Minecraft: Java Edition/Version Differences/1.6

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1.6.1 was the first release of the Horse Update, a major update to Minecraft that completely released on July 1, 2013.

1.6 is like 1.4; the update before it didn't publicly and fully release until 1.6.1. Seems that Mojang had a really bad habit of making the first update a pre-release.

13w16a

13w16a is the first snapshot for 1.6.1, released on April 18, 2013.

Additions

Blocks

Carpets

Carpets are a new block that can be made using 2 of the player's desired colors of wool in a horizontal line.

Hay Blocks

Hay blocks are a new block that can be placed in all orientations, just like wood. As of this update, they do not have an official name.

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  An isometric render of a hay block in 13w16a.

Items

Horse Armor

• Horse armor is a new type of armor used only with horses.
• They have a diamond, iron, and gold variant.
• They are crafted with six iron/gold/diamond and a wool block.

Horse Saddles

• Horse saddles are a new craftable type of saddle that stacks to 32.
• They're crafted with five leather and three iron ingots.

Leads

• Leads are a new item that can be used to bind mobs to fences or lead them around.
• The mob must be right-clicked first, then a fence.
• The player can also right-click the mob again to get the lead back.
• They do not have an official name yet, but they are called "leashes" in the changelog.

Spawn Egg

• When used, a different horse breed is created each time.
• It works like any other spawn egg.

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  An isometric render of diamond horse armor in 13w16a.

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  An isometric render of iron horse armor in 13w16a.

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  An isometric render of gold horse armor in 13w16a.

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  The item form of diamond horse armor in 13w16a.

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  The item form of iron horse armor in 13w16a.

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  The item form of gold horse armor 13w16a.

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  A lead in 13w16a.

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  A horse saddle in 13w16a.

Mobs

Donkeys

• Donkeys are a new mob that are like horses, but they can carry chests on their back although no inventory is currently available.
• They can be bred with horses to make a mule.

Horses

• Horses are rideable by right-clicking them, move with usual movement keys, maximum speed, and jump height differ between horses.
• They have various amounts of maximum health, and wheat and carrots can be used to heal them.
• They drop leather when killed.
• They can be bred using wheat.
  • Baby horses can be grown using apples, golden apples, wheat, and hay bales.
• Players can make them jump by pressing and holding the space bar.
• They naturally step up over 1 block, which enables you to walk up hills.
• They can also use ladders, when steered towards them.
• Creation assisted by DrZhark (Creator of the Mo' Creatures mod).
• There is an undead and skeleton version of the horse included in the code, although they require NBT editing to view in-game.

Mules

Mules can be obtained by breeding a donkey and a horse.

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  An isometric render of a black horse in 13w16a.

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  An isometric render of a brown horse in 13w16a.

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  An isometric render of a chestnut horse in 13w16a.

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  An isometric render of a creamy horse in 13w16a.

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  An isometric render of a dark brown horse in 13w16a.

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  An isometric render of a gray horse in 13w16a.

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  An isometric render of a white horse in 13w16a.

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  An isometric render of a zombie horse in 13w16a.

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  An isometric render of a skeleton horse in 13w16a.

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  An isometric render of a donkey in 13w16a.

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  An isometric render of a mule in 13w16a.

Changes

Mobs

General

• The idea of mob difficulty has been changed.
  • Regional difficulty is a new feature.
    • The longer the player stays in one area, the tougher enemies get, and the more they spawn.
  • Items, enchantments, or AI improve with difficulty.

Gameplay

Enchanting

• Respiration has been improved.
  • It now also helps with seeing underwater.
    • This depends on the enchantment level, ranging from 1-3).

Riding

• A mob's health bar has been added to the heads-up display when riding on it (both pigs and horses).
• When riding something, like a mob or a boat, dismounting is only possible using the Sneak key (Left Shift by default).

General

Credits

Mo' Creatures developers have been added to credits.txt.

Directory Structure

• .minecraft's directory structure has been changed:
  • assets folder; stores resources such as language packs and sounds.
  • All music discs now use .ogg format instead of .mus format.
  • library folder; stores Java libraries such as LWJGL and jinput.jar.
    • versions folder; there are files version.json (meta data) and folders that stores minecraft.jar for each version (but its name is the same as its version; the jar for 13w16a is versions/13w16a/13w16a.jar).

Bug Fixes

7 bugs have been fixed.

• MC-3090 - Unable to play game unless LWJGL is manually replaced.
• MC-4253 - Endermen are rendered hostile if they take environmental damage.
• MC-5674 - Client can control if they take damage and abuse this / ALT or F10 freezes client in windowed mode.
• MC-11229 - Using the anvil for free.
• MC-12017 - Can get permanently stuck in a minecart in a nether portal.
• MC-12369 - Minecraft crashing on 1.5.1 pre-release server.

13w16b

13w16b is the second snapshot for 1.6.1, released on April 23, 2013. It was released to fix some of the bugs and crashes in the 13w16a snapshot.

