Java Edition 1.6.1

Minecraft 1.6.1
Edition	Java Edition
Official name	Horse Update
Release date	Pre-release: June 28, 2013; Release: July 1, 2013
Development versions	Snapshots (18) ; Pre-releases (2) ; (View all)
Downloads	Client (.json); Server (.exe)
Protocol version	73
Resource pack format	1
Minimum Java version	Java SE 6
◄ 1.5.2	1.6.2 ►

Other editions with a version "1.6.1":

There is a guide for this update!

See Java Edition guides/Horse Update for a guide to all of the new features introduced in Horse Update.

1.6.1,^[1] the first release of the Horse Update, is a major update to Java Edition released on July 1, 2013,^[2]^[3] which added many new features including horses and their relatives, leads, coal blocks, carpets, new commands, resource packs and a new launcher.

A pre-release version of 1.6.1 was released on June 28, 2013.^[4] This pre-release is identical to the full release of 1.6.1.

Additions

1.6.1 block and item additions

Blocks

Hay bale

Can be placed in all orientations.
Crafted with wheat placed in a 3×3 arrangement.

Carpets

Crafted with 2 matching colors of wool in a horizontal line, yields 3 carpets.
Can be placed on any block.

Hardened clay

Obtained by smelting a clay block in a furnace.

Stained clay

Comes in 16 colors, one for each dye.
Crafted by surrounding any dye with hardened clay in a crafting table.

Block of coal

Crafted with coal placed in a 3×3 arrangement.
- Charcoal cannot be used to craft this block.
Can be used as furnace fuel and smelts 80 items, more than 9 coal (72 smelted items).

Items

Horse armor

Comes in diamond, iron, and gold variants.
Cannot be crafted and can only be found in most types of generated chests, including in dungeons, nether fortresses, desert temples, and jungle temples.

Horse spawn egg

Can be used to spawn horses and donkeys.

Lead

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 leash back.
Crafted with 4 string and 1 slimeball, yields 2 leads.

Name tag

Found in dungeon chests.
Name it on an anvil, then right-click a mob to name it.

Mobs

Horses

Creation assisted & inspired by DrZhark's Mo' Creatures mod.
To tame, ride them, and get thrown off a few times until hearts appear.
Can be bred using golden apples and golden carrots.
Drop leather when killed.
Health can be restored using bread, sugar, hay bales, wheat, apples, golden apples, and golden carrots.
- Baby horses can be grown the same way.
Players riding saddled horses are granted full control over the horses' movement.
Color, markings, maximum health, jump height, and speed vary between horses.
Press the inventory control while mounting a horse, or press the using control while sneaking and looking at a horse to access its inventory to deal with its storage, armor, and saddle.
Rarely spawn in small groups.

Donkeys

Like horses, but smaller and gray, and can carry chests with 15 slots on their saddles.

Mules

Obtained by breeding a horse with a donkey.
Can wear chests on their saddles, just like donkeys.
Not breedable with horses, donkeys, or other mules.

Skeleton and zombie horses

Require third-party modifications to be used in-game.

Gameplay

Status effects

Health Boost
- Gives a player 4HP base health; extra health vanishes when the effect ends.
- Can be acquired in-game using the command /effect <playername> 21 <duration in seconds> <amplifier>.
Absorption
- Gives a player 4HP "absorption" health that cannot be replenished by natural regeneration or other effects, but would return every 30 seconds, regardless of the state of the rest of the health bar; absorption health vanishes when the effect ends.
- Can be acquired in-game using the command /effect <playername> 22 <duration in seconds> <amplifier> or by eating either tier of golden apple.
Saturation^{[note 1]}
- Causes food meter to be replenished by 1 () per tick.
- Can be acquired in-game using the command /effect <playername> 23 <duration in seconds> <amplifier>.
- Affects the hunger bar.
- Does nothing if hunger bar is full.

Command format

/spreadplayers

Spreads certain players from an origin point.
Has a max spread and minimum distance from player to player.
Can be used with the team's scoreboard functionality to spread team members to the same location.

/playsound^{[note 1]}

Can be used to play sounds to players.
The pitch and volume of sounds played using this command can be customized.
Can use sounds from resource packs.

/gamerule arguments

naturalRegeneration
- Toggles natural health regeneration.
doDaylightCycle
- Toggles the day-night cycle.

