Beta 1.6

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Beta 1.6 is a version of Java Edition Beta that was released on May 26, 2011. It added maps, trapdoors, and fixed many bugs.

Additions

Blocks

• Dead Bush - only found in deserts
• Grass - used to obtain wheat seeds
• Fern - has the same characteristics as grass
• Trapdoor - a decorative block

Items

• Map - lets the player look at the terrain surrounding them and mark landmarks.

Commands

• Added two new settings to server.properties:
  • view-distance – sets the amount of world data the server sends the client, measured in chunks in each direction of the player
  • allow-nether – allows whether players can travel to and from The Nether

Gameplay

• Added support for the Nether in multiplayer.

Changes

Blocks

General

• Blocks destroyed by other players in multiplayer now show the breaking block particle effect.
• It's no longer possible to build solid blocks on the top layer of the map.
• Blocks that don't change appearance when the data changes don't send block updates when their data changes now.

Beds

• Trying to sleep in the nether causes the bed to explode.

Dispensers

• When activated, it will make sounds and trigger particles in multiplayer.

Doors

• Now make a sound for other players in multiplayer.

Fire

• Has been severely nerfed so it spreads slower and doesn't spread infinitely.

Ice

• Now regenerates regardless of whether it's snowing or not

Jukebox

• Now supports more than 15 different music discs.
  • No additional music discs were added until Java Edition 1.0.0.

Mushrooms

• Now spread, albeit slowly.

Powered Rails

• Now speedier to offset the loss of glitch-boosters.

Water

• A layer of blocks under water source blocks no longer behave like source blocks.

Items

Arrows

• When shot by one player, can now be picked up by other players.

Non-mob entities

• Boats & Minecarts now cannot go through portals that are empty or occupied.

Gameplay

Lightning

• The lighting on block icons in the inventory has been changed to appear brighter.

Players

• When stuck in walls, players will now slide towards the nearest gap if there is one.

General

Controls

• ⇧ Shift+clicking while crafting makes as much of the crafted item as possible and moves it straight to player's inventory.
• ⇧ Shift+clicking something in player's inventory will push it directly into the player's hotbar.

Network traffic

• Compressed network traffic more aggressively.

Options

• Temporarily disabled Advanced OpenGL due to bugs until 1.6.5.

Texture packs

• Added support for misc\grasscolor.png and misc\foliagecolor.png images.

Fixes

• 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 can't 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 very 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=1000 or z=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.

Multiplayer 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-synced 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 leaping 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 ghasts' firing animation not being visible.