Java Edition 1.0.0/Development versions
This is a list of Java Edition 1.0.0 development versions.
Beta 1.9 Prerelease
Beta 1.9 Prerelease[1][2][3] is the first pre-release for Java Edition 1.0.0, released on September 22, 2011,[4] which adds Nether fortresses, 6 new blocks including Nether bricks and some variants, 5 new mobs including villagers and blazes, 4 new items including ghast tears, the mushroom island biome and some minor changes.
Initially a pre-release for Beta 1.9, Mojang instead opted to delay the release of this update until MINECON 2011 and release it under the name "Minecraft 1.0.0". This decision was made after a few development versions tagged as Beta 1.9 were already sent out, so the name Beta 1.9 was kept for all of the development versions in the gap between Beta 1.8.1 and Minecraft 1.0.0, other than the release candidates.
Additions
Blocks
- Appear grayscale in the inventory and have no in-game name.
- Are non-solid.
- Can only be placed in swamplands.
- Cannot be placed by aiming at the water surface; instead, players must target the side of a block placed above the water level.
- Generates in mushroom islands.
- Unobtainable without inventory editors until Beta 1.9 Prerelease 5.
- Generates in Nether fortresses.
Items
- Drops from blazes.
- Drops from ghasts.
- Drops from zombie pigmen.
- Used to craft gold ingots.
Mobs
- Spawns in Nether fortresses.
- Spawns in the nether.
- Spawns in mushroom islands.
- Are created by placing two snow blocks and a pumpkin on top.
- Spawn in villages.
- Had the word "TESTIFICATE" displayed over their heads.
- Trading is currently not implemented.
- No sound files have been implemented for them, yet.
- Share the same AI as pigs, however, don't flee when attacked.
World generation
- Generate rarely across the edges of ice plains.
- Identical to the ocean biome but with snowfall, ice, lower temperature and slightly greater height variation.
- Generate where rivers form in ice plains.
- Identical to the river biome but with snowfall, ice and lower temperature.
- Generate in large blobs that are 4x larger than a normal biome.
- Contain sparse oak trees where short grass generates underneath.
- An unused variant of ice plains that is completely inaccessible without modding.
- Has the same terrain as extreme hills.
- Generates in 1 in 100 spaces in oceans.
- Has a surface of mycelium blocks with huge mushrooms scattered across.
- While mostly generating in the middle of oceans, mushroom islands can also rarely generate connected to other land and even be fully landlocked.
- A variant of the mushroom island biome that generates where oceans and mushroom islands meet.
- Has the same base height as oceans but has a much flatter sea bed.
- Added Nether fortresses.
- Roses generate naturally once again.
Changes
Items
- No longer visually stay stuck in mobs when hit.
- 2 to 4 pumpkin seeds now have a 10⁄75 chance of generating in mineshaft chests.
World Generation
Terrain
- Landmasses now generate at half scale, resulting in smaller continents and less distance between them.
- Slightly reduced height variation from 0.5 to 0.4.
General
- When the player jumps, their experience increases by a number between 1 and 100 experience.
- Continuous jumping by holding down the jump key is no longer possible.
Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2
Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2[5][6] is the second pre-release for Java Edition 1.0.0, released on September 29, 2011,[7] which adds cauldrons, potions, animal breeding mechanics, 9 more music discs, Hardcore mode, and the ability to clear potion effects by drinking milk.
Additions
Blocks
- Are present in the code, but are not assigned to a block ID (and thus are unobtainable without mods).
Items
- Crafted from blaze rods.
- Ingredient to brewing potions.
- Ingredient to brewing potions.
- First iteration of potions, not yet properly obtainable.
- Ingredient to brewing potions.
- Drop from spiders.
- Ingredient to brewing potions.
Mobs
- New system to breed animals.
- Remains incomplete, as baby mobs aren't introduced yet.
A bug existed where players could breed snow golems. This was patched by the next prerelease.
General
Hardcore mode
- Locks the difficulty to Hard and forces users to delete the world's save data upon death.
- The health bar changes appearance to indicate the game is in Hardcore mode.
Changes
Items
- Is now drinkable.
- Drinking milk resets all potion effects currently afflicted upon the player.
