0.31 20100111-1 (jan 11, 2010 – jan 11, 2010)

Description:

Flint and Steel
Used to place fire.
Axes
New tool.
Used to gather wood four times faster than by
hand.
Pickaxes
New tool.
Can be used to gather types of stone four
times faster than by hand.
Bows
Added texture to items.png.
Lava
Now sets fire to flammable materials.
All items can now catch fire.
Mining a block with the wrong tool is now 50% slower.
Rearranged the hotbar to include a shovel, pickaxe, axe, flint and steel, and 99 of wool, glass, torches, TNT and bookshelves.
99 Apples can be found in the inventory instead of the previously unused items.
Apples
Now edible.
Restores 2 hearts.]
Shovels
Can now be used to gather dirt or sand four
times faster than by hand.
All mobs can now catch fire.
Islands now have more sand.
Multiplayer is now made fully inaccessible and attempting to connect to a server will crash the game, although multiplayer code still exists in the game.
Bugs
Due to the addition of tools to mine certain
blocktypes faster, there is now a bug where
switching an item while mining causes the
game to cycle through the entire terrain.png
file and overlay its textures on the mined
block.

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