Java Edition Beta 1.6 Test Build 3

Minecraft Beta 1.6 Test Build 3
Edition	Java Edition
Release date	May 25, 2011
Downloads	Client (.json) Server
Protocol version	12

Beta 1.6 Test Build 3 was a version used to test Beta 1.6 the day before its release. It was never officially released to the public. However, both the client and the server are packed in a ZIP archive that can be found on the legacy update server to this day.

Additions

Blocks

Dead bush

• Found in Deserts.

File:Grass JE1 BE2.png Grass

• Found in certain biomes.
• Seeds are now found in grass; using a hoe on the ground no longer yields seeds.

File:Fern JE1 BE1.png Fern

• Has the same characteristics as grass.

Trapdoor

Items

Maps

• Lets the player scope out different biomes.

General

Splashes

• Added "It's groundbreaking!"
• Added "Let our battle's begin!"
• Added "The sky is the limit!"

Command format

Server.properties

• Added new settings:
  • view-distance.
  • allow-nether.

Gameplay

Multiplayer

• Added Nether support.

Changes

Blocks

General

• Blocks destroyed by other players in multiplayer now show the breaking block particle effect.
• It's no longer possible to build solid blocks on the top layer of the map.
• Blocks that don't change appearance when the data changes don't send block updates when their data changes now.

Beds

• Trying to sleep in the nether causes the bed to explode.

Dispensers

• When activated, it will make sounds and trigger particles in multiplayer.

Doors

• Now make sound for other players in multiplayer.

Fire

• Has been severely nerfed so it spreads slower, and doesn't spread infinitely.

Ice

• Now regenerates regardless of whether it's snowing or not

Jukebox

• Now supports more than 15 different music discs.
  • No additional music discs were added until Java Edition 1.0.0.

Mushrooms

• Now spread, albeit slowly.

Powered rails

• Now speedier to offset the loss of glitch-boosters.

Water

• Below a layer of source blocks no longer behaves like source blocks.

Items

Arrows

• When shot by one player, can now be picked up by other players.

Non-mob entities

Boats & minecarts

• Can't go through portals that are empty or occupied.

Gameplay

Lighting

• The lighting on block icons in the inventory has been changed to appear brighter.

Players

• When stuck in walls, will slide towards the nearest gap if there is one.

General

Controls

• ⇧ Shift+clicking while crafting makes as much as possible and moves it straight to player's inventory.
• ⇧ Shift+clicking something in player's inventory will push it directly in player's hot bar and vice-versa.

Network traffic

• Compressed network traffic more aggressively.

Texture packs

• Added support for misc\grasscolor.png and misc\foliagecolor.png images.

World generation

• A line of 7 chests will generate near the spawn point, containing each Item/block in the game, even the ones that shouldn't be obtainable. The content of the chest is the following: (the repeating of the first 38 Items after the Powered Rail is found In-game in the chests, the reason is unknown.)

Bugs

• ⇧ Shift+clicking into a chest with no empty slots results in a slightly glitched "Saving Chunks" screen.

Gallery

• 

  Unlicensed copy

• 

  Unlicensed copy menu

• 

  Unlicensed copy Multiplayer

Trivia

• Advanced OpenGL is enabled by default in this version. In Beta 1.6 Advanced OpenGL was removed temporarily until Beta 1.6.5 due to bugs.
  • Advanced OpenGL will crash Minecraft on some computers.
• Picking up multiple stacks of items takes a few ticks to finish, unlike the final version where it only takes one.
• The fix for the crash when riding a vehicle or animal through a nether portal is done differently.
• Session requests are performed over HTTP instead of HTTPS.
  • Session requests fail on any code other than HTTP 200, instead of only with HTTP 400.
• Connection to the server is closed differently; no thread is used in this build.
• GL state when rendering items is not properly reset, which may lead to graphical artifacts.
• Tall grass renders differently:

Validity

While modern versions of Minecraft are hosted on s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download, this version is hosted on s3.amazonaws.com/MinecraftDownload (without the period). At first it may seem that this site is not owned by Mojang Studios, but it can be verified as Mojang-owned in several ways:

• The legacy Minecraft launcher (from 2013) uses this site to update, which can be verified through a decompiler.
• Minecraft Classic was loaded from s3.amazonaws.com/MinecraftDownload/classic/minecraft.jar when it could still be accessed on minecraft.net.