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{{Infobox version
| title = Minecraft Beta 1.6
| image = Beta 1.6 Shown tallgrass.png
| image2 = Beta 1.6 menu.png
| edition = java
| date = May 26, 2011
| clienthash = ecc0288d218fd7479027a17c150cbf283fa950a1
| jsonhash = 8a62339d69ede6781646dacff76ad09bc90cd918
| jsonfile = b1.6
| serverdl = [https://vault.omniarchive.uk/archive/java/server-beta/b1.6/b1.6.jar Server (release)]<br>[https://vault.omniarchive.uk/archive/java/server-beta/b1.6/pre/b1.6-trailer.jar Server (pre-release)]
| prevparent = Beta 1.5
| prevlink = Java Edition Beta 1.5_02
| prev = Beta 1.5_02
| next = Beta 1.6.1
| nextparent = Beta 1.7
}}
{{relevant guide|Java Edition guides/Beta 1.6 releases}}

'''Beta 1.6''' is a version of [[Minecraft:Java Edition Beta]] released on May 26, 2011,<ref>{{twon|5861083562|Minecraft Beta 1.6|May 26, 2011}}</ref> which adds [[Minecraft:map]]s, [[Minecraft:trapdoor]]s, [[Minecraft:the Nether]] in multiplayer as well as other changes and many bug fixes.

== Additions ==
{{Additions table
|Dead Bush
|Shrub
|Short Grass
|Fern
|Oak Trapdoor
|Map
}}

=== Blocks ===
'''[[File:Dead Bush JE1 BE1.png|32px]] [[Minecraft:Dead bush]]'''
* Generates naturally only in [[Minecraft:Desert|deserts]].
* Can only be placed on [[Minecraft:sand]].

'''[[File:Dead Bush JE1 BE1.png|32px]] [[Minecraft:Shrub]]'''
* Doesn't generate anywhere.
* Only obtainable via inventory editing.

'''[[File:Grass JE1.png|32px]] [[Minecraft:Short Grass|Grass]]'''
* Generates in the form of [[Minecraft:random patch]]es, on [[Minecraft:grass block]]s in most biomes with grassy soil, like [[Minecraft:plains]] or [[Minecraft:forest]]s.
* [[Minecraft:Wheat Seeds|Seeds]] are now found in grass.
* Its color change depends on the humidity.

'''[[File:Fern JE1.png|32px]] [[Minecraft:Fern]]'''
* Generates naturally only in [[Minecraft:swamp|swamps]] and [[Minecraft:rainforest|rainforests]].
* [[Minecraft:Wheat Seeds|Seeds]] are now found in fern.
* Its color depends on the temperature of the biome it’s in.

'''[[File:Oak Trapdoor (D) JE1 BE1.png|32px]] [[Minecraft:Wooden trapdoor]]'''
* It can be opened like a door.
* Crafted with [[Minecraft:planks]].
{{Crafting table
|A2= Oak Planks
|B2= Oak Planks
|C2= Oak Planks
|A3= Oak Planks
|B3= Oak Planks
|C3= Oak Planks
|Output= Oak Trapdoor,2
}}

=== Items ===
[[File:MapItem1.png|thumb|right|A fully zoomed map.]]
'''[[File:Map (item) JE1 BE1.png|32px]] [[Minecraft:Map]]s'''
* Allows the player to see a section of the world from a top-down perspective.

=== Command format ===
'''[[Minecraft:Server.properties]]'''
* Added new settings:
** <code>view-distance</code>.
** <code>allow-nether</code>.

=== Gameplay === 
'''[[Minecraft:Multiplayer]]'''
* Added [[Minecraft:The Nether|Nether]] support.

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

'''[[File:Red Bed (N) JE1.png|32px]] [[Minecraft:Bed]]s'''
* Trying to sleep in the Nether causes the bed to explode.

'''[[File:Dispenser (S) JE1.png|32px]] [[Minecraft:Dispenser]]s'''
* When activated, it makes sounds and triggers particles in multiplayer.

'''[[File:Oak Door JE3 BE1.png|32px]] [[Minecraft:Door]]s'''
* Now make sound for other players in multiplayer.

'''[[File:Fire JE1.png|32px]] [[Minecraft:Fire]]'''
* Has been severely nerfed so it spreads slower, and doesn't spread infinitely.

'''[[File:Ice JE3 BE5.png|32px]] [[Minecraft:Ice]]'''
* Now regenerates regardless of whether it's snowing or not.

'''[[File:Jukebox JE1 BE1.png|32px]] [[Minecraft:Jukebox]]'''
* Now ''supports'' more than eleven different music discs.

