Java Edition 1.4.6

1.4.6https://mcupdate.tumblr.com/post/38375290540/minecraft-146 is an update to Minecraft () that was released on December 20, 2012. 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.
A pre-release version of 1.4.6 was released on December 17, 2012; this pre-release version was later re-uploaded to fix an issue with mobs spinning.
The release version of 1.4.6 differs from the reuploaded pre-release by fixing a crash issue.
== Additions ==
=== Blocks ===
; Nether brick slabs
* Crafted using nether bricks.
=== Items ===
; Enchanted books
* Enchant 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.
; Firework star
* Used to create firework rockets.
* Combine gunpowder with dyes to get a firework star with those colors used for the sparkles.
* Add Glowstone Dust, a fire charge, a diamond, a gold nugget, feather, or a 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.
; Firework rocket
* Non-destructive, rise up in the air, and create colorful patterns when shot by dispensers or placed by players.
* Combine paper with gunpowder to craft a firework rocket.
* Add a firework star to add effects, or gunpowder to increase the flight duration.
=== Gameplay ===
; Thorns
* A new armor enchantment.
* Deals damage depending on tier to attackers.
* Wears armor out faster.
== Changes ==
=== Blocks ===
; Monster spawners
* Can now spawn differently configured mobs with different spawn chances
=== Items ===
; Bows
* A high pitched sound is now played when a player hits another player from far away with a bow.These changes occurred between the last development version for 1.4.6 and the full release of it.
=== Mobs ===
; Ghasts
* Fireballs' blast radius can now be customized
; Skeletons, zombies, and zombie pigmen
* The armor and enchants they spawn with now are even harder on harder difficulties.
=== Non-mob entities ===
; Arrows
* Now render from farther away.
; Items and item frame entities
* Now render in 3D when using fancy graphics.
=== World generation ===
; s and s
* Now have a random chance to have enchanted books in their chests.
=== Gameplay ===
; Inventory
* Items can now be dragged and dropped.
**Long pressing will halve 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.
; Enchantments
* 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.
; Sneaking
* Pressing while sneaking now uses the held item instead of the currently selected block.
; Death messages
* Now appear in server log files.
=== General ===
; Display
* Added a default resolution setting to options.txt: overrideWidth:0 and overrideHeight:0.
; Options
* Added an option to toggle touchscreen mode.
== Removals ==
=== General ===
; Distance effects
* Falling block behavior has changed - they are no longer capable of infinitely producing dropped items at high coordinate values.
== Fixes ==
=== Release fixes ===
These fixes occurred between the last snapshot for 1.4.6, 12w50b, and the full release of 1.4.6.
; Other fixes
* Fixed mouse wrongly positioned in fullscreen.
== Trivia ==
* 1.4.6 is the first minor update to have snapshots.
== Notes ==
== References ==
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