Java Edition Alpha v1.0.4

Minecraft Alpha v1.0.4
Alpha v1.0.4.png: Infobox image for Minecraft Alpha v1.0.4 the version in Minecraft
Edition

Java Edition

Official name

Seecret Friday 4

Release date

July 9, 2010

Compilation date

August 6, 2013 (launcher)

Downloads

Original: Client (.json)
Launcher: Client (.json)

Minimum Java version

Java SE 5


Alpha v1.0.4, also known as Seecret Friday 4, is the fourth seecret update of Java Edition Alpha, released on July 9, 2010[1], which added winter mode, snowfall, and two new blocks. This is the oldest Alpha version to be available in the launcher.

Additions

Blocks

Ice

  • Is slippery.
  • Generates when water is exposed to the sky on world generation.

Snow

  • Spawns on top of most blocks when exposed to snowfall.
  • Cannot be obtained yet.

Gameplay

Body positions

World generation

Winter maps

  • Added a new map type, featuring:
    • Snowfall.
    • Blocks exposed to sky generate with a thin layer of snow and those exposed to snowfall slowly get covered by it.
    • Water exposed to snowfall generates as ice.
      • However, water found on gravel beaches is not entirely frozen upon generation.
    • Upon world creation there is a 25% chance for it to become a winter world.[2]

General

Splash

  • Added new splashes:
    • "Livestreamed!"
    • "Haunted!"
    • "Polynomial!"
    • "Terrestrial!"
    • "All is full of love!"
    • "Full of stars!"
    • "Scientific!"
    • "Cooler than Spock!"
    • "Collaborate and listen!"
    • "Never dig down!"
    • "Take frequent breaks!"
    • "Not linear!"
    • "Han shot first!"
    • "Nice to meet you!"
    • "Buckets of lava!"
    • "Ride the pig!"
    • "Larger than Earth!"
    • "sqrt(-1) love you!"
    • "Phobos anomaly!"
    • "Punching wood!"
    • "Falling off cliffs!"
    • "0% sugar!"
    • "150% hyperbole!"
    • "Synecdoche!"
    • "Let's danec!"
    • "Seecret Friday update!"
    • "Reference implementation!"
    • "Rude with two dudes with food!"
    • "Kiss the sky!"
    • "20 GOTO 10!"
    • "Verlet intregration!"
    • "Peter Griffin!"
    • "Do not distribute!"
    • "Cogito ergo sum!"
    • "4815162342 lines of code!"
    • "A skeleton popped out!"
    • "The Work of Notch!"
    • "The sum of its parts!"
    • "BTAF used to be good!"
    • "I miss ADOM!"
    • "umop-apisdn!"
    • "OICU812!"
    • "Bring me Ray Cokes!"
    • "Finger-licking!"
    • "Thematic!"
    • "Pneumatic!"
    • "Sublime!"
    • "Octagonal!"
    • "Une baguette!"
    • "Gargamel plays it!"
    • "Rita is the new top dog!"
    • "SWM forever!"
    • "Representing Edsbyn!"

Changes

Non-mob entities

Minecarts

General

Loading screen added in this version.

Splash screen

  • Changed the loading screen to a "Mojang Specifications" logo screen.

Main menu

  • Added an animated title screen.
  • Logo is now made out of stone, rather than cobblestone, and has been changed from to .

Gameplay

Movement

  • The player's maximum jump length decreased from 3 to 2 blocks horizontally.

Performance

  • Improved performance

Fixes

3 bugs fixed

  • Fixed a bug in the mob spawn code.
  • The player no longer suffocates when they ride a minecart through a two block tall space.
  • Breaking minecarts no longer crashes the game.

Gallery

References

  1. "Seecret Friday 4! OooooOOOoo!" – The Word of Notch, July 9, 2010
  2. A winter world is defined by the boolean NBT "SnowCovered=1" in level.dat.

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