Minecraft:Java Edition 12w27a

12w27a is the fourteenth snapshot released for Minecraft:Java Edition 1.3.1, released on July 5, 2012.<ref>Template:Citation</ref>

Additions

Command format

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• Starts/stops debug profiling.

Changes

Blocks

Template:Animate Minecraft:Nether wart

• Nether wart can now grow in the Minecraft:Overworld and Minecraft:the End.

File:Oak Sign JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Signs

• Signs are stackable up to 16.
• Minecraft:Crafting them now gives 3 signs instead of 1 with the same recipe.

Non-mob entities

File:Oak Boat JE1.png Minecraft:Boats

• Boats now drop the boat item when destroyed by a player.

Gameplay

Minecraft:Biomes

• Some Template:BiomeSprite Minecraft:ice plains and Template:BiomeSprite Minecraft:ice mountains have been replaced by Template:BiomeLink and Template:BiomeLink. This biome map change can cause some biomes nearby the replaced biomes to slightly change shape as well, when compared with previous versions on the same seed.

Minecraft:Creative inventory

• Minecraft:Creative inventory now shows Minecraft:status effects.

Minecraft:Experience

• Gaining experience from mining ore is now different for each type of ore (mining Minecraft:coal ore will give the player the least amount while Minecraft:diamond ore & Minecraft:emerald ore will give the most amount of XP).

Fixes

13 bugs fixed

• Newly added wooden Minecraft:stairs will now burn.
• Fixed Template:Cmd not working.
• Fixed powering specific glitched pistons crashing the game.
• Fixed a visual bug causing pistons to be partially invisible or in the wrong location momentarily.
• Fixed being able to place portals in Minecraft:the Nether in locations where they would end up in illegal locations in the overworld.
• Fixed the game crashing when publishing SP worlds with certain language settings.
• Fixed players on Minecraft:minecarts, Minecraft:boats or Minecraft:pigs and spider jockeys not being displayed in the correct location.
• Fixed a bug with Minecraft:dispensers.
• Fixed Template:Cmd not accepting some strings from the console, often triggering the help dialogue.
• Fixed being able to transmute blocks to certain Minecraft:data values using an orientation-dependent tripwire bug.
• Fixed drinking Minecraft:potions in creative not consuming the potions, but still giving empty bottles.
• Fixed signs sometimes not saving the text when placing them.
• Fixed torches at the top of 1×1 vertical shafts not lighting up their own block.

Trivia

• Even though this version's changelog mentions changes related to pistons, those changes were actually added to the game in the previous snapshot.