Java Edition 1.0.0/Development versions

This is a list of Java Edition 1.0.0 development versions.

Beta 1.9 Prerelease

This article is about the first prerelease. For other prereleases, see Beta 1.9 Prerelease (disambiguation).

Beta 1.9 Prerelease is the first pre-release for Java Edition 1.0.0, released on September 22, 2011, which adds nether fortresses, 6 new blocks including nether bricks and some variants, 5 new mobs including villagers, 4 new items including ghast tears, the mushroom island biome and some minor changes.

Initially a pre-release for Beta 1.9, Mojang instead opted to delay the release of this update until MINECON 2011 and release it under the name "Minecraft 1.0.0". This decision was made after a few development versions tagged as Beta 1.9 were already sent out, so the name Beta 1.9 was kept for all of the development versions in the gap between Beta 1.8.1 and Minecraft 1.0.0, other than the release candidates.

Additions

Blocks

• Lily pads
• Mycelium
• Nether bricks
• Nether brick fences
• Nether brick stairs
• Nether wart

Items

• Blaze rods
• Ghast tears
• Gold nuggets
• Nether wart

Mobs

• Blazes
• Magma cubes
• Mooshrooms
• Snow golems
• Villagers

World generation

Biomes

• Added the mushroom island biome.

Structures

• Added nether fortresses

Changes

Items

Arrows

• No longer visually stay stuck in mobs when hit.
  • Arrows remain visible in players.

World generation

Swampland

• Grass, leaves, and water blocks are now darker.

General

Debug feature

• Jumping increases the player's experience.

Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2

Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2 is the second pre-release for Java Edition 1.0.0, released on September 29, 2011, which adds cauldrons, potions, animal breeding mechanics, 9 more music discs, hardcore mode, and changes milk to remove potion effects when drunk.

Additions

Blocks

Cauldrons

• Coding for cauldron is present, but not yet assigned to block ID.

Items

Blaze powder

• Drops from blazes.
• Ingredient to brewing potions.

Fermented spider eyes

• Ingredient to brewing potions.

Glass bottles

• First iteration of potions, not yet properly obtainable.

Magma cream

• Drops from magma cubes.
• Ingredient to brewing potions.

Music discs

• 9 new music discs were added.
  • 11
  • Blocks
  • Chirp
  • Far
  • Mall
  • Mellohi
  • Stal
  • Strad
  • Ward

Spider eyes

• Drops from spiders.
• Ingredient to brewing potions.

Mobs

Breeding

• New system to breed animals.
  • Remains incomplete.

General

Hardcore mode

• Locks the difficulty to Hard and forces users to delete the world's save data upon death.
• The health bar changes appearance to indicate the game is in Hardcore mode.

Changes

Items

Milk

• Is now drinkable.
• Drinking milk resets all potion effects currently afflicted upon the player.

Mobs

Villagers

• No longer has "TESTIFICATE" label above their head.

General

Item tooltips

• Now have a pink border.

Fixes

2 bugs fixed

• Removed debug code causing jumping to increase experience.
• Client-side double Mooshroom bug in multiplayer fixed.

Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3

Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3 is the third pre-release for Java Edition 1.0.0, released on October 6, 2011, it adds 5 new blocks including the brewing stand and enchantment table, it also adds the eye of ender item, 5 baby animal variants, XP levels, and the enchantment glint effect and it also completed potion mechanics. Unlike the client, the server for this version was not reuploaded.

Additions

Blocks

Brewing stands

• Used to brew potions.

Enchantment tables

• Used to enchant tools, weapons, and armor.

End portal frame

• Unfinished end portal in strongholds.
  • Broken end portal frame blocks can be repaired with eyes of ender, though nothing further occurs.

End portal block

• Currently useless.

White cobblestone texture

• A white cobblestone texture was added to the terrain.png in the spot where end stone would be found in the next pre-release; however it wasn't used by any block yet.

Items

Eye of ender

• Can be used to repair end portal frames, although they don't have their locating functionality yet.

Mobs

Animals

• Added new baby variants.
  • Baby chicken
  • Baby cow
  • Baby mooshroom
  • Baby pig
  • Baby sheep

General

Brewing

• Completely redone potion system.

Debug screen

• Added pie chart detailing CPU usage.

Enchanting

• Placeholder system.
• Enchanted items appear to glimmer, have blue tooltips and have "Enchanted!!" written below tooltip.

Item repair

• Armor, tools, and weapons can now be repaired by placing two of the same item in a crafting table.

Changes

Blocks

Bookshelves

• When destroyed, drops 3 books.

