Java Edition Beta 1.5
"Beta 1.5" redirects here. For beta versions for Bedrock Edition 1.5.0, see Bedrock Edition 1.5.0/Development versions.
Minecraft Beta 1.5
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| Release date |
April 19, 2011 | |||||
| Downloads | ||||||
| Protocol version |
11 | |||||
| Minimum Java version | ||||||
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Other editions with a version "1.5":
There is a guide for this update!See Java Edition guides/Beta 1.5 releases for a guide to all of the new features introduced in Beta 1.5 releases.
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.
Additions
Blocks
- Grows into birch trees.
- Can serve as fuel in furnaces.
- Smelted 0.5 items per sapling.
- 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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- 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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- 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.
- Grows into spruce trees.
- Can serve as fuel in furnaces.
- Smelted 0.5 items per sapling.
Mobs
- When struck by a lightning bolt, creepers now become charged.
- Have a much more powerful explosion.
Non-mob entities
- May strike during thunderstorms, creating fire and dealing damage around it.
Gameplay
- There are currently 16 achievements.
| Icon | Achievement | In-game description | Parent | Actual requirements (if different) | Resource location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
  | Taking Inventory | Press 'E' to open your inventory | — | Open your inventory. The description matches the configured inventory key. | openInventory
|
 | Getting Wood | Attack a tree until a block of wood pops out | Taking Inventory | Pick up wood from the ground. | mineWood
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 | Benchmarking | Craft a workbench with four blocks of planks | Getting Wood | Pick up a crafting table from inventory's crafting field output or a crafting table output. | buildWorkBench
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 | Time to Mine! | Use planks and sticks to make a pickaxe | Benchmarking | Pick up any type of pickaxe from a crafting table output. | buildPickaxe
|
 | Hot Topic | Construct a furnace out of eight cobblestone blocks\Construct a furnace out of eight stone blocks | Time to Mine! | Pick up a furnace from a crafting table output. | buildFurnace
|
 | Acquire Hardware | Smelt an iron ingot | Hot Topic | Pick up an iron ingot from a furnace output. | acquireIron
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 | Time to Farm! | Use planks and sticks to make a hoe | Benchmarking | Pick up any type of hoe from a crafting table output. | buildHoe
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 | Bake Bread | Turn wheat into bread | Time to Farm! | Pick up bread from a crafting table output. | makeBread
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 | The Lie | Wheat, sugar, milk, and eggs! | Time to Farm! | Pick up a cake from a crafting table output. | bakeCake
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 | Getting an Upgrade | Construct a better pickaxe | Time to Mine! | Pick up a pickaxe from a crafting table output that is not a wooden pickaxe. | buildBetterPickaxe
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 | Delicious Fish | Catch and cook fish! | Hot Topic | Pick up a cooked fish from a furnace output. | cookFish
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  | On A Rail | Travel by minecart at least 1 km from where you started | Acquire Hardware | Travel by minecart to a point at least 1000 blocks from where you started. Distance is measured in a straight line. | onARail
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 | Time to Strike! | Use planks and sticks to make a sword | Benchmarking | Pick up any type of sword from a crafting table output. | buildSword
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 | Monster Hunter | Attack and destroy a monster | Time to Strike! | Kill a hostile mob or one of the following neutral mobs: zombie pigman, spider. | killEnemy
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 | Cow Tipper | Harvest some leather | Time to Strike! | Pick up leather from the ground. | killCow
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 | When Pigs Fly | Fly a pig off a cliff | Cow Tipper | Be riding a pig (i.e. using a saddle) when it hits the ground with a fall distance greater than 5. | flyPig
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- Added natural occurring rain, snowfalls, and thunderstorms.
General
- ⇧ Shift + clicking on something in a chest immediately moves the selected item(s) into the player's inventory and vice-versa.
- 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).
Changes
Blocks
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- Sleeping in thunderstorms is now possible, even in daytime.
- Now drop birch saplings.
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- Texture has now been removed from terrain.png.
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- Old grass block can still be enabled if the graphics are set to "Fast".
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- Its crafting recipe now produces 2 ladders to offset the fix of the staggered-ladder exploit.
- Can now serve as fuel in furnaces.
- Smelted 0.5 items per sapling.
- Now drop spruce saplings.
- 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 which used to look like:
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Items
General
- Dropped items in flowing water move faster than before.
Mobs
- When killed by burning, now drop cooked porkchops upon death.
- When struck by a lighting bolt, they now become zombie pigmen.
Gameplay
- Pressing Tab ↹ switches between input boxes.
- ⇧ Shift + F2 no longer creates a 36450×17700 pixel screenshot.
Technical
General
Performance
- Huge performance improvements for old and slow computers.
Fixes
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.
Trivia
- 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.
Gallery
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Videos
References
- ↑ "Minecraft Beta 1.5, and some thoughts on this blog" – The Word of Notch, Tumblr, April 19, 2011.
- ↑ Scaevolus' #risucraft IRC logs[link pending]: 13:30:45 <crow> Minecraft last updated on Tue, 19 Apr 2011 13:29:14 GMT
- ↑ Kealper IRC logs: [09:32] <_303> 1.5 is out
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