Additions

Items

Name Tags

• Name tags have been added.
• They can be used to name any mob, besides the Ender Dragon and other players.

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  A name tag in 13w16b.

General

Tooltips

Tooltips for hay blocks and leads have been added.

Changes

Mobs

Horses

• Horses are now slower.
• They don't glide as much as they did last snapshot.

General

Crash Reporting

Crash reporting has been re-enabled.

Bug Fixes

17 bugs have been fixed.

• MC-11713 - Unintended debug output to console if .minecraft does not exist.
• MC-13711 - Icon in the task bar shows LWJGL default icon while loading Minecraft.
• MC-13599 - Leash and hay bale do not have a name.
• MC-13601 - When going fullscreen, character looks up into the sky and spins around quickly.
• MC-13610 - Players do not activate stone pressure plates anymore.
• MC-13623 - Null pointer exception when entering boat/minecart/riding horse.
• MC-13625 - Color of the experience bar while having spawn eggs, enchantment bottles, enchanted books and nether stars in the inventory.
• MC-13627 - When killing a horse you will get a normal saddle back.
• MC-13628 - SMP/LAN: NPE when right clicking horses.
• MC-13638 - Boats do not work in 13w16a.
• MC-13660 - Mobs become stuck on carpet.
• MC-13870 - New launcher fails to launch on certain Linux setups.
• MC-13929 - Mouse cursor no longer snaps back to center of window after exiting inventories/menus.
• MC-14035 - New Launcher 0.2 not starting on OS X.
• MC-14321 - Carpets obstruct bed spawns / stuck in ceiling after leaving bed.
• MC-14460 - No lwjgl in java.library.path.
• MC-14513 - The new snapshot doesn't run under Linux.

13w17a

13w17a is the third snapshot for 1.6, released on April 25, 2013.

Additions

Blocks

Hardened Clay

Hardened clay is a new block obtained by smelting a clay block.

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  An isometric render of hardened clay in 13w17a.

Gameplay

Tooltips

Extra tooltip info has been added in the search tab for the creative inventory.

Changes

Blocks

Carpets

The crafting recipe for carpets now gives three carpet blocks instead of one.

Mobs

Zombies

• Zombies now have a low chance to spawn more zombies when they take damage.
  • This is an early version of the function; In the future, this will mainly apply to spawning zombies out of sight in enclosed spaces.

World Generation

Lakes

• Lakes no longer generate in deserts.
• Water lakes only generate on the edge of desert and desert hills biomes; lava lakes still will, however.

Gameplay

Tooltips

Tooltips now show what category a block/item is in.

Bug Fixes

9 bugs have been fixed.

• MC-22 - Jukebox audio volume doesn't decrease.
• MC-1407 - Tamed wolves and cats despawn.
• MC-7134 - Silverfish breaking blocks when "mobGriefing" is set to false.
• MC-8112 - Pick-block and furnaces bug.
• MC-8260 - Achievement "Hot Topic" uses faceless furnace icon.
• MC-12133 - Arrows visually float when shot into a block.
• MC-13692 - Launcher Beta - OS X with Retina Display is pixelated.
• MC-14606 - New Minecraft Launcher unable to play/download snapshot.
• MC-14618 - Custom language-pack removal.

13w18a

13w18a is the fourth snapshot for 1.6.1, released on May 2, 2013.

Additions

Blocks

Block of Coal

• Blocks of coal are a new fuel block crafted with coal in a 3×3 space.
• They cannot be crafted with charcoal.
• They can be used as furnace fuel and smelts 72 items, the equivalent to 9 coal.
• They can be used as a storage block for large amounts of coal, similarly to blocks of iron and related blocks.

Hay Blocks

• Hay blocks have a new crafting recipe.
• They are crafted with wheat similarly to mineral blocks.
• They cannot be crafted back into wheat.

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  An isometric render of a block of coal in 13w18a. The texture is the same as it was in Minecraft 2.0.

Items

Leads

• Leads now have a new crafting recipe.
  • The recipe contains 4 string and 1 slime ball.

World Generation

Nether Fortresses

Chests can now generate in corners of interior corridors.

General

Texture Pack System

• The start of a new texture loading system has been added.
• There is a new "missing texture" texture.

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  An isometric render of a block with the new missing texture. It seems to reference the Source engine's way of handling missing textures.

Changes

Blocks

Carpets

• Carpets can now be placed on translucent blocks.
  • This includes glowstone, glass, glass panes, and beacons.
  • Beacons will still function under carpets.

Locked Chests

• Locked chests' texture has been changed to the new missing texture, due to the new texture pack loading system. It can be seen earlier in the page.

Redstone Comparators

• Redstone comparators now output a signal for cauldrons and end portal frames.
• A cauldron gives signal strengths that range from zero (empty) to three (full) depending on the amount of water contained inside.
• An end portal frame would give a signal strength of either zero or fifteen, depending on if an eye of ender has been inserted into it.

