Minecraft Version History
Additions
Blocks
Dirt
Stone
Planks
General
Spawn Human mobs by pressing G.
Block picking using the number keys 1–4.
Block particles.
Support for different block types and dynamic blocks.
Fullscreen mode.
Crosshair (+) to select items
Changes
Physics
Grass exists on dirt while under light.
Grass blocks revert to dirt when they are no longer under light.
Grass blocks revert to dirt when a block is on top of it.
Grass has to spread to Dirt Block in ...
Release Date: 2009-05-15
Level generation is now more natural.
Release Date: 2009-05-14
MobsHumans
Run randomly around the map with no proper AI or movement animation.
The first mob to be added into the game.
Spawn upon world generation and loading
Do not save to level.dat file
Release Date: 2009-05-13
Placing and destroying blocks.
Left-clicking places a block. Right-clicking destroys a block.
Blocks
Block types are handled depending upon where they are located within the world, as opposed to later versions where any block can be placed anywhere. Blocks at the same level as Grass turn to grass and blocks at the same level as cobblestone or air turn to cobblestone.
World generation
Level generation improved to be not so messy and random (as shown in the Cave game tech ...
Release Date: 2009-05-13
Changes
Blocks
Hopper
Now take empty buckets out of furnace fuel slots
Items
Enchanted book
Can now be combined to raise their enchantment level or combine multiple enchantments on a single book
When combining two enchantments for a higher level variation, the player requires two of the same level enchanted book
They are still subject to the normal enchantment level limits.
General
Performance
FPS increase, bringing levels back to what they were in 1.4
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Fixes
1 bug fixed
Fixed a problem where the game wouldn't run on macOS.
Minecraft 1.7.5
Minecraft 1.7.5 is an update that focuses on Minecraft Realms with various changes and fixes.
1.7.5 has a few changes to Minecraft Realms, specifically to the main menu and mini-games. There were also some server side performance improvements added. The update also contained a few bug fixes to ensure the stability of the game.
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Minecraft 1.6.1
Minecraft 1.6.1 also known as the Horse Update, added a lot of cool new features which include horses, leads, coal blocks, carpets, resource packs, and a new launcher.
Of the many cool new features in version 1.6.1 includes the new Resource pack system, which directly replaces the texture pack system with in the game. It contains textures, sounds, fonts, language files, credits, end poems, and splash text. This will give those who make texture packs a lot more ...
Minecraft 1.2.5
Minecraft 1.2.5 was released mainly to fix some of the bugs and crashes in 1.2.4. It also added new features such as the pick block key.
Version 1.2.5 added the pick block key, which was an added method to easily acquire blocks currently selected in the world in Creative mode. 1.2.5 also features a few changes to the game, this includes changes to the direct connect dialog, the coding, furnaces, and cat mobs.
Some of the bugs that were fixed are issues detected ...