Java Edition 1.7.4/Development versions

This is a list of Java Edition 1.7.4 development versions.

13w47a

13w47a is the first snapshot for Java Edition 1.7.4, released on November 21, 2013.[1]

Additions

General

Native broadcasting to Twitch.tv [2]

  • Microphone can be recorded too.
  • Chat integration in the game.[3]
  • Twitch related settings.[4]
  • Twitch broadcast settings:
    • Quality, framerate, bandwidth, send metadata, mic volume, system volume, compression, enable chat, and user filter (for the Twitch chat).

Options

  • "Super Secret Settings"
    • New "Notch" shader added.

Changes

General

Mojang splash screen

  • New Mojang logo shows on game startup.

Options

  • Better full screen for macOS.

Fixes

13 issues fixed

From released versions before Java Edition 1.7.4

  • MC-12413 – Furnace GUI - "full" arrow texture always drawn on leftmost column.
  • MC-14323 – Minimising other windows open resizes Minecraft window.
  • MC-23132 – Click or right-click stuck on OS X.
  • MC-26102 – OS X Fullscreen is not supported.
  • MC-30537 – Flower duplication glitch.
  • MC-31388 – Right clicking a flower pot that has certain plants in it while holding another plant replaces the one in the flower pot with the one the player is holding.
  • MC-35643 – Items with enchantment effect cause blocks and potion effects indicator to not render.
  • MC-35658 – Water is too transparent.
  • MC-35797 – Background rendering issues when picking up enchanted items/caption of containers white.
  • MC-36383 – Translucent parts of stained glass not visible in 3rd person mode.
  • MC-36395 – Weird rendering of transparent blocks on the 0-axis.
  • MC-36705 – Block held in 3rd person rendered incorrectly.
  • MC-37106 – All the textures are flipped/mirrored on north/east sides of blocks.

13w47b

13w47b is the second snapshot for Java Edition 1.7.4, released on November 21, 2013,[5] which fixes a crash in the 13w47a snapshot.

Fixes

1 issue fixed

From the previous development version

13w47c

13w47c is the third snapshot for Java Edition 1.7.4, released on November 21, 2013.[6] No changes or bug fixes for this version were officially documented, but it reportedly fixed an issue involving OpenGL.[7][8]

Trivia

  • 13w47c was previously removed from the launcher for some time, but was added back in September 2018.

13w47d

13w47d is the fourth snapshot for Java Edition 1.7.4, released on November 22, 2013[9] to fix some of the bugs and crashes in the 13w47a, 13w47b and 13w47c snapshots.

Fixes

4 issues fixed

From the Java Edition 1.7.4 development versions

  • MC-35296 – Draw order-related graphical errors involving stained glass.
  • MC-35561 – Players can see a stained glass pane clearer through stained glass.
  • MC-35694 – Stained glass texture different while in Creative-"Survival Inventory".

From the previous development version

  • MC-40255 – Falling invisible slime causes "blue screen".

13w47e

13w47e is the fifth snapshot for Java Edition 1.7.4, released on November 22, 2013[10] to fix some of the bugs and crashes in the 13w47a, 13w47b, 13w47c and 13w47d snapshots.

Fixes

5 issues fixed

From the Java Edition 1.7.4 development versions

  • MC-40512 – Stained glass panes are opaque in 3rd person mode.
  • MC-40527 – Twitch broadcast: Unknown error.
  • MC-40537 – 13w47c fails to launch.
  • MC-40603 – 13w47c crashes at startup on Mac.
  • MC-40627 – Glass blocks in hotbar toggle backface culling on/off when selecting/deselecting a stained glass block.

13w48a

13w48a is the sixth snapshot for Java Edition 1.7.4, released on November 25, 2013.[11]

Fixes

13 issues fixed

From released versions before Java Edition 1.7.4

  • MC-190 – Misaligned textures on south and east faces for non-full blocks.
  • MC-16259 – Enchantments not showing stats in tooltip.
  • MC-29469 – Unable to take screenshot in GUI or active chat line.
  • MC-31006 – Adventuring Time — list of visited biomes resets on login.
  • MC-31651 – Block break animations no longer display.
  • MC-36159 – Graphical glitch on beacon effects in inventory screen.
  • MC-36772 – Enchanted items have big enchant around whole item.

From the Java Edition 1.7.4 development versions

  • MC-40580 – Changing a control to "Start Stream" key activates streaming.
  • MC-40621 – Flowing water surface not visible seen from inside flowing water blocks.
  • MC-40628 – There is no space between potion effect name & level.

From the previous development version

  • MC-40647 – OpenGL greater than 1.5 but can't stream.
  • MC-40659 – Chest Texture flickers when looking at a dropped chest item.
  • MC-40718 – Shift + CapsLock / Volume buttons on Keyboard cause Twitch API to crash.

13w48b

13w48b is the seventh snapshot for Java Edition 1.7.4, released on November 26, 2013[12] to fix some of the bugs and crashes in the 13w48a snapshot.

Changes

Mobs

Sheep

  • Naming a sheep "jeb_" (with a name tag) makes the sheep's wool fade between the different dye colors in order (like a rainbow effect).
    • Shearing produces the color wool the sheep had before it was named.

Fixes

3 issues fixed

From released versions before Java Edition 1.7.4

  • MC-35897 – Damaged armor, tools & weapons placed in certain inventory slots cause other slots to go black.
  • MC-36482 – Upon exiting (shift-click) minecart, the range and criteria is drastically off, up to 8 blocks away.

