Minecraft updates for V1.3

Minecraft has LOADS of new features and updates coming for the next version of it (1.3)

Here is a list for anyone wishing to know.

Planned release date=unknown.

Version Planned Changes Planned Release Date Major versions 1.3

General

• Large amount of internal changes.[1]
  
• Will be able to see blocks other players are mining/breaking in MP [2]
  
• Demo mode playable through non-premium Minecraft.net accounts.[3]
  
• Added Adventure Mode but it still needs more work. [4]
  
• "Large Biomes" world type.[5]
  
• Creative Mode updates
  
  Ender Portal Frames added in Creative Mode
  
• While in Creative Mode, players can supply a powered minecart with fuel by right clicking it as if they were holdingcoal.
  
• Flying in Creative Mode is no longer affected by water and lava.
  
• ⇧ Shift-clicking in Creative improved.
  
• Potions will be in the creative inventory screen.[6]
  
• Improved creative inventory screen.
  
  Category Tabs and Searching
  
• Survival Inventory Tab
  "Backpack" inventory, 2x2 crafting grid, armor, and deletion box.
  

[*]Singleplayer will be a local server.[7]

[*]Commands in Singleplayer.[3]

[*]Optional bonus chests placed close to the player when creating a new Singleplayer world.[3]

[*]Hardcore in multiplayer (HMP).[8]

[*]While sitting inside of a minecart pushing the directional keys will make it move the direction you are pressing.

• Only works on rails.
  

[*]Added a /publish command to singleplayer to allow LAN connection.

• Temporary, and isn't accessible with cheats off.
  

Blocks & Items

• Added Emerald
  
• Added Emerald Ore.
  
• Added Block of Emerald[9].
  
• Added Ender Chest.
  Drops 8 obsidian when broken without Silk Touch.
  

[*]Added Sandstone Stairs.

[*]Added Cocoa Plants that generate on the sides of jungle trees, which can be harvested for cocoa.

• Cocoa Beans have a new texture.
  
• Cocoa Beans drop from jungle tree leaves at the same rate as apples.
  

[*]Added Tripwire Hooks.[10][11]

• The hooks are connected (up to 40 blocks)[12] by string, which will be placeable.[13]
  
• Tripwires work on all entities.[12]
  

[*]Added Book and Quill and Written Book.

• Ability to write in Book and Quill (up to 50 pages), save them to edit later, and sign them and title them to finish off the book.
  

[*]Added a new type of Golden Apple[14]. with attributes the Golden Apple had before 1.1[15].

[*]Added Bottle o' Enchanting to survival mode.

[*]Added Chainmail Armor to survival mode.

[*]New slabs of the 3 new plank types.

• Wood slabs behave as wood, not as stone.
  

[*]New Gravel texture.

[*]New Dispenser features:

• Dispensers will eject water and lavasource blocks (from buckets).
  
• Will also take water and lava source blocks if there is an empty bucket inside.
  
• Will be able to place Minecarts on rails and Boats in water.
  

[*]Stackable items now stack outside inventory when thrown to the ground individually.

[*]Specific names for different Wood,Wooden Planks, Leaves, Saplings,Sandstone, Stone Bricks, and Monster Eggs. (e.g. Oak Wood, Birch Plank, Spruce Leaves, Jungle Sapling, Smooth Sandstone, Chiseled Stone Bricks, Stone Monster Egg).[5]




Inventory, crafting & smelting

• Different crafting recipe for books.
  
• Easier item manipulation within inventory
  
  Brewing Stands allow use of shift clicking to put items in it.
  
• ⇧ Shift+clicking can now be used to wear armor.
  

[*]Empty Buckets are now stackable up to 16.[16][17]

[*]Wooden tools can be burned in furnaces.




XP and Enchanting

• Silk Touch will be able to pick up Ender Chests, Ice, and Glass Panes.[18]
  
• The first 16 levels are linear, while level 17+ require more points per level to the maximum level of 30 (although one can still have more than 30 XP levels to spend).
  
• XP orbs can now be gained through mining ores, and using a furnace for smelting.
  
• Enchantment has been reorganized so the higher/stronger level enchantment is on the bottom while the lowest is on the top. (The middle obviously being in the middle of the enchantment table.)
  
• Maximum level for enchanting is 30.
  

Map & Structures

• Added Pyramids, a new structure in Desert biomes.
  
• Added Jungle Temple.
  
• Villages spawned in Desert Biomes now have a different style.
  
• Stars are slightly smaller and slightly brighter[19].
  

Villagers and Mobs

• Villagers spawned from spawning eggs will get a random profession.
  
• Trading with Villagers.[20]
  

Bug Fixes

• Arrows "warping upwards" in multiplayer fixed.
  
• All multiplayer sounds have been fixed.[21][22][23][24]
  
• Better chunk loading in SMP.[25]
  
• Fishing lines are now visible in SMP.[23][26]
  
• Fix for glitchy mob prediction in multiplayer.[27][28]
  
• Using buckets filled with lava no longer consume the bucket when smelting items.
  
• Armor and Tool Enchantments now show on multiplayer.
  

this chart was from The Minecraft Wiki