Don't update your minecraft client 01 aug.

So Mojang recently went out in public with a date for the new update to minecraft.
1 august will Minecraft 1.3 be downloadable, however our server is running on craftbukkit as you may now, and it usually takes 1-3 days for craftbukkit to update to the new version. Therefor we will not update the server until craftbukkit 1.3 is released. Which means if you update your client 01 aug you will not be able to play on Piecraft.

Changes:
Confirmed via a weekly build:
General
Improved overall stability and performance
Made Singleplayer internally use a Multiplayer server
Added optional single-player commands called "Cheats" on non-hardcore worlds
Type / and then hit tab to autocomplete & get help on various commands
Most commands from MP are available
Added option to let LAN friends join SP games
You can choose which gamemode players join in and whether they are allowed to use cheats - Screenshots
Added demo mode for non-premium users
Lasts 5 game days per world
Added chat options
Change which parts of chat are shown and how opaque it is
Toggle chat colors, links being clickable and warning prompts for links
Option to rebind the command key, which opens the chat with / in the textfield
Mobs can now spawn on top slabs and upside down stairs
Improved F3 mode:
Truncated coordinates to 5 fractional digits
Removed graphs
3 new values:
ws: Walking speed
fs: Flying speed
g: Boolean value, true when you touch the ground
Updated language files
Added tooltips for all types of Monster Egg blocks and the End Portal Frame
Added more descriptive tooltips for different types of tree-related blocks, sandstone and stone bricks
Localized server commands
Added missing commands-related strings
Added missing double chest GUI caption
Fixed many bugs
Fixed texture packs in folders not showing their icon and description
Fixed Man-in-the-middle attack allowing hackers to log in as you when you visit their server
Fixed the Open texturepack folder button not working on OS X
Gameplay
Added Adventure mode
Only playable using commands
Building, setting things on fire and using buckets is disabled
Players can only interact with mobs and the environment
Added trading
Using emerald as currency, villagers will, depending on profession, offer different trades to players
As displayed in the top-most part of the trading GUI, villagers take one or items or item stacks and give back something
There are three kinds of trades: Selling, buying and enchanting
After trading, villagers will sometimes emit purple particles for a few seconds and have new trades available or have ran out of stock on a trade
Otherwise unobtainable bottles o' enchanting and chainmail armor can be obtained by trading
Improved Creative mode inventory
Screenshots
There are categorized tabs for Building Blocks, Decoration Blocks, Redstone, Transportation, Miscellaneous, Foodstuffs, Tools, Combat, Brewing and Materials
Search tab, will automatically be switched to when the chat key is hit
Survival inventory tab shows the full inventory and features a 'Destroy item' slot, armor slots including a preview of your character and a 2x2 crafting field
Remembers the tab you were on the last time you closed the inventory
Items can now be deleted from the hotbar by shift-clicking
Added layered snow block, Monster Egg Blocks (Silverfish spawning blocks), Ender Portal frame and all potions
Improved experience
Experience now drops from ores that drop items, drop rate is affected by Silk Touch and Fortune enchantments
Taking smelted items out of furnaces gives experience now
Destroying mob spawners gives experience now
Adjusted experience level progression:
Levels 1-15 cost 17 XP points each
Levels 16-30 cost 3 more XP points than the previous (cost = 17 + (level - 15) * 3)
Levels 31-∞ cost 7 more XP points than the previous (cost = 62 + (level - 30) * 7)
Improved enchanting
The new maximum level with bookshelves is 30, without 8
15 bookshelves are enough to reach level 30
The 3rd slot shows the most expensive possible enchantment more often
Increased chances for multiple enchantments
Added writing in books
New crafting recipe for books: 3 pieces of paper and one piece of leather in any possible shape
New item: Book and Quill - Screenshot
Crafting recipe: 1 ink sac, 1 feather and 1 book in any possible shape
Right-click to write on & edit up to 50 pages or read
Click 'Done' to save the book, 'Sign' to choose a title and finalize the book
Written books glow like enchanted items in the inventory and show title and author on the tooltip
Improved Multiplayer
Made entities less likely to glitch through blocks - Comparison: before and after
Automagical downloading of standard sized texture packs when joining servers
