Java Edition Beta 1.9 Prerelease

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Beta 1.9 Prerelease is the first pre-release for Java Edition 1.0.0, released on September 22, 2011,^[1] which adds Nether fortresses, 6 new blocks including Nether bricks and some variants, 5 new mobs including villagers and blazes, 4 new items including ghast tears, the mushroom island biome, and makes some minor changes.

While initially a pre-release for Beta 1.9, Mojang instead opted to delay the release of this update until MINECON 2011 and release it under the name "Minecraft 1.0.0". This decision was made after a few development versions labelled as Beta 1.9 were already released, so the Beta 1.9 name was kept for all of the development versions in the gap between Beta 1.8.1 and Minecraft 1.0.0, excluding the release candidates (RC1 and RC2).

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Nether brick

• Generates in Nether fortresses.

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Nether brick stairs

• Crafted with Nether brick.

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Nether brick fence

• Crafted with Nether brick.

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Mycelium

• Generates in mushroom islands.
• Unobtainable without inventory editors.

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Lily pads

• Appear grayscale in the inventory and have no in-game name.
• Are non-solid.
• Generate in swamplands.
• Can only be placed on water.

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Blaze rod

• Drops from blazes.
• Has no function.

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Ghast tear

• Drops from ghasts.
• Has no function.

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Gold nugget

• Drops from zombie pigmen.
• Crafted from a gold ingot.

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Nether wart

• Is found in Nether fortresses.
• Can only be placed on soul sand.
• Has no function.

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Blaze

• Is a hostile mob.
• May spawn naturally in Nether fortresses in groups of 2 or 3.
• May also spawn from monster spawners in Nether fortress.
• A blaze attacks by floating upward and shooting fireballs at its target in volleys of three at a time.
• It can also attack its target in melee range with its spinning rods.
• Immune to fire damage.
• Weak to water and snowballs.

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Magma cube

• Is a hostile mob found in the Nether.
• Behaves similarly to a slime, but is fireproof, jumps higher and less often, and deals more damage.

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Mooshroom

• Spawns in mushroom islands.
• Can be milked using buckets to get milk.
• Can be milked using bowls to get mushroom stew.
• Shearing a mooshroom drops 5 red mushrooms and turns the mooshroom into a cow, emitting a smaller version of the explosion particle.
  • The mushrooms do not grow back.

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Snow golem

• Is a buildable passive mob; created by placing two snow blocks and a pumpkin on top.
• Throws snowballs at monsters, which provokes them into attacking it.
• It produces a trail of snow.

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Villagers

• Spawn in villages.
• Have 5 main professions (numbered 0, 1, 2, 3, 4); other profession numbers appear as a green-robed unnamed villager.
• Have the word "TESTIFICATE" displayed over their heads.
• Share the same AI as pigs; however, they do not flee when attacked.

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Frozen ocean

• Generates rarely across the edges of ice plains.
• Identical to the ocean biome but with snowfall, ice, lower temperature and slightly greater height variation.

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Frozen river

• Generates where rivers form in ice plains.
• Identical to the river biome but with snowfall, ice and lower temperature.

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Ice plains

• Generates in large blobs that are 4x larger than a normal biome.
• Contains sparse oak trees where grass generates underneath.

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Ice mountains

• An unused variant of ice plains that is completely inaccessible without modding.
• Has the same terrain as extreme hills.

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Mushroom island

• Generates in 1 in 100 spaces in oceans.
• Has a surface of mycelium blocks with huge mushrooms scattered across.
• No hostile mobs spawn in it.
• While mostly generating in the middle of oceans, mushroom islands can also rarely generate connected to other land and even be fully landlocked.

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Mushroom island shore

• A variant of the mushroom island biome that generates where oceans and mushroom islands meet.
• No hostile mobs spawn in them.
• Has the same base height as oceans but has a much flatter sea bed.

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Nether fortress

• Is a large structure found in the Nether, consisting of bridges, corridors, and towers.
• Two blaze monster spawners generate in every Nether fortress, and are located on small platforms surrounded by nether brick fences with a three-block staircase leading up to it.

Particles

• Added dripWater and dripLava.

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Monster spawner

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Lava

• When flowing lava hits a water source directly from above, it creates stone.
  • Previously, lava would flow through the water.
• If lava is above a ceiling that is a single block thick, particles of lava will drip through, provided the player is within 13 blocks of the ceiling.

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Roses

• Generate naturally once again.

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Water

• If water is above a ceiling that is a single block thick, particles of the water will drip through, provided the player is within 13 blocks of the ceiling.

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• Armor level no longer decreases as the durability goes lower.
• Armor durability increased.
• Armor no longer reduces some types of damage:
  • Explosion
  • Fire
  • Projectiles

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Gold ingot

• Crafted with gold nuggets.

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Pumpkin seeds

• 2 to 4 pumpkin seeds now have a ¹⁰⁄₇₅ chance of generating in mineshaft chests.

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Enderman

• Now, arrows, snowballs, eggs, and other ranged attacks do not hit them because they teleport away before impact.
• Enderman now teleport away and become neutral if they are in water.
• Amount of blocks able to be carried by endermen is now limited (see here for the list of blocks).
• Endermen no longer have any sounds.

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Ghast

• Ghasts are now affected by light and no longer appear with the same brightness anywhere.
• Now drop 0-1 ghast tears.

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Skeleton

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Arrows

• No longer visually stay stuck in mobs upon impact.

General

• Landmasses now generate at half scale, resulting in smaller continents and less distance between them.

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Ocean

• Slightly reduced height variation from 0.5 to 0.4.

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Swamp

• Grass, leaves, and water blocks are now tinted darker.

Jumping

• When the player jumps, their experience increases by a number between 1 and 100 experience.
• Continuous jumping by holding down the jump key is no longer possible.

Performance

• Performance improvements.

Level format

• [Long] SizeOnDisk in level.dat is no longer updated. It is still initialized to 0 for new worlds.
  • This causes the Select World screen to always display a size of 0.00 MB for worlds created in this version and never update for worlds migrated from previous versions.