Alpha 1.0

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After Infdev, and starting on June 30, 2010 and ending on August 23, 2010, was the the initial stretch of the Alpha phase of Minecraft's development, otherwise known as Alpha 1.0 of Minecraft.

Infdev 20100630-1835/Alpha 1.0.0#

This was a updated secondary release of Infdev 20100630-1340, and it marks the very beginning of the Alpha development stage, despite the game still calling itself "Minecraft Infdev" in-game. In his blog, Notch would decide to retroactively add this version to the start of the Alpha stage of development, right after releasing Alpha 1.0.1 (making this version retroactively Alpha 1.0.0).¹ Known changes from Infdev 20100630-1340 include basic changes to sand and gravel beach generation, and to fix a bug that could cause the player to spawn at Y=0.

Alpha 1.0.1#

Unlike the previous version, Alpha 1.0.1 is the first version to to be referred to as and display as "Minecraft Alpha" in-game. It was released on July 2nd, 2010 as the "Seecret Friday 3 Update" (Seecret Friday updates were a special kind of updates done by Notch that were started in Infdev, and were fairly big new updates that would release every Friday, where the changes and additions were up to the players to discover). This version is currently unfortunately lost, but the changes are still documented (and also seen in the next version, of course).

• In this update, Redstone (both as a block and as a game mechanic) and Redstone-related items were added to the game. These include:
  • Redstone Ore, Redstone Dust, and Redstone Torches. At this point, however, they are referred to as "Red Ore", "Red Ore Dust", and "Red Ore Torch" respectively, though they would be quickly changed to "Redstone" shortly afterwards.
  • Iron Doors
  • Levers
  • Wooden and Stone Pressure Plates
  • Stone Buttons
• Wooden and Stone Stairs now used a proper 3D model in the inventory (previously they were a 2D texture of the side of the regular Wooden planks and Cobblestone), though the dimensions of the inventory stair model still looks a bit off.
• The door item preview in the inventory now has windows to match the actual design.
• Mushrooms can now grow anywhere in the shade, even on grass blocks.
• Signs are now much smaller and can now be placed on the sides of blocks.
• Mob AI has been improved.
• Caves are now much bigger in overall depth and size, and Coal, Gold and Diamond Ore veins now vary in size and amount but generate much more frequently.
• Gears from all the way back in Indev have now been completely removed, due to them being directly replaced with Redstone dust.

Alpha 1.0.1_01#

Released not long after on July 2nd, 2010 (same day as Alpha 1.0.1), this version fixed a bug related to Linux mice. This is the oldest available archive version of Alpha to be referred as such in-game.

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Alpha 1.0.2#

Released on July 6th, 2010. No info was released about this update and it is currently lost (however it is likely that some Redstone changes were done, as seen in the next version).

Alpha 1.0.2_01#

• Released: July 6th, 2010.
• Redstone had many slight alterations.
  • Redstone Dust no longer breaks when walked on.
  • Redstone Dust also no longer connects diagonally through solid blocks.
  • Redstone Ore, Dust and Torches now emits red dust particles.
  • Redstone Torches now only send redstone signals into blocks above or next to them.
  • Minor changes were done to the texture of Redstone Dust.

Alpha 1.0.2_02#

• Released: July 6th, 2010.
• Lava and Water have been slightly updated.
• Added a "Loading texture" string, possibly for skins.
• Changed some code pertaining to world info.

Alpha 1.0.3#

• Released: July 7th, 2010.
• Added 13 new cave sounds that can play when deep in caves.
• The durability of Diamond tools has dramatically increased.
• Mob AI has been improved with better pathfinding and more convincing idle behaviour.
• Proper sounds for Creepers, Skeletons, Spiders and Zombies have been added, previously, they only had no sounds and did the classic hurt sound.

Alpha 1.0.4#

Released on July 9th, 2010, Alpha 1.0.4 was released as the "Seecret Friday 4" update and is the oldest version directly available in the modern launcher.