General

Resource pack system

Replaces the texture pack system.
- A conversion tool that converts texture packs into resource packs was released by Dinnerbone and is available here.
Contains:
- Textures
- Sounds
- Fonts (partially)
- Language files
- Credits
- End Poem
- Splash text
New "missing texture" texture

Attribute system

Item attributes using NBT tags:
- Attributes can be additive, subtractive, and multiplicative using a set value.
- Some items have default modifiers in place of previously hard-coded attributes.
- Examples of possible changes players could make: a bow that slows the holder, a helmet that buffs health, etc.
Entity attributes:
- These properties can now be changed as easily as any other NBT attribute.
- Entity speed, base health, base attack.
Other properties like weapon damage/bow draw speed/sword swing speed are yet to follow.

Splash screens

"HURNERJSGER?"
"What's up Doc?"

Changes

Blocks

Lapis lazuli block

Retextured subtly; it now has a border around it.

Redstone comparator

Now gives out a signal for cauldrons and end portal frames depending on their state.
- Cauldrons give from zero signal (empty) to three signal strength (full) depending on the water level inside.
- End portal frame varies between zero and fifteen signal strength, depending on if an eye of ender is present.

Command blocks

Can no longer be mined or destroyed in Survival mode.

Lava

Now decays properly.

Items

Charcoal

Retextured, with more brown shading to differentiate from coal.

Saddle

The player can now put a saddle on a horse.

Golden apple

Golden apples now require gold ingots instead of gold nuggets to craft.
Golden apples now give Regeneration II for 10 seconds and both tiers give Absorption for 1 minute and 30 seconds.

Glistering melon

Now requires 8 gold nuggets.

Spawn eggs

Spawn eggs now work on water.

Flint and steel

Now loses durability when igniting TNT.

Mobs

All mobs

Mobs named "Dinnerbone" or "Grumm" are now flipped upside down.
Now spawn in groups again.

Zombies

Now have a small chance to spawn additional zombies when damaged or not being looked at.
Able to lock onto a player from 40 blocks away (formerly 16 blocks).
Mobbing zombies can now move when further than 32 blocks from a player.
No longer attack when provoked by players in Creative mode.

Villagers

Now have sounds for trading, getting hurt and other things.

Withers

Armor has been retextured.^{[note 1]}

Spiders

Now have a chance to spawn with potion effects.

Creepers, skeletons, witches and wolves

No longer attack when provoked by players in Creative mode.

Ghasts and zombie pigmen

No longer visibly catch fire when going into fire or lava.

World generation

Deserts

No longer contain water lakes.

Nether

Added chest generation in nether fortresses.

Gameplay

Riding mounts

When riding a mob, its health is on the heads-up display.
When riding an entity, dismounting has changed from right-clicking the entity to using the sneaking control.
New boat physics with lower inertia.
Boat controls have been changed from the A, S, and D keys to mouse control.
Boats now take damage and break when colliding with many lily pads in a short time.

Respiration enchantment

Now also helps seeing underwater.

Changed the idea of mob difficulty

Regional difficulty: the longer player spend in one area, the harder it gets.
Scales with difficulty - items, enchants, or AI improve with difficulty.

Tooltips

Added extra tooltip info in the search tab for the creative inventory, which shows what category a block/item is in.
Tooltips for swords, pickaxes, shovels, axes, and potions show how much damage the sword/tool does and what effect a potion gives.

Status effects

Balanced to improve gameplay:
- Instant Health nerfed by 33% (heals only 4 health points/2 hearts at level I).
- Regeneration nerfed by 50% (takes 50 ticks/2.5 seconds to restore 1 health point/.5 heart at level I).

Hunger

Natural health regeneration now costs hunger/saturation points.

Creative mode

It is no longer possible to break blocks with swords in Creative mode.
The experience level is no longer displayed in Creative mode.

General

Technical

Support for Java 5 and PowerPC users will be dropped.
- If a player has a PowerPC-based computer and/or Java 5 installed, a warning is shown at the main menu.

Internal chat system

Lots of messages should be translated now that were previously not.
Messages are now better modularized.
Server messages can be sent by their code-defined name, allowing the client to utilize the correct translation according to their language settings.
Color can be specifically designated, preventing leakage into further messages.
Updated language files and fixed missing strings.

New launcher

Increases performance and stability.
Minecraft game icon changed to a crafting table, presumably to differentiate between game and launcher.
Allows LWJGL to be updated, fixing many launcher bugs.
Supports multiple versions/installs.
Self-updatable.
New password storing system.
More user-friendly.
A major step towards the Plugin API.
New authentication system - "Yggdrasil", which is more secure and has more features.
If downloaded for free, it only lets users play the demo world.
Accounts are mandatory.

