Minecraft Version History
Additions
Blocks
Bed
Currently unobtainable.
Cake Dispensers Lapis Lazuli block Lapis Lazuli Ore Note block
Right click to tune, trigger to play.
Sandstone
Items
BonesBone meal
Crafted from bones
CharcoalDyes
Added 16 dyes for wool.
Cocoa beans are currently only obtainable by using external programs.
Sugar
Crafted from sugar canes.
Mobs
Sheeps
Added gray, light gray, and black variants.
Drop correspondingly ...
Release Date: 2011-01-13
Fixes
1 bug fixed
Fixed a bug where chests would not open if the player's hand was empty.
Release Date: 2010-12-22
Additions
General
Font file
Added the missing font file in the package build.
Release Date: 2010-12-22
Fixes
2 bugs fixed
Fixed double chest bug.
Fixed rare crash on level load bug.
Release Date: 2010-12-20
Additions
Gameplay
Inventory
Working server-side inventory.
Tooltips in inventory.
When the player hovers the mouse over an item, its name appears.
General
Skins
Added capes for Mojang employees.
Added the deadmau5 skin (only in use on deadmau5's player).
Splashes
Added "Finally Beta!"
Changes
Blocks
Chests
Moving too far away from a chest, or having it blow up, closes the inventory screen.
Leaves
Introduced leaf decay again. It acts differently from ...
Release Date: 2010-12-20
Additions
Added command /kill for multiplayer, which deals 1000 × 500 damage to the player.
Added small lakes and rare lava pools, both on the surface and randomly in caves.
Fixes
Items no longer get used when opening chests (e.g., food being eaten, lava being poured out, etc.)
Breaking a boat in a certain fashion no longer causes it to drop 4 times the normal amount.
Patched client to prevent duplicated entities.
Fixed a crash bug when destroying the vehicle from under a ...
Release Date: 2010-12-03
Changes
Removed command /home.
Fixes
6 bugs fixed
Fixed a memory leak bug in the server.
Riding carts and boats now works properly when the player travel long distances.
Harvesting crops no longer yields fake seeds.
Snowballs are given again.
Fixed a door bug.
Release Date: 2010-11-30
Fixes
1 bug fixed
All mobs can spawn again, not just creepers.
Release Date: 2010-11-30
Fixes
2 bugs fixed
Fixed single player mode.
Fixed infinite looping by disabling leaf decay.
Release Date: 2010-11-24
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