Minecraft:Java Edition Indev 0.31 20100128-2200

A version of Minecraft:Indev 0.31 was released on January 28, 2010, at 22:00–22:02 UTC,<ref>IRC logs: "(16:59:39) <Notch> Ah, I'll just update now"..."(17:02:50) <Notch> ok, it's updated now"</ref> which added new tools, blocks and items. It was announced on Minecraft:The Word of Notch at 22:31 UTC.<ref name="WoN 0128 release">Template:Twon</ref>

Additions

Blocks

File:Block of Diamond JE1.png Template:Pximg Block of emeraldTemplate:Fn

• Currently unobtainable without world editors.
• Not in the starting house chest.

File:Diamond Ore JE1 BE1.png Template:Pximg Emerald oreTemplate:Fn

• Drops 1–3 emeralds.

File:Invicon Gear.gif Minecraft:GearTemplate:Fn

• Can only be obtained by inventory editing and initially invisible in the inventory.<ref>Template:Link January 26, 2010 1:36 UTC. Archived from the original on April 22, 2018.</ref>
• A gear's sprite consists of two parts; the center rod and the animated gear itself.
• When hacked into the game, a gear can be placed anywhere, but would show nothing in its block space and would be invisible unless horizontally adjacent to one or more blocks.
  • The placed gear would then show a gear sprite on the near side of each of those blocks.
  • A placed gear cannot be destroyed by mining a block that its gear sprite is shown on, because the placed gear is actually adjacent to that block.
  • If the block a gear sprite is shown on is destroyed, the adjacent placed gear would no longer show that sprite.
  • Removing all blocks adjacent to a placed gear would remove all of its visible gear sprites, leaving the placed gear invisible.
  • Placed gears cannot be destroyed directly by the player; attempts to do so would phase through to the block behind it, much like Minecraft:water.
  • A placed gear can only be removed by explosions.
  • Later replaced by redstone dust.

Items

File:Coal JE1.png Minecraft:Coal<ref name="release vid">Template:Link</ref>

• 1–3 are dropped from coal ore.

File:Diamond JE1 BE1.png Emerald<ref name="release vid" />Template:Fn

• 1–3 are dropped from emerald ore.

File:Gold Ingot JE1.png Minecraft:Gold ingot<ref name="release vid" />

• There are 100 of them in the starting house, but is otherwise unobtainable.

File:Iron Ingot JE1.png Minecraft:Iron ingot<ref name="release vid" />

• There are 100 of them in the starting house, but is otherwise unobtainable.

Template:Animate Emerald axe, pickaxe, shovel and sword<ref name="release vid" />

Template:Animate Minecraft:Stone axe, pickaxe, shovel and sword<ref name="release vid" />

Template:Animate Minecraft:Wooden axe, pickaxe, shovel and sword<ref name="release vid" />

Gameplay

Minecraft:Crafting

• Pressing Template:Key opens the "Crafting" menu.<ref name="WoN 0128 release" />
  • Currently unobtainable in this version.<ref name="Crafting">IRC logs: "(17:31:49) <Notch> press b in indev for a sneak preview (it doesn't work)"</ref>

Changes

Blocks

Minecraft:Gold ore

• Now drop themselves.

Minecraft:Iron ore

• Now drop themselves.

Items

General

• Items now show as 3D voxel sprites.<ref name="WoN 0128 release" /><ref name="release vid" /><ref>Published Image - The Word of Notch, January 28, 2010</ref>

Minecraft:Swords

• Swords mine 1.5 times faster than by hand.

World generation

Minecraft:Starting house

• Size of starting item stacks in starting house chests increased from 99 to 100.<ref name="release vid" />
• Items added to the tool chest.<ref name="release vid" />
  • Iron sword.
  • All 16 new item types.

Gameplay

Minecraft:Hotbar

• Fullscreen mode no longer affects the hotbar.

Minecraft:Inventory

• Fullscreen mode no longer affects GUIs or displayed text.
• Armor sprites no longer display in their respective slots even if the level is reloaded.

General

Minecraft:Controls

• Right-clicking on a stack picks up or puts down a single item.<ref name="WoN 0128 release" />
• Left-clicking on a stack picks up or puts down the entire stack.<ref name="WoN 0128 release" />
  • It does not deposit more items than would create an item stack larger than the maximum stack size.
  • The remainder remains hovering at the pointer.
• The player can no longer walk while having a chest open.
• Maximum item stack size changed from 99 to 50 for items in the inventory, and 100 for items inside chests.<ref name="release vid" />

Fixes

1 bug fixed

From Indev 0.31 20091231-2255

• Due to the removal of armor sprites from in-game play, it is no longer possible to grab the sprites out.

Bugs

5 bugs reported

• Crafting menu does not open when pressing Template:Key<ref name="Crafting" />
• Blocks and arrows each form separate stacks in the inventory<ref>IRC logs: "(17:40:06) <Eztuzt> Notch, got a problem with the bow/arrow"..."(17:40:19) <HAL9000> Anyone else's blocks not stacking properly?"..."(17:40:24) <Eztuzt> And instead of forming a stack, they spread out in individual piles"..."(17:40:51) <Notch> oh, 1 arrow in each.."</ref>
• Graphical glitch when game starts.<ref name="WoN 0128 release" />
  • Clicking corrects it.
• Pressing a movement key at the same time as opening a chest causes that movement key to get "stuck".
• The game progressively degrades in performance.

Gallery

• First image of a diamond ('emerald') axe, posted by Notch on his blog the day this version released.
  First image of a diamond ('emerald') axe, posted by Notch on his blog the day this version released.

References

• Template:Anchor Template:Cite IRC log