Minecraft 1.4.2 Official Download

Changelogs:

• Added a beacon
• Added flower pots
• Added item frames
• Added anvils
• Added cobblestone walls
• Added pumpkin pies
• Added carrots and potatoes
• Carrots can be put on a stick to control pigs while riding
• Added a boss mob
• Added a new skeleton type
• Added witches
• Added bats
• Added mob heads that can be placed
• Zombies now infect villagers, but can also be cured
• Added wooden button
• Items can be cloned with the “pick block” action in Creative Mode
• Items can be quickly moved to the hotbar by pressing 1 through 9 while hovering an item
• Added /difficulty, /spawnpoint, /weather, /gamerule and /clear commands
• Added “target selectors” for commands
• Added option to hide capes
• Added option to toggle vertical synch
• Added customization to superflat worlds
• Minor additions to the world generator
• New potion recipes
• Leather armor can be dyed
  • Maps now start more zoomed in, and can be extended
  • Redstone repeaters can now be set into a “locked” position
  • New sound effects
  • Portals to the Nether can now transport items and mobs
  • Adventure mode now allows placing and removing blocks, but only when using the correct tools
  • Changed method of placing sideways wood logs
  • Improved server list
  • Improved debug (F3) options
  • Spawn protection is now automatically disabled if there are no defined admins
• Removed Herobrine

Minecraft for Windows

Download Minecraft.exe (270 KB). Place it anywhere you want, then run it.

Minecraft for Mac OS X

Download Minecraft.zip (270 KB). Unpack and place Minecraft in your /Applications folder.

Minecraft for Linux / Other

Download minecraft.jar (89 KB). The jar is executable and might work as-is. If you run into memory issues, try launching it with java -Xmx1024M -Xms512M -cp Minecraft.jar net.minecraft.LauncherFrame, also please use Sun’s JVM.

Multiplayer Server

If you’re running on Windows and just want to set up a server easily, download Minecraft_Server.exe (802 KB) and run it.

If you want to run the server on any other OS or without GUI it’s a bit more involved. First make sure you can use java from the command line. On Linux and Mac OS X this should already be set up but on Windows you might have to tinker with the PATH environment variable. Download and run minecraft_server.jar (621 KB) with java -Xmx1024M -Xms1024M -jar minecraft_server.jar nogui.