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Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6 is the sixth and final pre-release for Java Edition 1.0.0, released on November 11, 2011,[1] which adds dragon eggs, End crystals, credits, new video settings, changes the mining time of some blocks, changes the ender dragon boss fight, and fixes some bugs.

Additions[]

Blocks[]

Dragon Egg JE1 Dragon egg
  • Currently has no use.

Non-mob entities[]

End Crystal JE1 BE1End crystals
  • Sits atop of a block of bedrock.
  • It is diamond shaped, with 2 cubes spinning on their axis with a point at the center.
  • Fires a healing beam at the ender dragon when within range.
  • Can be destroyed with a melee or hit with an arrow, causing an explosion.
  • They appear on all obsidian pillars in the End.

General[]

Ending titles and credits
  • Have been added to the game.
Minecraft.jar
  • Added the following files to /title:
  • credits.txt
  • earlyplayers.txt
  • win.txt
Video settings
  • Added "Particles" setting, which has three possible states:
    • "All", rendering all particle effects.
    • "Decreased", rendering half of all particle effects.
    • "Minimal", rendering no particle effects (except for those created when breaking blocks).

Changes[]

Blocks[]

General
  • Several block's tool weaknesses have been fixed, such as crafting tables now mining faster with an axe and rails now mining faster with a pickaxe.
Beds
  • Attempting to sleep in a bed while hostile mobs are nearby will display "You may not rest now, there are monsters nearby".
Chest
  • Are no longer prevented from opening from other chests on top.
Doors, Iron bars, Monster spawners, Nether bricks, Obsidian, Redstone ore, Stone bricks
  • Decreased mining time.
Fire
  • Fire above bedrock in The End will now burn forever.
Grass Block JE7 BE2 Grass Block
  • Texture changed from Grass Block JE5
Sand JE3 BE1 Sand
  • Texture changed from Sand JE2
Stairs
  • Mined stairs of any materials will drop a stair block now instead of a block form of its material.
Water
  • Downward flowing water now creates flowing water once more.

Items[]

Tools
  • Tools not suited to digging a certain block can be faster than digging by hand, e.g. a pickaxe can dig dirt faster than by hand, but not faster than by shovel.
Bows
  • Can be fired without having arrows in Creative mode but will use up arrows from the creative mode inventory, if available.

Mobs[]

Ender dragons
  • More finished boss fight.
  • "Boss Health" meter appears on the middle top part of the screen in the same purple hue as the ender dragon.
  • Leaves behind an exit portal with the dragon egg sitting on top to return the players to their spawn point/bed.

Gameplay[]

Enchanting
  • 'Efficiency' enchantment now affects all blocks for any item enchanted with it.
Sun and Moon
  • Are now square again.

Fixes[]

12 bugs fixed
  • Entity model errors fixed.
  • Armor durability is back to being much longer, longer than it ever was in Beta 1.8.
  • Using items and hitting mobs no longer uses up items/durability in creative.
  • Lily pads are now a block which can be stood on.
  • Ferns, tall grass and lily pads are now available in the creative inventory.
  • Unnecessary block versions of cake and sugar cane removed from creative inventory.
  • Enchantment tables now take time to mine, instead of one punch.
  • "Mods and Texture Packs" changed to "Texture Packs".
  • Repeater clocks no longer get stuck when unloading the chunk.
  • Placing fences under farmland doesn't stop it from turning back into dirt.
  • A Minecart with Furnace is able to push empty minecarts in any direction.
  • Baby sheep from dyed parents are now born dyed instead of always being white.

Trivia[]

  • This version was released on 11/11/11 (November 11, 2011). That date was the planned release date for Minecraft 1.0.0 and MINECON 2011.[2]
  • This is the last version where the player makes the classical "ooh!" sound when hurt.
  • This is the first version where the game can be legitimately beaten without mods or cheats.

References[]

  1. "So here's the 6th beta 1.9 prerelease: http://assets.minecraft.net/1_9-pre6/minecraft.jar"@jeb_ (Jens Bergensten) on X, November 11, 2011
  2. "MinecraftCon 2011 in Vegas?" – The Word of Notch, May 11, 2011.
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