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

Starting in the period between Beta 1.7.3 and Beta 1.8, Mojang publicly releases testing versions of the full update 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).

Weekly Snapshots

The format for the snapshots is YYwWWx.[1]

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.

Minecraft 1.2 Snapshots

Version Date of Addition Additions Summary Download
12w03a[2] January 19, 2012

Notable Bugs:

  • 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 attackCreepers.

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Minecraft 1.1 Snapshots

Version Date of Addition Additions Summary Download
12w01a[3] 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 spawning 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

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11w50a[4] December 15, 2011
  • Added 15 new splash texts
  • All music discs can be obtained if a skeleton kills a creeper. [5]

Removed Debug features:

  • Pressing B changes gamemode.

Notable Bugs: (Complete bug list)

  • The version tag is shown as 11w49a, although it truly is 11w50a.

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11w49a[6] December 8, 2011

Bug fixes:

  • You can no longer press B to change between game modes.

Bug fixes:

Notable Bugs: (Complete bug list)

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 285 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 Bug:

  • All Tools break after 8 uses; the primary cause of the quick release of 1.0RC2

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Beta 1.9 Pre-releases

Considered the "Lost Update",[8] 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.

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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:
  • 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.

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1.9pre4 October 13, 2011
  • New Dimension: The End
  • 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
  • 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[citation needed].
  • 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[9]

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.[10]
  • Monster Spawners can be retrieved using the Silk Touch enchantment.[11]

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1.9pre3 October 6, 2011
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:

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.

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1.9pre2 September 29, 2011

Bug Fixes:

  • Removed debug code causing jumping to increase experience.
  • Client-side double Mooshroom bug in Multiplayer fixed.

Notable Bugs: (Complete bug list)

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1.9pre1 September 22, 2011

Debug Features:

  • Jumping increases your experience.

Notable Bugs: (Complete bug list)

  • During Snowfall, snow layer can be generated in odd places, including on water,[12] ice, lava,[13] and signs.[14] Snowfall can also overwrite non-solid blocks, such as torches and redstone.
  • In Multiplayer, shearing a Mooshroom generates a second client-side Cow.

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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
  • Squids 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 New Bugs: (Complete bug list)

  • ⇧ Shift+Clicking under these circumstances causes the 'Saving Chunks' crash screen [15]:
    • ⇧ 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.

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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' [16] 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.

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