Java Edition Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2

Minecraft Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2

Edition	Java Edition
Type	Pre-release
Release date	September 29, 2011
Pre-release for	1.0.0
Download	Client (.json) Server
Protocol version	19
Other instances of 1.9-pre2	Java Edition
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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 the 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, as baby mobs were not introduced yet.

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 a "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.