13w42a is the twelfth snapshot for Java Edition 1.7.2. It allows for more letters to be put on signs, change the texture of stained glass and makes witches a common monster (like creepers and zombies) instead of spawning exclusively in and around witch huts.
Changes[]
Blocks[]
- Different letters can be typed now.
- Have a smoother/transparent texture.
- Have a smoother/transparent texture.
- Transparency slightly adjusted.
- If water is directly adjacent to ice, when looking through the ice, the player cannot see the water.
- However, the player can see the ice when looking through water.
- If water is not directly adjacent to ice, the player can see the water when looking through the ice.[2]
- The player can no longer see the water surface from underwater
Items[]
- Now display the color of colored wool and stained clay, allowing a wider range of colors visible on maps.
- Each different type of block has a different shading on the map.
Mobs[]
- Now spawn anywhere where the light level is 7 or less, including any biome and underground.
- Can only break doors when having the new CanBreakDoors tag set to 1, an up to 10% chance.[3]
General[]
- The armor boxes get black when empty and away from cursor.
- Putting cursor over the armor inventory displays which armor is to put on there.
- Rewrote the sound system.
- The player is now able to add new sounds using resource packs.
- Resource packs can now add, remove, supplement, randomize, and group sounds using JSON.
- Sounds and music are now stored together in the new .minecraft/assets/sounds folder.
Fixes[]
- 15 issues fixed
- From released versions before 1.7.2
- MC-4921 – Sounds (e.g. mobs/portals/water) don't immediately fade.
- MC-10633 – Players can't look through ice or stained glass if they have it in their hand, but they can if it is placed.
- MC-19483 – Sounds playing after leaving world.
- MC-26660 – Constant minecart sound.
- MC-28478 – Successful hit sound effect does not match the sound in the assets sound folder.
- From the 1.7.2 development versions
- MC-31577 – Major bug: arrows shot by infinity bow/skeleton do not despawn over time.
- MC-32082 – Signs, heads, and cauldrons have a full block breaking texture.
- MC-32295 – Glitchy item borders with mipmapping and anisotropic filtering activated.
- MC-32314 – The Mojang logo is blurry.
- MC-33141 – Rain does not stop.
- MC-33182 – Losing connection to server when a minecart command block is placed on a powered activator rail.
- MC-34096 – Minecart sound is considered an enemy monster.
- MC-34649 – Glass panes, stained glass, and ice show the texture in all faces.
- From the previous development version
- MC-34889 – Superflat shows void particles.
- MC-34892 – Mobs/other players only looking in one direction/walking backwards on SMP.
Trivia[]
- 13w42b and the April Fools' version 3D Shareware v1.34 both have the same protocol version as 13w42a.
- 13w42a was previously removed from the launcher for some time, but was added back in September 2018.
References[]
- ↑ https://www.mojang.com/2013/10/minecraft-snapshot-13w42a/
- ↑ "It's a bug, don't expect it to stay sorry. :( The behaviour is very unreliable and it's part of bigger issues." – @Dinnerbone (Nathan Adams) on X, October 17, 2013
- ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/2qqgcx/til_minecraft_18_changed_how_zombies_break_doors/