1.0.0

1.0.0

Type	Full release
Release date	November 18, 2011
Development versions	Pre-releases Beta 1.9-pre1 Beta 1.9-pre2 Beta 1.9-pre3 Beta 1.9-pre4 Beta 1.9-pre5 Beta 1.9-pre6 Release candidates 1.0.0-RC1 1.0.0-RC2
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1.0.0 is the first non-development release of Minecraft 1.0 (also known as the second part of the Adventure Update), adding brewing, enchanting, the End, hardcore mode, breeding and more. It was released at 9:54:50 p.m. GMT on November 18, 2011, during MineCon 2011.

Additions

General

Hardcore mode

• Locks the difficulty to Hard and forces users to delete the world's save data upon death
• The health bar changes appearance to indicate the game is in Hardcore mode

Gameplay

Status effects

• Inflicts positive or negative effects on players and mobs
• Strength and duration
  • Strength boosts effects
  • Duration controls the time of the effect

Item Repair

• Two of the same tools/weapons that are damaged in crafting will create one repaired tool/weapon

Brewing

• Produce potions

Enchanting

Breeding

• Wheat attracts and feed animals
• Feeding animals makes them enter "love mode"
  • Hearts will come out of animals while in love mode
• Breeding will produce baby animals
  • Smaller versions of the parents with large heads that have faster movement and higher pitched sounds

End Poem/Credits

• Appears after entering the End portal in the End

World Generation

The End

• New dimension
• Replaces the previously planned Sky Dimension

Mushroom island

• Very rare biome
• Naturally generated huge mushrooms
• Spawns mooshrooms

Nether Fortress

• Generates in the Nether

End Portal

• Generates in strongholds
• At most 12 Eyes of Ender to activate
• Takes the player to the End.

Blocks & Items

Items

• Ghast Tear
• Blaze Rod
• Nether Wart
• Gold Nugget
• Glass Bottle
• Potions
• Splash Potions
• Spider Eye
• Fermented Spider Eye
• Blaze Powder
• Magma Cream
• Glistering Melon
• Eye of Ender
  • Activates Ender portal frames.
• 9 new Music Discs

Blocks

• Brewing Stand
  • Used for brewing
• Enchantment Table
  • Used for enchanting
• Nether Bricks
• Nether Brick Fence
• Nether Brick Stairs
• End Portal Frame
• End Stone
• Dragon Egg

Mobs

Ender Dragon

• Boss mob
• Spawns only once in the End

Mooshroom

• Only spawns in mushroom islands

Villager

• Passive
• Spawns in NPC villages

Snow Golem

• Can be crafted
• Melts in hot biomes
• Spreads snow around when it walks
• Passive, but throws snowballs at enemies

Magma Cube

• Hostile Nether mob
• Behaves similarly to slimes

Blaze

• Hostile Nether mob
• Flies and throws fireballs at players

Changes

General

Commands

• /give can now set the damage value of the wanted item (/give <playername> <item> [amount] [metadata])

Gameplay

Experience

• Can be used for enchantments
• Each Experience orb is worth one Score Point.

New achievements

Death

• Amount of experience orbs dropped by players on death now limited
• A proper score is given based on how many experience orbs players have collected

Armor system

• New/improved armor system
• Increased armor durability

View points

• Pressing F5 toggles between three states (first person, third person back, third person front)

Jumping

• Slight delay between jumps when holding down the jump button
  • Players no longer bounces between ceiling and floor in two-block-high spaces

Blocking

• Now moves the player's arm, rather than the sword floating right in front of the player

Sun & moon

• Sun and moon now rise in the east
• Moon phases

Rain

• Changed sound

World Generation

Swamp

• Adjusted to appear "swampier"
  • Darker grass
  • Darker water
  • Generate lily pads

Stronghold

• Random loot chests now generate

Blocks & Items

Tooltip

• Labels for items have a blue border

Bow

• Appears larger in third person view when held
• No longer have an infinite number of uses (385 shots before breaking)
• Additional bow sounds

Doors

• New sounds

Glowstone

• Changed material type from "glass" to "stone".
  • A pickaxe is now needed to drop items.
  • Redstone, torches, levers, etc. can now be placed on the block.
  • No longer acts as a redstone vertical (downward) diode.

Water & Lava

• If water or lava is above a ceiling that is a single block thick, particles of water or lava will drip through, provided the player is within 13 blocks of the ceiling

Flowing Lava

• When flowing lava hits a water source directly from above, it creates stone
  • Previously, lava would flow through the water

Ender pearl

• Now able to be thrown
  • The player will teleport to the Ender pearl's impact location, but take 2 and 1/2 hearts of fall damage
  • Unable to be thrown in Creative mode.

Golden apple

• Now glows purple in the inventory

Fence

• Now connect to solid blocks
• No longer blocks players from moving onto their space
  • Players can now stand next to them, similar to glass panes and iron bars

Block of Iron

• Changed texture from to

Monster Spawner

• Darkened texture

Shears

• Added shear sounds

Weapons and tools

• Attack damage has been nerfed to make space for the increased damage enchantments (e.g. diamond swords do 3.5 hearts now instead of 5)
• Tool breaking sounds

Blocks

• Many blocks' mining speeds have been decreased (these are mostly blocks that used to take a long time to mine)
  • Redstone Ore
    • Mines at the same rate as most ores)
  • Iron Doors
  • Wooden Door
  • Monster Spawner
  • Iron Block
  • Gold Block
  • Diamond Block
  • Stone Brick
  • Iron Bars
  • Furnace
  • Dispenser
  • Obsidian
    • From 15 to 10 seconds

Minecart

• Added minecart sounds

Mobs

Health & armor

• Sheep now have 8 ()
• Ghasts now have 10 ()
• Zombies now have 20 () and 1 ()

Endermen

• Amount of blocks able to be carried by endermen is now limited (see here for the list of blocks)
• True sounds of endermen

Skeleton

• Improved walking sounds

Slime

• Big slimes (size +4 slimes) have deeper jump sounds

Silverfish

• True sounds of silverfish

Ghast fireball

• Changed texture from to

Trivia

• Originally, this update was planned to be released as Beta 1.9, but after a few pre-releases were pushed out, it was decided that 1.0.0 would be the version name, and to push the release date back to during MineCon 2011.
• This update is also the first update to have release candidates.
  • Arguably, this update has the most release candidates for any major update so far, at two release candidates.