Minecraft Beta 1.2 released

Minecraft recieves its first major Beta update since the game exited alpha.

In classic Notch fashion the update contains many secret thins to be discovered but it also marks the first time Notch has ever included player made modifications in the official game. Showing that Notch and Mojang Specifications continue to be the pinnacle of Indie development that all Indie companies should aspire to be.

Beta 1.2 includes the first (of hopefully many) water monsters to be added in an official release.

The dreaded Squid.

From Notch’s Tumblr:

New features:
* Note blocks (right click to tune, trigger to play)
* 15 wool dyes
* A new water dwelling mob
* New tree types
* Reeds magically turned into sugar canes. They still make paper.
* A bunch of new crafting recipes
* One secret useful block
* One secret pretty block
* Cake
* AND MOAR, probably. I forget!

Bugfixes:
* Paintings work in multiplayer
* Disconnecting while riding no longer keeps the player in the world
* A bunch more state is properly synched in multiplayer
* Fixed colors going weird on PowerPC
* Fixed a horrible chunk reload loop in singleplayer
* Fixed most lighting bugs in newly generated SMP maps
* Falling sand behaves better in SMP
* Fixed a few crash on load level bugs