Java Edition Beta 1.8 Pre-release

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Beta 1.8 Pre-release
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Edition

Java Edition

Release date

September 9, 2011

Type

Pre-release

Pre-release for

Beta 1.8

Downloads

Original:
Client (.json)
Original server unavailable
Reupload:
Client (.json)
Server

Protocol version

15

Minimum Java version

Java SE 5

Other editions with a version "1.8-pre1":
 

Beta 1.8 Pre-release is the first pre-release for Java Edition Beta 1.8, that was released on September 9, 2011. This is the first pre-release released in 2011.

Beta 1.8 Pre-release was reuploaded approximately 24 hours after its initial release to fix bugs and remove some debug features. See § Reupload.

Additions

Beta 1.8 Pre-release block and item additionsInvicon Stone Bricks.png: Inventory sprite for Stone Bricks in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Stone Bricks with description: Stone BricksInvicon Cracked Stone Bricks.png: Inventory sprite for Cracked Stone Bricks in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Cracked Stone Bricks with description: Cracked Stone BricksInvicon Mossy Stone Bricks.png: Inventory sprite for Mossy Stone Bricks in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Mossy Stone Bricks with description: Mossy Stone BricksInvicon Infested Stone.png: Inventory sprite for Infested Stone in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Infested Stone with description: Infested StoneInvicon Infested Cobblestone.png: Inventory sprite for Infested Cobblestone in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Infested Cobblestone with description: Infested CobblestoneInvicon Infested Stone Bricks.png: Inventory sprite for Infested Stone Bricks in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Infested Stone Bricks with description: Infested Stone BricksInvicon Brick Slab.png: Inventory sprite for Brick Slab in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Brick Slab with description: Brick SlabInvicon Stone Brick Slab.png: Inventory sprite for Stone Brick Slab in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Stone Brick Slab with description: Stone Brick SlabInvicon Brick Stairs.png: Inventory sprite for Brick Stairs in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Brick Stairs with description: Brick StairsInvicon Stone Brick Stairs.png: Inventory sprite for Stone Brick Stairs in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Stone Brick Stairs with description: Stone Brick StairsInvicon Glass Pane.png: Inventory sprite for Glass Pane in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Glass Pane with description: Glass PaneInvicon Iron Bars.png: Inventory sprite for Iron Bars in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Iron Bars with description: Iron BarsInvicon Oak Fence Gate.png: Inventory sprite for Oak Fence Gate in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Oak Fence Gate with description: Oak Fence GateInvicon Vines.png: Inventory sprite for Vines in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Vines with description: VinesInvicon Mushroom Block.png: Inventory sprite for Mushroom Block in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Mushroom Block with description: Mushroom BlockInvicon Mushroom Stem.png: Inventory sprite for Mushroom Stem in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Mushroom Stem with description: Mushroom StemInvicon Red Mushroom Block.png: Inventory sprite for Red Mushroom Block in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Red Mushroom Block with description: Red Mushroom BlockInvicon Brown Mushroom Block.png: Inventory sprite for Brown Mushroom Block in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Brown Mushroom Block with description: Brown Mushroom BlockInvicon Pumpkin Seeds.png: Inventory sprite for Pumpkin Seeds in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Pumpkin Seeds with description: Pumpkin SeedsInvicon Melon Seeds.png: Inventory sprite for Melon Seeds in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Melon Seeds with description: Melon SeedsInvicon Melon.png: Inventory sprite for Melon in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Melon with description: MelonInvicon Melon Slice.png: Inventory sprite for Melon Slice in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Melon Slice with description: Melon SliceInvicon Raw Chicken.png: Inventory sprite for Raw Chicken in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Raw Chicken with description: Raw ChickenInvicon Cooked Chicken.png: Inventory sprite for Cooked Chicken in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Cooked Chicken with description: Cooked ChickenInvicon Raw Beef.png: Inventory sprite for Raw Beef in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Raw Beef with description: Raw BeefInvicon Steak.png: Inventory sprite for Steak in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Steak with description: SteakInvicon Rotten Flesh.png: Inventory sprite for Rotten Flesh in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Rotten Flesh with description: Rotten FleshInvicon Ender Pearl.png: Inventory sprite for Ender Pearl in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Ender Pearl with description: Ender Pearl