Items

Cocoa Beans

Cocoa beans have been removed from dungeon chests.

Horse Armor

• Players can no longer craft horse armor.
• They can be found in dungeons instead.

Horse Saddles

Horse saddles have been removed from the game, never to be seen again.

Saddles

Saddles can now be found in most generated chests, to replace horse saddles.

Mobs

Horses

• The obtainability of horse equipment has been tweaked.
• Normal saddles are now required to ride horses.
• Horses now use the same saddle that pigs use.
• Adjustments related to horses makes them more practical later in the game.

Zombies

• The mechanic where zombies spawn more zombies has been adjusted to be subtle and not as easily visible to the player.
• Zombies spawn in dark areas far from the player or in caves.

Bug Fixes

7 bugs have been fixed.

• MC-590 - Mobs not realizing they killed their attacker and trying to attack empty space.
• MC-1320 - Dogs wont stop snarling after punched by someone else.
• MC-1980 - Despawning cured zombie.
• MC-4631 - Lava decay fails to schedule block update.
• MC-14221 - Blocks stop updating one minute after entering the Nether or the End.
• MC-14586 - The player can pick up command blocks with any pickaxe.
• MC-14786 - Can't place carpet on translucent blocks.

13w18b

13w18b is the fifth snapshot for 1.6.1, released on May 2, 2013. It was released to fix some of the bugs and crashes in the 13w18a snapshot.

Bug Fixes

5 bugs have been fixed.

• MC-15020 - Animations are not working.
• MC-15022 - FPS drop due to new texture system while looking at horses.
• MC-15027 - Crash on world load.
• MC-15034 - Texture pack descriptions do not load.
• MC-15036 - Riding horses into obstacles crashes the game.

13w18c

13w18c is the sixth snapshot for 1.6.1, released on the exact same day as the last snapshot. It was released to fix some of the bugs and crashes in the 13w18a and 13w18b snapshots.

Changes

Blocks

Block of Coal

• The smelting time for blocks of coal was changed from 720 to 800 seconds.
• It now smelts 80 items, the same number of items that 10 coal can smelt.

Bug Fixes

7 bugs have been fixed.

• MC-14632 - Enchanted books don't show what tab it is in.
• MC-14979 - Wrong particle texture when changing texture packs in-game.
• MC-15035 - Skins not loading for players.
• MC-15041 - Breaking Item Frames causes a null pointer exception and crash.
• MC-15058 - Internal exception: java.lang.NullPointerException.
• MC-15095 - Coal blocks and note blocks do not show up in creative tabs.
• MC-15096 - Game crashes on startup.

13w19a

13w19a is the seventh snapshot for 1.6.1, released on May 10, 2013.

Additions

Blocks

Stained Clay

Stained clay has been added to coordinate with the array of wool colors.

Changes

Blocks

Block of Coal

The texture used for coal blocks has been changed.

13w18a	13w19a

Command Blocks

Command blocks can no longer be broken in Survival.

Lapis Lazuli Block

The texture used for lapis lazuli blocks has been changed.

Beta 1.2	13w19a

Items

Charcoal

The texture of charcoal has been changed.

1.3	13w19a

Horse Armor

Horse armor can now be stacked to 32 instead of 64.

Mobs

General

Mobs will now spawn in groups again.

=Donkeys

• Donkeys can now have their inventories accessed if they have a chest on.
  • The player can right-click while sneaking to open it.
• The name of the donkey will show in their inventory GUI similarly to other renamed containers.

Mules

• Mules can also now have their inventories accessed if they have a chest on.
  • The player can right-click while sneaking to open it.
• The name of the mule will also show in their inventory GUI similarly to other renamed containers.

Bug Fixes

4 bugs have been fixed.

• MC-671 - Minecarts with furnace consume coal in creative mode.
• MC-3960 - After the last use of a bow you get a glitch bow that when dropped and picked up again duplicates.
• MC-15061 - Coal blocks do not burn away.
• MC-15148 - Blurred menu background textures.

13w21a

13w21a is the eighth snapshot for 1.6.1, released on May 23, 2013.

Additions

Mobs

To do: Get a picture of the inventory used for donkeys, horses, and mules in 13w21a.

Donkeys, Horses, Mules

• A UI has been added to control saddle/inventory/armor.
• It can be accessed by sneaking and right-clicking, or by pressing the inventory button while riding.
• Some features of the UI are specific to situation:
  • Donkeys, horses, and mules all have a saddle slot.
  • Neither donkeys or mules have an armor slot, but they do have an inventory of 15 slots when given a chest.
  • Horses have an armor slot.

General

Attribute System

• Various things have started to move over to a new 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 bow that slows the holder, a helm that buffs health, etc.
  • Entity attributes:
    • These properties can now be changed as easily as any other NBT attribute.
    • Entity speed, base health, and base attack.
    • Other properties like weapon damage/bow draw speed/sword swing speed are yet to follow.

