Minecraft:Java Edition Beta 1.3

Beta 1.3 is a version of Minecraft:Java Edition Beta released on February 22, 2011,<ref>Template:TWON</ref> which added Minecraft:redstone repeaters, Minecraft:beds, three types of Minecraft:slabs, and a new Minecraft:splash screen. Notably, among other changes and fixes, the world save format was changed from Alpha level format to McRegion.

Beta 1.3 was uploaded at 17:13 UTC, this version contained debug code that spawns the player with 64 Minecraft:torches, a Minecraft:diamond pickaxe, a Minecraft:diamond shovel, a Minecraft:diamond axe, and 64 Minecraft:beds upon respawning or creating a world. Beta 1.3 was reuploaded at 17:33 UTC to remove the debug code that spawns the player with the items listed above, in a new world.<ref>Template:Tweet</ref> Beta 1.3 was then reuploaded again at 17:50 UTC<ref>"@dw_edwin Try again now. Restart the client so it loads the new update.. Does it work any better?" @notch (Markus Persson) on X (formerly Twitter), February 22, 2011</ref> to fix a crash bug when opening the world menu without a saves folder. This last version is listed in the launcher as Beta 1.3b (old_beta b1.3b).

Additions

Blocks

File:Red Bed (N) JE1.png Minecraft:Beds

• Crafted from Minecraft:planks and Minecraft:wool.
  • Different colors of wool can be interchanged to make a bed.

File:Redstone Repeater (S) JE1.png Minecraft:Redstone repeater

• Allows for redstone to be powered further.
• Crafted from Minecraft:stone, Minecraft:redstone torch and Minecraft:redstone dust.

File:Cobblestone Slab JE1 BE1.png Stone slab

• Takes over the old recipe for the stone slab.
• Breaking a block made of two slabs now drops 2 slabs.
• Crafted from Minecraft:cobblestone.

File:Petrified Oak Slab JE1.png Wooden slab

• Breaking a block made of two slabs now drops 2 slabs.
• Crafted from Minecraft:planks.

File:Sandstone Slab JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Sandstone slab

• Breaking a block made of two slabs now drops 2 slabs.
• Crafted from Minecraft:sandstone.

File:Seamless Stone Slab JE1.png Minecraft:Seamless stone slab

• Breaking a block made of two slabs now drops 2 slabs.
• Unobtainable.

File:Crying Obsidian (texture) JE0 BE0.png Minecraft:Crying obsidian

• Added a texture for crying obsidian to Template:Mono.
  • Texture went unused and removed in Minecraft:Beta 1.5, but re-added in Minecraft:20w10a via the Minecraft:Programmer Art resource pack.

Non-mob entities

New Minecraft:painting

• "Skull On Fire" File:Burning Skull Painting JE2 BE1.png
  • Code to make this painting display was added in Minecraft:Beta 1.2_01, but the texture itself was not added until this version, resulting in the use of the painting placeholder texture.

Command format

Template:Cmd

• Can turn on/off the whitelist.
• Can add/remove players from the whitelist.
• Can give a list of whitelisted players and reload that list.

Template:Cmd

• Changes or queries the world's game time
• There types of time involved in this command:

time add <time>

Adds <time> to the in-game daytime.

time set (day|night|noon|midnight)

time set <time>

Sets the daylight cycle time.

General

File:Loading Screen JE3.png

Loading screen added in this version

Minecraft:Lighting

• Smooth lighting engine added with the help of MrMessiah.

Minecraft:Options

• New graphics setting screen.
  • Added "Smooth Lighting" option.

Minecraft:Splash screen

• New Mojang logo.

