Java Edition version history/Development versions

This article is about publicly-released development versions for the PC. For the stable versions' history, see Version history.

Starting in the period between Beta 1.7.3 and Beta 1.8, Mojang began to publicly release testing versions of full updates in order to get major feedback, especially for bug reporting, so that the official update is considerably more stable. While these versions were public, they were not auto-installed by the game and are completely optional.

In Beta, these versions went under the tag of "Pre-Release", candidates subject to release for 1.0.0 as "RC#", and post-1.0.0 were given a name under a special syntax (see below).

To install a development version, simply download the minecraft.jar file, place "minecraft.jar" in your .minecraft/bin/ directory and run Minecraft as usual. For GNU/Linux, some extra work needs to be done to get the 1.3 snapshots going.

Note: This is not a page for reporting bugs; they should be posted on the relevant Issues page instead.

Weekly Snapshots

The format for the snapshots is YYwWWx.

YY is the two-digit year, WW is the two-digit week number within the year, and x is a unique identifier, starting with "a", in case there is more than one release per week, and "w" simply stands for "week".

Minecraft 1.4 (The Pretty Scary Update) Snapshots & Pre-releases

Version	Date of Addition	Additions Summary	Download
12w40a	October 4, 2012	Minor terrain additions for the witch Flatworld configuration now allows you to generate trees, strongholds etc A number of new NBT tags for items (intended for custom map makers) The pick block action now works on items Pressing the 1-9 hotkeys while hovering over an item will put that item into the inventory bar The left-click action will no longer open doors, pull levers, push buttons or open trapdoors. Use the right mouse button! Firespread has been slightly nerfed again to prevent infinitely spreading fires Beacon Texture altered, as well as the beam. Bug fixes: Fixed the wither's starting explosion not being disabled by the mobGriefing gamerule Fixed a few crash bugs related to world generation, map item expansion and other things Fixed being unable to create worlds Fixed the Nether being even more laggy than before Fixed mob AI considering cobblestone walls as blocks of normal height Fixed a few texture oddities with the witch Fixed entities in water producing glitchy water sound Fixed experience given using /xp potentially producing an unenjoyably high amount of sound Fixed the "A 64 bit Java installation is recommended for 'Far' render distance (you have 32 bit)" message being covered by the bottom 2 buttons Fixed pets teleporting around randomly Fixed being unable to place paintings larger than 1x2 and them popping off if they have been placed before Fixed destroying blocks under you with Efficiency-enchanted gear Fixed potion spawners crashing the game Notable bugs (Complete bug list):	Client Server (or .exe)
12w39b	September 28, 2012	Custom potions Only available by editing in with a world editor Bug fixes: “Lots of block placement issues with lighting have been fixed, but nether is still sketchy.” Performance seems to be much better now Fixed Bottomless Pit. Pumpkin emitting stronger light from the wrong face fixed Fixed the witch's texture being weird Partially fixed Nether lag by making the server do some of what used to be the client's work and increasing chunk load time slightly Fixed some lighting bugs related to upside down slabs and stairs and farmland Notable bugs (Complete bug list): Creating a new world in 12w39a/b takes a really long time compared to before. Occasionally, the game crashes when creating a new world. The progress bar is neither shown when creating a new world nor when creating a new nether or end world. A piston flush with the ground will have the unmoving portion incorrectly lit when the piston arm is extended, appearing black. Minecraft gets extremely slow if you break bedrock that goes to the Void. Crash bug when trying to join a world remains. This seems to be related to an existing End World. If you delete the "DIM1" folder (the location of "The End") it sometimes starts working again Minecart sounds is the same volume no matter what your game volume is set to. (with the exception of your volume set to off)	Client Server (or .exe)
12w39a	September 27, 2012	Lighting system overhauled Many blocks previously incorrectly lit now interact correctly with lighting now (stairs, slabs, pistons, etc.) Several sound tweaks Changed Witch texture scale More bugfixes & slight tweaks. Debug screen shows which chunk the player is in, as well as where in that chunk, next to the X and Z coordinates Bug fixes: Sound fixes: Placing glass, glass pane, glowstone, redstone lamp or ice no longer make the same sound of breaking it After shooting an arrow into the water it will not play continuously the water splash sound until removed Fixed Witch being white for some players Unlit areas (black patches) should be fixed for newly generated chunks and worlds Notable bugs (Complete bug list): Lighting for farmland, stairs, slabs, cobblestone walls, etc. still have errors (Example: Light can leak through the back of stairs with Smooth Lighting) Cacti does not utilize the smooth lighting effect Witches still act as if harmed when hit by their own potions Game crashes when trying to join a multiplayer server or a singleplayer world.	Client Server (or .exe)
12w38b	September 21, 2012	Updated sound engine and fixed wrong sounds Added minecart sounds Changed level-up sound Changed fall-damage sound Changed the new block placing sounds (implemented in 12w38a) back to original sounds New cave sound The fire charge makes the same sound as flint and steel when used A few tweaks to the witch mob. Can't hurt themselves now. Texture changed slightly. New drops Misc potion ingredients Sticks Chance to drop what they're holding at the time of death New creeper fall mechanics Creepers will explode if they fall on you from a certain height. Bug fixes: /say command works again Notable bugs (Complete bug list): Placing glass, glass pane, glowstone, redstone lamp or ice has the same sound of breaking it. Spawning a witch with a spawn egg sometimes causes the game to freeze. The witch texture may be broken and may appear white. When an arrow is shot into water the new water sound is played constantly until the arrow is removed. When a mob walks into a flower pot, it will fall one block down. The witches can still hurt themselves. Painting placement is still glitched (bug since 12w36a): 4x4 pantings (and presumably 4x3 and 4x2) paintings upon upgrade from 1.3.2 have been observed to drop upon block load. Paintings of scales other than 1x1 and 2x1 have an unusually low probability of placing. Paintings can overlap each other, as well as be placed without being completely supported by blocks behind them.	Client Server (or .exe)
12w38a	September 20, 2012	The Nether loads faster when going through a portal In Creative mode, teleportation is instantaneous The water overlay is more saturated blue. Updated and added new sounds by C418 New footstep sounds: sand, gravel, soul sand, grass block, ladders, snow, and stone New block-placing sounds: wood, stone, plants, sand, gravel and torch. New sounds are unintended and are the same as in the Pocket Edition New block breaking sounds: wood, snow, glass New mob sounds: cow, chickens, pigs, Enderman (watched/observed, attacked, etc.), zombie, spiders, skeleton, and slime New tool sounds: flint and steel, shears (when shearing sheep) and hoe when you till dirt Lava and flowing water now have constant noise Added level up sound, but will be changed later for a shorter one Added sound when Withers break blocks. Added a passive mob (bat) Spawns in dark caves Spawns in Peaceful mode Sleeps during the day Hangs on the ceiling when idle, starts flying when players come near Added a hostile mob (witch) Their nose slowly bobs up and down when not hostile. Throws splash potions of poison, slowness, weakness and instant damage at you Regenerate health over time Hold an empty bottle and raise their noses when attacking Drink potions of instant health and fire resistance to defend themselves in combat Rarely drop potions of instant health and fire resistance Is immune to some splash potions Does not spawn naturally (yet), but a spawn egg exists for it in Creative mode Command block target parameters have been upgraded Beacon artwork was changed The beam of light was changed The texture of bedrock under the beacon is removed. Wood blocks have a different rotation algorithm. Instead of using the player’s position, they rotate based on the face they are placed upon, like a lever (this is mainly a test). Stone monster egg blocks (which spawn Silverfish) will rarely generate underground in Extreme Hills biomes. Bug fixes: Item frames no longer despawn when the player moves 20 blocks away. Fixed entities losing momentum when going through portals Fixed the "Bottomless Pit" superflat preset having the wrong blocks Fixed not receiving a fishing rod when the carrot on a stick is used up Notable bugs (Complete bug list): Beacons have a yellow cube inside when in the inventory but it doesn't appear when placed When an arrow is shot into water the new water sound is played constantly until the arrow is removed. The /say command does not work in singleplayer. Fixed in 12w38b. In Adventure, swords can break: Leaves Tall Grass/Ferns Dead Shrubs Melons Cocoa Plants Vines Cobwebs	Client Server (or .exe)
12w37a	September 13, 2012	Tweaks to the Wither. It creates an explosion around itself once it is done regenerating from spawning. The Wither now will randomly shoot slow blue-colored versions of wither skull projectiles when idle. Added "Re-Create" option to the World selection menu. Allows you to create a new world as a copy of an existing save, defaulting all of the world options and the world seed to match the original. 'Carrots' are now singularly 'Carrot'. Added pumpkin pie. Tweaks to a couple of item sprites. Bread, raw chicken, cooked chicken, raw beef, steak, raw porkchop, cooked porkchop, red apple, and Nether Star no longer have a dark outline. Carrots changed to match their singular title. Golden Carrot sprite changed to match new carrot sprite. Heads are now correctly centered. Baked potates do not have steam above the main texture anymore. Leather armor now has a non-dyed layer. Time of the redstone signal of the wooden/stone button extended from 9 to 12 redstone ticks Superflat customization GUI: Comes with 7 presets: Classic Flat, Tunnelers' Dream, Water World, Overworld, Snowy Kingdom, Bottomless Pit (Broken), and Desert. Custom starts off with Classic Flat with three options: Add Layer, Edit Layer, Remove Layer. Adding and editing are not yet included. You can customize superflat without add/edit layer option using the "seed" in the preset list. Fishing now gives the player XP. Pigs are now able to jump when players ride on them. Pigs will cease to move when ridden in water. (player weight or bug?) Added /clear command to empty the inventory. Hostile mobs are now a little bit more fearless in hard difficulty. Mobs will risk taking fall damage to reach the player, provided it will not be deadly to themselves. Seems to be more Wither skeletons in Nether Fortresses. Heads can now be customized to be player heads using an NBT tag Bug fixes: Various bug fixes. Notable bugs (Complete bug list): From 12w34a, only 1x2 and 1x1 paintings are place-able on a wall if you build a 4x4x4 cube, you can place any type of painting only work with f = 3 or 0 When using the re-create button to copy a Hardcore world, you can go to the customize screen and enable cheats and the bonus chest in the new game. If you cycle through the difficulties back around to Hardcore, those options will become properly disabled.	Client Server (or .exe)
12w36a	September 6, 2012	Updated Wither Place 4 pieces of Soul Sand in a vertical T-shape and place 3 Wither Skeleton Skulls on top to create it. Drops one Nether Star upon death. When spawned in the Overworld, the sky will get darker. Gives players "Wither II" effect when hitting them. Its name is now displayed correctly above its HP bar. Added Wither Skeleton mob which only shows up in the Nether. Gives players "Wither" effect when hitting them. Carry and rarely drop stone swords when killed by players. Drops bones and coal. Has a high chance to spawn from an skeleton egg if the player is in the Nether Wither skeletons can replace skeletons on spider jockeys. Spawned by using a spider spawn egg in the Nether. First mob to be exclusive to Creative mode. Added one new painting depicting the creation of a Wither. Added Carrot on a Stick. Used to maneuver pigs. Pigs follow the player when holding carrots Can also attract pigs similarly to wheat. Main purpose is to control saddled pigs while ridden. Added Nether Star Used as a crafting ingredient for the Beacon block Added heads Five types in this version: Skeleton Skull Wither Skeleton Skull Zombie head Creeper head Human head Wither Skeleton Skulls are dropped very rarely by Wither Skeletons. Other heads are only available via the creative inventory. Can be used as hats Updated the Beacon block, now shows up as Beacon. New model and textures. Can now be crafted by surrounding a Nether Star with 3 blocks of obsidian on the bottom and 5 blocks of glass around the top Retextured the Golden Carrot. Chickens now use seeds instead of wheat to breed. Chickens now follow the player when a seed is in hand. Pigs can be bred with carrots. Zombies and skeletons that pick up items will now always drop them after dying. Saddled pigs will now always drop saddles on death. Minor changes to dyeing. Leather armor now uses two overlayed textures, one being the color. Minor changes to the leather dyeing - the colors will attempt to maintain intensity and not dilute as much Carrots and potatoes can now be found in either Villages or growing in Jungle biomes. The zombie and Zombie Pigman models and textures have changed. No visual difference, except that it breaks old texture packs. Bug fixes: Notable bugs (Complete bug list): When breaking the Beacon block the particle effect that comes off it still has the old texture. When breaking any of the new heads the particle effect that comes off is for soul sand If the world is generated before this snapshot hostile mobs can be glitchy and not burn in sunlight. Using an invisibility potion while in 3rd person view causes any mob head being worn to not rotate along the Y-axis with the player's head. When worn, heads conflict with the "helmet" portion of a player's skin. Some mobs sometimes can walk inside blocks. Painting placement appears to be erroneous: 4x4 pantings (and presumably 4x3 and 4x2) paintings upon upgrade from 1.3.2 have been observed to drop upon block load. Paintings of scales other than 1x1 and 2x1 have an unusually low probability of placing. Paintings can overlap each other, as well as be placed without being completely supported by blocks behind them.	Client Server (or .exe)
