Java Edition Beta 1.3

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Beta 1.3 is a version of Java Edition Beta released on February 22, 2011,^[1] which added redstone repeaters, beds, three types of slabs, and a new splash screen, notably among other changes and fixes, the world save format was changed from Alpha level format to McRegion.

Beta 1.3 was uploaded at 17:13 UTC, this version contained debug code that spawns the player with 64 torches, a diamond pickaxe, a diamond shovel, a diamond axe, and 64 beds upon respawning or creating a world. Beta 1.3 was reuploaded at 17:33 UTC to remove the debug code that the player spawns with items, listed above in a new world.^[2] Beta 1.3 was then reuploaded again at 17:50 UTC^[3] to fix a crash bug when opening the world menu without a saves folder. This last version is listed in the launcher as Beta 1.3b (old_beta b1.3b).

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Beds

• Crafted from planks and wool.
  • Different colors of wool can be interchanged to make a bed.

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Redstone repeater

• Allows for redstone to be powered further.
• Crafted from stone, redstone torch and redstone dust.

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Stone slab

• Takes over the old recipe for the stone slab.
• Breaking a block made of two slabs now drops 2 slabs.
• Crafted from cobblestone.

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Wooden slab

• Breaking a block made of two slabs now drops 2 slabs.
• Crafted from planks.

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Sandstone slab

• Breaking a block made of two slabs now drops 2 slabs.
• Crafted from sandstone.

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Seamless stone slab

• Breaking a block made of two slabs now drops 2 slabs.
• Unobtainable.

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Crying obsidian

• Added a texture for crying obsidian to terrain.png.
  • Texture went unused and removed in Beta 1.5, but re-added in 20w10a via the Programmer Art resource pack.

New painting

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  • Code to make this painting display was added in Beta 1.2_01, but the texture itself was not added until this version, resulting in the use of the painting placeholder texture.

/whitelist

• Can turn on/off the whitelist.
• Can add/remove players from the whitelist.
• Can give a list of whitelisted players and reload that list.

/time

• Changes or queries the world's game time
• There types of time involved in this command:

time add <time>

Adds <time> to the in-game daytime.

time set (day|night|noon|midnight)

time set <time>

Sets the daylight cycle time.

Lighting

• Smooth lighting engine added with the help of MrMessiah.

Options

• New graphics setting screen.
  • Added "Smooth Lighting" option.

Splash screen

• New Mojang logo.

Redstone dust

• Gets darker the farther away it is from a source of power.
• Unpowered redstone is purely black now.
  • For these changes, they now use a dedicated tint system and new textures:
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Sandstone

• Now found at the bottom of naturally generated sand.
• Mine time for sandstone has been decreased.

Stone slabs

• Are now created by using 3 stone instead of cobblestone.

• Breaking a block made of two slabs now drops 2 slabs.

Stone pressure plate

• Now require two of its materials, instead of 3.

Wooden pressure plate

• Now require two of its materials, instead of 3.

Gunpowder

• Renamed from "Sulphur".

General

• Fewer passive mobs spawn when on harder difficulties.

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Cows

• Texture changed from 👁 Image
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Slimes

• Now spawn again.

Squid

• Can no longer be milked.
• Squid now have the ability to move in three dimensions (rather than only along the bottom of the body of water)

Create New World

• Players can now choose the name of the world before creation.
• Players can now choose the world seed before creation.
• More than 5 worlds can now be created at once.
• Delete world message now includes "(A long time!)" after "(world name) will be lost forever!".
  • Prior to this, it just says "'<world name>' will be lost forever!".

Third person mode

• View bobbing now applies while in third person, if enabled.

Controls

• and are now toggled when pressed.
• When is toggled on, mobs display their unique entity ID numbers over their heads.
• toggles mouse smoothing.

Options

• Scrollbars added in the world selection screen.
• Players can now change the names of existing worlds.
  • This doesn't change the world's save id.

McRegion

• Worlds now use a generic McRegion chunk save format, with a built-in auto conversion.

Texture packs

• Scrollbars added in the texture pack list.

10 bugs fixed

• When breaking double slabs (one slab placed on another) it now drops two slabs instead of one.
• Wood doesn't burn forever anymore.
• Grassland/sand related biome border fixed (boundaries line up, rather than obviously show chunk borders).
• No longer receiving Java Log error .txt file spam in the minecraft.exe folder when closing the Minecraft client program.
• Players can no longer use the click-release to quickly mine blocks (referred to as "click mining") in multiplayer.
• Players no longer glitch when standing on fences in multiplayer.
• Players can no longer milk squids.
• When right-clicking on a wooden door while holding a bow or fishing rod, arrows no longer are fired into the door, nor is the fishing hook cast into the door.
• Hostile mobs can now be attacked properly in multiplayer.
• Lapis lazuli ore now drops 4-8 lapis lazuli in multiplayer.

• 👁 A screenshot depicting the generation of new sandstone blocks.
  
  A screenshot depicting the generation of new sandstone blocks.
• 👁 A pre-reupload screenshot, with the debug items.
  
  A pre-reupload screenshot, with the debug items.
• 👁 The world selection screen in this version.
  
  The world selection screen in this version.