After weeks of hard testing, fixing, re-testing, and fixing even more, the 1.5 Pre-Release is now ready for testing! We are in the final stretch for 1.5, and while it has taken a little longer than many expected, there is a silver lining! Tons of features were added for the Redstone Update, and a landslide of bugs were swept away, to make sure the final release was as smooth and easy as possible.
Ready to see a feature list this time, instead of just bug fixes? Here you go!
1.5 Pre-Release Features:
- Added Redstone Comparator (used in Redstone logic)
- Added Hopper (collects items and moves them to containers)
- Added Dropper (similar to Dispensers, but always drops the item)
- Added Activator Rail (activates TNT Minecarts)
- Added Daylight Sensor
- Added Trapped Chest
- Added Weighed Pressure Plate
- Added Block of Redstone
- Added Nether Brick (item)
- Added Nether Quartz and ore
- Added Block of Quartz, with half blocks and chiseled variants
- New command: /scoreboard
- New command: /effect
- Containers and mobs can have custom names
- Inventory management has been changed, for example you can drag-place items over slots
- Texture packs now have separate images for each block and item, and can have animations
- Nether Quartz Ore now spawns in the Nether
- Smooth lighting now has three settings (none, minimal, maximum)
- More detailed death messages
- Some hostile mobs now are harder in Hard difficulty
- Many, many, bug fixes
- Removed Herobrine
Try out 1.5 early today, and enjoy!
Looks like it'll actually release with no extra patches for once. (For instance: 1.4 was released as 1.4.2 because there were extra patch pre-releases. 1.4.0 and 1.4.1 were never released, and for that matter, neither was 1.4.3.)
Edit: Did they really decide to just scrap the rewrite to the lighting engine?
There are mods that do just about anything. So if it were up to you we wouldn't have anything new added to the game? You have to realize that a lot of people are dedicated vanilla players and don't use mods. It also makes it easier for everyone if it is in the official game instead of having to worry about the mod being up to date or getting everyone on a modded server to download the same versions etc. Whether you and others like it or not redstone is a big part of the game and deserves the attention it gets from them.
WHY?? WHY???