Here’s the development snapshot of week 17, 2012! This week’s list of changes:

• Added editable books
• Wooden half slabs in four colors (and they act as wood instead of stone)
• Bug fixing and tweaks, notably about entity collisions, “picking blocks” (creative mode), and chat
• Some other, censored stuff

Get the snapshot here:

• Client: http://assets.minecraft.net/12w17a/minecraft.jar
• Server: http://assets.minecraft.net/12w17a/minecraft_server.jar (or EXE)

And here is the full list ;)

Complete changelog:

• Re-added the ability to obtain ice using Silk Touch and added it on glass panes
• Ice doesn't melt anymore in the nether, it just disappears now

• Half slabs of all wood types - Screenshot, which now act as wood (Old wooden slabs remain of type stone)

• Added editable books

  • New crafting recipe for book: 3 pieces of paper and one piece of leather in any possible shape
  • Crafting recipe for Book and Quill: one ink sac, one feather and one book in any possible shape
  • Right-click to edit the book
  • You can create up to 50 pages
  • Click 'Done' to save the book
  • Click 'Sign' to choose a title and finalize the book
  • Finalized books glow like enchanted items in the inventory, show title and author as tooltip and can be right-clicked to read

• Added chat settings

  • Switch chat display modes
  • Toggle chat colors
  • Toggle links being clickable
  • Toggle warning prompt when clicking links
  • Change chat opacity

• Added option to rebind the command key, which opens the chat with / in the textfield

• Disabled cheats and bonus chests when generating hardcore worlds

• Dynamic view distance

• Added hover name for silverfish spawner blocks

• Fixed some bugs

  • Fixed entities glitching through blocks - Comparison: before and after
  • Fixed boats & minecarts not being one-hit breakable
  • Fixed tools depleting in Creative
  • Fixed the jumping castle effect when exiting boats
  • Fixed a little glitchiness with boats in SMP
  • Fixed cheats always being enabled in new worlds
  • Fixed automatically stacked item stacks despawning 5 minutes after the first item was spawned
  • Fixed changing the GUI scale crashing the game
  • Fixed /say displaying usage information instead of the broadcast to the sender
  • Fixed flying slowly in liquids
  • Fixed picking huge mushroom blocks (now give mushrooms), portal blocks, paintings & minecarts
  • Fixed raw fish, dyes, saddles, potions, milk buckets and tools depleting in Creative

New bugs:

• The sound and music sliders don't have percentages anymore
• Wooden top slabs all look the same
• Wooden slabs and wooden planks are named inconsistently

Some Images from 12w17a

Sources: Reddit, Mojang, 

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