Java Edition 1.6.1

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1.6.1,^[1] the release of the Horse Update, is a major update to Java Edition released on July 1, 2013,^[2][3] which added many new features including horses and their relatives, leads, coal blocks, carpets, new commands, resource packs and a new launcher.

A pre-release version of 1.6.1 was released on June 28, 2013.^[4] This pre-release is identical to the full release of 1.6.1.

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Carpets

• Crafted with 2 matching colors of wool in a horizontal line, yields 3 carpets.
• Can be placed on any block.

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Hay bale

• Can be placed in all orientations.
• Crafted with wheat placed in a 3×3 arrangement.

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Hardened clay

• Obtained by smelting a clay block in a furnace.

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Block of coal

• Crafted with coal placed in a 3×3 arrangement.
  • Charcoal cannot be used to craft this block.
• Can be used as furnace fuel and smelts 80 items, more than 9 coal (72 smelted items).
• Was originally added in an April Fools' update, 2.0.

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Stained clay

• Comes in 16 colors, one for each dye.
• Crafted by surrounding any dye with hardened clay in a crafting table.

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Horse armor

• Comes in diamond, iron, and gold variants.
• Cannot be crafted and can only be found in most types of generated chests, including in dungeons, mineshafts, Nether fortresses, desert temples, and jungle temples.

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Lead

• Can be used to bind mobs to fences or lead them around.
• Right-click mob first, then right-click fence or right-click the mob again to get the leash back.
• Crafted with 4 string and 1 slimeball, yields 2 leads.

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Horse spawn egg

• Can be used to spawn horses and donkeys.

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Name tag

• Found in dungeon chests.
• Name it on an anvil, then right-click a mob to name it.

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Horses

• Creation assisted & inspired by DrZhark's Mo' Creatures mod.
• To tame, ride them, and get thrown off a few times until hearts appear.
• Can be bred using golden apples and golden carrots.
• Drop leather when killed.
• Health can be restored using bread, sugar, hay bales, wheat, apples, golden apples, and golden carrots.
  • Baby horses can be grown the same way.
• Players riding saddled horses are granted full control over the horses' movement.
• Color, markings, maximum health, jump height, and speed vary between horses.
• Press the inventory control while mounting a horse, or press the using control while sneaking and looking at a horse to access its inventory to deal with its storage, armor, and saddle.
• Rarely spawn in small groups.

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Donkeys

• Like horses, but smaller and gray, and can carry chests with 15 slots on their saddles.

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Mules

• Obtained by breeding a horse with a donkey.
• Can wear chests on their saddles, just like donkeys.
• Not breedable with horses, donkeys, or other mules.

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zombie horses

• Require third-party modifications to be used in-game.

Status effects

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  Health Boost
  • Gives a player 4HP👁 ❤️
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    base health; extra health vanishes when the effect ends.
  • Can be acquired in-game using the command /effect <playername> 21 <duration in seconds> <amplifier>.
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  Absorption
  • Gives a player 4HP👁 ❤️
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    "absorption" health that cannot be replenished by natural regeneration or other effects, but would return every 30 seconds, regardless of the state of the rest of the health bar; absorption health vanishes when the effect ends.
  • Can be acquired in-game using the command /effect <playername> 22 <duration in seconds> <amplifier> or by eating either tier of golden apple.
• Saturation^{[note 1]}
  • Causes food meter to be replenished by 1 (👁 🍖
    ) per tick.
  • Can be acquired in-game using the command /effect <playername> 23 <duration in seconds> <amplifier>.
  • Affects the hunger bar.
  • Does nothing if hunger bar is full.

/spreadplayers

• Spreads certain players from an origin point.
• Has a max spread and minimum distance from player to player.
• Can be used with the team's scoreboard functionality to spread team members to the same location.

/playsound^{[note 1]}

• Can be used to play sounds to players.
• The pitch and volume of sounds played using this command can be customized.
• Can use sounds from resource packs.

