Beta 1.7

Beta 1.7

Release date	June 30, 2011
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This article is about the computer edition. For other editions, see Version history (disambiguation).

Beta 1.7 is an update that added pistons as well as other changes.

Additions

• Added pistons (sticky and normal)
• Added shears
  • Used to pick up leaf blocks.
  • Used to obtain wool from a sheep without harming it. Yields more wool than killing it.
    • Sheep no longer drop wool from punching them, they must be sheared or killed.
• Silverfish skin was added (for Beta 1.8).

Changes

• Flint and steel or redstone is now required to trigger TNT.
• Fences can be stacked.
• Redstone wire now will connect to a redstone repeater.
• New textures for cobblestone and brick blocks.
• When pressing F3 in-game, a value ("F") from 0 to 3 will appear to indicate direction.
• The gray textures in the breaking animation have been replaced with opacity.
• Squid can now despawn.
• Single slabs now use the bottom half of the full block's texture.
• Cobweb now requires shears or a sword to be broken properly, and drops 1 string when destroyed.
• The bed side texture has been moved in the texture pack file, as well as the cake texture.

Fixes

1 bug fixed

• Fixed clay generation.