Java Edition 12w36a

Minecraft 12w36a

Edition	Java Edition
Release date	September 6, 2012
Type	Snapshot
Snapshot for	1.4.2
Downloads	Client (.json) Server (.exe)
Protocol version	42
Minimum Java version	Java SE 5
◄◄  1.3.2 1.4.2 1.4.4 ►► ◄  12w34b 12w36a 12w37a ►

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12w36a is the fourth snapshot for Java Edition 1.4.2, released on September 6, 2012.

Additions

Blocks

Mob heads

• Five types in this version:
  • Skeleton skull
  • Wither skeleton skull
  • Zombie head
  • Creeper head
  • Player head
• Wither skeleton skulls are dropped very rarely by wither skeletons.
• Other heads are only available via the Creative inventory.
• Can be equipped in helmet slot.

Paintings

• Added one new painting depicting the creation of a wither.

Items

Carrot on a stick

• Used to maneuver pigs.
• Can also attract pigs.
• Main purpose is to control saddled pigs while ridden.

Nether star

• Used as a crafting ingredient for the beacon block.

Mobs

Wither skeletons

• Only spawn in the Nether.
• Give players Wither effect when hitting them.
• Carry and rarely drop stone swords when killed by players.
• Drop bones and coal.
• Have a high chance to spawn from a skeleton spawn egg if used in the Nether.
• Wither skeletons can replace skeletons on spider jockeys.
  • Spawned by using a spider spawn egg in the Nether.

Changes

Blocks

Beacons

• New model and textures.
• Can now be crafted by surrounding a nether star with 3 blocks of obsidian on the bottom and 5 blocks of glass around the top.

Items

Carrots

• Now found in villages.
• Can be used to breed pigs.

Golden carrot

• Retextured.

Leather armor

• Now uses two overlayed textures, one being the color.
• Minor changes to the leather dyeing – colors attempt to maintain intensity and not dilute as much.

Potatoes

• Now found in villages.

Mobs

Blazes

• Spawn a bit less often in nether fortresses (chance decreased from 43.5% to 35.7%).

Chickens

• Now use seeds instead of wheat to breed.
• They follow the player when a seed is in hand.

Magma cubes

• Are slightly rarer in nether fortresses (chance decreased from 13% to 10.7%).

Pigs

• Can be bred with carrots.
  • Can no longer be bred with wheat.
• If saddled, now always drop their saddle on death.

Skeletons

• Picked up items now always drop on death.

Wither

• Player needs to place 4 pieces of soul sand in a vertical T-shape and place 3 wither skeleton skulls on top to create it.
• Drops one nether star upon death.
• When spawned in the Overworld, the sky gets darker.
• Gives players Wither II effect when hitting them.
• Its name is now displayed correctly above its HP bar.

Zombies

• Model and texture changed.
  • No visual difference, except that it breaks old texture packs.
• Picked up items now always drop on death.

Zombie pigmen

• Appear a lot less often in nether fortresses (chance decreased from 43.5% to 17.9%).
• Model and texture changed.
  • No visual difference.