This mod is a part of the Legacy+ collection of mods. For more information, please visit the main thread.
Alpha Recrafted aims to revive the Alpha version of Minecraft, specifically Alpha 1.1.2_01, the last version with the classic neon-green look and before biomes, with new content that fits the aesthetic of the game at the time. The goal is to make a small-form, vanilla-friendly mod that emulates the feeling as if Notch took a few extra weeks to release Alpha 1.2.0. Furthermore, some of the updates act as "Seecret Friday" updates, actually released on Fridays (or Saturdays) and adding seecret content that isn't announced!
Regarding support, please do note this mod was made in a single week as a coding challenge for fun. Thus, it only supports single player. I do not find it worthwhile to add MP support to this, as the multiplayer for this alpha version is pretty bad, and I don't feel like improving it.
Finally, big credit goes to DirtPiper and his NSSS mod for inspiring this mod's creation (and the greater project of Legacy+ as a whole!). If you haven't done so already, do make sure to check out his mod
Additions
* Beta 1.7.3 biome system with only three biomes: Vanilla biome (comprises most of the world, UNTOUCHED), Desert and Snowy areas
* Weather (chance to rain, snows in snowy biomes) - Rain hydrates soil and puts out fires, snow piles up on the ground in snowy biomes, giving renewable snow.
* Creative Mode - Includes the Beta 1.8 inventory (full block and items list), flight, proper god mode and infinite stacks. Mobs don't spawn in creative mode by design!
* Fishing - Works just like Alpha 1.2.0. Fish share the same ID as they do in later versions, allowing seamless conversion.
* Clock - Shares same ID as Alpha 1.2.0
* Shift-clicking in all containers
* Proper pick-block in both creative and survival modes.
* Added screenshotting with F2, hiding HUD with F1 and a front-facing camera mode with F5
* New options for setting FOV and GUI scale
* Zoom feature
* Infinite world slots and ability to name a world, set its gamemode and seed upon world creation.
* Item tooltips
Changes
* Better leaf decay (backported from Beta)
* Better recipe outputs: Stairs give 8, slabs give 6, ladders give 3, doors give 2, signs give 2
* Stackable doors and signs
* Gold tools have silk touch (pickaxes for stone, shovels for grass/clay and axes for leaves).
* Golden hoes always drop a seed
* Golden swords increase drop rates of all mobs from 0-2 to 1-3.
* Buffed durability of all tools: Gold and Wood now have 64, Stone has 128, Iron 256 and diamond 1024.
* Golden pickaxes can mine all ores
* Increased mining speed for blocks such as stairs, furnaces and obsidian
* Sponges now work and can be found in dungeon chests
* Apples fall from trees occasionally
* Chainmail armor can now be found in dungeon chests.
* Snow layers can be crafted with snowballs
* F3 screen has been improved. It now shows coordinates, seed, biome and the lagometer, and is now a toggle (no longer needed to hold it)
* Boats no longer break on collision and will drop themselves
* Mushrooms now spread
* You can now craft mossy cobblestone with 1 slimeball and 8 cobblestone surrounding it (output is 8)
* TNT can now be defused by punching it
* Saplings can be used as a fuel in furnaces
* Stair and furnace placement now works properly and will always face the player
* Pigs drop cooked pork if set on fire, and a saddle if saddled.
* Eggs are now throwable
* Fences can now be placed anywhere and have a thinner hitbox
* You can now sneak on ladders to hold into place
* Sneaking while throwing an item will throw the entire stack.
* Spiders now climb walls
* Right-clicking with armor now equips it.
* Arm/held item sways with camera movement like in Beta 1.8. Controlled by the view bobbing option.
* You can now place over flowers.
* Buckets of Milk now heal 5 hearts when consumed.
Fixes
* Stairs now drop themselves
* Double slabs drop 2 slabs instead of 1
* Slimes will split, even when overdamaged.
* Fixed cave cutoff
* Fixed clay and ore generation in negative quadrants
* Fixed world generation sometimes causing a crash
* Fixed death screen score display
* Fixed mob model not rendering inside of mob spawner blocks
* Corrected sign rendering over the "done" button in sign input screen.
* Snow can now be placed on glass and leaves
* Tools don't take damage when breaking insta-break blocks like torches or flowers
* Fixed hitbox bug with doors (you can no longer hit through them and mobs cant hit you back)
* Fixed ladder gaps bug
* Made furnaces drop their contents when broken
* Fixed right-clicking containers with a held item using said item
* Fixed being able to consume food when on full health
* Fixed cow horns not aligning properly with the head
* Fixed jukebox not dropping records or stopping the music when broken.
* Fixed a crash when changing graphics settings from the main menu.
* Fixed jukebox volume being independent from music or sound. It is now tied to music.
