Java Edition Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6

Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6 is the sixth and final pre-release for 1.0.0.

Blocks

 * Dragon egg
 * Currently useless.

Non-mob entities

 * End crystals
 * Sits atop of a block of bedrock.
 * It is diamond shaped, with 2 cubes spinning on their axis with a point at the center.
 * Fires a healing beam at the ender dragon when within range.
 * Can be destroyed with a melee or hit with an arrow, causing an explosion.
 * They appear on all obsidian pillars in the End.

General

 * Ending titles and credits
 * Have been added to the game.


 * Minecraft.jar
 * Added the following to /title/:
 * credits.txt
 * earlyplayers.txt
 * win.txt


 * Video settings
 * Added "Particles" setting.
 * Has three possible states:
 * "All", rendering all particle effects.
 * "Decreased", rendering half of all particle effects.
 * "Minimal", rendering no particle effects (except for those created when breaking blocks).

Blocks

 * General
 * Several block's tool weaknesses have been fixed, such as crafting tables now mining faster with an ax and rails now mining faster with a pickaxe.


 * Beds
 * Attempting to sleep in a bed while hostile mobs are nearby will display "You may not rest now, there are monsters nearby".


 * Doors
 * Changed the mining time to make it faster.


 * Grass
 * New side texture.


 * Iron bars
 * Changed the mining time to make it faster.


 * Monster spawners
 * Changed the mining time to make it faster.


 * Nether bricks
 * Changed the mining time to make it faster.


 * Obsidian
 * Changed the mining time to make it faster.


 * Redstone ore
 * Changed the mining time to make it faster.


 * Sand
 * New texture.


 * Stairs
 * Mined stairs of any materials will drop a stair block now instead of a block form of its material.


 * Stone bricks
 * Changed the mining time to make it faster.


 * Water
 * Downward flowing water now creates flowing water once more.

Items

 * Tools
 * Tools not suited to digging a certain block can be faster than digging by hand, e.g. a pickaxe can dig dirt faster than by hand, but not faster than by shovel.

Mobs

 * Ender dragons
 * More finished boss fight.
 * "Boss Health" meter appears on the middle top part of the screen in the same purple hue as the ender dragon.
 * Leaves behind a fountain-like bedrock structure with the dragon egg sitting on top, and has an exit portal to return to the players spawn point/bed.

Gameplay

 * Enchanting
 * 'Efficiency' enchantment now affects all blocks for any item enchanted with it.


 * Sun and Moon
 * Sun and moon are square again.

Fixes
12 bugs fixed


 * Entity model errors fixed.
 * Armor durability is much back to being larger, larger than it even was in Beta 1.8.
 * Using items and hitting mobs no longer uses up items/durability in creative.
 * Lily pads are now a block which can be stood on.
 * Ferns, tall grass and lily pads are now available in the creative inventory.
 * Unnecessary block versions of cake and sugar cane removed from creative inventory.
 * Enchantment tables now take time to mine, instead of one punch.
 * "Mods and Texture Packs" changed to "Texture Packs".
 * Repeater clocks no longer get stuck when unloading the chunk.
 * Placing fences under farmland doesn't stop it from turning back into dirt.
 * A Minecart with Furnace is able to push empty minecart in any direction.
 * Baby sheep from dyed parents are now born dyed instead of always being white.

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