12w34b	August 24, 2012	Changed recipes for buttons. They now require 1 stone block/wooden plank to craft. Leather and diamond armor textures slightly changed: Leather armor sleeves are extended by one pixel. Their item texture has been changed to match the new texture. Diamond armor sleeves now have a notch on the inner side. Removed "map_#/#" on the map and added "Map #" in the tool tip Added boss names above boss health. When taken down to half health, Withers will gain Wither armor, making them immune to arrows. Occasionally, zombies, skeletons, and zombie pigmen will spawn with the ability to pick up items on the ground. Armor will automatically equip. Items will instantly be held, which is not exclusive to weapons. This means these zombies can be found holding items they have come across, such as rotten flesh. This will cause zombie pigmen to drop their sword. This will cause skeleton to drop their bow. The attribute applied to allow them to pick up items is called CanPickUpLoot. Arrows caught on fire (or by enchantments) are able to ignite TNT when on contact. In the Overworld, Zombie Pigmen are eager to get back in the Nether Portal (e.g., if the player makes a portal and spawn Zombie Pigmen in Creative, it will run into the portal). Bug fixes: Fixed item frame crashes. Fixed Nether portal stuff. Notable bugs (Complete bug list): Client crashes upon trying to craft more area onto a map if you're connected to a server. When you push a mob into an End Portal, Minecraft will crash. Item frames take several seconds to drop and remain floating temporarily when the block to which they are attached is destroyed. Maps do not show their content if the player switches to another map in the meantime. Using Pick block on mossy cobblestone wall, gives the player cobblestone wall. 4×2, 4×3, and 4×4 paintings cannot be placed. Mob AI does not recognize cobblestone and mossy cobblestone walls at all. This can cause such problems as villagers being unable to reach a house, constantly walking into a wall all night. If a skeleton picks up a sword, it will not use it. Instead, it will fire arrows from its torso. chests (and Ender Chests) will appear to be in front of the beacon block's light beam, even if they are actually behind it. Creepers destroy item frames and paintings when mobGriefing is set to false.	Client Server (or .exe)
12w34a	August 23, 2012	Added item frames. Crafted like a painting but with leather instead of wool. Added cobblestone wall and mossy cobblestone wall. Added flower pot. Added new Full-screen toggle to the Video settings. Added new use Vsync toggle in the Video settings. Improved maps Maps now align to a grid, making it easier to create adjacent maps. A compass and paper do now create an empty map An empty map has no data on it until you right click on it. The point on your world where you right clicked it is the map's center A map (with data) can be cloned. Cloned maps are stackable Maps can be zoomed out (but not zoomed in) Stairs now auto-arrange into corners. This is a test and may change based on feedback. Mobs (and all other entities) can travel through portals. Fire charges shot from a dispenser or a Blaze create the "fireball" sound effect. Leather armor can be dyed. The default color of leather has changed. You can right-click a full cauldron with dyed armor to remove dye. Tamed wolves' collars can be dyed. Removed the “Work in Progress block” from the Creative menu. Added two new crops (carrots and potatoes) and associated items. Carrots Golden carrots Potatoes Baked potatoes Poisonous potatoes Carrots and potatoes can be planted in tilled soil. Zombies have a chance to drop a carrots and potatoes. F3+P will toggle the auto-pause when the window loses focus (mainly for debugging). F3+H will toggle detailed item descriptions (also for debugging). Added arrow-sensitive wooden buttons. The particle effect when a trade with a Villager has been successful has changed. Trapdoors can be placed in top-most position (based on cross-hair aim). Added a mob called a Wither, only available through external modification such as editing mob spawners, mods, or hacks. It shoots exploding projectiles called Wither Skulls and destroys nearby blocks. It also has a boss health bar. Added Potion of Invisibility. Mobs do not attack you until you bump into them. Potion also hides the player's name tag. Fire spreads differently based on difficulty. Brewing recipes for Potions of Night Vision and Invisibility added: Potion of Night Vision is brewed by adding a golden carrots to an Awkward Potion. Potion of Invisibility is brewed by adding a Fermented Spider Eye to a Potion of Night Vision. Added an unused texture in gui/items.png. Mob grinders now give less XP when you farm them continuously. Saplings now have a smaller hitbox. The f: item on the F# debug screen now shows the exact direction the player is looking, between -180 and 180 degrees from south. Bug fixes: Fixed zombies not burning in the sun. Fixed graphical glitch with chests and Ender Chests. Fixed crash bug with beacon blocks. Notable bugs (Complete bug list): Traveling through a nether portal after a mob has entered the nether results in the mob teleporting back to the surface, same scenario while teleporting to the surface. When an invisibility potion is active + you are in F5 mode + you are holding a bow, the bow does not move in the direction of where you are shooting. Mobs can occasionally fall through blocks Item frames do not drop when water is poured onto them If you place two different pieces of leather armor in a crafting table and dye them, you only get one back (certainly a conflict with the repair function) When item frames are placed on a server it crashes Creepers will occasionally spawn in broad daylight Dyed armor held in the hand is the wrong color when viewed in third person If you send tamed wolves with dyed collars to the Nether and leave one behind, when the others return they will have the same colored collar as the one that remained Dyed wolf collars are reset when they enter the End If standing behind two stairs and placing a stair between the stairs to make the corner stair, it places incorrectly. If you place all your leather armor with a color dye you will get the bottom-right most colored armor Sometimes the stairs will look like a normal block with no top You can place multiple item frames on the same block by placing them on the border of the same block. Sometimes doors continue breaking after the zombie has moved or started doing something else. When you try to place a lava bucket on item frames, it will display the bucket, but will also create a phantom lava entity floating next to the Frame. When wearing dyed armor, the items you hold in your hand (all items except monster eggs and potions) will have the same tint as your armor in third person mode. Wearing different colored armor in combination with no armor can cause some of the colors to mix. If you right-click an item frame with a stack of items, the whole stack will be used up, but when you break the frame only one item will be returned. Most paintings that are not 1x1 or 1x2 fall off the wall. 1x1 and 1x2 paintings are also the only ones that can be placed. Item frames can be broken in adventure mode. All Zombie Pigmen now have skulls, but the ones that previously didn't have them are now missing swords. They can no longer be changed into villagers. If you place an item frame in an item frame then destroy the item frame it only drops 1 item frame. (unlike if you put grass in an item frame then destroy it you get the item frame and grass.)	Client Server (or .exe)
12w32a	August 9, 2012	Villagers will now react positively on new trades, and negatively if you hurt them This effect only takes place if the villager recognizes nearby housing, most commonly with naturally spawned villagers There is a third, unused particle effect added of a villager's face looking angry. Villagers will not remove trades, but trading something else may be required to renew the old ones Zombies, skeletons and Zombie Pigmen sometimes spawn wearing equipment including enchanted weapons and any type of armor, depending on the difficulty level. Added Zombie Villagers Villagers have a chance of turning into zombies after being killed by one. Zombie spawn eggs may spawn zombie villagers. Zombie villagers can naturally spawn. Zombie villagers can be cured, becoming normal Villagers again. To do this, first use a Splash Potion of Weakness on it. Then, right-click on it with a level one Golden Apple. After several minutes, it will turn back into a normal villager. Rarely, villagers can spawn in the Nether near nether portals. New "villages.dat" file in the data folder of world saves Added the Command Block intended for adventure maps. It can run server commands when triggered by a redstone signal. You can use @player or @p as a placeholder for the nearest player. This block will not be craftable and is currently not available in the creative mode inventory, but can be obtained via the command /give 137 New commands: /difficulty <new difficulty> /gamerule <rule name> [value]. Value can be defined as false / true. All rules except keepInventory are true by default. The available rules are as follows: doFireTick (false=fire cannot spread) mobGriefing (false=creeper explosions do not damage blocks) keepInventory (true=keep inventory on death) doMobSpawning (false=mobs do not spawn) doMobLoot (false=mobs do not drop loot) doTileDrops (false=blocks do not drop items when breaking) /spawnpoint [player] [<x> <y> <z>] /weather <clear/rain/thunder> [duration in seconds] Added the Beacon Block (Named "Work in Progress" ingame). By building a pyramid composed of storage blocks such as Blocks of Emerald or Blocks of Diamond and placing this block on top, the player gains access to several powers. A full pyramid can provide level II powers, should the player select the level I variation in the primary powers section. It can not be crafted, although a crafting recipe is planned. It can be obtained via the "Miscellaneous" tab in the creative inventory, or with the /give 138 command. The minimum range is 16 blocks Gives off a light level of 15, as bright as Glowstone Players within the blocks' range will be given the selected effects every 4 seconds The best configuration of blocks requires 164 blocks A working Potion of Night Vision is in the creative inventory. Zombie attack animation shows when it's holding a weapon. Iron Golems now attack slimes and Magma Cubes. The attribution of the quotation at the end of the credits was changed from "Mark Twain" to "Unknown". Bug fixes: Fixed /me command only working for ops Fixed /tell command not working Notable bugs (Complete bug list): There is a visual bug when trying to push someone off a cliff, they fall off then warp back. Sometimes when pushing someone off a cliff they do fall - you are not meant to be able to push people as of 12w23a. It appears to be a server-side feature only, yet has not been applied to the client so far, as you can still push mobs or other entities in singleplayer. It also appears to be a PvP-only feature. In SMP, you can still push mobs and entities too. When standing still in the same place as another player the other player glitches about. When the player sleeps in a bed, setting his/her spawnpoint, destroying the bed, dying, and clicking respawn will not reset the spawn point. This is most likely due to a workaround made for the /spawnpoint command. Zombies will not burn in the sun (really a bug?). Some users experience a layering issue with chests and Ender Chests where the bottom portion shows through the top portion, appearing bugged. You see the block select line through the book of the enchantment table. Leggings are the wrong size for the character model. Sometimes superflat worlds spawn default world chunks. Closing the Beacon Block GUI without selecting a secondary effect crashes the game with "Internal Server Error," even when reloading that world. The villagers' trading GUI does not automatically change to reflect when a villager has run out of stock for a particular trade. Pig zombies sometimes spawn without their skull. Skulless pig zombies can be cured into Villagers. Night Vision effect completely blocks out your vision below Y=0 except for the Sun which glows orange.	Client Server (or .exe)