/gamerule arguments

• naturalRegeneration
  • Toggles natural health regeneration.
• doDaylightCycle
  • Toggles the day-night cycle.

Resource pack system

• Replaces the texture pack system.
  • A conversion tool that converts texture packs into resource packs was released by Dinnerbone and is available here.
• Contains:
  • Textures
  • Sounds
  • Fonts (partially)
  • Language files
  • Credits
  • End Poem
  • Splash text
• New "missing texture" texture

Attribute system

• Item attributes using NBT tags:
  • Attributes can be additive, subtractive, and multiplicative using a set value.
  • Some items have default modifiers in place of previously hard-coded attributes.
  • Examples of possible changes players could make: a bow that slows the holder, a helmet that buffs health, etc.
• Entity attributes:
  • These properties can now be changed as easily as any other NBT attribute.
  • Entity speed, base health, base attack.
• Other properties like weapon damage/bow draw speed/sword swing speed are yet to follow.

Splash screens

• "HURNERJSGER?"
• "What's up Doc?"

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Lapis lazuli block

• Retextured subtly; it now has a border around it.

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Redstone comparator

• Now gives out a signal for cauldrons and end portal frames depending on their state.
  • Cauldrons give from zero signal (empty) to three signal strength (full) depending on the water level inside.
  • End portal frame varies between zero and fifteen signal strength, depending on if an eye of ender is present.

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Command blocks

• Can no longer be mined or destroyed in Survival mode.

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Lava

• Now decays properly.

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Charcoal

• Retextured, with more brown shading to differentiate from coal.

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Saddle

• The player can now put a saddle on a horse.

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Golden apple

• Now requires gold ingots instead of gold nuggets to craft.
• Now gives Regeneration II for 10 seconds and both tiers give Absorption for 1 minute and 30 seconds.

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Glistering melon

• Now requires 8 gold nuggets.

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Spawn eggs

• Now work on water.

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Flint and steel

• Now loses durability when igniting TNT.

All mobs

• Mobs named "Dinnerbone" or "Grumm" are now flipped upside down.
• Now spawn in groups again.

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Zombies

• Now have a small chance to spawn additional zombies when damaged or not being looked at.
• Able to lock onto a player from 40 blocks away (formerly 16 blocks).
• Mobbing zombies can now move when further than 32 blocks from a player.
• No longer attack when provoked by players in Creative mode.

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Villagers

• Now have sounds for trading, getting hurt and other things.

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Withers

• Armor has been retextured.^{[note 1]}

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Spiders

• Now have a chance to spawn with potion effects.

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wolves

• No longer attack when provoked by players in Creative mode.

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zombie pigmen

• No longer visibly catch fire when going into fire or lava.

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Deserts

• No longer contain water lakes.

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Nether

• Added chest generation in nether fortresses.

Riding mounts

• When riding a mob, its health is on the heads-up display.
• When riding an entity, dismounting has changed from right-clicking the entity to using the sneaking control.
• New boat physics with lower inertia.
• Boat controls have been changed from the , , and keys to mouse control.
• Boats now take damage and break when colliding with many lily pads in a short time.

Respiration enchantment

• Now also helps seeing underwater.

Changed the idea of mob difficulty

• Regional difficulty: the longer player spend in one area, the harder it gets.
• Scales with difficulty - items, enchants, or AI improve with difficulty.

Tooltips

• Added extra tooltip info in the search tab for the creative inventory, which shows what category a block/item is in.
• Tooltips for swords, pickaxes, shovels, axes, and potions show how much damage the sword/tool does and what effect a potion gives.

Status effects

• Balanced to improve gameplay:
  • Instant Health nerfed by 33% (heals only 4 health points/2 hearts at level I).
  • Regeneration nerfed by 50% (takes 50 ticks/2.5 seconds to restore 1 health point/.5 heart at level I).

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Hunger

• Natural health regeneration now costs hunger/saturation points.

Creative mode

• It is no longer possible to break blocks with swords in Creative mode.
• The experience level is no longer displayed in Creative mode.

