Java Edition 12w34a

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Minecraft 12w34a
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Edition Java Edition
Release date August 23, 2012
Type Snapshot
Snapshot for 1.4.2
Downloads Client (.json)
Server (.exe)
Protocol version 41
Minimum Java version Java SE 5


12w34a is the second snapshot for Java Edition 1.4.2, released on August 23, 2012,[1] which adds the wither, flower pots, wooden buttons, cobblestone and mossy cobblestone walls, carrots and golden carrots, 3 variants of potatoes, item frames and potions of invisibility and fixes bugs.

Additions

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Blocks

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Flower pots

  • Can contain mostly any plant-based block.

Wooden buttons

  • They are currently uncraftable.

Cobblestone wall

Mossy cobblestone wall

  • Similar to cobblestone walls.

Items

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Carrots

Potatoes

Potions

Withers

  • New boss mob.
  • Only available through external modification such as editing mob spawners, mods, or hacks.
  • It shoots exploding projectiles, wither skulls, and destroys nearby blocks.
  • Also has a boss health bar.

Zombies

  • Now have a chance to drop carrots and potatoes.

Non-mob entities

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Item frames

  • Crafted like a painting but with leather instead of wool.
  • Used to hang items on a wall.
  • Items in item frames can be rotated in 8 directions.

General

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Settings

  • Added new fullscreen toggle to the video settings.
  • Added new use Vsync toggle in the video settings.
  • Added an unused texture in gui/items.png.

Changes

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Blocks

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Beacons

  • Removed the "Work in Progress" block from the Creative menu.

Fire

Mob spawners

  • Now give less experience when the player farms them continuously.

Saplings

  • Now have a smaller hitbox.

Stairs

  • Now auto-arrange into corners.

TNT

  • Ignites if shot by a flaming arrow.

Trapdoors

  • Can be placed in top-most position (based on crosshair aim).

Items

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Dyes

  • Leather armor can be dyed.
    • The default color of leather has changed.
    • The player can right-click a full cauldron with dyed armor to remove dye.
  • Tamed wolves' collars can be dyed.

Fire charges

Maps

  • Maps now align to a grid, making it easier to create adjacent maps.
  • A compass and paper now create an empty map.
    • An empty map has no data on it until the player right clicks with it.
    • The point on the player's world where the player right clicked it is the map's center.
  • A map (with data) can be cloned. Cloned maps are stackable.
  • Maps can be zoomed out (but not zoomed in).

Potions

General

  • Mobs (and all other entities) can travel through portals.

Villagers

  • The particle effect when a trade with a Villager has been successful has changed.

General

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Debug screen

  • f: item on the debug screen now shows the exact direction the player is looking, between -180 and 180 degrees from the south.
  • F3 + P toggles the auto-pause when the window loses focus (mainly for debugging).
  • F3 + H toggles detailed item descriptions (also for debugging).

Fixes

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4 bugs fixed

Trivia

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  • This snapshot is one of only three snapshots for Java Edition to have its digits consecutively increasing by one. The only other snapshots to have this property are 12w34b and 23w45a.

References

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