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Minecraft Version History

Additions Blocks  Locked Chest Was an April Fools' gag. It linked to the 'Minecraft Store', but it has been removed. Items Cookies New food item. Heals the player for 0.5 hearts. Mobs Wolves New neutral mob. Players can tame the wolf. Can be killed for no loot. General Splash screen New Minecraft logo (no longer 3D stone blocks). Changes Blocks Beds Sleeping in a bed now resets spawn position, though does not work for most ...
 

Release Date: 2011-03-31

Changes General Java Dependencies on Java 1.6 are gone. Fixes 3 bugs fixed Fixed the recent issues on macOS in which the game would crash when "Singleplayer" button was clicked on. Able to connect client to Minecraft server 1.3. Fixed item duplication glitch.
 

Release Date: 2011-02-23

Additions Blocks Redstone Repeater Slabs Cobblestone Slab Wood Slab Have to be mined with a pickaxe to collect, were not affected by fire, and had stronger blast resistance than wood planks Sandstone Slab Command format /whitelist Added whitelisting to multiplayer servers. Can turn on/off the whitelist. Can add/remove players from the whitelist. Can give a list of whitelisted players and reload that list. General Options New ...
 

Release Date: 2011-02-22

Additions General Controls Pressing ⇧ Shift+F2 generates a 36450×17700 TGA format screenshot (which ends up being 1.8 GB). While the file is being generated, the game freezes and experiences major graphical distortions. This is unfinished test code, as confirmed by Notch.[1] This "feature" would go on to be removed in Beta 1.5. Changes Blocks Lapis Lazuli Ore Now drops 4–8 lapis lazuli per block mined (increased from 1) on single player only (servers ...
 

Release Date: 2011-01-21

Additions Items Paintings Added code for a new painting, but not the painting itself. Mobs Slimes Re-added with a very low spawn rate Changes Mobs General Reduced spawn rates a bit. No more ghosts at night. General Performance Optimized performance. Splashes Text on the main menu returned to normal. No longer constantly shows the quote "Finally beta!" Fixes 3 bugs fixed Fixed various blocks acting weird when placed (rails, torches, etc). Fixed lighting ...
 

Release Date: 2011-01-14

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

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

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

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