Minecraft:Java Edition Beta 1.6

Beta 1.6 is a version of Minecraft:Java Edition Beta released on May 26, 2011,<ref>Template:Twon</ref> which adds Minecraft:maps, Minecraft:trapdoors, Minecraft:the Nether in multiplayer as well as other changes and many bug fixes.

Additions

Blocks

File:Dead Bush JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Dead bush

• Generates naturally only in deserts.
• Can only be placed on Minecraft:sand.

File:Dead Bush JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Shrub

• Doesn't generate anywhere.
• Only obtainable via inventory editing.

File:Grass JE1.png Grass

• Generates in the form of Minecraft:random patches, on Minecraft:grass blocks in most biomes with grassy soil, like Minecraft:plains or Minecraft:forests.
• Seeds are now found in grass.
• Its color change depends on the humidity.

File:Fern JE1.png Minecraft:Fern

• Generates naturally only in swamps and rainforests.
• Seeds are now found in fern.
• Its color depends on the temperature of the biome it’s in.

File:Oak Trapdoor (D) JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Wooden trapdoor

• It can be opened like a door.
• Crafted with Minecraft:planks.

Items

File:MapItem1.png

A fully zoomed map.

File:Map (item) JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Maps

• Allows the player to see a section of the world from a top-down perspective.

Command format

Minecraft:Server.properties

• Added new settings:
  • view-distance.
  • allow-nether.

Gameplay

Minecraft:Multiplayer

• Added Nether support.

Changes

Blocks

General

• Blocks destroyed by other players in multiplayer now show the breaking block particle effect.
• It's no longer possible to build solid blocks on the top layer of the map.
• Blocks that don't change appearance when the data changes don't send block updates when their data changes now.

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

• Trying to sleep in the Nether causes the bed to explode.

File:Dispenser (S) JE1.png Minecraft:Dispensers

• When activated, it makes sounds and triggers particles in multiplayer.

File:Oak Door JE3 BE1.png Minecraft:Doors

• Now make sound for other players in multiplayer.

File:Fire JE1.png Minecraft:Fire

• Has been severely nerfed so it spreads slower, and doesn't spread infinitely.

File:Ice JE3 BE5.png Minecraft:Ice

• Now regenerates regardless of whether it's snowing or not.

File:Jukebox JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Jukebox

• Now supports more than eleven different music discs.

Template:Animate Minecraft:Leaves

• Leaves with the graphics level set to fast no longer act like opaque solid blocks, preventing blocks such as Minecraft:Torches, Minecraft:Doors and Minecraft:Levers to be placed on them and preventing mobs from naturally spawning on them.

Template:Animate Minecraft:Mushrooms

• Now spread, although slowly.

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

• Now speedier to offset the loss of glitch-boosters.

File:Water JE10.png Minecraft:Water

• Below a layer of source blocks no longer behaves like source blocks.

Items

File:Arrow (item) JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Arrows

• When shot by one player, can now be picked up by other players.

File:Wheat Seeds JE1 BE1.png Seeds

• Using a Minecraft:hoe on grass no longer yields seeds.

Non-mob entities

File:Oak Boat JE1.png Minecraft:Boats

• Players are dismounted when they ride a boat or minecart through a Minecraft:Nether portal.

File:Minecart JE3 BE1.png Minecraft:Minecarts

• Players are dismounted when they ride a boat or minecart through a Minecraft:Nether portal.

Gameplay

Minecraft:Combat

• Removed the 10 tick cooldown when missing a hit (hitting the air).

Minecraft:Controls

• Template:Key+ clicking while crafting makes as much as possible and moves it straight to player's inventory.
• Template:Key+ clicking something in player's inventory pushes it directly in player's hot bar and vice-versa.

Minecraft:Lighting

• The lighting on block icons in the inventory has been changed to appear brighter.

Minecraft:Players

• When stuck in walls, slide towards the nearest gap if there is one.

General

Network traffic

• Compressed network traffic more aggressively.

Options

• Temporarily disabled Advanced OpenGL.

Minecraft:Texture packs

• Added support for misc\grasscolor.png and misc\foliagecolor.png images.

