Minecraft Wiki:Issues/Beta 1.9pre5

The fifth pre-release for Beta 1.9 has been recently released by Jeb.

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= Bugs =

Bug Labels:


 * [X] = Minor bugs.
 * [!] = Major bugs.
 * [!!] = Bugs that can crash Minecraft or a server.
 * [?] = Possible bugs/features that you and the community (on the discussion page) are unsure about.
 *  [U]  = Bugs that Jeb tested but was unable to reproduce.
 *  [F]  = Bugs that have been fixed in the next update.

Blocks

 * [X] Tall grass on dirt/gravel ( Found tall grass on gravel in an NPC villiage. ). May have been mentioned before.
 * [?] When a water block is placed with empty space underneath, a column of source block is created under the water block. (Maybe an intended feature? Might help keep oceans from having random holes where land used to be.)
 * [!] Quitting to title menu while standing on a pressure plate will activate it forever. It must be rebuilt in order to make it usable again, this goes for items on wooden pressure plates too. [Verified]
 * [?] Flowers can spawn upon sand blocks but cannot be placed upon sand blocks by the player.(Only seen with yellow flowers)
 * [?] Patches of swamp water can be seen in the middle of a lake with no swamp land around it.
 * [?] Arrows do not get stuck in lilly-pads.
 * [?] Snow Golems still attack mobs in creative mode in which are neutral.
 * [?] Right clicking on a water block with a glass bottle while having a full inventory will eject a water bottle
 * [X] Lilly pads do not show up in creative Lilly-pads do appear in creative, are you using a texture pack without the lilly-pad texture?
 * [X] Enchantment Tables break with a single punch and are destroyed permanently, although they can be mined with a pickaxe.
 * [?] It is possible for a lilly-pad to spawn underground and on flowing water. Example:
 * [?] Chests don't make sound when opened or closed. Intentional. Was fixed in an earlier release (bad idea!)
 * [X] This one is hard to explain with out pictures. Normally you need a water block next to a Sugar Cane for it to be able to place, well in water if there's a water block next to it (just like you would normally place water on the surface) you can place the Sugar Cane.
 * [X] If you place a Sugar Cane next to some water and than put any block around that Sugar Cane to block the water it will still stay up with out any water. If you place another Sugar Cane on top of it, it will break, not sure if it breaks if it grows or if another block is placed on it. It has always been like this. Sugar Cane can stay in place with no water source, but will shrink back down to one cane high and the whole cane will break if it is touched in anyway.
 * [?] If you leave a creative world, then rejoin it, any empty inventory spaces reset to the default blocks. Not a bug, has always happened this way. Simply replace the items with the ones you had before from the infinite inventory.
 * [?] When using ender pearls (done in creative), they do not fly to any "End" portals, but instead fly to the middle of rock with no portals/strongholds nearby. 00:09, 28 October 2011 (UTC)I USED ENDERPEARLS AND THEY LED ME STRAIGHT TO A STRONGHOLD, THEY WILL HOVER IN THE DIRECTION OF WHERE YOU NEED TO FLY, KEEP THROWING THEM (AND MOVING IN THAT DIRECTION) TILL THEY GO STRAIGHT UP, AT THAT POINT START DIGGING, YOU ARE WITHIN 20 BLOCKS OF IT.
 * [?] Shrooms pop out, when something is placed next to them. (If the light level is too high the shrooms will pop out if there is a block update next to them)
 * [X] Dead bushes don't get placed in creative mode.
 * [X] Signs may be placed on one another, connected as if placed on a normal block. Always been like this, likely intended.
 * [?] Signs now have similar properties to doors, meaning they drop when the block they are on top of breaks as well. Always been like this, likely intended.
 * [X] Lily pads can now be placed by right clicking on the side of a block 1 space above water, though when placed on vines using this method, the vines disappear. Same happens with mushrooms, though they are just broken. May also work with other blocks, haven't tested this yet
 * [X] The Bug where trees growing on the edge of a biome can have their leaf colors divided across the line is back.
 * [!] When placing a halfblock of sandstone, and another one under it, then another one over all of them, the blocks combine into 1 sandstone block at the bottom.

Crashing

 * [?] Some users report F11 causing a blackscreen crash. I have experienced this before usually fixed with pressing F11 fullscreen glitch possibly happens when in game full screen when to tab out users press F11 this can be avoided by alt + tab to tab out like that - alizter1234
 * [!!] When placing Enchantment Table, game crashes. (SMP tested only) The game does not crash when placing the Enchantment Table (Has been tested in both SMP and on MP)
 * [!!] Creating a world with the name being a "." (period) crashes your Minecraft client. I have tried to recreate this scenario in Hardcore, Survival, and Creative modes, but to date it I have not been able to recreate it.

Files
Installing Java 7 will fix the problem.
 * [!!] The fifth pre-release and any other pre-releases will crash when making a new world in singleplayer, leaving a notepad file on the desktop.
 * [X] On servers if the ops.txt file is missing the message generated states "Failed to load ip ban list" obviously copied from banned-ips.txt message and not modified.

