Java Edition Beta 1.3

Minecraft Beta 1.3

Edition	Java Edition
Release date	February 22, 2011
Downloads	Client (.json) Server (original) Server (reuploaded) (.exe)
Protocol version	9
Other instances of 1.3	Java Edition Classic server Java Edition Realms New Nintendo 3DS Edition
◄◄ Beta 1.2 ◄ Beta 1.2_02 Beta 1.3_01 ► Beta 1.4 ►►

For a guide about all content in this release and the other releases of Beta 1.3, see Java Edition guides/Beta 1.3 releases.

Beta 1.3 was a version of Java Edition Beta released on February 22, 2011, which added redstone repeaters, beds, three types of slabs, and a new splash screen, among other changes and fixes.

Additions

Blocks

Beds

• Crafted from wood planks and wool.

Redstone Repeater

• Crafted from stone and redstone.

Slabs

• Cobblestone Slab
  • Crafted from cobblestone.
• Wood Slab
  • Have to be mined with a pickaxe to collect, were not affected by fire, and had stronger blast resistance than wood planks, like cobblestone slabs.
  • Crafted from wood planks.
• Sandstone Slab
  • Crafted from sandstone.

Non-mob entities

New Painting

• "Burning Skull"
  • Code to make this painting display was added in Beta 1.2_01, but the texture itself was not added until this version, resulting in the painting in the prior versions using a purple placeholder texture.

Command format

/whitelist

• Added whitelisting to multiplayer servers.
  • Can turn on/off the whitelist.
  • Can add/remove players from the whitelist.
  • Can give a list of whitelisted players and reload that list.

Textures

Crying Obsidian

• Added a texture for crying obsidian to terrain.png.
  • Texture went unused and removed in Beta 1.5, but re-added in 20w10a via the Programmer Art Resource Pack

General

Lighting

• Smooth lighting engine added with the help of MrMessiah.

Options

• New graphics setting screen.
  • Added "Smooth Lighting" option.

Splash screen

• New Mojang logo.

Changes

Blocks

Redstone Dust

• Will get darker the farther away it is from a source of power.

Sandstone

• Now found at the bottom of naturally generated sand.
• Mine time for sandstone has been decreased.

Slabs

• Breaking a block made of two slabs now drops 2 slabs.
• Stone slabs are now created by using 3 of the materials.

Stone pressure plate & Wooden pressure plate

• Now require two of its materials, instead of 3.

Items

Gunpowder

• Renamed "Sulphur" to Gunpowder

Mobs

General

• Fewer passive mobs spawn when on harder difficulties.

Slimes

• Now have a higher spawn rate.

World generation

Overworld

• Players can now choose the name of the world.

Seed

• Players can now choose the seed for world generation.
• More than 5 worlds can now be created.
• Deleting world confirmation changed slightly.

Gameplay

3rd person mode

• Player can be visibly seen to bob side to side when the player walks (only when View Bobbing is enabled).

General

Controls

• F1 and F3 are now toggled when pressed.
• When F3 is toggled on, mobs display their unique entity ID numbers over their heads.
• F8 toggles mouse smoothing.

Options

• Ability to toggle between classic lighting and "smooth" lighting.
• Scrollbars added in the map selection screen.
• Players can now choose the name of the world when creating a new one.

McRegion

• Worlds now use a generic McRegion chunk save format, with a built-in auto conversion.

Texture packs

• Scrollbars added in the texture pack list.

Fixes

10 bugs fixed

• When breaking double slabs (one slab placed on another) it will now drop two slabs instead of one.
• Wood doesn't burn forever anymore.
• Grassland/Sand related biome border fixed (Boundaries line up, rather than obviously show chunk borders)
• No longer receiving Java Log error .txt file spam in the minecraft.exe folder when closing the Minecraft client program.
• Players can no longer use the click-release to quickly mine blocks (referred to as "click mining" in Multiplayer only).
• Players no longer glitch when standing on fences in multiplayer.
• Players can no longer milk squids.
• When right-clicking on a wooden door while holding a bow or fishing rod, arrows will no longer be fired into the door, nor will the fishing hook be cast into the door.
• Hostile mobs can now be attacked properly in multiplayer.
• Lapis lazuli ore now drops 4-8 Lapis Lazuli in multiplayer.

Debug version

There is a debug version of Beta 1.3 that spawns the player with 64 torches, a diamond pickaxe, a diamond shovel, a diamond axe, and 64 beds upon creating a new world. This version is unofficially referred as Beta 1.3a, as the version of Beta 1.3 available in the launcher is labeled old_beta b1.3b.