Minecraft:Java Edition Beta 1.9 Prerelease

Beta 1.9 Prerelease is the first pre-release for Minecraft:Java Edition 1.0.0, released on September 22, 2011,<ref>Template:Tweet</ref> which adds Minecraft:Nether fortresses, 6 new blocks including Minecraft:Nether bricks and some variants, 5 new mobs including Minecraft:villagers and Minecraft:blazes, 4 new items including Minecraft:ghast tears, the Minecraft:mushroom island biome, and makes some minor changes.

While initially a pre-release for Beta 1.9, Mojang instead opted to delay the release of this update until Minecraft:MINECON 2011 and release it under the name "Minecraft 1.0.0". This decision was made after a few development versions labelled as Beta 1.9 were already released, so the Beta 1.9 name was kept for all of the development versions in the gap between Minecraft:Beta 1.8.1 and Minecraft 1.0.0, excluding the release candidates (RC1 and RC2).

Additions

Blocks

File:Nether Bricks JE1 BE1.png Nether brick

• Generates in Minecraft:Nether fortresses.

File:Nether Brick Stairs (N) JE1.png Minecraft:Nether brick stairs

• Crafted with Minecraft:Nether brick.

File:Nether Brick Fence (EW) JE1.png Minecraft:Nether brick fence

• Crafted with Minecraft:Nether brick.

File:Mycelium JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Mycelium

• Generates in Minecraft:mushroom islands.
• Unobtainable without inventory editors.

File:Lily Pad JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Lily pads

• Appear grayscale in the inventory and have no in-game name.
• Are non-solid.
• Generate in Minecraft:swamplands.
• Can only be placed on Minecraft:water.

Items

File:Blaze Rod JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Blaze rod

• Drops from Minecraft:blazes.
• Has no function.

File:Ghast Tear JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Ghast tear

• Drops from Minecraft:ghasts.
• Has no function.

File:Gold Nugget JE1.png Minecraft:Gold nugget

• Drops from Minecraft:zombie pigmen.
• Crafted from a Minecraft:gold ingot.

File:Nether Wart (item).png Template:Animate Minecraft:Nether wart

• Is found in Minecraft:Nether fortresses.
• Can only be placed on Minecraft:soul sand.
• Has no function.

Mobs

File:Blaze (pre-texture update).gif Minecraft:Blaze

• Is a Minecraft:hostile mob.
• May spawn naturally in Minecraft:Nether fortresses in groups of 2 or 3.
• May also spawn from Minecraft:monster spawners in Minecraft:Nether fortress.
• A blaze attacks by floating upward and shooting fireballs at its target in volleys of three at a time.
• It can also attack its target in melee range with its spinning rods.
• Immune to Minecraft:fire damage.
• Weak to Minecraft:water and Minecraft:snowballs.

File:Magma Cube JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Magma cube

• Is a Minecraft:hostile mob found in Minecraft:the Nether.
• Behaves similarly to a Minecraft:slime, but is fireproof, jumps higher and less often, and deals more Minecraft:damage.

File:Red Mooshroom JE1.png Minecraft:Mooshroom

• Spawns in Minecraft:mushroom islands.
• Can be milked using Minecraft:buckets to get Minecraft:milk.
• Can be milked using Minecraft:bowls to get Minecraft:mushroom stew.
• Shearing a mooshroom drops 5 Minecraft:red mushrooms and turns the mooshroom into a Minecraft:cow, emitting a smaller version of the explosion particle.
  • The mushrooms do not grow back.

File:Snow Golem JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Snow golem

• Is a buildable Minecraft:passive mob; created by placing two snow blocks and a pumpkin on top.
• Throws Minecraft:snowballs at monsters, which provokes them into attacking it.
• It produces a trail of Minecraft:snow.

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• Spawn in Minecraft:villages.
• Have 5 main professions (numbered 0, 1, 2, 3, 4); other profession numbers appear as a green-robed unnamed villager.
• Have the word "TESTIFICATE" displayed over their heads.
• Share the same AI as Minecraft:pigs; however, they do not flee when attacked.

