Java Edition Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2

Minecraft Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2

Edition	Java Edition
Release date	September 29, 2011
Type	Pre-release
Pre-release for	1.0.0
Downloads	Client (.json) Server
Protocol version	19
Minimum Java version	Java SE 5
◄◄  Beta 1.8.1 1.0.0 1.0.1 ►► ◄  Beta 1.9 Prerelease Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2 Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3 ►

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Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2 is the second pre-release for Java Edition 1.0.0, released on September 29, 2011, which adds cauldrons, glass bottles, potions, effects, animal breeding mechanics, 9 more music discs, Hardcore mode, and the ability to clear effects by drinking milk.

Additions

Blocks

Cauldron

• Present in the code, but not assigned to a block ID, making it unobtainable without mods.
• Can be filled with a water bucket to start brewing. The liquid defaults to a mundane potion with no effects.
• Holds 3 bottles worth of any potion.
• Ingredients can be added to change the potion's effects. Most potions will end up with negative effects, in an attempt to make clean potions harder to brew.
• The initial mundane potion appears as water, but once ingredients are added, it uses a tinted lava texture.
• Refilling a potion cauldron with a water bucket will also change its effects.

Items

Spider eye

• Drops from spiders.
• Restores 2 () hunger.
• Give Poison when eaten.
• Ingredient for brewing potions.

Blaze powder

• Ingredient for brewing potions.
• Crafted from blaze rod.

2

Fermented spider eye

• Ingredient for brewing potions.
• Crafted from brown mushroom, sugar and spider eye.

Glass bottle

• Used to pick up brewed potions from cauldrons.
• Crafted from glass.

3

Potions

• Drinkable, giving one or multiple effects, or none.
• Can be poured back into a cauldron, unless it is full or already contains a different potion.
• Has one of 32 generic names, with the actual effects being listed in the tooltip.
• Identical potions can be stacked to 64. Due to hidden differences in their aux value, some potions that appear the same cannot be stacked together.

Magma cream

• Ingredient for brewing potions.
• Crafted from blaze powder and slimeball.

Music Discs

• 11 by C418
• blocks by C418
• chirp by C418
• far by C418
• mall by C418
• mellohi by C418
• stal by C418
• strad by C418
• ward by C418
  • Currently only obtainable in Creative mode.

Gameplay

Breeding

• Wheat attracts and feed animals.
• Feeding animals makes them enter "love mode".
  • Hearts will come out of animals while in love mode.
• Breeding will produce new animals.

Player breeding a snow golem.

Effects

• Speed
  • Now has an icon.
  • Causes entities to move faster on foot.
• Slowness
  • Now has an icon.
  • Decreases walking speed.
• Haste
  • Now has an icon.
  • Increases mining efficiency and attack speed.
• Mining Fatigue
  • Now has an icon.
  • Reduces mining efficiency and attack speed.
• Instant Health
  • Increases health for players and living mobs and damages the undead.
• Instant Damage
  • Decreases health for players and living mobs and heals the undead.
• Water Breathing
  • Now has an icon.
  • Delays drowning.
• Nausea
  • Now has an icon.
  • Warps and wobbles the player's vision.
• Strength
  • Now has an icon.
  • Increases attack damage.
• Weakness
  • Now has an icon.
  • Decreases attack damage.
• Jump Boost
  • Now has an icon.
  • Increases the jumping height of the bearer.
• Resistance
  • Now has an icon.
  • Reduces incoming damage.
• Fire Resistance
  • Now has an icon.
  • Grants the affected entity complete immunity to all sources of fire damage.
• Invisibility
  • Now has an icon.
  • Has no function yet.
• Blindness
  • Now has an icon.
  • Impairs a player's vision.
• Night Vision
  • Now has an icon.
  • Enhances the player's ability to see in darkness and underwater.

Hardcore mode

• Locks the difficulty to Hard and forces users to delete the world's save data upon death.
• The health bar changes appearance to indicate the game is in Hardcore mode.

Item repair

• Two of the same tools/weapons that are damaged in crafting will create one repaired tool/weapon.

Changes

Blocks

Glass pane

• No longer drops as an item when destroyed.

Lava

• Entities are now set on fire for 15 seconds (300 ticks) instead of 30 seconds (600 ticks) after being directly hurt by lava.

Items

Gold nugget

• Now has a tooltip.

Golden apple

• Now has a glint in the inventory.

Milk bucket

• Drinking milk resets all potion effects currently afflicted upon the player now.

Mobs

Cave spider

• Cave spiders now drop 0-1 spider eye when killed by a player or tamed wolf.
• The cave spider's health points have been reduced from 20HP × 10 to 12HP × 6.

Chickens

• Can now be bred.

Cows

• Can now be bred.

Pigs

• Can now be bred.

Sheep

• Can now be bred.

Spider

• Cave spiders now drop 0-1 spider eye when killed by a player or tamed wolf.
• Now have 16HP × 8.

Villagers

• No longer have a "TESTIFICATE" label above their head.

Zombies

• Additional armor points were added, making them tougher.
  • Now have 20HP × 10 and 2 ().

Gameplay

Effects

• Regeneration
  • Now has an icon.
• Hunger
  • Now has an icon.
• Poison
  • Now has an icon.

General

Item tooltips

• Now have a purple border.

Jumping

• Removed debug code causing jumping to increase experience.
• Continuous jumping by holding down the jump key is now possible again.

Third person view

• Can now render the front of the player.

Fixes

1 bug fixed

• Client-side double mooshroom bug in multiplayer fixed.

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