It's been a few months since we have seen a Minecraft update. In fact, it's the longest time between Minecraft updates to date for the Minecraft project, but it seems for good reason. There are a ton of new changes coming for this latest update. There has been so many changes in the game engine that the Mojang team has decided to move to a 1.3 release branch. There have already been some updates to the 1.3 branch, so Minecraft 1.3 is already a thing of the past. Minecraft 1.3.1 will officially be released tomorrow, August 1, 2012, but you can grab the 1.3.1 pre-release today after the jump!

Grab the Client .jar

Grab the Server .jar (or .exe)

Here is the full list of upcoming changes posted as a changelog by Jeb to Reddit.

General

• Updated the launcher
  • Includes demo mode
  • No visual changes
• Improved overall stability and performance
  • Reduced CPU, RAM & bandwidth usage
  • Accelerated chunk loading
  • Decreased lag spike frequency
  • Made the Nether less laggy
  • Decreased unnecessary world updates
  • Made the chat work smoothly even when the server is laggy
  • Decreased packets sent between client and server
• Made Singleplayer internally use a Multiplayer server
  • Decreased world saving intervals
• Added optional single-player commands called "Cheats" on non-hardcore worlds
  • Type / Then hit tab to autocomplete & get help on various commands
  • Most commands from MP are available
• Added option to let LAN friends join SP games
  • You can choose which gamemode players join in and whether they are allowed to use cheats
• Added demo mode for non-premium users
  • Lasts 5 game days per world
  • Singleplayer only
• Added Chat Settings
  • Change which parts of chat are shown and how opaque it is
  • Toggle chat colors, links being clickable and warning prompts for links
  • Option to rebind the command key, which opens the chat with / in the textfield
• Added Snooper Settings
  • Screenshot
  • Allows users to toggle anonymous data being sent to Mojang
  • Shows which data will be sent
• Added video options
  • Have to be toggled manually in options.txt for now
  • VSync
  • Fullscreen mode
• Mobs can now spawn on top slabs and upside down stairs
• Improved F3 mode:
  • Truncated coordinates to 5 fractional digits
  • The y-coordinate now shows both the feet level and the eye level
  • Removed frame rendering time history graph (bottom-left)
  • Added 3 values: ws : Walking speed (constant) fs : Flying speed (constant) g : Boolean value, true when you touch the ground
• Updated language files
  • Added tooltips for all types of Monster Egg blocks and the End Portal Frame
  • Added more descriptive tooltips for different types of tree-related blocks, sandstone and stone bricks
  • Localized server commands
  • Added missing commands-related strings
  • Added missing double chest GUI caption
• Fixed many bugs
  • Fixed texture packs in folders not showing their icon and description
  • Fixed Man-in-the-middle attack allowing hackers to log in as you when you visit their server
  • Fixed the Open texturepack folder button not working on OS X

