Java Edition 1.4.6

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1.4.6^[2] is a minor update to Java Edition released on December 20, 2012.^[3] It introduced fireworks, enchanted books, and the Thorns enchantment. It also added a warning for users playing on soon-to-be unsupported systems (PowerPC and Java 5). While it was not the last update to 1.4, it was the last one before the snapshots of 1.5 started. This is the final version released in 2012.

A pre-release version of 1.4.6 was released on December 17, 2012.^[4] The release version of 1.4.6 differs from the reupload of the pre-release by fixing a crash issue.^[5]

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Nether Brick Slabs

• Crafted using nether bricks.

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Firework Star

• Used to create firework rockets.
• Combine gunpowder with dyes to get a firework star with those colors used for the sparkles.
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  Glowstone Dust, a 👁 Image
  fire charge, a 👁 Image
  diamond, a 👁 Image
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  mob head to make the firework twinkling, big, trailing, star-shaped, bursting, or creeper-shaped, respectively.
• Craft a firework star with dye to change the color that the sparkles fade to.

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Firework Rocket

• Non-destructive, rise up in the air, and create colorful patterns when shot by dispensers or placed by players.
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• Add a firework star to add effects, or gunpowder to increase the flight duration.

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Enchanted Books

• Enchanted books to receive a single enchantment on them.
• Can be applied to items using anvils, consuming the book.
  • Enchants can be applied to any item in Creative mode.
• Sold by villagers and found in dungeon and village chests.
• Can now be found in loot chests and by trading with villagers.
• Unbreaking can be applied to anything with durability.
• Efficiency and Silk Touch can be applied to shears, allowing the harvesting of cobwebs.
• Sharpness, Smite, and Bane of Arthropods can be applied to axes.

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Thorns

• A new armor enchantment.
• Deals damage depending on tier to attackers.
• Wears armor out faster.

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Monster Spawners

• Can now spawn differently configured mobs with different spawn chances.

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Chests

• Added new textures: xmaschest.png, largexmaschest.png.
  • xmaschest.png changes the chest texture to resemble a red gift.
  • largexmaschest.png changes the large chest texture to resemble a green gift.
  • Chests use these textures on December 25.

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Bows

• A high pitched sound is now played when a player hits another player from far away with a bow.^{[note 1]}

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Ghasts

• Fireballs' blast radius can now be customized

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Skeletons, Zombies, and Zombie Pigmen

• The armor and enchants they spawn with now are even stronger on harder difficulties.

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Arrows

• Now render from farther away.

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item frame entities

• Now render in 3D when using fancy graphics.

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Dungeon

• Now have a random chance to have enchanted books in their chests.

Inventory

• Items can now be dragged and dropped.
  • Long pressing halves the stack before dragging.

Hotbar

• Items now show their name when switching in the hotbar.
  • Can be disabled by changing heldItemTooltips to false in options.txt.
• Dropping items while holding now drops the whole stack.

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Enchantments

• Efficiency now has no effect when using tools on the wrong block types.
• Fire Protection now extinguishes fire more quickly.
• Blast Protection now reduces explosion recoil.
• Protection is not as protective as it used to be in order to make specific enchantments more worthwhile.

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Sneaking

• Pressing use while sneaking now uses the held item instead of the currently selected block.

Death messages

• Now appear in server log files.

Display

• Added a default resolution setting to options.txt: overrideWidth:0 and overrideHeight:0.

Options

• Added an option to toggle touchscreen mode.^{[note 1]}

Distance effects

• Falling block behavior has changed - they are no longer capable of infinitely producing dropped items at high coordinate values.

28 issues fixed

From 1.4.2

• MC-133 – Mobs walking slow when you hit them.
• MC-255 – Graphical issue with trading.
• MC-256 – Mobs can still revert farmlands to dirt even if mobGriefing gamerule is set on false.
• MC-312 – Item textures of spawn eggs and firework stars not aligned properly when stacked.
• MC-498 – Setting an enderman on fire with flint and steel or lava will not make it teleport away.
• MC-674 – Items that are different only in damage cannot be swapped.
• MC-721 – Animals on fire do not flee.
• MC-1140 – Boats always get placed in the same direction and not based on how they get placed.
• MC-1240 – Endermen are set on fire when trying to dodge arrows on fire.
• MC-1311 – When you enter the Nether, the game auto-selects the first item on the toolbar.
• MC-1626 – Z-fighting in beacon block's bottom.
• MC-1847 – Leaves have an incorrect tooltip.
• MC-1969 – Minecarts cannot travel through nether portals.
• MC-2145 – Drowning in creative.

From 1.4.4

• MC-1959 – Placing double slabs ignore damage values.
• MC-2504 – Enchant cannot enchant with ID 0 (Protection).
• MC-4510 – Enchantments not showing in item frames.
• MC-4528 – Flaming arrows take a moment to burn.

From 1.4.5

• MC-3332 – The XP sound doesn't play after getting each 5th level.
• MC-3490 – Minecarts and falling entities flickering / jittering (updated 1.4.5).
• MC-3501 – Passive mob spawn eggs don't consume.
• MC-3565 – Endermen don't open their mouth when attacked by other mobs.
• MC-3593 – Lightning doesn't flash.
• MC-4024 – Chest glitch - Server/Client desynchronization.
• MC-4069 – Pressing F3+B displays hitboxes.. rendering invisibility potions useless.
• MC-4117 – Wither can sometimes destroy its own star due to the posthumous detonation of wither skulls.
• MC-4499 – Beacon tiers don't work at y=0.
• MC-4634 – Cannot remove XP bars from the /xp -1 command when between level 0 and 1.

These fixes occurred between the 1.4.6 pre-release and the full release of 1.4.6.

• MC-4872 – Crash when shot by skeleton.^[5]