Minecraft:Frostburn Update

The Frostburn Update is the name for Minecraft:Java Edition 1.10, a major update released on June 8, 2016. It added some new features such as skeleton/zombie variants in snowy biomes and deserts respectively, polar bears, structure blocks for saving/loading structures in worlds, and an auto-jump feature. The official name for the update, the Frostburn Update, was revealed on June 8, 2016, in a blog post on the Minecraft:Mojang website, the same day the update was released.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20160608153158/http://www.mojang.com/2016/06/minecraft-110-an-update-of-fire-and-ice/</ref>

Being the smallest major update, development began shortly after 1.9, the Minecraft:Combat Update, was released, and snapshots began the week after 1.9.3 and 1.9.4 were released, in mid-May. Only 3 snapshots and 2 pre-releases were released for 1.10, between May 18, 2016, and June 8, 2016. Mojang released the first pre-release on June 2, 2016, and the second on June 7, one day before the update was released.

Notable features

Template:Main Template:Additions table New Minecraft:blocks

• File:Bone Block (UD) JE2 BE2.png Minecraft:Bone Block
  • Found underground as part of Minecraft:fossils.
  • Can also be crafted using nine Minecraft:bone meal.
  • Acts as a storage block for bone meal.
• File:Magma Block JE1.gif Minecraft:Magma Block
  • Found in the Minecraft:Nether in y-levels between 27 and 36.
  • Can also be crafted using four Minecraft:magma creams.
  • Any players or mobs on the block takes damage every second unless they are sneaking, using Minecraft:Frost Walker, or having the effects of Minecraft:Fire Resistance.
  • Water blocks above the magma block disappear.
• File:Nether Wart Block JE3.png Minecraft:Nether Wart Block
  • Crafted using nine Minecraft:Nether warts.
  • Cannot be crafted back into Nether wart.
• File:Red Nether Bricks JE3 BE2.png Minecraft:Red Nether Bricks
  • Crafted using two Minecraft:Nether warts and two Minecraft:Nether bricks in a checkerboard pattern.
• File:Structure Void (item) JE2.png Minecraft:Structure Void
  • Only available through commands.
  • Intended to be used by developers for structure development in lieu of Minecraft:barrier blocks.

New Minecraft:items

• Minecraft:Spawn egg:
  • File:Polar Bear Spawn Egg JE1 BE1.png Polar Bear Spawn Egg

New Minecraft:mobs

• File:Husk JE2 BE2.png Minecraft:Husk
  • Spawns in Minecraft:desert biomes.
  • Behaves similar to a zombie but inflicts Hunger to attacked players.
• File:Polar Bear.png Minecraft:Polar Bear
  • Spawns in Minecraft:ice plains, Minecraft:ice mountains, and Minecraft:ice plains spikes as either an adult or a cub.
  • Becomes aggressive if hit or when the player approaches one while a cub is nearby.
  • Swims faster in water compared to the player.
  • Drops Minecraft:raw fish or Minecraft:salmon when killed.
• File:Stray JE2 BE4.png Minecraft:Stray
  • Spawns in Minecraft:ice plains, Minecraft:ice mountains, and Minecraft:ice plains spikes.
  • Behaves similar to a skeleton but shoots Minecraft:tipped arrows of Minecraft:Slowness instead.

New structures

• Template:Animate Minecraft:Fossil
  • Generates underground in Minecraft:deserts and swamplands.
  • Composed of several Minecraft:bone blocks and Minecraft:coal ore.

Other additions

• The command Template:Cmd.
• Auto jumping

Trivia

• The time span between the releases of Minecraft:16w20a and 1.10-pre1 was only 2 weeks, the smallest time between, unusual based on Minecraft:Mojang's history, as 1.8 and 1.9 both took around a year or so to develop.

Further revisions

• 1.10.1 fixed "some of the most annoying reported bugs."
• 1.10.2 was released soon thereafter to fix a crash from 1.10.1.