Minecraft version 1.2 (actually 1.2.1) is now officially released! Get it by updating the game in the Minecraft launcher. Features include:

• New jungle biome
• Added ocelots
• Added cats
• Added iron golems
• New AI for mobs
• Tame wolves can have puppies
• Villagers will have children if there is room in their village
• New map height limit (256 instead of 128)
• New items and blocks
• Doors have been updated so that double-doors work better with redstone
• Added rare drops for mobs
• Many other minor tweaks and fixes

In addition, the Minecraft launcher has been updated. The new launcher should properly select 64 bit Java installations for Mac OS X users. If you haven’t downloaded Minecraft yet you can grab it here: www.minecraft.net/download

Update: Uploaded Minecraft 1.2.2 because birches and pine trees were missing…

The guys over at Oxeye have worked liked machines and they have released a new update for the alpha! It contains gazzillion of fixes and tweaks. You can read the full change log after the jump.

If you have the installer just start it and it will update automatically.

You can grab Cobalt here: www.playcobalt.com

v102 ALPHA

Time for the snapshot of week 3, 2012! List of changes, since 1.1 last week:

• Ladders regained their collision box, and vines are climbable when they have a solid block behind them
• Added jungle biome (requires a new world) with new tree and leaf types
• Updated language files
• Dispensers will place mobs instead of releasing the spawner egg
• Zombies have new path-finding AI
• Wolves have new AI and can be bred (when tame)

Get the snapshot here:

• Client: http://assets.minecraft.net/12w03a/minecraft.jar
• Server: http://assets.minecraft.net/12w03a/minecraft_server.jar

// jeb and jon

No sane person can be for SOPA. I don’t know if we’re sane, but we are strongly, uncompromisingly against SOPA, and any similar laws. Sacrificing freedom of speech for the benefit of corporate profit is abominable and disgusting. — Notch

Tomorrow, January 18, we will close down www.minecraft.net, www.mojang.com and www.playcobalt.com in a protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act. Read more about the protest on reddit’s blog, Wikimedia Foundation, WordPress’ blog and Destructoid.

(Minecraft and Cobalt login servers will still be available.)

We are excited to announce that Minecraft 1.1 is out!

Jeb and Jon have been hard at work squashing bugs and creating amazing new features.

Below is a list of some of the added features:

- Bow Enchantments
- Golden Apple recipe
- New language translations.
- Slightly smoothed color transitions between biomes
- Reduced brewing time to 20 seconds
- Added spawn eggs to creative (the colors of the eggs even look like the mobs)
- Added world type options (currently only super-flat and default)
- Removed collision box from ladders
- Sheep eat grass and regain their wool

Plus many bug fixes!

Want to see Minecraft 1.1 in action. Check out this video by the talented H.A.T. Films guys!