Java Edition 12w21a
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Minecraft 12w21a
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12w21a is the sixth snapshot for Java Edition 1.3.1, released on May 24, 2012,[1] which added emeralds (Note: Minecraft developer Nathan "Dinnerbone" Adams forgot to change the texture of the emeralds so it stayed as rubies until 12w21b a hotfix to fix it came[2]), ender chests, and more stairs.
Additions
Blocks
- Drops 1 emerald when mined.
- Generates in blobs of up to 10 blocks.
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- Crafted with 8 obsidian and 1 eye of ender.
- All ender chests in a world have the same contents, if those contents change it affects the contents of all other ender chests.
- On multiplayer, the ender chest's contents are the same for all players on a server.
- Emits light level of 7
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Items
- Dropped when mining an emerald ore block.
- Used in villager trading.
- A second type of golden apple made with blocks of gold.
- After being consumed, the player receives 30 seconds of Regeneration IV, plus Resistance and Fire Resistance for 5 minutes.
World generation
- New generated structure in desert biomes that resemble pyramids.
- Have a TNT trap and loot chests inside.
Desert villages
- Villages that generate in desert biomes now are made of sandstone rather than wood and cobblestone.
Gameplay
- Villagers buy or sell the player emeralds in exchange for certain items.
- Trade with villagers by right-clicking on them, opening up a GUI with one buying slot and one selling slot.
Command format
/seed- Displays the current world seed.
Changes
Blocks
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- Eject water and lava source blocks from buckets.
- Also take water and lava source blocks if there is an empty bucket inside.
- Changed texture from
.
- The old chest textures have been removed; locked chests now use the placeholder block texture.
Items
- Now stackable to 16.
Mobs
- Can be easily pushed around by simply walking. This eases navigating through animal farms.
Non-mob entities
- Now pass through lily pads without breaking the boat; the lily pad drops as an item instead.
- While sitting inside of a minecart, pushing the directional keys makes it move the direction player is pressing. This only works while the minecart is sitting on rails.
Gameplay
- The local server no longer runs in a separate Java process, despite still requiring a separate JAR.
- Added snow to the Creative inventory.
- Stars are more realistic.
- They are now slightly smaller and slightly brighter.
Command format
/ban- Added optional
reasonparameter. - Ban reasons are displayed when players attempt to rejoin the server after being banned.
- Hardcore death bans now specify the reason "Death in Hardcore"
- Added optional
General
- The quit button once again properly reads "Save and Quit to Title".
- Improved options menu.
- The F3 menu no longer has the frame time graph.
Trivia
- In this version, when loading a singleplayer world, one needs to put
minecraft.zip/server/minecraft_server.jarinto.minecraft/servermanually to continue loading.
References
- ↑ "Minecraft Snapshot Week 21" (archived) – mojang.com.
- ↑ Due to a last-minute decision requested by [[Dinnerbone]] (who had trouble distinguishing rubies from redstone due to red-green colorblindness), rubies were replaced with emeralds. Because the change was rushed, [[Jeb]] forgot to update the block texture for this snapshot, causing emerald ore to temporarily generate with the red [[Ruby]] ore texture
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Sources
- Java Edition 12w21a — Minecraft Wiki, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0, revision 3710713.