Minecraft:Java Edition Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3

Template:Dangerous version Template:Infobox version Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3 is the third pre-release for Minecraft:Java Edition 1.0.0, released on October 6, 2011, which adds five new blocks including the Minecraft:brewing stand and Minecraft:enchantment table, as well as the Minecraft:eye of ender, five baby animal variants, Minecraft:experience levels, the Minecraft:enchantment glint effect, and completed Minecraft:potion mechanics.

The original version of the Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3 was released shortly before 14:57 UTC on October 6 and included a debug feature where players spawned with full stacks of enchantment tables, Minecraft:bookshelves, Minecraft:End portal frames, and Minecraft:End portal blocks in the hotbar.

Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3 was reuploaded at around 15:08 UTC, removing the debug blocks in the hotbar.<ref>Template:Tweet (15:08 UTC)</ref> Unlike the client, the server for this version was not reuploaded.

Additions

Blocks

File:Brewing Stand (empty) JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Brewing stand

• Used to brew potions.
• Emits light level of 1.
• Crafted with a Minecraft:blaze rod and 3 Minecraft:cobblestone.

File:Enchanting Table (pre-texture update).gif Minecraft:Enchantment table

• Used to enchant Minecraft:tools, Minecraft:weapons, and Minecraft:armor with experience points.
• Has no name in the Minecraft:inventory.
• Crafted with Minecraft:books, Minecraft:diamonds, and Minecraft:obsidian.

File:End Portal Frame JE1.pngFile:Filled End Portal Frame JE1.png Minecraft:End portal frame

• Unfinished Minecraft:End portal in strongholds.
  • Broken End portal frame blocks can be repaired with eyes of ender, though nothing further occurs.
• Can be obtained by explosions.
• Gives off a light level of 15.

File:End Portal.png End portal block

• Has no function.
• Gives off a light level of 15.

File:End Stone (texture) JE0.png Minecraft:End stone texture

• An unused prototype End stone texture was added to terrain.png.

Items

File:Eye of Ender JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Eye of ender

• Can be used to repair End portal frames.
• Crafted with Minecraft:blaze powder and an Minecraft:ender pearl.

File:Water Bottle JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Water bottle

• A Minecraft:glass bottle filled with Minecraft:water.
• A required base ingredient to Minecraft:brew any Minecraft:potion.

File:Uncraftable Potion JE1.png Minecraft:Potions

• File:Water Bottle JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Mundane Potion
  • It is brewed from Minecraft:redstone dust and Minecraft:water bottle.
  • Has no effect.
• File:Water Bottle JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Thick Potion
  • It is brewed from Minecraft:glowstone dust and Minecraft:water bottle.
  • Has no effect.
• File:Water Bottle JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Awkward Potion
  • It is brewed from Minecraft:nether wart and Minecraft:water bottle.
  • Has no effect.
• File:Potion of Swiftness JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Potion of Swiftness
  • It is brewed from Minecraft:awkward potion and Minecraft:sugar.
  • Provides Minecraft:Speed when used.
• File:Potion of Slowness JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Potion of Slowness
  • It is brewed from Minecraft:potion of Swiftness or Fire Resistance and Minecraft:fermented spider eye.
  • Provides Minecraft:Slowness when used.
• File:Potion of Strength JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Potion of Strength
  • It is brewed from Minecraft:awkward potion and Minecraft:blaze powder.
  • Provides Minecraft:Strength when used.
• File:Potion of Weakness JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Potion of Weakness
  • It is brewed from Minecraft:fermented spider eye and any base potion or a Minecraft:potion of Strength or Healing.
  • Provides Minecraft:Weakness when used.
• File:Potion of Poison JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Potion of Poison
  • It is brewed from Minecraft:awkward potion and Minecraft:spider eye.
  • Provides Minecraft:Poison when used.
• File:Potion of Healing JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Potion of Healing
  • It is brewed from Minecraft:awkward potion and Minecraft:ghast tear.
  • Provides Minecraft:Instant Health when used.
• File:Potion of Harming JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Potion of Harming
  • It is brewed from Minecraft:fermented spider eye and Minecraft:potion of Poison.
  • Provides Minecraft:Instant Damage when used.
• File:Potion of Fire Resistance JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Potion of Fire Resistance
  • It is brewed from Minecraft:awkward potion and Minecraft:magma cream.
  • Provides Minecraft:Fire Resistance when used.

Mobs

File:Baby Chicken JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Baby chicken

• It can be bred by feeding two parents with Minecraft:wheat.

File:Baby Cow JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Baby cow

• It can be bred by feeding two parents with Minecraft:wheat.

