Minecraft 1.4.4 Official Download and Changelogs

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 involvedFirst 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.

Minecraft 1.4.4 Changelogs:

(Includes Minecraft 1.4.3)

• Over 120 bugs and glitches fixed


• Notable: The missing song “where are we now” is now available, but called “wait”


• Notable: Random falling damage due to lag fixed


• Notable: Falling damage when riding minecarts fixed


• Notable: Enchanted book exploit fixed


• Notable: Slimes have correct collision box


• Notable: Signs no longer lose their text client-side

Full list

• Server IPs can now be hidden individually when editing or adding a server


• Server version is now displayed left of the connection bars


• Server ping tooltip now shows if the server and client have mismatching protocol versions


• Mismatching servers can’t be joined


• Renamed Chat Settings to Multiplayer Settings


• Added an option for cape-owners to hide their capes in-game


• Added Fullscreen and VSync toggles


• Though this is not in the settings menu, you may go into the options.txt in %appdata% and toggle advancedToolTips. This shows you the item IDs of everything and the durability of tools and armor.


• The piechart is now shown when using shift+F3 instead of vice versa


• Added the cardinal direction and the degree value to the f value indicating the direction the player is facing


• Now shows which chunk and where in that chunk the player is in on X and Z values


• Pressing P while holding F3 will toggle the auto-pause when the Minecraft window loses focus


• Pressing H while holding F3 will toggle detailed item descriptions, which additionally show item id, damage value, color code, tool/armor/weapon damage and map zoom level and scale on the tooltip


• Updated language files


• Spawn protection now is disabled if there’s nothing in ops.txt


• Spawn protection radius can now be changed in the server.properties file


• Improved Creative inventory


• Items can now be cloned by using Pick Block on them – An item stack with the highest amount of items possible in it will be created


• Items can now be shift-clicked around on the survival inventory screen


• Improved General inventory


• Pressing the 1-9 hotkeys while hovering over an item will exchange that item with the one from the corresponding hotbar slot


• Status effects now cause the inventory window to be off-center regardless of screen aspect ratio