Blocks

Bricks Slab

Invicon Bricks.png: Inventory sprite for Bricks in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Bricks with description: BricksInvicon Bricks.png: Inventory sprite for Bricks in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Bricks with description: BricksInvicon Bricks.png: Inventory sprite for Bricks in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Bricks with description: Bricks
Invicon Brick Slab.png: Inventory sprite for Brick Slab in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Brick Slab with description: Brick Slab6

Brick Stairs

Invicon Bricks.png: Inventory sprite for Bricks in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Bricks with description: BricksInvicon Bricks.png: Inventory sprite for Bricks in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Bricks with description: BricksInvicon Bricks.png: Inventory sprite for Bricks in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Bricks with description: BricksInvicon Bricks.png: Inventory sprite for Bricks in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Bricks with description: BricksInvicon Bricks.png: Inventory sprite for Bricks in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Bricks with description: BricksInvicon Bricks.png: Inventory sprite for Bricks in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Bricks with description: Bricks
Invicon Brick Stairs.png: Inventory sprite for Brick Stairs in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Brick Stairs with description: Brick Stairs4

Cracked Stone Bricks

  • Occur naturally in strongholds.

Glass Pane

Invicon Glass.png: Inventory sprite for Glass in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Glass with description: GlassInvicon Glass.png: Inventory sprite for Glass in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Glass with description: GlassInvicon Glass.png: Inventory sprite for Glass in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Glass with description: GlassInvicon Glass.png: Inventory sprite for Glass in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Glass with description: GlassInvicon Glass.png: Inventory sprite for Glass in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Glass with description: GlassInvicon Glass.png: Inventory sprite for Glass in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Glass with description: Glass
Invicon Glass Pane.png: Inventory sprite for Glass Pane in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Glass Pane with description: Glass Pane16

Fence Gate

Invicon Stick.png: Inventory sprite for Stick in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Stick with description: StickInvicon Oak Planks.png: Inventory sprite for Oak Planks in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Oak Planks with description: Oak PlanksInvicon Stick.png: Inventory sprite for Stick in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Stick with description: StickInvicon Stick.png: Inventory sprite for Stick in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Stick with description: StickInvicon Oak Planks.png: Inventory sprite for Oak Planks in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Oak Planks with description: Oak PlanksInvicon Stick.png: Inventory sprite for Stick in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Stick with description: Stick
Invicon Oak Fence Gate.png: Inventory sprite for Oak Fence Gate in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Oak Fence Gate with description: Oak Fence Gate

Infested Blocks

  • Spawn silverfish when broken.
  • Doesn't drop when broken.

Iron Bars

Invicon Iron Ingot.png: Inventory sprite for Iron Ingot in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Iron Ingot with description: Iron IngotInvicon Iron Ingot.png: Inventory sprite for Iron Ingot in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Iron Ingot with description: Iron IngotInvicon Iron Ingot.png: Inventory sprite for Iron Ingot in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Iron Ingot with description: Iron IngotInvicon Iron Ingot.png: Inventory sprite for Iron Ingot in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Iron Ingot with description: Iron IngotInvicon Iron Ingot.png: Inventory sprite for Iron Ingot in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Iron Ingot with description: Iron IngotInvicon Iron Ingot.png: Inventory sprite for Iron Ingot in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Iron Ingot with description: Iron Ingot
Invicon Iron Bars.png: Inventory sprite for Iron Bars in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Iron Bars with description: Iron Bars16

Melons

  • You can't get it.

Melon Stems

  • Are plants grown on farmland that, over time, grow melons on dirt blocks adjacent to them.

Stone Bricks

  • Occur naturally in strongholds.
  • Crafted using stone.
Invicon Stone.png: Inventory sprite for Stone in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Stone with description: StoneInvicon Stone.png: Inventory sprite for Stone in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Stone with description: StoneInvicon Stone.png: Inventory sprite for Stone in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Stone with description: StoneInvicon Stone.png: Inventory sprite for Stone in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Stone with description: Stone
Invicon Stone Bricks.png: Inventory sprite for Stone Bricks in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Stone Bricks with description: Stone Bricks4

Mossy Stone Bricks

  • Occur naturally in strongholds.