Gameplay

• Added Adventure mode
  • Only playable using commands
  • Building, setting things on fire and using buckets is disabled
  • Players can only interact with mobs and the environment
• Added trading
  • Screenshots
  • Using emerald as currency, villagers will, depending on profession, offer different trades to players
  • There are three kinds of trades: Selling, buying and enchanting
  • As displayed in the top-most part of the trading GUI, villagers take one or more items or item stacks and give back something
  • After trading, villagers will sometimes emit purple particles for a few seconds to indicate that their trades changed
  • Otherwise unobtainable bottles o' enchanting and chainmail armor can be obtained by trading
• Improved Creative mode inventory
  • Screenshots
  • There are categorized tabs for various groups of items and blocks
  • Added a search tab which will automatically be switched to when the chat key is hit
  • Added survival inventory tab, which shows the full inventory, a 'Destroy item' slot and armor slots including a preview of your character
  • Items can now be deleted from the inventory by shift-clicking them
  • Added layered snow block, Monster Egg Blocks (Silverfish spawning blocks), Ender Portal frame and all potions
  • Now shows potion effects' timers like in Survival
• Improved experience collection
  • Depending on ore type, experience now drops from ores that drop items
  • Taking smelted items out of furnaces gives small amounts of experience now
  • Destroying mob spawners gives experience now
  • Adjusted experience level progression: Levels 1-15 cost 17 XP points each Levels 16-30 cost 3 more XP points than the previous (cost = 17 + (level - 15) 3) Levels 31-∞ cost 7 more XP points than the previous (cost = 62 + (level - 30) 7)
• Improved enchanting
  • The new maximum level with bookshelves is 30, without 8
  • 15 bookshelves are enough to reach level 30
  • The 3rd slot shows the highest possible enchantment more often
  • Increased chances for multiple enchantments at once
  • Adjusted enchantments to go with the new maximum level and balance gameplay
• Added writing in books
  • Right-click with a Book and Quill to write on or read up to 50 pages
  • Click 'Done' to save the book, 'Sign' to choose a title and finalize the book
  • Screenshots
• Improved Multiplayer
  • Made entities less likely to glitch through blocks - Comparison: before and after
  • Added automagical downloading of standard sized texture packs when joining servers
  • Made server commands more descriptive
  • Added reason parameter to /ban
  • Added /seed command to show the map seed
  • Added /defaultgamemode command to choose the gamemode new players start in
  • Added /debug command to enable and disable profiling /kick messages can now contain "\n" to force a new line Blocks other players are mining now show cracks - Screenshot /tp can now be used to teleport to specific coordinates
• Made server list re-orderable: shift+click or shift+arrow keys move selected servers
• Server list now scans for LAN servers - Screenshot
• Added hardcore difficulty: Players are banned upon death
• Added SRV Record Lookup Support - Explanation - Service name should be "minecraft"; ie "_minecraft.tcp.example.com"
• Added & changed many minor things
  • Individual, stackable items near each other on the ground now become one item stack
  • Added shift clicking support to armor slots, brewing stands & enchantment tables
  • Added setting to disable servers offering you texture packs
  • Made the stars smaller and brighter - Screenshot
  • Villagers spawned from spawning eggs will get a random profession now
  • Removed the downwards knockback while drowning
  • Doors being broken by zombies now show their damage - Screenshot
  • You now spawn with an empty inventory in Creative mode
  • The "Mojang" splash screen when opening the game appears for 1 instead of 3 seconds now
  • The sky color in the End changed - Comparison
  • Blocks now show cracks when destroying them while the GUI is hidden
  • You can now fall 4 blocks without getting hurt - might be a bug as there exist other, higher distances that don't cause damaga either
• Improved the Pick Block key
  • You now get the actual block
  • You can now pick paintings, boats, minecarts and mobs, which will give you their spawn eggs
  • Picking huge mushroom blocks now gives mushrooms
  • You can no longer pick portal blocks
• Fixed many bugs
  • Fixed liquids slowing down flying players
  • Fixed blocks with the same id but different data/damage values stacking in Creative inventory
  • Fixed boats & minecarts not being one-hit breakable in Creative
  • Fixed raw fish, dyes, saddles, potions, milk buckets and tools depleting in Creative
  • Fixed water destroying non-solid blocks when breaking them from above
  • Fixed Silk touch giving you only one slab from double slabs
  • Fixed redstone updates not propagating through unloaded chunks
  • Fixed repeaters getting stuck when loading their chunk
  • Fixed tools taking damage when breaking insta-breakable blocks
  • Fixed a few misalignments in the item sprite sheet
  • Fixed the arrow representing players on held maps being offset
  • Fixed being able to duplicate sand, gravel and powered rail
  • Fixed placing a piston in front of another powered, but not extended one resulting in a glitched piston with the head's texture on all sides
  • Fixed TNT dropping as a resource on creative mode
  • Fixed powering specifically glitched pistons crashing the game
  • Fixed the End Portal Frame block not showing as a block in the inventory
  • Fixed weather not working correctly in certain biomes
  • Fixed Overworld portals above Y=127 not being recognized when leaving the Nether
  • Fixed various hacked mob spawners crashing the game
  • Fixed thrown splash potions not preserving their type when reloading the world
• Fixed many Multiplayer-specific bugs
  • Fixed arrows scooting up to the top of the block they were shot on
  • Fixed endermen not opening their jaws
  • Fixed fully charged arrows not showing their particle effect
  • Fixed many sounds not playing
  • Fixed magma cubes' and slimes' jumping animations not showing
  • Fixed thunderstorms not darkening the sky
  • Fixed weather not fading in or out
  • Fixed enchanted armor and tools not glowing to other players
  • Fixed explosions not pushing players back
  • Fixed TNT not knocking back players
  • Fixed pistons not pushing back players
  • Fixed players on minecarts, boats or pigs and spider jockeys not being displayed in the correct location
  • Fixed sneaking players' nameplates not staying hidden when loading the chunks they are in
  • Fixed Unbreaking-enchanted tools sometimes breaking and then re-appearing a few times
  • Fixed potion effects losing their graphical effects when traveling between dimensions
  • Fixed blocks disappearing when placing them under yourself and jumping

World Generation

• Made sub-biome type mountains like Desert Hills or Ice Mountains taller - Screenshot
• Made cocoa beans appear on some small jungle trees - Screenshot
• Added optional starting chest on non-hardcore worlds
  • Screenshot
  • Contents: wooden & stone tools, bread, apples, logs, planks and sticks
• Added large biomes world type, increasing biome sizes immensely
• Added desert-specific villages
  • Screenshot
• Added desert temples
  • Screenshots
  • Built out of various kinds of sandstone and wool
  • Include hidden chest room and TNT trap, with loot including rotten flesh, bones, iron ingots and gold ingots, diamonds and emeralds
• Added jungle temples
  • Screenshots
  • Built out of various kinds of cobblestone
  • Contain multiple tripwire traps triggering dispensers filled with arrows
  • Loot chests include bones, rotten flesh, gold ingots, iron ingots, diamonds and emeralds
• Added emerald ore
  • Only generates in Extreme Hills biomes
  • Occurs up to 8 times per chunk in veins of 1
  • Generates between layers 4 and 31, inclusive