* Fixed switching to 3d anaglyph causing entity shadows to render incorrectly.
Alpha Recrafted v1.1.3_01
Fixed an infinite loop with the lighting engine, causing generated worlds to hang sometimes
Fixed doors and signs dropping themselves when mined with gold tools
Fixed issues with shift-clicking
Fixed rain rendering in full bright
Fixed bricks not mining fast with a pickaxe
Alpha Recrafted v1.1.3_02
Fixed world deletion being janky
Fixed wooden pressure plates not dropping themselves if mined without a pickaxe
Pressure plates can now be placed on fences
v1.1.4 (Seecret Friday #10)
Alpha Recrafted v1.1.4
Additions
3 new world types: Infdev (based on 415 terrain), Classic (based on 227 terrain) and Flat
4 new world themes: Woods (perpetual twilight, more trees and mushrooms), Paradise (perpetual daylight, lots of flowers everywhere), Hell (perpetual night, lava replaces water, dirt replaces grass and grass replaces sand) and Desert (whole world is a desert, with grass replacing beaches).
Storage blocks for coal and redstone
Colored wool is back and crafted with new dye items
New blue flower used to make blue dye for blue wools
Zombies and skeletons can now occasionally spawn wearing armor. They can only wear chainmail or iron. Armor actually protects them.
Zombies can spawn holding a tool or weapon, and deal extra damage if so.
Added weighted/iron pressure plates, only triggered by players
Added remaining records by C418 (they were in the files but unused)
Skeletons now drop bones, used to make white dye that also acts as bone meal fertilizer
A couple of secrets!
Changes
Apples drop considerably less than before
Winter mode is now a theme and can be selected upon world creation
Bows now have 256 durability and take damage with every shot fired
Fixes
Fixed player arm rendering break when riding boats.
Fixed chestplate not animating with arm swings.
Alpha Recrafted v1.1.4_01
Changes
Armored mobs now have a chance to drop their armor
Zombies that hold items have a chance to drop their held item
Skeletons have a chance to drop their bows
Quivers now work and can be found in dungeons. To use them, put arrows in them by hovering an arrow stack over them and clicking on them. They will consume all the arrows they can and their durability bar will go up. You can then fire it as many times as it has durability. They are unbreakable, if they run out of arrows you simply need to fill them up again. Each quiver can hold up to 256 arrows at a time!
Wait music disc should now function properly
v1.1.5 (Seecret Saturday #2)
Alpha Recrafted v1.1.5
Additions
A small but very useful seecret!
Additional debug screen values for currently selected block, tile entities count, player facing and GPU info
Pressing F4 in creative ONLY now brings the player back to world spawn
Alpha Recrafted v1.1.5_01
You can now repair items in the crafting grid (combine two damaged items)
Items dropped in water now float up
Added a day counter to the debug screen
Fixed sand layering
Version number is now visible on the title screen
Alpha Recrafted v1.1.5_02
Fixed spawn point not being possible below ocean level
Alpha Recrafted v1.1.5_03
Buffed armor durabilities
Fixed another crash
Alpha Recrafted v1.1.5_04
Fixed rain particles rendering when they shouldn't in winter worlds
Alpha Recrafted v1.1.5_05
Fixed janky world select screen bugs
v1.1.6 (Seecret Friday #11)
Alpha Recrafted v1.1.6
Additions
A seecret!
Changes
You can now place torches on fences
Golden apples are now crafted with gold ingots
Fire strikers and mushroom stews now use shapeless recipes.
Saddled pigs no longer despawn
Arrows shot by skeletons now render as purple, like in Survival Test
Sneaking while right-clicking a container no longer opens it, but places a block on it instead
Music discs now display the track name in their tooltip
Cactus can now be placed next to each other
Signs can now be edited without breaking them (just right-click on them)
Dropped items now follow the player's vertical axis as well (you can see them from below and above)
Closing a crafting inventory prematurely while still having it ems in the grid no longer drops said items on the ground, but instantly adds them to the inventory instead.
Clouds are now more detailed
Split the "graphics" option into several sub-options in a new "graphics" screen
New particles option to toggle all misc particles on/off
Made snowy areas a bit more common
Spawners placed in creative mode now pick a random mob on placement
Breaking mob spawners now gives 3-8 of the mob's drop.
You can now find gold ingots, coal and rarely 1-2 diamonds in dungeon chests
Dungeon chests can now only have 3-8 items, no longer always guaranteeing 8 like in vanilla
Hitting a sheep with a golden sword now causes it to drop one extra wool block
Corrected chicken hitbox
Yaw value in the debug screen is now capped at 360
Fixes
Fixed a vanilla bug where placing a sign on a cactus crashes the game
Fixed player arms swinging when riding a pig, boat or minecart
Fixed dye recipes being broken
Fixed infinite reach hack in creative
Fixed a crash when you try to drop your held item while holding nothing and sneaking
v1.1.7 (Seecret Saturday #3)
Alpha Recrafted v1.1.7 (Seecret Saturday #3)
Additions
A seecret! Look in the oceans + new way to obtain sponge!
