Java Edition Beta 1.9 Prerelease

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

Minecraft Beta 1.9 Prerelease

Edition	Java Edition
Type	Pre-release
Release date	September 22, 2011
Pre-release for	1.0.0
Downloads	Client (.json) Server
Protocol version	18
Other instances of 1.9-pre1	Java Edition
◄◄ Beta 1.8 ◄ Beta 1.8.1 Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2 ► 1.0.0 ►►

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
• 
  • Has TESTIFICATE in their name

World generation

Biomes

• Added the mushroom island biome.
• Re-added tundras as ice plains. They now generate with sparse trees and flatter terrain.
• Added the frozen ocean biome.

Structures

• Added nether fortresses
• Added end portal stronghold (not able to travel to the end)

Changes

Items

Arrows

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

General

Swampland

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

Debug feature

• Jumping increases the player's experience.