Minecraft 1.7.2 Official Download

Minecraft 1.7.2 has been published in the launcher! Get it now!

The Update that Changed the World. This update includes 1.7 and 1.7.1

What’s new?

• Added lots of new biomes!


• Added “AMPLIFIED” world type


• Added Acacia and Old Oak wood types


• Added Stained Glass


• Added Packed Ice, Red Sand, Podzol


• Added a bunch of new flowers, including double-height flowers and grass


• Added more types of fish


• Fishing rods can be enchanted


• Achievements are now world specific


• Gaining achievements now announced to other players


• Added a few new achievements


• Servers can now have a “server-icon.png” that is displayed in the multiplayer list


• You can see who’s online before joining, just hover the player count number in the server list


• New /summon command


• Added Command Block minecart


• Links in chat are now clickable


• Click on somebody’s name to send a private message


• Added a bunch of new graphics options


• Added some shader tests (click on the “Super Secret Settings” a couple of times…)


• Biome placement has been improved, and oceans are smaller


• Portals to the Nether can now have different shapes


• Fishing is now more interesting


• Maps in item frames are now extra big


• The achievement screen is zoomable


• Preparations have been made to offer name change in the future


• You can now have multiple resource packs loaded at the same time


• Resource packs can now hold sound effects


• Servers can recommend resource packs


• Network code has been rewritten


• Sound manager has been rewritten


• Many many bug fixes…


• Removed the Rose flower


• Removed Herobrine

Download Links:

Minecraft for Windows

Download Minecraft.exe. Place it anywhere you want, then run it.

Minecraft for Mac OS X

Download Minecraft.dmg. Unpack and place Minecraft in your /Applications folder.

Minecraft for Linux / Other

Download minecraft.jar. 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 (Mirror) 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 with java -Xmx1024M -Xms1024M -jar minecraft_server.jar (Mirror) nogui.