Minecraft:Java Edition Classic 0.26 SURVIVAL TEST/Development

Template:Unreleased version Blog posts and Minecraft:YouTube videos by Minecraft:Notch were posted showing in-development features later included in Minecraft:0.26 SURVIVAL TEST and later releases.

Performance improvements (October 13, 2009)

Word of Notch post

• Terrain rendering optimizations make the game render as much as 40% faster.
  • However, the pre-rendering code for entities still significantly slows down the game.

Explosions update (October 20, 2009)

Word of Notch post, YouTube video

• Creeper explosions no longer destroy stone or stone-like blocks.
• Explosions leave black smoldering particle effects over the effected area.
• Optimized resource usage by making far-away entities invisible; the distance they are visible in depends on entity size.
• Removed background gradient from GUIs.

  File:ExplosionUpdate.png

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Rain test (October 22, 2009)

YouTube video

• Rain
  • Dynamic and bounces around.
  • Created by pressing Template:Keys.Template:Verify

    File:RainTest.png

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Dirt slab test (October 22, 2009)

Word of Notch post

• Half-sized dirt block test.
  • Dirt slabs replaced dirt upon generation.
  • Slabs caused the tile they are in to be darkened.
  • Cannot be climbed or made into double slabs yet.
  • You cannot break blocks behind the slabs, as their hitbox is that of a full block.

• File:DirtSlab.png

Rain fix (October 22, 2009)

Word of Notch post

• Thinner rain.
• Ceilings prevents rain from falling through.

• Rain in this version, from Notch's blog.
  Rain in this version, from Notch's blog.

Inventory mockup (October 23, 2009)

Word of Notch post

• A mockup was made in a graphics editor over the screenshot from the previous post.

• File:Mockup of a survival inventory.png

Slab progress (October 23, 2009)

Word of Notch post, YouTube video

• Half block nearly finished.
• Dirt is no longer converted to dirt slabs on worldgen.
• The player can now properly climb up slabs.
• No longer cause adjacent blocks to be darkened.
• The top layer of water is now fully bright.

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Spider test (October 23, 2009)

Word of Notch post, YouTube video

• Minecraft:Spider test (originally were passive, as seen in the picture by Notch, but were later given a new AI).
• Mushrooms only spawn underground.
• Slabs have a new hitbox, allowing blocks behind them to be broken.Template:Verify

• File:Brown spider.png

New blocks (October 23, 2009)

Word of Notch post

• Minecraft:Mossy cobblestone, Minecraft:TNT, Minecraft:block of iron, Minecraft:bookshelf, and Minecraft:bricks.
• New Minecraft:gold block, Minecraft:gold ore texture.
• Creative inventory may have been temporarily enabled in order to obtain exact numbers of the new blocks (notice the random nature of the blocks placed versus the empty hotbar).

• File:Blockst.png