Gameplay

 * [!] Can't switch Gamemodes on a server! No longer a bug, It's proven that switching game modes in servers work.
 * [X] The terrain generator still places Lava-lakes under Water. Not a bug, this happens IRL.
 * [?] While using a bed you will always be interrupted by a hostile mob. It seems the buffer distance between you and mobs has been increased to 3?
 * [X] The terrain generator still doesn't generate beaches. It's not made to.
 * [X] The terrain generator doesn't smooth biome transitions.
 * [?] Sugar Cane seems to grow at a reduced rate.
 * [?] Shooting arrows in creative still depletes the stack (move if needed)
 * [X] Brewing any ingredient with a water bottle always creates a Mundane Potion that cannot be brewed with other ingredients. This is not true, you need to use Nether Wart to create an Awkward base! -- I've tested it myself, potions are fine!
 * [?] Seems that the rate which one becomes hungry is increased in Survival Mode, unsure if this is a bug or a feature.
 * [!] If your world was a creative world and you change it to survival, You can fly in survival mode with clicking space twice This is not a bug. There is no way built into Minecraft to switch game modes on an existing map. 1.9 prerelease 5 added a new abilities section to the level.dat, you need to use your NBT editor to turn off flight there in that section.
 * [X] Spiders will still attack you in Creative mode.
 * [?] Endermen will attack you in Creative mode if they bump into a wall and you are near them.
 * [X] In SMP, the server won't load the End or Nether; therefore making both worlds not generate (the End is just the 5x5 obsidian platform you spawn on).
 * [?] You must dig up from the obsidian you spawn on, you only have to go up 5 blocks
 * [!] In creative, if you move the camera angles in any way (Pressing "N" "M" "Y" "U" "O" or "H"), you can't control your altitude when pressing the space bar or shift. This could be an anti-ghosting issue with your keyboard. It is not because I tried it with both a wired and wireless keyboard.
 * [X] Redstone does not detect when redstone powered items are adjacent and direct power to them while it does detect repeaters.
 * [X] Noteblocks do not receive power from adjacent blocks that are powered by redstone, while everything else does (when a noteblock receives power from a stone block and the stone block is the one receiving redstone power).
 * [X] Noteblocks do not receive power when powered directly by a repeater that's powered directly by a stone block that receives power from a redstone line.
 * [X] Noteblocks do not receive power from a redstone torch sitting on the side of a stone block that is powered by redstone.
 * [X] Singleplayer, changed difficulty from normal to peaceful. Saw hostile mobs disappear and then I got attacked by one of those magma things, not sure if it spawned or if it was already there.
 * [X] When entering The End, it is possible that you will spawn off the generated blocks and be placed on a 5x5 block of obsidian. If played on a mode other than creative, it would be difficult to make a path to the rest of the map. (gravel/sand?)
 * [!] You cannot left-click + hold to destroy blocks when in 3rd person view. This has been proven to be false, you can hold + destroy blocks in 3rd person view, front and back view.
 * [?] When logging on with a random username and password you can play minecraft singleplayer for free. (offline) -- True, but you must have offline (.minecraft) files, then you can log in with a random username. While an offline server would work with this method, an online server doesn't.
 * [X] If you push F6 and move, if you are on your first item slot, you will move the fastest in either direction, however when moving from the first slot to the second slot, this decreases your movement speed a little, gradually decreasing your speed from the 2nd inventory slot to the 4th inventory slot. At the 5th inventory slot, you are incapable of moving. When moving from the 6th inventory slot to the 9th, it is the same as 1-4 except your directional movement is inverted.  This might only work until you crouch in F6 though.  If you move and scroll at the same time, you can see what happens Jeb has stated on his twitter that the F6 Camera Controls are debug features that he accidentally left in the pre-release.
 * [x] Sometimes after saving while flying, it becomes as your walking/ground level enabling sneak and disabling fly. Effectively trapping the player at a fixed level.
 * [X] You can't hold down the left mouse button to continuously attack anymore.
 * [X] You can't hold down the left mouse button to to break a minecart anymore.
 * [?] Efficiency enchanted picks (tested with Efficiency 4 diamond pick) have little effect on reducing Obsidian mine time. Not sure if intended.
 * [!] In third person view (f5) pressing the "U" button will cause the camera viewpoint to move through the character and into the ground, instantaneously revealing all subterranean caves and objects. It is possible to navigate this view with the mouse and the "U" and "O" buttons, spotting ores, diamonds, mines, monster spawners, chests, and strongholds easily.  It is also possible to safely dig straight down using this x-ray vision.  Classified as a major glitch because such an easy exploit removes the exploratory aspects of the game, as well as the #1 rule of minecraft, "don't dig down."

