-Added a second golden apple made with gold blocks, has amazing effects.
-Added a new pyramids, spawns in deserts
-Added extremely rare emerald ore(makes diamonds look as common as dirt)
-Added emerald, used for trading.
-Added a trading system! Currency is emerald. You can also get emerald by trading with villagers
-Added cocoa plants to jungle trees,
-Sandstone Stairs
-Blocks have proper names, e.g. Oak Wood Planks
-New slabs for each wood type (birch, jungle...)
-Silk touch can be used on glass and ice again
-Large biomes world type
-Fixed the mobs being glitched through walls in SMP
-You can burn wooden tools as fuel now
-Dispensers now place boats and minecarts, lava, and water!
-Thrown items (press q) on the ground stack together to prevent lag
-Villagers from spawning eggs have a random job
-Cocoa beans have new texture
-Wood slabs are now like wood, not stone.
-Shift-clicking for brewing stands
-Shift-clicking for armor
-Creative inventory is now organized, with new tabs and search system
-Pick block for creative mode
-Ender chests! Made with obsidian and ender pearls, you can store items with an ender chest and access it with another ender chest far away!
-Single player are now servers Dam you jeb
-Cheat mode in SSP
-Option when creating world for bonus chest, which contains useful stuff to help you in your new world.
-Empty buckets stack to 16 now
-Hardcore SMP!
-Better world gen in SMP
-Fixed fishing rod lines in SMP
-Demo mode for non-premium players
-Book and quill, writable books!
-Changed book recipe, it's shapeless, but requires leather.
-Gravel has new texture
-Dispensers also suck water and lava into it if there is an empty bucket inside.
-Potions are added to the creative inventory
-Modding API pushed to 1.4 for me
-Updated languages
-Or course new content = more bugs
-Lots of bug fixes
-Moving far away from villagers and going back to them changes their profession to farmer.
-Trip wires! Traps FTW
-Adventure mode!
-Jungle Temples
-Emerald blocks
-Rain now drips through leaves, I like this
-Smelting w/ a lava bucket doesn't use up the bucket now
-Placing half slabs is easier now (aim at top block to make the half slab be placed at the top)
-Pressing the F key reloads the world (bye-bye world holes!)
-Enchanting level max decreased to 30
-Mining all ores besides iron and gold, smelting something in a furnace, and earning achievements gains you experience (a bit OP in my opinion, got to level 113 in less than an hour!)
-Rain slowly fills cauldrons.
-Nether portals have an extremely rare chance to spawn a zombie pigman
-Server commands changed
-Priests can offer to enchant your items (via trading)
-Kicking people crashes their client
-Boats are faster
-Ender portal frames added to creative inventory
-Originally posted by Jt9 on PMC
http://www.planetminecraft.com/forums/what-you-think-about-the-update-t91676.html
