Java Edition 13w16a

Minecraft 13w16a

Edition	Java Edition
Type	Snapshot
Release date	April 18, 2013
Snapshot for	1.6.1
Downloads	Client (.json) Server (.exe)
Protocol version	62
◄◄ 1.5.2 13w16b ► 1.6.2 ►►

13w16a is the first snapshot for Java Edition 1.6.1, released on April 18, 2013.

13w16a was reuploaded an hour after release.^{[more information needed]}

Additions

Blocks

Carpets

• Carpets are made using 2 of the player's desired colors of wool in a horizontal line

Hay Blocks

• Can be placed in all orientations, just like wood.

Items

Horse armor

• Exist in diamond, iron and gold variants.
• Crafted with six iron/gold/diamond and a wool block.

Horse saddle

• Stack to 32.
• Crafted with five leather and three iron ingots.

Leads

• Can be used to bind mobs to fences or lead them around.
• Right-click mob first, then right-click fence or right-click the mob again to get the lead back.

Horse spawn egg

• When used, a different horse breed is created each time.
• Works like any other spawn egg.

Mobs

Donkeys

• Like horses, but can carry chests on their back although no inventory is currently available.
• Can be bred with horses to make a mule.

Horses

• Ridable by right-clicking them, move with usual movement keys, maximum speed, and jump height differ between horses.
• Have various amounts of maximum health, use wheat and carrots to heal them.
• Drop leather when killed.
• Can be bred using wheat – baby horses can be grown using apples, golden apples, wheat, and hay bales.
• Players can make them jump by pressing and holding the space bar.
• They naturally step up over 1 block, which enables you to walk up hills.
• They can also use ladders, when steered towards them.
• Creation assisted by DrZhark (Creator of the Mo' Creatures mod).
• There is an undead and skeleton version of the horse included in the code, although they require NBT editing to view in-game.

Mules

• Mules can be obtained by breeding a donkey and a horse.

Changes

Mobs

General

• Changed the idea of mob difficulty.
  • Regional difficulty: The longer the player stays in one area, the harder it gets.
  • Scales with difficulty – Items, enchants or AI improve with difficulty.

Gameplay

Enchanting

• Improved Respiration.
  • Now also helps seeing underwater (this depends on the enchantment level, ranging from 1–3).

Riding

• Add mob's health bar to the Heads-up display when riding on it (both pigs and horses).
• When riding something, like a mob or a boat, dismounting is only possible using the Sneak key, ⇧ Left Shift by default.

General

Credits

• Added Mo' Creatures developers to credits.txt.

Directory structure

• .minecraft directory structure is changed:
  • assets folder; stores resources such as language packs and sounds.
    • All music discs now use .ogg format instead of .mus format.
  • library folder; stores Java libraries such as LWJGL and jinput.jar.
  • versions folder; there are files version.json (meta data) and folders that stores minecraft.jar for each versions (but its name is the same as its version; the jar for 13w16a is versions/13w16a/13w16a.jar).

Trivia

• This is the earliest snapshot available in the Minecraft launcher. Although earlier snapshots are not available in the launcher, they are archived.

Fixes

7 bugs fixed

From released versions before 1.6.1

• MC-3090 – Unable to play game unless LWJGL is manually replaced
• MC-4253 – Endermen are rendered hostile if they take environmental damage.
• MC-5674 – Client can control if they take damage and abuse this / ALT or F10 freezes client in windowed mode
• MC-11229 – Using the anvil for free
• MC-12017 – Can get permanently stuck in a minecart in a nether portal
• MC-12369 – Minecraft crashing on 1.5.1 prerelease server