Changes
Zombies now drop an item based on what they're holding (their "profession"):
Axe = sticks (lumberjack/carpenter)
Pickaxe = coal or very rarely iron (miner)
Sword = leather or feather (hunter)
Shovel = Flint (fletcher)
Hoe = Wheat (farmer)
All zombies now hold an item, just like all skeletons hold bows
Sheep now graze and regrow their wool when sheared (punched)
Fixes
Fixed buckets being consumed when using them to smelt things
Fixed chest gui not scaling properly with how big a chest is
Fixed a crash when breaking spawners in survival
Fixed not being able to pick-block seeds
Alpha Recrafted v1.1.7_01
Changes
Deserts are now more desert-y
Bone-mealing grass next to water now produces reeds, making them obtainable in some worlds where they previously were unobtainable (namely hell and winter worlds)
Fixes
Fixed coral particles not being colored
Alpha Recrafted v1.1.7_02
Changes
You can now heal pigs with wheat.
v1.1.8 (current)
Alpha Recrafted v1.1.8
Additions:
Colored bricks from Classic+
Changes:
Clay can now generate in dirt underwater, making it slightly more abundant in the ocean floor
Slabs can now change their shape based on what wall they are placed against
Slabs can now be stacked on top of each other, even when there is a block already above them.
Crying obsidian now requires a diamond pickaxe to mine
Alpha Recrafted v1.1.8_01
Right-clicking a double slab with a pickaxe will now split it. This works for all directions.
Golden pickaxes can no longer pick up double slabs
Alpha Recrafted v1.1.8_02
* Added hanging signs. Place them on the underside of a block!
Alpha Recrafted v1.1.8_03
Tweaked the colored bricks' texture a bit. They're now closer in brightness and contrast to the regular bricks.
Fixed not being able to get out of water when riding a pig.
Thank you! I appreciate it =)
I am planning on doing another update soon-ish. I will keep updating this mod until the summer, when I plan to start working on Beta Recrafted instead.
This mod is a part of the Legacy+ collection of mods. For more information, please visit the main thread.
Alpha Recrafted aims to revive the Alpha version of Minecraft, specifically Alpha 1.1.2_01, the last version with the classic neon-green look and before biomes, with new content that fits the aesthetic of the game at the time. The goal is to make a small-form, vanilla-friendly mod that emulates the feeling as if Notch took a few extra weeks to release Alpha 1.2.0. Furthermore, some of the updates act as "Seecret Friday" updates, actually released on Fridays (or Saturdays) and adding seecret content that isn't announced!

Regarding support, please do note this mod was made in a single week as a coding challenge for fun. Thus, it only supports single player. I do not find it worthwhile to add MP support to this, as the multiplayer for this alpha version is pretty bad, and I don't feel like improving it.
Finally, big credit goes to DirtPiper and his NSSS mod for inspiring this mod's creation (and the greater project of Legacy+ as a whole!). If you haven't done so already, do make sure to check out his mod
Download & Install Instructions
Changelogs
v1.1.3
Alpha Recrafted v1.1.3
Additions
* Beta 1.7.3 biome system with only three biomes: Vanilla biome (comprises most of the world, UNTOUCHED), Desert and Snowy areas
* Weather (chance to rain, snows in snowy biomes) - Rain hydrates soil and puts out fires, snow piles up on the ground in snowy biomes, giving renewable snow.
* Creative Mode - Includes the Beta 1.8 inventory (full block and items list), flight, proper god mode and infinite stacks. Mobs don't spawn in creative mode by design!
* Fishing - Works just like Alpha 1.2.0. Fish share the same ID as they do in later versions, allowing seamless conversion.
* Clock - Shares same ID as Alpha 1.2.0
* Shift-clicking in all containers
* Proper pick-block in both creative and survival modes.
* Added screenshotting with F2, hiding HUD with F1 and a front-facing camera mode with F5
* New options for setting FOV and GUI scale
* Zoom feature
* Infinite world slots and ability to name a world, set its gamemode and seed upon world creation.
* Item tooltips
Changes
* Better leaf decay (backported from Beta)
* Better recipe outputs: Stairs give 8, slabs give 6, ladders give 3, doors give 2, signs give 2
* Stackable doors and signs
* Gold tools have silk touch (pickaxes for stone, shovels for grass/clay and axes for leaves).