Internal Chat System

• Lots of messages should be translated now that were not previously.
• 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.

Changes

Items

Horse Armor

Horse armor is no longer able to be stacked.

General

Resource Packs

• There's been lots of work put towards a new Resource Pack system, but it's not finished yet.
• This snapshot is still compatible with texture packs.

Bug Fixes

12 bugs have been fixed.

• MC-1497 - Damaged anvils do not show damage in inventory or item frame.
• MC-13626 - XP Bar shows up in creative.
• MC-13640 - Hay bales do not burn when set on fire.
• MC-13662 - XP, health, and hunger bar are buggy with horses.
• MC-13770 - Using a horse spawn egg on a horse works only when riding the horse.
• MC-13852 - Can’t throw ender pearls while mounting a horse.
• MC-14220 - Player appearance not updating in multiplayer (armor, tools).
• MC-14417 - No way to remove armor or saddles off a horse.
• MC-14422 - Horse name tag is shown while riding.
• MC-15138 - Sides of cauldron has compass texture after placing compass in item frame.
• MC-15201 - Bottom part of some types of horses-harness is misplaced.
• MC-15416 - Selected item disappears when armor breaks.

13w21b

13w21b is the ninth snapshot for 1.6.1, released on May 27, 2013. It was released to fix some of the bugs and crashes in the 13w21a snapshot.

Bug Fixes

7 bugs have been fixed.

• MC-11605 - Certain death message will print "null" as the player/mob name that caused the death.
• MC-15815 - Enchanted Items stored in a Donkey / Mule lose enchantments on its death.
• MC-16143 - Sprinting and speed effect not working.
• MC-16144 - Server doesn't translate strings.
• MC-16150 - No sounds after a while/music corrupting sound.
• MC-16353 - Crash: IllegalArgumentException.
• MC-16554 - lang files for en_US is grammatically incorrect at death.fell.finish.item.

13w22a

13w22a is the tenth snapshot for 1.6.1, released on May 30, 2013.

Additions

Mobs

To do: Add the new sounds.

General

• New sounds have been implemented for donkeys, horses, mules, skeleton horses, villagers, and zombie horses.
• The villager sounds include several variants of idle, yes, no, haggle, and hit sounds, as well as a single death sound.

Changes

Items

Leads

Leads now have a higher tolerance to stress, making it more difficult for leads to break.

Bug Fixes

20 bugs have been fixed.

• MC-2200 - Sleeping while in a minecart produces a graphical glitch.
• MC-9355 - Argument "team" do not work with "!" for other players.
• MC-11385 - Scoreboard problem with "seeFriendlyInvisibles".
• MC-13723 - The horses do not make any sound but do open their mouths.
• MC-13731 - Horse can climb ladders/vines.
• MC-13788 - Horses graze on non-grass blocks, also underwater.
• MC-14114 - Leashes break when riding a horse.
• MC-14604 - Cannot tie wild horses and foals.
• MC-14757 - Stacked entity spawner creating mass duplicate ghost entities.
• MC-14930 - Horse armor not keeping enchantments when dropping from a horse.
• MC-15423 - Crash due to corrupt pack.png in texture pack.
• MC-16051 - Horses break lead when being lead when they stop to eat grass.
• MC-16156 - Unable to move previously ridden horses after reloading the world.
• MC-16168 - Opening inventory on wild horse allows you to saddle it up.
• MC-16182 - Problem with horse movement.
• MC-16196 - Horses not running fast in creative.
• MC-16229 - Horse - shift key locking.
• MC-16381 - Tamed donkey/mule drops 2 saddles on death.
• MC-16415 - IllegalStateException: Server tried to update attributes of a non-living.
• MC-16421 - Horse speed does not remain constant.

13w23a

13w23a is the eleventh snapshot for 1.6.1, released on June 7, 2013.

Additions

Command Format

naturalRegeneration

The new gamerule naturalRegeneration has been added to enable/disable natural health regeneration.

/spreadplayers

• The new command /spreadplayers spreads certain players from an origin point.
• It has two options: Max Spread and Minimum Distance from player to player.
• It can also put teams together.

General

Splashes

2 new splashes have been added:

• "HURNERJSGER" [sic]
• "What's up Doc?" [sic]

Changes

Items

Glistering Melons

The crafting recipe for glistering melons now requires 8 gold nuggets.

Golden Apples

Golden apples now require gold ingots instead of gold nuggets to craft.

Gameplay

Status Effects

• Status effects are now balanced to improve gameplay.
  • Instant Health has been nerfed by 33%.
    • It now only heals only 2 hearts at level I.
• Regeneration nerfed by 50%.
  • It now takes 50 ticks/2.5 seconds to restore a half a heart at level I.
• Natural health regeneration now costs hunger points/saturation points.

General

Resource Packs

Resource packs have been improved, but they're still not quite ready yet.

