Java Edition Beta 1.8

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Beta 1.8, the first release of the Adventure Update, is a version of Java Edition Beta released on September 14, 2011,^[1] which introduces features that focus mainly on fighting, exploration, and adventuring, as well as other aspects, and fixes bugs and crashes.

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Stone bricks

• Occur naturally in strongholds.
• Crafted using stone.

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Cracked stone bricks

• Occur naturally in strongholds.

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Mossy stone bricks

• Occur naturally in strongholds.

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Infested blocks

• Spawn silverfish when broken.
• Drops nothing when broken.
• They lack an in-game name.

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Bricks slab

• Crafted using bricks.

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Stone bricks slab

• Occur naturally in strongholds.
• Crafted using stone bricks.

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Brick stairs

• Drop brick blocks.
• Crafted using bricks.

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Stone brick stairs

• Occur naturally in strongholds.
• Drop stone bricks.
• Crafted using stone bricks.

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Glass pane

• Crafted using glass.

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Iron bars

• Appear only in strongholds and blacksmith houses.
• Crafted using iron ingots.

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Fence gate

• Open when used.
• Connect to fences.
• Crafted using stick and planks.

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Vines

• Can grow to nearby blocks.
• Spread infinitely down, but do not spread if there are more than four other vine blocks nearby.
• Are naturally generated in swamps.

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Mushroom blocks

• Drop their corresponding mushroom.
• Generate when the player uses bone meal on a mushroom.

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Pumpkin stems

• Are plants grown on farmland that, over time, grow pumpkin on dirt, mud and moss blocks adjacent to them.

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Melon stems

• Are plants grown on farmland that, over time, grow melon on dirt, mud and moss blocks adjacent to them.

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Melon block

• Cannot be obtained.

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Raw chicken

• New food item.
• Dropped by chickens.
• Restores 2 (👁 🍗
  ) hunger.
• Can give the player hunger effect.

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Cooked chicken

• New food item.
• Restores 6 (👁 🍗
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Raw beef

• New food item.
• Dropped by cows.
• Restores 3 (👁 🍖
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  ) hunger.

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Steak

• New food item.
• Restores 8 (👁 🍗
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Ender pearl

• Dropped by endermen.
• Has no function.

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Melon seeds

• Can be planted in farmland to grow melons.
• Can be found in the new Mineshaft chests.
• Crafted from melons.

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Melon

• New food item.
• Drops from melon blocks.
• Restores 2 (👁 🍗
  ) hunger.

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Pumpkin seeds

• Cannot be obtained.
• Can be planted in farmland to grow pumpkins.

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Rotten flesh

• New food item.
• Dropped by zombies and zombie pigmen.
• Restores 4 (👁 🍗
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  ) hunger.
• Can give the player the hunger effect.

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Cave spider

• New variant of the spider.
• Inflicts Poison on the player.
• Has 12HP👁 ❤️
  × 6.
• Spawns from spawners in mineshafts.

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Enderman

• It becomes hostile to players that damage it or look directly at its face, using its arms to attack.
• Has the ability to teleport.
• Is able to carry every block except bedrock, double slabs, and spawners.
• Makes zombie sounds.
• Emits portal particles.
• Has 10HP👁 ❤️
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Silverfish

• Appears when the player breaks infested blocks.
• Has 8HP👁 ❤️
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• Makes spider sounds.

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Experience orb

• Adds to the player's total experience when collected.
• Entity ID is XPOrb.
• Plays low-pitched item pickup sound upon collecting.
• Dropped by monsters and animals when they are killed.

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Ravine

• Are deep and long cracks breaching the underground layers of the Overworld.

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Huge mushroom

• Does not generate naturally.
• Can be artificially created by applying bone meal to a brown or red mushroom.
• Can only be made if a mushroom is planted on grass or dirt.

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Extreme hills

• New biome.

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Ocean

• New biome.
• Oceans existed in previous versions, however, now they exist as an actual biome, spanning thousands of blocks.

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River

• New biome.
• Flows through/in between biomes.

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Mineshaft

• Are underground structures found in the Overworld.
• They consist of interlinked 3×3 tunnels with incomplete rail lines running through them, with planks platforms bridging gaps.
• Mineshafts are the only structures where cave spider monster spawners can be found.
• Have normal Chests instead of Minecart Chests.

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Stronghold

• Is an underground structure in the Overworld.
• Only 3 generate per world.

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Village

• Is a group or complex of buildings and other above ground structures that generate naturally in the Overworld.

Achievements

• Added Sniper Duel: "Kill a skeleton with an arrow at 50 meters".

Controls Debug keys

• and move time forwards and backwards, respectively.
• disables gravity for the player, it can be canceled by pressing it again.
• and increase and decrease the player's FOV, respectively
• and make the player's camera turn right and left, respectively
• and make the player's camera turn up or down, respectively
• and rotate the player's camera 180° around the Z-axis, respectively.