Fixes

97 bugs fixed

• Fixed saving while sneaking dropping the player through the ground.
• Fixed player rotation not being loaded correctly when loading a saved game.
• Fixed the player not being able to sneak off lowered blocks like cacti.
• Fixed a game crash when riding a vehicle or animal into the Nether.
• Fixed falling while riding not dealing damage to the rider.
• Fixed buttons and levers too close to the player being impossible to use.
• Fixed furnaces and dispensers not dropping their contents when destroyed.
• Fixed fire and lava dealing damage through wall corners.
• Fixed entities reaching water through wall corners.
• Fixed placing doors next to cacti creating half-doors.
• Fixed farmland taking too long to dig.
• Fixed tilling below some blocks being possible.
• Fixed tilling the underside of blocks somehow working.
• Fixed fences and stairs sometimes becoming invisible.
• Fixed fences and signs preventing grass from growing.
• Fixed walking on top of fences not producing step sounds.
• Fixed grass staying alive below stair blocks.
• Fixed the achievement screen not pausing the game.
• Fixed some screens breaking the sky tint color.
• Fixed fullscreen mode switching causing mouse issues and screen closes.
• Fixed chat messages surviving through game switches.
• Fixed levers being placeable in weird locations.
• Fixed floor levers sometimes not delivering a signal downwards.
• Fixed floor levers sometimes not being removed when the floor is removed.
• Fixed dying in the Nether spawning new portals.
• Fixed ore density varying per quadrant from the center of the world.
  • This bug used to cause most ore types to be at least 50% more common in the southeast (+X, +Z) quadrant compared to the northwest (-X, -Z) quadrant.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/GoldenAgeMinecraft/comments/18t4oe4/prior_to_beta_16_way_less_ore_was_generated_in/</ref>
• Fixed saplings being plantable through snow onto non-grass blocks.
• Fixed wooden pressure plates being mined with pickaxes.
• Fixed creepers retaining charge level when they can't see their target.
• Fixed inventory acting weird when portaling by making the portal close all screens.
• Fixed dispenser graphics being one pixel off.
• Fixed mushrooms spawning everywhere during nights.
• Fixed animals only spawning near light during the night.
• Fixed the multiplayer join screen input field being too short.
• Fixed entities above the map height limit becoming invisible.
• Fixed loads of exploding TNT generating way too many particles, which usually crashed the game.
• Fixed grasscolor.png and foliagecolor.png not being read from texture packs.
• Fixed receiving more items than the maximum stack size sometimes causing an oversized stack in the inventory
• Fixed rain sounds not playing with fast graphics enabled.
• Fixed glass not blocking rain sound.
• Fixed rain falling through liquids.
• Fixed rain falling too slowly.
• Fixed rain and snow being incorrectly lit.
• Fixed arrow physics, making them not get stuck midair when opening a door.
• Fixed arrows colliding with reeds, portals, and other non-solid blocks.
• Fixed arrows being animated really strangely in multiplayer.
• Fixed arrows triggering too many entity move updates in multiplayer.
• Fixed submerged boats rising very very fast.
• Fixed boats placed on snow being placed too far up.
• Fixed sand dropping onto boats getting stuck in a falling animation.
• Fixed dispensers shooting through walls.
• Fixed dispensers biasing later slots.
• Fixed fire effect on burning entities sometimes getting rendered in the wrong location.
• Fixed fences and wooden stairs not being flammable.
• Fixed fire sometimes existing mid-air as an invisible block of pain.
• Fixed fire displacing water.
• Fixed fires being impossible to put out in multiplayer.
• Fixed fishing rod rendering being a bit lacking.
• Fixed fishing rods being stackable.
• Fixed water interacting strangely with glass.
• Fixed items in glass blocks not getting ejected properly.
• Fixed mining glass hiding the clouds behind the glass.
• Fixed minecarts next to each other causing extreme velocities.
• Fixed rail tiles sometimes not properly connecting to a new neighbor.
• When breaking a minecart the player is currently riding in, the player no longer falls through the block the track is placed on.
• Fixed the cracking texture being dark on the sides of grass blocks.
• Fixed anaglyph 3D rendering mode having severe visual bugs.
• Fixed the achievements screen messing up the sky color.
• Fixed hair and cloaks being rendered in the wrong locations on sneaking players.
• Fixed a bug where the player could mine without visually swinging their arm.
• Fixed the attack/swing animation not being applied to the armor layer.
• Fixed redstone repeaters using pumpkin particles.
• Glowstone and jack-o-lanterns recessed into a wall or other surface no longer have shadows cast on them by surrounding blocks when smooth lighting is enabled.
• Fixed running out of memory corrupting the current level.
• Fixed the crash screen vanishing immediately.
• Fixed not being able to target blocks when at X=1000 or Z=1000.
• Fixed a system clock change messing up the game speed.
• Fixed keybindings not getting saved properly under certain conditions.
• Fixed stats getting saved to different files in offline mode if the caps in the player name differ from the true spelling.

Multiplayer only

• Fixed IPv6 addresses being parsed wrong.
• Fixed network packets being sent unbuffered, causing huge amounts of packets being sent.
• Fixed entity positions going out of sync sometimes. They get re-synced every 20 seconds now.
• Fixed inventory icons not animating after being picked up in multiplayer.
• Fixed mushroom soup not leaving a bowl.
• Fixed wolves not following their owner if the name has different caps.
• Fixed healing not flashing the health bar.
• Fixed the compass not pointing at the spawn location.
• Fixed record players spawning client-side fake records.
• Fixed records not playing for other players.
• Fixed players spawning in the wrong location and quickly leaping to the correct location.
• Fixed monsters not being visible for players with their difficulty set to Peaceful.
• Fixed pigs getting hit by lightning spawning client-side zombie pigmen.
• Fixed bonemeal use sometimes spawning fake client-side trees.
• Fixed saplings sometimes spawning trees client-side.
• Fixed weather sometimes changing client-side.
• Fixed fireballs not being visible in multiplayer.
• Fixed ghasts' firing animation not being visible.

Bugs

• FPS drops unexpectedly for some users.Template:Info needed
• Template:Key+ clicking in a Minecraft:container while having a full Minecraft:inventory crashes the game.

Trailer

Template:Main An official video documenting some of the Beta 1.6's major features was released on Mojang's official Minecraft:YouTube channel on May 24, 2011. The video was made by Hat Films. Published before the game's official release, the trailer omits "Beta" from the version name. Template:Yt

Trivia

• Beta 1.6 is the only version with test builds.
• Beta 1.6 is the earliest version that has a trailer.

Gallery

• A Beta 1.6 world.
  A Beta 1.6 world.
• The create world menu in this version.
  The create world menu in this version.
• First screenshot of maps.
  First screenshot of maps.
• Second screenshot of maps.
  Second screenshot of maps.
• Third screenshot of maps.
  Third screenshot of maps.