Minecraft 1.3 Snapshots & Pre-releases

Version	Date of Addition	Additions Summary	Download
1.3.2 Pre-release	August 14, 2012	Large Oak Trees now generate with sideways logs. You can now toggle showing server addresses in the server list using the F1 key Bug fixes: Fixed players sometimes falling out of the world when entering the Nether after having been there before in the same session Fixed players taking damage when water pushes them into corners Fixed various uncommon crash bugs	Client Server (or .exe)
1.3.1 Pre-release	July 30, 2012	Statement from Mojang: The release has been updated to 1.3.1 instead of just 1.3, because the obfuscation was wrong and made life (more) difficult for modders. We also fixed a couple of other minor issues. Normal users don’t need to bother to download again, the patch doesn’t contain any new features, and this 1.3.1 build will be pushed on Wednesday. Bug fixes: Notable bugs (Complete bug list): Players will occasionally fall into the void when entering/leaving the Nether.	Client Server (or .exe)
1.3 Pre-release	July 26, 2012	The block-breaking animation is now shown while the GUI is hidden. TNT no longer does damage to players in peaceful difficulty. Respawning in superflat is no longer random. Bug fixes: Fixed a few misalignments and oddities in the item spritesheet and the creative mode's inventory's graphics. Fixed a crash bug. Fixed the chest armor slot being inaccessible in Creative mode's survival inventory tab. Fixed rotated wooden logs mined using Silk Touch enchanted tools dropping as rotated wooden logs. Fixed being unable to place half slabs in the small gaps between another half slab and the side of another block. Notable bugs (Complete bug list): There is a visual bug when trying to push someone off a cliff, they fall off then warp back. Sometimes when pushing someone off a cliff they do fall - you are not meant to be able to push people as of 12w23a. It appears to be a server-side feature only, yet has not been applied to the client so far, as you can still push mobs or other entities in singleplayer. It also appears to be a PvP-only feature. In SMP, you can still push mobs and entities too. When standing still in the same place as another player the other player glitches about. Player occasionally flies in SMP (by tapping the space bar 2 times like in creative mode). Player loses all XP when leaving The End but when logging out then back in the player regains the lost XP. Player occasionally gets hurt from touching a wall mainly when being pushed by water into a block. Player can be damaged when standing in front of a villager attempting to open a door. This may tie into the suffocation bug listed above, or might be something with the way the villager opens the door. Sometimes source water would slant asif it were moving	Client Server (or .exe)
12w30e	July 25, 2012	Bug fixes: Fixed Cocoa Beans planting on rotated wood blocks Fixed duplication bug in creative Notable bugs (Complete bug list): Player occasionally flies in SMP (caused by double-jumping [jumping while in the air during a jump]).	Client Server (or .exe)
12w30d	July 25, 2012	Added rotatable wood blocks Strongly decreased the amount of experience obtained from furnaces Bug fixes: Fixed Dragon Eggs displaying as lava blocks while falling. This extends to other non-standard blocks displaying incorrectly when tiled on FallingSand entity Fixed thrown splash potions not saving their type when reloading the world Notable bugs (Complete bug list): Creative Inventory duplicates items when moving them from the quick bar to the Survival Inventory Mining rotated wooden blocks will give you their rotated forms, but work fine when placed vertically.	Client Server (or .exe)
12w30c	July 24, 2012	Bug fixes: Fixed piston block animation bug Fixed rain particles in certain biomes Fixes for a few uncommon crashes This includes Mob Spawners set to spawn FallingSand entity crashing the game Fixes for minor text bugs, and portal placement Notable bugs (Complete bug list): Sometimes terrain might fail to generate. (Ex. An NPC Village might have its farm disoriented or a house might be missing. The stairs could be on the gravel without a house. When a dragon egg teleports from being touched to a location not directly touching the ground, it will appear as a lava source block until settling. This has to do with FallingSand entity using the incorrect tile data visually when active for all blocks except sand and gravel.	Client Server (or .exe)
12w30b	July 23, 2012	Bug fixes: Fixed null pointer exception. Fixed being unable to right-click on blocks. Fixed chests stacked on top of other chests not opening. Notable bugs (Complete bug list): If you had a score of 999 points and you died, it says you have 0 points on the You Died! screen. Players sitting in a boat or minecart appear to be not moving and sometimes even crouching. (this can only be seen by other people) When standing in the Nether and teleporting to another player standing in the Overworld you will be left in the Nether at the other player's coordinates. The loading bar doesn't show up when creating or entering a world. When respawning, there's a chance you will fall into the void. World holes appear occasionally.	Client Server (or .exe)
12w30a	July 23, 2012	Made creepers stronger. Depending on difficulty, creeper damage is scaled now. Easy: ~50% less damage. Normal: same damage as before. Hard: ~33% more damage than before. "In full diamond armor + hard difficulty a creeper can knock you down to 2 hearts". Creeper explosions, Fire Charge explosions, and TNT give off a knockback. Stairs, when placed on the upper half of a block's side, will now be placed upside-down In F3 mode, the y coordinate now shows both the feet level and the eye level. Survival mode's command: /gamemode 3 is changed to /gamemode 0 Added Snooper Settings. Allows you to toggle whether your data are sent to Mojang for analysis and improvements, shows which data will be sent to Mojang. Improved performance. Accelerated chunk loading. Decreased lag spike frequency. Made the Nether less laggy. Made chat work smoothly even when the server is lagging. Decreased unnecessary world updates. Decreased packets sent between client and server. Added Vertical Synchronization. Has to be toggled manually in options.txt. Fullscreen mode setting is now persistent Has to be toggled manually in options.txt. Bug fixes: Fixed existing signs not showing text. Fixed monster spawners all looking like pig spawners. Fixed ⌘ Cmd + C, ⌘ Cmd + x and ⌘ Cmd + V not working on Mac OS X. Fixed sneaking players' nameplates not staying hidden when loading the chunks the sneaking players are in. Fixed multiple chunks often not displaying. Fixed higher server-set view distances instantly kicking joining players. Fixed sections above Y = 191 becoming invisible when loading worlds. Fixed not completely generated chunks not updating to visually when walking into them. Fixed compasses not pointing to spawn but to X=8 & Z=8 after respawning. Fixed other players' fishing lines looking like they start from their feet. Fixed a bug with Unbreaking-enchanted tools and destroying blocks. Fixed being able to move LAN servers in the server list and crashing the game. Fixed opening SP worlds to LAN, saving and quitting it leaving the server running and showing up in the server list. Fixed pushing a minecart with the movement keys causing the camera to shake in the direction pressed. Fixed potion effects losing their graphical effects when traveling between dimensions. Fixed Ghast's fireballs getting stuck mid-air when unloading their chunk, might apply to fire charges and blaze's fireballs as well. Fixed the last slot in the opened creative inventory's hotbar being one pixel too short on all but the survival inventory tabs and a few pixels being off on the survival inventory tab. Fixed blocks disappearing when you placing them under yourself and jumping. Fixed the client trying to trample crops instead of letting the server dictate trampling. Notable bugs (Complete bug list): Frequent null pointer exception. Unable to right-click on blocks. chests stacked on top of other chests not opening.	Client Server (or .exe)
12w27a	July 5, 2012	Performance improvements, including reduced CPU, RAM & bandwidth requirements. Updated pistons to make them less error-prone, thus they also appear to update slower. This also altered the way pistons work, so you might have to adapt your repeater delays and similar. For this change, pistons now take 2 redstone ticks (4 game ticks) to expand, but they still retract instantly. Added /debug <start|stop> command. Signs are stackable up to 16. Crafting them now gives 3 signs instead of 1 with the same recipe. Creative mode inventory now shows potion effects. Boats now drop the boat item when destroyed by a player. Gaining experience from mining ore is now different for each type of ore (mining coal ore will give you the least amount while diamond ore & emerald ore will give the most amount of XP) Nether Wart can now grow in the Overworld and The End. Bug fixes: Newly added wooden stairs will now burn. Fixed /kill not working. Fixed powering specific glitched pistons crashing the game. Fixed a visual bug causing pistons to be partially invisible or in the wrong location momentarily. Fixed being able to place portals in the Nether in locations where they would end up in illegal locations in the overworld. Fixed the game crashing when publishing SP worlds with certain language settings. Fixed players on minecarts, boats or pigs and spider jockeys not being displayed in the correct location. Fixed a bug with dispensers. Fixed /say not accepting some strings form the console, often triggering the help dialogue. Fixed being able to transmute blocks to certain data values using an orientation-dependent tripwire bug. Fixed drinking potions in creative not consuming the potions, but still giving empty bottles. Fixed signs sometimes not saving the text when placing them. Fixed torches at the top of 1x1 vertical shafts not lighting up their own block. Notable bugs (Complete bug list): All text on the signs is gone upon loading the world, the text is actually still saved but not shown. Additionally, pigs show in all spawners. Both have been confirmed fixed for next snapshot. The snapshot may give "Internal Server Error" randomly, kicking the player. Quickly reconnecting may result in a crash of the Minecraft client. When the server is set to spawn-monsters=false The server still naturally spawns them. All blocks above coordinate y:192 may become "phantom blocks" and will disappear. They still exist to where you will have glitchy movements when touching the block. This is like the bug with the signs. The blocks still exist and will hopefully visibly reappear in the next snapshot. When using a Silk Touch pickaxe on a lighted Redstone Lamp, the drop will be a lighted Redstone Lamp, which is not stackable with the normal/not lighted lamps. The fishing rod bug still isn't fixed. The line appears to be at the player's feet when viewed from others in SMP.	Client Server (or .exe)
12w26a	June 27, 2012	Monster Spawners now support extra information for the mobs it spawns. This allows unmodified games to have spawners for special variants of mobs. The player still requires external or modified means to set these parameters, though. Some examples of what Monster Spawners can spawn are Charged Creepers, Endermen holding specific blocks, Green Robe Villagers, and Villagers with custom trade offers. Performance improvement. Monsters can now spawn on upside down slabs Silverfish under the poison effect will spawn Silverfish from nearby Monster Eggs more quickly. Bug fixes: The spruce, birch and jungle wooden stairs can now be crafted. Removed the sand and gravel duplication glitch. In creative mode, destroying a TNT block no longer drops a TNT block. Fixed changing the name of a world, loading that world, saving and quitting it undoing the world rename. Fixed the game crashing when it automatically selects the "Scanning for LAN Worlds" item in the server list and you delete it. Fixed the arrow representing the player on the map item not pointing in the right direction Fixed clicking "Save and Quit" or "Disconnect" twice quickly crashing the game. Fixed the SMP server fairly regularly dropping all players and showing many NullPointerExceptions in the console every few hours. Fixed save files being closed each time the world was auto-saved. Fixed placing a piston in front of another which is powered, but not extended, causing the placed piston to become broken and have the same texture on all sides. Removed the powered rail duplication glitch. Notable bugs (Complete bug list): Shift clicking on armor on the survival tab in the creative menu does not work. The Spruce, Birch and Jungle stairs cannot be set on fire with flint and steel. Commands normally for all players (/me, /kill, /tell) are now for OPs only. /kill and /tell do not work at all. Snow on top of blocks that normally allows beds to be placed prevents beds from being placed. A lot of smaller performance bugs. Blocks are sometimes incorrectly displayed to the client in Single Player. Upon punching/breaking the blocks, they will update. This is caused by the chunks that are generated without features first, then later regenerated with ores, mineshafts, etc. but not being updated to the client. Increased smooth lighting errors on newly rendered chunks. This may only occur on certain graphic cards (AMD) as it's a rendering error. The POV is reset to normal upon reboot of the client. Increased chunk errors; these chunk errors cause lag. This also may only occur on certain graphic cards (AMD) as it's a rendering error.	Client Server (or .exe)