Bug Fixes

4 bugs have been fixed.

• MC-13880 - Cows eat buckets.
• MC-16074 - Teleporting to "NaN" (not a number) crashes the game.
• MC-16290 - Mob spawner crashing game.
• MC-17051 - Dogs attack horses.

13w23b

13w23b is the twelfth snapshot for 1.6.1. In which was released on the exact same day as the last snapshot to fix some of the bugs and crashes in the 13w23a snapshot.

Additions

Items

Golden Apples

Golden apples now give the new Health Boost effect.

Gameplay

Status Effects

The Health Boost effect has been added. Also, both the attribute and the potion effect now show the hearts.

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  The icon used for the Health Boost status effect.

Changes

Items

Golden Apples

Normal golden apples now give Regeneration II for 10 seconds.

Mobs

Zombies

• Zombies now have new mechanics and AI.
• Zombies are also now able to lock onto the player from much further away.
• Groups of zombies can now move when further than 32 blocks from player.
• They now spawn additional zombies when not being looked at.

Bug Fixes

2 bugs have been fixed.

• MC-17222 - ALL spawners with ActiveEffects crash the game, breaking hundreds of custom maps and servers.
• MC-17403 - Golden apples only heal one heart compared to two in version 1.5.2.

13w24a

13w24a is the thirteenth snapshot for 1.6.1, released on June 13, 2013.

Additions

Command Format

doDaylightCycle

A new gamerule has been added for the day-night cycle. It essentially pauses the sky in place.

Changes

Items

Spawn Eggs

Spawn eggs now work on water.

Skis

The ski texture has been removed, because it was considered a joke by Dinnerbone.

Mobs

Spiders

Spiders now have a chance to spawn with potion effects on Hard. The effects include speed, strength, regeneration, and invisibility.

General

Resource Packs

• Resource pack support has been added.
• Texture pack support has been removed.

Bug Fixes

12 bugs have been fixed.

• MC-1126 - Server command "/whitelist list" doesn't display the full list of players.
• MC-1202 - Mobs spawn and then quickly despawn in peaceful. Looks like the "ender-porting-out-of-water" effect.
• MC-2097 - Players can't get "The End?" achievement.
• MC-2419 - Persistence required tag freezes mobs.
• MC-2692 - Hard to spawn squids.
• MC-11199 - Eye of ender does not always lead to the nearest stronghold.
• MC-14690 - ScoreBoard health objective crashes game.
• MC-15732 - Achievement "We Need to Go Deeper" rewarded for going through an end portal.
• MC-15058 - Scoreboard "health" objective set to display "belowname" disconnecting player on multiplayer with end of stream.
• MC-16149 - Lava texture animation moves too fast/animated textures ignoring text files.
• MC-17573 - Witches targeting themselves under certain circumstances.

13w24b

13w24b is the fourteenth snapshot for 1.6.1, released on June 14, 2013. It was released to fix some of the bugs and crashes in the 13w24a snapshot.

Additions

Gameplay

Status Effects

• The Absorption effect has been added.
  • It replaces the Heart Boost effect in golden apples.
  • It has also been added to the effects of enchanted golden apples.

Changes

Blocks

Carpet

• Carpet can now be placed on top of any block.
  • This includes blocks such as water source blocks, saplings, torches, chests, other carpet, etc.
  • This is part of the fix for being unable to place carpet on iron bars.

Bug Fixes

27 bugs have been fixed.

• MC-552 - Command block choosing wrong people / Selecting players cross-dimensional.
• MC-9917 - In multiplayer screen holding shift and pressing "down" without selecting any server crashes the game.
• MC-13276 - Zombies with increased health don't deal damage.
• MC-16183 - Using the autocomplete function in chat (tab) disconnects clients in multiplayer.
• MC-16530 - When under resistance effects above 5, /kill command does not work.
• MC-16639 - Game tick speed issue.
• MC-17037 - No error report when Minecraft crashes.
• MC-17295 - Scoreboard objectives disappears when logging out.
• MC-17444 - Health scoreboard doesn't display hearts from health boost.
• MC-17454 - Take damage when removing health boost effect.
• MC-17558 - Natural regeneration = false not working in peaceful.
• MC-17608 - Issue with carpet.
• MC-17622 - Baby zombie spawner crashes the game.
• MC-17656 - No server connection bars in Multiplayer menu or in-game.
• MC-17660 - Resource packs still named Texture packs in options.
• MC-17663 - "Health Boost" Potion Effect shows "potion.healthBoost".
• MC-17666 - Minecarts do not have the correct texture pack.
• MC-17700 - Fire charge texture is green.
• MC-17701 - Fire Animation Jumps and skips frames.
• MC-17731 - GUI broken when Boss health bar is visible.
• MC-17747 - Carpet can be placed on top of glass panes but not on top of iron bars.
• MC-17753 - Texts for "credits" and "end" not showing up properly in default or with a resource pack on.
• MC-17757 - Resource pack's/mcmeta's "frametime" is ignored when "time": 1.
• MC-17784 - DoDaylightCycle bed bug.
• MC-17803 - Biome color maps are not updating on texture pack change.
• MC-17827 - Ghasts shoot with end portal frames.
• MC-18088 - Sticky and unregistering keys during normal Minecraft play only, AMD processor driver conflict?