Realms

Added handling of invitations.
Added resetting realm with one of the provided realm templates.
Added viewing backups for a realm and the ability to restore them.
Added setting the owner of a realm as game master operator.
Added confirmation screens for various actions such as deleting a realm.
Ability to leave someone else's realm that previously accepted an invitation for.
Fixed game mode and game difficulty issue.
Minor GUI fixes for better usability.

NBT

Saddle to EntityHorse has now been re-added.^{[note 1]}

Trivia

This is the first of the older versions that are available in the Minecraft launcher to not require be launched by a helper-wrapper class (net.minecraft.launchwrapper.Launch) that was used for pre-1.6 versions to tweak the old code to the new launcher's needs. This and all the later versions are being launched normally, by their main class (net.minecraft.client.main.Main), which means they are fully compatible with the current Minecraft launcher.

Fixes

86 issues fixed

From released versions before 1.6.1

MC-137 – Ping packet doesn't include host information.
MC-188 – 'doFiretick' makes fire to not extinguish. Lighting makes fire all over the place!
MC-483 – Keyboard Unresponsive on OS X.
MC-505 – Boats float in middle of air after logout and re-login.^{[note 1]}
MC-507 – Teleporting to Large Numbers Creates a Broken Error.
MC-552 – Command block choosing wrong people / Selecting players cross-dimensional.
MC-560 – Sound made by mobs in water causes massive FPS drop.^{[note 1]}
MC-590 – Mobs not realizing they killed their attacker and trying to attack empty space.
MC-607 – Running at a high resolution causes large portions of the screen to be UNCLICKABLE.
MC-671 – Minecarts with Furnace consume coal in creative mode.
MC-820 – Death messages in English regardless of the selected language (Multiplayer).
MC-1038 – Beacon Block Incorrect Texture When Surrounded by Blocks.
MC-1124 – Mouse "Back" and "Forward" open menu in windowed mode.
MC-1126 – Server command "/whitelist list doesn't display the full list of players.
MC-1159 – Mouse wrongly positioned in fullscreen.^{[note 1]}
MC-1202 – Mobs spawn and then quickly despawn in peaceful. Looks like the "ender-porting-out-of-water" effect.
MC-1229 – Compasses in item frames move with the player.^{[note 1]}
MC-1320 – [Wolves] won't stop snarling after being punched by someone else.
MC-1497 – Damaged Anvils do not show damage in inventory or item frame.
MC-1598 – Zombie pigmen burn for a moment in daylight.^{[note 1]}
MC-1903 – Console command and set console for a block in Command Block merge when in windowed mode.
MC-1980 – Zombie villagers are able to despawn during the curing process.
MC-2097 – You can't get "The End?" achievement.
MC-2200 – Sleeping while in a minecart produces a graphical glitch.
MC-2419 – PersistenceRequired tag freezes mobs.
MC-2453 – Jack-o-lantern name is mispunctuated.
MC-2476 – Regeneration increases the speed at which damage is taken from cacti, lava, and fire.^{[note 1]}
MC-2559 – Squid taking damage while in water.
MC-2692 – Hard to spawn squid.
MC-2758 – Derailed minecarts float when reloading the world.^{[note 1]}
MC-3008 – Regular skeleton's melee damage is unaffected by the sword type.
MC-3090 – Unable to play the game unless LWJGL is manually replaced.
MC-3695 – Boats/Minecarts and Ender Pearls don't mix.
MC-3737 – Placing water sources into some blocks yields no drops.
MC-3798 – 3D Anaglyph biome color corruption.
MC-3914 – Grass can't be tilled under plants/signs while dirt can.^{[note 1]}
MC-3960 – After the last use of a bow you get a glitch bow that when dropped and picked up again duplicates.
MC-4266 – Death counter does not update.
MC-4631 – Lava decay fails to schedule block update.
MC-4822 – Skeletons attack like zombies when hit in creative.
MC-6721 – Ctrl + Alt + Esc crashes Minecraft.
MC-6828 – Brewing stand feet' sides are transparent when placed against a wall.
MC-7134 – Silverfish breaking blocks when "mobGriefing" is set to false.
MC-8073 – Switching from windowed to fullscreen and back moves the point of view.
MC-9026 – Splash potions particles are incorrect.
MC-9317 – /scoreboard syntax missing (/help scoreboard).
MC-9355 – Argument "team" does not work with "!" for other players.
MC-9584 – Cactus texture error when near a wall.
MC-9917 – In multiplayer screen holding shift and pressing "down" without selecting any server crashes the game.
MC-10601 – Can't use the scroll wheel in crash reports.
MC-11033 – Item count/numbers randomly flickering in item bar, inventory, workbench.
MC-11199 – Eye of Ender does not always lead to the nearest Stronghold.
MC-11385 – Scoreboard problem with "seeFriendlyInvisibles".
MC-11439 – Memory leak switching texture packs.
MC-11595 – 1.5 HD Texture pack stitched images greater than 2048 resolution result in massive performance drops.
MC-11605 – Certain death messages will print "null" as the player/mob name that caused the death.
MC-11765 – Command Blocks breaking easily in survival.
MC-12017 – Can get permanently stuck in a minecart in a nether portal.
MC-12241 – Minecart collision boxes are briefly positioned wrong.
MC-12526 – Minecarts off-track float.
MC-12569 – Sitting in minecart is higher than it should be.
MC-12733 – Minecart hitbox too large.
MC-12906 – in the /help menu, the /debug option does not show the <start/stop>.^{[note 1]}
MC-13177 – New Client and Server Outputs Increase Loading Time.
MC-13276 – Zombies with increased health don't deal damage.
MC-13330 – Mob armor percentage likely error.^{[note 1]}
MC-13559 – Pick block from inventory in creative doesn't preserve the size of stacks.
MC-14218 – Minecraft can't handle 4096x4096 or larger cloud textures.
MC-14757 – Stacked Entity Spawner creating mass duplicate ghost entities.
MC-14795 – Wither is still named "Withern" in German.
MC-14926 – Cannot use resolution clock and compass textures with resolutions higher than 16x16.
MC-15145 – Receiving a very high amount of damage at once creates ghost mode in multiplayer.
MC-15732 – Achievement "We Need to Go Deeper" rewarded for going through an End Portal.
MC-16075 – Entities other than the player can't leave the end.
MC-16530 – When under resistance effects above 5, /kill command does not work.
MC-16554 – lang files for en_US is grammatically incorrect at death.fell.finish.item.
MC-17037 – No error report when Minecraft crashes.
MC-17280 – Freezes When Moving.
MC-17701 – Fire Animation Jumps and skips frames.
MC-18088 – Sticky and unregistering keys during normal Minecraft play only, AMD processor driver conflict?
MC-18324 – Text misplaced on Direct connect, Rename World screen.
MC-18483 – Shift clicking on the destroy item button in multiplayer doesn't work.
MC-18640 – Crash when language file of currently selected language is missing.
MC-18713 – If a team name has "-" in it, the argument for seeing if anyone is in the team doesn't work.
MC-19029 – Instant health effect set to a 29, 61, 93...253 value kills any player without any death message.

