Minecraft Version History
Additions
Blocks
Wood
Cannot be obtained legitimately.
6 sides textures similar to logs.
Emerald ore
Drops an emerald.
Block of Emerald
Crafted by putting 9 emeralds on a crafting table.
Ender chest
Crafted by surrounding an eye of ender with 8 pieces of obsidian.
Stores each player's contents across dimensions and all Ender Chests.
Contents are preserved even if all ender chests are destroyed.
Explosion-resistant.
Emits light and purple ...
Release Date: 2012-08-01
Minecraft 1.3.1
Minecraft 1.3.1 added trading, adventure mode, new generated structures and new blocks and items in the game. These new blocks and items included emeralds, book and quills, written books, tripwire, and ender chests. There were also some improvements to enchanting and made fights against creepers a bit harder. This version of Minecraft was not officially named.
There were quite a few additions to the game in version 1.3.1, these include a Demo Mode, some new options, and Large ...
Release Date: 2012-07-31
Additions
Blocks
Furnace
⇧ Shift-clicking items in the player's inventory now places the item in its respective furnace slot.
Changes
Mobs
Tamed ocelots
Are now less eager to sit on things
Are now less patient.
Gameplay
Controls
When the hotbar is full, using pick block replaces the held item.
General
Direct connect dialog
Now remembers the last IP for the current session.
Game files
Inside the META-INF folder in minecraft.jar, the ...
Release Date: 2012-04-04
Additions
Blocks
Wood planks
Split "Wood Planks" into four blocks corresponding to each type of wood:
Oak Wood Planks
Birch Wood Planks
Spruce Wood Planks
Jungle Wood Planks
"Sandstone" (carved)
Uses a modified version of the unused sandstone texture from 1.2.1.
Has the same name as the normal sandstone.
Changes
Blocks
Wool
Slightly removed saturation out of every color.
Sandstone
Texture changed from to
Mobs
Cats
When in a standing ...
Release Date: 2012-03-22
Fixes
4 bugs fixed
Fixed light bug causing a crash at y=255.
Corrected zombies and skeletons not burning in sunlight.
Fixed all natural light being 1 light level darker than it should be, except at world creation.
Corrected birch and spruce saplings not growing at a height above y=127.
Release Date: 2012-03-02
Fixes
3 bugs fixed
Fixed generation of birch, spruce, tall oak and swamp trees.
Fixed generation of giant mushrooms.
Snow now appears on maps again.
Release Date: 2012-03-01
Additions
Blocks
Chiseled Stone Bricks
Only available in creative mode.
Redstone Lamp
Crafted with glowstone and redstone.
Gives off light at a light level of 15 only when it is powered.
Jungle Log
New type of wood that spawns as jungle tree trunks.
Has a slightly mossy brown texture with horizontal bark.
Jungle Leaves
Generates in jungle trees and as bushes in jungles.
Jungle Sapling
Can be grown into jungle trees and drops from jungle ...
Release Date: 2012-03-01
Additions
Items
Spawn Eggs
Spawns mobs when used.
20 types of spawn eggs, each spawning their respective mob:
The types were mooshroom, creeper, skeleton, spider, zombie, slime, ghast, villager, zombie pigman, enderman, pig, cave spider, sheep, silverfish, cow, blaze, chicken, magma cube, squid and wolf.
Creative-exclusive item.
World generation
World type
Re-added world ...
Release Date: 2012-01-12
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 ...
Release Date: 2011-11-18
Changes
World generation
Abandoned mineshafts
Support beams in mineshafts are converted from wood planks to oak fences.
Fixes
2 bugs fixed
⇧ Shift+clicking into a full chest/inventory crashing the game fixed.
⇧ Shift+clicking items in and out of a dispenser crashing the game fixed.
Release Date: 2011-09-15
Additions
Blocks
Cracked stone bricksBrick slabBrick stairsFence gateGlass paneIron barsMelonsMossy Stone BricksStone BricksStone Brick SlabStone Brick Stairs
Items
Cooked chicken
Cooked raw chicken.
Cooked porkchop
Has a new texture.
A tan shade of the same sprite.
Ender pearls
Item which doesn't serve any purpose in the game for now, and had an uncentered icon.
Melon seeds
New seed type that grows melons.
Can only be found in abandoned ...
Release Date: 2011-09-14
Fixes
10 bugs fixed
Corrected a block duplication bug when using pistons.
Corrected a redstone torch duplication bug when using pistons.
Corrected a client crash when placing a sign in front of the piston, powering the piston and then removing the block beneath the sign.
Ice blocks are now pushed without causing water streams breaking everything.
Powered rails are no longer being powered magically without a power source.
Pistons connected to the end of a piston transistor via redstone are now ...
Release Date: 2011-07-08
Fixes
3 bugs fixed
Crashed worlds now work again.
Disappearing piston fixes.
Pistons that caused crashing for multiplayer servers fixed.
Release Date: 2011-07-01
Additions
Blocks
Pistons
Can push blocks when powered by redstone.
Sticky Pistons
Can push and pull blocks when powered by redstone.
Items
Shears
New tool.
Used to pick up leaf blocks.
Used to obtain wool from a sheep without harming it.
Yields more wool than killing sheep.
Mobs
Sheep
No longer drop wool from punching them, they must be either sheared or killed.
Silverfish
Skin was added (for Beta 1.8).
Changes
Blocks
General
The gray textures ...
Release Date: 2011-06-30
Additions
General
Options
Video Settings
Added a Performance section.
Can be set to Max FPS, Balanced or Power saver.
Changes
Blocks
Glowstone
Changed the material of glowstone from "glass" to "stone".
This means the player would need a pickaxe to get resources from it.
This also means the player can now place redstone, torches, levers, etc. on the block.
Made glowstone drop more loot (2–4 glowstone dust).
Made the ...
Release Date: 2011-05-31
Changes
Blocks
Slabs and stairs
It is now possible to climb the blocks while sneaking.
Gameplay
Riding and sleeping
Players who are riding anything or sleeping will stop doing so when they leave the game now.
Sneaking
Effect has been decreased.
The player's feet look like they're in the air.
General
Controls
⇧ Shift + clicking an item in the crafting window now only moves the crafted item into the player's inventory.
Frame rate
Frame ...
Release Date: 2011-05-28
Fixes
1 bug fixed
Attempted fix for CPU usage issue on singleplayer and multiplayer.
Release Date: 2011-05-26
Changes
Blocks
Water
2 blocks deep water doesn't prevent fall-damage anymore. Players will need at least 3 blocks deep water to prevent fall damage.
General
Options
The renderer is now capped at 100 fps while there are chunks to be generated. The excess time will be spent generating chunks instead of rendering frames.
The "limit framerate" option now limits the game to 40 fps and will spend at least 10 ms per frame sleeping.
The "limit framerate" option has been reset to "off" for all ...
Release Date: 2011-05-26
Fixes
1 bug fixed
Fixed an item duplication bug.
Release Date: 2011-05-26