* Golden hoes always drop a seed
* Golden swords increase drop rates of all mobs from 0-2 to 1-3.
* Buffed durability of all tools: Gold and Wood now have 64, Stone has 128, Iron 256 and diamond 1024.
* Golden pickaxes can mine all ores
* Increased mining speed for blocks such as stairs, furnaces and obsidian
* Sponges now work and can be found in dungeon chests
* Apples fall from trees occasionally
* Chainmail armor can now be found in dungeon chests.
* Snow layers can be crafted with snowballs
* F3 screen has been improved. It now shows coordinates, seed, biome and the lagometer, and is now a toggle (no longer needed to hold it)
* Boats no longer break on collision and will drop themselves
* Mushrooms now spread
* You can now craft mossy cobblestone with 1 slimeball and 8 cobblestone surrounding it (output is 8)
* TNT can now be defused by punching it
* Saplings can be used as a fuel in furnaces
* Stair and furnace placement now works properly and will always face the player
* Pigs drop cooked pork if set on fire, and a saddle if saddled.
* Eggs are now throwable
* Fences can now be placed anywhere and have a thinner hitbox
* You can now sneak on ladders to hold into place
* Sneaking while throwing an item will throw the entire stack.
* Spiders now climb walls
* Right-clicking with armor now equips it.
* Arm/held item sways with camera movement like in Beta 1.8. Controlled by the view bobbing option.
* You can now place over flowers.
* Buckets of Milk now heal 5 hearts when consumed.
Fixes
* Stairs now drop themselves
* Double slabs drop 2 slabs instead of 1
* Slimes will split, even when overdamaged.
* Fixed cave cutoff
* Fixed clay and ore generation in negative quadrants
* Fixed world generation sometimes causing a crash
* Fixed death screen score display
* Fixed mob model not rendering inside of mob spawner blocks
* Corrected sign rendering over the "done" button in sign input screen.
* Snow can now be placed on glass and leaves
* Tools don't take damage when breaking insta-break blocks like torches or flowers
* Fixed hitbox bug with doors (you can no longer hit through them and mobs cant hit you back)
* Fixed ladder gaps bug
* Made furnaces drop their contents when broken
* Fixed right-clicking containers with a held item using said item
* Fixed being able to consume food when on full health
* Fixed cow horns not aligning properly with the head
* Fixed jukebox not dropping records or stopping the music when broken.
* Fixed a crash when changing graphics settings from the main menu.
* Fixed jukebox volume being independent from music or sound. It is now tied to music.
* Fixed switching to 3d anaglyph causing entity shadows to render incorrectly.
Alpha Recrafted v1.1.3_01
Alpha Recrafted v1.1.3_02
v1.1.4 (Seecret Friday #10)
Alpha Recrafted v1.1.4
Additions
Changes
Fixes
Alpha Recrafted v1.1.4_01
Changes
v1.1.5 (Seecret Saturday #2)
Alpha Recrafted v1.1.5
Additions
Alpha Recrafted v1.1.5_01
Alpha Recrafted v1.1.5_02
Alpha Recrafted v1.1.5_03
Alpha Recrafted v1.1.5_04
Alpha Recrafted v1.1.5_05
v1.1.6 (Seecret Friday #11)
Alpha Recrafted v1.1.6
Additions
Changes
Fixes
v1.1.7 (Seecret Saturday #3)
Alpha Recrafted v1.1.7 (Seecret Saturday #3)
Additions
Changes
Fixes
Alpha Recrafted v1.1.7_01
Changes
Fixes
Alpha Recrafted v1.1.7_02
Changes
v1.1.8 (current)
Alpha Recrafted v1.1.8
Additions:
Changes:
Alpha Recrafted v1.1.8_01
Alpha Recrafted v1.1.8_02
* Added hanging signs. Place them on the underside of a block!
Alpha Recrafted v1.1.8_03
Alpha Recrafted v1.1.8_04
Alpha Recrafted v1.1.8_05
Screenshots
I am working on a total conversion mod for each development phase of Minecraft!
Hey, i made a account specifically to comment.
I am incredibly happy with your work, its really cool to have a new polish version of alpha and i absolutely love your vision.
Thank you! I appreciate it =)
I am planning on doing another update soon-ish. I will keep updating this mod until the summer, when I plan to start working on Beta Recrafted instead.
I am working on a total conversion mod for each development phase of Minecraft!
Version 1.1.8 is out:
Additions:
Changes:
EDIT: 1.1.8_02 patch adds hanging signs!
I am working on a total conversion mod for each development phase of Minecraft!
If you are on 1.1.8, get _05. I fixed Classic worlds not launching. This was due to some leftover code from a 256 world height experiment.
I am working on a total conversion mod for each development phase of Minecraft!