Java Edition RC1

1.0.0-RC1 is the first release candidate for 1.0.0.

Additions

 * New sound effects/usage of previously unused sound effects
 * Players and all mobs make the same sound when taking fall damage
 * Arrow sounds
 * Firing sound changed
 * Landing sound
 * Chest opening and closing
 * Door, wooden and iron, and fence gate opening and closing
 * Experience Orbs make a twinkling sound when collected.
 * 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
 * Thrown item (snowball, chicken egg, fishing rod and Eye of Ender) sounds
 * Player sounds
 * Damage to player sound changed to genderless stabbing sound
 * Eating and drinking sounds
 * Explosions now have several new, slightly differing sounds instead of just one.
 * 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.

1.0.0-RC1