Minecraft:Java Edition Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6
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Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6 is the sixth and final pre-release for Minecraft:Java Edition 1.0.0, released on November 11, 2011,<ref>Template:Tweet</ref> which adds Minecraft:dragon eggs, Minecraft:Ender crystals, credits, new video settings, changes the mining time of some blocks, changes the Minecraft:ender dragon boss fight, and fixes some bugs. This is the final pre-release released in 2011.
Additions
Blocks
File:Dragon Egg JE1.png Minecraft:Dragon egg
- Is a gravity-affected Minecraft:block.
- Can be obtained only once per Minecraft:world by defeating the Minecraft:ender dragon.
- Can be picked up by placing a non-full block, such as a torch, under a block and breaking it.
- Teleports when you try to mine it or when right clicked.
Non-mob entities
File:End Crystal JE1 BE1.gif Minecraft:Ender crystal
- Sits atop of a block of bedrock.
- It is diamond shaped, with 2 cubes spinning on their axis with a point at the center.
- Fires a healing beam at the ender dragon when within range.
- Can be destroyed with a melee or hit with an arrow, causing an explosion.
- They appear on all obsidian pillars in the End.
General
- Is the lines of text and music that play after the Minecraft:End Poem.
- Is a freehand narrative poem written by novelist and poet Template:W that can be seen when the Minecraft:player enters the Minecraft:exit portal in Minecraft:the End dimension.
- Added the following files to
/title/:credits.txtearlyplayers.txtwin.txt
- Added "Particles" setting, which has three possible states:
- "All", rendering all particle effects.
- "Decreased", rendering half of all particle effects.
- "Minimal", rendering no particle effects (except for those created when breaking blocks).
Changes
Blocks
General
- Several block's tool weaknesses have been fixed, such as Minecraft:crafting tables now mining faster with an axe and Minecraft:rails now mining faster with a pickaxe.
- Attempting to sleep in a bed while hostile mobs are nearby displays "You may not rest now, there are monsters nearby".
- Now drops itself when mined.
- Are no longer prevented from opening from other chests on top.
- Can now be smelted in a Minecraft:furnace into Minecraft:coal.
- Now drops itself when mined.
- Is now called "Shrub".
- Is now mined faster using pickaxes.
- Is now called "Fern".
- Are now available in the Minecraft:Creative inventory.
- Fire above Minecraft:bedrock in the End now burns forever.
File:Grass Block JE6 BE5.png Minecraft:Grass block
- Texture changed from File:Grass Block JE5.png.
- Decreased mining time.
- Decreased mining time.
- Decreased mining time.
- Decreased mining time.
- Now drops itself when mined.
- No longer affected by Smooth Lightning.
- Can now be smelted in a Minecraft:furnace into Minecraft:lapis lazuli.
- Now have collision.
- Are no longer restricted to be placed in swamps.
- Can be placed by aiming at water.
- Are now available in the Creative inventory.
- Decreased mining time.
- Is now mined faster using pickaxes.
- Is now mined faster using pickaxes.
- Is now mined faster using pickaxes.
- Decreased mining time.
- Can now be smelted in a Minecraft:furnace into Minecraft:redstone dust.
File:Sand JE3 BE2.png Minecraft:Sand
- Texture changed from File:Sand JE2 BE1.png.
- Decreased mining time.
- Decreased mining time.
- Now drops itself when mined.
- Decreased mining time.
- Downward flowing water now creates flowing water once more.
- Decreased mining time.
- Now drops itself when mined.
Items
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- Tools not suited to digging a certain block can be faster than digging by hand, e.g. a pickaxe can dig dirt faster than by hand, but not faster than by shovel.
File:Bow JE2 BE1.png Minecraft:Bows
- Can be fired without having Minecraft:arrows in Minecraft:Creative mode, but use up arrows from the creative mode inventory, if available.
Mobs
File:Ender Dragon.gif Minecraft:Ender dragon
- Now spawns in the end.
- A "Boss health" bar appears on the middle top part of the screen, in the same purple hue as the ender dragon.
- When killed, now leaves behind an exit portal with the dragon egg sitting on top to return the player to their spawn point.
Template:Animate Minecraft:Sheep
- Baby sheep from dyed parents are now born dyed instead of always being white.
Gameplay
- Minecraft:Efficiency enchantment now affects all blocks for any item enchanted with it.
- Minecraft:Silk Touch can no longer pick up ice.
- The world file size is no longer displayed.
Minecraft:Sun and Minecraft:moon
- Are now square again.
Fixes
11 bugs fixed
- Entity model errors fixed.
- Minecraft:Armor durability is back to being much higher, higher than it ever was in Beta 1.8.
- Using items and hitting mobs no longer uses up items/durability in Creative.
- Ferns and grass are now available in the creative inventory.
- Unnecessary block versions of Minecraft:cake and Minecraft:sugar cane removed from creative inventory.
- Minecraft:Enchantment tables now take time to mine, instead of one punch.
- "Mods and Texture Packs" changed to "Texture Packs".
- Repeater clocks no longer get stuck when unloading the chunk.
- Placing fences under farmland doesn't stop it from turning back into dirt.
- A minecart with furnace is able to push empty minecarts in any direction.
- Baby sheep from dyed parents are now born dyed instead of always being white.
Bugs
1 bug reported
- Minecraft:Wooden doors can be opened only using redstone.
Trivia
- This version was released on 11/11/11 (November 11, 2011). That date was the originally planned date for Minecraft:MINECON 2011 and the release of 1.0.0.<ref>Template:Citation</ref>
- This is the last version where the player makes the classical "ooh!" sound when hurt.
- This is the first version where the game can be legitimately beaten without mods or cheats.
Gallery
References
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