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18 Jun 2012

All snapshot News (week 24 and under)









Hello!

There are many videos on Youtube that cover the weekly snapshots, but it is hard to keep track of all the different updates! I decided that I would go over everything added since the 1.2.5 release.


Tripwire
Tripwire is a new Redstone-activating block. You make it by placing ordinary string on the ground and connecting it to two tripwire hooks. It is very hard to see, making it good for traps.

Some Tripwire on Gold Blocks
Emeralds
An emerald is a gem that can be found in extreme hills biomes. It can be crafted into a solid block like all mined substances. An emerald block is very decorative and makes a good trophy for your collection.
Emerald Ore, Emerald Blocks, and Emeralds.

Trading
You can now trade with villagers! They you just right click on a villager to open up a trading box. The villager will say what he will trade based on his/her profession.  Most trades will use emeralds as currency, EG one emerald for two enchantment bottles.
Trading 

Books
By putting a ink sack and feather in your workbench next to a book, you get a book and quill. You can left click with one of these in had to wright in it. Clicking sign will turn it back into a normal book, but with a glowing aurora around it. Clicking done will keep it as a book and quill and let you wright in is another time. This is good for keeping a journal that you want to finish before publishing it.
A Book and Quill

Inventory
The creative inventory was updated to make it much more diffident to use. The items have been sorted out into different tabs, namely Building Blocks, Decorations, Redstone, Transportation, Miscellaneous, Food, Tools, Weapons and Armor, Brewing, materials, Survival Inventory, and Search.
The two most important things I think are Survival inventory and Search. Search as you may have guessed, lets you type in the name of what you are looking for. Survival inventory opens up your survival inventory! In the bottom left corner there is an Delete button. You can click and drag unwanted items into it, or you can just shift-click it to remove everything from your inventory, including your armor!
The New Creative Inventory

Dispensers
When you put a water or lava bucket into a dispenser, it will now place it right where the projection hole is. This can be very useful for traps if you aren’t very good at Redstone wiring.
Dispencers
Coco Beans
When you click on jungle wood with a coco bean in hand, it will plant it on the surface. You can use this to farm coco beans and make nice looking ornaments to decorate your house with.
 Coco Beans
Ender Chests
The ender chest is a very useful tool.  You can put any item into it like a normal chest, and then open your other ender chest and it will be in that one too! This can be useful if you have multiple houses on a server or when making checkpoints on adventure maps. The ender chest is also indestructible without a diamond pickaxe, because it is made of obsidian.
It is advisable to keep another ender chest hidden in case if someone steals yours. They won’t get the items inside but you will lose your obsidian and ender eye.


Bows
Shooting a pressure plate or tripwire wire with an arrow will trigger it. You can make fun games with this, as well as invisible traps.

Enchanting
Enchantments now only go up to level 30. When you open up an enchantment table, it will have a low, medium, and high enchantment in it always, nice if you don’t want to block up your bookcases when you don’t have enough experience. Just note that there will always be a level 30 if you have the max needed 15 bookshelves, half of what you needed before to get a maxlevel.

Ender portals
Ender portals have now been added into the creative inventory.

Captain Astro out.

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