I have been looking for the jungle in my map, and can't find it. How far do you have to go from your 1.1 generated world to find new 1.2 jungle biomes? And are the new jungle cats aggressive? I want to know how to make kittens, I already got some puppies
Depends how much you have explored. You have to go to unexplored areas so it can generate new chunks.
Cats aren't aggressive. To tame them get some fish, get fairly close to them and they will come to you (if you get too close and move too much they'll run off).
I may be wrong, but I think you have to create a new 1.2 world to have the 1.2 terrain due to the new "anvil" map format.
Nope, 1.1 worlds are fine. They will have a chance of appearing in unexplored chunks. You just have to be prepared to travel for quite a while. (could take 1000 blocks, could take more or less)
It really depends upon how explored your world is. If SSP you may not have to go much farther than you have explored before (maybe an overnight camping trip).
For an old map on a busy survival server you may have to go considerably farther, especially if people have been previously flying around in creative mode. On a vanilla test server with 1.1 map it was not too difficult to find one. But on a busy Bukkit server with 1.0 map, we tried for some time to find one, and admin finally found a jungle at about x 5300, z 2000 (F3 key coordinates) and added a public warp to it. I forget actual coordinates of spawn, but that is likely more than a day journey by a combination of foot and boat (multiple days to actually find it). I think it took about a day by boat to go half that distance.
Make a note of x and z coordinates of your base before heading out into the wilderness (and your camp each night). And take a supply of wool with you (for beds), because when you least expect it, a creeper will be waiting outside your door in the morning to welcome you to the neighborhood.
Everytime I start a new world I start out in a jungle, but I abandoned all my 1.1 worlds when I switched to 1.2. Anytime I see a jungle cat it runs from me, but Im in creative mode, so I dont know if they are aggressive in survival
Jungle biomes won't generate in maps created in 1.1, unless it was changed since the snapshot that added jungles.
He is correct. In order to have a Jungle biome, you have to restart your map. While most small things that are added to the game are able to be added in a new chunk (like Lapis when it came out), Jungles are not this case. Even though you may have updated your map to Anvil, the map is still specifically coded for 1.1 biomes and before. I'm sorry, but you are going to have to start a new map.
Cats aren't aggressive. To tame them get some fish, get fairly close to them and they will come to you (if you get too close and move too much they'll run off).
Nope, 1.1 worlds are fine. They will have a chance of appearing in unexplored chunks. You just have to be prepared to travel for quite a while. (could take 1000 blocks, could take more or less)
For an old map on a busy survival server you may have to go considerably farther, especially if people have been previously flying around in creative mode. On a vanilla test server with 1.1 map it was not too difficult to find one. But on a busy Bukkit server with 1.0 map, we tried for some time to find one, and admin finally found a jungle at about x 5300, z 2000 (F3 key coordinates) and added a public warp to it. I forget actual coordinates of spawn, but that is likely more than a day journey by a combination of foot and boat (multiple days to actually find it). I think it took about a day by boat to go half that distance.
Make a note of x and z coordinates of your base before heading out into the wilderness (and your camp each night). And take a supply of wool with you (for beds), because when you least expect it, a creeper will be waiting outside your door in the morning to welcome you to the neighborhood.
He is correct. In order to have a Jungle biome, you have to restart your map. While most small things that are added to the game are able to be added in a new chunk (like Lapis when it came out), Jungles are not this case. Even though you may have updated your map to Anvil, the map is still specifically coded for 1.1 biomes and before. I'm sorry, but you are going to have to start a new map.