1.4.6 is a minor update to Java Edition. It is the final update of 2012, released on December 20. It introduced fireworks, enchanted books and the Thorns enchantment. It also added a warning for users playing on soon-to-be unsupported systems (PowerPC and Java 5). While it was not the last update to 1.4, it was the last one before the snapshots of 1.5 started. This is the final version released in 2012.
