Overview
The Pretty Scary Update gave the game a boss you could summon deliberately, and a reason to want one: the beacon, which projects permanent status effects across a base. Anvils solved the long-standing problem of enchanted gear wearing out, introducing repair, renaming and enchantment combining in one block. Witches and the wither made the Nether and swamps meaningfully more dangerous.
What it added
- The wither, the game's second boss, summoned from soul sand and three skulls
- Beacons, built from a nether star and a pyramid of mineral blocks
- Wither skeletons and wither skeleton skulls in nether fortresses
- Witches and swamp huts
- Anvils for repairing, renaming and combining enchantments
- Item frames and flower pots
- Bats and zombie villagers
- Command blocks and the carrot on a stick
Properties
- Version
- 1.4.2
- Released
- 2012-10-25
