Gamerz, Mercs and Zealots Gaming Clan

As announced yesterday, Snapshot 12w07b has been released a day early.  Among other things, this snapshot includes the addition of a new light source as well as multiple changes to AI and a new file format for Minecraft worlds.  Mojang's official blog post for this snapshot can be found here.

 

The list of changes for this snapshot includes:

- Added new world file format called “Anvil” (256 max height and 4096 block IDs** See note below).
- Multi-player light calculations do no longer cause affected blocks to be transmitted to the clients, instead the clients will recalculate the light on their own.
- Villagers will repopulate villages based on how many houses there are available. AI programmer Jon explains what a "house" is here.
- Some nights in villages will be worse than others…  There's word of zombie sieges on minecraftforum.net.
- Added a redstone-controlled light source. Info on the new redstone lamp can be found here.
- Decreased chance for the rare mob drops.
- All animals use the new AI system now.

** The game can’t use the full range of IDs yet because there are still some assumptions that IDs above 256 are items. **

 

Downloads:

• Client: http://assets.minecraft.net/12w07b/minecraft.jar
• Server: http://assets.minecraft.net/12w07b/minecraft_server.jar
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In order to use the new snapshot, you will have to locate your Minecraft bin folder, and manually replace the minecraft.jar file (or the appropriate server files if you are running a server).