Cauldron

• Now assigned with block ID.
• Now only carries water instead of being used to make potions.

World generation

Strongholds

• More randomly placed chests.
• 1x1 glass pillars protruding from ground to sky limit at the location of strongholds.

General

Debug screen

• Tooltips for rare items (golden apples, music discs) are now pink.

Experience levels

• Now shown above experience bar.

Fixes

1 bug fixed

• Fixed Snow golems being able to enter love mode.

Beta 1.9 Prerelease 4

Beta 1.9 Prerelease 4 is the fourth pre-release for Java Edition 1.0.0, released on October 13, 2011, it adds the End dimension, the ender dragon, and moon phases, it also completed the enchanting mechanics, changes fluid placement using buckets, and fixes some bugs.

Additions

Blocks

End portal block

• Now functions properly.

End portal frame

• Redesigned graphically.

End Stone

• The white cobblestone texture introduced in the previous pre-release was changed and end stone was added as a block with the overhauled texture.

Items

Glistering melon

• Used to brew potions of healing instead of ghast tears.

Ghast tear

• Added before this version
• Now used for potions of regeneration.

Splash Potions

• Created by brewing an existing potion with gunpowder.
• Has an Area of Effect when thrown.

Mobs

Ender dragons

• New boss mob.

World generation

The End

• New dimension.
• One island floating in a black void.
• Endermen and the Ender dragon spawn here.

Obsidian pillars

• Spawn in The End.

General

Enchanting

• Now fully implemented.

Server.properties

• New settings:
• debug
• enable-query
• enable-rcon
• query.port
• rcon.password
• rcon.port

Changes

Blocks

Buckets

• Placing fluids (water or lava) with a bucket treats other fluid source blocks like solid blocks, allowing the player to place them on top of each other without an adjacent wall.

Gameplay

Status effects

• Added a swirl effect while under the effect of a Status effect.

Sun and Moon

• The Sun and Moon now rise in the east and set in the west, based on the top of maps being North, and are round.
• The Moon now has multiple phases, somewhat akin to the real Moon.

General

Texture Packs

• The player can reload the texture pack by pressing F3+T.

Version number

• No longer displays

Fixes

5 bugs fixed

• Enchanting is now server-side instead of being only a client-side change.
• Fixed ⇧ Shift + Click crash bug with enchanting tables and brewing stands.
• Critical hits now appear in multiplayer.
• Glass towers stretching to the top of the map no longer appear over strongholds.
• Fixed all minecart with furnace bugs, except the lighting bug.

Reupload

• This version was reuploaded to fix the incorrect version number, which still displayed as "Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3".

Beta 1.9 Prerelease 5

Beta 1.9 Prerelease 5 is the fifth pre-release for Java Edition 1.0.0, released on October 27, 2011, which adds several new achievements and controls, changes some mobs and the texture of some blocks, and fixes some bugs.

Additions

General

Achievements

• Several new achievements added.^{[more information needed]}

Controls

• Debug controls (from the pre-re-uploaded version of Beta 1.8 Pre-release):
• F9: Freezes the camera in its current position.
• F6: While also turning back time, enables a strange "bouncy" movement. It locks the player's y coordinate (meaning they cannot jump or fall). It makes the player accelerate relatively slowly when moving. Additionally, the player can also clip into blocks slightly - at a high enough speed, the player can push all the way through a block. Transparent blocks have no clipping whatsoever.
• N and M: Changes the view's rotation clockwise and anti-clockwise, respectively. Hold both keys simultaneously resets the rotation.
• Y and H: Decreases and increases the field of view, respectively. These keys seem to affect the field of view differently to how the FOV option does - the player's hand (or anything the player is holding) will also become stretched as the field of view increases or decreases, which does not happen if the player changes the FOV option in the menu. Holding both keys simultaneously resets the field of view.
• I: Makes the player look up, J looks left, K looks down, and L looks right. These movements are normally done by moving the mouse. This setting cannot be reset by holding any keys simultaneously.
• U and O: Moves the third-person camera forwards and backwards, respectively. This setting cannot be reset by holding both keys simultaneously.
• Scrolling the mouse wheel (which also scrolls the selected slot in the hotbar) rotates the forward, left, right, and back directions.^[verify]

Changes

Blocks

Block of diamond

• Texture changed from

Block of gold

• Texture changed from

Block of iron

• Texture changed from

Buckets

• In creative mode, using an empty bucket won't fill up if removing fluids with it.

Dirt

• Texture changed from

Fences

• Fence post selection boxes now resemble their collision boxes.

