Java Edition Beta 1.2

Beta 1.2 is a version of Java Edition Beta released on January 13, 2011, which added charcoal, note blocks, dyes, squid, sugar, dispensers, lapis lazuli blocks, bone meal and sandstone, as well as changing and fixing other features.
==Additions==
===Blocks===
; Cake
* Crafted from wheat, egg, bucket of milk and sugar.
; Dispensers
* Crafted from cobblestone, a bow and redstone.
; Lapis Lazuli Block
* Crafted from 9 lapis lazuli.
; Lapis Lazuli Ore
* Drops one lapis lazuli when mined.
; Note Block
* Crafted from wood planks and redstone.
; Sandstone
* Crafted from sand.
; Spruce Log
* Can be crafted into wood planks.
; Birch Log
* Can be crafted into wood planks.
; Spruce Leaves
* Currently drops nothing.
; Birch Leaves
* Currently drops nothing.
; Wool
* Re-added dyed wool with a new spectrum
** Currently, brown wool is only obtainable by using external programs.
===Items===
; Bones
* Can be crafted into bone meal.
; Bone Meal
* Used as a dye.
; Lapis Lazuli
* Used as a dye.
* 9 lapis lazuli can be crafted into a lapis lazuli block.
; Cocoa Beans
* Used as a dye.
* Currently only obtainable by using external programs.
* Currently named "Coco Beans".
; Ink Sac 
* Used as a dye.
* Currently named "Ink Sack".
; Charcoal
* Has the same texture as coal.
* Smelted from wood.
; Dyes
; Sugar 
* Crafted from sugar cane.
===Mobs===
; Sheep
* Added gray, light gray, and black variants.
* Drop correspondingly colored wool.
; Squid 
* New underwater mob.
* Drops ink sacs.
* Currently can be milked.
== Changes ==
=== Blocks ===
; Cactus
* Can now be smelted into green dye.
; Dandelion
* Can now be crafted into yellow dye.
; Furnace
* Model changed from to to use new furnace top texture rather than stone.
; Sugar Cane
* Renamed - was previously Reeds
; Rose
* Can now be crafted into red dye.
; Spawners 
* Again show a rotating model inside of what they spawn in single player.
; White Wool
* Can now be dyed.
; Workbench
* Now called Crafting Table.
===Items===
; Tools
* Tools made out of wood, stone, iron ingots, and diamond have increased durability.
* Gold tools can mine blocks like stone and wood much more quickly than their diamond counterparts, with the same durability and restrictions as before this version.
; Wheat seeds
* Now harvested more often when plowing grass blocks.
===Mobs===
; Sheep
* Can now be dyed.
; Skeletons
* Now drop bones.
; Spiders
* Can now climb up walls.
===World generation===
; Ores
* Iron, diamond, and coal are found in larger amounts in caves and other areas.
; Taigas
* Spruces generate instead of oaks.
; Forests
* Birches generate alongside oaks.
===General===
; Controls
* Screenshots can be taken using the key without having to first hold down the key.
; Mods
* Included the FastRender mod by Scaevolus.
==Bugs==
*Powered Redstone does not update properly when a new power source is added.
*Rails always face north even if there are rails next to it.
== Fixes ==
; 10 bugs fixed
* Paintings now work in multiplayer.
* Disconnecting while riding no longer keeps the player in the world.
* A bunch more state is properly synced in multiplayer.
* Included PowerPC color and audio fixes by Scaevolus.
* Fixed a horrible chunk reload loop in singleplayer.
* Fixed most lighting bugs in newly generated multiplayer maps.
* Falling sand behaves better in multiplayer.
* Fixed a few crashes on load level bugs.
* Jack o'Lantern now has correct tooltip.
* Bricks now has the correct tooltip.
* Sheep now visibly lose their wool when hit in multiplayer.
== Trivia ==
* Beta 1.2 is the first version of Minecraft released in 2011.
==Gallery==
b1.2redstonebug.png|Showing the redstone update bug, also the first known instance of MC-184.
Minecraft Webpage Beta 1.2.png|The Minecraft Webpage with this version.
== References ==
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