You must login or register to view this content. Major changes will be coming to Minecraft sometime soon. There will be lots of add on to single player and Multipayer. I will post everything that will be coming in the update along with pictures and videos for 1.3
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August 1st 2012 Release Date!
Demo mode playable through non-premium Minecraft.net accounts.
"large Biomes" World type. You must login or register to view this content.
Creative Inventory will be more useful You must login or register to view this content.
Ender Portal Frames added in Creative Mode
Flying in Creative Mode is no longer affected by water and lava.
Improved creative inventory screen.
Category Tabs and Searching
Survival Inventory Tab
"Backpack" inventory, 2x2 crafting grid, armor, and deletion box.
Singleplayer will be a local server.
Added a publish button to allow LAN connection.
Gamemode and Allow Cheats button.
The multi-player menu now scans for LAN servers
Optional bonus chests placed close to the player when creating a new Singleplayer world. You must login or register to view this content.
Added Emerald. You must login or register to view this content.
Added Emerald Ore You must login or register to view this content.
Block of Emerald. You must login or register to view this content.
Added Ender Chest. You must login or register to view this content.
Drops 8 obsidian when broken without Silk Touch.
Has one inventory per player.
Added Sandstone Stairs. You must login or register to view this content.
Added Cocoa Plants that generate on the sides of jungle trees, which can be harvested for cocoa. You must login or register to view this content.
Cocoa Beans have a new texture. You must login or register to view this content.
Cocoa Beans drop from jungle tree leaves at the same rate as apples.
Added Tripwire Hooks. You must login or register to view this content.
The hooks are connected (up to 40 blocks) by string, which will be placeable.
Tripwires work on all entities.
Added Book and Quill and Written Book. You must login or register to view this content.
Ability to write in Book and Quill (up to 50 pages), save them to edit later, and sign them and title them to finish off the book.
Added a new type of Golden Apple. with attributes the Golden Apple had before 1.1
Added Bottle o' Enchanting to survival mode. You must login or register to view this content.
Added Chainmail Armor to survival mode.
New slabs and stairs of the 3 new plank types.
Wood slabs behave as wood, not as stone.
New Gravel texture. You must login or register to view this content.
New Dispenser features:
Dispensers will eject water and lava source blocks (from buckets).
Will also take water and lava source blocks if there is an empty bucket inside.
Will be able to place Minecarts on rails and Boats in water.
Stackable items now stack outside inventory when thrown to the ground individually.
Specific names for different Wood, Wooden Planks, Leaves, Saplings, Sandstone, Stone Bricks, and Monster Eggs. (e.g. Oak Wood, Birch Plank, Spruce Leaves, Jungle Sapling, Smooth Sandstone, Chiseled Stone Bricks, Stone Monster Egg).
Redstone (including repeaters, torches, levers, and pressure plates), Torches and Rails can now be placed on slabs and stairs positioned upside down.
Levers can now be attached to the bottom of a block.
Wooden Pressure Plates detect arrows.
When exposed to rain, Cauldrons have a possibility of slowly filling with water.
Removed old Chest texture, causing Locked Chests to appear purple.
The player can now see the cracking effect on blocks when other players mine blocks in multiplayer.
Silk Touch will be able to pick up Ender Chests, Ice, and Glass Panes.
The first 16 levels are linear (17XP/level), while levels 17+ require more points per
level.
Maximum enchantment level reduced from 50 to 30.
XP orbs can now be gained through mining ores, and using a furnace for smelting.
Enchantment has been reorganized so the higher/stronger level enchantment is on the bottom while the lowest is on the top. (The middle obviously being in the middle of the enchantment table).
While sitting inside of a minecart pushing the directional keys will make it move the direction you are pressing. This will only work while the minecart is sitting on rails.
Boats can accelerate to faster than previous speeds.
Boats are now easier to control.
Boats will now pass through lilypads without breaking the boat ; the lilypad drops as an item instead.