Sprinting

• Activated by double-tapping .

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Hunger

• Is a feature exclusive to the player, which is required for natural health regeneration and sprinting.
• Decreases when the player does certain actions, like when being hurt, jumping and mining.
• Food no longer heals directly, but indirectly: if the food meter is above 90%, heals 👁 💔
  every 4 seconds.
• If the food meter is at 0%, the player starves and loses 👁 💔
  hearts every 4 seconds.
• It can be restored by eating food.

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Experience

• Currently has no use.

Critical hits

• Do more damage depending how close the player was to the ground while falling.

Creative gamemode

• Infinite access to almost every item.
• No health, except when falling into the void.
• Food is not edible.
• Flying by double tapping .
• Increased reach.

Effects

• Added obtainable status effects:
  • Regeneration, which increases health slowly.
    • Obtained after eating a golden apple.
  • Hunger, which decreases the hunger bar.
    • Obtained after eating rotten flesh or raw chicken.
  • Poison, which hurts the player.
    • Obtained when being hurt by a cave spider.
• Added unobtainable status effects:
  • Speed, Slowness, Haste, Mining Fatigue, Instant Health, Instant Damage, Water Breathing, Nausea, Strength, Weakness, Jump Boost, Resistance, Fire Resistance, Invisibility, Blindness, and Night Vision.

Fog

• Now changes color during sunrise and sunset when looking toward the sun.

Void fog

• Increases darkness at extreme depths.
• Decreases field of vision.

/gamemode

• Changes the gamemode.

Main menu

• Revamped the main menu by adding an animated menu panorama.^[2]

Options

• The player can now set their field of view in the options via the FOV slider. It can be set from 70 (default) to 110 (Quake Pro).
• "Attack", "Use Item", and "List Players" can now be remapped.
• "Pick Block" can now be remapped.
• "Toggle Fog" can be remapped once again.
• Added the brightness option.

Particles

• Performing a critical hit on any mob causes 'sparks' to fly.
• Explosion particles are now shockwaves instead of smoke.
• Tiny stationary bubble particles can be seen when underwater.
• Fog is now thicker and darker deep underground, and gives off particles. Due to this, the void appears black.

Server list

• The ability to save and view multiple servers has now been added.

Splash

• Added the following splash text:
  • Jeb has amazing hair!
  • Casual gaming!
  • Undefeated!
  • Kinda like Lemmings!
  • Follow the train, CJ!
  • Leveraging synergy!
  • This message will never appear on the splash screen, isn't that weird?
  • DungeonQuest is unfair!
  • 110813!
  • 90210!
  • Check out the far lands!
  • Tyrian would love it!
  • Also try VVVVVV!
  • Also try Super Meat Boy!
  • Also try Terraria!
  • Also try Mount And Blade!
  • Also try Project Zomboid!
  • Also try World of Goo!
  • Also try Limbo!
  • Also try Pixeljunk Shooter!
  • Also try Braid!
  • That's super!
  • Bread is pain!
  • Read more books!
  • Khaaaaaaaaan!
  • Less addictive than TV Tropes!
  • More addictive than lemonade!
  • Bigger than a bread box!
  • Millions of peaches!
  • Fnord!
  • This is my true form!
  • Totally forgot about Dre!
  • Don't bother with the clones!
  • Pumpkinhead!
  • Hobo humping slobo babe!

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Cake

• Now a slice of cake restore 3 (👁 🍖
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Ferns

• Ferns no longer generate naturally.

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Chests

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• Added an opening and closing animation 👁 Image
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• The chest's texture is no longer in the terrain.png file. Instead, it is in the folder "item" under "chest.png" and "chestlarge.png", with the former being a chest on its own and the latter being the large chest.
• Are now tile entities, which means they no longer show the breaking animation and are also now slightly smaller than they were before.
• Now change the direction they face based on the viewpoint of the player.
• Can now be found in mineshafts and strongholds.
• Use door sounds when opening and closing.

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Cobblestone Slab

• Renamed from "Stone Slab".

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Lava

• Texture changed from 👁 Image
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• When lava is touched by rain, it emits smoke particles.

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Leaves

• Player-placed leaves no longer decay.

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Moss stone

• Texture changed from 👁 Image
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Obsidian

• Can now be mined by an iron pickaxe or moved by an enderman.

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Stone pressure plate

• Can now be placed on fences.

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Torch

• Their model is no longer always rendered in full brightness.

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Water

• Changed texture from 👁 Image
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Wooden pressure plate

• Can now be placed on fences.

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Apples

• Now restore 4 (👁 🍗
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  ), instead of 4HP👁 ❤️
  👁 ❤️
  .
• Can now be stacked up to 64.
• Now takes 1.6 seconds to consume, accompanied with an animation.

