Minecraft 1.4.2 Official Download

Changelogs:

• Added a beacon


• Added flower pots


• Added item frames


• Added anvils


• Added cobblestone walls


• Added pumpkin pies


• Added carrots and potatoes


• Carrots can be put on a stick to control pigs while riding


• Added a boss mob


• Added a new skeleton type


• Added witches


• Added bats


• Added mob heads that can be placed


• Zombies now infect villagers, but can also be cured


• Added wooden button


• Items can be cloned with the “pick block” action in Creative Mode


• Items can be quickly moved to the hotbar by pressing 1 through 9 while hovering an item


• Added /difficulty, /spawnpoint, /weather, /gamerule and /clear commands


• Added “target selectors” for commands


• Added option to hide capes


• Added option to toggle vertical synch


• Added customization to superflat worlds


• Minor additions to the world generator


• New potion recipes


• Leather armor can be dyed
  
  
  
  • Maps now start more zoomed in, and can be extended
  
  
  • Redstone repeaters can now be set into a “locked” position
  
  
  • New sound effects
  
  
  • Portals to the Nether can now transport items and mobs
  
  
  • Adventure mode now allows placing and removing blocks, but only when using the correct tools
  
  
  • Changed method of placing sideways wood logs
  
  
  • Improved server list
  
  
  • Improved debug (F3) options
  
  
  • Spawn protection is now automatically disabled if there are no defined admins
  
  
  
  


• Removed Herobrine

Minecraft for Windows

Download Minecraft.exe (270 KB). Place it anywhere you want, then run it.

Minecraft for Mac OS X

Download Minecraft.zip (270 KB). Unpack and place Minecraft in your /Applications folder.

Minecraft for Linux / Other

Download minecraft.jar (89 KB). The jar is executable and might work as-is. If you run into memory issues, try launching it with java -Xmx1024M -Xms512M -cp Minecraft.jar net.minecraft.LauncherFrame, also please use Sun’s JVM.

Multiplayer Server

If you’re running on Windows and just want to set up a server easily, download Minecraft_Server.exe (802 KB) and run it.

If you want to run the server on any other OS or without GUI it’s a bit more involved. First make sure you can use java from the command line. On Linux and Mac OS X this should already be set up but on Windows you might have to tinker with the PATH environment variable. Download and run minecraft_server.jar (621 KB) with java -Xmx1024M -Xms1024M -jar minecraft_server.jar nogui.