'''{{Animate|Birch Leaves JE1 BE2.png; Oak Leaves JE3 BE4.png; Spruce Leaves JE1 BE1.png|32px}} [[Minecraft:Leaves]]'''
* Leaves with the graphics level set to fast no longer act like opaque solid blocks, preventing blocks such as [[Minecraft:Torch]]es, [[Minecraft:Door]]s and [[Minecraft:Lever]]s to be placed on them and preventing mobs from naturally spawning on them.

'''{{Animate|Red Mushroom JE2.png; Brown Mushroom JE2.png|32px}} [[Minecraft:Mushroom]]s'''
* Now spread, although slowly.

'''[[File:Powered Rail (NS) JE1 BE1.png|32px]] [[Minecraft:Powered rail]]'''
* Now speedier to offset the loss of glitch-boosters.

'''[[File:Water JE10.png|32px]] [[Minecraft:Water]]'''
* Below a layer of source blocks no longer behaves like source blocks.

=== Items ===
'''[[File:Arrow (item) JE1 BE1.png|32px]] [[Minecraft:Arrow]]s'''
* When shot by one player, can now be picked up by other players.

'''[[File:Wheat Seeds JE1 BE1.png|32px]] [[Minecraft:Wheat Seeds|Seeds]]'''
* Using a [[Minecraft:hoe]] on [[Minecraft:grass block|grass]] no longer yields seeds.

=== Non-mob entities ===
'''[[File:Oak Boat JE1.png|32px]] [[Minecraft:Boat]]s'''
* Players are dismounted when they ride a boat or minecart through a [[Minecraft:Nether portal]].

'''[[File:Minecart JE3 BE1.png|32px]] [[Minecraft:Minecart]]s'''
* Players are dismounted when they ride a boat or minecart through a [[Minecraft:Nether portal]].

=== Gameplay ===
'''[[Minecraft:Combat]]'''
* Removed the 10 tick cooldown when missing a hit (hitting the air).

'''[[Minecraft:Controls]]'''
* {{key|Shift}}+ clicking while crafting makes as much as possible and moves it straight to player's inventory.
* {{key|Shift}}+ clicking something in player's inventory pushes it directly in player's hot bar and vice-versa.

'''[[Minecraft:Lighting]]'''
* The lighting on block icons in the inventory has been changed to appear brighter.

'''[[Minecraft:Player]]s'''
* When stuck in walls, slide towards the nearest gap if there is one.

=== General ===
'''Network traffic'''
* Compressed network traffic more aggressively.

'''Options'''
* Temporarily disabled Advanced OpenGL.

'''[[Minecraft:Texture pack]]s'''
* Added support for <code>misc\grasscolor.png</code> and <code>misc\foliagecolor.png</code> images.

