Java Edition RC1

1.0.0-RC1 is the first release candidate for 1.0.0.

Sound Update
Assets were updated on November 11. The client version was not updated. Sound effects were updated, and previously unimplemented sound effects were newly implemented.


 * The arrow firing sound was changed.
 * The chest opening and closing now has its own sound, different from the door sound.
 * Wooden and iron doors, trapdoors and fence gates' opening and closing sounds were changed.
 * Experience orbs now make a twinkling sound when collected.
 * Thrown item (snowball, chicken egg, fishing rod and Eye of Ender) sounds were changed.
 * Explosions now have several new, slightly differing sounds instead of just one.

Additions
Sounds Main Menu
 * The Player:
 * Damage to player sound was changed to a genderless bone-cracking sound.
 * Eating and drinking now have sounds.
 * Mobs:
 * Blazes were given an ambient breathing noise.
 * Endermen now make strange whistles and grunts.
 * When they teleport, it sounds like a shortened version of the Nether portal sound.
 * Magma Cubes now make sounds.
 * Silverfish now make sounds.
 * Players and all mobs make the same bone-cracking sound when taking fall damage.
 * Arrow landing was changed to a more twangy sound.
 * Tool and armor now make a breaking sound, and have a breaking animation.
 * Added "Quit Game" button to the main menu.
 * Added 28 new splashes and changed 7 of them.

Changes

 * Changed redstone wire placement on one block from a "+" to a "•" shape.
 * Bows now have a durability bar, with 385 uses.
 * Bows can be fired without having arrows in Creative mode.
 * Thrown eggs now hatch baby chickens.

Fixes
7 bugs fixed


 * Error with the shadowing of the right side of blocks in the inventory is now fixed, being back to what it was in Beta 1.7.
 * Fixed wooden door bug from Beta 1.9 pre6
 * The "Particles" option no longer overlaps the warning when playing on far render distance with a 32-bit Java installation.
 * Fixed the bug that caused the players EXP level to revert to 0 again after The End credits is finished from Beta 1.9 Pre 6
 * The full names of Scaevolus and Hippoplatimus are now used in the ending credits.
 * You can now talk while entering a portal in SMP
 * Obsidian's mining time was increased to 8 seconds from ~3 seconds in 1.9pre6.

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