Java Edition 13w38a

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13w38a
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13w38a is the fifth snapshot for Java Edition 1.7.2, released on September 19, 2013.[1]

Additions

Command format

Commands

  • Added /setidletimeout <minutes until kick> to automatically kick idle players after a set length of time.
    • Multiplayer-only command, can be used only by server operators.

NBT format

  • Added <structure>.dat files in data folder for storing structure data.
  • NBT structure consists of the individual parts of each structure, labeled "children", the chunk it originates in, a tag called BB, and an ID for what type of structure it is.
    • The children tags have information on each part of the structure and the type of part it is

General

Achievements

  • Added the achievement "Diamonds to you!", which is obtained by throwing diamonds at another player.

Lighting

  • The sky near the horizon now darkens when the player has blocks between them and the sky.
    • The greater the distance between the player and an area open to the sky, the darker the sky appears.

Changes

Items

Maps

Mobs

Zombies

  • Reduced lag from the zombies.

General

Achievements

  • Improved achievements.
  • When a player earns an achievement, it is now announced in chat.

"Super Secret Settings"

  • The button now applies different experimental shaders.
  • List of available shaders: antialias, deconverge, outline, art, desaturate, pencil, bits, flip, phosphor, blobs, fxaa, scan_pincushion, blobs2, green, sobel, blur, invert, wobble, color_convolve, NTSC.

Video settings

  • Render distance is now a slider ranging from 2 to 16 chunks.
  • The sky is now visible on short (4 chunks) render distance.
  • The chunks can now render past 12 chunks.
  • Max framerate is now a slider ranging from 10 to 250 fps, then unlimited.
  • Added mipmapping, anisotropic filtering, and FSAA (as a shader).
  • Mipmap levels setting is a slider ranging from off to 1 through 4.
  • Anisotropic filtering can be disabled or set to 2, 4, 8 or 16.
  • Post-processing (shaders) can be toggled.
    • They now display on the whole block.

Fog

  • Re-adjusted fog distance to appear near the render distance limit, reverting changes made in 13w36a.
  • Fog now covers 25% of the view distance, compared to 75% before 13w36a.

Distance effects

  • Item frames now no longer simply follow the camera at extreme coordinates.
    • This is due to them being affected by an even more extreme bug as of this snapshot.

Fixes

7 issues fixed

From released versions before 1.7.2

From the 1.7.2 development versions

  • MC-3973 – Players who mine redstone lamps with Silk Touch would get a lit redstone lamp in their inventory.
  • MC-30483 – When the player sets their render distance too far it stays on normal.
  • MC-30694 – Endermen stare sound still plays when the enemy mobs sound slider is at 0%.
  • MC-30822 – Enchanted books with no metadata.
  • MC-30858 – A player selector with only one matching player outputs as " and USERNAME .."

Trivia

  • 13w38a was previously removed from the launcher for some time but was added back in September 2018.
  • As with 13w38b, this snapshot was released on the same day as 1.6.4.

References

  1. ↑ "Minecraft snapshot 13w38a (Updated!)" (archived) by Dinnerbone – Mojang.com, September 19, 2013.

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