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Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3 is the third pre-release for 1.0.0.

Additions

Blocks

Brewing stand
  • Used to brew potions.
Cauldron
  • Now assigned with block ID, now only carries water instead of being used to make potions
Enchantment table
  • Used to enchant tools, weapons, and armor.
End portal frame
  • Unfinished end portal in strongholds. Broken end portal frame blocks can be repaired with eyes of ender, though nothing further occurs.
End portal block
  • Currently useless.
White cobblestone texture
  • File:End Stone before Beta 1.9-pre4.png A white cobblestone texture was added to the terrain.png in the spot where end stone would be found in the next pre-release; however it wasn't used by any block yet.

Items

Eye of ender
  • Used to find strongholds.

Mobs

Baby animals

World generation

Skylands

General

Brewing
  • Completely redone potion system.
Enchanting
  • Placeholder system.
  • Enchanted items appear to glimmer, have blue tooltips and have "Enchanted!!" written below tooltip.
Item repair
Debug screen
  • Added Pie chart detailing CPU usage.

Changes

Blocks

Bookshelves
  • When destroyed, drops 3 books.

World generation

Strongholds
  • More randomly placed chests.
  • 1x1 glass pillars protruding from ground to sky limit at the location of strongholds.

General

Exp Level
  • Now shown above Exp bar
Debug screen
  • Tooltips for rare items (Golden Apples, Music Discs) are now pink.

Fixes

1 bug fixed

Reupload

  • This version was re-released a few minutes after its initial release to remove some code relating to the Ender Dragon. This was possibly done to avoid leaking information, as the Ender Dragon had not yet been announced.
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