broken.
• Fixed the "flickering" of chat as it vanishes off the screen.
• Fixed text rendering over items in the container screens.
• Fixed exploit with jungle saplings (turns other saplings into jungle ones).
• Fixed launcher opening Minecraft dir if the path contains a space.
• Fixed an off-by-one lighting bug.
• Fixed liquid block transmutation.
• Fixed placing mushrooms in daylight, where they cannot survive.
• Fixed redstone lamps dropping powered block items when destroyed while on.
• Template:Cmd now works even when Template:Cmd has been used.
• Fixed turning half-blocks into full-blocks while you're standing on them.
• Fixed seed displaying in Template:Key debug when the seed is unknown in Minecraft:multiplayer.
• Fixed villager texture changing client-side per profession.
• Fixed falling off ledge corners while holding shift.
• Minecraft:Glass blocks can be picked up using Silk Touch enchanted tools again.