12w25a	June 21, 2012	Added an "Open to LAN" menu in the in-game menu, which allows players to open their world to other players. In the menu, the player can choose to turn cheats on or off, and choose the game mode. The multiplayer menu now scans for LAN servers. Villagers may remove a trade option after it has been used at least 3 times. Added wooden stairs for the remaining three wood types (spruce, birch and jungle). Redstone (including repeaters, torches, levers, and pressure plates), torches and rails can now be placed on top of upside down slabs and stairs. Removed the downwards knockback while drowning. Pigs now drop 1-3 porkchops instead of 0-2. Potentially improved memory usage. “A lot of smaller changes and fixes”. The /tp command now allows teleporting to specified coordinates. The syntax for this is /tp [target player] <x> <y> <z>. The other functionality of the /tp command is still there. The "sky" in The End has changed; it is now purple instead of greenish. Slimes spawning in Superflat world type has reduced. Arrows shot while in Creative Mode can be picked up if approached. However, the player will not receive the arrow item when doing so. Bug fixes: A player's Ender Chest storage is no longer wiped on respawning. Fixed pistons not pushing back players Fixed a crash bug when typing /time set day Fixed a freeze bug when opening the texture pack folder from in-game Fixed published games apparently staying open for visitors when the host leaves Fixed Villagers not showing hearts around them when mating Fixed respawning causing your skin to be set to the default until you leave and come back Fixed being unable to hear TNT from more than 16 blocks away Fixed being able to use bone meal in a dark room Notable bugs (Complete bug list): The three new types of wooden stairs cannot be crafted. When creating a world, using punctuation (./:"*><?) will appear as _ unlike previous versions. (E.g. 1.3 will appear as 1_3) (?) Impossible to rename a world in game, one must edit the folder name in the minecraft saves directory. The world name is always replaced by the folder name after playing in the concerned world. Single player freezes at moments, does not always play sounds, and is much laggier than before on some computers. The three new stairs cannot be set on fire with flint and steel. Single Player can crash on some computers after approx. five minutes. Sometimes this issue can be fixed by hosting as a LAN world.	Client Server (or .exe)
12w24a	June 14, 2012	Allowed those connected to a player's LAN network to join SP games The player can now use “/publish” to open your single-player game for LAN players to join. This is still very much work in progress, so it lacks some necessary settings such as what game mode players will get, and if they should be able to use cheats or not. Also, the “/publish” command is temporary, since the player can not even access it if they have not enabled cheats (LAN connections will be GUI based in the future) Added the /tp command from multiplayer to singleplayer, allowing teleporting between players. The player can now place Levers on the underside of blocks, upside-down. Improved Ender Chests Now has an inventory per player and not per world. Also, knocking down the chest will break it into 8 obsidian, unless the player has Silk Touch enchantment Updated language files End Portal Frames now have a tooltip The texture pack folder button now works on Mac. A lot of smaller changes and fixes. Bug fixes: Fixed Ender Pearls and Eye of Ender not aligning properly in the inventory Fixed the double chest GUI having the caption "Large Chest" in all languages Fixed the "Destroy Item" tooltip appearing in other pages of the inventory occasionally Partially remedied bug when Minecraft does not save the player's progress, stops generating chunks, and freezes all the mobs. This still occurs sometimes. Fixed the Ender Dragon not dealing any damage to the player after it has been hit once Fixed explosions not pushing back players. Fixed buckets not picking up or placing water within the spawn protection. Fixed losing the items in the second trade box if the player exits a trade with a Villager Fixed missing sounds: Fixed water-movement sound. Fixed fire sound. Fixed extinguish sound. Fixed Nether Portal sound Fixed lava-stagnant sound. Fixed lava-droplet sound. Fixed attempting to use a Tripwire Hook when right clicking. Notable bugs (Complete bug list): When the player dies or leaves the End, the items in the Ender Chest will also be gone. Tripwire connections between two tripwire hooks must have all tripwire either on a non-solid block, or on a solid block, or else the connection will not work. Sometimes entities disappear. The lightning sound effect does not work	Client Server (or .exe)
12w23b	June 7, 2012	Bug fixes: Fixed frequent null pointer exceptions in survival mode. Notable bugs (Complete bug list): Because Singleplayer acts similar to Multiplayer, Minecraft sometimes doesn't save your progress, or it may just stop generating chunks and freeze all the mobs.	Client Server (or .exe)
12w23a	June 7, 2012	Enchantment levels are slightly exponential again It now takes 825 experience to reach level 30. The first 16 levels are linear, while level 17+ require more points per level to the maximum level of 30 (although one can still have more than 30 XP levels to spend). Added End Portal Frame to creative inventory. Tripwire adjusted Tripwire is now activated by most entities, including arrows (but not an eye of ender or a Bottle o' Enchanting). The max distance has been increased to 40 blocks. Boats adjusted Boats can accelerate to faster than previous speeds. Boats are now easier to control. Wooden pressure plates detect arrows. A lot of smaller changes and fixes. Texture Packs that are in folders and not in a zip file are recognized as a texture pack. Texture Pack image is displayed for folder-based texture packs. The player can now see the cracking effect on blocks when other players mine blocks in multiplayer. Stairs now have the correct hitbox. Removed Debug Features: Pressing F no longer reloads chunks Bug fixes: Fixed a bug when pistons pushed a wire. Villagers procreate again. Weather transitions are back. Slime and Magma Cube jumping animations have been fixed. Armor and Tool enchantments now show to other players on multiplayer. Players are now able to skip the End credits again. Pumpkins now face the correct direction on the player's head. Notable bugs (Complete bug list): In some cases when writing on a sign and clicking done the text is deleted. Repairing items using creative mode in the inventory crafting grid will duplicate the item. Frequent null pointer exceptions in survival mode	Client Server (or .exe)
12w22a	May 31, 2012	Trading with Villagers has been updated Villagers can now trade all sorts of items with you (for example, 1 emerald + 10 gravel -> 3 flint) Some villagers will offer to enchant items (e.g. 3 emerald + 1 iron pickaxe -> 1 iron pickaxe with Fortune I) Enchantment system has been rebalanced The maximum enchantment level has been lowered from 50 to 30. As a result enchantment tables now require only 15 bookcases around them to allow maximum level enchantments. With a full enchantment table set with bookshelves, at the bottom of the 3 enchantments, it always shows you the highest number possible Using level 30 enchantments, the player has a lot more luck; almost all items get at least 2 enchantments Various actions will now reward the player with Experience Orbs, such as mining ores (except Gold Ore and Iron Ore), using furnaces, and getting achievements Levels are now awarded linearly. It takes 17 experience to go up one level. Shift-clicking now works with enchantment tables. Smelting in a furnace with a lava bucket now leaves an empty bucket for the player to retrieve. Added Jungle temples. Added Tripwire Hooks. String can now be placed to create a tripwire between the hooks Added potions to the Creative inventory; found in "brewing" category. Added Block of Emerald. Added delete item, armor and crafting to survival inventory when in creative. Pausing now works again in singleplayer. Some minor terrain changes. Added an "adventure" game mode (/gamemode 2). The player cannot break or place any blocks. The player can interact with any blocks, like doors and levers, and can buy from Villagers. The player can still damage mobs. Added Silverfish cobblestone and Stone Brick Egg blocks to the Creative inventory. Rain will slowly drip through leaves. Extremely rarely, Nether Portals will spawn Zombie Pigmen. When exposed to rain, cauldrons have a possibility of slowly filling with water. Blocks seen in inventory are oriented to the right instead to the left. Half-slabs can now be placed upside-down when pointing at the upper half of the side of a block. This does not work with stairs. Debug Features: Pressing F will reload the chunks. Bug fixes: In the redstone tab of the creative inventory, the redstone torch is now on instead of being off. In the decoration tab of the creative inventory, the redstone torch has been removed. Fixed the size of slimes which was sometimes wrong in the previous snapshot. Fully charged arrows now show their particle effect again. Arrows are now stuck at the correct position in the block they hit. The language English (US) is available again. Fixed Enderman often not shaking and opening their jaws when looked at. Fixed repeaters sometimes being stuck when loading the chunks they are in. The Search tab does not automatically open up unless the player presses their chat key, allowing the inventory to be closed with the normal inventory key again. Notable bugs (Complete bug list): Because the max enchantment level is now 30, it is only possible to get some enchantments such as Sharpness V or Efficiency V with Golden sword or Golden Tools. (Don't know if this is a bug.) Water or lava cannot be used near the original spawn, even when there is no spawn protection (like in multiplayer.) When accidentally shift-clicking a stack of items into the enchantment table, all but one of the stack is destroyed forever. After exiting the End, you cannot skip the credits and you become stuck on a scrolling, bright white screen after the credits end. NPC Villagers don't repopulate. Duplication bug when a block with a data value is pushed into a Tripwire the data value gets removed and the block changes e.g. Birch wood turns to Oak wood. Tripwire breaks if a solid block below it is broken. When wearing a pumpkin it is sideways on your head. It also happens with Snow Golems. This is most likely caused by the above feature of the new block orientation. When closing the trading GUI, any items left in the right trading box, will be deleted and do not drop. Duplication bug when crafting in the survival tab of the creative inventory. You will receive the items as normal but when you exit the inventory you will drop the block you were crafting with. e.g. you craft a diamond block back into diamonds: you receive both the diamonds and the diamond block upon exiting the inventory. When typing select words on a sign, the sign will appear blank after you click done. Option + Tab button works as a List players button instead of just Tab button in multiplayer on Mac OS X Lion client When placing water, water won't place many times. You can get the water back out every block. Very often, Minecraft doesn't save what you have made. (Don't know if this is a bug.) If you drink a potion in creative mode, the potion stays in your inventory, but it will create another empty bottle somewhere else in your inventory. The "tell", "me", and "kill" commands are OP-only in SMP. Non-op players in SMP attempting to issue server commands no longer generate messages on the server console (this breaks some server wrappers). Server actions are broadcast to non-OP players Fire and lava sounds are missing.	Client Server (or .exe)
