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Beta 1.0

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Beta 1.0

Minecraft: Java Edition Beta 1.0 was released on December 20th, 2010, and marks the very beginning of the new Beta phase of Minecraft's development. This release includes many different bug fixes and changes.

Additions & Changes#

  • Support for capes have now been added, though they were initially known as "cloaks".
    • Only the original Mojang Cape exisited at the time but any newer capes are supported as they are loaded the same way as player skins.
  • Added support for deadmau5's ears as an easter egg.
  • Added 14 new splash texts (though "Finally Beta!", is the only one that will show on the title screen, besides the special holiday texts).
    • Finally Beta!
    • Woo, reddit!
    • Twittered about!
    • Jump up, jump up, and get down!
    • Joel is neat!
    • A riddle, wrapped in a mystery!
    • Huge tracts of land!
    • Welcome to your Doom!
    • Stay a while, stay forever!
    • Stay a while and listen!
    • Treatment for your rash!
    • "Noun" is an autonym!
    • Information wants to be free!
    • "Almost never" is an interesting concept!
  • The chest inventory screen now autopmatically closes when player is too far away or when the chest is blown up/destroyed.
  • Leaf decay has been re-introduced again and works slightly differently to before.
  • Eggs can now be thrown and now only stack up to 16 instead of 64. They have a 12.5% (1/8) chance of spawning a chicken and a 0.390625% (1/256) chance of spawning four chickens.
  • Working sever-side inventory has been added to multiplayer (this fixes many bugs).
  • Item tooltips have been added so the names of items are shown while hovering the mouse over them.
  • Removed the outlines for the armor slots in the inventory.
  • Players can no longer store items in the 2x2 crafting slots in the inventory, and so they will drop to the ground when the inventory is closed.
  • Servers save chunks less often.
  • The splash "Play Minecraft, Watch Topgear, Get Pig", was changed to add an exclamation mark ("Play Minecraft, Watch Topgear, Get Pig!").
  • The appearance of the buttons in key settings has been changed.
  • Fixed a bug with /kill
  • Fixed a bug where tools could repair themselves by simply being thrown onto the ground.
  • Cloth is now called wool.
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Beta 1.0_01

Beta 1.0_01, released on December 20th, 2010, was a fairly minor update that included various bug fixes.

Fixes & Changes#

  • Fixed an issue with double chests.
  • Fixed a rare crash upon loading a level.
  • Fixed a lighting glitch from chunks that are far away from the player during nighttime.

Beta 1.0.2

Version 1#

Beta 1.0.2-0836 was another minor bug fix update, released on December 21st, 2010, at 08:36 UTC. It strangely breaks the initial version numbering convention by having '.2' instead of '_02'.

Fixes & Changes#

  • The game now launches and plays properly in macOS.
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Version 2#

Beta 1.0.2-0841, released on December 21st, 2010, 08:41 UTC This version was re-uploaded to fix an issue where the game wouldn't start properly and as such, the original pre-reupload version is lost.

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