Minecraft:Java Edition Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6

Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6 is the sixth and final pre-release for Minecraft:Java Edition 1.0.0, released on November 11, 2011,<ref>Template:Tweet</ref> which adds Minecraft:dragon eggs, Minecraft:ender crystals, credits, new video settings, changes the mining time of some blocks, changes the Minecraft:ender dragon boss fight, and fixes some bugs. This is the final pre-release released in 2011.

Additions

Blocks

File:Dragon Egg JE1.png Minecraft:Dragon egg

• Is a gravity-affected Minecraft:block.
• Can be obtained only once per Minecraft:world by defeating the Minecraft:ender dragon.
• Can be picked up by placing a non-full block, such as a torch, under a block and breaking it.
• Teleports when you try to mine it or when right clicked.

Non-mob entities

File:End Crystal JE1 BE1.gif Minecraft:Ender crystal

• Sits atop of a block of bedrock.
• It is diamond shaped, with 2 cubes spinning on their axis with a point at the center.
• Fires a healing beam at the ender dragon when within range.
• Can be destroyed with a melee or hit with an arrow, causing an explosion.
• They appear on all obsidian pillars in the End.

General

Minecraft:Credit sequence

• Is the lines of text and music that play after the Minecraft:End Poem.

Minecraft:End Poem

• Is a freehand narrative poem written by novelist and poet Template:W that can be seen when the Minecraft:player enters the Minecraft:exit portal in Minecraft:the End dimension.

Minecraft:Minecraft.jar

• Added the following files to /title/:
  • credits.txt
  • earlyplayers.txt
  • win.txt

Minecraft:Video settings

• Added "Particles" setting, which has three possible states:
  • "All", rendering all particle effects.
  • "Decreased", rendering half of all particle effects.
  • "Minimal", rendering no particle effects (except for those created when breaking blocks).

Changes

Blocks

General

• Several block's tool weaknesses have been fixed, such as Minecraft:crafting tables now mining faster with an axe and Minecraft:rails now mining faster with a pickaxe.

Minecraft:Beds

• Attempting to sleep in a bed while hostile mobs are nearby displays "You may not rest now, there are monsters nearby".

Minecraft:Brick stairs

• Now drops itself when mined.

Minecraft:Chests

• Are no longer prevented from opening from other chests on top.

Minecraft:Coal ore

• Can now be smelted in a Minecraft:furnace into Minecraft:coal.

Stone stairs

• Now drops itself when mined.

Minecraft:Shrub

• Is now called "Shrub".

Minecraft:Detector rail

• Is now mined faster using pickaxes.

Minecraft:Fern

• Is now called "Fern".
• Are now available in the Minecraft:Creative inventory.

Minecraft:Fire

• Fire above Minecraft:bedrock in the End now burns forever.

File:Grass Block JE6 BE5.png Minecraft:Grass block

• Texture changed from File:Grass Block JE5.png.

Minecraft:Iron door

• Decreased mining time.

Minecraft:Iron bars

• Decreased mining time.

Minecraft:Monster spawner

• Decreased mining time.

Minecraft:Nether bricks

• Decreased mining time.

Minecraft:Nether brick stairs

• Now drops itself when mined.

Nether portal

• No longer affected by Smooth Lightning.

Minecraft:Lapis lazuli ore

• Can now be smelted in a Minecraft:furnace into Minecraft:lapis lazuli.

Minecraft:Lily pads

• Now have collision.
• Are no longer restricted to be placed in swamps.
• Can be placed by aiming at water.
• Are now available in the Creative inventory.

Minecraft:Obsidian

• Decreased mining time.

Minecraft:Powered rail

• Is now mined faster using pickaxes.

Minecraft:Rails

• Is now mined faster using pickaxes.

Minecraft:Redstone ore

• Is now mined faster using pickaxes.
• Decreased mining time.
• Can now be smelted in a Minecraft:furnace into Minecraft:redstone dust.
• Is now affected by Minecraft:Fortune.
• Lit redstone ore can no longer be obtained when mined using a tool with Silk Touch.

File:Sand JE3 BE2.png Minecraft:Sand

• Texture changed from File:Sand JE2 BE1.png.

Minecraft:Stone bricks

• Decreased mining time.

Minecraft:Stone brick slab

• Decreased mining time.

Minecraft:Stone brick stairs

• Now drops itself when mined.
• Decreased mining time.

Minecraft:Water

• Downward flowing water now creates flowing water once more.

Minecraft:Wooden door

• Decreased mining time.

Minecraft:Wooden stairs

• Now drops itself when mined.

Items

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• 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.

File:Bow JE2 BE1.png Minecraft:Bows

• Can be fired without having Minecraft:arrows in Minecraft:Creative mode, but use up arrows from the creative mode inventory, if available.

Mobs

File:Ender Dragon.gif Minecraft:Ender dragon

• Now spawns in the end.
• A "Boss health" bar appears on the middle top part of the screen, in the same purple hue as the ender dragon.
• When killed, now leaves behind an exit portal with the dragon egg sitting on top to return the player to their spawn point.

Template:Animate Minecraft:Sheep

• Baby sheep from dyed parents are now born dyed instead of always being white.

Gameplay

Minecraft:Enchanting

• Minecraft:Efficiency enchantment now affects all blocks for any item enchanted with it.
• Minecraft:Silk Touch can no longer pick up Minecraft:ice, infested stone, and lit redstone ore.

Minecraft:Select World

• The world file size is no longer displayed.

Minecraft:Sun and Minecraft:moon

• Are now square again.

Fixes

11 bugs fixed

• Entity model errors fixed.
• Minecraft:Armor durability is back to being much higher, higher than it ever was in Beta 1.8.
• Using items and hitting mobs no longer uses up items/durability in Creative.
• Ferns and grass are now available in the creative inventory.
• Unnecessary block versions of Minecraft:cake and Minecraft:sugar cane removed from creative inventory.
• Minecraft: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 minecarts in any direction.
• Baby sheep from dyed parents are now born dyed instead of always being white.

Bugs

1 bug reported

• Minecraft:Wooden doors can be opened only using redstone.

Trivia

• This version was released on 11/11/11 (November 11, 2011). That date was the originally planned date for Minecraft:MINECON 2011 and the release of 1.0.0.<ref>Template:Citation</ref>
• This is the last version where the player makes the classical "ooh!" sound when hurt.
• This is the first version where the game can be legitimately beaten without mods or cheats.

Gallery

• File:Lillypadybuggykippykip.png
• File:Linux-texture-error-01.png
• File:Linux-texture-error-02.png
• File:Linux-texture-error-03.png
• File:Linux-texture-error-04.png