12w21b	May 25, 2012	There were actually two versions of this snapshot, and the original version is no longer available. The old one had translation griefings, and one of the translators was banned. New inventory screen in Creative mode. Blocks and items are sorted by category, each category in its own tab. The categories are: Building Blocks Decoration Blocks Redstone Transportation Miscellaneous Foodstuffs Tools Combat Brewing Materials The inventory can be searched for specific items: just start typing while in the inventory screen. The search results will be displayed in the Search Items tab. The player's survival mode inventory is accessible via a tab with the chest as its icon. Brewed potions will not be included in their own category. To close the new inventory window you must press 'Esc'. Using the default inventory key does not currently work. Added Monster Egg (Silverfish blocks) to Creative inventory. Saving and Loading chunks is slightly faster. Chainmail Armor is now available in-game. The F3 menu no longer has the graphs. Bug fixes: Removed Server Jar dependency in Single Player, again. Updated language files to correct the diamond/emerald mix-up. Emerald Ore is now green instead of red. Added a crafting recipe for sandstone stairs. Added the new Golden Apple to the inventory. Notable bugs (Complete bug list): Using a Book and Quill in SSP will use up the item, thus destroying what you have written so far. The item works just fine in SMP. Cannot rename any world when playing single player. When generating a world or exiting a world, the "saving chunks" and "loading chunks" is absent. Pressing F2 to take a screenshot on Creative Mode's Inventory will cause it to switch to the Search Tab. Slimes do not always appear to be the size they really are; for instance, a slime that is the size of a tiny slime may have the health, drops, and slime-spawning abilities of a big slime. Any size can appear to be any size. English (US) is missing from the language selection screen. The on-state Redstone Torch can be found in the "Decoration Blocks" tab, instead of the "Redstone" tab. Meanwhile, the off-state Redstone Torch can be found in the "Redstone" tab. When buckets are stacked and you pick up a liquid, all the buckets disappear except one bucket which will be holding the liquid. Soul Sand cannot be found in the creative inventory (even with the search feature) The /me command is now for ops only in multiplayer The /say command does not work if any of the words are one letter long Chunk errors are very common. Mobs that have more than one skin will always be seen using the default skin (such as sheep and villagers). Reloading the world while near the mob can fix this. Redstone torches will become unresponsive after changing the time with the /time set" command. The button on the death screen of a Hardcore game displays "deathScreen.leaveServer". When in creative mode and your looking in your inventory and you shift click for an item to move to your hot bar, it cant be seen unless you re-click the inventory tab. In the new inventory, selecting a building block will darken the "Decoration Blocks" tab and vice-versa.	Client Server (or .exe)
12w21a	May 24, 2012	Added Ender Chest. On SMP, the Ender Chest's contents will be the same for all players on a server. Added emerald. Added emerald ore. Added villager trading. Made buckets stackable. Added snow to Creative Inventory. While sitting inside of a minecart pushing the directional keys will make it move the direction you are pressing. This will only work while the minecart is sitting on rails. NPC Villages change style according to their biome. Stars are more realistic. They are now slightly smaller and slightly brighter. Changed gravel texture. Improved Options menu. Added pyramids. Added a second Golden Apple made with Blocks of Gold. After being consumed, the player receives 30 second Regeneration IV, plus Resistance and Fire Resistance for 5 minutes. Added sandstone Stairs Dispensers will eject water and lava source blocks (from buckets) Will also take water and lava source blocks if there is an empty bucket inside Boats will now pass through lilypads without breaking the boat; the lilypad drops as an item instead. New command; /seed displays current world seed Passive mobs can be easily pushed around by simply walking, most likely intended to help the player navigate through animal farms more easily. Removed Server Jar dependency in Single Player. Removed old chest texture, causing locked chests to appear as the purple default block. Notable bugs (Complete bug list): Emerald Ore has the wrong texture. A ruby like item can be found in the items.png but does not appear in game. Loading a world from a previous version corrupts it. Generated structures are very buggy. New Golden Apple does not appear in the creative mode inventory screen. Villager trading for items worth more than one emerald doesn't work if you place the emeralds one by one. Single player still thinks it requires server/minecraft_server.jar. A blank file with the same name can be used. When generating a Superflat world, you will get chunk errors - there will be some chunks generated in default, and the other are generated in superflat. Pressing F2 to take a screenshot may crash your game and render your world unplayable. There are currently quite common lighting bugs. (Server Issue) Sometimes when Saving and Quitting to Title, the World Save may corrupt. and you may spawn in an empty area.	Client Server (or .exe)
12w19a	May 10, 2012	Added Cocoa Plants to jungles. Added a Large Biomes World Type. Added specific names for the different sandstone and stone bricks. Changed Cocoa Beans textures. Torches now spawn around bonus chests if each side has a block at the same height around it. Cookies now recover 2 points of hunger rather than 1. Bug fixes: Enchanting bows and swords works again. (Other tools now have tooltips, etc. once more.) The End and the Nether generate again normally. Item repair works again. Starting a game in Creative no longer starts in Survival. Bonus chests work correctly again. Particles no longer activate wooden pressure plate with an arrow on it. Notable bugs (Complete bug list): Blocks placed in an empty chunk in the end are invisible until reconnecting. Sounds do not play if they originated more than 16 blocks away. Examples: TNT, Ghasts, Noteblocks. Due to Singleplayer acting as a server, the debug information provided F3 does not correctly display the World Seed. This prevents the player from obtaining his/her seed without using a mod or third-party tool. No matter what your world option on cheats, they're always on. Mobs spin in circles while on cocoa plants.	Client Server (or .exe)
12w18a	May 3, 2012	New addition and changes in debug screen: Coordinates are now rounded to 5 digits. "ws", "fs" and "g" (Walking speed, flying speed and ground. "g" is true if player is touching the ground.) Separated server logic and client. Singleplayer is now a local server. Game no longer pauses when entering a command, writing on a sign/book or pausing the game. More fixes to silk touch and block picking. Fixed picking a block in Creative with a tool in your hand causing you to lose it. Fixed Silk Touch giving you only one slab from double slabs. Support and auto-download for server texturepacks. Wooden tools work in furnaces as one full furnace use. Cocoa Beans are now obtainable in jungle tree leaves. Villagers spawned from spawning eggs will get a random profession. Hardcore Mode is now available in multiplayer. Updated language files. Splash "Mojang" screen now appears for a shorter time (1 second instead of 3 seconds). Added names for wooden planks and logs (e.g., Oak Wood or Spruce Wood Planks). Fixed being unable to switch tools of the same kind in your inventory. Fixed water destroying non-solid blocks when breaking them from above. Notable bugs (Complete bug list): Enchanted tools don't have a glow or description, but the enchantments still work. Swords and bows could no longer receive enchantments as the table would not show the enchantment items on the right side when one or the other were placed within the table. Sounds occasionally do not play, or have a long delay when playing. Minecraft doesn't shut down local servers if the server or client encounter a bug. The End and the Nether are empty when entering. When creating a new creative world, the player is spawned in survival mode (and has to type /gamemode 1 to be in creative). Bonus chests do not work. Weather fade transition do not work.	Client Server (or .exe)
12w17a	April 26, 2012	Editable Books - Book and Quill, crafted using a Book, Feather, and Ink Sac. When a Book and Quill is made, it can be right-clicked to open a screen that allows you to type the book. Pressing "Done" will save whatever was typed and allow you to edit the book again later, yet will not "sign" it. When "signing" a book, it will allow you to choose a title up to 16 characters long and disable editing of the book. The Book and Quill then becomes a Written Book, with the icon changing along with the label. Wooden slabs for each of the four shades of wood added These new slabs no longer act like stone An axe should be used to break them They are no longer immune to fire and lava New block IDs 125 for double wooden slabs and 126 for single wooden slabs. Wooden slabs created in older versions of Minecraft are still stone-like and fireproof and will not change to the new slabs when placed or mined. Leather is now required to craft Books. Silk touch can now retrieve Ice blocks and glass panes. Ice no longer turns into water in the Nether. In the menu, Chat Options were added. Added chat opacity, letting the chat be semi-transparent. Added chat disabling, removing the chat for SMP servers. Added chat colors option. Added "Only Commands" mode to chat. /help added. Tools now have infinite durability in Creative mode. Minecart and boats are destroyed in one hit in Creative mode. Various bugfixes, some regarding entity collision, the pick block function, and chat. Livestock, such as chickens, can now be "walked through" instead of pushing the player around in crowded pens Flying through water in Creative mode is no longer slow You can no longer have a bonus chest in Hardcore mode. Server Commands now appear in italics in SMP. Saplings now have their proper names. Notable bugs (Complete bug list): All wooden slabs appear as the Oak slab when placed upside down. This is purely visual. The Sound and the Music volume aren't displayed correctly. Wooden slabs spend light when placed before 12w17a.	Client Server (or .exe)
12w16a	April 19, 2012	Added a demo mode for non-premium users (won’t be available until the full update). In the language files, new text was added for the demo mode. The demo mode will last for 6 in-game days (about 1 hour and 40 minutes) according to the language files. It also teaches the player how to use the controls and how to begin playing. Added bonus chest option to create world screen. When enabled, starts the user off with a chest nearby containing tools, items, and blocks helpful to starting a survival game. Bonus chests may contain: Wood Wooden Planks Sticks Stone and/or Wooden Pickaxe Stone and/or Wooden Axe Bread Red Apples Added option to enable single-player commands to create world screen. Added several cheats: /gamemode, /toggledownfall, /time, /give, /xp, /kill. Typing / then pressing Tab ↹ will show a list of available commands. These commands are enabled in previously generated creative mode-worlds. While using commands, the world around the player is frozen, unlike in multiplayer. Updated language files. Items can now be deleted from the hotbar by shift-clicking while on the Creative mode item selection screen. Bug fixing and tweaks. Notable bugs (Complete bug list): Even with "Allow Cheats" turned off in Single Player, you can still use the commands. Bonus chests have a chance of spawning inside nearby tree leaves at world creation. The chest is destroyed but the items remain inside the leaves. Bonus chests may fail to spawn, even though the option was enabled. (e.g. in the seed "walruswalruswalrus") If you ban yourself in Singleplayer using cheats it will ban you from your other worlds.	Client Server (or .exe)
12w15a	April 12, 2012	Stackable items now stack outside inventory when thrown to the ground individually. "Pick Block" button now gives the correct block when used; when clicking on a mob, it gives the appropriate spawn egg. ⇧ Shift+clicking can now be used to wear armor. Brewing Stands and Enchantment Tables allow use of shift clicking to put items in it. Dispensers will deploy boats on water, and minecarts on rails. Powered minecarts and storage minecarts are also deployed similar to minecarts. Right clicking a powered minecart in Creative Mode will act as if you would give it coal. Decreased slime spawning rate in superflat worlds Notable bugs: (Complete bug list) Pick Block: Several entities and blocks are currently unsupported by Pick Block and cause the player to crash if they attempt to Pick Block them. These includes piston heads, Ender Dragons, and other players. Pressing the Pick Block button on Redstone Dust gives you a Redstone Wire block. Pressing the Pick Block button on long grass gives you a Dead Bush placeable on dirt. Pressing the Pick Block button on a sign gives you the sign block and will not have the stand part and will be placed instantaneously, without the sign GUI showing up. Spawn eggs now spawn baby mobs. Baby mobs spawned in the above way will follow any adult of their mob type. Destroying floating sand may crash Minecraft. Changing the GUI scale will cause the game to crash. If item or block with the same ID but with different meta data are stacked on the floor, they will take the meta data of the first item/block you drop. This applies but is not limited to spawn eggs, wools, dyes, woods, planks, half-slabs, stairs, leaves, stone bricks, tall grass and sandstone. For example, if you drop a spruce plank, followed by 20 jungle planks, 20 birch planks and 23 pine planks, they can stack together into 64 spruce planks. Bows do not shoot at correct charges.	Client Server (or .exe)