• The logo has been changed to be animated and made out of Stone blocks instead of what looks like Cobblestone, and the logo itself has been changed slightly in overall design.
• The Mojang Specifications logo have been added, replacing the previous "Loading..." text in the bottom-left hand corner seen on previous versions.
• In this version, Winter/Snow Worlds have been added and any new world has a 25% of generating as a snow world. Snow worlds are regular worlds that feature forever snow fall, ice instead of ocean/any form of water and snow on the trees and grass / any other block exposed to the sky. The world a will be in this forever snow phase for as long as you play it and the entire world will be like this, no matter how far you go out. Regular worlds are unchanged in this version. This would technically be an early predecessor to biomes which would come a fair bit later.
  • Since this has been added, Ice, Snow and Snow covered Grass Blocks are now in the game.
• A new player sitting position has been added.
• 53 new splash texts on the title screen have been added.

Alpha 1.0.5#

This version was released on July 13th, 2010 and focused on adding more to snow worlds. This version was reuploaded 16 minutes to fix a bug with snow and as a result, the original version is currently lost.

• Snow Blocks and Snowballs have been added.
• Signs no longer require a free block above in order to be placed.
• Minor bug fixes around the rendering and placement of Snow and Ice.

Alpha 1.0.5_01#

• Released: July 14th, 2010.
• Snow Blocks and Snow layers have to mined with a shovel in order to get Snowballs.
• Snowballs now stack to 8 instead of 64.
• Water can now properly freeze into Ice Blocks.
• This version improved some aspects in Multiplayer, though it is still in private testing at this time. It featured better communication with the client and server so block placement and movement behave as expected without any weird bugs.

Alpha 1.0.6#

Alpha 1.0.6 was released on July 16th, 2010 as the "Seecret Friday 5" update and included a lot of changes and additions.

• Cactus Blocks have now been added and can generate on any natural sand. They 1 heart of damage when punched, right clicked or when walked on.
• Boats have now been added. The player can ride them across water but boats will break into Oak Wood Planks and Sticks whenever it impacts on any surface blocks.
• Fancy/Large Oak Trees have been changed and re-added.
• Leave decay has been removed temporarily and have a 5% chance of dropping a Sapling instead of 10%.
• Snow Blocks can no longer be washed away by water and can be crafted with 4 Snowballs instead of 9.
• Snowballs stack up to 16 instead of 8.
• Items can now been seen held in third person but they are quite large.
• Pig and Sheep now only spawn on Grass blocks.

Alpha 1.0.6_01#

• Released: July 17th, 2010.
• Added new splash texts, and 5 for special dates like known Birthdays, Christmas and New Year's day and 6 new standard ones.
• Leaf decay has been re-added with a new algorithm to check.
• Mob Spawning has been reduced.
• Boats have been improved and can now be placed on land, emits particles in water and will only break at impact in high speeds. Boats also turn more smoothly now.

Alpha 1.0.6_02#

Released on July 17th, 2010, no info was released about this update and it is currently lost.

Alpha 1.0.6_03#

• Released: July 17th, 2010.
• The game no longer crashes when loading corrupt worlds.

Alpha 1.0.7#

• Released: July 19th, 2010.
• Fixed a bug where the player could get stuck under certain circumstances.

Alpha 1.0.8#

• Released: July 19th, 2010.
• Cows have been added.
• Milk buckets have been added but can't be obtained just yet.
• Leather and the final recipe for Leather Armor has been added, crafting with Leather instead of Cloth/Wool.

Alpha 1.0.8_01#

• Released: July 19th, 2010.
• Removed some debugging code in order to prevent any possible crashes.

Alpha 1.0.9#

• Released: July 21st, 2010.
• The animation of the player model has been changed so their arms no longer flail around when walking.
• Two of the old Cow sounds have been removed.
• The background of the pause menu is now darker.
• Fixed a stuttering bug.

Alpha 1.0.10#

Released on July 22nd, 2010, this was the very first Alpha version to add public support for Multiplayer (though it was intially invite only and was very buggy).

• The Singleplayer and Multiplayer buttons have been renamed from "Single player" and "Multi player", the Multiplayer menu screen has also been added.
• Removed the "Change location" and "Load location" options in the controls menu.
• The death screen now displays "Score: &e0", this was due to internal code changes that changed how colored text worked and the score text was not updated. The '&e' part was responsible for making the text yellow, as seen in previous development versions, in this version onwards it would be changed to be instead done with a section sign (§). It would remain this way until just before the end of Beta and the early pre-release versions.

