1.8 Updates: Features from the Pre-Release!

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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Gkardos
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Posted Sep 9, 2011
^ Agreed

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Posted Sep 9, 2011
coolio

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Posted Sep 9, 2011
Well, every time I use a furnace now the game crashes. It started when I used a furnace spawned in a village. The screen changes to "Saving Chunks" and crashes.

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Posted Sep 9, 2011
Why is there no fog is the only problem I have here

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Posted Sep 9, 2011
woo! The new character animation will take some getting used to.

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Posted Sep 9, 2011
Cool but a bit of a sour point on clouds. I don't think they should be moved completely out of the way. When you're tower pierces the clouds it looks pretty cool. Only thing that needs to be done is that they don't appear inside, just like rain doesn't fall in places with a roof, the same system should be used for drawing clouds in buildings.

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Posted Sep 9, 2011
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!

1.8 FTW!

D: I'm so excited for 1.8, I checked and nearly cried today because I had a dream that it was finally out. :l

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Posted Sep 9, 2011
Downloaded and tested. Now, my computer does not give me high fps. Using 1.7.3 the average is 15. Using 1.8 pre-release, however, gives me 1 fps. One f**in' frame per second!! If this is how it will be, I'm (sadly) not updating once 1.8 will be offically released. I also experienced terrain generator glitches. Please, notch, for the sake of your fans, don't make minecraft into a game which can't be played on a laptop. Because it would mean me not being able to play minecraft anymore - and hundreds of other players out there.

Sincerely, hnr01, aka minecrafter1995.

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Posted Sep 9, 2011
Don't forget the new swamp biome!
I love the new lighting effects and the enderman! They're adorable :biggrin.gif:

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Posted Sep 9, 2011
Minecraft is very slow on my Windows 7 Toshiba laptop.Have to play on Fast/Tiny 1.8 isn't helping at all.

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Posted Sep 9, 2011
Bug: I could duplicate logs infinitley in survival sometimes!

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Posted Sep 9, 2011
How do you start the minecraft_server.jar?

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Posted Sep 9, 2011
LOVE IT!!! sorry to those of you having trouble with the new update. im running smooth as ever! maybe even better than when i was playing 1.7.3 XD this is almost to good to be true =D went into an under water cave. found a spawner. opened the chest. placed a torch and nearly messed my pants XD the lighting is AMAZING!!! and yes im running a windows 7 laptop =) again. sorry to those who cant handle the new update. *backed up the 1.8 pre-release* much to epic to let this be over written with updates. the cause for being unable to sustain the new update might be because of all the different generation happening at once. like before, the first few days in a new world will be laggy due to generation in the background. dont hate it just cause its a bit slow. though looking through the controls in the options menu. it doesnt tell me how to activate the fly ability in creative mode *sad face* im now jumping around pushing buttons trying to figure that out XD

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Posted Sep 9, 2011
Bug: I cooked chicken with coal and got saving chunks
Bug: Got saving chunks when i collected dirt

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Posted Sep 9, 2011
The furnace bug is actually when you put multiple coal in there. Put only one coal in. It won't crash.

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Posted Sep 9, 2011
Been pretty bug free for me aside from a black screen when I try to change options.

Also noticed in creative mode you can die.. I went to the bottom of a deep ravine and dug deeper and my player died.

Working fine with texture packs (aside from the lack of 1.8 blocks). Unfortunately, the Water Shader mod is giving me a black screen. :/

For some reason the side glass is working even though the texture is missing from the texture.png (using texture packs).

Overall, the wait has been worth it.. this is awesome!

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Posted Sep 9, 2011
Beds don't seem to work, game crashes when I try to. Can duplicate things, as said above. Maybe a bit too many mushrooms for swamp biome, might just be me. Game crashes when things are put in a furnace, as said above.

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Posted Sep 9, 2011
Sounds awesome! I'm not into using leaks, so i'm gonna continue to wait for the full release of 1.8!

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Posted Sep 9, 2011
Wait a minute... one stronghold per world? I hope that isn't the case with the actual 1.8 release.

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Posted Sep 9, 2011
Just bumped into some Endermen down in my mine. Lets just say they got what they asked for >

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