13w25a

13w25a is the fifteenth snapshot for 1.6.1, released on June 17, 2013.

Changes

Mobs

General

Mobs named "Dinnerbone" or "Grumm" are now flipped upside down.

Bug Fixes

15 bugs have been fixed.

• MC-1124 - Mouse "Back" and "Forward" opens the menu in windowed mode.
• MC-15145 - Receiving very high amount of damage at once creates ghost mode in multiplayer.
• MC-16003 - Possible to create a scoreboard objective without a name, but unable to use and/or delete it.
• MC-17797 - Birch leaves don't use leaves_birch.png.
• MC-17830 - Last played singleplayer world changes date last opened to 1/1/70.
• MC-17831 - Crash selecting resource pack 13w24b.
• MC-17910 - Server crash/hang after typing /kill.
• MC-17917 - Flowing water/lava color corrupted after switching off 3D anaglyphs.
• MC-17935 - Igniting TNT doesn't reduce flint and steel durability.
• MC-17936 - Some animated textures only show the placeholder texture.
• MC-17941 - Crash uploading textures to graphics card.
• MC-18010 - Armor bar shown too high during health boost or absorption.
• MC-18011 - Health and absorption is confusing when displayed on the same line.
• MC-18164 - Resource packs not effective until after restart.
• MC-18228 - Resource pack not working.

13w25b

13w25b is the sixteenth snapshot for 1.6.1, released on June 18, 2013. It was released to fix some of the bugs and crashes in 13w25a.

Changes

Items

Swords

It is no longer possible to break blocks with swords in Creative mode.

Bug Fixes

8 bugs have been fixed.

• MC-1903 - Console command and set console for block in command block merges when in windowed mode.
• MC-3737 - Placing water source into some blocks yields no drops.
• MC-3798 - 3D anaglyph biome color corruption.
• MC-17456 - Objective health does not update with health boost effect.
• MC-18277 - Crash with the mcmeta reading of unicode font.
• MC-18257 - Knockback resistance attribute doesn't prevent knockback from fall damage.
• MC-18306 - Minecraft crash on clicking the "Texture pack" button.
• MC-18324 - Text misplaced on direct connect, rename world screen.

13w25c

13w25c is the seventeenth snapshot for 1.6.1, released on June 20, 2013. It was released to fix some of the bugs and crashes in 13w25a and 13w25b.

Bug Fixes

13 bugs have been fixed.

• MC-188 – 'doFiretick' makes fire to not extinguish.
• MC-607 – Running at a high resolution causes large portions of the screen to be unclickable.
• MC-4266 – Death counter does not update.
• MC-13559 – Pick block from inventory in creative doesn't preserve size of stacks.
• MC-13745 – Tamed wolves/cats teleporting when leashed to a fence.
• MC-16075 – Entities other than the player can't leave the End.
• MC-16861 – Enchantments on a mob's weapon does not affect other mobs.
• MC-17537 – Other players cats can be tied to a lead and dragged away.
• MC-17849 – Resource packs not converting correctly.
• MC-17856 – Unable to load resource pack with missing directory-ZipEntries.
• MC-17864 – Credits end too fast.
• MC-18158 – Messed up textures of some items.
• MC-18468 – Turning on sound after previously not hearing it crashes the game.

13w26a

13w26a is the eighteenth and final snapshot for 1.6.1, released on June 24, 2013.

Bug Fixes

25 bugs have been fixed.

• MC-1038 – Beacon block incorrect texture when surrounded by blocks.
• MC-2453 – Jack-o-lantern name is mispunctuated.
• MC-6828 – Brewing stand feet's sides are transparent when placed against a wall.
• MC-9026 – Splash potions particles are incorrect.
• MC-9584 – Cactus texture error when near a wall.
• MC-10976 – Single player: "java.io.IOException: Stream Closed" when quitting game.
• MC-13737 – Ridden Horse / Mule / Donkey duplicates when reloading the world.
• MC-13774 – Mounting rideable entities (horses/boats/minecarts/pigs) underwater desyncs client/server (ghost mode).
• MC-14944 – Weighted pressure plates' names are too long to be renamed.
• MC-16413 – Boats toss the player off like horses.
• MC-16828 – Horses make the galloping sound + their original walking sound at the same time.
• MC-16847 – Horse jump bar becomes stuck if player is kicked off / dismounts while charging a jump.
• MC-16887 – Jumping sideways on an unsaddled horse.
• MC-17571 – Health overflow isn't removed when health boost ends.
• MC-17667 – Resource pack conversion bug: Stone brick texture given to cobble. Stone bricks don't get a texture.
• MC-17675 – Sun jitters when time is set to zero and doDaylightCycle is false.
• MC-17938 – Converter not converting some animations correctly.
• MC-17997 – Horse "Gelding" bug.
• MC-18505 – Sitting direction does not fit when riding a horse.
• MC-18522 – 3D anaglyth sometimes crashing Minecraft upon toggle in the options menu.
• MC-18632 – Player induced horse jumps negate the horse's jump boost effect.
• MC-18633 – Lag then crash on LAN world.
• MC-18640 – Crash when language file of currently selected language is missing.

