Java Edition Beta 1.5

Minecraft Beta 1.5
Edition	Java Edition
Release date	April 19, 2011
Downloads	Client (.json) Server (.exe)
Protocol version	11

"Beta 1.5" redirects here. For beta versions for Bedrock Edition 1.5.0, see Bedrock Edition 1.5.0/Development versions.

For a guide about all content in this release and the other releases of Beta 1.5, see Java Edition guides/Beta 1.5 releases.

Beta 1.5 is a version of Java Edition Beta released on April 19, 2011, which added statistics and achievements, new types of rails and saplings, and cobwebs among other changes and fixes.

Additions

Blocks

Birch Sapling

• Grows into birch trees.

Cobweb

• Unobtainable in the game without inventory editing until Beta 1.8.

Detector Rail

• Crafted with 1 stone pressure plate, 6 iron ingots and 1 redstone dust.
• Used to detect minecarts on top of it; when activated, they produce redstone power.

Powered Rail

• Crafted with 1 stick, 6 gold ingots and 1 redstone dust.
• Needs to be powered by redstone.
• Transmits redstone signal to 8 powered rails far.

Spruce Sapling

• Grows into spruce trees.

Mobs

Charged Creepers

• When struck by a lightning bolt, they now become a charged creeper, and have a much more powerful explosion.

Pigs

• When struck by a lighting bolt they now become zombie pigmen.

Non-mob entities

Lightning Bolt

• May strike during thunderstorms, creating fire and dealing damage around it.

Gameplay

Achievements

• Are now transferred between worlds.

Weather

• Added natural occurring rain, snowfalls, and thunderstorms.

General

Controls

• ⇧ Shift + clicking on something in a chest will immediately move the selected item(s) into the player's inventory and vice-versa.

Options

• Ability to change GUI size (Small, Normal, Large, Auto).
• Advanced OpenGL (Occlusion Culling: doesn't render blocks that the player can't "see", helps performance in cards that support it).

Statistics

• Are now transferred between worlds.

Changes

Blocks

Bed

• Sleeping in thunderstorms is now possible, even in daytime.

Crying obsidian

• Texture has now been removed from terrain.png.

Fire

• Now spreads much slower than before.

Grass Blocks

• When using fancy graphics, the sides now use the same color as the top (example of a grass block in Alpha 1.2.0: ).

Ladders

• Its crafting recipe now produces 2 ladders to offset the fix of the staggered-ladder exploit.

Saplings

• Can now serve as fuel in furnaces.
  • Have the same smelting time as sticks.

Redstone Wire

• Fully off redstone wire is no longer black.
• Several changes in redstone wire rendering
  • Due this change, it no longer appears stretched when travelling vertically up a block. However, it still appears offset.

Items

General

• Dropped items in flowing water move faster than before.

Redstone Dust

• Can now be placed on snow.

Mobs

Pigs

• When killed by burning, now drop cooked porkchops upon death.

Wolves

• Now more common, even in non-taiga/forest biomes.

World generation

Birch and spruce trees

• Now drop birch saplings and spruce saplings, respectively.

General

Controls

• Pressing Tab ↹ will switch between input boxes.
• ⇧ Shift + F2 no longer creates a 36450×17700 pixel screenshot.

Performance

• Huge performance improvements for old and slow computers.

Fixes

15 bugs fixed

• Players are only 'on' a ladder (can climb it/fall slowly) if the lower half is in the ladder block, rather than any part of the player.
  • It is no longer possible to climb with a one-block gap in a ladder, or a ladder that starts at eye level.
• On fancy graphics, the sides of grass blocks are now biome-specific and match the shade on the top.
• Player movement through water has been fixed to previous speed.
• Wolves' pathfinding now has a better understanding of doors. They will go through doors most of the time, but will sometimes get stuck on the 3-pixel thickness of the door.
• The lighting on portals and ice has been fixed when using smooth lighting.
• Stairs are no longer transparent to light.
• On multiplayer, the health of wolves are now synchronized between server and client, causing wolves to only whimper when low on health, as opposed to all of the time.
• Redstone in off state is red again.
• Fixed saplings occasionally growing trees that stretch to world limit.
• Crops hit with water now drop seeds and wheat, as opposed to just wheat.
• Moving minecarts will continue to move if the world is closed.
• The Mojang logo is the correct size when the client is maximized.
• The exploit to make chests three or more side by side by placing a water source and placing a chest in that source has been fixed.
• ⇧ Shift + F2 doesn't attempt to create massive .tga screenshots, which are more than 1GB in size, anymore.
• Sugar cane can no longer be placed on any block that is not dirt.

Gallery

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  The achievement UI with the first achievement completed.