Java Edition Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6
Minecraft Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6
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Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6 is the sixth and final pre-release for Java Edition 1.0.0, released on November 11, 2011,[1] which adds dragon eggs, end crystals, credits, new video settings, changes the mining time of some blocks, changes the ender dragon boss fight, and fixes some bugs. This is the final pre-release released in 2011.
Additions
Blocks
- Currently has no use.
Non-mob entities
- Sits atop of a block of bedrock.
- It is diamond shaped, with 2 cubes spinning on their axis with a point at the center.
- Fires a healing beam at the ender dragon when within range.
- Can be destroyed with a melee or hit with an arrow, causing an explosion.
- They appear on all obsidian pillars in the End.
General
Ending titles and credits
- Have been added to the game.
- Added the following files to
/title/:credits.txtearlyplayers.txtwin.txt
Video settings
- Added "Particles" setting, which 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.
- Attempting to sleep in a bed while hostile mobs are nearby displays "You may not rest now, there are monsters nearby".
- Are no longer prevented from opening from other chests on top.
Doors, Iron Bars, Monster Spawners, Nether Bricks, Obsidian, Redstone Ore, Stone Bricks
- Decreased mining time.
- Fire above bedrock in the End now burns forever.
- Texture changed from
.
- Now have collision.
- Are no longer restricted to be placed in swamps.
- Can be placed by aiming at water.
- Are now available in the Creative inventory.
- Texture changed from
.
- Mined stairs of any materials drop a stair block now instead of a block form of its material.
- Downward flowing water now creates flowing water once more.
- No longer affected by Smooth Lightning.
Items
- Tools not suited to digging a certain block can be faster than digging by hand, e.g. a pickaxe can dig dirt faster than by hand, but not faster than by shovel.
- Can be fired without having arrows in Creative mode, but use up arrows from the creative mode inventory, if available.
Mobs
- More finished boss fight.
- "Boss Health" meter appears on the middle top part of the screen in the same purple hue as the ender dragon.
- Leaves behind an exit portal with the dragon egg sitting on top to return the players to their spawn point/bed.
Gameplay
- Efficiency enchantment now affects all blocks for any item enchanted with it.
- Are now square again.
Fixes
11 bugs fixed
- Entity model errors fixed.
- Armor durability is back to being much higher, higher than it ever was in Beta 1.8.
- Using items and hitting mobs no longer uses up items/durability in Creative.
- Ferns and grass 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" changed to "Texture Packs".
- Repeater clocks no longer get stuck when unloading the chunk.
- Placing fences under farmland doesn't stop it from turning back into dirt.
- A minecart with furnace is able to push empty minecarts in any direction.
- Baby sheep from dyed parents are now born dyed instead of always being white.
Bugs
- Wooden doors can be opened only using redstone.
Trivia
- This version was released on 11/11/11 (November 11, 2011). That date was the planned release date for Minecraft 1.0.0 and MINECON 2011.[2]
- This is the last version where the player makes the classical "ooh!" sound when hurt.
- This is the first version where the game can be legitimately beaten without mods or cheats.
Gallery
References
- ↑ "So here's the 6th beta 1.9 prerelease: http://assets.minecraft.net/1_9-pre6/minecraft.jar" – @jeb_ (Jens Bergensten) on X (formerly Twitter), November 11, 2011
- ↑ "MinecraftCon 2011 in Vegas?" – The Word of Notch, May 11, 2011.
