Kurz nachdem Minecraft (ab 18,98€ bei kaufen) die "eine Million"-Marke durchbrochen hat (wir berichteten), steht ein neues Beta-Update auf Version 1.2 zur Verfügung . Folgende Veränderungen, Neuerungen und Bugfixes nimmt der Patch vor: 

New features:
-Note blocks (right click to tune, trigger to play)
-15 wool dyes
-A new water dwelling mob
-New tree types
-Reeds magically turned into sugar canes. They still make paper.
-A bunch of new crafting recipes
-One secret useful block
-One secret pretty block
-Cake
-AND MOAR, probably. I forget!

Bugfixes:
-Paintings work in multiplayer
-Disconnecting while riding no longer keeps the player in the world
-A bunch more state is properly synched in multiplayer
-Fixed colors going weird on PowerPC
-Fixed a horrible chunk reload loop in singleplayer
-Fixed most lighting bugs in newly generated SMP maps
-Falling sand behaves better in SMP
-Fixed a few crash on load level bugs