Graphical

 * [X] Activate F3 and open Creative Inventory. If you scroll down the background of the CPU-Time-Usage-Table (right bottom) disappears. Seems to happen if you see the "Golden Apple" with its graphical effects in the Inventory. //Update: This happens with every animated item in your inventory.
 * [X] Swamps have a horrible transition from any biome to a swamp biome leaving some nasty looking colors. Example:
 * [X] Glass panels are still flickering in 1.9 pre 5
 * [X] Due to the new camera positioning keys, switching keys (such as I for inventory, instead of E) causes "unintended" camera panning from the player.
 * [X] If you eat zombie meat and get infected then switch to third person and facing the character the infected animation doesn't play. Tested with fancy graphics and the default texture pack.
 * [X] Swimming/sailing in the ocean causes the horizon to flicker obnoxiously (since 1.8)
 * [X] The wheel texture is flipped upside down on one side of Minecarts.
 * [X] When you die, the player model in the inventory screen also appears dead, blocking some parts of the inventory screen/slots.
 * [X] While you're in bed, the experience level number doesn't fade out.
 * [X] When underwater with the camera position changed, it resizes the blue square filter you get when being underwater.
 * [X] After pressing f6, if you hit left shift to crouch, it inverts your movement controls.
 * [X] Water and lava drips under blocks where it probably shouldn't such as glass, signs and ladders

Lighting

 * [!] Redstone Repeaters placed between two full blocks are dark when placed along Z axis. They are properly lit when placed along X axis.
 * [!] Black and white flickering on all mobs and the player arm when playing Minecraft on Windows XP. Has occurred since 1.8
 * [!] Black an white flickering on chests and all placeable objects on Minecraft Windows 7. Occurred since 1.8
 * [!] This lighting bug is better explained by a short, voiceless video here.
 * [!] Sometimes overhangs create pitch black shadows, as shown here . However, when one gets closer to the cliff, the lighting is updated and the pitch black shadow disappears (as shown here ).
 * [X] If the block adjacent to a water source has a lighting issue, the bubble particles will become black.
 * [X] Glowstone behind glass is odd, the light shines through but the glowstone itself is almost black. Example:

Maps

 * [!] When you are flying on ice, you will see the sides of the chunks (Confirmed for versions 1.6, 1.7.3, 1.8.1, and 1.9pre5)

Mobs

 * [X] Spiders, endermen and silverfish will still try to attack you even if you have not provoked them in creative mode (other hostile mobs do not ).
 * [X] Squids will be facing up, and motionless (not including the squid arms animation) until approached
 * [?] Also, other mobs do not disturb squids
 * [X] When a chicken looks at the player it moves its head down instead of up.
 * [X] Hostile mobs can hit the player from a further distance (IE a creeper explosion can be considered point-blank when 4 blocks away) been around since 1.9Pre4
 * [X] You can see see mobs far away in fog, though they are white.
 * [X] In a dark area, creepers and skeletons don't attack you.

Multiplayer Related

 * [!] Return Ender Portal
 * [!] No Ender Map other than Spawn platform. (After exstensive testing... Might of just spawned Far off the island.....) -Flamespinner
 * [?] End Portal spawns you 1500 coords away or so from the floating island in the end.
 * [!] Cant switch gamemodes
 * [X] When exiting a minecart after riding it, the player floats and can clip into blocks. This condition only disappears when restarting the Minecraft client.
 * [!] Boats are horribly laggy. They work, just really, really laggy. Probably a lack of clientside prediction?
 * [X] When an arrow is shot at a block, the shot arrow floats to the top of the block. It does not stay at the position it was shot at.

Memory/CPU General

 * [X] The Macintosh version uses 32-bit Java, even on 64-bit computers (This is because the launcher specifies 32-bit java, but there is a fix.)
 * Same here, on Windows 7 64bit, unless you use a batch file, or shortcut:
 * "C:\Program Files\Java\jre7\bin\javaw.exe" -jar "full path to minecraft.exe"

Sound
There is not yet any bugs for sound.

Weather

 * [X] Sometimes a thunderstorm can start but it will not rain until near the end of the storm. Mobs spawn normally.

Lava

 * [?] You cannot take lava with a bucket in creative. When you try, the lava doesn't appear in the bucket. < Not a bug. You can spawn all items, so there is no need to collect the lava. The empty bucket is solely for removing liquids.
 * [X] When you are in lava, you can see through it.
 * [X] If you eat golden apples while in lava in the nether, then come out of the lava, you will instantly die, even though the golden apples kept you alive.

Water

 * [!] Water falling directly onto rails/redstone/regular torches from above will destroy that item completely. Water flowing onto such a square from the side causes the item to become a drop.
 * "'This is an intended feature; redstone circuits are destroyed by water.'"
 * be thankful that it turns into a drop instead of disappearing like older versions.


 * What about torches and rails? Rails at least shouldn't be completely destroyed by water.
 * [!] if you have a column of water running down a wall and you block the hole, the water below it keeps flowing, it's like all the water becomes source blocks

= References =