Made server commands more descriptive
Sped up chunk loading
Added a reason parameter to /ban
Added a /seed command for showing the map seed
Added a /defaultgamemode command to choose the gamemode new players start in
/kick messages can now contain "\n" to force a new line
Blocks other players are mining now show cracks
/tp can now be used to teleport to specific coordinates
Made server list re-orderable: shift+click or shift+arrow keys move selected servers
Server list now scans for published single player games (LAN servers) - Screenshot
Added hardcore difficulty: Players are banned upon death
Added many minor things
Individual, stackable items on the ground now become one item stack
Added shift clicking support to armor slots, brewing stands & enchantment tables
Added setting to disable servers offering you texture packs
Made the stars smaller and brighter - Screenshot
Villagers spawned from spawning eggs will get a random profession now
Removed the downwards knockback while drowning
Doors being broken by zombies now show their damage
Improved the Pick Block key
You now get the actual block
You can now pick paintings, boats, minecarts and mobs, which will give you their spawn eggs
Picking huge mushroom blocks now gives mushrooms
You can no longer pick portal blocks
Fixed many bugs
Fixed flying slowly in liquids
Fixed blocks with the same id but different data/damage values stacking in Creative inventory
Fixed boats & minecarts not being one-hit breakable in Creative
Fixed raw fish, dyes, saddles, potions, milk buckets and tools depleting in Creative
Fixed water destroying non-solid blocks when breaking them from above
Fixed Silk touch giving you only one slab from double slabs
Fixed redstone updates not propagating through unloaded chunks
Fixed arrows scooting up to the top of the block they were shot on in MP
Fixed repeaters getting stuck when loading their chunk
Fixed endermen not opening their jaws in MP
Fixed tools taking damage when breaking insta-breakable blocks
Fixed fully charged arrows not showing their particle effect in MP
Fixed many sounds not playing in MP
Fixed magma cubes' and slimes' jumping animations not showing in MP
Fixed thunderstorms not darkening the sky in MP
Fixed weather not fading in or out in MP
Fixed enchanted armor and tools not glowing to other players
Fixed ender pearls and eyes of ender not being aligned in the inventory
Fixed explosions not pushing players back in MP
Fixed TNT not knocking back players in MP
Fixed pistons not pushing back players in MP
Fixed the arrow representing players on held maps being offset
Fixed being able to duplicate sand and gravel
Fixed placing a piston in front of another powered, but not extended one resulting in a piston with the head's texture on all sides
Fixed TNT dropping as a ressource on creative mode
Fixed being able to duplicate powered rail
World Generation
Made sub-biome type mountains like Desert Hills or Ice Mountains taller
Made cocoa beans appear on some small jungle trees
Added optional starting chest on non-hardcore worlds
Screenshot
Contents: wooden & stone tools, bread, apples, logs, planks and sticks
Added large biomes world type, increasing biome sizes immensely
Added desert-specific villages
Screenshot
Added desert temples
Screenshots
Built out of various kinds of sandstone and wool
Include hidden chest room and TNT trap, with loot including rotten flesh, bones, iron ingots and gold ingots, diamonds and emeralds
Added jungle temples
Screenshots
Built out of various kinds of cobblestone
Contain multiple tripwire traps triggering dispensers filled with arrows
Loot chests include bones, rotten flesh, gold ingots, iron ingots, diamonds and emeralds
Added emerald ore
Only generates in Extreme Hills biomes
Occurs up to 8 times per chunk in veins of 1
Generates between layers 4 and 31, inclusive
Blocks & Items
Emerald Ore
Screenshot
Drops Emerald
Emerald
Is used to trade with villagers
Block of Emerald
Screenshot
Crafted by putting 9 emeralds on a crafting table
Ender Chest
Screenshot
Crafted by surrounding an eye of ender with 8 pieces of obsidian
Stores each player's contents across dimensions and all Ender Chests
Contents are preserved even if all Ender Chests are destroyed
Can't be destoyed by TNT or creepers
Emits light and purple particles
Unless mined using a Silk Touch-enchanted pickaxe, they drop 8 obsidian
Tripwire Hook
Screenshots & video
String in between needs to be placed manually
Breaking the string triggers a redstone signal, cutting it using shears doesn't
Entities like boats, mobs, arrows or players touching the string trigger a redstone signal
String can be up to 40 blocks long