== Fixes ==
'''97 bugs fixed'''
* Fixed saving while sneaking dropping the player through the ground.
* Fixed player rotation not being loaded correctly when loading a saved game.
* Fixed the player not being able to sneak off lowered blocks like cacti.
* Fixed a game crash when riding a vehicle or animal into the Nether.
* Fixed falling while riding not dealing damage to the rider.
* Fixed buttons and levers too close to the player being impossible to use.
* Fixed furnaces and dispensers not dropping their contents when destroyed.
* Fixed fire and lava dealing damage through wall corners.
* Fixed entities reaching water through wall corners.
* Fixed placing doors next to cacti creating half-doors.
* Fixed farmland taking too long to dig.
* Fixed tilling below some blocks being possible.
* Fixed tilling the underside of blocks somehow working.
* Fixed fences and stairs sometimes becoming invisible.
* Fixed fences and signs preventing grass from growing.
* Fixed walking on top of fences not producing step sounds.
* Fixed grass staying alive below stair blocks.
* Fixed the achievement screen not pausing the game.
* Fixed some screens breaking the sky tint color.
* Fixed fullscreen mode switching causing mouse issues and screen closes.
* Fixed chat messages surviving through game switches.
* Fixed levers being placeable in weird locations.
* Fixed floor levers sometimes not delivering a signal downwards.
* Fixed floor levers sometimes not being removed when the floor is removed.
* Fixed dying in the Nether spawning new portals.
* Fixed ore density varying per quadrant from the center of the world.
** This bug used to cause most ore types to be at least 50% more common in the southeast (+X, +Z) quadrant compared to the northwest (-X, -Z) quadrant.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/GoldenAgeMinecraft/comments/18t4oe4/prior_to_beta_16_way_less_ore_was_generated_in/</ref>
* Fixed saplings being plantable through snow onto non-grass blocks.
* Fixed wooden pressure plates being mined with pickaxes.
* Fixed creepers retaining charge level when they can't see their target.
* Fixed inventory acting weird when portaling by making the portal close all screens.
* Fixed dispenser graphics being one pixel off.
* Fixed mushrooms spawning everywhere during nights.
* Fixed animals only spawning near light during the night.
* Fixed the multiplayer join screen input field being too short.
* Fixed entities above the map height limit becoming invisible.
* Fixed loads of exploding TNT generating way too many particles, which usually crashed the game.
* Fixed grasscolor.png and foliagecolor.png not being read from texture packs.
* Fixed receiving more items than the maximum stack size sometimes causing an oversized stack in the inventory
* Fixed rain sounds not playing with fast graphics enabled.
* Fixed glass not blocking rain sound.
* Fixed rain falling through liquids.
* Fixed rain falling too slowly.
* Fixed rain and snow being incorrectly lit.
* Fixed arrow physics, making them not get stuck midair when opening a door.
* Fixed arrows colliding with reeds, portals, and other non-solid blocks.
* Fixed arrows being animated really strangely in multiplayer.
* Fixed arrows triggering too many entity move updates in multiplayer.
* Fixed submerged boats rising very very fast.
* Fixed boats placed on snow being placed too far up.
* Fixed sand dropping onto boats getting stuck in a falling animation.
* Fixed dispensers shooting through walls.
* Fixed dispensers biasing later slots.
* Fixed fire effect on burning entities sometimes getting rendered in the wrong location.
* Fixed fences and wooden stairs not being flammable.
* Fixed fire sometimes existing mid-air as an invisible block of pain.
* Fixed fire displacing water.
* Fixed fires being impossible to put out in multiplayer.
* Fixed fishing rod rendering being a bit lacking.
* Fixed fishing rods being stackable.
* Fixed water interacting strangely with glass.
* Fixed items in glass blocks not getting ejected properly.
* Fixed mining glass hiding the clouds behind the glass.
* Fixed minecarts next to each other causing extreme velocities.
* Fixed rail tiles sometimes not properly connecting to a new neighbor.
* When breaking a minecart the player is currently riding in, the player no longer falls through the block the track is placed on.
* Fixed the cracking texture being dark on the sides of grass blocks.
* Fixed anaglyph 3D rendering mode having severe visual bugs.
* Fixed the achievements screen messing up the sky color.
* Fixed hair and cloaks being rendered in the wrong locations on sneaking players.
* Fixed a bug where the player could mine without visually swinging their arm.
* Fixed the attack/swing animation not being applied to the armor layer.
* Fixed redstone repeaters using pumpkin particles.
* Glowstone and jack-o-lanterns recessed into a wall or other surface no longer have shadows cast on them by surrounding blocks when smooth lighting is enabled.
* Fixed running out of memory corrupting the current level.
* Fixed the crash screen vanishing immediately.
* Fixed not being able to target blocks when at X=1000 or Z=1000.
* Fixed a system clock change messing up the game speed.
* Fixed keybindings not getting saved properly under certain conditions.
* Fixed stats getting saved to different files in offline mode if the caps in the player name differ from the true spelling.

'''Multiplayer only'''
* Fixed IPv6 addresses being parsed wrong.
* Fixed network packets being sent unbuffered, causing huge amounts of packets being sent.
* Fixed entity positions going out of sync sometimes. They get re-synced every 20 seconds now.
* Fixed inventory icons not animating after being picked up in multiplayer.
* Fixed mushroom soup not leaving a bowl.
* Fixed wolves not following their owner if the name has different caps.
* Fixed healing not flashing the health bar.
* Fixed the compass not pointing at the spawn location.
* Fixed record players spawning client-side fake records.
* Fixed records not playing for other players.
* Fixed players spawning in the wrong location and quickly leaping to the correct location.
* Fixed monsters not being visible for players with their difficulty set to Peaceful.
* Fixed pigs getting hit by lightning spawning client-side zombie pigmen.
* Fixed bonemeal use sometimes spawning fake client-side trees.
* Fixed saplings sometimes spawning trees client-side.
* Fixed weather sometimes changing client-side.
* Fixed fireballs not being visible in multiplayer.
* Fixed ghasts' firing animation not being visible.

== Bugs ==
* FPS drops unexpectedly for some users.{{info needed|too vague}}
* {{Key|Shift}}+ clicking in a [[Minecraft:container]] while having a full [[Minecraft:inventory]] crashes the game.

== Trailer ==
{{Main|Minecraft 1.6 trailer}}
An official video documenting some of the Beta 1.6's major features was released on Mojang's official [[Minecraft:YouTube]] channel on May 24, 2011. The video was made by Hat Films. Published before the game's official release, the trailer omits "Beta" from the version name.
{{yt|oTxrGZGfNJs}}

== Trivia ==
* Beta 1.6 is the only version with test builds.
* Beta 1.6 is the earliest version that has a trailer.

== Gallery ==
<gallery>
Beta 1.6.png|A Beta 1.6 world.
Create world menu (Beta 1.6).png|The create world menu in this version.
MapItem1.png|First screenshot of maps.
MapItem2.png|Second screenshot of maps.
MapItem3.png|Third screenshot of maps.
</gallery>

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

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