Java Edition Beta 1.5

Minecraft Beta 1.5

Edition	Java Edition
Release date	April 19, 2011
Downloads	Client (.json) Server (.exe)
Protocol version	11
Minimum Java version	Java SE 5
Applet page	minecraft.net/game/
Cache ID	Original 1303219754000 Reupload 1303220253000
◄◄  Beta 1.4 Beta 1.5 Beta 1.6 ►► ◄  Beta 1.4_01 Beta 1.5_01 ►

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Beta 1.5 is a version of Java Edition Beta released on April 19, 2011, which added statistics and achievements, new types of rails and saplings, and cobwebs among other changes and fixes.

Additions

Beta 1.5 block and item additions

Blocks

Birch sapling

• Grows into birch trees.
• Can be used as fuel in furnaces, smelting 0.5 items per sapling.

Cobweb

• Unobtainable in the game without inventory editing.
• Slows down the player and mobs.
• Cobwebs drop string when broken using a sword.

Detector rail

• Used to detect minecarts on top of it.
• When activated, it produces redstone power.
• Crafted with stone pressure plate, iron ingots and redstone dust.

6

Powered rail

• Needs to be powered by redstone.
• Transmits redstone signal to 8 powered rails far.
• Increases the speed of minecarts.
• Crafted with stick, gold ingots and redstone dust.

6

Spruce sapling

• Grows into spruce trees.
• Can be used as fuel in furnaces, smelting 0.5 items per sapling.

Mobs

Charged creepers

• When struck by a lightning bolt, creepers now become charged.
• Have a much more powerful explosion.

Non-mob entities

Lightning bolt

• May strike during thunderstorms, creating fire and dealing damage around it.

Gameplay

Achievements

• There are currently 16 achievements.

Icon	Achievement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Identifier
	Taking Inventory	Press 'E' to open your inventory	—	Open your inventory. The description matches the configured inventory key.	openInventory
	Getting Wood	Attack a tree until a block of wood pops out	Taking Inventory	Pick up wood from the ground.	mineWood
	Benchmarking	Craft a workbench with four blocks of planks	Getting Wood	Pick up a crafting table from inventory's crafting field output or a crafting table output.	buildWorkBench
	Time to Mine!	Use planks and sticks to make a pickaxe	Benchmarking	Pick up a wooden pickaxe from a crafting table output.	buildPickaxe
	Hot Topic	Construct a furnace out of eight stone blocks.	Time to Mine!	Pick up a furnace from a crafting table output.	buildFurnace
	Acquire Hardware	Smelt an iron ingot	Hot Topic	Pick up an iron ingot from a furnace output.	acquireIron
	Time to Farm!	Use planks and sticks to make a hoe	Benchmarking	Pick up a wooden hoe from a crafting table output.	buildHoe
	Bake Bread	Turn wheat into bread	Time to Farm!	Pick up bread from a crafting table output.	makeBread
	The Lie	Wheat, sugar, milk, and eggs!	Time to Farm!	Pick up a cake from a crafting table output.	bakeCake
	Getting an Upgrade	Construct a better pickaxe	Time to Mine!	Pick up a stone pickaxe from a crafting table output.	buildBetterPickaxe
	Delicious Fish	Catch and cook fish!	Hot Topic	Pick up a cooked fish from a furnace output.	cookFish
	On A Rail	Travel by minecart at least 1 km from where you started	Acquire Hardware	Travel by minecart to a point at least 1000 blocks from where you started. Distance is measured in a straight line.	onARail
	Time to Strike!	Use planks and sticks to make a sword	Benchmarking	Pick up a wooden sword from a crafting table output.	buildSword
	Monster Hunter	Attack and destroy a monster	Time to Strike!	Kill a hostile mob or one of the following neutral mobs: zombie pigman, spider.	killEnemy
	Cow Tipper	Harvest some leather	Time to Strike!	Pick up leather from the ground.	killCow
	When Pigs Fly	Fly a pig off a cliff	Cow Tipper	Be riding a pig (i.e. using a saddle) when it hits the ground with a fall distance greater than 5.	flyPig

Weather

• Added natural occurring rain, snowfalls, and thunderstorms.

General

Options

• Ability to change GUI size ("Small", "Normal", "Large", "Auto").
• Advanced OpenGL (occlusion culling: doesn't render blocks that the player can't "see", helps performance in cards that support it).

Particles

• Added footstep.

Statistics

• Added on the game menu.

Changes

Blocks

Bed

• Sleeping in thunderstorms is now possible, even in daytime.

Birch leaves

• Now drop birch saplings.

Crying obsidian

• Texture has now been removed from terrain.png.

Grass blocks

• Texture changed from .
  • Old grass block can still be enabled if the graphics are set to "Fast".

Ladders

• Its crafting recipe now produces 2 ladders to offset the fix of the staggered-ladder exploit.

2

Sapling

• Can now be used as fuel in furnaces, smelting 0.5 items per sapling.

Spruce leaves

• Now drop spruce saplings.

Redstone dust

• Can now be placed on snow.
• Several changes in redstone wire rendering.
  • Due this change, it no longer appears stretched when traveling vertically up a block. However, it still appears offset.
• Fully off redstone wire is no longer black.
  • After:
  • Before:

Items

General

• Dropped items in flowing water move faster than before.

Mobs

Pigs

• When killed by burning, now drop cooked porkchops upon death.
• When struck by a lighting bolt, they now become zombie pigmen.

Wolves

• Now more common, even in non-taiga/forest biomes.

Non-mob entities

Players

• Unarmed damage was increased from 1HP to 2HP.

Gameplay

Controls

• Pressing ↹ Tab switches between input boxes.
• ⇧ Shift + F2 no longer creates a 36450×17700 pixel screenshot.
• ⇧ Shift + clicking on something in a chest immediately moves the selected item(s) into the player's inventory and vice-versa.

Sky

• Stars are now slightly dimmer.

Technical

General

Performance

• Huge performance improvements for old and slow computers.

Fixes

14 bugs fixed

• Players are only 'on' a ladder (can climb it/fall slowly) if the lower half is in the ladder block, rather than any part of the player.
  • It is no longer possible to climb with a one-block gap in a ladder, or a ladder that starts at eye level.
• On fancy graphics, the sides of grass blocks are now biome-specific and match the shade on the top.
• Player movement through water has been fixed to previous speed.
• Wolves' pathfinding now has a better understanding of doors. They go through doors most of the time, but sometimes get stuck on the 3-pixel thickness of the door.
• The lighting on portals and ice has been fixed when using smooth lighting.
• Stairs are no longer transparent to light.
• On multiplayer, the health of wolves are now synchronized between server and client, causing wolves to only whimper when low on health, as opposed to all of the time.
• Redstone in off state is red again.
• Crops hit with water now drop seeds and wheat, as opposed to just wheat.
• Moving minecarts continue to move if the world is closed.
• The Mojang logo is the correct size when the client is maximized.
• The exploit to make chests three or more side by side by placing a water source and placing a chest in that source has been fixed.
• Sugar cane can now only be placed on dirt.

Trivia

• At 13:29 UTC (8 minutes before the compilation of the client.jar file for this version) there were reports on IRC about a new update, but it has not been confirmed whether that version was a reupload of the previous version or a pre-reupload of this version.

Gallery

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  The achievement UI with the first achievement completed.
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  Screenshot of the new weather.
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  More of the new weather.
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  The Minecraft webpage with this version
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