Adventure Update



The Minecraft "Adventure Update" was a huge update to Minecraft, similar to the Halloween Update. The Adventure Update was originally designated as Beta 1.7, but was later postponed to 1.8.

The release date (according to Jeb) for the first third of the update was originally 8 September 2011, but was later delayed to September the 12th

An early version of the Adventure Update was playable by fans at Mojang's booth at PAX Prime, which was held between August 26th and 28th. A user from the Minecraft forums who was picked as a volunteer at their booth provided inside information on some of the new features. More on this can be found in this thread. For a list of features in the Adventure Update, consult the Version History (1.8+) and Upcoming Features (1.9) pages.

The Pre-Releases of Minecraft Beta 1.8 and 1.9 were leaked before the official releases (with the release of Minecraft 1.0 being the final release date of Minecraft) and Notch approved these leaks on his twitter. People had "tested" the pre-releases and reported bugs they had found so that the actual releases would not be as buggy.

The adventure update was extremely controversial, due to the large amount of changes to the game.

Beta 1.9 Pre-Release
Jeb released the link to Minecraft Beta 1.9 pre to the public, links are found below :

Client: http://assets.minecraft.net/1_9-pre6/minecraft.jar

On Windows XP/Vista/7 copy the downloaded minecraft.jar to

On GNU/Linux copy the downloaded minecraft.jar to

On Mac OS X copy the downloaded minecraft.jar to

Server: http://assets.minecraft.net/1_9-pre6/minecraft_server.jar

Bug Reporting: Known bugs/Version 1.9pre6

Features:

See here.

Release
The first part of the update (1.8) was released on 14th September, 2011. The second part of the update (1.9) was planned to be released on 22nd September, 2011. A quote on 1.9 from Notch's Twitter on 21/9: "We're hoping (HOPING!) to release something tomorrow". A pre-release for 1.9 was released on 22nd September 2011. However, 1.9 was never released. Instead, the Full Version was.

Confirmed By Notch
Notch confirmed on 2011-09-12 that he would be adding a new mob to the update, Snow Golem. This mob was confirmed to be friendly, and only available by building it physically, not crafting. You can make them by making a column of two snow blocks and a pumpkin. It attacks other mobs with snowballs (zero damage) as a "suicide". Of course also confirmed were the additions of new biomes and the NPCs to the villages. See reference 1 for all 1.9 confirmations.

Bug Reporting
** If you have come across a bug, glitch or problem in the Beta 1.9 Pre-release 6, please visit here; use the discussion page and report it to the Mojang staff when confirmed.**