Render Distance and Max Framerate are now sliders.Witches now spawn outside of Witch Huts.Hitting a mob with a sword while it is flashing red and inflicting no damage, as a result, does not decrease the durability of the sword.Unbreaking from enchantment tables is no longer limited to tools.Weighted pressure plates are no longer limited to items.Fog is less noticeable on lower render distances.Achievements and statistics are now per world/server.Ocean biomes are smaller and take up less of the world.Made using a square of 8 glass around a single dye in the middle.Ĭomparsion between biome maps of Minecraft 1.6 and 1.7.Made by brewing a pufferfish with an awkward potion.Blue Orchid, Allium, Azure Bluet, Tulips, Oxeye Daisy, Sunflower, Lilac, Rose Bush, and Peony.10 new flowers added as decoration and/or more easily retrievable dye ingredients.Salmon, Clownfish (now called tropical fish), and Pufferfish.Acacia (Savanna Biome) and Dark Oak (Roofed Forest biome) trees, wood, planks, slabs, and stairs.

2 new tree types, wood, planks, slabs, and stairsĪcacia and dark oak wood, planks, slabs, and stairs.Mesa, Mega Taiga, Roofed Forest, Birch Forest, Flower Forest, Savanna, Extreme Hills+, Deep Ocean, and snowless Taiga.Mojang released the 1.7 pre-release on October 22, 2013, the 1.7.1 pre-release on October 23, and the 1.7.2 pre-release on October 25, shortly before the official release of the update. The official name for the update, 'The Update that Changed the World', was only announced three days prior to the 1.7.2 release on the Minecraft update Tumblr (which was displayed in the old launcher). Nearer the end of the snapshot cycle for the 1.7.2 update, Mojang focused primarily on fixing bugs, rather than adding new features. Also during the development period, 1.6.4 was released. Several iterations of the launcher were released during this time period, from 1.2.3 to 1.2.8. Fourteen development snapshots were released, from 13w36a to 13w43a. It added many new features such as a new terrain generator, many new biomes and biome variations, stained glass, red sand, new tree types, a new spawn system, new fish and a new fishing system with rewards, many new flowers, many more customization options, custom-size Nether portals up to 23×23, command blocks in minecarts, and many new commands.ĭevelopment began two months after 1.6.2 was released. The Update that Changed the World is the name for Java Edition version 1.7.2, a major update released on October 25, 2013. For a guide about all the additions and changes in this update, see Java Edition guides/The Update that Changed the World.

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