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Bow

• Behavior has been overhauled; they now need to be charged in order to fire.
  • Arrows from bows now damage in accordance with the charging time.
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Bread

• Now restore 5 (👁 🍖
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  ), instead of 5HP👁 ❤️
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  .
• Can now be stacked up to 64.
• Now takes 1.6 seconds to consume, accompanied with an animation.

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Cooked fish

• Now restore 5 (👁 🍖
  👁 🍗
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  ), instead of 5HP👁 ❤️
  👁 ❤️
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  .
• Can now be stacked up to 64.
• Now takes 1.6 seconds to consume, accompanied with an animation.

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Cooked porkchop

• Changed the texture from 👁 Image
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• Now restore 8 (👁 🍗
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  ), instead of 8HP👁 ❤️
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  .
• Can now be stacked up to 64.
• Now takes 1.6 seconds to consume, accompanied with an animation.

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Cookie

• Now restore 1 (👁 🍖
  ), instead of 1HP👁 💔
  .
• Can now be stacked up to 64.
• Now takes 1.6 seconds to consume, accompanied with an animation.

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Golden apples

• Now restore 10 (👁 🍗
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  ), instead of 20HP👁 ❤️
  × 10 health points.
• Also give Regeneration for 30 seconds.
• Can now be stacked up to 64.
• Now takes 1.6 seconds to consume, accompanied with an animation.

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Mushroom stew

• Now restore 8 (👁 🍗
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  ), instead of 10HP👁 ❤️
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  .
• Now takes 1.6 seconds to consume, accompanied with an animation.

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Raw fish

• Now restore 2 (👁 🍗
  ), instead of 2HP👁 ❤️
  .
• Can now be stacked up to 64.
• Now takes 1.6 seconds to consume, accompanied with an animation.

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Raw porkchop

• Now restore 3 (👁 🍖
  👁 🍗
  ), instead of 3HP👁 ❤️
  👁 💔
  .
• Can now be stacked up to 64.
• Now takes 1.6 seconds to consume, accompanied with an animation.

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Shears

• Can now collect fern, grass and vines.

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Swords

• Added blocking.
  • Negates 50% of the incoming damage.

Passive mobs

• No longer despawn.
• Randomly flee if attacked by the player or other mobs.

Hostile mobs

• Perform attack animations.

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Mob

• Removed the mob as an entity, however, their AI is still in the code.

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Monster

• Removed the monster as an entity, however, their AI is still in the code.

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Pigs

• Their snouts now extrude from their model, rather than being flat.

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Skeletons

• The bows of skeletons are now larger and held realistically (full-sized bows, two-handed, but don't yet show the arrow pulling back).
• Skeletons now fire arrows slower, but further.
• Skeletons no longer bounce around the player, making them much easier to hit.

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Zombies

• Now drop rotten flesh instead of feathers.

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Arrows

• Arrows which hit a mob visually "stick" into the mob rather than just disappear.

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Players

• Unarmed damage was decreased from 2HP👁 ❤️
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  .
• The player can now jump four blocks horizontally by sprinting.

General

• Biomes are now much bigger and more flat.
• Hills and mountains tend not to generate as much and now mostly only generate within the new extreme hills biome.
• Biomes are no longer aligned based on temperature and humidity. Instead, their distribution is purely random.
• The sea level has been decreased by one block (64 to 63).
• Biomes in worlds before Beta 1.8 were not saved. Therefore, every biome is regenerated within existing chunks upon entering an old world.

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Desert

• Larger than before.

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Forest

• Wolves now spawn more often.
• Fancy oak trees generate less frequently.

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Plains

• Larger than before.

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Swamp

• Features vibrant green vegetation.
• Added swamp oak trees which are similar to regular oak trees but are slightly bigger and have vines hanging from their leaves. They can also generate in shallow water pools.
• Has the flattest terrain out of any biome.

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Taiga

• No longer generate with snow or ice.

Clouds

• Height raised to the top of the map.
• Can no longer phase through blocks.
• Movement now syncs with the game's time.

Controls

• Fog key mapped to .
• + clicking while crafting makes as much as possible and moves it straight to player's inventory.
• Holding the left mouse button with a weapon now only swings once.
• Holding the right mouse button to place blocks is slightly slower than before.
• Player list in multiplayer, defaults to .

Daylight cycle

• No longer require chunk updates and is a smooth transition.
• A few tweaks to sunrise and sunset:
  • Clouds change color during sunrise and sunset to match the sky color.
  • Horizon, specifically haze changes color more vividly during sunset and sunrise.

HUD

• Armor bar moved to above hearts, due to hunger bar.
• The version tag appears outside of the debug screen again.

Void

• Entities are now lit in the void.
• Color of the void now changes from blue to black while descending.