1.6

1.6 is the first pre-release for 1.6.1, released on June 25, 2013.

Bug Fixes

25 bugs have been fixed.

• MC-137 – Ping packet doesn't include host information.
• MC-12241 – Minecart collision boxes are briefly positioned wrong.
• MC-12526 – Minecarts off track float.
• MC-12569 – Sitting in minecart is higher than it should be.
• MC-12733 – Minecart hit box too large.
• MC-13754 – Unable to tie mobs to fence with less than 2 leads.
• MC-14126 – Binding "sneak" to any mouse button and trying to mount an entity crashes the game.
• MC-14355 – Can't hit mobs while jumping on horses.
• MC-14524 – Right clicking on minecart/pig/boat while riding in it tries to remove the player.
• MC-14795 – Wither is still named "Withern" in German.
• MC-16145 – Potion of weakness tooltip.
• MC-16467 – Attribute modifiers randomly run out when given via items.
• MC-17867 – "Resource packs" translation missing on crowdin.net.
• MC-17908 – Tamed wolf's health depleted upon world loading.
• MC-18247 – Health boost and absorption potions names do not show correctly.
• MC-18578 – Water sounds when placing water from a bucket to water source reproduce twice.
• MC-18645 – Game crashes with a single frame compass.
• MC-18661 – Strength Potions being nerfed unintentionally (not related to other strength issues).
• MC-18713 – If a team name has "-" in it, the argument for seeing if anyone is in the team doesn't work.
• MC-18730 – Superflat customization screen have format errors in Australian English/string is missing at crowdin.net.
• MC-18845 – Scoreboard Health out of sync (rounds down).
• MC-18997 – Crash at launch of game with invalid language selection.
• MC-18999 – Using /kill sets health to 2 billion.
• MC-19029 – Instant health effect set to a 29, 61, 93...253 value kills any player without any death message.
• MC-19061 – Crash whilst brewing in 1.6.

1.6.2

1.6.2 was a minor update to Minecraft that was fully released on July 8, 2013. It mainly fixed bugs present in 1.6.1. While it was not the last update to 1.6, it was the last one before the 1.7.2 snapshots started.

A pre-release version of 1.6.2 was released on July 5, 2013. The 1.6.2 pre-release server version was reuploaded twice later on July 5, 2013, the first time to fix the server.jar and to fix an issue with paintings and item frames, and the second time to fix more issues with the server.jar. This second reupload became the full release of server version 1.6.2.

The 1.6.2 release client was re-uploaded to fix MC-23928.

Additions

Mobs

Baby Zombies and Baby Zombie Pigmen

• Baby zombies and baby zombie pigmen now spawn naturally.
• They can also be rarely spawned from a spawn egg.

Changes

Mobs

Horses

Horses now remember who tamed them.

Pigmen

The texture file for pigmen (NOT zombie pigmen) was removed.

Bug Fixes

72 bugs have been fixed.

