Java Edition Beta 1.8 Pre-release

Beta 1.8 Pre-release is the first pre-release for Beta 1.8, that was released on September 9, 2011. It is the first ever known pre-release released for Minecraft Java Edition.

Blocks

 * Glass Pane Revision 1.png Glass Pane
 * Crafted using 6 glass.
 * Drops itself when destroyed.


 * Oak Fence Gate Revision 1.png Fence gate
 * Connect to fences.
 * Open when.


 * Stone Bricks JE1 BE1.png Stone bricks
 * Come in regular, cracked, and mossy varieties.
 * Occur naturally in strongholds. The different bricks are all called stone bricks in-game. The regular stone bricks can be crafted into stone brick slabs and stairs.


 * Cracked Stone Bricks JE1 BE1.png Cracked Stone Bricks


 * Mossy Stone Bricks JE1 BE1.png Mossy Stone Bricks


 * Vines JE1 BE1.png Vines
 * Can grow to nearby blocks.


 * Block 97
 * Drop silverfish when broken.

Items

 * Cooked Chicken JE1 BE1.png Cooked Chicken


 * Raw Chicken JE1 BE1.png Raw Chicken
 * Dropped by chickens.


 * Rotten Flesh Revision 1.png Rotten flesh
 * Dropped by zombies.


 * Ender Pearl JE1 BE1.png Ender pearl
 * Dropped by endermen.
 * Currently have no use.

Mobs

 * Enderman Revision 1.png Enderman
 * Have the ability to teleport.

World generation

 * Biomes
 * Extreme Hills
 * Ocean
 * Oceans existed in previous versions, however now they exist as an actual biome, spanning thousands of blocks.
 * Generated structures
 * Mineshaft
 * Village
 * Stronghold
 * Ravine

Gameplay

 * Hunger
 * Sprinting
 * Activated by double-tapping.
 * Experience
 * Currently has no use.
 * Blocking
 * Activated by a sword.
 * Negates 50% of the incoming damage.
 * Critical hits
 * Gamemodes
 * Creative

General

 * Options
 * The player can now set their field of view in the options via the FOV slider. It can be set from 70 (default) to 110 (Quake Pro).
 * Debug keys
 * and move time forwards and backwards, respectively.

Blocks

 * Ferns
 * Triangular ferns no longer generate naturally.
 * Chest.png Chests
 * Chest.gif Double Chest.gif Added an opening and closing animation with a new chest model.
 * The chest's texture is no longer in the terrain.png file. Instead, it is in the folder "item" under "chest.png" and "chestlarge.png", with the former being a chest on its own and the latter being the large chest.
 * Are now tile entities, which means they no longer show the block breaking animation and are also now slightly smaller than they were before.
 * Now change the direction they face based on the viewpoint of the player.
 * Can now be found in abandoned mineshafts and strongholds.

Items

 * Shears
 * Can now be used to harvest shrubs.
 * Cooked Porkchop
 * Changed the texture from to.
 * Golden Apples
 * Now restore, instead of health points, and also give Regeneration for 30 seconds.

Mobs

 * Pigs' snouts now extrude from their model, rather than being flat.

World generation

 * Biomes
 * Biomes are now much bigger and more flat.
 * Hills and mountains tend not to generate as much, except in the new extreme hills biome.
 * They are no longer aligned based on temperature and humidity, instead their distribution is random.
 * Swamplands
 * They have been renamed to just "swamps".
 * They are a much more vibrant green color.
 * They have a new tree type, which are slightly bigger and have vines hanging from their leaves. They can also generate in shallow water pools.
 * They are much more flat.
 * Taiga
 * They no longer have snow nor ice.

General

 * Debug screen
 * The ability to see the level's seed has now been added to the debug screen.
 * Entity numbers being shown above a mob's head have now been removed from the debug screen.

Removals

 * Biomes
 * Seasonal forest
 * Rainforest
 * Shrubland
 * Savanna
 * Tundra
 * Ice desert
 * Ice deserts did not generate in previous versions, so their removal was not noticeable.
 * Beach
 * Gravel beach
 * General
 * Far Lands

Re-upload
Beta 1.8 Pre-release was re-uploaded approximately 24 hours after its initial release to fix bugs and remove some debug features. Features and bugs present in the initial version include:
 * Villages do not generate correctly. Only the wells, gravel paths, and lampposts generate; houses do not generate.
 * Various models often become corrupted.
 * Screenshots can sometimes fail to save, printing an error into the chat:, where   and   are two numbers, with   being less than  . This bug seems to occur after changing the resolution of the game window, and can be solved by making the window smaller.
 * The world can sometimes fail to save, resulting in lost progress when quitting.
 * Various debug keys exist.
 * freezes the camera in its current position.
 * , while also turning back time, enables a strange "bouncy" movement. It locks the player's y coordinate (meaning they cannot jump or fall). It makes the player accelerate relatively slowly when moving. Additionally, blocks lose their collision, however the player is still affected by solid blocks trying to push them out (as observed in normal gameplay), though if the player is moving quickly enough they can push all the way through a block.
 * and change the view's rotation clockwise and anti-clockwise, respectively. Holding both keys simultaneously resets the rotation.
 * and decrease and increase the field of view, respectively. These keys seem to affect the field of view differently to how the FOV option does - the player's hand (or anything the player is holding) will also become stretched as the field of view increases or decreases, which does not happen if the player changes the FOV option in the menu. Holding both keys simultaneously resets the field of view.
 * makes the player look up, looks left,  looks down, and  looks right. These movements are normally done by moving the mouse. This setting cannot be reset by holding any keys simultaneously.
 * and moves the third-person camera forwards and backwards, respectively. This setting cannot be reset by holding both keys simultaneously.

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