New features:
- Potions!
    - Potion Stand
        - Swiftness
        - Slowness
        - Harming
        - Healing
        - Poison
        - Regeneration
        - Strength
        - Weakness
        - Fire resistance
        - Water breathing
        - Leaping
        - Invisibility
        - Night vision
    - Has data_tags: "showParticles"
- Balloons!
    - Ghast Balloon
- Ghast
    - Ghast Tear
- Squid
    - Ink Sac
- Shades
    - Chickens can spawn with them
- Cauldron
    - Dying leather armor
- Stained Glass
    - Stained Glass Backdrop
- Zombie Pigman
    - Pigs turn to Zombie Pigmen when struck by lightning
- Barrier Block
- Can change sheep color
    - Sheep spawn with different colors
    - Black Wool
    - Gray Wool
    - Light gray Wool
    - Gray Dye
    - Light Gray Dye
- Dog collars can be dyed
- Command Book -
    - Has data_tags: "command" and "uses"
- Give command has damage and data_tags property
    - type
    - unbreakable
    - enchantments
    - anvilUses
    - name
- "Difficulty" command
    - Difficulty option is world-specific
    - "Lonely mode" was replaced with "passive mobs" option
    - Gamerule for passiveMobs
- "Enchant" command
- "Lightning" command
- Arrows stick into mobs when they hit!
- Bonus chest
- Nether Wart Block
- Red Nether Bricks
- Dragon Egg is now placeable
- New skin submission process
- Re-added shift+click and drag in inventory
- Snow Golems leave a trail of snow
- Recipe for Clay Block
 
Bug fixes:
- Fixed the "Porcupine" bug, and then readded it as an official Easter egg
- Made keypresses run 59x faster!
- Fixed blaze fireballs
- Fixed broken TNT and explosions
    - Fixed dispensed TNT
- Fixed chicken being able to jump higher than a fence
- Fixed infinite string recipe -
- Fixed item duplication bug when dropping and placing blocks -
- Fixed fishing rod capture direction -
- Fixed minecarts being stuck tilted when falling off a slope -
- Fixed mobgriefing game rule command -
- Fixed fishing XP duplication bug -
- Fixed duplicating bottle glitch -
- Fixed respawning in ridable after dying -
- Fixed pistons not transferring all block data, and optimized their code -
- Fixed items triggering pressure plates only when they bob down -
- Fixed weird empty skins when returning to skin list -
- Fixed ender gems not working with silk touch -
- Armor enchantments are no longer lost on respawn -
- Fixed ender portal in survival -
- Enchanting can no longer result in fortune + silk touch -
- Fixed issues when placing a bunch of Jack o' Lanterns -
- Fixed empty bowls glitching when not using on a mob -
- Holding the mouse down after placing a block no longer uses the block
- Fixed incorrect XP command output
- Fixed rabbits ignoring lonely mode
- Updated furnace code to support durability and item data
- Fixed "trap_door" identifier for commands
- Dirt is no longer flammable
- Using a bottle of enchanting will properly turn it into an empty bottle
- Fixed lightning being completely broken
- Fixed mob names not disappearing on slimes and magma cubes
- Fixed skeletons not making a shooting sound when facing rightwards
- Fixed dropper and dispenser not keeping their names when mined
- Fixed knockback
- Fixed not being able to enchant a renamed item
- Nether eye movement and rotation is even less buggy :D
- Fixed similar enchantments not combining properly
- Fixed respiration enchantment
- Fixed enderman walk animation
- Can no longer place torches on lily pads
- Backdrops will drop when replaced with another block
- Can no longer place fences at the player's current position
- Fit help command output into window
- Fixed water generation (probably)
 
Tweaks:
- Increased mine speed in creative mode
- Endermen can now spawn in the nether
- "~" is now interpreted as "~0" in commands
- tp command outputs position
    - tp ~ ~ says current location
- Increased Rabbit's Foot drop rate
- Reticle points towards mouse better
- Torches wont be placed where they can't be placed
- Shears use durability when used on sheep
- Buffed explosion damage by 4 times -
- Half of the player's experience points are dropped on repawn -
- Corrected all block mining particle colors
- Doubled size of the nether eye
- Wools and dyes are now one item
    - "give wool_blue" is now "give wool 1 0 {type:'blue'}"
- Hunger depletes faster
- Reorganized key bindings menu
 
Updated Graphics:
- Spider
- Chicken
- Iron Ingot
- Gold Ingot
- Dragon Egg
- Brick