Java Edition 12w27a

Minecraft 12w27a
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Edition

Java Edition

Release date

July 5, 2012

Type

Snapshot

Snapshot for

1.3.1

Downloads

Client (.json)
Server (.exe)

Protocol version

38

Minimum Java version

Java SE 5

12w27a is the fourteenth snapshot released for Java Edition 1.3.1, released on July 5, 2012.[1]

Additions

Command format

/debug <start|stop>

  • Starts/stops debug profiling.

Changes

Blocks

Nether wart

Signs

  • Signs are stackable up to 16.
  • Crafting them now gives 3 signs instead of 1 with the same recipe.

Non-mob entities

Boats

  • Boats now drop the boat item when destroyed by a player.

Gameplay

Biomes

  • Some ice plains and ice mountains have been replaced by taiga and taiga hills. This biome map change can cause some biomes nearby the replaced biomes to slightly change shape as well, when compared with previous versions on the same seed.

Creative inventory

Experience

  • Gaining experience from mining ore is now different for each type of ore (mining coal ore will give the player the least amount while diamond ore & emerald ore will give the most amount of XP).

Fixes

13 bugs fixed

  • Newly added wooden stairs will now burn.
  • Fixed /kill not working.
  • Fixed powering specific glitched pistons crashing the game.
  • Fixed a visual bug causing pistons to be partially invisible or in the wrong location momentarily.
  • Fixed being able to place portals in the Nether in locations where they would end up in illegal locations in the overworld.
  • Fixed the game crashing when publishing SP worlds with certain language settings.
  • Fixed players on minecarts, boats or pigs and spider jockeys not being displayed in the correct location.
  • Fixed a bug with dispensers.
  • Fixed /say not accepting some strings form the console, often triggering the help dialogue.
  • Fixed being able to transmute blocks to certain data values using an orientation-dependent tripwire bug.
  • Fixed drinking potions in creative not consuming the potions, but still giving empty bottles.
  • Fixed signs sometimes not saving the text when placing them.
  • Fixed torches at the top of 1×1 vertical shafts not lighting up their own block.

Trivia

  • Even though this version's changelog mentions changes related to pistons, those changes were actually added to the game in the previous snapshot.

References

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