Weekly Snapshot 12w18a

This snapshot is highly experimental and actually shows a work in process. The biggest change is not in the actual gameplay, but more in the way the game works. More on this will be in an upcoming post.


Texture packs can be recommended and downloaded from a server upon joining. This addition will ask if you want to download the textures or not, you're not forced to use it. This is useful for servers with builds that rely on certain texture packs, but it won't stop people using x-ray texture packs.

Small changes are that cocoa beans can be found in jungle tree leaves (like apples in oak leaves), wooden tools can be burned in a furnace, Hardcore mode is available in multiplayer (you get banned upon death), tools of the same kind are switchable in the inventory (you know what I'm talking about), the Mojang logo appears shorter, and silk touch and block picking have been perfected.

Small changes have also been made to the F3 screen, as coordinates are now rounded and ws (walking speed), fs (flying speed) and g (ground, true when touching the ground) have been added.

Knowing they made a first step to a new Minecraft system there are bound to be bugs everywhere, that's what I meant when I said this snapshot is experimental.
For example: enchanting doens't work, the End and the Nether are empty when entering, movement is stuttering, many sounds stopped working or have a delay when playing, Minecraft doesn't shut down local servers when encountering a fatal bug, many visual effects are missing, bonus chests don't work, creative mode has to be re-enabled when opening ANY world...
So be careful when installing this and backup any worlds before entering them.

For a list of ALL the stuff that has been added/changed/bugged you can always check the wiki.

Since there aren't many fatal bugs around there won't be a "b" release of this snapshot.
If anyone wants to try it out: client and server are up for download as always, but beware when installing your client. You get both the client as the server .jars, where minecraft.jar goes into .minecraft/bin (as usual) and minecraf_server.jar goes into a new folder you have to create (.minecraft/server)

I don't know how you like the current Snapshot reporting, I'm trying this out for now. If you want me to post lists again (as before) you can contact me in our forums.

-TheOtherRetard, being quite thrilled with these new developments.