Minecraft Version History
Additions
The player's current coordinates are now shown in the debug screen.
Leaves now decay again.
Added visible hurting animations for players and mobs in multiplayer.
Added the ability to attack entities (mobs, boats, minecraft, and players) in multiplayer.
Changes
The debug screen is now only shown while holding F3.
Fixes
Fixed a crash related to lighting.
Players in boats and minecarts now receive terrain updates.
Release Date: 2010-11-23
Additions
Support for more animation settings added
Changes
Lava
Now flows further in the Nether
Main Menu
Now contains the texture pack selection menu for easy texture pack switching, replacing the "play tutorial level" button.
Displays the version name in the top-left corner.
Servers
It now takes longer for the "took too long to log in" screen to appear when connecting to a server.
Release Date: 2010-11-10
Debugging version
Alpha v1.2.2b added generation of a nether portal using F4.
Release Date: 2010-11-09
Fixes
Fixed armor not having an effect on the damage taken.
Release Date: 2010-11-05
Changes
Mob spawning reverted to old code.
Leaves particle colors now reflect the biome instead of having the grayscale texture.
Fixes
Signs on the sides of cacti no longer crash the game.
Optimized CPU usage for mob spawning.
Music now plays in multiplayer.
Release Date: 2010-11-05
Changes
Soul sand generates again in the Nether.
Fixes
Items no longer disappear when the player dies.
Release Date: 2010-10-31
Changes
Soul Sand no longer generates in the Nether, replaced with gravel. Existing soul sand will not disappear.
Armor no longer blocks damage.
Release Date: 2010-10-31
Additions
New terrain generator, featuring biomes
Blocks
Netherrack Soul Sand Glowstone Carved Pumpkin Jack o'Lantern Nether Portal
Items
Clock
Craftable item that tells the time
Glowstone Dust Raw Fish and Cooked Fish
Mobs
Ghast
Large white mobs that float around the Nether.
Shoot fireballs at the player
Zombie Pigman
When one pigman is attacked all nearby pigmen will retaliate and attack the ...
Release Date: 2010-10-30
Changes
Minecraft now downloads resources from the cloud.
Fixes
Sound and music bug fixed.
Release Date: 2010-09-23
Changes
Removed track calm4.ogg
Fixes
Attempted to fix a bug involving sounds
Gray screen bug is fixed
Release Date: 2010-09-20
Additions
Compass
Server side inventory
Changes
Experimental switch to turn on monsters in multiplayer
Lava Buckets can be used to smelt up to 100 smelts
Clay is more common when a world is generated
Servers will now save player locations upon leaving the server
Fixes
Torches can no longer be placed on leaves, but only with fancy graphics
Chests, Signs and Furnaces now work in SMP
Reupload
Alpha v1.1.0 was reuploaded on September 13, 2010, to fix a bug where the player ...
Release Date: 2010-09-10
Fixed some instances of the player getting stuck
Release Date: 2010-08-23
Additions
Server commands
Added ban/pardon commands to ban and unban a player from the game.
Added ban-ip/pardon-ip commands to ban and unban specific IP addresses.
Added op/deop commands to add/remove a player from the operator list.
Added server operators. They can send server commands by typing a slash followed by a server command. Server operators can also build/destroy blocks near the spawn area.
Changes
Support for more records.
Release Date: 2010-08-12
Additions
Arm-swinging animation added, viewable in multiplayer and in third person view.
Changes
New fire behavior.
Lava sets blocks on fire.
Players can now enter the IP for a server other than Mojang's official server.
Fixes
The "M" of Minecraft on title screen now looks correct.
Release Date: 2010-08-03
Additions
Blocks
Jukebox
Items
Eggs
Can't be thrown.
Music Discs
13 and cat.
Minecraft with Furnaces Minecraft with Chests.
Mobs
Chickens
Changes
Cows have new skin making them have brown and white spots instead of black and white spots and now have cow horns.
Three new ambience music pieces
The tip of an arrow in crafting is now made from flint rather than iron ingot.
The player can only jump two blocks ...
Release Date: 2010-07-30
Additions
Blocks
Reeds
Can be found growing next to water.
Can't be placed onto sand.
Clay
Generate underwater.
Items
Paper
Crafted from reeds.
Book
Crafted from 3 paper.
Clay.
Dropped from clay blocks.
Brick
Obtained from smelting clay.
Slimeball
Dropped by the smallest slimes, however it currently has no use.
Mobs
Slimes
A hostile mob which splits into smaller slimes ...
Release Date: 2010-07-23
Changes
Blocks
Water
Can now freeze into ice.
Items
Snowballs
Harvesting snowballs requires a shovel.
Snowballs now stack into stacks of 8 instead of 64.
The sound effect for throwing a snowball has been changed.
Gameplay
Multiplayer
Improved some aspects (although multiplayer is still in private testing).
Blocks can now be broken.
Added movement verification.
It is now impossible for the client to claim to mine a block they cannot.
It is now impossible for the client ...
Release Date: 2010-07-14
Additions
Blocks
Ice
Is slippery.
Snow
Player
Added a sitting animation when riding pigs or minecarts.
World generation
Winter maps
Added a new map type, featuring:
Snowfall.
Blocks exposed to sky generate with a thin layer of snow and those exposed to snowfall slowly get covered by it.
Water exposed to snowfall generates as ice.
However, water found on gravel beaches is not entirely frozen upon generation.
Upon world creation there's a 25% chance for it to become ...
Release Date: 2010-07-08
Additions
Minecraft
Rails
Changes
Gravel and sand fall realistically
Falling off bottom of map kills the player
Sky rendering tweaked
Release Date: 2010-06-18