Java Edition 13w03a

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13w03a is the fifth snapshot for Java Edition 1.5, released on January 17, 2013^[1] which adds droppers, minecarts with hoppers, and the /testfor command.

13w03a was reuploaded twice. The first time was later on January 17, 2013, to fix an issue with droppers duplicating items,^[2] and it was soon reuploaded for a second time half an hour later fixing the inability to break blocks by punching, and random crashes when breaking blocks and items.^[3]

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Droppers

• Places items in containers in front of them.
  • If there is no container it will eject the item without using it.
  • A dispenser "shoots" items at the player, while a dropper "throws" items at them.^[2]
• Crafted using cobblestone, a hopper, and a piece of redstone:

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Minecart with hopper

• Crafting recipe is a hopper on top of a minecart.
• Can only be emptied by passing over a hopper.
• Can pick up items it passes over.

/testfor

• Command to test for players.
• Uses comparators to get an analog redstone signal indicating the amount of found players.

Minecraft Realms

• Strings related to Realms have been added to the localization files.
• At this point, it is named Minecraft Online.
• It is not accessible, and it is currently unknown if any proper code related to Realms exists in this version.

Pillar quartz blocks

• Can now be placed in any orientation – placement works like with wooden logs.

Command blocks

• Comparators fed by command blocks will now indicate whether the last run command was run successfully.

Detector rails

• Comparators powered by them now give out a signal depending on the fullness of the container on the rail.

Locked chests

• Now have their crash fixed causing their texture to be changed again.

Water

• It is now possible to form a source block above another source block. This prevents players from ruining oceans or rivers with buckets.

Skeletons

• Now shoot faster when their target is closer.
• They shoot players even from one block away.

Zombies

• Now call other zombies to attack in a group (radius scales with difficulty).
• Deal more damage if low on health (also scales with difficulty).
• When on fire, they can set players on fire.
• Now become aggressive and come towards the player when shot from further away.

Minecart with TNT

• When blown up using activator rails, they no longer destroy rails and supporting blocks.
• Still blows up redstone materials.

Options

• Added some new chat options in multiplayer menu:
  • Focused Height
  • Unfocused Height
  • Width
• Moved the texture packs button (no longer appears on the main menu).
  • Players can now change texture packs in-game.

36 issues fixed

From released versions before 1.5

• MC-547 – Arrows don't land properly.
• MC-592 – Dying stacked leather armor duplicates the armor.
• MC-916 – Water does not form source blocks properly on top of existing source blocks.
• MC-1570 – Levers have random orientation when placed.
• MC-2582 – Powered/activator rail on slope stays powered/activated.
• MC-2711 – Jukebox crashes when breaking with no record inside.
• MC-2989 – Block "resets" when right clicked with a food item.
• MC-3169 – Wither In Peaceful spawns very glitchy.
• MC-3449 – Block breaking resets when the item you're holding changes.
• MC-4770 – Chat Shown: commands only broken - displays all chats but prevents me from submitting commands with "cannot send chat message".

From the 1.5 development versions

• MC-5719 – Clicking on items in inventory is delayed or does not work.
• MC-5737 – World generating in stripped parts.
• MC-5744 – Daylight sensor emits power in the nether even though there's no day or night there.
• MC-6757 – Game crashes trying to render blocks 55, 64, 71, 95 as items.
• MC-6833 – Doubled up TNT minecarts creates huge lag ("Nuclear minecarts").
• MC-6900 – Locked chest crashes game.
• MC-7019 – Minecart with TNT explodes prematurely before derailing.
• MC-7111 – Melon and Pumpkin seed stems use the fully grown texture scaled down to the right size.
• MC-7119 – Cake uses inside texture on all sides when placed.

From the previous development version

• MC-7084 – Game crashes when looking into a chest that contains items that crash the game.
• MC-7085 – Debug file "stitched_items.png" overlays textures on itself.
• MC-7108 – Hoppers grab/put items from/into chests that aren't connected.
• MC-7125 – Hopper doesn't get the correct powered state when placed.
• MC-7141 – More items going into a hopper than it can hold can duplicate the items.
• MC-7143 – The game crashes after several seconds in the End with NullPointerException.
• MC-7277 – Texturepack-Textures won't load (Mac OSX).
• MC-7301 – Single hopper does not properly grab items form double trapped chests.
• MC-7323 – TNT Minecart explodes after derailing even if it was already activated.
• MC-7342 – Death message shows java entity name (w/ fireballs).
• MC-7349 – TNT minecart "Ticking Entity" crash.

From the current version, hotfixed

• MC-7620 – Dropper duping glitch.
• MC-7622 – Snapshot Crash when trying to break sugar cane.
• MC-7623 – Thrown splash potion doesn't show "potion" inside it.
• MC-7625 – Can't break blocks with nothing in hand.
• MC-7775 – Minecart with TNT and activator track have no names.

Others

• Fixed "<player> was knocked into the void by <player>" failing to show.