Minecraft 1.12.2/1.11.2 (The World Of Colours Update)

By Moon ❘ June 8, 2017 ❘ 3,653 views

Minecraft 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
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