Java Edition 13w38a

13w38a
13w38a Banner.png: Infobox image for 13w38a the version in Minecraft
Java Edition 13w38a.png: Infobox image for 13w38a the version in Minecraft
Edition

Java Edition

Release date

September 19, 2013

Type

Snapshot

Snapshot for

1.7.2

Downloads

Client (.json)
Server (.exe)

Protocol version

79

Resource pack format

1

Minimum Java version

Java SE 6

13w38a is the fifth snapshot for Java Edition 1.7.2, released on September 19, 2013[1].

Additions

Command format

Commands

  • Added /setidletimeout <minutes until kick> to automatically kick idle players after a set length of time.
    • Multiplayer-only command, can be used only by server operators.

NBT format

  • Added <structure>.dat files in data folder for storing structure data.
  • NBT structure consists of the individual parts of each structure, labeled "children", the chunk it originates in, a tag called BB, and an ID for what type of structure it is.
    • The children tags have information on each part of the structure and the type of part it is

General

Achievements

  • Added the achievement "Diamonds to you!", which is obtained by throwing diamonds at another player.

Lighting

  • The sky near the horizon now darkens when the player has blocks between them and the sky.
    • The greater the distance between the player and an area open to the sky, the darker the sky appears.

Changes

Items

Maps

Mobs

Zombies

  • Reduced lag from the zombies.

General

Achievements

  • Improved achievements.
  • When a player earns an achievement, it is now announced in chat.

"Super Secret Settings"

  • The button now applies different experimental shaders.
  • List of available shaders: antialias, deconverge, outline, art, desaturate, pencil, bits, flip, phosphor, blobs, fxaa, scan_pincushion, blobs2, green, sobel, blur, invert, wobble, color_convolve, NTSC.

Video settings

  • Render distance is now a slider ranging from 2 to 16 chunks.
  • The sky is now visible on short (4 chunks) render distance.
  • The chunks can now render past 12 chunks.
  • Max framerate is now a slider ranging from 10 to 250 fps, then unlimited.
  • Added mipmapping, anisotropic filtering, and FSAA (as a shader).
  • Mipmap levels setting is a slider ranging from off to 1 through 4.
  • Anisotropic filtering can be disabled or set to 2, 4, 8 or 16.
  • Post-processing (shaders) can be toggled.
    • They now display on the whole block.

Fog

  • Re-adjusted fog distance to appear near the render distance limit, reverting changes made in 13w36a.
  • Fog now covers 25% of the view distance, compared to 75% before 13w36a.

Removals

General

Distance effects

  • Item frames now no longer simply follow the camera at extreme coordinates.
    • This is due to them being affected by an even more extreme bug as of this snapshot.

Fixes

7 issues fixed

From released versions before 1.7.2

From the 1.7.2 development versions

  • MC-3973 – Players who mine redstone lamps with Silk Touch would get a lit redstone lamp in their inventory.
  • MC-30483 – When the player sets their render distance too far it stays on normal.
  • MC-30694Endermen stare sound still plays when the enemy mobs sound slider is at 0%.
  • MC-30822Enchanted books with no metadata.
  • MC-30858 – A player selector with only one matching player outputs as " and USERNAME .."

Trivia

  • 13w38a was previously removed from the launcher for some time but was added back in September 2018.
  • As with 13w38b, this snapshot was released on the same day as 1.6.4.

References

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