Crafting recipe: Iron ingot on top of a stick on top of a wooden plank
String
Can now be placed on the ground decoratively
Furnaces
Can be fueled by wooden tools now
Return an empty bucket when using lava buckets as fuel now
Ice
Instead of melting in the nether, it now disappears
Can be obtained using Silk Touch-enchanted gear now
Glass Panes
Can be obtained using Silk Touch-enchanted gear now
Nether portal
Leaks into the Overworld now: Depending on difficulty, zombie pigmen rarely spawn in them
Half slabs
Added all wood types
Wooden slabs crafted after the update act like wood
Will now be top slabs when placed on the upper half of a block's side
When placed upside down, rails, pressure plates, levers, doors, torches, redstone torches, repeaters, redstone dust and beds can be placed on them - Redstone dust behaves like on glowstone - It transmits power horizontally and upwards, but not downwards. Redstone torches don't power redstone placed on slabs/stairs above them.
Stairs
Added Sandstone Stairs - Screenshot
Added wooden stairs for all kinds of wood - Screenshot
Adjusted hitbox - Screenshots
When placed upside down, rails, pressure plates, levers, doors, torches, redstone torches, repeaters, redstone dust and beds can be placed on them - Redstone dust behaves like on glowstone - It transmits power horizontally and upwards, but not downwards. Redstone torches don't power redstone placed on slabs/stairs above them.
Leaves
Water slowly drips through them when it's raining
Cauldrons
Slowly fill up when it's raining
Dispensers
Minecarts & boats will now be placed if there's rails/water in place
Instead of dispensing buckets, dispensers will now suck in or place water or lava in front of them
Gravel
Changed texture - Screenshot
Jungle leaves
Have a 1/200 chance to drop a cocoa bean when destroyed now
Lever
Can be placed on the ceiling now - Screenshot
Wooden pressure plates
Are triggered by arrows now
Cocoa beans
Retextured item - Screenshot
Can be planted & grown on jungle wood now
Screenshot
Can be grown instantly using bone meal
Cookies
Give a full hunger point now
Empty buckets
Stack up to 16 now
Stacked buckets work just like stacked glass bottles do
Golden Apple
Has two crafting recipes now, the new one replacing gold nuggets with gold blocks
Second tier gives Regeneration IV, Resistance and Fire resistance effects
Only second tier glows like enchanted tools
Spawners
Added NBT tags to further customize spawned mobs
Only changeable using map editors or mods
Boats
Are not broken by lilypads anymore, instead they run straight through the lilypad now, breaking and sometimes dropping it
Are less glitchy, less likely to break and more responsive now
Increased maximum speed
When exiting, players will be moved from the boat
Minecarts
When on rails, they can be accelerated a bit while sitting in them
When exiting, players will be moved from the minecart
Mobs
Pigs
Drop 1-3 meat now
Slimes
Reduced spawn rate in superflat maps
Silverfish
When suffering from poison potions, they will now spawn more silverfish from nearby silverfish blocks more often
All hostile mobs
Become aggressive towards the last mob or player that hit them now
Very likely - Implemented stuff that will be released in the next snapshot:
Click here.
Planned/Maybe:
LWJGL update, again
The server having an API somewhat equivalent to Bukkit - Nope, 1.4!
Dinnerbone plans to decrease bandwidth requirements for servers
They'll give all control to the server
Dinnerbone wants to work on the chat system
Logging, scrollback length, tab behaviour
Bugfixes: 1, 2, 3, display issues with highlighting, keybindings for '/'
OS X compatibility
Chat size
Drag-highlighting
Dinnerbone plans to add an option to customize the "Outdated server/client" message

Bumping - not sure if this is allowed. Just to let other players know

Tonkow wrote:So Mojang recently went out in public with a date for the new update to minecraft.
1 august will Minecraft 1.3 be downloadable, however our server is running on craftbukkit as you may now, and it usually takes 1-3 days for craftbukkit to update to the new version. Therefor we will not update the server until craftbukkit 1.3 is released. Which means if you update your client 01 aug you will not be able to play on Piecraft.

well im updateing right away so when can i play on piecra next?

I don't know. Didn't you read my post?
Your loss

Well said Tonk. Short and to the point.

Im not sure if the huge EPIC massive ultra super beast update beats piecraft.

Good to know, will halt update until Piecraft is ready.

ok

EPICDUCKS wrote:Im not sure if the huge EPIC massive ultra super beast update beats piecraft.

Thats just it.


It doesn't.

wow 1.3 has some big changes 2 minecraft