Java Edition Beta 1.5
"Beta 1.5" redirects here. For beta versions for Bedrock Edition 1.5.0, see Bedrock Edition 1.5.0/Development versions.
Minecraft Beta 1.5
| Edition | ||||||
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| Release date |
April 19, 2011 | |||||
| Downloads | ||||||
| Protocol version |
11 | |||||
| Minimum Java version | ||||||
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Other editions with a version "1.5":
There is a guide for this update!See Java Edition guides/Beta 1.5 releases for a guide to all of the new features introduced in Beta 1.5 releases.
Beta 1.5 is a version of Java Edition Beta released on April 19, 2011,[1] which added statistics and achievements, new types of rails and saplings, and cobwebs among other changes and fixes.
Additions
Blocks
- Grows into birch trees.
- Unobtainable in the game without inventory editing until Beta 1.8.
- Crafted with 1 stone pressure plate, 6 iron ingots and 1 redstone dust.
- Used to detect minecarts on top of it; when activated, it produces redstone power.
- Crafted with 1 stick, 6 gold ingots and 1 redstone dust.
- Needs to be powered by redstone.
- Transmits redstone signal to 8 powered rails far.
- Increases the speed of minecarts.
- Grows into spruce trees.
Mobs
- When struck by a lightning bolt, creepers now become charged, and have a much more powerful explosion.
Non-mob entities
- May strike during thunderstorms, creating fire and dealing damage around it.
Gameplay
- Are now transferred between worlds.
- Added natural occurring rain, snowfalls, and thunderstorms.
General
- ⇧ Shift + clicking on something in a chest immediately moves the selected item(s) into the player's inventory and vice-versa.
- Ability to change GUI size ("Small", "Normal", "Large", "Auto").
- Advanced OpenGL (occlusion culling: doesn't render blocks that the player can't "see", helps performance in cards that support it).
- Are now transferred between worlds.
Changes
Blocks
- Sleeping in thunderstorms is now possible, even in daytime.
Birch and spruce leaves
- Now drop birch saplings and spruce saplings, respectively.
- Texture has now been removed from terrain.png.
- When using fancy graphics, the sides now use the same color as the top (example of a grass block in Alpha v1.2.0:
).
- Old grass block can still be enabled if the graphics are set to "Fast".
- Its crafting recipe now produces 2 ladders to offset the fix of the staggered-ladder exploit.
- Fully off redstone wire is no longer black which used to look like
. - Several changes in redstone wire rendering.
- Due this change, it no longer appears stretched when traveling vertically up a block. However, it still appears offset.
Items
General
- Dropped items in flowing water move faster than before.
- Can now be placed on snow.
Mobs
- When killed by burning, now drop cooked porkchops upon death.
- When struck by a lighting bolt, they now become zombie pigmen.
General
- Pressing Tab ↹ switches between input boxes.
- ⇧ Shift + F2 no longer creates a 36450×17700 pixel screenshot.
Performance
- Huge performance improvements for old and slow computers.
Fixes
14 bugs fixed
- Players are only 'on' a ladder (can climb it/fall slowly) if the lower half is in the ladder block, rather than any part of the player.
- It is no longer possible to climb with a one-block gap in a ladder, or a ladder that starts at eye level.
- On fancy graphics, the sides of grass blocks are now biome-specific and match the shade on the top.
- Player movement through water has been fixed to previous speed.
- Wolves' pathfinding now has a better understanding of doors. They go through doors most of the time, but sometimes get stuck on the 3-pixel thickness of the door.
- The lighting on portals and ice has been fixed when using smooth lighting.
- Stairs are no longer transparent to light.
- On multiplayer, the health of wolves are now synchronized between server and client, causing wolves to only whimper when low on health, as opposed to all of the time.
- Redstone in off state is red again.
- Crops hit with water now drop seeds and wheat, as opposed to just wheat.
- Moving minecarts continue to move if the world is closed.
- The Mojang logo is the correct size when the client is maximized.
- The exploit to make chests three or more side by side by placing a water source and placing a chest in that source has been fixed.
- Sugar cane can now only be placed on dirt.
Gallery
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The achievement UI with the first achievement completed. -
Screenshot of the new weather.
Videos
References
- ↑ "Minecraft Beta 1.5, and some thoughts on this blog" – The Word of Notch, Tumblr, April 19, 2011.