Minecraft 1.2 Snapshots & Pre-releases

Version	Date of Addition	Additions Summary	Download
1.2.5 Pre-release	March 30, 2012	Added shift clicking support in furnaces. Added method to easily acquire blocks you have selected in the world in Creative mode using the "pick block" key. Made the Direct Connect dialog remember the last IP for the current session. Made cats less eager to sit on things. Made cats less patient. Made punching a TNT block with flint and steel in hand destroy and drop a TNT block (right-clicking will activate the TNT). Bug fixes: Fixed issues detecting certain links in chat. Fixed wild ocelots behaving like tamed cats. Fixed various chat crashes. Fixed world generation failing under certain circumstances. Fixed issues turning off sound under certain circumstances. Fixed ghost entities in multiplayer. Fixed crash when pasting certain characters in chat. Fixed slash ‘/’ key not behaving correctly in certain environments. Fixed command matching being too greedy (for example: typing ‘/stophammertime’ no longer stops your server). Fixed not being able to click colored links. Fixed potential issue with village door detection (which could cause too many villagers). Fixed using a stack of bowls on Mooshrooms not consume the whole stack of bowls. Notable bugs: (Complete bug list) "Pick Block" bugs: Gives the block's drop rather than the block itself. For example, picking stone will give cobblestone, picking a grass Block will give dirt, a gravel block will give gravel or Flint, Leaves will give a sapling, snow cover gives a snowball and so on. If you try to pick the front of a extended piston, it will give you the piston arm block. While your crosshair is on any part of any mob, you will get Bedrock. When you pick Lapis Lazuli ore it will give you an Ink sac. When picking a cake you get the actual cake block instead of the item. When you pick a nether portal block, you will get the actual portal block. When picking normal seeds placed on farmland you will get the seed block itself named 'crops'. When picking melon or pumpkin seeds placed on farmland you get a glitch block.	Client Server
1.2 Preview	February 29, 2012	Added a new type of Stone Brick, called Circle Stone Brick, which is only accessible in Creative Mode. Pressing F3 now displays what biome you are currently in. Also, raw, sky & block brightness values called rl, sl & bl respectively. Slabs can now be placed upside-down. Added mechanical sounds for Iron Golems When crafting slabs, you now get 6 instead of 3 When crafting ladders, you now get 3 instead of 2 Removed camera controls accidentally added in 12w08a Two new blocks have been added to the terrain.png file. They look similar to sandstone but instead they contain hieroglyphics. These blocks have not been added to game yet. ( ?, ? ) Bug fixes: Nerfed Iron Golem spawn rate. Fixed bug with updating Powered rail when placing redstone. Fixed Stairs being placed upside down when placed on snow. Fixed not being able to put torches on upside-down Stairs, probably normal Stairs too. Fixed Jukeboxes not playing above level 128. Fixed not being able to grow Giant Mushrooms above level 128. Fixed bug with growing trees above level 128 with bone meal. Fixed crash bug with Iron Golem crafting. When crafting an Iron Golem, the block above them is no longer destroyed Fixed tamed wolves still attacking sheep. Fixed some language bugs. Fixed some Anvil bugs. Fixed the client not properly handling biome values greater than 22. Fixed mobs spawning half as quick due to the code checking in invalid spawning places half of the time due to the new world height. Fixed lava lakes generating over bedrock. Fixed Iron Golem's texture being white or invisible. Fixed the Iron Golem model. Fixed Villagers being restless at night. Fixed Nether Wart dropping from Soul Sand. Fixed lag from Iron Golems. Iron Golems no longer drown. Notable bugs (Complete bug list): In the main menu and F3 monitor, the version number says 1.2, without noting it's a preview version. Ocelots spawn outside of jungle biomes, at least in worlds generated in older versions. (noticed in taiga biome) Monsters will be set to fire on direct sun only after they had been hit by the Player. Mobs spawn inside transparent blocks, like leaves	Client Server
12w08a	February 23, 2012	Added Iron Golem, a new utility mob. Defense for Villages. Removed some Canadian English stereotypes. Multiplayer no longer says "Go camping with your buddies, eh?" Added upside-down stairs. Many changes to the world and lighting system Lava ponds and flat stone areas generate on the surface more frequently. Fixed the End and caverns generation. Redstone torches and torches can be placed on the top of glass Added camera controls (These were accidentally added. Jeb noted them as "deadmau5 camera" controls and will likely be removed again in an upcoming snapshot.) Pressing F6 causes the player to get "stuck" to the camera until F6 is pressed again. This allows players to appear to phase into blocks. Pressing F9 causes the camera to freeze in its position, allowing to see the player model rotating in third person view. Scrolling the mouse wheel (which also scrolls the inventory) rotates the forward, left, right, and back directions Pressing Y, H, U, O, I, K, J, L, N and M change the camera positioning in a variety of ways, While pressing two functionally connected keys at the same time (example: Y + H) will revert that view back to normal (but U + O doesn't work). Notable bugs: (Complete bug list) Big Trees, Birches and Pines spawn only very rarely (a rare example can be found in seed "12w08a", a pine will appear at x and z coordinates 300). Giant Mushrooms do not spawn in Mushroom biomes. Spawning zombies that are spawned on half-Steps will not burn in daylight until they step on a block Camera controls aren't bindable and trigger when you have one of your keybinds set on theirs. Blacksmiths in villages are much more rare When you enter the portal placed above clouds level and you go back to The Overworlds you find yourself at a different place at 64th y level. Lighting is very buggy from the changes, and skylight does not work above the old 128 block limit without blocks, causing cave ambience to play and blocks held in a player's hand to turn dark. Torches cannot be placed on the side of glass, only on top. Redstone torches burn out too quickly in multiplayer. (making redstone circles unusable)	Client Server
12w07b	February 15, 2012	Fixed the bug when hitting a block on fire the block gets destroyed Fixed crash when mobs were spawned above block 255. Fixed sheep animation in SMP. Notable bugs: (Complete bug list) max-build-height in the server.properties file doesn't exactly correspond to the real height limit when playing. For example, setting it to 200 will allow players to build until the level 208. So 248 is sufficient to limit it to 256. When higher than the render distance, one can see the sun below at midnight. In SMP, hearts do not appear above Villagers when they are in "Love Mode" and try to repopulate a village. The zombies waves Spawn to attack villagers even if the server's option "Spawn Monsters" is set to False. (Both in SSP and SMP) In SMP, when creating a new world, the spawn location is not saved and is always replaced by X=0,Y=50,Z=0. New/Killed players will spawn here after the second start of the server. Regions with snow do not render as white on the map (whereas frozen water still renders as light blue) The colored spots on spawn eggs dropped with Q are displaced somewhat to the left when viewed in the world. Snow particles are improperly rendered as rain in cold biomes; snow still generates, however, and the rain sound effect cannot be heard. Walking mobs sometimes glitch and do circles in one spot until provoked. Jungle Leaves seem to drop very few saplings (SSP, untested in SMP) (bug?) Lit Redstone Lamp block drops when mining a powered redstone lamp. Does not stack with normal unlit Redstone Lamp Block.	Client Server
12w07a	February 15, 2012	World file format changed to format called Anvil. World height is now 256 blocks instead of 128 blocks. Up to 4096 block IDs can be used. Multiplayer light calculations no longer cause affected blocks to be transmitted to the clients, instead the clients will recalculate the light on their own. This means that chunk errors can not be fixed by placing a torch anymore Villagers will repopulate villages based on how many houses there are available. The player may add houses to villages, provided they are enclosed with a roof and wooden door. Some nights in villages will be worse than others. Referring to Zombie Invasions Added Redstone Lamp. Decreased chance for the rare mob drops. All animals use the new AI system now. Animals can now move their heads when walking. Baby animals will now follow wheat. Fixed wolf AI (They no longer teleport huge distances when the player is hit). Fixed zombies breaking Iron Doors. Notable bugs: (Complete bug list) On newly generated worlds, lighting is broken. Most areas are always light, unless it's night-time. In SMP, powering a Redstone Lamp will not update the lighting. Lightning updates cause stuttering. Caves don't generate. The End does not generate (only a spawn platform and a Dragon). As the max world height of the Nether is also increased to 256, but Nether world generation is unchanged, mobs and Mushrooms will spawn on top of the Bedrock ceiling. Snow does not show up on maps. Pickaxes enchanted with Silk Touch no longer cause glass to drop itself when broken. (bug?) Taiga biomes do not spawn trees anymore. Swamp biomes spawn very few trees. Player can glitch through walls using enderpearls. (Both in SSP and SMP) Zombies burn during daytime even if it is raining (when spawned from the egg and in contact with fence).	Client Server
12w06a	February 9, 2012	Many minor bug fixes and tweaks. Creepers no longer explode after death. Villagers can no longer open iron doors. Cats, ocelots, zombies, wolves, and skeletons no longer spin in circles on non-full-height blocks. Cobwebs will prevent the player from receiving fall damage. Doors have been changed to properly detect if they are open or closed. Double Doors in existing maps will need to be updated. Placing two pressure plates directly in front of doors and stepping on them will open them correctly. When stepping on a single pressure plate only the door on that side will open. When stepping on both pressure plates both doors will open. Villager's AI has been improved. Villagers socialize with each other and passive mobs. Villagers go inside for shelter when it's raining. Villagers run away from zombies. When a player is targeted by a hostile mob, it will continue to track the player despite being attacked by other mobs. Zombie's AI has been improved. On Hard difficulty and Hardcore Mode, zombies break down Doors. On normal and easy difficulty, zombies attack but will not break down Doors. Zombies chase and attack Villagers. Zombies attack doors when attempting to escape sunlight. Added new sounds. Cats meow, cry, howl, purr and hiss. Doors make banging sounds when zombies attack them. Better movement for mobs in water. Most mobs move slower. Cave spiders swim extremely fast with the water stream towards the player, but seem to be almost not moving against the water stream. Zombie Pigmen swim fast in water. Added rare item drops for mobs. Zombies have a rare chance to drop an iron ingot, iron helmet, iron shovel, or iron sword. Skeletons have a rare chance to drop a bow or an enchanted bow. Zombie Pigmen have a rare chance to drop a golden helmet, gold ingot, golden sword, or an enchanted golden sword. Pressing F1 to hide the HUD additionally disables hitbox outlines on blocks and the block breaking animation. Monster Spawners now show correct mobs in multiplayer. Snow Golems take damage from rain and water. Redstone Dust can now be placed over Glowstone. Notable bugs: (Complete bug list) Wolf AI can completely break, causing them to freeze. You can still tame them and make them sit, but they will not follow or teleport to player. Wolves won't always follow the player after being tamed. Wolves teleport and attack mobs when the player is hit, even if the wolfs are sitting or far away. After that they follow the player normally. Some wolves may not attack, but teleport to the player and remain sitting. Zombies break down iron doors on hard difficulty. In Singleplayer mode, mobs within the 16 block seeing radius seem not to be able to see a player if the player is 2 or more layers above the mob.File:2012-02-12 20.46.53.png Cave Spiders sometimes do not swim. Redstone sometimes stays powered after removing the Redstone Torch, when you make a Redstone circuitry with pistons that keeps pushing Blocks around. When running Redstone Dust over Glowstone, the signal gets cut off and doesn't continue.[2]	Client Server
12w05b	February 3, 2012	Fixed shift-clicking the result from crafting only giving half the items and consuming all leftover materials. Cats will now sit if right-clicked with an empty hand. Death screen has a slight delay before buttons become active, to avoid accidentally clicking buttons when killed. Creepers have a slightly improved AI. NPC Villagers now have the ability to open and close doors. Creepers will run away from tamed cats and ocelots. Notable bugs: (Complete bug list) Villagers can't swim. Villagers can open iron doors with no redstone devices. Creepers will sometimes explode after being killed if their countdown has already started. When under attack, sitting cats may teleport to the player, remaining in their sitting state.	Client Server
12w05a	February 2, 2012	There were actually two versions of this snapshot, and the original version is no longer available. The second version would technically have been 12w05b, but since it was released so soon after the original 12w05a, jeb decided to simply replace 12w05a, and the version released the next day was named 12w05b. The original 12w05a had a bug where the game would crash when right-clicking a sitting cat empty-handed, and it also had some griefing in the translation. It is for these reasons that the snapshot was updated so soon. Lava sounds now function. Many mob-related bug fixes (and some new behaviors). Ocelots are easier to tame, and cats can be told to sit. Many small bug fixes and tweaks. Villagers will try to detect village houses and live in them. Updated language files. Removed some offensive translation text. If your home bed is missing/obstructed while you are on Canadian English, it will say "Sorry, your home bed is missing or obstructed, eh?" Creepers run away from cats. Creepers now have new AI - they stalk the player. Abandoned mine shafts now bridge over ravines Enchantment tables no longer require experience in creative mode You can get Dead Bushes by using shears on them. Notable bugs: (Complete bug list) Shift-Clicking gives half the amount of items that you would get from repetitive left/right clicking when crafting, and can also consume additional items (e.g. 11 stick and 12 coal, shift-clicking the torches consumes the extra coal) When right-clicking a sitting cat with your bare hands, the game crashed (in 12w05a only). Cats are sometimes unable to be breed with fish thus only able to consume them. The cat body will be broken into fragments. Cats only sit if your right click with an item in hand. Ghasts are completely incapable of movement. If you kill a creeper while it is initializing countdown, it's corpse will blow up. Villagers, while able to purposely enter a house, will not stay there. Villagers can get stuck trying to open a door that is unreachable. If a villager is exiting a house while another is entering it, they will get stuck. At night, if a villager fails to detect a house, it will stand still and do nothing. Villagers barely move their heads anymore.	Client Server
12w04a	January 26, 2012	New jungle-specific ocelot mob that can be tamed with raw fish into Cats. Mobs in general have new an AI with new and improved behaviors. Skeletons and Zombies burning from sunlight will flee to darkness or jump in water. Mobs no longer attempt to jump over wooden fences. New items: Fire Charge Jungle sapling Bottle o' Enchanting (Creative Mode) Spawn ocelot (Creative Mode) Updated language files. Changed dispenser and Oak sapling textures. (Oak sapling) Added Desert Wells, which are newly generated structures. Players are slowed when going through Vines due to their nature of being a collisionless ladder. Notable bugs: (Complete bug list) Cats, ocelots, zombies, wolves, and skeletons that get on non-full-height blocks will spin in circles. Ocelots become stuck in fences when they run into them. Zombies will sometimes stand still and track you only with their eyes. Visible lines between rows of blocks. A thrown Bottle o' Enchanting in SMP will not appear. An unruly user that wrote the Afrikaans language translation put offensive text on the singleplayer button. Another unruly user created a bogus language called [Ingles (Uruguay)] that contains the text "Otra razon para odiarte...", which translates to "Another reason to hate you..." The left side of most mobs' heads will change to white when taking damage. The left side of a Creeper's head does not have light effects applied to it. (Noticeable under light level 7.) Zombies and skeletons don't know the difference between water and lava when attempting to avoid sunlight. This is probably due to them only attempting to go to areas with low skylight levels, of which both water and lava have. A fire charge that is shot from a dispenser into water will not go out, making fire be possible underwater. Even when it's raining, zombies and skeletons will still occasionally attempt to avoid sunlight. World generates floating chunks.	Client Server
12w03a	January 19, 2012	Ladders regained their collision box Vines are climbable if you push into a solid block while next to them Added jungle biome (requires a new world) and new wood and leaf types Updated language files Dispensers dispensing spawn eggs will place Mobs instead of simply dispensing the eggs Spawn eggs are now stackable Zombies have new path-finding AI Wolves have new AI and can be bred by using chicken (raw or cooked), porkchops (raw or cooked), steak/beef, and rotten flesh when tamed. Notable bugs: (Complete bug list) In the inventory screen, the player's head will face different directions depending on which way the player is facing in-game. Zombies nearly always spin on axis when unable to reach the player. Jungle biomes seem to put much more strain on the GL rendering engine, causing low framerates and out of memory errors. Some leaves generated as part of Jungle biomes will begin to decay immediately, as they are outside the required range of any wood needed. The saplings dropped from jungle tree leaves have the same sprite as the normal oak tree saplings and don't grow a jungle tree but an oak tree. The height of a wolf's tail being used to gauge health is broken. Attempting to feed a wolf with any meat will both heal them and put them in love mode. Some torches in the stronghold libraries will not correctly align with the chandelier (being one block off). Wolves attack Creepers. Some entities will at times act as if they are not present, even though they are. They cannot be interacted with, and clicking on them will cause things behind them to activate, as if they weren't there. These are not the same as the "ghost entities" bug that existed previously, as the entities in question are actually there and can often be interacted with both before and after this bug is observed.	Client Server

