Beta 1.6


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Beta 1.6
Release date

May 26, 2011

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Client Minecraft launcher Current version 2.0.934 Platforms The Minecraft launcher is the login and downloader front-end to the stand-alone client. It is responsible for downloading the main Java packages, including minecraft.jar, which holds the code and minecraft
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Other editions of 1.6

Beta 1.6 added maps Map Type Tools Durability N/A Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) First appearances See History Data values Drawn dec: 358 hex: 166 bin: 101100110 Empty dec: 395 hex: 18B bin: 110001011 Name PCPersonal Computer Drawn: filled_map Empty: map PE Drawn: ? Empty: emptymap This minecraft , trapdoors Trapdoor Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 15 (Wooden) 25 (Iron) Tools Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable Iron: No Wooden: No, but catches fire from lava Drops Itself Data values See Data values Name minecraft , the Nether A view of the Nether. The Nether is a hell-like dimension, filled with fire, lava, and dangerous mobs. Contents 1 Accessing 2 Environment 2.1 Mobs 3 Generation 3.1 Naturally generated 3.2 Naturally created 3.3 Structures minecraft in multiplayer as well as other changes and many bug fixes.

Additions

Videos

Changes

Fixes

97 bugs fixed

  • Fixed saving while sneaking dropping the player through the ground.
  • Fixed player rotation not being loaded correctly when loading a saved game.
  • Fixed the player not being able to sneak off lowered blocks like cacti.
  • Fixed a game crash when riding a vehicle or animal into the nether.
  • Fixed falling while riding not dealing damage to the rider.
  • Fixed buttons and levers too close to the player being impossible to use.
  • Fixed furnaces and dispensers not dropping their contents when destroyed.
  • Fixed fire and lava dealing damage through wall corners.
  • Fixed entities reaching water through wall corners.
  • Fixed placing doors next to cacti creating half-doors.
  • Fixed farmland taking too long to dig.
  • Fixed tilling below some blocks being possible.
  • Fixed tilling the underside of blocks somehow working.
  • Fixed fences and stairs sometimes becoming invisible.
  • Fixed fences and signs preventing grass from growing.
  • Fixed walking on top of fences not producing step sounds.
  • Fixed grass staying alive below stair blocks.
  • Fixed the achievement screen not pausing the game.
  • Fixed some screens breaking the sky tint color.
  • Fixed fullscreen mode switching causing mouse issues and screen closes.
  • Fixed chat messages surviving through game switches.
  • Fixed levers being placeable on weird locations.
  • Fixed floor levers sometimes not delivering a signal downwards.
  • Fixed floor levers sometimes not being removed when the floor is removed.
  • Fixed dying in the nether spawning new portals.
  • Fixed ore density varying per quadrant from the center of the world.
  • Fixed saplings being plantable through snow onto non-grass blocks.
  • Fixed wooden pressure plates being mined with pickaxes.
  • Fixed creepers retaining charge level when they can⃢₀ₙt see their target.
  • Fixed inventory acting weird when portaling by making the portal close all screens.
  • Fixed dispenser graphics being one pixel off.
  • Fixed mushrooms spawning everywhere during nights.
  • Fixed animals only spawning near light during the night.
  • Fixed the multiplayer join screen input field being too short.
  • Fixed entities above the map height limit becoming invisible.
  • Fixed loads of exploding TNT generating way too many particles, which usually crashed the game.
  • Fixed grasscolor.png and foliagecolor.png not being read from texture packs.
  • Fixed receiving more items than the maximum stack size sometimes causing an oversized stack in the inventory
  • Fixed rain sounds not playing with fast graphics enabled.
  • Fixed glass not blocking rain sound
  • Fixed rain falling through liquids.
  • Fixed rain falling too slowly.
  • Fixed rain and snow being incorrectly lit.
  • Fixed arrow physics, making them not get stuck midair when you open a door.
  • Fixed arrows colliding with reeds, portals, and other non-solid blocks.
  • Fixed arrows being animated really strangely in multiplayer.
  • Fixed arrows triggering too many entity move updates in multiplayer.
  • Fixed submerged boats rising very very fast.
  • Fixed boats placed on snow being placed too far up.
  • Fixed sand dropping onto boats getting stuck in a falling animation.
  • Fixed dispensers shooting through walls.
  • Fixed dispensers biasing later slots.
  • Fixed fire effect on burning entities sometimes getting rendered in the wrong location.
  • Fixed fences and wooden stairs not being flammable.
  • Fixed fire sometimes existing mid-air as an invisible block of pain.
  • Fixed fire displacing water.
  • Fixed fires being impossible to put out in multiplayer.
  • Fixed fishing rod rendering being a bit lacking.
  • Fixed fishing rods being stackable.
  • Fixed water interacting strangely with glass.
  • Fixed items in glass blocks not getting ejected properly.
  • Fixed mining glass hiding the clouds behind the glass.
  • Fixed minecarts next to each other causing extreme velocities.
  • Fixed rail tiles sometimes not properly connecting to a new neighbor.
  • When breaking a minecart the player is currently riding in, the player no longer falls through the block the track is placed on.
  • Fixed the cracking texture being dark on the sides of grass blocks.
  • Fixed anaglyph 3d rendering mode having severe visual bugs.
  • Fixed the achievements screen messing up the sky color.
  • Fixed hair and cloaks being rendered in the wrong locations on sneaking players.
  • Fixed a bug where the player could mine without visually swinging their arm.
  • Fixed the attack/swing animation not being applied to the armor layer
  • Fixed redstone repeaters using pumpkin particles.
  • Glowstone and Jack-o-lanterns recessed into a wall or other surface no longer have shadows cast on them by surrounding blocks when smooth lighting is enabled.
  • Fixed running out of memory corrupting the current level.
  • Fixed the crash screen vanishing immediately.
  • Fixed not being able to target blocks when at x or z pos 1000.
  • Fixed a system clock change messing up the game speed.
  • Fixed keybindings not getting saved properly under certain conditions.
  • Fixed stats getting saved to different files in offline mode if the caps in the player name differ from the true spelling.

SMP only

  • Fixed IPv6 addresses being parsed wrong.
  • Fixed network packets being sent unbuffered, causing huge amounts of packets being sent.
  • Fixed entity positions going out of synch sometimes. They get re-synched every 20 seconds now.
  • Fixed inventory icons not animating after being picked up in multiplayer.
  • Fixed mushroom soup not leaving a bowl.
  • Fixed wolves not following their owner if the name has different caps.
  • Fixed healing not flashing the health bar
  • Fixed the compass not pointing at the spawn location.
  • Fixed record players spawning client-side fake records.
  • Fixed records not playing for other players.
  • Fixed players spawning in the wrong location and quickly lerping to the correct location.
  • Fixed monsters not being visible for players with their difficulty set to peaceful.
  • Fixed pigs getting hit by lightning spawning client-side zombie pigmen.
  • Fixed bonemeal use sometimes spawning fake client-side trees.
  • Fixed saplings sometimes spawning trees client-side.
  • Fixed weather sometimes changing client-side.
  • Fixed fireballs not being visible in multiplayer.
  • Fixed ghasts⃢₀ₙ firing animation not being visible.