Rumours and facts minecraft updates

i dont understand why development is so slow with Minecraft, apparently its selling some 17,000 copies a day on XBOX Arcade, why with its success has development continued at a snails pace?

they Say they want to Work On the Xbox verson For a while

They were also working on scrolls.

With the new beacon block you will be able to use more than one type of block in the pyramid.

/gamerule

/gamerule doFireTick to change if the fire should spread
/gamerule doMobLoot to change if mob's should drop items
/gamerule doMobSpawning to change if mob's should naturally spawn
/gamerule doTileDrops to change if blocks should have drops (does not work for paintings)
/gamerule keepInventory to change if you should keep your items in your inventory if you die.
/gamerule mobGriefing to change if creepers and endermen should be able to change blocks.

Added Night Vision splash potion.

Now servers will be able to turn off mob grief without plugins (look up).

hmm thats interesting especially considering world guard covers all of those already, however it does create a nice focal point for the area of effect

There is going to be a 1.3.2 sometime in august just bug fixes, no features.

1.4:

/spawnpoint to change spawnpoint per player (not the actual spawnpoint but more like an invisible bed)

/spawnpoint <player> <x> <y> <z>

/weather [clear | rain | thunder] <time> to change the weather
/help command improved

Improved villages and villagers to make them more self-aware

1.3.2

Large Oak Trees now generate with sideways logs
You can now toggle showing server addresses in the server list using the F1 key

Bug fixes

Fixed players sometimes falling out of the world when entering the Nether after having been there before in the same session[1]
Fixed players taking damage when water pushes them into corners
Various uncommon crash bugs

1.4

At least one new mob
Item Frames that allow an item to be displayed on a block in a frame.

Any item can be placed in the frame.
A map in the Item Frame will display actual topographical features.
A compass in the Item Frame will actually show direction.
A clock in the Item Frame will actually show the time.

Flower Pots.

Finally I hated some of these Bugs

Ohh, flower pots =D Now we can properly decorate our houses!

Jeb tweeted the DinnerDog? stuff this morning, looks really cool. Old plugin use to allow players to place items inside glass blocks, i wouldn't be surprised if they find a way to bring this feature back

I wonder if we would be able to use a combonation of maps and frames to make a huge map of starmine at spawn.

Added new potions:

Night Vision potion.
Invisibility potion.
Now hides the nametag

Some items have special abilities while inside the frame:

A Map in the Item Frame will display actual topographical features.
A Compass in the Item Frame will actually show direction.
A Clock in the Item Frame will actually show the time.
Clocks will be able to be used as a day/night sensor with Redstone.

Added Flower Pots.

Saplings, Mushrooms, Flowers, Cactus and Bushes can be placed in a Flower Pot.

Added Cobblestone small walls.

Finally a reliable and easy night/day detector! I would also like to see more on these cobblestone small walls.

Cobblestone small walls

Jeb tweeted about adding an old decoration suggestion (the cobblestone small walls). The image shows them as a kind of cobblestone fence. Jeb also mentioned "Dinnerbone's love mugs". Dinnerbone had mentioned a new mob and this may be what jeb is talking about.

Cobblestone small walls:

this picture was laying around the MC forums today, it's probably what the frames will look like.

You will be able to paint leather armor (not just the colours of dyes, you can mix them).

The ability to dye leather armor different colors.[54]

0xFFFFFF amount of potential colors. (Approximately 16 million.)

Wolf collars will be dyable.[55]

An image of flower pots and frames:

Ooh, dyable dog collars! Awesome! Now we can name dogs, and not forget which dog is which

The flower pots look great, it's an awesome addition to decorate our houses. Also the leather background in the frames look very good

interesting about the colour option, lets hope this allows us to colour text on signs properly, and not have the & value count as part of the text limit per line

The ability to dye leather armor different colors.[55]

16,777,216 potential colors.
Put dyes and armor in the crafting grid to apply different dyes.
Item tooltip will then display "Dyed" in the right color.
Use a cauldron to wash armor [56].

Added Corner Stairs. [59]

At least one new mob[44][45]

Dinnerbone has rumored Sandworms as potential new mob. [46]

I think in this Update They will be adding alot of new ways to do stuff With items. IF you notices 1.3 was Mainly about Fixxing Bugs and making Items Easyer to get

I think with the success of Tekkit, they haven't got a choice but to emulate it

I forgot to add that buttons are activated by arrows.

Added new Map functionality.

Maps will be clonable and sharable.[59]
Are now crafted as a close zoom scale and can be extended (zoomed out) by adding more paper [60]

Entities (such as Cows, Minecarts & Ghasts) will be able to pass through Nether portals. [61]
Rewriting Lighting engine. [62] Current engine has some bugs. (See Bug Fixes below.)
Added Lecterns for book display and storage. [63][64]
Possible Flags. [65]

Image of possible lectern design:

you know what would be great, the ability to put your map up on the wall to become a painting