Here’s the next snapshot, 12w42b! We are pushing these very rapidly now because we need to get ready for the 1.4 pre-release (which needs to be out before the official release on October 24). Since yesterday’s snapshot we’ve done…

1.Falling sand now properly ΓÇ£popsΓÇ¥ when falling on non-solid blocks (such as torches)
2.The redstone repeater lock mechanism is now slightly more stable / predictable. ItΓÇÖs still not 100% as we want it, but fixing it completely will require bigger changes that weΓÇÖve planned for Minecraft 1.5.
3.Fixed tooltip width for renamed items
4.Added a number of sound events, but the sound effects are not added yet
5.Server ping will now tell if the server and client have mismatching protocol versions
6.Updated translation files


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INSTALL INSTRUCTIONS 


Windows- 

1. Type %appdata% in the search bar 

2. .minecraft/bin

3. Drag/Copy the new minecraft.jar file into /bin folder and replace it.

4. Make a new folder named "server" .minecraft/server in that folder drag/copy the minecraft_server.jar file 

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MAC - 

1. goto Finder/User/Library/Application Support/minecraft 

2. FOLLOW STEPS 2-4 above.

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