Minecraft 1.3 Released Today

[BETTEH]

Minecraft Beta 1.3

* Implemented a new lighting engine with the help of MrMessiahs (can be turned off)
* Changed the options around, added a new “Graphics options” button
* Added beds. If all players in a map sleeps in a bed during night, the game immediately skips until morning
* Added three new half-size blocks
* Added Delay/Repeater redstone dust blocks
* Added whitelisting to the server. To use, enter “whitelist <cmd>” where cmd is “on”, “off”, “add <player>”, “remove <player>”, “list” or “reload”
* New save file format, old maps need to be converted (that might take a while..)
* It’s now possible to have more than five save slots, and to rename saves
* Scrollbars in both the texture pack list, and in the map selection screen
* Replaced the Mojang splash image to reflect the new logo colors
* .. and a bunch of bug fixes and tweaks!


Also via one of the members of Mojangs twitter, Slimes are back in the game now. Look out for dump truck sized slimes in caves!

[Masakari]

Stevo's server is updating as we speak - because of the new save file format, conversion is taking a bit of time.

Also, slimes have apparently been back in the game since 1.2.01, they're just incredibly rare. My guess is golden apple rare.

[tsmitho]

yay. sounds cool. now just have to wait to play it :/

[bullet4o1]

Buzzy is going to be happy. Sandstone half blocks are in.

[Masakari]

Sandstone can apparently also be found at the bottom of naturally generated sand. Of course, like everything natural, this only applies to 'new world' areas (AKA previously ungenerated)

[KRG]

"* Added beds. If all players in a map sleeps in a bed during night, the game immediately skips until morning"

"Will everyone go to bed with me? It will only take a minute I promise!"

[TTHREAZ]

Also via one of the members of Mojangs twitter, Slimes are back in the game now. Look out for dump truck sized slimes in caves!

OK, time for slime expeditions.

[Boss Llama]

I say woot, to all these changes. Excellent!

[ADevilishPotato]

does lapis still drop 1 thing still?

[TTHREAZ]

I envision people carrying a bed around with them at all times and when night comes, a plea for synchronized slumber over TS3.

[Boss Llama]

I don't know where the info is from, but according to the wiki...

In another later update, the last bed the player slept in will serve as the player's respawn point the next time they die.

A couple other interesting notes, doing some more reading on the wiki...

-All pressure plates now require two of its materials, instead of 3. The new stone slabs are now created by using 3 of the materials (see specific block pages for further information)

-When breaking double slabs (one slab placed on another) it will drop two slabs instead of one.

-Wood and logs don't burn forever anymore.

[4thelulz]

How does the bed thing work in an SMP server?

[Masakari]

Lapis is fixed.

[Boss Llama]

How does the bed thing work in an SMP server?

Everybody on the server has to "sleep" at the same time. It only works at night, not during the day. Also, it only "resets" the world time to morning, rather than actually accelerating time, so you can't simply bypass smelting by sleeping through the wait - it'll be at the same progress point when you wake up as it was when you went to bed. There are unconfirmed reports of people using their beds causing others to crash during SMP, but that may be related to other issues.

[4thelulz]

How does the bed thing work in an SMP server?

Everybody on the server has to "sleep" at the same time. It only works at night, not during the day. Also, it only "resets" the world time to morning, rather than actually accelerating time, so you can't simply bypass smelting by sleeping through the wait - it'll be at the same progress point when you wake up as it was when you went to bed. There are unconfirmed reports of people using their beds causing others to crash during SMP, but that may be related to other issues.

Hm.. well this will definitely be interesting!