Java Edition pre-Classic rd-20090515

Unreleased

rd-20090515 is a pre-Classic version made on May 15, 2009. This version was never released. Although there is a version titled "rd-20090515" in the launcher, attempting to play it downloads rd-161348 instead.

Blocks

 * Dirt
 * New block.
 * Generated from Grass Blocks.
 * Stone
 * New stone block.
 * Planks
 * New wood-like block.

General

 * Miscellaneous
 * Spawn Human mobs by pressing.
 * Block picking using the number keys –.
 * Support for different block types and dynamic blocks.
 * Fullscreen mode.
 * Crosshair (+)
 * In this version, it was very thin.
 * A thin layer of fog can now be seen in the distance of lit block surfaces.
 * The currently selected building block will now display in the top-right corner of the screen.

Blocks

 * Grass Block
 * Top Texture is slightly brighter.
 * Grass Blocks now have side and bottom textures, rather than the same texture on each side.
 * Grass exists on dirt while under light.
 * Grass blocks revert to dirt over time when they have no light.
 * Grass blocks revert to dirt when a block is on top of it.
 * Grass has to be next to dirt in order for the dirt to grow grass.
 * Removed the ability to place Grass Blocks legitimately.
 * Cobblestone
 * Changed texture.

Mobs

 * Human
 * Reduced the number of humans who spawn from 100 to 10.
 * Humans who fall below y level -100 are now removed from the world.
 * Humans now appear darker when in shade.


 * Player
 * Changed Player's physics. Now they can jump farther, walk and fall faster.

General

 * Physics
 * Shadows have been brightened.


 * Level generation
 * Unless a from an older version is launched, the world is no longer flat.
 * Loading a world from older pre-Classic versions causes all blocks to become stone.


 * Movement
 * Moving is much slower when in midair.

Trivia

 * This version is the version shown in the "Minecraft progress." video.
 * Unlike other pre-classic versions, this does not use a "ddhhmm" (day-hour-minute) format, but instead a "yyyymmdd" (year-month-day) format.
 * The game was renamed from "Cave Game" to "Minecraft: Order of the Stone" prior to this version.
 * The "rd" before the version number stands for RubyDung, a game Notch was working on before Minecraft, whose codebase was later reused for Minecraft.
 * There was a version in the launcher titled "rd-20090515", however, rd-20090515 is not on the Minecraft download servers - attempting to download will download rd-161348 instead, a much later version.