minecraft news 3/22/2012

[masterlugia]

Release Date for MCX360 Revealed

For those of you waiting for the official release date of the upcoming console port, wait no longer - Minecraft will be available on XBLA on May 9th, 2012. It will cost 1,600 points. Awesome!


1.2.4 Update

The 1.2.4 update is now available for Minecraft! Mojang has been hard at work squashing bugs, and the inclusion of the Bukkit team has allowed a larger list of items to be covered in a short time. The changelog is listed below. To update your game, simply run Minecraft normally, and when prompted to update, allow it to do so. What was fixed for this update?

Fixed:

Chat history and much better chat editing
A few new decoration blocks
“Back” and “Quit” buttons to OutOfMemoryScreen
Made cats more realistic (read: probably annoying). I hope it’s enough to cancel out any joy you may receive from the previous feature!
Added a “minimal” debug menu for testing with. Shift+F3 to hide the graphs.
Made placing half blocks on existing half blocks (to make a full block) easier
Limit framerate on menu screens, no longer uses 100% cpu and make my computer melt
Fixed fatal crash for converted worlds to anvil, when there’s blocks at max height
Fixed an old bug with signs clearing text while you’re editing them in SMP
Fixed crash when logging in while there are blocks at maxheight at spawn
Fixed TNT ghosts in multiplayer
Fixed storage minecarts dropping enchanted items
Fixed crashes on invalid server addresses when joining a server
Fixed entities being uninteractable if they existed at login (Multiplayer)
Fixed dupe exploit with paintings
Fixed furnaces and dispensers dropping enchanted items
Fixed the “flickering” of chat as it vanishes off the screen
Fixed text rendering over items in the container screens
Fixed exploit with jungle saplings (turns other saplings into jungle ones)
Fixed launcher opening minecraft dir if the path contains a space
Fixed an off-by-one lighting bug
Fixed block transmuting (turning one block into another via pistons)
Fixed placing mushrooms in daylight, where they can’t survive
Fixed redstone lamps dropping powered block items when destroyed while on
“save-all” (server) now works even when you have toggled “save-off”
Fixed turning half-blocks into full-blocks while you’re standing on them
Fixed seed displaying in F3 debug when the seed is unknown (multiplayer)
Fixed villager texture changing clientside per profession
Fixed falling off ledge corners while holding shift
Fixed players falling when reconnecting to servers where they were previously flying


Special thanks to the new hires from Bukkit for this huge list of fixes!

Jeb said:
While I was away at Game Developer’s Conference and a short vacation, the new Minecraft members Dinnerbone, Tahg, Grum and EvilSeph were hard at work fixing multiple bugs in Minecraft 1.2. The patch contains mainly bug fixes, but we also threw in a couple of goodies:

Chat history
Much better chat editing and controls (you can even mark text!)
Some new decoration blocks

[AloeiImprisoned]

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[Luigi]

[masterlugia]

Originally Posted by Luigi

lol

[Tenagara]

Young pupil... You have mastered the art of copying and pasting text.


Please...No more pointless Minecraft threads...

[masterlugia]

Originally Posted by Tenagara

Young pupil... You have mastered the art of copying and pasting text.


Please...No more pointless Minecraft threads...

uuuuuuuuuuuuuuu NO!

[Joe]

he is trying to prove that Minecraft deserves a section on the forum. not the way to do it though

[AloeiImprisoned]

@Joe, I think minecraft section shouldn't exist, only masterlugia posts threads based on it. Tbh, I'm already tired of all his spams.

[Joe]

Originally Posted by AloeiImprisoned

@Joe, I think minecraft section shouldn't exist, only masterlugia posts threads based on it. Tbh, I'm already tired of all his spams.

agreed. Minecraft probably will stay in the Video Games section.

[AloeiImprisoned]

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