1.5 Release notes

[Heartview]

The 1.5 Update is now live, and its now time for the update thread.

Included in the update:
Weather
Statistics
Achievements
Detector and Booster Rails
Birch and spruce Saplings have been added
GUI sizing opions have been added
Advanced OpenGL for people with nicer graphics cards (Occlusion Culling. It means it doesnt render objects/blocks that are not visible.
When lightning hits a pig, it turns into a zombie pigman
Ladders will now make 2 ladders when crafted instead of one
Holding shift, and putting items in to a chest will drag all items of that type in. Same works for taking them out.
Ladders will not work if there is a gap in them anymore.
Unnamed performance fixes
If you set a pig on fire, he will drop Cooked Pork instead of raw pork.
New armor image (power.png in the armor folder)
New large painting.
Saplings can now be used as fuel for smelting, and have the same power as sticks.
Wolves are now more common
Crops that have been growing next to water will drop wheat and seeds.


Bug Fixes:
Grass on the sides of blocks is now biome specific *only when on fancy graphics.
Water flow has been returned to normal ()
Wolves now understand doors a little better. (They might get stuck sometimes)
Better (Smooth) lighting for portals and ice ar fixed. Instead of triangles on the blocks they are now rendered right.
Wolves now only whimper in SMP when their health is actually low.
Unpowered Redstone is red again.

New Bugs:
A̶c̶h̶i̶e̶v̶e̶m̶e̶n̶t̶s̶ ̶d̶o̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶ ̶w̶o̶r̶k̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶S̶M̶P̶ Achievements will work, but you need to complete the firs achievement in SSP first.
Lava will generate on land sometimes
THE GAME WILL CRASH IF A DETECTOR RAIL IS PLACED NEXT TO A NORMAL RAIL.
Expect a stealth update sometime soon as this will need to be fixed
Skeletons can shoot through corners of glass
Blocks cant be placed on snow
Changing AdvancedGL to on, then back off will cause big holes to appear
Jumping off of a fence in SMP will cause you to be kicked for flying, if the server has the 'Allow Flight' command to false.
Rain comes through glass.
The animation for destroying blocks is darker on the side of grass blocks when playing on fancy graphics.
GUI is not straight for the New world input areas on small and normal size
Water doesnt push empty minecrats
Achievements might not register sometimes. Either do it again, or try it again on another world.
FPS counter shows Chunk Updates instead of FPS
When in the achievements menu, the game will continue instead of being paused.
Trying to redirect a rail corner to another track using redstone (a switch) will crash the game.
Riding in a minecart into a corner that is not connected to the current track (a switch) will crash the game.
Furnaces will sometimes keep burning even after they get done
Redstone can be placed on snow (unknown if glitch or intentional)

Weather:

New weather types are Rain, Snow, and Thunderstorms

While it is snowing, snow on the ground and ice will form again.
Rain will put out all fires except ones started on netherack
Lightning will cause fires, but be put out by the rain
Crops will get watered in the rain
Thuderstorms are indicated by their much darker look. A normal weather occurrence has 14 light in the world, while during a thunderstorm there is only 7. This is dark enough for hostile mobs to spawn.
At the moment, there is no known way to toggle weather off.


Achievements:


Achievements are a new feature in Minecraft that allows players to get awards when doing something. These achievements differ from stats, and include doing various tasks such as chopping down a tree, or riding a pig off a cliff.

For a guide on how to get all achievements, go here:
https://www.mpgh.net/forum/422-minecr...ent-guide.html

Statistics:


Statistics are another feature added in the game, that will track players various stats as they play. Things such as times play, distance walked, ores mined, tools used are included, along with many others.

Detector Rail:



A new addition to the minecar tracks, that acts just like a normal button would. When a minecar passes over it, it will generate a signal to all adjacent blocks, activating things like circuits, powered minecar tracks, and even doors and other more complicated systems as well.

Placing one of these next to a regular minecart track will crash your game. Wait til the game gets another update before messing with these.
Booster Rail:
tba

Ladders:
2 Ladders will now be crafted instead of one.


Ladders will also now require to be one whole piece in order to climb them. If there is a gap in your ladder, you will not be able to get up it.


GUI Scaling:
The new feature lets you scale your GUI to what you like, instead of it being auto stretched to fit on the screen.

I wont embed the pictures because they are large, so just click them to see the differences. Its pretty obvious.

Small:
Half the original window GUI size.
https://img233.imageshack.us/img233/4...1911024939.png

Normal:
Normal window sized GUI.
https://img560.imageshack.us/img560/9...1911025317.png

Large:
Twice the default window size GUI.
https://img27.imageshack.us/img27/326...1911025673.png

Auto:
Automatically fills the GUI to fit on the screen.
https://img685.imageshack.us/img685/5...1911030129.png

New Painting:
A new painting was added in. Its a large 4x4 painting, and is a picture of a skull on fire:


Armor:
T̶h̶i̶s̶ ̶m̶a̶y̶ ̶b̶e̶ ̶s̶o̶m̶e̶t̶h̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶t̶a̶h̶t̶ ̶i̶s̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶ ̶a̶ ̶f̶u̶t̶u̶r̶e̶ ̶u̶p̶d̶a̶t̶e̶,̶ ̶b̶u̶t̶ ̶a̶ ̶n̶e̶w̶ ̶a̶r̶m̶o̶r̶ ̶f̶i̶l̶e̶ ̶w̶a̶s̶ ̶a̶d̶d̶e̶d̶ ̶i̶n̶,̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶d̶o̶e̶s̶n̶t̶ ̶r̶e̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶l̶o̶o̶k̶ ̶l̶i̶k̶e̶ ̶m̶u̶c̶h̶ ̶a̶t̶ ̶a̶l̶l̶:̶
This file is for when mobs get hit by lightning. Unknown why it is in the armor folder, simply besides the fact that the electricity acts like armor in game.



This appears to be the vast majority included in the new update. I will keep updating if any new info arrives, but this seems to be just about the entire 1.5 update.

[Bandicoot]

good job man congratz on stayin up with me lolz

[Heartview]

good job man congratz on stayin up with me lolz

Worst part is it came out less than like 5 minutes from when I woke up this morning. No reason to stay up all last night.

[Bandicoot]

Worst part is it came out less than like 5 minutes from when I woke up this morning. No reason to stay up all last night.

i stayed up the whole time lol

[Heartview]

The bugs in this update seem to be pretty bad. There is at least 2 game hindering ones, so expect either a stealth patch, or a whole new version to come out. I will update this thread accordingly when it does, to let people know what has been patched and what hasnt.

[Thaz]

Very nice man.

[Rigby]

awwww i wanted pistons
and now my goddam ladders in my cave wont work

[Heartview]

awwww i wanted pistons
and now my goddam ladders in my cave wont work

Pistons were confirmed to not be in this update quite a while back. And the ladders thing sucks, because no I have to go through my ddep cave systems and fix all my ladders, and find new places for my torches in some of my mine shafts.

[Cal]

Now THIS
is alot better.
THanks and thanked the thread.

[tambre]

nice one!
ladders update is actually someway good...

[Heartview]

nice one!
ladders update is actually someway good...

Its kind of a pain though because I have a couple mineshafts that go all the way down to the bottom of the map, and I cant get back up them because I had to put gaps for torches. :\

[Cal]

yeah, they should just gie you 2 ladders but stil allow gaps.

[Heartview]

The amount of new bugs now outweighs the new features. At least 3 of them will crash your game too. I wonder how long its going to take for a fix for those.

[Cal]

Give it aday.

[Insomniac]

I wish i was on when it just came out D: