Minecraft:Java Edition Beta 1.5

Beta 1.5 is a version of Minecraft:Java Edition Beta released on April 19, 2011,<ref>Template:Twon</ref> which added Minecraft:statistics and achievements, new types of Minecraft:rails and Minecraft:saplings, and Minecraft:cobwebs among other changes and fixes.

Additions

Blocks

File:Birch Sapling JE6 BE1.png Minecraft:Birch sapling

• Grows into Minecraft:birch trees.
• Can serve as fuel in Minecraft:furnaces.
  • Smelted 0.5 items per sapling.

File:Cobweb JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Cobweb

• Unobtainable in the game without inventory editing.
• Slows down the player and mobs.
• Cobwebs drop Minecraft:string when broken using a Minecraft:sword.

File:Detector Rail (NS) JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Detector rail

• Used to detect minecarts on top of it.
• When activated, it produces redstone power.
• Crafted with Minecraft:stone pressure plate, Minecraft:iron ingots and Minecraft:redstone dust.

File:Powered Rail (NS) JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Powered rail

• Needs to be powered by redstone.
• Transmits redstone signal to 8 powered rails far.
• Increases the speed of minecarts.
• Crafted with Minecraft:stick, Minecraft:gold ingots and Minecraft:redstone dust.

File:Spruce Sapling JE6 BE1.png Minecraft:Spruce sapling

• Grows into Minecraft:spruce trees.
• Can serve as fuel in Minecraft:furnaces.
  • Smelted 0.5 items per sapling.

Mobs

File:Charged Creeper.webp Minecraft:Charged creepers

• When struck by a lightning bolt, creepers now become charged.
• Have a much more powerful explosion.

Non-mob entities

File:Lightning.png Minecraft:Lightning bolt

• May strike during thunderstorms, creating fire and dealing damage around it.

Gameplay

Achievements

• There are currently 16 achievements.

Minecraft:Weather

• Added natural occurring Minecraft:rain, Minecraft:snowfalls, and Minecraft:thunderstorms.

General

Minecraft:Options

• Ability to change GUI size ("Small", "Normal", "Large", "Auto").
• Advanced OpenGL (occlusion culling: doesn't render blocks that the player can't "see", helps performance in cards that support it).

Particles

• Added Template:Code.

Minecraft:Statistics

• Added on the game menu.

Changes

Blocks

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

• Sleeping in thunderstorms is now possible, even in daytime.

File:Birch Leaves JE1 BE2.png Minecraft:Birch leaves

• Now drop Minecraft:birch saplings.

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

• Texture has now been removed from Template:Mono.

File:Grass Block JE4.png Minecraft:Grass blocks

• Texture changed from File:Grass Block (graphics fast) JE3.png.
  • Old grass block can still be enabled if the graphics are set to "Fast".

File:Ladder (S) JE2 BE1.png Minecraft:Ladders

• Its Minecraft:crafting recipe now produces 2 ladders to offset the fix of the staggered-ladder exploit.

File:Oak Sapling JE4 BE1.png Minecraft:Sapling

• Can now serve as fuel in Minecraft:furnaces.
  • Smelted 0.5 items per sapling.

File:Spruce Leaves JE1 BE2.png Minecraft:Spruce leaves

• Now drop Minecraft:spruce saplings.

File:Redstone Dust JE1 BE1.png Redstone

• Can now be placed on Minecraft:snow.
• Several changes in redstone wire rendering.
  • Due this change, it no longer appears stretched when traveling vertically up a block. However, it still appears offset.
• Fully off redstone wire is no longer black which used to look like:
  • After: File:Inactive Redstone Wire (NS) JE3.png File:Inactive Redstone Wire (EW) JE3.png File:Inactive Redstone Wire (NE) JE3.png File:Inactive Redstone Wire (ES) JE3.png File:Inactive Redstone Wire (SW) JE3.png File:Inactive Redstone Wire (NW) JE3.png File:Inactive Redstone Wire (NEW) JE3.png File:Inactive Redstone Wire (NES) JE3.png File:Inactive Redstone Wire (ESW) JE3.png File:Inactive Redstone Wire (NSW) JE3.png File:Inactive Redstone Wire (NESW) JE3.png
  • Before: 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

Items

General

• Dropped items in flowing Minecraft:water move faster than before.

Mobs

File:Pig JE1.png Minecraft:Pigs

• When killed by burning, now drop Minecraft:cooked porkchops upon death.
• When struck by a lighting bolt, they now become Minecraft:zombie pigmen.

File:Wolf JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Wolves

• Now more common, even in non-Minecraft:taiga/Minecraft:forest biomes.

Non-mob entities

File:Steve JE3 BE1.png Minecraft:Players

• Unarmed damage was increased from Template:Hp to Template:Hp.

Gameplay

Minecraft:Controls

• Pressing Template:Key switches between input boxes.
• Template:Key + Template:Key no longer creates a 36450×17700 pixel screenshot.
• Template:Key + clicking on something in a Minecraft:chest immediately moves the selected item(s) into the player's inventory and vice-versa.

File:Beta 1.5 Stars.png Minecraft:Sky

• Minecraft:Stars are now slightly dimmer.

Technical

General

Performance

• Huge performance improvements for old and slow computers.

Fixes

14 bugs fixed

• Players are only 'on' a ladder (can climb it/fall slowly) if the lower half is in the ladder block, rather than any part of the player.
  • It is no longer possible to climb with a one-block gap in a ladder, or a ladder that starts at eye level.
• On fancy graphics, the sides of grass blocks are now biome-specific and match the shade on the top.
• Player movement through water has been fixed to previous speed.
• Wolves' pathfinding now has a better understanding of doors. They go through doors most of the time, but sometimes get stuck on the 3-pixel thickness of the door.
• The lighting on portals and ice has been fixed when using smooth lighting.
• Minecraft:Stairs are no longer transparent to light.
• On multiplayer, the health of wolves are now synchronized between server and client, causing wolves to only whimper when low on health, as opposed to all of the time.
• Redstone in off state is red again.
• Crops hit with water now drop seeds and wheat, as opposed to just wheat.
• Moving minecarts continue to move if the world is closed.
• The Mojang logo is the correct size when the client is maximized.
• The exploit to make chests three or more side by side by placing a water source and placing a chest in that source has been fixed.
• Sugar cane can now only be placed on dirt.

Trivia

• At 13:29 UTC (8 minutes before the compilation of the client.jar file for this version) there were reports on IRC about a new update,<ref>Scaevolus' #risucraft IRC logs<link pending></link pending>: 13:30:45 <crow> Minecraft last updated on Tue, 19 Apr 2011 13:29:14 GMT</ref><ref>Kealper IRC logs: [09:32] <_303> 1.5 is out</ref> but it has not been confirmed whether that version was a reupload of the previous version or a pre-reupload of this version.

Gallery

• The achievement UI with the first achievement completed.
  The achievement UI with the first achievement completed.
• Screenshot of the new weather.
  Screenshot of the new weather.
• Ditto.
  Ditto.