Alpha 1.0.11#

Released on July 23rd, 2010, Alpha 1.0.11, also known as the "Seecret Friday 6" update, was a fairly big release that added a whole bunch of new blocks, items and of course slimes.

• Milk buckets can now be obtained by milking Cows.
• Clay Blocks have been added and can now naturally generate, along with this, Clay Balls have also been added.
  • Bricks as an item have finally been added to the game and can be smelted from Clay Balls, along with this, Brick Blocks can now be finally crafted using Bricks and have seen a noticeable texture update from the original design.
• Sugar Cane, initially known as "Reeds" have been added and can also generate naturally near beaches and can grow up to three blocks tall.
  • With this, Paper (made from Sugar Cane), Books (made from Paper) and finally a crafting recipe for Bookshelfs has now been added to the game.
• Slimes have now been added to the game, they are hostile mobs that spawn below Y=32 and split into smaller (Large, Medium and Small sizes are currently present) slimes upon death, and drop newly added Slime Balls when Small sized slimes are killed, though Slime Balls themselves currently serve no purpose.
• Cactus Blocks have seen some notable changes.
  • The model has been changed to have visible outward spines instead of being a solid block.
  • Cactus blocks can now only be placed on sand and not directly next to other blocks.
  • Mobs now take damage when touching Cactus blocks.
• The terrain generation of trees and flowers has been changed.
• All shovels (except Wooden) can now instantly break snow layers).
• The way the player holds items in third person has been changed.

Alpha 1.0.12#

• Released: July 26th, 2010.
• Big Slimes no longer spawn on Peaceful mode and Slimes in general now have proper sounds.
• This version had a strange quirk in splash texts. The "missingno" special splash text was added and (presumably done for testing the new special splash text) splashes.txt was removed so all existing splash texts have been removed and (apart from the special date related ones), will therefore only display "missingno" on the title screen.
• Removed the two dots at the end of "Save and quit to title.." in the main pause menu.
• This build also include several multiplayer changes.
  • Render distance is now a server-side option.
  • Maximum player limit was added.
  • Chat now has word wrapping.
• Fixed font colors being broken.
• Fixed a memory leak in multiplayer.
• Fixed a lighting bug.

Alpha 1.0.13#

• Released: July 28th, 2010.
• The texture and models of Slimes has been redone and is more detailed.
• All the missing splash texts from the previous version have been restored, along with 31 brand new ones.
• The client can now check if two game instances are trying to save to the exact same level, and quits if it does, done via the session.lock file.
• The player's arm no longer gets stuck if F5 is disabled while moving and also when hold an item. The arm no longer has an idle animation when the inventory is currently open.
• Fixed a crash related to lighting.

Alpha 1.0.13_01#

• Released: July 29th, 2010.
• Fixed a crash that could occur near certain chunks.
• This version was shortly reuploaded to change the Minecraft logo to say "1K IN 24h" to celebrate Minecraft getting a 1000 sales within 24 hours.

Alpha 1.0.14#

Released on July 30th, 2010, Alpha 1.0.14 was released as the "Seecret Friday 7" update and (as you guessed) included a lot of changes and new blocks and items.

• The "1K IN 24h" logo has been reverted back to "Minecraft".
• Jukeboxes have now been added and are fully functional and can be crafted with Oak Wood Planks and one Diamond.
• The very first Music Discs have been added to the game. They are C418's 13 and Cat, they can both be found in dungeon chests or as dropped loot when a skeleton kills a creeper.
• Minecarts with Furnaces and Minecarts with Chests have also been added to the game and are also fully functional, being able to be powered with coal and used to store items in respectively.
• Chickens have now been added to the game and behave as expected.
• Eggs have been added to the game but can't be used for anything just yet.
• Music has been restored after being disabled in Infdev, and piano1.ogg, piano2.ogg and piano3.ogg (Dry Hands, Wet Hands and Mice on Venus by C418) have been added and can now be heard in-game.
• 3 new title screen splash texts have been added.
  • Haha, LOL!
  • Hampsterdance!
  • Switches and ores!
• Cactus can grow up to three blocks in height now.
• Obsidian is now resistance to TNT and its blast resistance has been massively increased.
• The Terrain Generation around Trees and Flowers has been changed again.
• The tip of the crafting recipe for arrows has been changed from an Iron Ingot to Flint.
• The texture of Cows has been changed to look slightly less brown and Cows have lost their horns
• Slime Spawning has been reduced, though this has been extremified and now it is almost impossible to find slimes naturally.
• Minecart mechanics have now been updated.
• This version was reuploaded to fix a bug with crafting a Jukebox as it originally accidentally gave Bookshelfs and added the splash "Switches and ores!".

