Frostburn Update

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Frostburn Update
Frostburn Update.png: Infobox image for Frostburn Update the theme in Minecraft
Release date

June 8, 2016

Version(s)

Java Edition 1.10

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The Frostburn Update is the name for Java Edition 1.10, a major update released on June 8, 2016. It added some new features such as skeleton/zombie variants in snowy biomes and deserts respectively, polar bears, structure blocks for saving/loading structures in worlds, and an auto-jump feature. The official name for the update, the Frostburn Update, was revealed on June 8, 2016, in a blog post on the Mojang website, the same day the update was released.[1]

Being the smallest major update, development began very shortly after 1.9, the Combat Update, was released, and snapshots began the week after 1.9.3 and 1.9.4 were released, in mid-May. Only 3 snapshots and 2 pre-releases were released for 1.10, between May 18, 2016, and June 8, 2016. Mojang released the first pre-release on June 2, 2016, and the second on June 7, one day before the update was released.

Notable features

Main article: Java Edition 1.10
New blocks
New items
New mobs
New structures
Other additions

Trivia

  • This update only had three snapshots and two pre-releases, tying it with 1.1 as the version with the least development versions.
  • The time span between the releases of 16w20a and 1.10-pre1 was only 2 weeks, the smallest time between, unusual based on Mojang's history, as 1.8 and 1.9 both took around a year or so to develop.
  • This update's changelog continues the trend since Beta 1.6.6 of having "Removed Herobrine" at the very end.
  • The update had only 2 further revisions, 1.10.1 and 1.10.2, which drastically shrunk from 1.7 (with 7 revisions), 1.8 (9 revisions), and 1.9 (4 revisions).
    • This trend of only two revisions continued until 1.13.2.

Further revisions

  • 1.10.1 fixed "some of the most annoying reported bugs."
  • 1.10.2 was released soon thereafter to fix a crash from 1.10.1.

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