Spawn

• The player's spawn point is now bound to a specific biome rather than to any sand block. The player can spawn in forest, swamp and taiga biomes.

Weather

• Rain and snow now render faster.

Light

• Implemented a new lighting engine. The lighting on a block is given a tint based on the most prominent source of light.
• Artificial light now gives a very subtle "flicker".

Splash

• Removed duplicate "Check it out!"

Debug screen

• The ability to see the level's seed has now been added to the debug screen.
• Entity numbers being shown above a mob's head have now been removed from the debug screen.

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Far Lands

• The Far Lands was moved to X/Z ±53,905,378,846,979,747, way beyond the world limit of X/Z ±32,000,000 (Note: 32,000,000 is where the player gets kicked out of the world).

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Seasonal forest

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Rainforest

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Shrubland

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Savanna

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Tundra

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Ice desert

• This biome did not generate in previous versions, so its removal was not noticeable.

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Sand and gravel beach

Controls

• Removed the ability to change the fog level by pressing .

Distance effects

• The famous high-distance world rendering offset bug has been fixed (except for moving pistons).
• Redstone repeater top faces are no longer weirdly broken.
• Rails, powered rails and detector rails are no longer stretched.
• Ladders are no longer offset nor stretched.
• Upwards travelling redstone wire no longer appears offset from the block it's on.
• The side faces of flowing water and lava are no longer broken.

World boundary

• Has now been reduced from 32,000,000 to 30,000,000.

Options

• "Toggle Fog" can no longer be remapped.

• The 'Sniper Duel' achievement does not work.
• Inventory block lighting is rendered incorrectly.

9 bugs fixed

• The + click crash bug from Beta 1.8 Pre-release 2 is fixed.
• Fixed redstone circuits not working after /time set x glitch is now fixed in multiplayer.
• Destroying boats and minecarts now creates particles.
• Ghast attack sounds have been fixed in multiplayer.
• The Far Lands have been moved beyond X/Z ±32,000,000, where attempting to modify NBT data to go there automatically kicks you out of the world.
• Fixed stairs, cactus, farmland, pressure plate, fence, cake, snow layer, button, and trapdoor items being too big.
• Fixed the "smart farms" glitch where the hitbox of a fence would extend past the hitbox of tilled soil and prevent it from reverting to dirt when walked on.
• Fixed several crash bugs relating to pistons.
• Increased the z-buffer from 8-bit to 24-bit, fixing graphical issues with AMD graphics cards.

• The world rendering no longer loses precision at high coordinates.
• Vertically traveling redstone dust no longer "snaps" to the side planes of blocks at high coordinates.
• Ladders, rails, and the side textures of vertically flowing water and lava no longer becomes stretched at high coordinates.

The official trailer for Beta 1.8 was made by Hat Films. The footage shown is from an earlier, non-public preview build given to Hat Films for advertising purposes, and thus has a few differences from public versions. Made before the final release of Java Edition (and well before 1.8 existed), the trailer omits "Beta" from the version title.

• 👁 A swamp biome. Note the saturated grass color.
  
  A swamp biome. Note the saturated grass color.
• 👁 A ravine, with a lava lake in the background.
  
  A ravine, with a lava lake in the background.
• 👁 A small village. It's empty, since villagers are yet to be added.
  
  A small village. It's empty, since villagers are yet to be added.
• 👁 A mountain. In the new terrain generator, such mountains became confined to extreme hills biomes.
  
  A mountain. In the new terrain generator, such mountains became confined to extreme hills biomes.

• 👁 A sunset in Beta 1.7.3 and Beta 1.8. The light level changes became smooth in Beta 1.8.
  
  A sunset in Beta 1.7.3 and Beta 1.8. The light level changes became smooth in Beta 1.8.
• 👁 Torch lighting in Beta 1.7.3 and Beta 1.8, showcasing the new lighting.
  
  Torch lighting in Beta 1.7.3 and Beta 1.8, showcasing the new lighting.
• 👁 Oversized dropped items in Beta 1.7.3 and Beta 1.8, with a stone block for reference.
  
  Oversized dropped items in Beta 1.7.3 and Beta 1.8, with a stone block for reference.
• 👁 Inventory block lighting in Beta 1.7.3, Beta 1.8 and Release 1.0.0, highlighting the lighting bug in Beta 1.8.
  
  Inventory block lighting in Beta 1.7.3, Beta 1.8 and Release 1.0.0, highlighting the lighting bug in Beta 1.8.
• 👁 Sea levels in Beta 1.7.3 terrain (left) and Beta 1.8 terrain (right). The sea level in Beta 1.8 is a block lower.
  
  Sea levels in Beta 1.7.3 terrain (left) and Beta 1.8 terrain (right). The sea level in Beta 1.8 is a block lower.