From the previous development version

  • MC-40947 – Opening Broadcast settings crash.

13w49a

13w49a is the eighth and final snapshot for Java Edition 1.7.4, released on December 5, 2013[13]. This is the final snapshot released in 2013.

Additions

Mobs

Chicken jockeys

  • Consist of a baby zombie riding a chicken.
  • The zombie controls the chicken instead of using the chicken AI.
  • Because the zombie is riding a chicken, it cannot take fall damage.
  • Extremely rare to find.

Changes

General

Mojang logo

  • Changed from 512×512 to 256×256.

Music discs

All music discs are now stored in an indexed hash, rather than stored directly in the .minecraft folder.

Fixes

4 issues fixed

From released versions before Java Edition 1.7.4

  • MC-31622 – Wrong render distance on 9 and more chunks settings.
  • MC-41165 – SetSlot packet can no longer set item under cursor.
  • MC-41407 – Minor optimization to world generation.
  • MC-41508 – Hopper: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Not a JSON Object.

1.7.3

1.7.3 (displayed as release 1.7.3 in the launcher) is the first pre-release for Java Edition 1.7.4,[14] released on December 6, 2013.[15]

Fixes

11 issues fixed

From released versions before Java Edition 1.7.4

  • MC-5002 – Some texts cannot be translated in a language file.
  • MC-11129 – Unicode font text shadow in fullscreen mode.
  • MC-13046 – Certain supported characters glitch out, clearing out lines of text.
  • MC-32322 – World loading screen uses wrong font.
  • MC-33035 – Loading text in Polish (and other languages with Unicode font) isn't showing properly.
  • MC-34573 – Font file of Unicode page C2 (Korean) shows character '숼'(U+C23C) at the position of '쉴'(U+C274).
  • MC-41135 – Players become invisible and immune for PvP damage after being killed and relogging instead of respawning.

From the Java Edition 1.7.4 development versions

  • MC-40587 – Broadcast server list giving same values.

From the previous development version

  • MC-41528 – No taskbar workbench icon in Windows.
  • MC-41537 – Hopper don't suck items from above if all the slots have an item.
  • MC-41566 – When the zombie chicken jockey is killed, chicken still attacks.

1.7.4 (pre-release)

Pre-release 1.7.4 is the second and final pre-release for Java Edition 1.7.4.[16][17] While the version number is identical to the full release, this pre-release version differs in code from the full release. This is the final pre-release released in 2013.

Fixes

3 issues fixed

From released versions before Java Edition 1.7.4

  • MC-12964 – Server performance issue: Chunk coordinates use a bad hash function.

From the previous development version

  • MC-41623 – "Force Unicode Font" button in languages section of the options doesn't work if GUI Scale is set to "Auto".
  • MC-41668 – "Old graphics card detected" watermark on title screen is in quotes.

Notes and references

  1. "Minecraft Snapshot 13w47e – Twitch.tv broadcasting!" (Archive) by Dinnerbone, November 21, 2013.
  2. http://blog.twitch.tv/2013/11/twitch-minecraft-integration-announced-at-minecon
  3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPSVJHVL6TA&feature=share&t=6h29m50s (Private video)
  4. http://dinnerbone.com/media/uploads/2013-11/screenshots/19_09-34-28_ZU1viVlnmy.png
  5. "Minecraft Snapshot 13w47e – Twitch.tv broadcasting!" (Archive) by Dinnerbone, November 21, 2013.
  6. "Minecraft Snapshot 13w47e – Twitch.tv broadcasting!" (Archive) – Mojang.com, November 21, 2013.
  7. "It seems we ran into a race-condition with OpenGL Context initialisation and the stream-setup in 13w47b, we're fixing it now!"@_grum (Erik Broes) on X (formerly Twitter), November 21, 2013
  8. "We messed up, 13w47c incoming ;D"@_grum (Erik Broes) on X (formerly Twitter), November 21, 2013
  9. "Minecraft 13w47d has been released to address some streaming issues."@Dinnerbone (Nathan Adams) on X (formerly Twitter), November 22, 2013
  10. "Oh btw, we just released snapshot 13w47e, fixes some more loading errors and gives more descriptive messages for when things still go wrong!"@_grum (Erik Broes) on X (formerly Twitter), November 22, 2013
  11. "There's a small bugfix snapshot; Minecraft 13w48a!"@Dinnerbone (Nathan Adams) on X (formerly Twitter), November 25, 2013
  12. "Minecraft snapshot 13w48b has been released for some more smaller bugfixes!"@Dinnerbone (Nathan Adams) on X (formerly Twitter), November 26, 2013
  13. "Have a Minecraft snapshot 13w49a to fix the render distance bug (and other stuff)!"@Dinnerbone (Nathan Adams) on X (formerly Twitter), December 5, 2013
  14. https://mcupdate.tumblr.com/post/69579395178/minecraft-173-174
  15. "It's here! Minecraft 1.7.3 pre-release is available for download, to be released early next week."@Dinnerbone (Nathan Adams) on X (formerly Twitter), December 6, 2013
  16. "We've pre-released a new version of Minecraft, 1.7.4, to fix some crashes. Full release tomorrow maybe."@Dinnerbone (Nathan Adams) on X (formerly Twitter), December 9, 2014
  17. "Minecraft 1.7.4 Pre-release" (Archive) by Dinnerbone – Mojang.com, December 6, 2013.

Navigation