Minecraft 1.1 Snapshots

Version	Date of Addition	Additions Summary	Download
12w01a	January 5, 2012	Added 18 new language translations Removed 4 language translations Slightly smoothed color transitions between biomes Added proper color transitions for the darkened Swamp biomes into other biomes Reduced brewing time to 20 seconds Decreased randomness of Enchantment Tables Changed spawn eggs colors to better represent their respective mobs they spawn Spawning eggs also reordered in the Creative Inventory screen Changed biomes to be slightly more varied, examples of which being hills in forests and deserts Re-added Beaches after being removed in Beta 1.8 Added World Type options, currently only Default and Superflat Removed collision box from ladders, meaning they are no longer solid and can not be stood on Updated the Fence Gate collision and hit boxes to align with Fences Notable bugs: (Complete bug list) Game crashes on startup on some system The hit box of open Fence Gates is the same as when they are closed, hence not matching the open shape Zombie Pigmen are constantly hostile in the Nether outside of Creative Mode	Client Server
11w50a	December 15, 2011	Added 15 new splash texts All music discs can be obtained if a skeleton kills a creeper. Baby sheep eat faster. Removed Debug features: Pressing B changes gamemode. Notable bugs: (Complete bug list) The version tag is shown as 11w49a, although it truly is 11w50a.	Client Server
11w49a	December 8, 2011	Sheep eat grass and tall grass to regrow their wool. As a counterbalance, shearing sheep now yields 1-3 wool instead of 2-4. Added multiple languages. Added spawn egg items only available in Creative Mode for the following mobs: Zombie Cow Mooshroom Zombie Pigman Wolf Enderman Blaze Magma Cube Ghast Pig Chicken Sheep Squid Skeleton Spider Cave Spider Creeper Silverfish Villager Slime Bug fixes: You can no longer press B to change between game modes. Farmland is no longer destroyed by items and particles. Corrected a setTileEntity multiplayer bug. Corrected a powered rail bug. Corrected a redstone update bug. Notable bugs: (Complete bug list)	Client Server
11w48a	December 1, 2011	Changed farmland trampling. Void Fog has been removed in Creative Mode. Oak Leaves now have a 1/200 chance of dropping a Red Apple. Bug fixes: Taiga biomes now once again contain snow and ice. Notable bugs: (Complete bug list) Particles and entities incorrectly trample farmland.	Client Server
11w47a	November 24, 2011	Subtle code optimizations Bug fixes: Fixed the bug with double doors where one may not open correctly. Notable bugs: (Complete bug list) Experience orbs are invisible to clients on SMP.	Client Server

Beta

Minecraft 1.0.0 Release Candidates

Version	Date of Addition	Additions Summary	Download
Minecraft 1.0.0RC2	November 13, 2011	Bug fixes: Fixed a bug that caused all tools to break quickly after loading an old map in Minecraft 1.0.0RC1 Notable bugs: (Complete bug list) Taking fall damage as the player causes both the normal damage and fall damage sounds to play, though they sound very similar and are difficult to differentiate. fishing rods and bows will get damaged in creative mode. Double wooden doors open very strangely.	Client Server
Minecraft 1.0.0RC1	November 13, 2011	New sound effects/usage of previously unused sound effects Players and all mobs make the same sound when taking fall damage Arrow sounds Firing sound changed Landing sound Chest opening and closing Door, wooden and iron, and fence gate opening and closing Experience Orbs make a twinkling sound when collected. Mob sounds Blaze sounds (Ambient Breathing Noise) Enderman (strange whistles and grunts) Enderman teleportation sound (Shortened version of the Nether portal sound) Magma Cube sounds Silverfish sounds Thrown item (snowball, chicken egg, fishing rod and Eye of Ender) sounds Player sounds Damage to player sound changed to genderless stabbing sound Eating and drinking sounds Explosions now have several new, slightly differing sounds instead of just one. Tool and armor Breaking Sound and Animation Added "Quit Game" button to the main menu. Changed redstone wire placement on one block from a "+" to a "•" shape. Bows now have a durability bar, with 385 uses. Bows can be fired without having arrows in Creative mode. Thrown eggs now hatch baby chickens. Added 28 new splashes and changed 7 of them. Bug fixes: Error with the shadowing of the right side of blocks in the inventory is now fixed, being back to what it was in Beta 1.7. Fixed wooden door bug from Beta 1.9pre6 The "Particles" option no longer overlaps the warning when playing on far render distance with 32-bit . Fixed the bug that caused the players EXP level to revert to 0 again after The End credits is finished from Beta 1.9Pre 6 The full names of Scaevolus and Hippoplatimus are now used in the ending credits. You can now talk while entering a portal in SMP Obsidian's mining time was increased to 8 seconds from ~3 seconds in 1.9pre6. Notable bugs: All Tools break after 8 uses; the primary cause of the quick release of 1.0RC2	Client Server

Beta 1.9 Pre-releases

Considered the "Lost Update", a full version under the name "Beta 1.9" never came. Instead, Mojang opted to delay the release of this update until MineCon 2011 and release it under the name "Minecraft 1.0.0". This decision was made after a few development versions tagged as Beta 1.9 were already sent out, so the name Beta 1.9 was kept for all of the development versions in the gap between Beta 1.8.1 and Minecraft 1.0.0, other than the Release Candidates.