Glowstone

• Texture changed from

Grass block

• Texture changed from

Gravel

• Texture changed from

Netherrack

• Texture changed from

Stone

• Texture changed from

Water

• Now flowing downwards creates source blocks, instead of flowing water.

Wood planks

• Texture changed from

Mobs

General

• Hostile mobs act neutral in creative mode.
• Entity punch range in creative mode reduced, as a result.

Ender dragons

• Now have a new dying animation even though they still do not spawn.
• Their health has been changed to 1 to test this.

Slimes

• Now spawn on levels 0-40 rather than 0-16, making them much more common.

General

HUD

• The version number once again displays on the top-left of the screen.

Video settings

• Added option to turn off clouds.

Fixes

8 bugs fixed

• Monster spawners cannot be collected with a pickaxe enchanted with Silk Touch.
• Mycelium and end stone are now available in the creative inventory list.
• The step on stairs is properly lit.
• Lily pads now have the correct coloration in the inventory and have a name tag.
• End stone now has a name tag (previously "unnamed").
• Melons once again drop the correct number of slices.
• Data error when attempting to block with an enchanted sword fixed, blocking with enchanted sword now possible.
• Baby animals now work in multiplayer.

Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6

Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6 is the sixth and final pre-release for Java Edition 1.0.0, released on November 11, 2011, 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

• Currently has no use.

Non-mob entities

End 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 to /title/:
• credits.txt
• earlyplayers.txt
• win.txt

Video settings

• Added "Particles" setting.
• 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".

Doors

• Changed the mining time to make it faster.

Grass Block

• Texture changed from

Iron bars

• Changed the mining time to make it faster.

Monster spawners

• Changed the mining time to make it faster.

Nether bricks

• Changed the mining time to make it faster.

Obsidian

• Changed the mining time to make it faster.

Redstone ore

• Changed the mining time to make it faster.

Sand

• Texture changed from

Stairs

• Mined stairs of any materials will drop a stair block now instead of a block form of its material.

Stone bricks

• Changed the mining time to make it faster.

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.

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 a fountain-like bedrock structure with the dragon egg sitting on top, and has an exit portal to return to the players spawn point/bed.

Gameplay

Enchanting

• 'Efficiency' enchantment now affects all blocks for any item enchanted with it.

Sun and Moon

• Sun and moon are square again.

Fixes

12 bugs fixed

• Entity model errors fixed.
• Armor durability is much back to being larger, larger than it even 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 minecart in any direction.
• Baby sheep from dyed parents are now born dyed instead of always being white.

RC1

RC1 is the first release candidate for Java Edition 1.0.0, released on November 13, 2011, which adds durability to bows, sounds to some mobs, the player, tools and armor, adds some new splashes, and fixes some bugs.

Additions

Sounds

• The Player:
  • Damage to player sound was changed to a genderless bone-cracking sound.
  • Eating and drinking now have sounds.
• Mobs:
  • Blazes were given an ambient breathing noise.
  • Endermen now make strange whistles and grunts.^{[more information needed]}
    • When they teleport, it sounds like a shortened version of the Nether portal sound.^{[more information needed]}
  • Magma Cubes now make sounds.
  • Silverfish now make sounds.
• Players and all mobs make the same bone-cracking sound when taking fall damage.
• Arrow landing was changed to a more twangy sound.
• Tools and armor now make a breaking sound, and have a breaking animation.

Main Menu

• Added 28 new splashes and changed 7 of them.

Changes

• Changed redstone wire placement on one block from a "+" to a "•" shape.
• Bows now have a durability bar, with 385 uses.
• Bows can be fired without having arrows in Creative mode.
• Thrown eggs now hatch baby chickens.
• "Quit Game" button now appears regardless of how you launch the game.

Fixes

7 bugs fixed

• Error with the shadowing of the right side of blocks in the inventory is now fixed, being back to what it was in Beta 1.7.
• Fixed wooden door bug from Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6
• The "Particles" option no longer overlaps the warning when playing on far render distance with a 32-bit Java installation.
• Fixed the bug that caused the player's experience level to revert to 0 again after The End credits are finished from Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6.
• The full names of Scaevolus and Hippoplatimus are now used in the ending credits.
• The player can now chat while entering a portal in multiplayer.
• Obsidian's mining time was increased to 8 seconds from ~3 seconds in 1.9 Prerelease 6.

RC2

RC2 is the second and final release candidate for Java Edition 1.0.0, released on November 13, 2011, which changes the lighting of blocks in the inventory and fixes a bug.

Changes

• The lighting of blocks in inventory screens has been adjusted.

Fixes

1 bug fixed

• Fixed a bug that caused all tools to break quickly after loading an old map in RC1.