• MC-149 – Powered pistons drop as items in creative.
• MC-1545 – Player's and Horses head while riding having strange behavior when looking at the skin in the inventory.
• MC-5770 – When putting a sign in front of water it keeps running.
• MC-7486 – Trapped Chest looks like Regular Chest in inventory/item frame.
• MC-12569 – Sitting in minecart is higher than it should be.
• MC-12962 – Attacking wild Wolves with any kind of projectiles (arrows, snowballs, potions) will cause any nearby tamed Wolves to attack their owner.
• MC-13167 – Reloading a world while player is in moving Minecart or riding a horse is glitchy in F5 mode.
• MC-13632 – Horses can be pushed into blocks and then take suffocation damage.
• MC-13695 – Ctrl+Click = Right Click on Mac not working.
• MC-13754 – Unable to tie mobs to fence with less than 2 leads.
• MC-13949 – Leads attached to mobs drop as items when right clicked in creative.
• MC-14126 – Binding "sneak" to any mouse button and trying to mount an entity crashes the game.
• MC-14157 – Numlock enter not recognized as return.
• MC-14355 – Can't hit mobs while jumping on horses.
• MC-14359 – Direct connect does not remember port.
• MC-14415 – Rope part of the leash turns invisible in some angles.
• MC-15024 – Hay blocks can not be crafted back into wheat.
• MC-15161 – Gliding crosshair when on a saddled horse.
• MC-15547 – "Nether-Fortress-Only" mobs no longer spawning in previously generated fortresses.
• MC-16145 – Potion of weakness tooltip.
• MC-16170 – Unarmored horses appear as wearing diamond armor.
• MC-16222 – Baby zombies are far too fast.
• MC-16264 – "Ghost" horse armor - Can only be fixed by totally restarting Launcher. Shutting down client isn't enough.
• MC-16267 – Cannot change horse armor like player armor by clicking with another armor piece on slot.
• MC-16330 – Dispensed renamed container minecarts do not remember their name.
• MC-16467 – Attribute modifiers randomly run out when given via items.
• MC-16761 – Sprint does not happen straight away.
• MC-17673 – Distorted fonts when using a converted texture pack on startup.
• MC-17867 – "Resource packs" translation missing on crowdin.net.
• MC-17876 – Health Boost extra health vanishes on login.
• MC-17908 – Tamed wolf's health depleted upon world loading.
• MC-18247 – Health Boost and Absorption potions names do not show correctly.
• MC-18365 – Breaking sound and particles appear when placing water/lava into another source block.
• MC-18435 – Objective health doesn't show the correct health when you wear armor.
• MC-18578 – Water sounds when placing water from a bucket to water source reproduce twice.
• MC-18627 – The "clear" command is causing a player in creative mode to be unable to move items in their inventory.
• MC-18645 – Game crashes with a single frame compass.
• MC-18661 – Strength Potions being nerfed unintentionally [Not related to other strength issues].
• MC-18666 – Taking dragon damage causes the player to leave GUI of an object.
• MC-18676 – Comparator/hopper chaos.
• MC-18713 – If a team name has "-" in it, the argument for seeing if anyone is in the team doesn't work.
• MC-18730 – Superflat customization screen have format errors in Australian English/string is missing at crowdin.net.
• MC-18828 – /clear command causes problems with animations of held items.
• MC-18845 – Scoreboard "Health" out of sync (rounds down).
• MC-18976 – Health boost resets additional health every 30 seconds.
• MC-18997 – Crash at launch of game with invalid language selection.
• MC-18999 – Using /kill sets health to 2 billion.
• MC-19029 – Instant health effect set to a 29, 61, 93...253 value kills any player without any death message.
• MC-19082 – Signs placed on fences don't have text.
• MC-19275 – Wearing armor with attribute and then holding identical armor removes the worn armor's effects.
• MC-19509 – Health regenerates slower on peaceful when riding an entity.
• MC-19537 – Blocks don't break while swimming.
• MC-19585 – Trying to jump on an unsaddled Horse, then equipping it with a saddle makes the Horse jump automatically.
• MC-19592 – 1.5.2 clients show server 1.6.1 as 1.3 in Multiplayer screen.
• MC-19602 – Servers have connection errors.
• MC-19605 – The /playsound command does not work with @a when >1 player passes the query.
• MC-20050 – Minecraft 1.6.1 demo has crashed.
• MC-20169 – Missing library starting the game.
• MC-21145 – Demo crashes when unable to find 'name' of a bound mouse button.
• MC-21172 – Resource pack crashes.
• MC-21436 – Nested colors in json chat don't work.
• MC-21965 – Mob's name is not translated in death messages (fixed only on LAN).
• MC-22375 – Game unplayable/development console getting spammed with stacktrace.
• MC-22401 – Cannot pick block lead in creative.
• MC-22454 – Item frame with clock breaks upon entering world.
• MC-22459 – Chat and Scoreboard showing the team name instead of player names.
• MC-22468 – Only baby zombies spawn.
• MC-22879 – Tame wolves try to kill horses.
• MC-23928 – Default vanilla font has certain broken characters when italic, such as /\()xkQ48%^
• MC-27997 – English UK translation contains vulgar language for sponge.
• MC-28614 – Hopper: java.util.UnknownFormatConversionException: Conversion = '1'

1.6.3

1.6.3 is the first and only pre-release for 1.6.4, released on September 13, 2013. It was released to provide a fix to allow structures to be saved with the world file.

1.6.3 was reuploaded on September 17, 2013.

Bug Fixes

2 bugs have been fixed.

• MC-15547 – Structures (witch huts, nether fortresses etc.) do not get saved with the world file.
  • In order for current structures (witch huts, nether fortresses, etc.) to be saved to the world file, the player must load the appropriate chunks within the game manually. The game will not automatically scan worlds and update structure data globally. After this is completed, structures will be compatible in all snapshots starting with snapshot 13w37b.
• A handshake exploit has been fixed.

1.6.4

1.6.4 was a minor update to Minecraft released on September 19, 2013, which fixed a bug where structures would not save with the world file.

Additions

General

server.properties

• The server.properties option player-idle-timeout has been added.
  • It kicks players from a server when they are idle for a set amount of minutes.
  • It defaults to disabled (0).