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The 1.4.6 update is now live! There is a massive list of goodies in 1.4.6, so without further delay, let's jump head-first into all it has to offer!

Gameplay

Added Thorns enchant
Armor enchant
3 tiers
Deals damage to attackers depending on tier
Wears armor out quicker

Improved some enchants
Fire Protection now extinguishes fire more quickly
Blast Protection now reduces explosion recoil
Protection no longer is as good as all specific Protection enchants combined

Added Touchscreen Mode setting
Mainly for inventories
You can drag and drop items - Press long to halve the stack before dragging

Added & changed many minor things
Made item drops and framed items render in 3D when using fancy graphics - Screenshot
Added tool highlight when switching items in the hotbar - After switching, its name shortly appears above the hotbar - options.txt:heldItemTooltips - Screenshot
Right-clicking while sneaking now uses the held item instead of the selected block
Dropping items while holding ctrl now drops the whole stack
Added a default resolution setting - options.txt: overrideWidth:0 & overrideHeight:0
Added a warning for users playing Minecraft on soon unsupported systems (PowerPCs and Java 5)
Death messages now appear in server log files

Fixed many bugs
Fixed passive mob spawn eggs not depleting when used on a mob
Fixed minecarts and falling entities flickering
Fixed using number keys on smelted items in furnaces not giving experience
Fixed boats always getting placed in the same orientation
Fixed switching between dimensions resetting the selected hotbar slot
Fixed leaves obtained using Silk Touch having the wrong tooltip and data value
Fixed /enchant not accepting Protection enchant id
Fixed the level up sound not playing
Fixed F3+B displaying invisible entities' hitboxes
Fixed the Wither's projectiles sometimes destroying the Nether Star
Fixed mobs being able to trample farmland when the mobGriefing gamerule is set to false
Fixed endermen not teleporting away when set on fire
Fixed endermen still being set on fire when hit with a flaming arrow
Fixed endermen not opening their mouth when attacked by other mobs
Fixed arrows shot at endermen disappearing
Fixed animals on fire not running away
Fixed staying under water in Creative still causing the drowning effects
Fixed animals appearing to walk through fences in SP
Fixed some items with multi-layer textures rendering both layers separately when on the ground
Fixed tools differing only in damage not being swappable in the inventory
Fixed some Z-Fighting with the beacon
Fixed a graphical issue in the trading GUI
Fixed /say not showing the text in the original purple color
Fixed Pick Block giving double slabs
Fixed minecarts not travelling through Nether portals
Fixed lightning not flashing
Fixed FallingSand spawners failing to save properly and causing crashes
Fixed the blocks in lowest layer of the map not being recognized by beacons
Fixed enchants not showing in item frames and on the ground
Fixed mobs walking slowly for a short while after being hit
Fixed chests becoming out of sync when a user right-clicks it twice quickly
Fixed flaming arrows not catching on fire immediately
Fixed zombies sometimes stopping their attack
Fixed /xp -1L not working to remove partial xp bars when between level 0 and 1
Fixed the cursor being positioned wrongly in fullscreen mode

World Generation

Added enchanted books to village and dungeon chests

Blocks and Items

Mob spawners
Can now spawn differently configured mobs with different spawn chances

Nether Brick Slabs
Screenshot
Crafting Recipe

Enchanted books
Screenshot
Enchant books to receive a single enchant on them
Can be applied to items using anvils, consuming the book
Enchants can be applied to any item in Creative
Sold by villagers and found in dungeon and village chests
Can now be found in loot chests and by trading with villagers
Unbreaking can be applied to anything with durability
Efficiency and Silk Touch can be applied to shears, allowing the harvesting of cobwebs
Sharpness, Smite and Bane of Arthropods can be applied to axes

Firework Star
Screenshot
Used to create Firework Rockets
Combine gunpowder with dyes to get a Firework Star with those colors used for the sparkles
Also add glowstone, a fire charge, a diamond, a gold nugget, feather or a mob head to make the firework twinkling, big, trailing, star-shaped, bursting or creeper-shaped
Craft a Firework Star with dye to change the color the sparkles fade to
Firework Rocket
Screenshot
Non-destructive, rise up in the air and create colorful patterns when shot by dispensers or placed by players
Combine paper with gunpowder to get a Firework Rocket
Also add a Firework Star to add effects or gunpowder to increase the flight duration
Bow
A sound indicates when you hit a player with an arrow
Arrows now render from farther away

Mobs

Skeletons, Zombies & Zombie Pigmen
The armor and enchants they spawn with now are even harder on harder difficulties