Mushroom Blocks

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

Pumpkin Stems

  • Are plants grown on farmland that, over time, grow pumpkins on dirt blocks adjacent to them.

Stone Bricks Slab

Invicon Stone Bricks.png: Inventory sprite for Stone Bricks in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Stone Bricks with description: Stone BricksInvicon Stone Bricks.png: Inventory sprite for Stone Bricks in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Stone Bricks with description: Stone BricksInvicon Stone Bricks.png: Inventory sprite for Stone Bricks in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Stone Bricks with description: Stone Bricks
Invicon Stone Brick Slab.png: Inventory sprite for Stone Brick Slab in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Stone Brick Slab with description: Stone Brick Slab6

Stone Brick Stairs

Invicon Stone Bricks.png: Inventory sprite for Stone Bricks in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Stone Bricks with description: Stone BricksInvicon Stone Bricks.png: Inventory sprite for Stone Bricks in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Stone Bricks with description: Stone BricksInvicon Stone Bricks.png: Inventory sprite for Stone Bricks in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Stone Bricks with description: Stone BricksInvicon Stone Bricks.png: Inventory sprite for Stone Bricks in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Stone Bricks with description: Stone BricksInvicon Stone Bricks.png: Inventory sprite for Stone Bricks in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Stone Bricks with description: Stone BricksInvicon Stone Bricks.png: Inventory sprite for Stone Bricks in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Stone Bricks with description: Stone Bricks
Invicon Stone Brick Stairs.png: Inventory sprite for Stone Brick Stairs in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Stone Brick Stairs with description: Stone Brick Stairs4
Placed overgrown vines.

Vines

  • Can grow to nearby blocks.
  • Are naturally generated in swamps.

Items

Cooked Chicken

  • New food item.
  • Restores 6 (🍗🍗🍗) hunger.

Ender Pearl

Melon Seeds

Invicon Melon Slice.png: Inventory sprite for Melon Slice in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Melon Slice with description: Melon Slice
Invicon Melon Seeds.png: Inventory sprite for Melon Seeds in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Melon Seeds with description: Melon Seeds

Melon Slice

Pumpkin Seeds

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

Raw Chicken

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

Raw Beef

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

Rotten Flesh

Steak

  • New food item.
  • Restores 8 (🍗🍗🍗🍗) hunger.

Mobs

Cave Spider

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

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.
  • Makes zombie sounds.
  • Emits smoke particles.
  • Has 10HP❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️.

Silverfish

Non-mob entities

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.

World generation

Ravine

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

Huge Mushroom

  • Does not generate naturally.
  • Can be artificially created by applying bone meal to a brown or red mushroom.

Extreme hills

Ocean

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

River

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

Mineshaft

  • Are underground structures primarily found underground 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.

Stronghold

Village

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

Gameplay

Achievements

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

Controls Debug keys

  • F6 and F7 move time forwards and backwards, respectively.
  • F6 disables gravity for the player, it can be canceled by pressing it again.
  • H and Y increase and decrease the player's FOV, respectively
  • L and J make the player's camera turn right and left, respectively
  • I and K make the player's camera turn up or down, respectively
  • M and N rotate the player's camera 180° around the Z-axis, respectively.

Sprinting

  • Activated by double-tapping W.

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.

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 Space.
  • Increased reach.

Commands

Effects

Void fog

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

General

Main menu

  • Revamped the main menu by adding an animated menu panorama.[1]

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.
  • Added the brightness option.
  • Added the field of view 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? (Unused)
    • 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!

Changes

Blocks

Cake

  • Now a slice of cake restore 3 (🍖🍗), instead of 3HP❤️💔.

Ferns

  • Ferns no longer generate naturally.

Chests

  • Texture changed from .
  • Added an opening and closing animation .
  • 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.

Lava

  • Now when lava is touched by rain, it emits smoke particles.

Leaves

  • Player-placed leaves no longer decay.

Mossy Cobblestone

  • Texture changed from .