World generation

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• Generates rarely across the edges of ice plains.
• Identical to the Minecraft:ocean biome but with snowfall, ice, lower temperature and slightly greater height variation.

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• Generates where rivers form in ice plains.
• Identical to the Minecraft:river biome but with snowfall, ice and lower temperature.

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• Generates in large blobs that are 4x larger than a normal biome.
• Contains sparse oak trees where grass generates underneath.

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• An unused variant of ice plains that is completely inaccessible without modding.
• Has the same terrain as extreme hills.

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• Generates in 1 in 100 spaces in oceans.
• Has a surface of Minecraft:mycelium blocks with Minecraft:huge mushrooms scattered across.
• No hostile mobs spawn in it.
• While mostly generating in the middle of oceans, mushroom islands can also rarely generate connected to other land and even be fully landlocked.

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• A variant of the mushroom island biome that generates where oceans and mushroom islands meet.
• No hostile mobs spawn in them.
• Has the same base height as oceans but has a much flatter sea bed.

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• Is a large Minecraft:structure found in Minecraft:the Nether, consisting of bridges, corridors, and towers.
• Two blaze Minecraft:monster spawners generate in every Nether fortress, and are located on small platforms surrounded by nether brick fences with a three-block staircase leading up to it.

General

Particles

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Changes

Blocks

File:Monster Spawner JE2.png Minecraft:Monster spawner

• Texture changed from File:Monster Spawner JE1.png.

File:Lava JE14.png Minecraft:Lava

• When flowing lava hits a water source directly from above, it creates Minecraft:stone.
  • Previously, lava would flow through the water.
• If lava is above a ceiling that is a single block thick, particles of lava will drip through, provided the player is within 13 blocks of the ceiling.

File:Rose JE2.png Minecraft:Roses

• Generate naturally once again.

File:Water JE11.png Minecraft:Water

• If water is above a ceiling that is a single block thick, particles of the water will drip through, provided the player is within 13 blocks of the ceiling.

Items

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• Armor level no longer decreases as the durability goes lower.
• Armor durability increased.
• Armor no longer reduces some types of damage:
  • Minecraft:Explosion
  • Minecraft:Fire
  • Minecraft:Projectiles

File:Gold Ingot JE2 BE1.png Minecraft:Gold ingot

• Crafted with gold nuggets.

File:Pumpkin Seeds JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Pumpkin seeds

• 2 to 4 pumpkin seeds now have a Template:Frac chance of generating in Minecraft:mineshaft chests.

Mobs

File:Enderman JE2.png Minecraft:Enderman

• Now, Minecraft:arrows, Minecraft:snowballs, Minecraft:eggs, and other ranged attacks do not hit them because they teleport away before impact.
• Enderman now teleport away and become Minecraft:neutral if they are in Minecraft:water.
• Amount of blocks able to be carried by endermen is now limited (see here for the list of blocks).
• Endermen no longer have any sounds.

File:Ghast JE1 BE1.gif Minecraft:Ghast

• Ghasts are now affected by Minecraft:light and no longer appear with the same brightness anywhere.
• Now drop 0-1 Minecraft:ghast tears.

File:Skeleton JE4 BE2.png Minecraft:Skeleton

• Model changed from File:Skeleton JE3 BE1.png.

Non-mob entities

File:Arrow JE2 BE1.png Minecraft:Arrows

• No longer visually stay stuck in Minecraft:mobs upon impact.

World generation

General

• Landmasses now generate at half scale, resulting in smaller continents and less distance between them.

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• Slightly reduced height variation from 0.5 to 0.4.

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• Grass, Minecraft:leaves, and Minecraft:water blocks are now Minecraft:tinted darker.

General

Minecraft:Jumping

• When the Minecraft:player jumps, their Minecraft:experience increases by a number between 1 and 100 experience.
• Continuous jumping by holding down the jump key is no longer possible.

Technical

General

Performance

• Performance improvements.

Level format

• Template:Nbt in level.dat is no longer updated. It is still initialized to 0 for new worlds.
  • This causes the Minecraft:Select World screen to always display a size of 0.00 MB for worlds created in this version and never update for worlds migrated from previous versions.