- Now has a tooltip.
Blocks
- No longer drops as an item when destroyed.
Mobs
- No longer have a "TESTIFICATE" label above their head.
- Additional armor points were added, making them tougher.[8]
General
Item tooltips
- Now have a purple border.
- Removed debug code causing jumping to increase experience.
- Continuous jumping by holding down the jump key is now possible again.
Third person view
- Now renders the front of the player.
Fixes
1 bug fixed
- Client-side double mooshroom bug in multiplayer fixed.
Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3
Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3[9][10][11] is the third pre-release for Java Edition 1.0.0, released on October 6, 2011, which adds five new blocks including the brewing stand and enchantment table, as well as the eye of ender, five baby animal variants, XP levels, the enchantment glint effect, and completed potion mechanics. Unlike the client, the server for this version was not reuploaded.
The original version of the Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3 was released shortly before 14:57 UTC on October 6 and included a debug feature where players spawned with full stacks of enchantment tables, bookshelves, End portal frames, and End portal blocks. The first reupload of Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3 was released at around 14:58 UTC,[12] removing some code relating to the ender dragon. This was possibly done to avoid leaking information, as the ender dragon had not yet been announced. The second reupload was released at around 15:08 UTC, removing the debug blocks in the hotbar.[13]
Additions
Blocks
- Used to brew potions.
- Emits light level of 1.
- Unfinished End portal in strongholds.
- Broken End portal frame blocks can be repaired with eyes of ender, though nothing further occurs.
- Can be obtained by explosions.
- Gives off a light level of 15.
- Currently useless.
- Gives off a light level of 15.
End Stone texture
- An unused prototype End stone texture was added to terrain.png.
Items
- Can be used to repair End portal frames, although they don't have their locating functionality yet.
Mobs
- Added new baby variants.
General
- The potion system has been completely revamped.
- Added pie chart detailing CPU usage.
- Placeholder system.
- Enchanted items appear to glimmer, have blue tooltips and have "Enchanted!!" written below tooltip.
Generated structures
- Used to mark the location of strongholds.
- Extended from the stone brick of the stronghold to height limit.
- One pillar marked the location of the main stronghold room, and another marked where the Portal room was.
Changes
Gameplay
- In the pre-reupload and first reupload versions, the player spawns with a 64-stack of Enchantment Tables, Bookshelves, End Portal Frames and End Portal Blocks.
- This also overwrites part of the default Creative hotbar.
- Hovering over the End Portal Blocks will crash the game as there is no display name assigned to them.
Blocks
- When destroyed, drop 3 books.
- Now assigned with block ID.
- Now only carries water instead of being used to make potions.
World generation
- More randomly placed chests.
- 1×1 glass pillars protruding from ground to sky limit at the location of strongholds.
General
Experience levels
- Now shown above experience bar.
Fixes
2 bugs fixed
- Fixed snow golems being able to enter love mode.
- Fixed killing a player with a dispenser from crashing the server.[14]
Beta 1.9 Prerelease 4
Beta 1.9 Prerelease 4[15][16] is the fourth pre-release for Java Edition 1.0.0, released on October 13, 2011.[17] It adds the End dimension, the ender dragon, and moon phases. It also completes the enchanting mechanics, changes fluid placement using buckets, and fixes some bugs.
This version was reuploaded to fix the version number not being updated from the previous pre-release, and the server was reupload twice.[18][19]
Additions
Blocks
- The white cobblestone texture introduced in the previous pre-release was changed, and end stone was added as a block with the overhauled texture which used to look like .
Items
- Used to brew potions of Healing instead of ghast tears.
- Created by brewing an existing potion with gunpowder.
- Has an area of effect when thrown.
Mobs
- New boss mob.
- Not implemented
World generation
- New dimension.
- One island floating in a black void.
- Endermen spawn here.
- Spawn in the End.
General
- Now fully implemented.
- New settings:
debugenable-queryenable-rconquery.portrcon.passwordrcon.port
Changes
Blocks
- Placing fluids (water or lava) with a bucket treats other fluid source blocks like solid blocks, allowing the player to place them on top of each other without an adjacent wall.
- Now functions properly.
- Redesigned graphically.