Changes

Blocks

Minecraft:Redstone dust

• Gets darker the farther away it is from a source of power.
• Unpowered redstone is purely black now.
  • For these changes, they now use a dedicated tint system and new textures:
    • File:Inactive Redstone Wire (NS) JE2.png File:Inactive Redstone Wire (EW) JE2.png File:Inactive Redstone Wire (NE) JE2.png File:Inactive Redstone Wire (ES) JE2.png File:Inactive Redstone Wire (SW) JE2.png File:Inactive Redstone Wire (NW) JE2.png File:Inactive Redstone Wire (NEW) JE2.png File:Inactive Redstone Wire (NES) JE2.png File:Inactive Redstone Wire (ESW) JE2.png File:Inactive Redstone Wire (NSW) JE2.png File:Inactive Redstone Wire (NESW) JE2.png
    • File:Active Redstone Wire (NS) JE2.png File:Active Redstone Wire (EW) JE2.png File:Active Redstone Wire (NE) JE2.png File:Active Redstone Wire (ES) JE2.png File:Active Redstone Wire (SW) JE2.png File:Active Redstone Wire (NW) JE2.png File:Active Redstone Wire (NEW) JE2.png File:Active Redstone Wire (NES) JE2.png File:Active Redstone Wire (ESW) JE2.png File:Active Redstone Wire (NSW) JE2.png File:Active Redstone Wire (NESW) JE2.png

Minecraft:Sandstone

• Now found at the bottom of naturally generated Minecraft:sand.
• Mine time for sandstone has been decreased.

Stone slabs

• Are now created by using 3 Minecraft:stone instead of cobblestone.

• Breaking a block made of two slabs now drops 2 slabs.

Minecraft:Stone pressure plate

• Now require two of its materials, instead of 3.

Minecraft:Wooden pressure plate

• Now require two of its materials, instead of 3.

Items

Minecraft:Gunpowder

• Renamed from "Sulphur".

Mobs

General

• Fewer passive mobs spawn when on harder difficulties.

File:Cow JE3.png Minecraft:Cows

• Texture changed from File:Cow JE2.png.

Minecraft:Slimes

• Now spawn again.

Minecraft:Squid

• Can no longer be milked.
• Squid now have the ability to move in three dimensions (rather than only along the bottom of the body of Minecraft:water)

World generation

Minecraft:Create New World

• Players can now choose the name of the world before creation.
• Players can now choose the Minecraft:world seed before creation.
• More than 5 worlds can now be created at once.
• Delete world message now includes "(A long time!)" after "(world name) will be lost forever!".
  • Prior to this, it just says "'<world name>' will be lost forever!".

Gameplay

Minecraft:Third person mode

• View bobbing now applies while in third person, if enabled.

General

Minecraft:Controls

• Template:Key and Template:Key are now toggled when pressed.
• When Template:Key is toggled on, mobs display their unique entity ID numbers over their heads.
• Template:Key toggles mouse smoothing.

Minecraft:Options

• Scrollbars added in the world selection screen.
• Players can now change the names of existing worlds.
  • This doesn't change the world's save id.

McRegion

• Worlds now use a generic McRegion chunk save format, with a built-in auto conversion.

Minecraft:Texture packs

• Scrollbars added in the texture pack list.

Fixes

10 bugs fixed

• When breaking double slabs (one slab placed on another) it now drops two slabs instead of one.
• Wood doesn't burn forever anymore.
• Grassland/sand related biome border fixed (boundaries line up, rather than obviously show chunk borders).
• No longer receiving Java Log error .txt file spam in the minecraft.exe folder when closing the Minecraft client program.
• Players can no longer use the click-release to quickly mine blocks (referred to as "click mining") in multiplayer.
• Players no longer glitch when standing on Minecraft:fences in multiplayer.
• Players can no longer milk Minecraft:squids.
• When right-clicking on a wooden door while holding a bow or fishing rod, arrows no longer are fired into the door, nor is the fishing hook cast into the door.
• Hostile mobs can now be attacked properly in multiplayer.
• Minecraft:Lapis lazuli ore now drops 4-8 Minecraft:lapis lazuli in multiplayer.

Gallery

• A screenshot depicting the generation of new sandstone blocks.
  A screenshot depicting the generation of new sandstone blocks.
• A pre-reupload screenshot, with the debug items.
  A pre-reupload screenshot, with the debug items.
• The world selection screen in this version.
  The world selection screen in this version.
• File:Mob wakeup.png