Minecraft: 3D Items, New Enchantments, and More! (Snapshot 12w50a)

All right what’s going on dudes and welcome to Minecraft snapshot 12w 50 certainly looks like we’re getting back into the weekly update groove so to speak so that’s pretty swell anyway we got a bunch of new stuff to go over this time so why don’t we get started

So first and foremost probably the easiest thing to point out is the fact that now when you switch to a new active slot in your hotbar if that slot has an item it’ll flash the name of that item over your hotbar for just a couple seconds before fading away sill firework

Rocket spawned spider diamond diamond sword so on and so forth for any of the items in the game now if you’re already familiar with all the items and what they look like you can actually disable this by going into your options text file and I forget what line it is

Exactly but I’m sure you’ll be able to find it if you go to a change log easily enough but even for people who are experienced in the game for myself as an example if I go to play a new adventure map and that adventure map requires you

To use a texture pack it can actually be pretty useful because you’re not necessarily used to what all the different textures look like and just provides you a little shortcut from actually having to go into your inventory and hovering over the atom anyway all a matter of preference and

You can disable it if you’d like so anyway new thing with fireworks is that now they actually have sounds and apparently some visuals were tweaked but I don’t know what that means exactly so most significant addition to them is the fact that now they make noise it’s

Actually a pretty cool noise so here we go that’s just one and then if we fly out the whole bunch boom using fireworks to celebrate the addition of firework sounds we go I actually really like the noise it kind of gets to me like the item pick up

Sound or the the block pick up sound from yeah anyway I really like both those alright so anyway that is new with fireworks now we’ve also got a bunch of new additions when it comes to when chancing the enchantment book sandals so on and so

Forth so why don’t we get into that now alright so now there is a use for silk touch combined with sheers now as far as I know you can’t actually play sheers in an enchantment table it simply won’t work but if you have an enchanted book

With silk touch then you can go in your anvil you can combine the two and you get silk touch spheres now they use for this is that you’re able to harvest cobwebs with them so let’s switch on over into survival mode and if we punch these cobwebs we actually get to keep

Them in our inventory so that is new and useful I suppose if you want to make yourself a haunted house or something I don’t know whatever suits your fancy I suppose anyway so that’s it for silk touch shears let’s switch on back into creative mode and go over another

Actually this is a brand new enchantment so this is called thorns and the way it works is it’s sort of like a damage reflection type dealio so let’s apply it to the armor that we’ve got here and put that on ourselves actually hats of equipped already so we can leave that there

And toss that one okay so now we have this armor that has the thorn enchantment on it so we’ll switch on back into survival and we’ll place down a spider and I actually haven’t tested this yet but ideally what’s going to happen here is that when the spider comes to attack us

He will actually take some damage in doing so so well yeah you see he’s getting highlighted with red when he hits us and now for whatever reason he’s not but couple I’d take some damage there you go there you go you take that damage and then he’s running away why you running

Away dog I need to kill you with armor I need to kill you with an armor why are you not attacking me he’s scared now how he’s scared of my armor here you go come on you could do it can do it I think I

Think I killed him with my armor there I think I punched him and then he hit my armor and then died anyway that was thorns three so needless to say given that he took that many hits it’s not super powerful and apparently it also causes your armor to wear out slightly

Faster you can’t really tell as of right now but with more extended use that would probably be easier to to pick up on all right so now another thing that’s new with the enchanted books is the fact that you have a chance to find them in the wild you can perhaps exchange items

For them with villagers or you can find them in villager chests or stronghold chess or in the dungeon chests so here we happen to have an unbreaking 3 and over here we actually happen to have smite 2 and another unbreaking 3 so these you can find naturally in the wild

And obviously that’s pretty useful rather than having to actually go to your enchantment table you can stumble upon these without having to expend any levels of experience I couldn’t find any villages around so I stumbled upon this first and I decided that the dungeon worked as a suitable example but again

Villagers and villages and strongholds can yield the same results so anyway another another useful thing for the unbreaking 3 which is why I wanted to use that as an example is that now you can actually apply unbreaking to items other than tools so we can have an unbreaking chest plate so any item

That have a durability bar damage values whatever you want to call them they can be given the unbreaking unbreaking enchantment and it’ll just make them more durable which makes plenty of sense why it would be applied to things other than other than tools so yeah that is

New as well alright so then another kind of semi useful new addition is the fact that if you hold shift and whatever your drop key is by default that’s cue for me at sea you can actually drop the pardon me it’s not shift its control if you hold control and your drop key

You’ll actually drop the the full stack of whatever item you have in your in your hopper in your active slot on your op bar so yeah there you go now most of you are probably simply used to going into your inventory and doing that and

Same here but I guess it it takes out a step in that you can just straight-up do it from without going into your inventory screen so time saver if you get used to it and that segues into the final topic pretty well you might notice holy crap these items are actually

Three-dimensional now so here we go let’s just throw down some diamonds here you’ll notice them rotating nicely and it’s actually entirely independent which is really cool I don’t know if this is client I would have to assume that the tracking of the spin position is client sided and not like it wouldn’t be

Showing the same thing to everyone over a server I don’t know for sure though but anyway they don’t all spin with the same position which is kind of nice they’re all independent based on the time they were thrown down so yeah 3d items so cobweb diamond chestplate

Firework all 3d voxel based items it’s pretty cool so that was actually a mod and now it is in the game I don’t know if it was based on the mod but it did exist as a mod and now it’s I think it’s very cool actually

As an aesthetic addition so and uh oh one more thing is I didn’t pay attention to this before it’s very subtle and I’m not sure if this is I was told of the change lug that this is new that the items are three-dimensional other than blocks that like swords and and ingot

Items and drops are actually three-dimensional in the atom frames I never paid close enough attention before to know if this is actually a change so I’m just pointing it out in case because I saw it in the change lock so anyway 3d items and item frames and 3d items in

The drops so yeah that’s about it for this week so thanks for watching if you’ve enjoyed a rating would be very much appreciated and these other nets I will see you all next time