File:Baby Red Mooshroom JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Baby mooshroom

• It can be bred by feeding two parents with Minecraft:wheat.

File:Baby Pig JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Baby pig

• It can be bred by feeding two parents with Minecraft:wheat.

Template:Animate Minecraft:Baby sheep

• It can be bred by feeding two parents with Minecraft:wheat.

Template:Animate Minecraft:Baby wolf

• Baby wolves can only be spawned through map editors and NBT editing.<ref group="note" name="unobtainable_baby_wolf">Discovered while downgrading a world with baby wolves from snapshot Minecraft:Java Edition 12w03a to this version.</ref>

World generation

File:Glass Pillar.png Glass pillars

• Used to mark the location of strongholds.
• Extend from the stone brick of the stronghold to the world's height limit.
• One pillar marks the location of the main stronghold room, and another marks the location of the portal room.

Gameplay

Minecraft:Brewing

• Minecraft:Brewing stands are now used for brewing potions instead of Minecraft:cauldrons.
• Brewing Minecraft:potions with brewing stands currently takes 30 seconds.
• Most duplicate potions were removed (the total possible potions went down from 150 combinations to only 25 different potions in 31 combinations). Some status effects previously available as potions became inaccessible.

Minecraft:Enchanting

• Not fully implemented, as no enchantments exist yet.
• Upon placing an item in the enchantment table's slot, three randomized options appear on the right of the GUI, written in Minecraft:Standard Galactic Alphabet.
  • Armor, axes, flint and steel, hoes, pickaxes, shears, shovels, and swords can be enchanted using an enchantment table.
• Enchanting requires experience levels.
• The maximum enchantment level is 15.
• A glint animation appears on items to show that they are enchanted.
• Enchanted items display "Enchanted!!" on their tooltip, and their name becomes blue.

Changes

Blocks

File:Bookshelf JE1.png Minecraft:Bookshelves

• When destroyed, drop 3 Minecraft:books.

File:Cauldron JE1.png Minecraft:Cauldron

• Now assigned with block and item IDs.
• Now only carries water instead of being used to make potions.
• Crafted with Minecraft:iron ingots.

Items

File:Golden Apple JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Golden apple

• The Minecraft:rarity of the golden apple has been changed to "Epic", showing a magenta tooltip instead of white.
• Golden apples can now be found in the new Minecraft:stronghold altar Minecraft:chests.

File:Iron Armor JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Iron armor

• Can now be found in the new stronghold altar chests.

File:Iron Pickaxe JE2 BE1.png Minecraft:Pickaxes

• Iron pickaxes can now be found in the new stronghold altar chests.

Template:Animate Minecraft:Swords

• Iron swords can now be found in the new stronghold altar chests.
• The Stone, Iron and Diamond swords now deal less damage:

Material	Stone		Iron		Diamond
	Before	After	Before	After	Before	After
Damage	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp

Mobs

File:Cow JE4 BE1.png Minecraft:Cows

• Texture changed from File:Cow JE3.png.

File:Enderman JE2.png Minecraft:Enderman

• Endermen now have Template:Hp health points instead of Template:Hp.

File:Red Mooshroom JE2 BE1.png Minecraft:Mooshroom

• Texture changed from File:Red Mooshroom JE1.png.

Template:Animate Minecraft:Sheep

• Now have Template:Hp.

World generation

File:StrongholdPortalRoom JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Strongholds

• The End portal room was added.
• More randomly placed Minecraft:chests.
• 1×1 glass pillars protruding from ground to sky limit at the location of strongholds.

Gameplay

Minecraft:Experience levels

• Now shown above experience bar.

Minecraft:Hotbar Template:Hotbar

• Added 64 Minecraft:enchantment tables, Minecraft:bookshelves, Minecraft:End portal frames and End portal blocks to the hotbar.
• This also overwrites part of the default Minecraft:Creative hotbar.
• Hovering over the End portal blocks will crash the game, as there is no display name assigned to them.

Technical

General

Minecraft:Debug screen

• Added pie chart detailing CPU usage.

Fixes

2 bugs fixed

• Fixed Minecraft:snow golems being able to enter love mode.
• Fixed killing a player with a Minecraft:dispenser from crashing the server.<ref>Template:Tweet</ref>

Trivia

• Due to a bug, multiplayer servers generate Minecraft:sky dimension chunks starting in this version.Template:Verify The biome of these chunks is random if saved in multiplayer, however, if they are saved in singleplayer, they change to Minecraft:plains biomes, no matter if snow had generated in the chunks. This was fixed in Minecraft:Beta 1.9 Prerelease 4.

Gallery

• File:Beta Iron Bars.jpg
• File:Floating islands bug in beta 1.9 pre3.png