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The 1.8 Pre-Release is available for testing right now! We've done some extensive testing, and discovered the following features:

- Biomes are MUCH larger and uniform than before

-Swamp biome was added to the list of existing biomes - look for vines on trees!

- Vines
Can be collected with shears, in the manner of leaf blocks. Vines will grow on any surface they are placed on

- Beef and Chicken added

- Strongholds - spawn once per world

- Ruins (basically strongholds on the ground)

- Giant mushrooms (Do not generate yet)

- Silverfish

- Creative mode
Allows flying, insta-break, unlimited items from an item palette, no damage, and more

- Abandoned mine shafts

- Endermen
Normally passive, these night-spawning mobs will teleport to (and attack) you if you look directly at them. When defeated, they can drop Ender Pearls, which presently do nothing

- Bow charging
Variable damage with charge, can also land critical hits. Additionally, attacks can crit if you hit a player or mob when descending from a jump

- Sprinting
Run faster, knock mobs back that are hit during a sprint - appears to deplete the hunger bar faster

- New high-quality Main Menu

- Chest animation (lids open, close)

- Player list on SMP; Server listings

- Setting gamemode on SMP "/gamemode username 0/1", 1 being Creative and 0 being Survival

- Hunger
Depletes slowly over time, can be filled by eating food. At 9 more more bars, you will regenerate health slowly.

- Eating animation

- Arrows stick to mobs

- Xp bar (Gain xp from killing mobs and other players)

- New lighting engine (Colored lights, smoother lighting)

- Clouds are now at the ceiling of the world

- Cave spiders

- Zombies drop rotten flesh, which can be consumed

- Watermelons (as well as watermelon and pumpkin seeds)

- Glass panes
These can be crafted at a crafting table by making a 3x2 grid of Glass Blocks - makes 16 panes. These panes can be placed in lines, corners and crosses, and they will adjoin with the nearest adjacent block.

- Iron Bars
Created by making a 3x2 grid of iron ingots at a crafting table. Can be placed in the same manner as glass panes

- Brick, Stone Brick stairs

- Smooth stone brick
Can be crafted by placing Stone in a 2x2 grid, makes 4 Stone Bricks

- F6 & F7 Adjust the time of day when pressed/held


New features and discoveries will be added as they are found. Stay tuned!
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#1

Posted 09 September 2011 - 11:01 PM

What if Mojang pulls a VALVe and rewards the people who didn't use the 1.8 leak? Many of us will be so screwed.

#2

    Dead_God

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Posted 09 September 2011 - 11:02 PM

They changed cobblestones texture again and it appears that when hitting mobs you have to click each time, much like Terraria. Also mining blocks has been improved; hitting wood with a sword is now faster than just with an empty hand. That was all I found before it crashed...

#3

Posted 09 September 2011 - 11:03 PM

If you want to use the fly ability, double press the spacebar rapidly. After that you can press space to go up or shift to go down.

#4

Posted 09 September 2011 - 11:06 PM

rain kills endermen and new texture of rain also there seems to be a pigman in the mobs folder

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    ooblah

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Posted 09 September 2011 - 11:08 PM

i think they know most of the bugs, so people can probably stop posting them... :p haha! but my minecraft wont load now that im tryin to switch back to 1.7.3 :((

#6

Posted 09 September 2011 - 11:08 PM

Bug: Items may duplicate and cannot be picked up

#7

Posted 09 September 2011 - 11:08 PM

I Came when i heard of the 1.8 prerelease. Then i had an orgasm when i started to play.

#8

Posted 09 September 2011 - 11:08 PM

pigman.... pigmen... wait... *gathers obsidian and flint and steel* im gonna check out the nether =D WOOT!

#9

Posted 09 September 2011 - 11:09 PM

guys new underwater particles :D

#10

Posted 09 September 2011 - 11:09 PM

Did I find something nobody else has yet? If you jump slash with a sword it does double damage or a crit, I 1 hit cows with it thats all I know =/

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    piepei

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Posted 09 September 2011 - 11:10 PM

does anyone know what the nederman pearl does?i havnt found an ender man yet :(

#12

Posted 09 September 2011 - 11:11 PM

bug: items duplicated can be infinite

#13

Posted 09 September 2011 - 11:11 PM

guys they brought back an old bug... the shadows bug that u have to break a block to remove em

#14

Posted 09 September 2011 - 11:11 PM

Endermen make zombie noises! and the drop things called enderman pearls!

#15

Posted 09 September 2011 - 11:11 PM

Im getting my minecraft shirts on the same day 1.8 comes out. I ordered them before the realese date was realesed creepy

#16

Posted 09 September 2011 - 11:12 PM

Crits don't seem to work. If they do, the effect doesn't show up. I've tried both the bow method and the jump descend method.

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    DUM4S5

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Posted 09 September 2011 - 11:13 PM

turning on smooth lighting via the menu kept crashing the game. Edited the options.txt to turn it on =] Loving the new lighting

#18

Posted 09 September 2011 - 11:14 PM

Guys if you want to watch a lets play of this go to this channel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pA8QvYBMb_Y

#19

Posted 09 September 2011 - 11:15 PM

did gravel normally generate in the nether on 1.7.3? if not then i found some. if so then they generate a crap ton more than normal. all i can really see different is theres not as many floating islands. now it doesnt feel like a cluttered land of lava. now it does make it feel big and a little intimidating

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Posted 09 September 2011 - 11:15 PM

did gravel normally generate in the nether on 1.7.3? if not then i found some. if so then they generate a crap ton more than normal. all i can really see different is theres not as many floating islands. now it doesnt feel like a cluttered land of lava. now it does make it feel big and a little intimidating
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