Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2 is the second pre-release for Java Edition 1.0.0, released on September 29, 2011,[1] which adds cauldrons, potions, animal breeding mechanics, 9 more music discs, hardcore mode, and changes milk to remove potion effects when drunk.
Additions
Blocks
- Coding for the cauldron is present, but not yet assigned to block ID.
Items
- Drops from blazes.
- Ingredient to brewing potions.
- Ingredient to brewing potions.
- First iteration of potions, not yet properly obtainable.
- Drops from magma cubes.
- Ingredient to brewing potions.
- Drops from spiders.
- Ingredient to brewing potions.
Mobs
General
- Hardcore mode
- Locks the difficulty to Hard and forces users to delete the world's save data upon death.
- The health bar changes appearance to indicate the game is in Hardcore mode.
Changes
Items
- Is now drinkable.
- Drinking milk resets all potion effects currently afflicted upon the player.
Mobs
- No longer has a "TESTIFICATE" label above their head.
General
- Item tooltips
- Now have a pink border.
Fixes
2 bugs fixed
- Removed debug code causing jumping to increase experience.
- Client-side double Mooshroom bug in multiplayer fixed.
References
- ↑ "So @notch did the last commit for the 1.9 prerelease 2, get it here: http://assets.minecraft.net/1_9-pre2/minecraft.jar" – @jeb_ (Jens Bergensten) on X, September 29, 2011