The Xbox Live Arcade version of Minecraft is still red-hot, and like its PC brethren, it too is getting its 9th update not long after the PC version’s was introduced.
This patch will update the end game, giving the Enderdragon a new behavior AI. Also being added are such features as climbable vines, new crafting recipes, among other things.
Check out the full patch list in the notes below:
Changes and Additions:
- Added ‘The End’, with new layout, and new Enderdragon behaviour.
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Added Climbable Vines.
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Added Fire Charge, Wooden Button, Item Frames, Spawn Eggs, Sandstone Stairs, Spruce Stairs, Birch Stairs, Nether Bricks, Spruce Planks, Birch Planks, Nether Brick Slab, Spruce Slab and Birch Slab.
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Added new music for The End and The Nether from C418
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Made buckets and signs stackable.
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Sheep now re-grow their wool after shearing.
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New gravel texture.
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Can now smelt Netherrack into a Nether Brick in a Furnace.
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Blacksmith buildings in Villages now hold chests with loot of the same type as found in Strongholds.
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Crafting recipe change – Sign recipe gives three Signs.
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Crafting recipe change – Half Slab recipes give six Half Slabs.
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Crafting recipe change – Stone Button now requires one block of stone instead of two.
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Added smoother color transitions between biomes.
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Added beaches to terrain generation.
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Fence Gates can now be opened and closed with Redstone.
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Changed Nether Fortress to make Nether Wart rooms more likely.
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Made Nether Wart spawn randomly wherever Soul Sand is generated in the Nether.
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Nether Wart will now grow in the Overworld.
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Made Dispenser dispense mobs from Spawn Eggs, rather than the egg itself.
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Dispenser will dispense lava/water from a Bucket of Lava/Water.
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Dispenser will shoot Fire Charges.
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Trapdoors can be placed on half slabs and stairs
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Allow players to block with a sword when the ‘Can Build And Mine’ option is unchecked by the host.
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Moved six of the twelve music disc quests in the Tutorial World
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Changed the Tutorial world to add climbable Vines, and some of the new items, and removed/reduced the items in the Brewing, Farming and Breeding chests.
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Don’t show the achievements warning when loading a creative map that has already been saved in creative mode.
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Reduced the volume of the Ghast sound effects.
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Increased the distance jukeboxes can be heard from.
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Improved lighting code performance.
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Improved the loading/saving time.
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Changed the display order in the Minecraft Store to show newest DLC first.
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Added How To Play for The End and Farming Animals
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Added HUD size options for both splitscreen and full screen modes.
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Added Reset Nether option to force regeneration of The Nether. This is helpful for older saves that didn’t have a Nether Fortress.
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Added a toggle for Death Messages.
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Added a toggle to hide or display the animated character in the User Interface.
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Allow individual splitscreen users to have their own settings for HUD.
Fixes:-
- Fix for a Nether portal crash due to Ghast fireballs
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Fix for Cave Spider size.
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Fixed Experience Orb pickup sound not having pitch variance.
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Fixed a crash when attaching Glowstone to Pistons.
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Fixed a render update problem on the end of world chunks
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Fixed a crash with players throwing Enderpearls and leaving the game.
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Stop the player animation for eating happening in the Change Skin menu.
