Java Edition Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2

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 drank.

Blocks

 * Cauldron JE1.png Cauldrons
 * Are present in the code, but are not assigned to a block ID (and thus are unobtainable without mods).

Items

 * Blaze Powder JE1.png Blaze powder
 * Crafted from blaze rods.
 * Ingredient to brewing potions.


 * Fermented Spider Eye JE1 BE1.png Fermented spider eyes
 * Ingredient to brewing potions.


 * Glass Bottle JE1 BE1.png Glass bottles
 * First iteration of potions, not yet properly obtainable.


 * Magma Cream JE1.png Magma cream
 * Drops from magma cubes.
 * Ingredient to brewing potions.


 * Music discs
 * 9 new music discs were added.
 * Music Disc 11 JE1 BE1.png 11
 * Music Disc Blocks JE1 BE1.png Blocks
 * Music Disc Chirp JE1 BE1.png Chirp
 * Music Disc Far JE1 BE1.png Far
 * Music Disc Mall JE1 BE1.png Mall
 * Music Disc Mellohi JE1 BE1.png Mellohi
 * Music Disc Stal JE1 BE1.png Stal
 * Music Disc Strad JE1 BE1.png Strad
 * Music Disc Ward JE1 BE1.png Ward


 * Spider Eye JE1 BE1.png 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.

Items

 * Milk
 * Is now drinkable.
 * Drinking milk resets all potion effects currently afflicted upon the player.


 * Gold Nugget
 * Now has a tooltip

Blocks

 * Glass Panes
 * No longer drops as a resource when destroyed.

Mobs

 * Villagers
 * No longer have a "TESTIFICATE" label above their head.


 * Zombies
 * Additional armor points were added, making them tougher.

General

 * Item tooltips
 * Now have a pink border.
 * Debug feature
 * Removed debug code causing jumping to increase experience.
 * Third person view
 * Now renders the front of the player.

Fixes

 * 1 bug fixed
 * Client-side double Mooshroom bug in multiplayer fixed.