Java Edition Indev

Indev is the latest test version of Minecraft's Survival mode and contains features that are not yet implemented in the public version of Survival. It has proved in the past to contain bugs and ranges in stability from build to build. Only paid members can play it.

Features

 * View bobbing for more realistic moving, plus 3D anaglyph for trippy 3D.
 * Health bar with 10 hearts. When your health is low, the bar begins to shake.
 * New map generation screen (configurable themes, map geography types)
 * 6 mobs; the Zombie, the Skeleton, the Creeper, the Pig (which drops meat), the Spider, and the Sheep (which drops cloth).
 * Using Bows you can shoot Arrows
 * You can see the block you are carrying, and you're able to use it as a melee weapon. If you don't have one, your fist is visible.
 * Eat food to restore health (or lose it)
 * Right clicking with a brown mushroom gives you two and a half hearts. Right clicking with a red and white one will inflict one and a half hearts.
 * Eating Meat, roasted Meat, Mushroom Soup or Bread heals you as well
 * A new tesselator to speed up the game.
 * Different Level Themes
 * You can now drown in water after 15 seconds. In lava, every second you lose 5 hearts.
 * After you get out, you do still burn until you find water
 * You can craft blocks of TNT. Placing and then meleeing them will cause them to explode after a short delay.
 * Pictures you can use for decoration
 * Equipment and Weapons
 * Farming
 * Crafting
 * Dynamic lighting
 * New block types
 * Updated mobs (path-finding, varying difficulty options)
 * Day and night cycle (including a sun and moon)
 * Armor
 * New map format (.mclevel)

Upcoming features
Notch's to-do list