Technical

• Support for Java 5 and PowerPC users was dropped.

Internal chat system

• Lots of messages should be translated now that were previously not.
• Messages are now better modularized.
• Server messages can be sent by their code-defined name, allowing the client to utilize the correct translation according to their language settings.
• Color can be specifically designated, preventing leakage into further messages.
• Updated language files and fixed missing strings.

New launcher

• Increases performance and stability.
• Minecraft game icon changed to a crafting table, presumably to differentiate between game and launcher.
• Allows LWJGL to be updated, fixing many launcher bugs.
• Supports multiple versions/installs.
• Self-updatable.
• New password storing system.
• More user-friendly.
• A major step towards the Plugin API.
• New authentication system - "Yggdrasil", which is more secure and has more features.
• If downloaded for free, it only lets users play the demo world.
• Accounts are mandatory.

Realms

• Added handling of invitations.
• Added resetting realm with one of the provided realm templates.
• Added viewing backups for a realm and the ability to restore them.
• Added setting the owner of a realm as game master operator.
• Added confirmation screens for various actions such as deleting a realm.
• Ability to leave someone else's realm that previously accepted an invitation for.
• Fixed game mode and game difficulty issue.
• Minor GUI fixes for better usability.

NBT

• Saddle to EntityHorse has now been re-added.^{[note 1]}

86 issues fixed

From released versions before 1.7.4

• MC-137 – Ping packet doesn't include host information.
• MC-188 – 'doFiretick' makes fire to not extinguish. Lighting makes fire all over the place!
• MC-483 – Keyboard Unresponsive on OS X.
• MC-505 – Boats float in middle of air after logout and re-login.^{[note 1]}
• MC-507 – Teleporting to Large Numbers Creates a Broken Error.
• MC-552 – Command block choosing wrong people / Selecting players cross-dimensional.
• MC-560 – Sound made by mobs in water causes massive FPS drop.^{[note 1]}
• MC-590 – Mobs not realizing they killed their attacker and trying to attack empty space.
• MC-607 – Running at a high resolution causes large portions of the screen to be unclickable.
• MC-671 – Minecarts with Furnace consume coal in creative mode.
• MC-820 – Death messages in English regardless of the selected language (Multiplayer).
• MC-1038 – Beacon Block Incorrect Texture When Surrounded by Blocks.
• MC-1124 – Mouse "Back" and "Forward" open menu in windowed mode.
• MC-1126 – Server command "/whitelist list doesn't display the full list of players.
• MC-1159 – Mouse wrongly positioned in fullscreen.^{[note 1]}
• MC-1202 – Mobs spawn and then quickly despawn in peaceful. Looks like the "ender-porting-out-of-water" effect.
• MC-1229 – Compasses in item frames move with the player.^{[note 1]}
• MC-1320 – [Wolves] won't stop snarling after being punched by someone else.
• MC-1497 – Damaged Anvils do not show damage in inventory or item frame.
• MC-1598 – Zombie pigmen burn for a moment in daylight.^{[note 1]}
• MC-1903 – Console command and set console for a block in Command Block merge when in windowed mode.
• MC-1980 – Zombie villagers are able to despawn during the curing process.
• MC-2097 – You can't get "The End?" achievement.
• MC-2200 – Sleeping while in a minecart produces a graphical glitch.
• MC-2419 – PersistenceRequired tag freezes mobs.
• MC-2453 – Jack-o-lantern name is mispunctuated.
• MC-2476 – Regeneration increases the speed at which damage is taken from cacti, lava, and fire.^{[note 1]}
• MC-2559 – Squid taking damage while in water.
• MC-2692 – Hard to spawn squid.
• MC-2758 – Derailed minecarts float when reloading the world.^{[note 1]}
• MC-3008 – Regular skeleton's melee damage is unaffected by the sword type.
• MC-3090 – Unable to play the game unless LWJGL is manually replaced.
