Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6

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

Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6 is the sixth and final pre-release for Java Edition 1.0.0. It was released on November 11, 2011.

Additions#

Blocks#

Dragon Egg#

Currently, this block has no use.

Non-Mob Entities#

End Crystals#

• End Crystals sit atop a block of bedrock.
• It is diamond shaped, with two cubes spinning on their axis with a point at the center.
• It fires a healing beam at the Ender Dragon when within range.
• It can be destroyed with a melee or hit with an arrow, causing an explosion.
• They appear on all obsidian pillars in the End.

General#

End Poem and Credits#

The player sees this after exiting the End through the exit portal.

Minecraft.jar#

• The following has been added to /title/:
  • credits.txt
  • earlyplayers.txt
  • win.txt

Video Settings#

• A "Particles" setting has been added.
  • 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).

Changes#

Blocks#

General#

Several block's tool weaknesses have been fixed, such as crafting tables now mining faster with an axe 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".

Grass Blocks#

Grass blocks now have a new side texture. This is listed in the previous update.

Sand#

Sand now has a different texture.

Water#

Downward-flowing water now creates flowing water once more.

Stairs#

Mined stairs of any materials will drop a stair block now instead of a block form of its material.

Mining Time#

• Many blocks' mining time has been decreased.
  • Redstone Ore
    • Now mines at the same rate as most ores.
  • Iron Doors
  • Wooden Door
  • Monster Spawner
  • Iron Block
  • Gold Block
  • Diamond Block
  • Stone Brick
  • Iron Bars
  • Furnace
  • Dispenser
  • Obsidian
    • Now takes 10 seconds to mine instead of 15.

Items#

Tools#

Tools not suited to digging a certain block can be faster than digging by hand. For example, a pickaxe can dig dirt faster than by hand, but not faster than by shovel.

Mobs#

Ender Dragon#

• Her boss fight is more complete.
• The "Boss Health" meter appears on the middle top part of the screen in the same purple hue as the Ender Dragon.
• She leaves behind a fountain-like bedrock structure with the dragon egg sitting on top and has an exit portal to return to the player's spawn point/bed.

Gameplay#

Enchanting#

The Efficiency enchantment now affects all blocks for any item enchanted with it.

Sun and Moon#

The Sun and Moon are now square again.

Bug Fixes#

Please elaborate. Having more detail is always a good thing. Specifically: What do these mean?? These are on the wiki and half of them don't even make any sense.

• Entity model errors have been fixed.
• Armor durability is 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" has been changed to "Texture Packs".
• Repeater clocks no longer get stuck when unloading the chunk.
• A bug where placing fences under farmland doesn't stop it from turning back into dirt has been fixed.
• A bug where minecarts with furnaces are able to push an empty minecart in any direction has been fixed.
• Baby sheep from dyed parents are now born dyed instead of always being white.

Beta Sound Update#

To do: Add the files and comparisons where appropriate.

The Beta sound update was an update to the game's sound assets that released on November 11, 2011, the same day as this update. The client version was not updated. Sound effects were updated, and previously unimplemented sound effects were newly implemented. Two days later, additional sounds were updated as the first release candidate for Java Edition 1.0.0 was made available.

After the sounds were updated, they applied to all Minecraft versions, including all beta and alpha versions.

Changes#

• The arrow firing sound was changed.
• The chest opening and closing now has its own sound, different from the door sound.
• Wooden and iron doors, trapdoors and fence gates' opening and closing sounds were changed.
• Experience orbs now make a twinkling sound when collected.
• Thrown item (snowball, chicken egg, fishing rod and Eye of Ender) sounds were changed.
• Explosions now have several new, slightly differing sounds instead of just one.