Minecraft 1.12.2/1.11.2 (The World Of Colours Update)
By Moon ❘ June 8, 2017 ❘ 3,653 viewsMinecraft 1.12.2/1.11.2, the first release of the World of Color Update, is a major update to Minecraft released on June 7, 2017. This update adds a new crafting system, a new function system, hints for beginners, glazed terracotta, concrete, colored beds, illusioner, and parrots. It also replaces achievements with advancements.
Minecraft 1.12.2/1.11.2 (The World Of Colours Update) Additions
Blocks
- Concrete
- Comes in the 16 traditional dye colors
- Created when Concrete Powder enters into contact with still or flowing water
- Concrete Powder
- Comes in the 16 traditional dye colors
- Gravity affected (like Sand and Gravel).
- When it touches water, it turns into a Concrete block.
- Craftable. Crafting: 4 Sand, 4 Gravel and one of any dye to get 8 Concrete Powder blocks. The recipe is shapeless.
- Glazed Terracotta
- Comes in the 16 traditional dye colors
- Smelt any colored terracotta in a furnace to obtain the Glazed Terracotta of that color (not for natural terracotta).
- Can be placed in 4 directions: North, South, West, and East.
- When placed down while facing the right directions, a repeating pattern can be created. For example, the white terracotta will create the pattern of a sun when four are placed down correctly.
- Will not “stick” to slime blocks if attached to the side, top or bottom, but will if attached to the front or back.
Items
- Knowledge Book
- A green-colored book
- Currently obtainable only with the /give @p knowledge_book command.
- A Knowledge Book with a Recipes NBT tag, which contains a list of item IDs, will be consumed and unlock the specified items’ recipes for any player that uses it
- Particularly useful when /gamerule doLimitedCrafting is set to true
- Spawn eggs
- Parrot (new mob): Green with red dots.
Mobs
- Illusioner
- New villager.
- Affects players with
Blindness for 20 seconds then shoots with a bow.- Its blindness spell will only be cast if the regional difficulty is greater than 2.
- Summons duplicates of itself.
- All copies will show shooting animation, but only the real one can be hit and shoots the arrow
- The original turns invisible
- Does not currently have a spawn egg, so can only be summoned with /summon illusion_illager
- Targets both the player and villagers
- Parrots
- Tamable with seeds
- Fly around, but sit when “tired”
- If fed cookies, the bird dies.
- Poison particle effects are emitted, but poison does not actually kill them
- Displays the message “Parrot was slain by <player>”
- Follow and crowd around nearby mobs
- Imitates sounds of other mobs
- Parrots dance if playing music on a nearby jukebox
- Right-click action available:
- Right-click on a tamed parrot tells it to sit down
- Walking over/through/near a tamed parrot while crouching will cause it to sit on the player’s shoulders
- Will let go if the player jumps
- Can fly with players during elytra flight
- Have 6 health.
- Come in red, blue, green, cyan and gray.
General
- Advancements
- Replaces achievements
- Can be customized via JSON files
- Tab-based UI
- Five tabs (more supported):
- Minecraft: The heart and story of the game.
- Adventure: Adventure, exploration, and combat.
- Nether: Bring summer clothes.
- The End: Or the beginning?
- Husbandry: The world is full of friends and food.
- Data-driven UI, including positioning and layout
- Five tabs (more supported):
- Supports rewards in the form of recipes, loot, experience, and functions
- The only default advancements with a reward are the default “challenge” advancements, which grant experience
- Pop-up notification for when players advance
- New sliding effect
- Comes in two different colors – yellow for regular advancements, and pink for “challenge” advancements
- A number display tracks progress while completing advancements with multiple requirements
- Controls
- Added keybinding options for Creative toolbar saving
- Added new keybinding for opening advancements (default “L”)
- Creative
- Added “Saved Toolbars” tab
- Save toolbars in Creative Mode with C+1-9 and load them with X+1-9
- Can save up to 9 toolbars
- If you keep an empty toolbar, it will clear the bookmarked toolbar and put back the ‘informational paper’ in the respective slot.
- Menu screen
- Added the ability to see credits by clicking the copyright text
- Narrator
- CTRL+B toggles a text-to-speech engine that automatically reads player chat messages, including the name
- Option to toggle narrator between: “off”, “chat & system”, “chat only”, and “system messages only”
- Shows a notification for toggling
- The Narrator will not read commands or command outputs, nor will it read messages produced with /me
- It displays a message whenever the Narrator isn’t available
- Recipe book
- Catalogs recipes that are unlocked when the criteria are met
- When a recipe is clicked, it will appear in the crafting grid and can be crafted if materials are available
- A shift-click ability puts all available materials in the crafting grid
- A new white-and-gray colored notification pops up when the player unlocks new recipes
- The pop-up information that displays upon unlocking new recipes has an icon showing the items that can be crafted with the new recipes
- If you search “excitedze” in the Recipe book, your language switches to Pirate Speak
- Sounds
- New note block sounds
- Bone block = xylophone
- Block of Gold = bell
- Clay = flute
- Packed ice = chime
- Wool = guitar
- New sound effects
- Parrots
- Illusioners
- Casting a fishing rod
- Reeling in a fishing rod
- Throwing an eye of ender
- An eye of ender exploding or popping back into item form
- Putting ender eye in end portal frames (dinging sound)
- Completing the end portal and having the portal spawn (evil sound)
- Boat paddles
- Player drowning
- Player burning
- Tutorial hints
- Only displayed once per device
Everything Added in the 1.12.2/1.11.2 Update
Minecraft 1.12.2/1.11.2 Download Links:
Client: Download from Server 1 (.json)
Server: Download from Server 1