From the current version, hotfixed

MC-19849 – The game starts and has the Mojang title, but then the next slide is black except the bottom left corner, which is dirt.

Notes

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ This change occurred between the last pre-release for 1.6.1, the 1.6 pre-release, and the release of 1.6.1.

References

↑ https://mcupdate.tumblr.com/post/54337149404/minecraft-161
↑ "Minecraft – The Horse Update" (Archive) by Jens Bergensten – Mojang.com, July 1, 2013.
↑ "Woho! Minecraft 1.6.1 is out, get it via the new Minecraft launcher here" – @jeb_ (Jens Bergensten) on X (formerly Twitter), July 1, 2013
↑ "1.6.1 has been pushed to the new launcher for bugfixes. https://mojang.com/2013/06/minecraft-1-6-pre-release/ has been updated with the new server links!" – @Dinnerbone (Nathan Adams) on X (formerly Twitter), June 28, 2013

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[Release_change-5] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ This change occurred between the last pre-release for 1.6.1, the 1.6 pre-release, and the release of 1.6.1.

[1] ttps://mcupdate.tumblr.com/post/54337149404/minecraft-161

[2] "Minecraft – The Horse Update" (Archive) by Jens Bergensten – Mojang.com, July 1, 2013.

[3] "Woho! Minecraft 1.6.1 is out, get it via the new Minecraft launcher here" – @jeb_ (Jens Bergensten) on X (formerly Twitter), July 1, 2013

[4] "1.6.1 has been pushed to the new launcher for bugfixes. https://mojang.com/2013/06/minecraft-1-6-pre-release/ has been updated with the new server links!" – @Dinnerbone (Nathan Adams) on X (formerly Twitter), June 28, 2013

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