1.2.1 is an update which added a new height limit as a result of the anvil file format, zombie sieges and generated features including jungle biomes, abandoned mine shafts and desert wells. It also added new blocks/items - the bottle o' enchanting, redstone lamp, fire charge and chiseled stone brick and new mobs - iron golems and ocelots.
Additions
General
- Warning Message
- Worlds created prior to 1.2 will say the message, Must be converted!
Gameplay
- Will occur occasionally at night in NPC Villages
World Generation
- Jungle biome
- A very dense, but rather uncommon biome featuring large jungle trees that can reach up to 31 blocks tall with 2×2 thick trunks. Oak trees are also common. Leaves cover much of the forest floor.
- Rarely found in deserts
- Abandoned mine shafts
- Generated with wooden bridges in midair portions
Blocks & Items
- Can be used to spawn experience orbs.
- Only available in creative mode
- Only available in creative mode
- Produces fire when used
- Can be fired from dispensers
- Also a substitute for flint and steel
- Visually resembles Glowstone
- Gives off light only when it is powered
- Has a luminance of 15 when powered
- New type of wood that spawns as jungle tree trunks
- Has a slightly mossy brown texture with horizontal bark
- Can be grown into Jungle trees and drops from Jungle leaves
- Generates in Jungle trees and bushes
- New textures (File:SandstoneGlyphs-Unused.png File:SandstoneFace-Unused.png)
- Not in-game
- Planned to be used as decorative sandstone variants
Mobs
- Occasinally spawns in Villages
- Defends Villagers against Zombies and other hostile mobs
- Can be spawned by placing 4 iron blocks and pumpkins in a specific pattern
- Can be tamed using fish as cats
- Cats will scare off creepers and teleport to the player similarly to dogs
Changes
General
- New map file format
- Increases the world height limit, to 256 from 128
- World selection screen shows worlds saved in Region file format, and will convert them.
- No longer shows worlds saved in Alpha level format.
Gameplay
- F3 debug screen
- New Legends
- lc: Largest section height
- b: Shows what biome you are in
- bl: Block brightness
- sl: Sky brightness
- rl: Raw brightness
- Multiplayer
- Due to biome data saving to chunks, SMP servers no longer send clients their world seed, displaying as "0" to the client
- Now has a slight delay on the speed at which the head moves on the player
- Makes it possible to see the sides of the player's head
Blocks & Items
- Changed texture
- Placing blocks on grass will replace it
- Re-added collision box
- Crafting recipe now yields 3 ladders instead of 2
- Lava now has a faint rumbling sound effect, and large particles that hop out of the lava produce a popping sound
- Changed texture
- Can be placed upside-down by placing them below a block
- Crafting recipe for slabs now yields 6 instead of 3
- Can now be climbed like ladders
Mobs
- Swim extremely fast with the water stream towards the player, but seem to be almost not moving against the water stream
- Now stalk the player
- Will have children if there are enough empty houses in a NPC Village
- Tamed wolves are able to breed using bones
- Can break down doors on Hard and Hardcore mode
- Have a rare chance to drop an iron ingot, iron helmet, iron shovel, or iron sword
- Rush to the nearest shadow or body of water for safety if it catches fire in daylight
- Chase and attack villagers and doors (breaking them on Hard and Hardcore difficulties)
- Sometimes zombies attacked villagers in preference to the player, and always chose the shortest way to the target, even if there was a door in the way
- Have a rare chance to drop a bow or an enchanted bow
- Rush to the nearest shadow or body of water for safety if it catches fire in daylight
- Will melt and die in the Nether
- Will form a wall to attack mobs
- Have a rare chance to drop a golden helmet, gold ingot, golden sword, or an enchanted golden sword
- Swim fast in water
Fixes
3 bugs fixed
- Doors have been updated so that double-doors work better with redstone.
- Ambience works in Multiplayer.
- Mob spawners show the correct mob in SMP (instead of a pig).
1.0
