Minecraft Snapshot w27

The release date to Minecraft 1.3 is in August 1st.

• Performance improvements, including reduced CPU, RAM & bandwidth requirements.
• Updated Pistons to make them less error-prone, thus they also appear to update slower. This also altered the way Pistons work, so you might have to adapt your repeater delays and similar.
• Added /debug <start|stop> command.
• Signs are stackable up to 16.
  • Crafting them now gives 3 signs instead of 1 with the same recipe.
• Creative mode inventory now shows potion effects.
• Boats now drop the boat item when destroyed by a player.
  • In creative mode, Boats and Minecarts are destroyed in one click.
• Gaining Experience from mining ore is now different for each type of ore. (Mining Coal will give you the least amount while Diamond Ore & Emerald Ore will give the most amount of XP).
• Fortune enchantments no longer affect Experience drop rates
• The Debug (F3) Pie chart now shows the game rendering performance (White)
• Nether Wart can now grow in the Overworld and The End

Bug Fixes:

All text on the signs is gone upon loading the world, the text is actually still saved but not shown. Additionally, pigs show in all spawners. Both have been confirmed fixed for next snapshot. The snapshot may give "Internal Server Error" randomly, kicking the player. Quickly reconnecting may result in a crash of the Minecraft client. When the server is set to spawn-monsters=false The server still naturally spawns them. Client: http://assets.minecraft.net/12w27a/minecraft.jar Server: http://assets.minecraft.net/12w27a/minecraft_server.jar  You can also check more information about Minecraft 1.3 here: http://www.mojang.com/2012/07/minecraft-1-3-info-snapshot-w27/