Java Edition RC1

1.0.0-RC1 is the first release candidate for 1.0.0.

Sound Update
Assets were updated on November 11. The client version was not updated. Sound effects were updated, and previously unimplemented sound effects were newly implemented.


 * Arrow firing sound changed
 * Chest opening and closing
 * Door, wooden and iron, trapdoor and fence gate opening and closing
 * Experience Orbs make a twinkling sound when collected.
 * Thrown item (snowball, chicken egg, fishing rod and Eye of Ender) sounds
 * Explosions now have several new, slightly differing sounds instead of just one.

Additions
Sounds Main Menu
 * Players and all mobs make the same sound when taking fall damage
 * Player sounds
 * Damage to player sound changed to genderless stabbing sound
 * Eating and drinking sounds
 * Arrow landing sound
 * Mob sounds
 * Blaze sounds (ambient breathing noise)
 * Enderman (strange whistles and grunts)
 * Enderman teleportation sound (Shortened version of the Nether portal sound)
 * Magma Cube sounds
 * Silverfish sounds
 * Tool and armor breaking sound and animation
 * Added "Quit Game" button to the 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.

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 pre6
 * 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 players EXP level to revert to 0 again after The End credits is finished from Beta 1.9 Pre 6
 * The full names of Scaevolus and Hippoplatimus are now used in the ending credits.
 * You can now talk while entering a portal in SMP
 * Obsidian's mining time was increased to 8 seconds from ~3 seconds in 1.9pre6.

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