- Now emits light level of 1
Items
- Now used for potions of Regeneration.
- Added ability to use with right click to locate a stronghold.
Gameplay
- Added a swirl particle, emitted by players with status effects.
- Now rise in the east and set in the west, based on the top of maps being north, and are round.
- The moon now has multiple phases, somewhat akin to the real Moon.
- Removed, and was replaced by the End.
General
- The player can reload the texture pack by pressing F3 + T.
- All bottom textures of the skin are flipped horizontally.
Version number
- Is no longer displayed, unless F3 is pressed.
Fixes
5 bugs fixed
- Enchanting is now server-side instead of being only a client-side change.
- Fixed ⇧ Shift + click crash bug with enchanting tables and brewing stands.
- Critical hits now appear in multiplayer.
- Glass towers stretching to the top of the map no longer appear over strongholds.
- Fixed all minecart with furnace bugs, except the lighting bug.
Beta 1.9 Prerelease 5
Beta 1.9 Prerelease 5 is the fifth pre-release for Java Edition 1.0.0, released on October 27, 2011,[20] which adds several new achievements and controls, changes some mobs and the texture of some blocks, and fixes some bugs.
Additions
General
- Several new achievements added.
- Overkill: Deal nine hearts of damage in a single hit
- Enchanter: Use a book, obsidian and diamonds to construct an enchantment table
- Librarian: Build some bookshelves to improve your enchantment table
- DIAMONDS!: Acquire diamonds with your iron tools
- We Need to Go Deeper: Build a portal to the Nether
- The End?: Locate the End
- The End.: Defeat the Ender Dragon
- Local Brewery: Brew a potion
- Into Fire: Relieve a Blaze of its rod
- Return to Sender: Destroy a Ghast with a fireball
- "The End." achievement is impossible.
- Debug controls (from the pre-re-uploaded version of Beta 1.8 Pre-release):
- F9: Freezes the camera in its current position.
- F6: Enables a strange "bouncy" movement. It locks the player's Y coordinate (meaning they cannot jump or fall). It makes the player accelerate relatively slowly when moving. Additionally, the player can also clip into blocks slightly - at a high enough speed, the player can push all the way through a block. Transparent blocks have no clipping whatsoever.
- N and M: Changes the view's rotation clockwise and anti-clockwise, respectively. Hold both keys simultaneously resets the rotation.
- Y and H: Decreases and increases the field of view, respectively. These keys seem to affect the field of view differently to how the FOV option does - the player's hand (or anything the player is holding) also becomes stretched as the field of view increases or decreases, which does not happen if the player changes the FOV option in the menu. Holding both keys simultaneously resets the field of view.
- I: Makes the player look up, J looks left, K looks down, and L looks right. These movements are normally done by moving the mouse. This setting cannot be reset by holding any keys simultaneously.
- U and O: Moves the third-person camera forwards and backwards, respectively. This setting cannot be reset by holding both keys simultaneously.
Commands
- Added
/toggledownfall.
Changes
Blocks
- Texture changed from
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- Texture changed from
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- Texture changed from
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- In Creative mode, using an empty bucket no longer fills it up when removing fluids with it.
- Texture changed from
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- Fence post selection boxes now resemble their collision boxes.
- Texture changed from
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- Texture changed from
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- Texture changed from
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- Texture changed from
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- Texture changed from
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- Now flowing downwards creates source blocks, instead of flowing water.
- Texture changed from
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Mobs
General
- Hostile mobs act neutral in Creative mode.
- Entity punch range in Creative mode reduced, as a result.
- Now have a new dying animation even though they still do not spawn.
- Their health has been changed to 1HP
to test this.
- Now spawn on levels 0-40 rather than 0-16, making them much more common.
General
- The version number once again displays on the top-left of the screen.
- Selecting an enchanted item no longer causes the hotbar to glow white.
Video settings
- Added an option to turn off clouds.
Fixes
8 bugs fixed
- Monster spawners could not be collected with a pickaxe enchanted with Silk Touch.
- Mycelium and end stone are now available in the creative inventory list.
- The step on stairs is properly lit.
- Lily pads now have the correct coloration in the inventory and have a name tag.
