Minecraft RC2 is now live.

[DragonMasterNYC]

Minecon is only a few days away, but there is one more release for us to test out.

Download: http://t.co/nyWkSGba


Changelog

• New sound effects/usage of previously unused sound effects
• Arrow Sounds
  
  • Firing Sound Changed
  • Hit Sound
  
  
• Snowball Sounds
  
• Chest Opening and Closing
  
• Door, Wooden and Iron, Opening and Closing
  
• EXP Orbs make a Twinkling Sound when collected.
  
• Fence Gate Opening and Closing
  
• Mob Sounds
• Blaze Sounds (Ambient Breathing Noise)
  
• Creeper (Explosion sounds more realistic)
  
• Enderman  (Idle sounds are vaguely similar to the Zombie Pigmen sound effects,  except the sounds for taking damage which are strange grunts)
  
  • Enderman Teleportation Sound (Shortened Version of the Nether Portal Sound)
  • Enderman Staring Sound (Increasing volume, a mix of White  Noise, Growling, and the sound produced when Blowing into a Microphone)
  
  
• Magma Cube Sounds
  
• Silverfish Sounds
  
• Player Sounds
• Damage to Player noise changed to a "Stab-Like" sound
• Drinking Sounds for Potions
  
• Eating Sounds
• Fall Damage now has a Different Sound (A sort of bone-breaking sound)


• TNT and Various Other Explosions
  
• Tool Breaking Noise
  
• Added "Quit Game" button to the main menu.
• Changed redstone wire placement on one block from the "+" to a "•" shape.
• Bows now have a durability bar.
  
• Bows can be fired without having Arrows in Creative mode.
  
• Thrown Eggs now hatch Baby Chickens.
  
• Added new splashes on the title screen.

Bug Fixes
 

• Fixed the bug that causes All Tools to break after loading an old map from Minecraft 1.0RC1
• The "Particles" option no longer overlaps the warning when playing on far render distance with 32-bit .
• Fixed the bug that caused the players EXP level to revert to 0 again after The End credits is finished from Beta 1.9Pre 6
• The full names of Scaevolus and Hippoplatimus are now used in the ending credits.
• You can now talk while entering a portal in SMP
• Obsidian's mining time was increased to 8 seconds from ~3 seconds in 1.9pre6.

Notable Bugs: (Complete bug list)
 

• Drowning sounds are the same as Fall Damage.
• Portals have the old, non-smooth lighting prior to Beta 1.8.
  
• Seeds around water will randomly disappear.
• Fishing rods will get damage in creative mode.
  
• Heart animation won't appear in breeding mode
• Fence gate's hitbox still occupies the whole cube.
• Double Wooden Doors open very strangely.
• Rails can't be switched by near redstone torch, 1 block should be skipped and place torch there (applies even vertically).

Please remember to submit your bug reports.

Happy Mining
UA Staff

[humancatpost]

I read that if you put a torch under a dragon egg, it crashes the game.  This may be a not-yet-implemented incubation system.

[Turboplant]

I read that if you put a torch under a dragon egg, it crashes the game.  This may be a not-yet-implemented incubation system.

Sounds like a lot of speculation. WILD MASS GUESSING

[DragonMasterNYC]

I read that if you put a torch under a dragon egg, it crashes the game.  This may be a not-yet-implemented incubation system.

You never know, would be nice to get the dragon back after killing him.