Blocks & Items

• Emerald Ore
  • Screenshot
  • Drops Emerald
• Emerald
  • Screenshot
  • Is used to trade with villagers
• Block of Emerald
  • Screenshot
  • Crafted by putting 9 emeralds on a crafting table
• Ender Chest
  • Screenshot
  • Crafted by surrounding an eye of ender with 8 pieces of obsidian
  • Stores each player's contents across dimensions and all Ender Chests
  • Contents are preserved even if all Ender Chests are destroyed
  • Explosion-resistant
  • Emits light and purple particles
  • Unless mined using a Silk Touch-enchanted pickaxe, they drop 8 obsidian
• Tripwire Hook
  • Screenshots
  • String in between needs to be placed manually
  • Breaking the string triggers a redstone signal, cutting it using shears doesn't
  • Entities like boats, mobs, arrows or players touching the string trigger a redstone signal
  • String can be up to 40 blocks long
  • Crafting recipe: Iron ingot on top of a stick on top of a wooden plank
• String
  • Can now be placed on the ground decoratively
• Wooden logs
  • Screenshot
  • Can now be placed in 3 different directions
  • Placement works like similar to piston placement
• Furnaces
  • Can be fueled by wooden tools now
  • Return an empty bucket when using lava buckets as fuel now
• Ice
  • No longer creates water in the Nether
  • Can be obtained using Silk Touch-enchanted gear now
• Glass Panes
  • Can be obtained using Silk Touch-enchanted gear now
• Nether portal
  • Leaks into the Overworld now: Depending on difficulty, zombie pigmen rarely spawn in them
• Slabs
  • Added all wood types
  • Wooden slabs crafted after the update act like wood
• Stairs
  • Added Sandstone Stairs - Screenshot
  • Added wooden stairs for all kinds of wood - Screenshot
  • Adjusted hitbox - Screenshots
• Slabs and Stairs
  • Will now be placed upside-down when placed on the upper half of a block's side
  • When placed upside down, rails, pressure plates, levers, doors, torches, redstone torches, repeaters, redstone dust and beds can be placed on them - Redstone dust behaves like on glowstone - It transmits power horizontally and upwards, but not downwards. Redstone torches don't power redstoneplaced on slabs/stairs above them.
• Leaves
  • Water slowly drips through them when it's raining
• Cauldrons
  • Slowly fill up when it's raining
• Dispensers
  • Minecarts & boats will now be placed if there's rails/water in place
  • Instead of dispensing buckets, dispensers will now suck in or place water or lava in front of them
• Gravel
  • Changed texture - Screenshot
• Jungle leaves
  • Have a 1/200 chance to drop a cocoa bean when destroyed now
• Lever
  • Can be placed on the ceiling now - Screenshot
• Wooden pressure plates
  • Are triggered by arrows now
• Pistons
  • Now take 0.05 seconds longer to expand
• TNT
  • Depending on difficulty, does different amounts of damage now:
  • Peaceful: no damage
  • Easy: ~50% less damage
  • Normal: same damage as before
  • Hard: 33.3…% more damage
• Cocoa beans
  • Retextured item - Screenshot
  • Can be planted & grown on jungle wood now
  • Can be grown instantly using bone meal
• Cookies
  • Give a full hunger point now
• Nether Warts
  • Can now be grown in the Overworld and in the End
• Book
  • Changed crafting recipe: 3 pieces of paper and one piece of leather in any possible shape
• Book and Quill
  • Crafting recipe: 1 ink sac, 1 feather and 1 book in any possible shape
• Written Book
  • Can only be obtained by signing a Book and Quill
  • Can be sold to villagers
• Empty buckets
  • Stack up to 16 now
  • Stacked buckets work just like stacked glass bottles do
• Signs
  • Stack up to 16 now
  • Crafting now gives 3 signs instead of 1
• Golden Apple
  • Has two crafting recipes now, the new one replacing gold nuggets with gold blocks
  • Second tier gives Regeneration IV, Resistance and Fire resistance effects
  • Only second tier glows like enchanted tools
• Spawners
  • Added NBT tags to further customize spawned entities
  • Only changeable using map editors or mods
• Boats
  • Are not broken by lilypads anymore, instead they run straight through the lilypad now, breaking and sometimes dropping it
  • Are less glitchy and more responsive now
  • Increased maximum speed
  • When exiting, players will be moved from the boat
  • When broken by a player, they drop a boat now
• Minecarts
  • When on rails, they can be accelerated a bit while sitting in them
  • When exiting, players will be moved from the minecart

Mobs

• Pigs
  • Drop 1-3 meat now
• Slimes
  • Reduced spawn rate in superflat maps
• Silverfish
  • When suffering from poison potions, they will now spawn more silverfish from nearby silverfish blocks more often
• Creepers
  • Increased knockback effect
  • Depending on difficulty, they do different amounts of damage now:
  • Easy: ~50% less damage
  • Normal: same damage as before
  • Hard: 33.3…% more damage
• Creepers & Spiders
  • Become aggressive towards the last mob or player that hit them now
• Skeletons, Creepers & Zombies
  • Become neutral against players again a few seconds after being hit in Creative

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