Java Edition Beta 1.8

Minecraft Beta 1.8

Edition	Java Edition
Official name	Adventure Update (Part 1)
Release date	September 14, 2011
Development versions	View all Pre-releases Beta 1.8 Pre-release Beta 1.8 Pre-release 2 ;)
Download	Client (.json)
Protocol version	17
Data version	N/A
Other editions of 1.8	Java Edition Classic server Java Edition Bedrock Edition Education Edition New Nintendo 3DS Edition
◄◄ Beta 1.7 ◄ Beta 1.7.3 Beta 1.8.1 ► 1.0.0 ►►

Beta 1.8 is the first release of the Adventure Update. It introduced features that focused on fighting, exploration, and adventuring, as well as other aspects.

Additions

Blocks

• Stone Bricks
• Cracked Stone Bricks
• Mossy Stone Bricks
• Stone Brick Slab
• Stone Brick Stairs
• Brick Slab
• Brick Stairs
• Fence Gate
• Glass Pane
• Iron Bars
• Melon

Items

• Food
  • Melons
  • Raw chicken
  • Raw beef
  • Cooked chicken
  • Steak, which has cooked porkchop's old texture. Cooked porkchops' new texture is a tan shade of the same sprite
• Ender pearls, which didn't do anything at the time, and had uncentered icon
• New seeds for farming: pumpkin seeds and melon seeds that produce pumpkins and melons respectively. Pumpkin seeds cannot yet be obtained from a pumpkin, but only from the new abandoned mineshaft chests, melon seeds can be produced from melon slices, but can only be found originally from abandoned mineshaft chests.

Mobs

• Enderman
  • As a placeholder, endermen used zombie sounds.
• Silverfish
• Cave spiders

World generation

• Generated structures
  • Villages
  • Strongholds
  • Abandoned mineshafts
  • Ravines
• New, fractal-based biome code; added and removed some biomes while making all of them more vast than before.
  • Rivers flowing through/in between biomes.
  • Ocean biomes, that are deeper and much more vast than before.
  • Mountain biome
  • Swamp
  • Snow in taiga and tundra biomes do not generate for technical reasons.
  • Far Lands
• New ocean floor; random mix of sand, dirt, and clay.
  • Due to this, clay is much more common.

General

• A new achievement: "Kill a skeleton with an arrow at 50 meters".
• New Creative game mode.
• New Mojang logo splash screen
• New particle effects.
  • Performing a critical hit on any mob will cause 'sparks' to fly.
  • Explosion particles are now shockwaves instead of smoke.
  • Tiny stationary bubble particles can be seen when underwater.
  • Fog is now thicker and darker deep underground, and gives off particles. Due to this, the void appears black.

Gameplay

• New combat mechanics.
  • Hold-to-charge bows.
  • Critical hits.
  • Players can parry with a sword by holding Right Mouse
  • Hostile mobs perform attack animations.
  • Mobs killed by players drop tiny flashing experience orbs that add to your experience bar.
• New food system.
  • There is now a food meter.
    • Food no longer heals directly, but indirectly: if the food meter is above 90%, heals every 4 seconds.
  • All food (except mushroom stew) are now stackable.
  • Food takes 1.6 seconds to consume, accompanied with an animation.
• Added sprinting

Changes

Blocks

• Both Wooden and Stone pressure plates can now be placed on fences.
• New texture for mossy cobblestone.
• Improved chest model with a 3D lock.
• Improved model for torches placed on walls.
• User-placed leaf blocks no longer decay.

Items

• Eating any raw food or rotten flesh has a chance to give the player food poisoning which makes the hunger bar decrease three times as fast.
• Shears can now collect tall grass and vines

Mobs

• Passive mobs will randomly flee if attacked by the player or other mobs (such as wolves).
• Zombies drop rotten flesh instead of feathers.
• The snout on pigs now protrude from their head.
• Skeletons now hold full-size bows.
• Player-to-mob damage decreased by half a heart.
• Arrows that hit a mob visually "stick" into the mob rather than just disappear.
• Skeleton arrows originate from about their eyes to the bow, instead of above the head.
• Animals no longer despawn which makes it possible to capture them.

Gameplay

• Improved lighting
  • Day/night cycles no longer require chunk updates and is a smooth transition
  • The lighting on a block is given a tint based on the most prominent source of light
    • Reddish from artificial light sources
    • Blue from Moonlight
    • Total darkness keeps the same black tint
    • Sunlight gives the same white tint
  • Artificial light now gives a very subtle 'flicker'.
• Improved sunrise and sunset.
  • Clouds change color during sunrise and sunset to match the sky color.
  • Horizon, specifically haze changes color more vividly during sunset and sunrise.
• Cloud height raised to the top of the map, so clouds can no longer phase through blocks.
• Cloud movement syncs with the game's time.
• Rain and snow both render faster
• Armor bar moved to above hearts, due to food bar.
• Holding the left mouse button with a weapon will now only swing once.
• Holding the right mouse button to place blocks is slightly slower than before.
• ⇧ Shift+Clicking the output item in a crafting square will craft all the items at once, and automatically places them in the inventory.
• Farming changed to be less volatile. Farmland no longer un-tills when stepped on and only now when jumped on.
• The player can now jump four blocks horizontally by sprinting.
• Unarmed damage was decreased from 2 () to 1 () (reverting to the behavior from before Beta 1.5).

General

• Changes with debug-view (F3)
  • Mobs are no longer visibly labeled with their entity ID
  • The world's numeric seed is displayed in a field below player position.
  • Changing fog by hotkey now requires debug-view to be open in addition with pressing F.
• The version tag appears in-game again.
  • The 'Multiplayer join screen' has been improved, mainly with a server list.
• Main menu/options changes
  • The main menu's background is now an animated scene.
  • The version tag is now displayed on the bottom-left rather than the top-left
  • New sliders for Field of View and Brightness
  • 4 new entries in control list
    • "Attack", "Use Item", and "Pick Block" can now be remapped.
    • Player list in multiplayer, defaults to Tab ↹.
• The game's coding now allows for mods to more easily change the (map) height.
• Operators can switch back and forth between survival and creative mode.

Removals

• Removed old terrain.
• Removed the far lands.
• Removed the human mob as an entity, leaving only its AI.

Fixes

9 bugs fixed

• The ⇧ Shift + Click crash bug from 1.8-pre2 is fixed.
• Fixed Redstone circuits not working after /time set x glitch is now fixed in multiplayer.
• Destroying boats and minecarts now creates particles.
• Ghast attack sounds are fixed multiplayer.
• The Far Lands have been removed; there is now only void.
• Fixed cactus and trapdoor items being too big
• Fixed the "smart farms" glitch where the hitbox of a fence would extend past the hitbox of tilled soil and prevent it from reverting to dirt when walked on.
• Fixed several crash bugs relating to pistons.
• Increased the z-buffer from 8-bit to 24-bit, fixing graphical issues with AMD graphics cards.

Gallery

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  The bug where cactus items were too big before Beta 1.8.