Download Minecraft Beta 1.5

Additions

Blocks

Birch saplings

• Grows into birch tree.

Cobwebs

• Cannot exist in the game without inventory editing until Beta 1.8.

Detector rails

Powered rails

Spruce saplings

• Grows into spruce trees.

Mobs

Creepers

• When struck by a lightning bolt, becomes charged and will have a much more powerful explosion.

Pigs

When struck by a lighting bolt they become Zombie Pigmen.

Gameplay

Achievements

• Now transferred between worlds.

Weather,

• Added rain, snow, and thunderstorms

General

Controls

• ⇧ Shift + clicking on something in a chest will immediately move the selected item(s) into the player's inventory and vice-versa.

Options

• 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).

Statistics

• Now transferred between worlds.

Changes

Blocks

Crying obsidian

• Texture has now been removed in-game.

Grass blocks

• The sides now use the same color as the top.

Ladders

• Now produces 2 ladders to offset the fix of the staggered-ladder exploit when crafting.

Saplings

• Can now serve as fuel in furnaces.
  • Have the same smelting time as sticks.

Redstone

• Can now be placed on snow.

Items

General

• Dropped items in flowing water move faster than before.

Mobs

Pigs

• When killed by burning, now drops cooked porkchops upon death.

Wolves

• Now more common, even in non-taiga/forest biomes.

World generation

Birch trees & spruce trees

• Now drop birch saplings and spruce saplings, respectively.

Gameplay

Damage

• Unarmed damage was increased from 1 to 2.

General

Controls

• Pressing Tab ↹ will switch between input boxes.
• ⇧ Shift + F2 no longer creates a 36450×17700 screenshot.

Performance

• Huge performance improvements for old and slow computers.

Fixes

15 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 will go through doors most of the time, but will 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, opposed to all of the time.
• Redstone in off state is red again.
• Fixed saplings occasionally growing trees that stretch to world limit
• Crops hit with water now drop seeds and wheat, as opposed to just wheat.
• Moving minecarts will 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.
• ⇧ Shift + F2 doesn't attempt to create massive .tga screenshots, which are more than 1GB in size, anymore.
• Sugar cane can no longer be placed on any block that is not dirt.