Alpha 1.0.15#

Released on August 3rd, 2010, this version was the first to properly introduce survival multiplayer servers to everyone, along with some other minor changes.

• Added the commands /wood and /iron which gives 4 Oak Wood Logs and Iron respectively.
• Lava can now sets nearby blocks on fire.
• Changed how items look when held in third person once again.
• An arm-swinging animation for the player has been added for third person also multiplayer.
• Now that multiplayer is public, any IP address is valid instead of only the one for Mojang's private server.
• The logo on the title screen has been fixed to add the two missing stone blocks on the animated M.
• Fixed a bug where the player could move while inventory screen was open.
• Fixed a bug where blocks could be placed inside an entity with snow.

Alpha 1.0.16#

Released on August 12th, 2010, this version added more commands to multiplayer and some extra splashes.

• Added various more commands to multiplayer servers, some of the very last ones on the list are actually those that have returned from the initial Classic era of multiplayer that were removed at the start of Indev.
  • /banlist
  • /home
  • /pardon
  • /pardon-ip
  • /stop
  • /op
  • /deop
  • /kick
• Server operators have been added and are able to use server commands in-game themselves and work with admins.
• Added 4 new splashes:
  • Menger sponge!
  • idspispopd!
  • Eple (original edit)!
  • So fresh, so clean!
• Added support for more records.

Alpha 1.0.16_01#

• Released: August 12th, 2010.
• Added a few extra commands for servers. They are: /tp, /save-all, /save-off, and/save-on.
• You can now press Enter to join on the IP connection screen in the multiplayer menu.
• Fixed a bug where players could potentially go invisible on multiplayer.

Alpha 1.0.16_02#

• Released: August 17th, 2010.
• Added /tell, /list, and /msg commands for servers.
• Operators can now build and destroy blocks in the spawn area.
• The server will now log any admin activity and send any admin events to all connected operators.
• Fixed a bug with the /save-off command.
• Fixed a bug relating to the deaths of players and mobs.
• This is actually the exact version that was used for the infamous original Herobrine hoax screenshot that started the infamous legend of the character.

Alpha 1.0.17#

Released on August 20th, 2010, Alpha 1.0.17 was released as the "Seecret Friday 8" update. It added fences along with various other changes and additions. This version was only around for 8 minutes before being replaced with the next and as a result, is currently missing.

• Fences have now been added, they can be crafted with Sticks (though this may have happened with Alpha 1.0.17_02) and have a hitbox of a full block, apart from that, they are identical to how they are in modern versions. Oddly, the player is said to always spawn with 64 fences upon creating a new world in this version.
• Spider Jockeys (A Skeleton riding a Spider) have been added and have a chance at spawning at night.
• Milk buckets can now be emptied.
• Chickens no longer take fall damage and instead slowly glide downwards using their wings.
• Right clicking on interactable blocks now makes the players arm swing similar to the animation in third person.
• Chickens, Slimes and Pigs can now spawn in multiplayer.
• The day/night cycle now works in multiplayer.
• Third person view is now centered again.
• Removed the "Happy birthday! I love you! Alex x" special splash.

Alpha 1.0.17_01#

• Released: August 20th, 2010.
• This version is currently missing and it is unknown if there are any other changes, but it is unlikely.
• The player no longer always spawns with 64 Fences upon generating a world.
• Fixed an inventory graphic bug.

Alpha 1.0.17_02#

• Released: August 20th, 2010.
• Milk Buckets can no longer be stacked to 64.
• This version attempted to fix a duplication exploit.

Alpha 1.0.17_03#

• Released: August 23rd, 2010.
• Fixed an item duplication bug.
• Improved framerate.
• This version attempted to fix a bug with players get stuck inside blocks.

Alpha 1.0.17_04#

• Released: August 23rd, 2010.
• Fixed some instances of the player getting stuck.
• This is the final Alpha 1.0 version before Alpha 1.1.0 would be released.

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