Obsidian

Stone Pressure Plate

Torch

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

Wooden Pressure Plate

Items

Apples

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

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.
    • Added new textures visible in hand, in order to indicate their charge .

Bread

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

Cooked Fish

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

Cooked Porkchop

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

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.

Golden Apples

  • Now restore 10 (🍗🍗🍗🍗🍗), 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.

Mushroom Stew

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

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.

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.

Shears

Swords

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

Mobs

Passive mobs

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

Hostile mobs

  • Perform attack animations.

Mob

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

Monster

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

Pigs

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

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.

Zombies

Non-mob entities

Arrows

  • Hit a mob visually "stick" into the mob rather than just disappear.

Players

  • Unarmed damage was decreased from 2HP❤️ to 1HP💔.

World generation

General

  • Are now much bigger and more flat.
  • Hills and mountains tend not to generate as much, except in the new extreme hills biome.
  • They are no longer aligned based on temperature and humidity, instead their distribution is random.
  • Now sea level one block lower.

Desert

  • Larger than before.

Forest

Plains

  • Larger than before.

Swamp

  • Renamed from "Swampland".
  • They are a much more vibrant green color.
  • They have a new tree type, which are slightly bigger and have vines hanging from their leaves. They can also generate in shallow water pools.
  • They are much more flat.

Taiga

Gameplay

Clouds

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

Controls

  • 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 Tab ↹.

Explosions

  • Now emit shockwave particles.

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

General

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.

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!"

Removals

World generation

Far Lands

Seasonal forest

Rainforest

Shrubland

Savanna

Tundra

Ice desert

  • These did not generate in previous versions, so their removal was not noticeable.

Beach

Gravel beach

  • All removed biomes convert to a new biome (if generated).

Gameplay

Controls

  • Removed the ability to change the fog level under F

General

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.

Fixes

1 bug fixed

Reupload

Beta 1.8 Pre-release was reuploaded approximately 24 hours after its initial release to fix bugs and remove some debug features. Features and bugs present in the initial version include:

  • Villages do not generate correctly. Only the wells, gravel paths, and lampposts generate; houses do not generate.
  • The stronghold does not generate correctly. Only the central staircase generates.
  • Various models often become corrupted.
  • Screenshots can sometimes fail to save, printing an error into the chat: Failed to save: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Number of remaining buffer elements is x, must be at least y. Because at most y elements is required, regardless of actual returned element count, where x and y are two numbers, with y being less than x. This bug seems to occur after changing the resolution of the game window, and can be solved by making the window smaller.
  • The world can sometimes fail to save, resulting in lost progress when quitting.
  • Various debug keys exist.
    • F9 freezes the camera in its current position.
    • F6, while also turning back time, enables a strange "bouncy" movement. It locks the player's Y coordinate (meaning they cannot jump or fall). It makes the player accelerate relatively slowly when moving. The speed can be changed using mouse scroll, negative speeds revert the controls. Additionally, blocks lose their collision, however the player is still affected by solid blocks trying to push them out (as observed in normal gameplay), though if the player is moving quickly enough they can push all the way through a block. Strangely enough, negative speeds "suck" the player into blocks on collision.
    • N and M change the view's rotation clockwise and counterclockwise, respectively. Holding both keys simultaneously resets the rotation.
    • Y and H decrease and increase the field of view, respectively. These keys seem to affect the field of view differently to how the FOV option does - the player's hand (or anything the player is holding) also becomes stretched as the field of view increases or decreases, which does not happen if the player changes the FOV option in the menu. Holding both keys simultaneously resets the field of view.
    • I makes the player look up, J looks left, K looks down, and L looks right. These movements are normally done by moving the mouse. This setting cannot be reset by holding any keys simultaneously.
    • U and O moves the third-person camera forwards and backwards, respectively. This setting cannot be reset by holding both keys simultaneously.

Trivia

  • Beta 1.8 Pre-release is the first pre-release for Minecraft.
    • Beta 1.8 Pre-release is also the first publicly released development version of Minecraft.
  • This version suffered from many glitches before reupload (see images below).
  • This is currently the oldest server version to support Mojang authentication servers. This means any prior version requires setting online-mode in server.properties to false in order to join them.

References

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