'Minecraft' Snapshot 13w41b Released with Changelog; Mods of the Week

Mojang is rolling out a fast pace of updates for its "Minecraft" snapshot, this time releasing Snapshot 13w41b with a full changelog.

In their official website, developers listed down some of the changes, most of which are bug fixes potentially brought up by fans who have seen the latest update before the weekend hit. Some of the changes include:

- Carpets are not flammable

- Hopper: java.lang.NullPointerException - Invalid Biome id

- TellRaw - Tab Complete

- Crash with falling blocks or when giving technical/invalid blocks

- Pausing the game not working correctly

- Type "White Stained Glass Pane Pane"

- Maximum render distance at eight chunks

- Hopper: java.lang.NullPointerException/crash when selecting Resourcepack

- Hopper: java.lang.NullPointerException/Collision of entities

- Iron bars render oddly

- Stained Glass Pane recipe only yields six panes as opposed to 16

- NullPointerException thrown on server login.

The new snapshot is available for download here. Those who want to update more bug finds can do so in the link here.

Meanwhile, here are the top three "Minecraft" mods for the week, which feature a number of cool items for you to try out.

Teleportation Mod

The Teleportation Mod, which takes you through a dimension, can be made with a nether wand. This wand will be used to either generate a portal or take you to a nearby one. Another wand will be a sort of memory wand that remembers the location of your last teleportation.

In 9Minecraft, there are a number of recipes that you can create for wands. All in all, the mod will give you obsidian sticks, ender wand, a nether Wand, a trether ore, a teleporting ore, teleportation fragments, trether fragments, flint and diamonds, trether block, teleportation dirt and teleportation grass.

Download the Teleportation Mod here.

Vending Block Machine Mod

Imagine having a vending block which allows you to access a lot of different items and make transactions within the game -- this is pretty much what the Vending Machine Block mod will bring you.

The mod, which has been optimised for "Minecraft 1.6.4," lets you add new blocks into the game, including the vending blocks, makes trading items a lot easier and lets you customise your vending block depending on the recipes that you follow to create the mechanism.

You can download the Vending Machine Block mod at MinecraftDL. To use the device, you should simply build the block and right click it to place the items inside. The new GUI for this block is very straight forward and very easy to use, and can also be used on a server.

Gravity Gun Mod

In anticipation of the still unconfirmed "Half-Life 3" that Valve has been touting the past few weeks, here is a mod that features the Gravity Gun from "Half-Life 2" now transported and translated to "Minecraft."

There are two main buttons on the gun. The primary button lets you throw back items, and those that collide with the thrown things will get hurt. The secondary button does the opposite and will pull on the entities if they are close enough.

According to SkyDaz, this creation from iChun allows you to lift and push blocks and mobs. This mod requires Forge for it to work and has been optimised for "Minecraft 1.6.4."

Download it from the original site here.