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!
Seriously, how many times to removed Herobrine in endlessly but maybe I think that is hoax?
Yep he's hard to remove. No but seriously, I'm still waiting on the update where they make him real. They could make him the FINAL boss of the game, and the end credits (after beating him) will show some other Steve coming to fight you.
They keep saying this!!! Maybe someone killed him and they are removing him 1 tiny bloody piece at a time!
MiNeCrAfT Is AlIvE!1!1!1!1!1!
It's the final test phase so that they don't release gamebreaking bugs. It's also an opportunity for mods to update ahead of time.