Java Edition 1.4.6/Development versions

This is a list of Java Edition 1.4.6 development versions.

12w49a is the first snapshot for Java Edition 1.4.6, released on December 7, 2012,^[1] which added nether brick slabs, enchanted books and fireworks.

Nether brick slabs

• New kind of slab.
• Made by using 3 nether bricks blocks in a horizontal line.
• Came from a suggestion at Minecon 2012.^[2]

Firework rocket

• New kind of shootable projectible.
  • Sound effects will come soon.
• Fireworks are customizable by crafting.

Firework star

• Used for crafting firework rockets.

Enchanted books

• Used for enchanting items.
  • In this snapshot due to a bug, any item could be given any enchantment in Survival mode using an anvil.

General

• When holding sneak, the player can place blocks and items (like redstone, repeaters, and levers) directly onto blocks such as crafting tables, furnaces, and dispensers.

Cobwebs

• Can be harvested utilizing Silk Touch shears.

Shears

• Can now have the Silk Touch enchantment by using the anvil.

Ghasts

• The blast radius of fireballs a specific ghast shoots can be customized with an editor.

Distance effects

• Falling block behavior has changed - they are no longer capable of infinitely producing dropped items at high coordinate values.

16 issues fixed

From released versions before Java Edition 1.4.6

• MC-96 – using the number keys to move an item out of a furnace does not give XP.
• MC-256 – Mobs can still revert farmland to dirt even if mobGriefing gamerule is set on false.
• MC-498 – Setting an enderman on fire with flint and steel, or lava, will not make it teleport away.
• MC-721 – Animals on fire do not flee.
• MC-1140 – Boats always get placed in the same direction and not based on how they get placed.
• MC-1240 – Endermen cannot dodge flame arrow. When the arrow is shot the Enderman moves out of the way but is still set on fire.
• MC-1311 – When entering the Nether, the game auto-selects the first item on the toolbar.
• MC-1847 – Leaves have the incorrect tool tip.
• MC-2145 – "Drowning" in Creative mode.
• MC-2504 – Enchant command cannot enchant with ID 0 (Protection).
• MC-3332 – The XP level-up sound, which appears every 5 levels, does not play.
• MC-3490 – Minecarts and falling entities flicker.
• MC-3501 – Passive mob spawn eggs are not consumed upon use.
• MC-3565 – Endermen do not open their mouth when attacked by other mobs.
• MC-4069 – Pressing F3 + B displays hitboxes rendering invisibility potions useless.
• MC-4117 – The wither can sometimes destroy its own star due to the posthumous detonation of wither skulls.

12w50a is the second snapshot for Java Edition 1.4.6, released on December 13, 2012,^[3] which added new Christmas chest textures and the Thorns enchantment.

Chests

• Added 3 new textures: xmaschest.png, largexmaschest.png, and skis.png.
  • xmaschest.png changes the chest texture to resemble a red gift.
  • largexmaschest.png changes the large chest texture to resemble a green gift.
  • skis.png is unused, dummy file. Dinnerbone said he added this file as a red herring.^[4]
  • Chests use these textures on December 25.

Tools

• Added tool highlight when switching items in the hotbar.
  • Renamed items display the changed name.
  • To disable it, player needs to open options.txt and change heldItemTooltips to false.

Villagers

• Enchanted books are now available through villager trading.

Dungeons

• Enchanted books can be found in dungeons with special enchantments normally not obtainable.

Enchanting

• Added Thorns enchantment for armor.
  • When player wearing such armor gets hit by a mob, the mob receives damage.

General

• Item entities are rendered as 3D objects in the world when in fancy graphics mode.
  • This includes items placed in item frames.
• Items now show their enchantments when dropped on the ground.

Firework rocket

• Tweaked the effect the item gives and sounds.

Creative

• Removed the firework rocket from the Creative inventory.

Enchanting

• Efficiency now has no effect when using tools on the wrong block types.
• Protection is no longer as effective as all the other Protection-type enchantments combined.
• Unbreaking can be applied to anything with durability using enchanted books.

Controls

• Pressing ⎈ Control + Q by default (Or the "Drop" button if changed in controls), the player drops a full stack instead of one item.

Notices

• Added a notice/warning for users still playing on PowerPCs or Java 5 (Java 1.5).
  • Mojang plans to drop support for Java 5 by version 1.6.^[5] This is due to the most recent versions of LWJGL no longer supporting Java 5, with PowerPC also no longer supported by Apple to be made compatible with Java 6 or newer.^[6]

14 issues fixed

• MC-255 – Graphical issue with trading.
• MC-312 – Item textures of spawn eggs and firework stars not aligned properly when stacked.
• MC-674 – Items different only in damage cannot be swapped.
• MC-1626 – Z-fighting in beacon block bottom.
• MC-1959 – Placing double slabs ignore damage values.
• MC-1969 – minecarts cant travel through nether portals.
• MC-3593 – Lightning does not flash.
• MC-4499 – Beacon tiers do not work at y=0.
• MC-4510 – Enchantment not showing in item frame.

