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As many of you probably already know, we are publishing “snapshots” of the development of Minecraft. These are builds of the game that may contain incomplete features or other things that we are testing. These are uploaded separately from the launcher, and are an optional release for those of you who want a sneak peek of what's new in the game.

Posted by Kizzycocoa on Dec 8th, 2011

Hi!

As many of you probably already know, we are publishing “snapshots” of the development of Minecraft. These are builds of the game that may contain incomplete features or other things that we are testing. These are uploaded separately from the launcher, and are an optional release for those of you who want a sneak peek of what's new in the game.

This week's snapshot contains the following changes (since last week):
Sheep eat grass and regain their wool
Farmland is no longer destroyed by items and particles (haha, lol…)
Added multiple languages
Added a “spawn mob” egg item to creative mode
Corrected a setTileEntity multiplayer bug
Corrected a powered rail bug
Corrected a redstone update bug

I would like to give a huge THANKS to all of you who helped out translating the game, and to the Minecraft Coder Pack team for helping out with the administration of the language files. Also a big thanks to Ryan ‘Scaevolus’ Hitchman for help with the Unicode rendering.

The language files are still work in progress, so translation errors and mistakes may still exist. As stated earlier, the snapshots are in development versions of the game :)

You download the snapshot files from here:
Client Assets.minecraft.net
Server Assets.minecraft.net

To use these, you need to replace the JAR file in the application folder and then start the game from the launcher. If you are not sure what I'm talking about, either search for help or wait until we've made an official release ;)

Cheers!

/ jeb

(Mojang blog link)


Just a note to all Minecrafters, I think the development on Minecraft will be posted on the Mojang blog in future, as Notch is no longer in charge. So the Word of Notch is now for his new games --Kizzycocoa

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like.dinosaurrrs
like.dinosaurrrs Dec 8 2011, 8:16pm says:

Cool beans :)

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BlueSunsleader
BlueSunsleader Dec 8 2011, 9:55pm buried:

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Cool beans :)

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Giuseppe
Giuseppe Dec 8 2011, 10:05pm says:

so nothing about that the snow bioms takes over all the other bioms?

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like.dinosaurrrs
like.dinosaurrrs Dec 9 2011, 4:05am replied:

Biomes homes..... biomes.

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TrashCan-Man23
TrashCan-Man23 Dec 8 2011, 10:38pm says:

Awesome that sheep finally regrow wool.
But, seems a bit redundant since when you find 2 sheep, you practically have infinite wool at your disposal - once you start breeding them, of course.

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Kizzycocoa
Kizzycocoa Dec 9 2011, 4:52am replied:

could be the same for all animals. if you have wheat, you have infinite pork, beef, leather, milk, eggs, feathers, chicken, wool, mushroom soup, mushrooms and experience.

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[FH]Gorgutz
[FH]Gorgutz Dec 9 2011, 9:23am replied:

You're going to slaughter animals for experience? :O

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-=Zombine3D=-
-=Zombine3D=- Dec 9 2011, 2:55pm replied:

why not? >)

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l0p
l0p Dec 9 2011, 11:15am buried:

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I dont see any snapshots, i just see minecraft.jar -__-

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MODupper
MODupper Dec 10 2011, 5:55am replied:

-.- The jar is the snapshot silly

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rekondoergo
rekondoergo Dec 12 2011, 3:18am replied:

As stated by Jeb:

"To use these, you need to replace the JAR file in the application folder and then start the game from the launcher. If you are not sure what I'm talking about, either search for help or wait until we've made an official release"

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