Minecraft:Java Edition RC1

RC1 is the first release candidate for Minecraft:Java Edition 1.0.0, released on November 13, 2011,<ref>Template:Tweet</ref> which adds durability to Minecraft:bows, sounds to some mobs, the player, tools and armor, adds some new Minecraft:splashes, fixes some bugs, and changes some sounds. This is the first ever release candidate released in 2011.

Additions

General

Minecraft:Splash

• Added new splashes:
  • "Made by Jeb!"
  • "Has an ending!"
  • "Finally complete!"
  • "Feature packed!"
  • "Boots with the fur!"
  • "Stop, hammertime!"
  • "Testificates!"
  • "Conventional!"
  • "Homeomorphic to a 3-sphere!"
  • "Doesn't avoid double negatives!"
  • "Place ALL the blocks!"
  • "Does barrel rolls!"
  • "Meeting expectations!"
  • "PC gaming since 1873!"
  • "Ghoughpteighbteau tchoghs!"
  • "Déjà vu!"
    • This splash is intentionally duplicated.
  • "Got your nose!"
  • "Haley loves Elan!"
  • "Afraid of the big, black bat!"
  • "Doesn't use the U-word!"
  • "Child's play!"
  • "See you next Friday or so!"
  • "From the streets of Södermalm!"
  • "150 bpm for 400000 minutes!"
  • "Technologic!"
    • A reference to the song “Technologic” by Daft Punk.
  • "Funk soul brother!"
    • A reference to the song “The Rockafeller Skank” by Fatboy Slim.
  • "Pumpa kungen!"

Changes

Blocks

Minecraft:Glowstone

• Returned material type from "stone" to "glass".
  • A pickaxe is no longer needed to drop items.
  • Redstone, torches, levers, etc. can now be placed on the block.
  • No longer acts as a redstone vertical (downward) diode.

File:Inactive Redstone Wire (unconnected) JE1.png Minecraft:Redstone wire

• Changed single redstone wire model from a cross to a dot shape.

File:Lava JE14.png Minecraft:Lava

• Texture changed from File:Lava JE13.png.

File:Water JE11.png Minecraft:Water

• Changed texture from File:Water JE11.png.

Items

Minecraft:Bows

• Appears larger in third person view when held.
• No longer need arrows for ammo in Creative mode.
• No longer have an infinite number of uses (385 shots before breaking).
• Changed how full charged bows behave.
  • Full charged bows now deals Template:Hp damage, with a rare chance of dealing Template:Hp.
• Added additional bow sounds.

Non-mob entities

Thrown Minecraft:eggs

• Can now spawn baby Minecraft:chickens.

General

Minecraft:Options

• The "Quit Game" button now appears regardless of how the game is launched.

Debug features

• Pressing Template:Keys changes the Minecraft:player's gamemode.

Minecraft:Splash

• Changed some splashes:
  • "OpenGL 1.1!" to "OpenGL 1.2!".
  • "Coming soon!" to "It's here!".
  • "When it's finished!" to "It's finished!".
  • "That's not a moon!" to "That's no moon!".
  • "Absolutely dragon free!" to "Kind of dragon free!".
  • "Superfragilisticexpialidocious!" to "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!".
  • "Tyrian would love it!" to "Tyrion would love it!".
  • ""Noun" is an autonym!" to ""Autological" is!".

Sound Update

Alongside the release of this version, the asset server was updated with the following new sounds:

• The Minecraft:chest opening and closing now has its own sound, different from the door sound.
• Minecraft:Experience orbs now make a twinkling sound when collected.
• The entity damage sound has been changed to a genderless bone-cracking sound.
  • Players and all mobs make the same bone-cracking sound when taking fall damage.
• Eating and drinking now have sounds.
• Minecraft:Blazes have been given an ambient breathing noise.
• Minecraft:Endermen now have their own sounds instead of using zombie sounds. Template:Info needed
  • When they teleport, it sounds like a shortened version of the Nether portal sound.
• Minecraft:Magma cubes now make sounds.
• Minecraft:Silverfish now make sounds.
• Minecraft:Arrow landing was changed to a more twangy sound.Template:Note
• Minecraft:Tools and Minecraft:armor now make a breaking sound, and have a breaking animation.

The following sounds were replaced with new versions on the asset server; thus, the updated sounds also applied to older versions of the game.

• The Minecraft:arrow firing and thrown item (Minecraft:snowball, Minecraft:egg, Minecraft:fishing rod and Minecraft:eye of ender) sound was changed.
• Wooden and iron Minecraft:doors, Minecraft:trapdoors and Minecraft:fence gates' opening and closing sounds were changed.
• Minecraft:Explosions now have several new, slightly differing sounds instead of just one.

Fixes

7 bugs fixed

• Fixed wooden door bug from Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6 (sound effect).
• The "Particles" option no longer overlaps the warning when playing on far render distance with a 32-bit Java installation.
• Fixed the bug that caused the player's experience level to revert to 0 again after The End credits are finished from Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6.
• The full names of Scaevolus and Hippoplatimus are now used in the ending credits.
• The player can now chat while entering a portal in multiplayer.
• Minecraft:Obsidian's mining time was increased to 8 seconds from ~3 seconds in Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6.

Trivia

• When RC2 was initially uploaded, the changing of the version number to RC2 was forgotten, causing it to be displayed as RC1.<ref>Template:Tweet</ref> This was later fixed in a reupload.<ref>Template:Tweet</ref>