■Item entities are rendered as 3D objects in the world when in Fancy graphics mode
■This includes items placed in Item Frames
■Items now show their enchantments when dropped on the ground
■Added Enchanted Book to Villagers and Chests
■Can be found in dungeons with special enchantments normally not obtainable
■Overall Protection enchantment is no longer as effective as all the other Protection enchantments combined
■Silk Touch can now be applied to shears by using the anvil
■Cobweb can be harvested utilizing this feature
■Unbreaking enchantment can be applied to anything with durability using Enchanted Books
■Added “Thorns” enchantment for armor
■When hit by a mob, the mob will receive damage
■Added tool highlight when switching items in the hotbar
■Renamed items will display the changed name
■To disable it, open options.txt and change heldItemTooltips to false.
■Added a notice/warning for users still playing on PowerPCs or Java 5 (Java 1.5)
■Mojang have a plan to drop support for Java 5 in future version of Minecraft. This is due to new version of LWJGL requires Java6 or newer, and latest version Java for PPC is 5.
■When pressing CTRL+Q, you drop a full stack instead of one item
■Removed Firework Rocket in Creative inventory
■Added xmaschest.png, largexmaschest.png, and skis.png textures
■xmaschest.png changes the chest texture to resemble a red gift.
■largexmaschest.png changes the large chest texture to resemble a green gift.
■skis.png are textures which resemble skis; use unknown at the moment.
■Chest will use these textures on December 25
Bug Fixes
■Fixed the Firework Star crafting recipe consuming unneeded items
■Fixed arrows shot at Endermen disappearing
■Fixed a bug with custom mob spawners not spawning different types of entities correctly
■Fixed animals appearing to walk through fences in SP
■Fixed some items with multi-layer textures rendering both layers separately when on the ground
■Fixed tools differing only in damage not being able to be swapped in the inventory
■Fixed some Z-Fighting with the beacon
■Fixed some graphical issues in the trading GUI
■Fixed /say not showing the text in the original purple color
■Fixed placing double slabs ignoring damage value
■Fixed minecarts being unable to travel through Nether portals
■Fixed lightning not flashing
■Fixed Firework Star duplication crafting recipe
■Fixed the Nether and the End generating random client-side blocks in MP
■Fixed FallingSand spawners failing to save properly and causing crashes
■Fixed the blocks in lowest layer of the map not being recognized by beacons
■Fixed enchantments not showing in Item Frames
Notable Bugs
■The language files are not updated
■The mobs and items in 3D have bad lighting when you look and you stop looking
■When throwing a stack of a item with the enchanted animation(Like a Nether Star) the first item will look ok but all the others will be constantly purple.