Beacons don't function while in this version of minecraft. Using any type of beacon combinations. Survival/Creative. I tested it in 1.6.4 and switched to the snapshot and it doesn't work. Everything was built correctly.
Environment
Windows 8 Home Premium 64 Bit, JRE 7
Duplicate of MC-31649 - If you have not, please use the search function in the future, to see if your bug has already been submitted. If you could not find the original report, please comment with the keywords you searched for.