• MC-3695 – Boats/Minecarts and Ender Pearls don't mix.
• MC-3737 – Placing water sources into some blocks yields no drops.
• MC-3798 – 3D Anaglyph biome color corruption.
• MC-3914 – Grass can't be tilled under plants/signs while dirt can.^{[note 1]}
• MC-3960 – After the last use of a bow you get a glitch bow that when dropped and picked up again duplicates.
• MC-4266 – Death counter does not update.
• MC-4631 – Lava decay fails to schedule block update.
• MC-4822 – Skeletons attack like zombies when hit in creative.
• MC-6721 – Ctrl + Alt + Esc crashes Minecraft.
• MC-6828 – Brewing stand feet' sides are transparent when placed against a wall.
• MC-7134 – Silverfish breaking blocks when "mobGriefing" is set to false.
• MC-8073 – Switching from windowed to fullscreen and back moves the point of view.
• MC-9026 – Splash potions particles are incorrect.
• MC-9317 – /scoreboard syntax missing (/help scoreboard).
• MC-9355 – Argument "team" does not work with "!" for other players.
• MC-9584 – Cactus texture error when near a wall.
• MC-9917 – In multiplayer screen holding shift and pressing "down" without selecting any server crashes the game.
• MC-10601 – Can't use the scroll wheel in crash reports.
• MC-11033 – Item count/numbers randomly flickering in item bar, inventory, workbench.
• MC-11199 – Eye of Ender does not always lead to the nearest Stronghold.
• MC-11385 – Scoreboard problem with "seeFriendlyInvisibles".
• MC-11439 – Memory leak switching texture packs.
• MC-11595 – 1.5 HD Texture pack stitched images greater than 2048 resolution result in massive performance drops.
• MC-11605 – Certain death messages will print "null" as the player/mob name that caused the death.
• MC-11765 – Command Blocks breaking easily in survival.
• MC-12017 – Can get permanently stuck in a minecart in a nether portal.
• MC-12241 – Minecart collision boxes are briefly positioned wrong.
• MC-12526 – Minecarts off-track float.
• MC-12569 – Sitting in minecart is higher than it should be.
• MC-12733 – Minecart hitbox too large.
• MC-12906 – in the /help menu, the /debug option does not show the <start/stop>.^{[note 1]}
• MC-13177 – New Client and Server Outputs Increase Loading Time.
• MC-13276 – Zombies with increased health don't deal damage.
• MC-13330 – Mob armor percentage likely error.^{[note 1]}
• MC-13559 – Pick block from inventory in creative doesn't preserve the size of stacks.
• MC-14218 – Minecraft can't handle 4096x4096 or larger cloud textures.
• MC-14757 – Stacked Entity Spawner creating mass duplicate ghost entities.
• MC-14795 – Wither is still named "Withern" in German.
• MC-14926 – Cannot use resolution clock and compass textures with resolutions higher than 16x16.
• MC-15145 – Receiving a very high amount of damage at once creates ghost mode in multiplayer.
• MC-15732 – Achievement "We Need to Go Deeper" rewarded for going through an End Portal.
• MC-16075 – Entities other than the player can't leave the end.
• MC-16530 – When under resistance effects above 5, /kill command does not work.
• MC-16554 – lang files for en_US is grammatically incorrect at death.fell.finish.item.
• MC-17037 – No error report when Minecraft crashes.
• MC-17280 – Freezes When Moving.
• MC-17701 – Fire Animation Jumps and skips frames.
• MC-18088 – Sticky and unregistering keys during normal Minecraft play only, AMD processor driver conflict?
• MC-18324 – Text misplaced on Direct connect, Rename World screen.
• MC-18483 – Shift clicking on the destroy item button in multiplayer doesn't work.
• MC-18640 – Crash when language file of currently selected language is missing.
• MC-18713 – If a team name has "-" in it, the argument for seeing if anyone is in the team doesn't work.
• MC-19029 – Instant health effect set to a 29, 61, 93...253 value kills any player without any death message.

From the current version, hotfixed

• MC-19849 – The game starts and has the Mojang title, but then the next slide is black except the bottom left corner, which is dirt.