Java Edition Beta 1.5

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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.

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Birch sapling

• Grows into birch trees.
• Can be used as fuel in furnaces, smelting 0.5 items per sapling.

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Cobweb

• Unobtainable in the game without inventory editing.
• Slows down the player and mobs.
• Cobwebs drop string when broken using a sword.

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Detector rail

• Used to detect minecarts on top of it.
• When activated, it produces redstone power.
• Crafted with stone pressure plate, iron ingots and redstone dust.

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Powered rail

• Needs to be powered by redstone.
• Transmits redstone signal to 8 powered rails far.
• Increases the speed of minecarts.
• Crafted with stick, gold ingots and redstone dust.

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Spruce sapling

• Grows into spruce trees.
• Can be used as fuel in furnaces, smelting 0.5 items per sapling.

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Charged creepers

• When struck by a lightning bolt, creepers now become charged.
• Have a much more powerful explosion.

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Lightning bolt

• May strike during thunderstorms, creating fire and dealing damage around it.

Achievements

• There are currently 16 achievements.

Weather

• Added natural occurring rain, snowfalls, and thunderstorms.

Options

• 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).

Particles

• Added footstep.

Statistics

• Added on the game menu.

Bed

• Sleeping in thunderstorms is now possible, even in daytime.

Birch leaves

• Now drop birch saplings.

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Crying obsidian

• Texture has now been removed from terrain.png.

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Grass blocks

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  • Old grass block can still be enabled if the graphics are set to "Fast".

Ladders

• Its crafting recipe now produces 2 ladders to offset the fix of the staggered-ladder exploit.

Sapling

• Can now be used as fuel in furnaces, smelting 0.5 items per sapling.

Spruce leaves

• Now drop spruce saplings.

Redstone dust

• Can now be placed on snow.
• 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.
• Fully off redstone wire is no longer black.
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General

• Dropped items in flowing water move faster than before.

Pigs

• When killed by burning, now drop cooked porkchops upon death.
• When struck by a lighting bolt, they now become zombie pigmen.

Wolves

• Now more common, even in non-taiga/forest biomes.

Players

• Unarmed damage was increased from 1HP👁 💔
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Controls

• Pressing switches between input boxes.
• + no longer creates a 36450×17700 pixel screenshot.
• + clicking on something in a chest immediately moves the selected item(s) into the player's inventory and vice-versa.

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Sky

• Stars are now slightly dimmer.

Performance

• Huge performance improvements for old and slow computers.

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.

• At 13:29 UTC (8 minutes before the compilation of the client.jar file for this version) there were reports on IRC about a new update,^[2][3] but it has not been confirmed whether that version was a reupload of the previous version or a pre-reupload of this version.

• 👁 The achievement UI with the first achievement completed.
  
  The achievement UI with the first achievement completed.
• 👁 Screenshot of the new weather.
  
  Screenshot of the new weather.
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  Ditto.
• 👁 The Minecraft webpage with this version
  
  The Minecraft webpage with this version