Minecraft Beta 1.2
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| Release date |
January 13, 2011 |
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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,[1] 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[]
Blocks[]
- Crafted from wheat, egg, bucket of milk and sugar.
- 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.
- Can be crafted into wood planks.
- 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[]
- Can be crafted into bone meal.
- Used as a dye.
- Used as a dye.
- 9 lapis lazuli can be crafted into a lapis lazuli block.
- Used as a dye.
- Currently only obtainable by using external programs.
- Used as a dye.
- Currently named Ink Sack.
- Has the same texture as coal.
- Smelted from wood.
- Crafted from sugar cane.
Mobs[]
- Added
gray, light gray, and black variants. - Drop correspondingly colored wool.
- New underwater mob.
- Drops ink sacs.
- Currently can be milked.
Changes[]
Blocks[]
- Can now be smelted into green dye.
- Can now be crafted into yellow dye.
- Texture changed[verify] from to .
- Renamed - was previously Reeds
- 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[]
- 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[]
- Can now be dyed.
- Now drop bones.
- Can now climb up walls.
World generation[]
- Birches generate alongside oaks.
General[]
- Screenshots can be taken using the F2 key without having to first hold down the F1 key.
- Included the FastRender mod by Scaevolus.[2]
Bugs[]
- Powered Redstone does not update properly when a new power source is added.
Fixes[]
- 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 crashes on load level bugs.
- Jack o'Lantern now has correct tooltip.
- Bricks now has the correct tooltip.
- Sheep now visibly lose their wool when hit in multiplayer.
Trivia[]
- Beta 1.2 is the first version of Minecraft released in 2011.
Gallery[]
Showing the redstone update bug, also the first known instance of MC-184.
The Minecraft Webpage with this version.
References[]
- ↑ "Minecraft Beta 1.2" – The Word of Notch, Tumblr, January 13, 2011.
- ↑ "The FasterRender mod by @Scaevolus is included in beta 1.2, please let us know if it helps!" – @jeb_ on Twitter, January 13, 2011
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