- End stone now has a name tag (previously "unnamed").
- Melons once again drop the correct number of slices.
- Data error when attempting to block with an enchanted sword fixed, blocking with enchanted sword now possible.
- In multiplayer, breeding two animals now gives birth to a baby animal instead of a fully-grown animal.
Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6
Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6 is the sixth and final pre-release for Java Edition 1.0.0, released on November 11, 2011,[21] 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
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- 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
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- 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.
RC1
RC1 is the first release candidate for Java Edition 1.0.0 which was released on November 13, 2011,[22] which adds durability to bows, sounds to some mobs, the player, tools and armor, adds some new splashes, and fixes some bugs. This is the first ever release candidate released in 2011.
Additions
General
- Added new splashes:
- "Made by Jeb!"
- "Has an ending!"
- "Finally complete!"
- "Feature packed!"
- "Boots with the fur!"
- "Stop, hammertime!"
- "Testificates!"
- "Conventional!"
- "Homeomorphic to a 3-sphere!"
- "Doesn't avoid double negatives!"
- "Place ALL the blocks!"
- "Does barrel rolls!"
- "Meeting expectations!"
- "PC gaming since 1873!"
- "Ghoughpteighbteau tchoghs!"
- "Déjà vu!"
- This splash is intentionally duplicated.
- "Got your nose!"
- "Haley loves Elan!"
- "Afraid of the big, black bat!"
- "Doesn't use the U-word!"
- "Child's play!"
- "See you next Friday or so!"
- "From the streets of Södermalm!"
- "150 bpm for 400000 minutes!"
- "Technologic!"
- "Funk soul brother!"
- "Pumpa kungen!"
Changes
Blocks
- Changed single redstone wire model from a cross to a dot shape.
Items
- Now have a durability bar, with 385 uses.
Non-mob entities
Thrown eggs
- Can now hatch baby chickens.
General
- The "Quit Game" button now appears regardless of how the game is launched.
- Changed some splashes:
- "OpenGL 1.1!" to "OpenGL 1.2!".
- "Coming soon!" to "It's here!".
- "When it's finished!" to "It's finished!".
- "That's not a moon!" to "That's no moon!".
- "Absolutely dragon free!" to "Kind of dragon free!".
- "Superfragilisticexpialidocious!" to "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!".
- "Tyrian would love it!" to "Tyrion would love it!".
- ""Noun" is an autonym!" to ""Autological" is!".
Sound Update
Alongside the release of this version, the asset server was updated with the following new sounds:
- The chest opening and closing now has its own sound, different from the door sound.
- Experience orbs now make a twinkling sound when collected.
- The entity damage sound has been changed to a genderless bone-cracking sound.
- Players and all mobs make the same bone-cracking sound when taking fall damage.
- Eating and drinking now have sounds.
- Blazes have been given an ambient breathing noise.
- Endermen now have their own sounds instead of using zombie sounds.
- When they teleport, it sounds like a shortened version of the Nether portal sound.
- Magma cubes now make sounds.
- Silverfish now make sounds.
- Arrow landing was changed to a more twangy sound.[note 2]
- Tools and armor now make a breaking sound, and have a breaking animation.
The following sounds were replaced with new versions on the asset server; thus, the updated sounds also applied to older versions of the game.
- The arrow firing and thrown item (snowball, egg, fishing rod and eye of ender) sound was changed.
- Wooden and iron doors, trapdoors and fence gates' opening and closing sounds were changed.
- Explosions now have several new, slightly differing sounds instead of just one.
Fixes
7 bugs fixed
- Fixed wooden door bug from Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6 (sound effect).
- The "Particles" option no longer overlaps the warning when playing on far render distance with a 32-bit Java installation.
- Fixed the bug that caused the player's experience level to revert to 0 again after The End credits are finished from Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6.
- The full names of Scaevolus and Hippoplatimus are now used in the ending credits.
- The player can now chat while entering a portal in multiplayer.
- Obsidian's mining time was increased to 8 seconds from ~3 seconds in 1.9 Prerelease 6.
RC2
RC2 is the second and final release candidate for Java Edition 1.0.0, released on November 13, 2011,[23] which changes the lighting of blocks in the inventory and fixes a bug. This is the final release candidate released in 2011.
