MINECRAFT NEWS

Minecraft is not "finished", there will still be updates. Therefore, I'll try to keep this thread active somewhat. I also recommend following jeb_ on Twitter, because he has taken over as Minecraft's head developer.

BETA 1.4 NEWS
BETA 1.5 NEWS
BETA 1.6 NEWS
BETA 1.7 NEWS
BETA 1.8 NEWS
BETA 1.9 NEWS
1.0 NEWS
1.1 NEWS
1.2 NEWS
As of snapshot 12w03a:
Ladders regained their collision box.
Vines are climbable if you push into a solid block while next to them.
Added jungle biomes (requires a new world or new chunks) with ferns and new wood and leaf types.
Updated language files.
Dispensers dispensing Spawn Eggs will place Mobs instead of simply dispensing the eggs.
Spawn eggs are now stackable.
Zombies have new path-finding AI.
Wolves have new AI and can be bred using Raw Chicken, Cooked Chicken, Raw Porkchops, Cooked Porkchops, Raw Beef, Steak, or Rotten Flesh, when tamed.
As of snapshot 12w04a:
New jungle-specific Ocelot mob that can be tamed into Cats using Raw Fish.
Mobs in general have new a AI with new and improved behaviors.
Skeletons and Zombies burning from sunlight will flee to darkness or jump in Water.
Mobs no longer attempt to jump over Wooden Fences.
Mobs no longer attempt to walk over Signs or other non-solid Blocks if the drop below is too tall.
New Items:
Fire Charge
Jungle Sapling
Bottle o' Enchanting (Creative Mode)
Spawn Ocelot (Creative Mode)
Updated Language files.
Changed Dispenser and Oak Sapling textures.
Added Desert Wells.
Players are slowed when going through Vines due to their nature of being a collision-less Ladders.
As of snapshot 12w05a:
New Mob behaviors.
Creepers run away from Cats and also stalk players.
Cats can be told to sit.
Mobs no longer attempt to jump over Nether Brick Fences.
Villagers will try to detect village houses and live in them.
Villagers will roam around at Day and stay inside at Night.
Villagers are able to open and close Doors.
Lava now has sounds.
Ocelots are easier to tame.
Abandoned Mine Shafts now bridge over gaps in paths.
Enchantment Tables no longer require Experience in Creative Mode.
Updated Language files, having "50%" less profanities.
Redstone-related items can be placed on Glowstone Blocks again.
You can get Dead Bushes by using shears on them.
As of snapshot 12w05b:
Fixed shift-clicking the result from Crafting only giving one item regardless of the amount of material used.
Cats will now sit if right-clicked with an empty hand.
Death screen has a slight delay before buttons become active, to avoid accidentally clicking buttons when killed.
Survival Multiplayer mob hitboxes are fixed, so they apply to the full mob, instead of only the head.
As of snapshot 12w06a:
Many minor bug fixes and tweaks.
Creepers no longer explode after death.
Villagers can no longer open iron doors.
Cats, Ocelots, Zombies, Wolves, and Skeletons no longer spin in circles on non-full-height blocks.
Doors have been changed to properly detect if they are open or closed. Double Doors in existing maps will need to be updated.
Placing two Pressure Plates directly in front of doors and stepping on them will open them correctly.
When stepping on a single Pressure Plate only the door on that side will open.
When stepping on both Pressure Plates both doors will open.
Villager's AI has been improved.
Villagers socialize with each other and passive mobs.
Villagers go inside for shelter when it's raining.
Villagers run away from Zombies.
When a player aggros a hostile mob, it will continue to track the player despite being attacked by other mobs.
Zombie's AI has been improved.
On Hard difficulty and Hardcore Mode, zombies break down Doors.
On normal and easy Difficulty, zombies attack but will not break down Doors.
Zombies chase and attack Villagers.
Zombies attack doors when attempting to escape sunlight.
Added new sounds.
Cats meow, cry, howl, purr and hiss.
Doors make banging sounds when Zombies attack them.
Better movement for mobs in Water.
Mobs move slower.
Added rare Item drops for mobs.
Zombies have a rare chance to drop a Iron Ingot, Iron Helmet, Iron Shovel, or an Iron Sword.
Skeletons have a rare chance to drop a Bow or an Enchanted Bow.
Zombie Pigmen have a rare chance to drop a Golden Helmet, Gold Ingot, Golden Sword, or an Enchanted Golden Sword.
Pressing F1 disables hitbox outlines on blocks.
Monster Spawners now show correct mobs in multiplayer.
Not Pre-released yet:
Increased world height, but no change to the world generator.

pigs turn into pigmen? this is gonna be fun

EVEN BETA NEWS
- Just bought the full game and I'm as happy as a pig in crap.

Update! (sorry about double post)
I also stickied this thread if that's cool.

UPDATE

1.5 sounds like it's gonna be awesome

DEAR GOD. minecraft is going from awesome to Tony's shower!

Update, people!

*grins* Dat map.

http://notch.tumblr.com/post/5775170768/the-changelist-for-1-6
'Nuff said for 1.6 :3

Allow me to revive/update this:
1.7: Notch announced Adventure mod! There aren't that much details about it, but it sounds awesome.
The piston mod will be official in minecraft in 1.7.
There will be a new tool called the Shears you can:
*Shear sheep to get wool, so from that no more biotch slapping a sheep with porkchop to get wool I guess, he also mentioned that you can shear 4 more blocks and one of them is wool.
*Defuse TNT
*And the final thing is a mystery block, there is 0 detail about it.

Defuse TNT? Hell yeah!
By the way, feel free to update the original post.

Righto, updated the original post. (:

what does the piston mod do?

sage wrote:

what does the piston mod do?

Search it on youtube, pistons is a block that has to be powered by redstone, it's fuction is to push a block that's in front of it, it might look stupid but if you imagine the stuff that you can do it's not that useless at all. (:
PS: It does not push Obsidian or Bedrock, here's a video from Captian Sparklez explaining and demonstrating the piston mod:

1.7? Already? wow notch is moving quite fast

Warptrap wrote:

1.7? Already? wow notch is moving quite fast

The thing awesome about minecraft is that it's updated frequently, He tries to update it once every month.

I remember when there were updates almost every Friday.

oughton42 wrote:

I remember when there were updates almost every Friday.

I think there still are, the "Secret Friday updates" But 1.7 won't come around in a while because Mojang is at E3 and they will be back to work this thursday.

I think he stopped the Seecret Friday Updates when the game went into Alpha. Mojang also got to party at the Playboy mansion during E3. I'm rather jelly.

lol. one day, we'll get to party there too. i know it.

Notch uploaded the preview od the piston mod! Slime balls now have use:

DUDE, the hidden doors are amazing, =O
these are gonna be sweet

Bro, those pistons are amazing!

My internet's too slow to function so I'll wait until they're actually implemented before I have a look. *forever alone*