Version	Date of Addition	Additions Summary	Download
1.9pre6	November 11, 2011	credits.txt, earlyplayers.txt and win.txt added to /title/ in minecraft.jar. Revised beds; Attempting to sleep in a Bed while hostile mobs are nearby will display "You may not rest now, there are monsters nearby". Several block's tool weaknesses have been fixed, such as Crafting Tables now mining faster with an Axe and rails now mining faster with a Pickaxe. Added ending titles and credits. Mined stairs of any materials will drop a stair block now instead of a block form of its material. Added "Particles" setting in Video Settings. Has three possible states: "All", rendering all particle effects, "Decreased", rendering half of all particle effects, and "Minimal", rendering no particle effects (except for those created when breaking blocks). Added (currently useless) dragon egg. Changes to the mining time of many blocks, including Redstone Ore, stone brick, Nether Brick, iron bars, doors, Monster Spawners and obsidian, making their mining times much faster. 'Efficiency' enchantment now affects all blocks for any tool enchanted with it. Tools not suited to digging a certain block can be faster than digging by hand, e.g. a pickaxe can dig dirt faster than by hand, but not faster than by shovel. More minor changes to textures, this time to: Side texture of grass, adhering to dirt texture change in previous pre-release Sand Sun and Moon are square again. Downward flowing water now creates flowing water once more. More finished Enderdragon boss fight. "Boss Health" Meter appears on the middle top part of the screen in the same purple hue as the Enderdragon. Leaves behind a fountain like bedrock structure with the Enderdragon Egg sitting on top and has another Ender Portal to return to the players spawn point/ bed. Ender Crystal added, an entity which sits atop of a block of bedrock. It is diamond shaped, with 2 cubes spinning on their axis with a point at the center that fires a healing beam at the Enderdragon when within range, and can be destroyed with a melee or hit with an arrow, causing an explosion. They appear on all obsidian spikes in The End. Bug fixes: Entity model errors fixed. Armor durability is much back to being larger, larger than it even was in Beta 1.8. Using items and hitting mobs no longer uses up items/durability in creative. Lily Pads are now a block which can be stood on. Ferns, Tall Grass and Lily Pads are now available in the creative inventory. Unnecessary block versions of Cake and Sugar Cane removed from creative inventory. Enchantment Tables now take time to mine, instead of one punch. "Mods and Texture Packs" changed to "Texture Packs". Repeater clocks no longer get stuck when unloading the chunk. Placing fences under farmland doesn't stop it from turning back into dirt. A Minecart with Furnace is able to push empty minecart at any direction. Baby sheep from dyed parents are now born dyed instead of always being white. Notable bugs: (Complete bug list) Wooden doors cannot be opened directly by clicking. You lose all experience levels/points after the credits. Redstone signals can no longer be pushed through glowstone using a repeater. (This is due to glowstone now being considered a transparent block.) The "Particles" option in Video Settings overlaps the warning when playing on far render distance with 32-bit java.	Client Server
1.9pre5	October 27, 2011	Several new Achievements Added option to turn off clouds in Video Settings. In Creative mode, if using empty bucket, the bucket won't fill up if removing fluids with it. Texture change to Blocks of Iron, appearing to be corrugated. Minor changes to textures of: Both instances of the top of grass Stone Dirt Wooden Planks Gravel Blocks of Gold Blocks of Diamond Netherrack Glowstone Hostile mobs act neutral in creative mode. Entity punch range in creative mode reduced, as a result. Fence post selection boxes now resemble their collision boxes. Slimes now spawn on levels 0-40 rather than 0-16, making them much more common. Enderdragons now have a new dying animation even though they still do not spawn, and their health has been changed to to test this. Water flowing downwards creates source blocks, instead of flowing water. Debug Features: Debug Camera features Pressing F6 causes the player to get "stuck" to the camera until F6 is pressed again. This allows players to appear to phase into blocks. Pressing F9 causes the camera to freeze in its position, allowing to see the player model rotating in third person view. Scrolling the mouse wheel (which also scrolls the inventory) rotates the forward, left, right, and back directions Pressing Y, H, U, O, I, K, J, L, N and M change the camera positioning in a variety of ways, While pressing two functionally connected keys at the same time (example: Y + H) will revert that view back to normal. Bug fixes: Monster Spawners cannot be collected with a Pickaxe enchanted with Silk Touch. Mycelium and End Stone are now available in the creative inventory list. The step on stairs is properly lit. Lily Pads now have the correct coloration in the inventory and have a name tag. End Stone now has a name tag(previously "unnamed") Melons once again drop the correct number of slices. Data error when attempting to block with an enchanted sword fixed, blocking with enchanted sword now possible Baby animals now work in SMP. Notable bugs: (Complete bug list) Several entity models are askew, with instances such as the player's face appearing on the bottom of their head and cow's rears being upside-down. Ghasts, spiders, and monster spawner mobs (with the exception of Blaze) act hostile in creative mode. Endermen also become hostile when looked at in creative mode. Placing fluids with a bucket no longer treats other fluid source blocks like solid blocks.	Client Server
1.9pre4	October 13, 2011	New Dimension: the End End Portal Frame blocks graphically redesigned End Portal now functions. New settings in Server.properties: debug enable-query enable-rcon query.port rcon.password rcon.port Glistering Melon, used to brew Potions of Healing instead of Ghast Tears Ghast Tear now used for Potions of Regeneration. Enchanting fully implemented The Sun and Moon now rise in the east and set in the west, based on the top of maps being North, and are round. The Moon now has multiple phases, somewhat akin to the real Moon. Flowers now grow randomly around the world like grass on dirt. Throwable splash potions with Area of Effect when thrown, created by brewing an existing potion with gunpowder. Added a swirl effect while under the effect of a potion effect. Glistering Melons cause instant health when brewed into a potion Placing fluids (water or lava) with a bucket treats other fluid source blocks like solid blocks, allowing you to place them on top of each other without an adjacent wall. You can reload the texture pack by pressing F3+T Bug fixes: Enchanting is now server-side instead of being only a client-side change. Fixed ⇧ Shift+Click crash bug with enchanting tables and brewing stands. Critical hits now appear in SMP. Glass towers stretching to the top of the map no longer appear over strongholds. Fixed all Minecart with Furnace bugs, except the lighting bug. Notable bugs: (Complete bug list) New swirl effects do not show up in any view but first person. Melons now drop just one slice. Monster Spawners can be retrieved using the Silk Touch enchantment.	Client Server
1.9pre3	October 6, 2011	Completely redone potion system Brewing Brewing Stand used to brew Cauldron now assigned with block ID, now only carries water instead of being used to make potions Placeholder enchanting system Enchantment Table Enchanted items appear to glimmer, have blue tooltips and have "Enchanted!!" written below tooltip. Eye of Ender Unfinished End Portal in strongholds. Broken End Portal Frame blocks can be repaired with Eyes of Ender, though nothing further occurs. End Portal Frame Currently useless End Portal More randomly placed chests in strongholds Baby animals: Baby chicken Baby cow Baby Mooshroom Baby pig Baby sheep Exp level shown above Exp bar Destroyed bookshelves drop 3 books. Item repair The tooltips for rare items(Golden Apples, Music Discs) are now pink. Added Pie chart detailing CPU usage to debug screen. Access to Skylands due to bug in terrain generation Skylands no longer a biome as such, but instead its own type of terrain generation(akin to the Nether) Debug Features: 1x1 glass pillars protruding from ground to sky limit at location of strongholds. Bug fixes: Fixed Snow Golems being able to enter Love Mode. Notable bugs: (Complete bug list) Attempting to call tooltip of Block 119 crashes the client Shearing a baby mooshroom turns it into an adult cow instead of a baby.	Client Server
1.9pre2	September 29, 2011	First iteration of potions, not yet properly obtainable Glass bottle Potion ingredients: Magma Cream Blaze Powder Spider Eye Fermented Spider Eye Coding for cauldron is present, but not yet assigned to block ID Incomplete Breeding 11 new music discs Item tooltips now have a pink border. Milk can now be drunk, resetting all potion effects currently afflicted upon the player. Bug fixes: Removed debug code causing jumping to increase experience. Client-side double Mooshroom bug in Multiplayer fixed. Notable bugs: (Complete bug list)	Client Server
1.9pre1	September 22, 2011	New Mushroom biome Added Nether Fortresses New mobs Mooshroom Villager Snow Golem Magma Cube Blaze New blocks Mycelium Nether Brick, Nether Brick Stairs, and Nether Brick Fences Nether Warts Lily pads New items Blaze Rod Ghast Tear Gold nuggets Nether Warts Debug Features: Jumping increases your experience. Notable bugs: (Complete bug list) During snowfall, snow layer can be generated in odd places, including on water, ice, lava, and signs. Snowfall can also overwrite non-solid blocks, such as torches and redstone. In Multiplayer, shearing a Mooshroom generates a second client-side cow. Chests no longer make sound when opened.	Client Server

Beta 1.8 Pre-releases

Version	Date of Addition	Additions Summary	Download
1.8pre2	September 13, 2011	Differences from Beta 1.8: Fog key mapped to F3+F in Beta 1.8, but mapped to F here. Changes: Fixed SSP chunk memory leak Abandoned Mineshaft density is now halved Increased stronghold count to three per map instead of one Fixed furnace tile entity crash Fixed leaving the crafting table with items on the grid creating phantom blocks Vine and leaf blocks no longer crash the game when placed in the Nether Blocking now works in SMP Sprinting with right-click or sneaking is now fixed Some of the missing blocks are now on the creative selection screen You can no longer eat in Creative Fixed Endermen having client-side problems in SMP Chickens and cows killed by burning now drop their cooked meat Squid now drop exp orbs when killed "Generate structures" is now on by default Fixed farmlands rejecting melon and pumpkin seeds You can now use bone meal on pumpkin and melon seeds Huge Mushrooms can only be made if a mushroom is planted on grass or dirt Cracked and Mossy Stone Brick now drop themselves instead of regular Stone Brick. Adjusted fog strength at low altitudes to be less extreme F6 and F7 working as a result of left-in debug code is now removed Notable bugs: (Complete bug list) ⇧ Shift+Clicking under these circumstances causes the 'Saving Chunks' crash screen : ⇧ Shift+clicking an item from inventory to a dispenser and vice-versa. ⇧ Shift+clicking an item from a chest to your inventory while your inventory is full and vice-versa. ⇧ Shift+clicking an item from a chest to a nearly full inventory (last stack being partial) and vice-versa.	Client Server
1.8pre1	September 9, 2011	Differences from Beta 1.8: Viewmodel sway has not been added yet There is no hotkey to change fog distance Debug Features: F6 and F7 change time, forward and back respectively. Notable bugs: (Complete bug list) Seasonal Forest, Rainforest, Shrubland, Taiga, and Tundra biomes do not generate at all, which also results in that snow is not generated at all. Furnace use will usually cause the game to crash, displayed with a 'Saving Chunks' freeze screen. F8 for smooth-mouse control no longer works. The shadowing on the right side of blocks in the inventory is broken, showing very little shadowing.	Client Server