Java Edition Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6

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Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6 is the sixth and final pre-release for Java Edition 1.0.0, released on November 11, 2011,^[1] which adds dragon eggs, ender crystals, credits, new video settings, changes the mining time of some blocks, changes the ender dragon boss fight, and fixes some bugs. This is the final pre-release released in 2011.

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Dragon egg

• Is a gravity-affected block.
• Can be obtained only once per world by defeating the ender dragon.
• Can be picked up by placing a non-full block, such as a torch, under a block and breaking it.
• Teleports when you try to mine it or when right clicked.

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Ender crystal

• Sits atop of a block of bedrock.
• It is diamond shaped, with 2 cubes spinning on their axis with a point at the center.
• Fires a healing beam at the ender dragon when within range.
• Can be destroyed with a melee or hit with an arrow, causing an explosion.
• They appear on all obsidian pillars in the End.

Credit sequence

• Is the lines of text and music that play after the End Poem.

End Poem

• Is a freehand narrative poem written by novelist and poet Julian Gough that can be seen when the player enters the exit portal in the End dimension.

Minecraft.jar

• Added the following files to /title/:
  • credits.txt
  • earlyplayers.txt
  • win.txt

Video settings

• Added "Particles" setting, which has three possible states:
  • "All", rendering all particle effects.
  • "Decreased", rendering half of all particle effects.
  • "Minimal", rendering no particle effects (except for those created when breaking blocks).

General

• Several block's tool weaknesses have been fixed, such as crafting tables now mining faster with an axe and rails now mining faster with a pickaxe.

Beds

• Attempting to sleep in a bed while hostile mobs are nearby displays "You may not rest now, there are monsters nearby".

Brick stairs

• Now drops itself when mined.

Chests

• Are no longer prevented from opening from other chests on top.

Coal ore

• Can now be smelted in a furnace into coal.

Stone stairs

• Now drops itself when mined.

Shrub

• Is now called "Shrub".

Detector rail

• Is now mined faster using pickaxes.

Fern

• Is now called "Fern".
• Are now available in the Creative inventory.

Fire

• Fire above bedrock in the End now burns forever.

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Iron door

• Decreased mining time.

Iron bars

• Decreased mining time.

Monster spawner

• Decreased mining time.

Nether bricks

• Decreased mining time.

Nether brick stairs

• Now drops itself when mined.

Nether portal

• No longer affected by Smooth Lightning.

Lapis lazuli ore

• Can now be smelted in a furnace into lapis lazuli.

Lily pads

• Now have collision.
• Are no longer restricted to be placed in swamps.
• Can be placed by aiming at water.
• Are now available in the Creative inventory.

Obsidian

• Decreased mining time.

Powered rail

• Is now mined faster using pickaxes.

Rails

• Is now mined faster using pickaxes.

Redstone ore

• Is now mined faster using pickaxes.
• Decreased mining time.
• Can now be smelted in a furnace into redstone dust.
• Is now affected by Fortune.
• Lit redstone ore can no longer be obtained when mined using a tool with Silk Touch.

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Stone bricks

• Decreased mining time.

Stone brick slab

• Decreased mining time.

Stone brick stairs

• Now drops itself when mined.
• Decreased mining time.

Water

• Downward flowing water now creates flowing water once more.

Wooden door

• Decreased mining time.

Wooden stairs

• Now drops itself when mined.

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Tools

• Tools not suited to digging a certain block can be faster than digging by hand, e.g. a pickaxe can dig dirt faster than by hand, but not faster than by shovel.

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Bows

• Can be fired without having arrows in Creative mode, but use up arrows from the creative mode inventory, if available.

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Ender dragon

• Now spawns in the end.
• A "Boss health" bar appears on the middle top part of the screen, in the same purple hue as the ender dragon.
• When killed, now leaves behind an exit portal with the dragon egg sitting on top to return the player to their spawn point.

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Sheep

• Baby sheep from dyed parents are now born dyed instead of always being white.

Enchanting

• Efficiency enchantment now affects all blocks for any item enchanted with it.
• Silk Touch can no longer pick up ice, infested stone, and lit redstone ore.

Select World

• The world file size is no longer displayed.

Sun and moon

• Are now square again.

11 bugs fixed

• Entity model errors fixed.
• Armor durability is back to being much higher, higher than it ever was in Beta 1.8.
• Using items and hitting mobs no longer uses up items/durability in Creative.
• Ferns and grass are now available in the creative inventory.
• Unnecessary block versions of cake and sugar cane removed from creative inventory.
• Enchantment tables now take time to mine, instead of one punch.
• "Mods and Texture Packs" changed to "Texture Packs".
• Repeater clocks no longer get stuck when unloading the chunk.
• Placing fences under farmland doesn't stop it from turning back into dirt.
• A minecart with furnace is able to push empty minecarts in any direction.
• Baby sheep from dyed parents are now born dyed instead of always being white.

1 bug reported

• Wooden doors can be opened only using redstone.

• This version was released on 11/11/11 (November 11, 2011). That date was the originally planned date for MINECON 2011 and the release of 1.0.0.^[2]
• This is the last version where the player makes the classical "ooh!" sound when hurt.
• This is the first version where the game can be legitimately beaten without mods or cheats.

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