RC2 was reuploaded twice. The first reupload fixed a bug that broke multiplayer,[24] while the second corrected the version number from "RC1" to "RC2".[25]
Changes
- The lighting of blocks in inventory screens has been adjusted.
Fixes
1 bug fixed
- Fixed a bug that caused all tools to break quickly after loading a world that was saved in RC1.
From the current version, hotfixed
- Fixed multiplayer.
Trivia
- This was the last release candidate for a version until 1.16 Release Candidate 1 in June 2020, a period of 8 years, 7 months and 5 days (3140 days).
- After RC2, there was no second release candidate until 1.16.2 Release Candidate 2.
Notes and references
- ↑ Discovered while downgrading a world with baby wolves from snapshot Java Edition 12w03a to this version.
- ↑ The sound was renamed, meaning older versions of the game still play the old version, unlike the firing sound.
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn88RfkpGLM
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD37Xajig1s
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWvPtVnGwcY
- ↑ "Minecraft Beta 1.9 prerelease can be found here, http://assets.minecraft.net/1_9-pre/minecraft.jar (server jar also available)" – @jeb_ (Jens Bergensten) on X (formerly Twitter), September 22, 2011
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z03Cqn8MoDE
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EE75zglpD4A
- ↑ "So @notch did the last commit for the 1.9 prerelease 2, get it here: http://assets.minecraft.net/1_9-pre2/minecraft.jar" – @jeb_ (Jens Bergensten) on X (formerly Twitter), September 29, 2011
- ↑ https://twitter.com/jeb_/status/119377281796935680
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7DhPA04QFo
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avCWSgsTBZw
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nip_XAXHAqA
- ↑ "New attempt! Me and @notch have now added prerelease 3 of Beta 1.9 at http://assets.minecraft.net/1_9-pre3/minecraft.jar" – @jeb_ (Jens Bergensten) on X (formerly Twitter), October 6, 2011 (14:58 UTC)
- ↑ "Third time's the charm! Minecraft Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3: http://assets.minecraft.net/1_9-pre3/minecraft.jar" – @jeb_ (Jens Bergensten) on X (formerly Twitter), October 6, 2011 (15:08 UTC)
- ↑ "@Lladar @notch Ok thanks, fixed it" – @jeb_ (Jens Bergensten) on X (formerly Twitter), October 3, 2011
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ryAa_v3-4A
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwhMSECMBB8
- ↑ "Beta 1.9 pre-4! assets.minecraft.net/1_9-pre4/minecraft.jar (and minecraft_server). PS. @notch's dragon is not available yet!" – @jeb_ (Jens Bergensten) on X (formerly Twitter), October 13, 2011
- ↑ "Ah gahd why do I always forget something? I forgot to change the version number.... The real version will be up shortly" – @jeb_ (Jens Bergensten) on X (formerly Twitter), October 13, 2011
- ↑ "Pre-release 4 with correct version number: http://assets.minecraft.net/1_9-pre4/minecraft.jar (same URL as before)" – @jeb_ (Jens Bergensten) on X (formerly Twitter), October 13, 2011
- ↑ "So here is Beta 1.9 pre-release 5: http://assets.minecraft.net/1_9-pre5/minecraft.jar (server is minecraft_server.jar)" – @jeb_ (Jens Bergensten) on X (formerly Twitter), October 27, 2011
- ↑ "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
- ↑ "Release candidate 1! Doors can be opened! New sfx! http://assets.minecraft.net/rc1/minecraft.jar ( + minecraft_server.jar)" – @jeb_ (Jens Bergensten) on X (formerly Twitter), November 13, 2011
- ↑ "So yeah, let's do a release candidate 2" – @jeb_ (Jens Bergensten) on X (formerly Twitter), November 13, 2011
- ↑ "Ok RC2, now with multiplayer! http://assets.minecraft.net/rc2/minecraft.jar (+ minecraft_server.jar)" – @jeb_ (Jens Bergensten) on X (formerly Twitter), November 13, 2011
- ↑ "Uploaded new RC2 that says "RC2" \o/" – @jeb_ (Jens Bergensten) on X (formerly Twitter), November 13, 2011