From the previous development version

• MC-4193 – Firework star duplication glitch.
• MC-4199 – Deaths not logged to console.
• MC-4200 – The Nether and the End generating random blocks clientside in multiplayer.
• MC-4203 – Enchanted Books: Unenchantable item can receive any enchantment.
• MC-4433 – Falling sand spawners failing to save properly, and causing crashes.

12w50b is the third and final snapshot for Java Edition 1.4.6, released on December 14, 2012,^[7] to fix some of the bugs and crashes in 12w50a. This is the final snapshot released in 2012.

Enchanting

• Thorns damage is now customizable.
• Fire Protection now extinguishes players more quickly.
• Blast Protection now reduces explosion recoil.

11 issues fixed

From released versions before Java Edition 1.4.6

• MC-133 – Mobs walking slow when the player hits them.
• MC-4024 – Chest glitch; server/client desyncronization.
• MC-4528 – Flaming arrows take a few seconds to visibly catch fire.
• MC-4634 – Cannot remove XP bars using the /xp -1L command when between levels 0 and 1.

From the Java Edition 1.4.6 development versions

• MC-4191 – Unusable ingredients in fireworks are used when crafting.

From the previous development version

• MC-4534 – Tool highlight shows when item stack changes.
• MC-4537 – NullPointerException when nothing in their hand.
• MC-4553 – zombies sometimes stop attacking.
• MC-4580 – Unbreaking does not work on armor.
• MC-4584 – Opening an GUI will show the item name in the hotbar again.
• MC-4612 – Enchanted item bug in 3D.

Pre-release 1.4.6 is the first and only pre-release for Java Edition 1.4.6, released on December 17, 2012.^[8]

This version was re-uploaded on the same day to fix an issue with mobs spinning.^[9][10] The release version of 1.4.6 differs from this reupload by fixing a crash issue.^[11]

This is the final pre-release released in 2012.

Bows

• A high pitched sound is played when a player hits another player from far away with a bow.

Options

• Added an option to toggle touchscreen mode.

38 issues fixed

From released versions before Java Edition 1.4.6

• MC-429 – When a bat flies through the water, it gets stuck, and it will stay stuck.
• MC-678 – Water splash sound gets overridden by other sounds.
• MC-756 – Player not shown in actual location after breaking boat.
• MC-833 – Inventory items, when placed in an ender chest, disappears.
• MC-971 – Mis-identified server version.
• MC-1005 – Fresh install of 1.4.2 on fresh install of OS X 10.6.8 hangs.
• MC-1347 – Items do not "update looks" when stacked on ground.
• MC-1348 – Dropped items only auto-stack when moving, not when going through portals.
• MC-1599 – File Handle leak in RegionFileCache (MCP).
• MC-1734 – Duplicating Sand/Gravel/Dragon Egg still works with tweaks to an existing design.
• MC-1883 – Destroying a Jukebox NPE&Kick.
• MC-1957 – Minecraft graphics messed up.
• MC-2442 – Redstone directional bug.
• MC-2568 – Ghost block bug.
• MC-2610 – Game freezes at the start of a previously saved game.
• MC-2622 – Cannot modify the Render Distance setting - Stays at "Far" regardless of changes.
• MC-2673 – Shift-Clicking smelted ores out of furnace cause minor visual bug.
• MC-2712 – The player cannot look around without moving vertically or horizontally.
• MC-2747 – Minecraft client crashs when connection times out.
• MC-2873 – Minecarts disappearing.
• MC-2879 – Error 50% of the time when the player tries to join their server. Failed to login: Error
• MC-2904 – Zombie pigman knockback stunlocks Iron Golems, defeating their intended purpose.
• MC-3122 – The player cannot change texture packs.
• MC-3255 – Blaze fire ball crashes the game.
• MC-3280 – Some textures appear as dark terrain.png images.
• MC-3346 – Minecraft crashing every time the player gets on for a little while.
• MC-3632 – Game only loads the chunk the player currently standing on when they logged in. Then the game freezes and crashes.
• MC-3860 – Client crashes when underground near piston and redstone machine.
• MC-3899 – Skeletons will come close to attacker.
• MC-3934 – Particle overload when returning from AFK.
• MC-3988 – Slime audio bug.
• MC-4432 – Minecart off track and into walls.
• MC-4784 – Skeletons not retaliating to Iron Golems/Wolves.
• MC-4792 – Minecraft crashed, exception world.
• MC-4829 – Game client gets stuck on 'building terrain' screen.

From the Java Edition 1.4.6 development versions

• MC-4644 – Mobs running in circles and not jumping when chasing/running away.

Other fixes

• Fixed mouse wrongly positioned in fullscreen.

From the current version, reuploaded

• Fixed a mob spinning bug.^[9]