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Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2

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This is a sub-page of Proto:Minecraft: Java Edition/Beta/Beta 1.9.

Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2 is the second pre-release for Java Edition 1.0.0. It was released on September 29, 2011.

Additions#

Blocks#

Cauldrons#

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  • The coding for cauldrons are present, but are not yet assigned to a block ID.
  • If they're enabled with a mod, however:
    • Cauldrons could be filled with a water bucket.
    • Applying a potion ingredient to the water would cause it to change to a differently-colored lava texture, and adding any further potion ingredients to the filled cauldron would cause the liquid to change color.
    • Scooping out a potion with ingredients applied would cause the potion to have an effect related to the ingredient, e.g. a potion brewed with a magma cream would have Fire Resistance as an effect.
  • The main reason this was excluded from the final release was due to it being not very user-friendly.

Items#

Glass Bottle#

An item that can be filled with water to create a water bottle.

Potions#

The first iteration of potions have been added, but they are not yet obtainable without mods.

Potion Ingredients#

  • Magma Cream
  • Blaze Powder
  • Spider Eye
    • An item that is dropped by spiders.
  • Fermented Spider Eye

Music Discs#

  • These are items that can be put in a jukebox in order to play music.
  • There are now 9 new discs:
    • Blocks
    • Chirp
    • Far
    • Mall
    • Mellohi
    • Stal
    • Strad
    • Ward
    • 11
  • "Wait", known as "where we are now", is now in the game, but unused.
    • This was due to problems with spaces in the name.

Mobs#

Animals#

At this point in development, breeding is implemented, but not yet completed.

General#

Hardcore Mode#

  • Hardcore Mode is a new mode after Survival and Creative.
    • The difficulty is locked at Hard.
    • Players are forced to delete their world upon death.
    • The health bar changes appearance to indicate the game is in Hardcore mode.

Changes#

Items#

Milk#

  • Milk is now drinkable.
  • Drinking milk resets all potion effects currently afflicted upon the player.

Mobs#

Villager#

Villagers now no longer have the "TESTIFICATE" label above their head.

General#

Tooltips#

Tooltips for items now have a pink border.

Bug Fixes#

  • Debug code causing jumping to increase experience has been removed.
  • The client-side double Mooshroom bug in multiplayer has been fixed.