nov 11, 2011 - Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6
Description:
Added:
Blocks:
Dragon egg
Currently useless.
Non-mob entities
End crystals
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
Ending titles and credits
Have been added to the game.
Minecraft.jar
Added the following to /title/:
credits.txt
earlyplayers.txt
win.txt
Video settings
Added "Particles" setting.
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).
Changed:
Blocks:
General
Several block's tool weaknesses have been fixed, such as crafting tables now mining faster with an ax and rails now mining faster with a pickaxe.
Beds
Attempting to sleep in a bed while hostile mobs are nearby will display "You may not rest now, there are monsters nearby".
Doors
Changed the mining time to make it faster.
Grass
New side texture.
Iron bars
Changed the mining time to make it faster.
Monster spawners
Changed the mining time to make it faster.
Nether bricks
Changed the mining time to make it faster.
Obsidian
Changed the mining time to make it faster.
Redstone ore
Changed the mining time to make it faster.
Sand
New texture.
Stairs
Mined stairs of any materials will drop a stair block now instead of a block form of its material.
Stone bricks
Changed the mining time to make it faster.
Water
Downward flowing water now creates flowing water once more.
Items:
Tools
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.
Mobs:
Ender dragons
More finished boss fight.
"Boss Health" meter appears on the middle top part of the screen in the same purple hue as the ender dragon.
Leaves behind a fountain-like bedrock structure with the dragon egg sitting on top, and has an exit portal to return to the players spawn point/bed.
Gameplay:
Enchanting
'Efficiency' enchantment now affects all blocks for any item enchanted with it.
Sun and Moon
Sun and moon are square again.
Fixed:
12 bugs fixed
Entity model errors fixed.
Armor durability is much back to being larger, larger than it even was in Beta 1.8.
Using items and hitting mobs no longer uses up items/durability in creative.
Lily pads are now a block which can be stood on.
Ferns, tall grass and lily pads are now available in the creative inventory.
Unnecessary block versions of cake and sugar cane removed from creative inventory.
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 minecart in any direction.
Baby sheep from dyed parents are now born dyed instead of always being white.
Added to timeline:
Minecraft Java Edition version history
Credit For Every Versions Info:
https://minecraft.gamepedia....
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