Java Edition Beta 1.2
Minecraft Beta 1.2
| Edition | |
|---|---|
| Release date |
January 13, 2011 |
| Downloads | |
| Protocol version |
8 |
| Other instances of 1.2 |
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"Beta 1.2" redirects here. For beta versions for Bedrock Edition 1.2.0, see Bedrock Edition 1.2.0/Development versions. For other uses, see 1.2.
For a guide about all content in this release and the other releases of Beta 1.2, see Java Edition guides/Beta 1.2 releases.
Beta 1.2 is a version of Java Edition Beta released on January 13, 2011, which added charcoal, note blocks, dyes, squid, sugar, dispensers, lapis lazuli blocks, bone meal and sandstone, and well as changed and fixed other features.
Contents
Additions[edit]
Blocks[edit]
- Crafted from wheat, egg, bucket of milk and sugar.
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- Crafted from cobblestone, a bow and redstone.
- Crafted from 9 lapis lazuli.
- Drops one Lapis Lazuli when mined.
- Crafted from wood planks and redstone.
- Crafted from sand.
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- Can be crafted into wood planks.
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- Can be crafted into wood planks.
- Currently drops nothing.
- Currently drops nothing.
- Re-added dyed wool with a new spectrum
- Currently, Brown Wool is only obtainable by using external programs.
Items[edit]
- Can be crafted into bone meal.
- Can be crafted 9 lapis lazuli into lapis lazuli block.
- Currently only obtainable by using external programs.
- Currently named Ink Sack.
- Has the same texture as coal.
- Smelted from wood.
- Crafted from sugar cane.
Mobs[edit]
- Added
gray, 
light gray, and 
black variants. - Drop correspondingly colored wool.
- New underwater mob.
- Drops ink sacs.
- Currently can be milked.
World generation[edit]
- Snowy biomes that are very cold.
- Found in or around normal forests.
Changes[edit]
Blocks[edit]
- Can now be smelted into green dye.
- Can now be crafted into yellow dye.
- Texture changed from
to 
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- Now called sugar cane.
- Can now be crafted into red dye.
- Again show a rotating model inside of what they spawn in single player.
- Can now be dyed.
- Now called Crafting Table.
Items[edit]
- Tools made out of wood, stone, Iron ingots, and diamond have increased durability.
- Gold tools can mine blocks like stone and wood much more quickly than their diamond counterparts, with the same durability and restrictions as before this version.
- Now harvested more often when plowing grass blocks.
Mobs[edit]
- Can now be dyed.
- Now drop bones.
- Can now climb up walls.
World generation[edit]
General[edit]
- Screenshots can be taken using the F2 key without having to first hold down the F1 key.
- Included the FastRender mod by Scaevolus.[1]
Bugs[edit]
- Powered Redstone does not update properly when a new power source is added.
Fixes[edit]
- 10 bugs fixed
- Paintings now work in multiplayer.
- Disconnecting while riding no longer keeps the player in the world.
- A bunch more state is properly synced in multiplayer.
- Included PowerPC color and audio fixes by Scaevolus.
- Fixed a horrible chunk reload loop in singleplayer.
- Fixed most lighting bugs in newly generated multiplayer maps.
- Falling sand behaves better in multiplayer.
- Fixed a few crash on load level bugs.
- Jack o'Lantern now has correct tooltip.
- Sheep now visibly lose their wool when hit in multiplayer.
Trivia[edit]
- Beta 1.2 is the first version of Minecraft released in 2011.
Gallery[edit]
Showing the redstone update bug, also the first known instance of MC-184.
References[edit]
1.0
