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Additions

Blocks

• Brewing Stand
  • Used for brewing
• Enchantment Table
  • Used for enchanting
• Nether Bricks
• Nether Brick Fence
• Nether Brick Stairs
• End Portal Frame
• End Stone
• Dragon Egg

Items

• Ghast Tear
• Blaze Rod
• Nether Wart
• Gold Nugget
• Glass Bottle
• Potions
• Splash Potions
• Spider Eye
• Fermented Spider Eye
• Blaze Powder
• Magma Cream
• Glistering Melon
• Eye of Ender
  • Activates Ender portal frames.
• 9 new Music Discs

Mobs

Ender Dragon

• Boss mob
• Spawns only once in the End

Mooshroom

• Variant of cows that only spawns in mushroom islands

Villager

• Passive
• Spawns in NPC villages

Snow Golem

• Can be crafted by placing two snow blocks vertically and a pumpkin on top
• Melts in hot biomes
• Spreads snow around when it walks
• Passive to the player, but throws snowballs at enemies

Magma Cube

• Hostile Nether mob
• Behaves similarly to slimes, but immune to fire damage

Blaze

• Hostile Nether mob
• Flies and throws fireballs at players
• Immune to fire damage
• Weak to water and snowballs

World generation

The End

• New dimension
• Replaces the previously planned Sky Dimension

Mushroom island

• Very rare biome
• Naturally generated huge mushrooms
• Spawns mooshrooms

Nether Fortress

• Generates in the Nether

End Portal

• Generates in strongholds
• At most 12 Eyes of Ender to activate
• Takes the player to the End.

Gameplay

Status effects

• Inflicts positive or negative effects on players and mobs
• Strength and duration
  • Strength boosts effects
  • Duration controls the time of the effect

Item Repair

• Two of the same tools/weapons that are damaged in crafting will create one repaired tool/weapon

Brewing

• Produce potions

Enchanting

Breeding

• Wheat attracts and feed animals
• Feeding animals makes them enter "love mode"
  • Hearts will come out of animals while in love mode
• Breeding will produce baby animals
  • Smaller versions of the parents with large heads that have faster movement and higher pitched sounds

End Poem/Credits

• Appears after entering the Exit portal in the End

General

Hardcore mode

• Locks the difficulty to Hard and forces users to delete the world's save data upon death
• The health bar changes appearance to indicate the game is in Hardcore mode

Changes

Blocks

Doors

• New sounds

Glowstone

• Changed material type from "glass" to "stone".
  • A pickaxe is now needed to drop items.
  • Redstone, torches, levers, etc. can now be placed on the block.
  • No longer acts as a redstone vertical (downward) diode.

Water & Lava

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

Flowing Lava

• When flowing lava hits a water source directly from above, it creates stone
  • Previously, lava would flow through the water

Fence

• Now connect to solid blocks
• No longer blocks players from moving onto their space
  • Players can now stand next to them, similar to glass panes and iron bars

Block of Iron

• Changed texture from  to 

Monster Spawner

• Darkened texture

Blocks

• Many blocks' mining time have been decreased (these are mostly blocks that used to take a long time to mine)
  • Redstone Ore
    • Mines at the same rate as most ores
  • Iron Doors
  • Wooden Door
  • Monster Spawner
  • Iron Block
  • Gold Block
  • Diamond Block
  • Stone Brick
  • Iron Bars
  • Furnace
  • Dispenser
  • Obsidian
    • From 15 to 10 seconds

Items

Tooltip

• Labels for items have a blue border

Bow

• Appears larger in third person view when held
• No longer have an infinite number of uses (385 shots before breaking)
• Damages in accordance with the charging time:
  • Full charged bows now deals 9
  • Critical full charge bows deal 10
  • Medium charged deals 6
• Additional bow sounds

Ender pearl

• Now able to be thrown
  • The player will teleport to the Ender pearl's impact location, but take 2 and 1/2 hearts of fall damage
  • Unable to be thrown in Creative mode.

Golden apple

• Now glows purple in the inventory

Shears

• Added shear sounds

Weapons and tools

• Attack damage has been nerfed to make space for the increased damage enchantments (e.g. diamond swords do 3.5 hearts now instead of 5)
• Tool breaking sounds

Mobs

Health & armor

• Sheep now have 8
• Ghasts now have 10
• Zombies now have 20 × 10 and 2 ()

Endermen

• Amount of blocks able to be carried by endermen is now limited (see here for the list of blocks)
• True sounds of Endermen are added, and it’s zombie placeholder is removed.

Skeleton

• Improved walking sounds

Slime

• Big slimes (size +4 slimes) have deeper jump sounds

Silverfish

• True sounds of silverfish are added.

Ghast fireball

• Changed texture from  to 

Non-mob entities

Minecart

• Added minecart sounds

World generation

Swamp

• Adjusted to appear "swampier"
  • Darker grass
  • Darker water
  • Generate lily pads

Stronghold

• Random loot chests now generate

Gameplay

Experience

• Can be used for enchantments
• Each experience orb is worth one score point.

New achievements

Death

• Amount of experience orbs dropped by players on death now limited.
• A proper score is given based on how many experience orbs players have collected.

Armor system

• New/improved armor system.
• Increased armor durability.

Third-person view

• Toggling third-person view twice now switches the camera to the front of the player, while it now takes a third press of F5 to switch back into first-person view.^{[note 1]}

Jumping

• Slight delay between jumps when holding down the jump button.
  • Player no longer bounces between ceiling and floor in two-block-high spaces.

Blocking

• Now moves the player's arm, rather than the sword floating right in front of the player.

Sun and moon

• Now rise in the east and set in the west.
• Added moon phases.

Rain

• Changed sound.