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This is asked at least once or twice a day.

Go here http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Version_history/Beta and read about it.

we get a lot in the 1.8.2 update but to name a few we get
New Mobs: enderman, silverfish,cave spiders
New Structures: NPC Villages, Strongholds, Rivenes, Mine Shafts
New Blocks
Biomes: Swamp, Mountain
New Food: Like melons, chickens, rotten flesh
We get sprint
Creative Mode
Hunger Bar

Quote from Mustache_Guy

This is asked at least once or twice a day.

Go here http://www.minecraft...on_history/Beta and read about it.

More like 4or 5 LOL!!

• New explosion sounds
• New Door, Fence Gate and Trapdoor sounds
• New Bow shooting sounds
• Proper Fishing Rod sounds
• Proper Experience Orb sounds
• Proper Chestsounds

Sounds implemented in Minecraft 1.0RC1 and beyond:

• New arrow hit sounds
• New Player damage sounds
• Proper Endermansounds
• Sounds for Blaze
• Sounds for Magma Cubes
• Sounds for Silverfish

1.8.1 September 15, 2011
Bug Fixes:

• ⇧ Shift+clicking into a full chest/inventory crashing the game was fixed.
• ⇧ Shift+clicking items in and out of a dispenser crashing the game fixed.

New Bugs:

• Pumpkin Seeds no longer generate in Abandoned Mineshafts' chests.^[1]

1.8 (Adventure Update) September 14, 2011

• New Mobs.
• Enderman
• Silverfish
• Cave Spiders
• New Blocks
• Stone Brick
• Stone Brick Slabs
• Stone Brick Stairs
• Brick Slabs and Brick Stairs
• Fence Gates
• Glass Panes
• Iron Bars
• Melons
• New Creative game mode.
• New features in the terrain generator.
• Optionally generated structures
• NPC Villages
• Strongholds
• Abandoned Mine Shafts
• Ravines
• New, fractal-based biome code; added and removed some biomes while making all of them more vast than before.
• Rivers flowing through/in between biomes.
• Ocean Biomes, that are deeper and much more vast than before.
• Mountain biome
• Swamp
• Snow in Taiga and Tundra biomes do not generate for technical reasons. They return in Beta 1.9.
• New ocean floor; random mix of sand, dirt, andclay.
• Because of this, clay is much more common.
• New combat Mechanics.
• Hold-to-charge bows.
• Critical hits.
• Players can parry with a sword by holding Right Mouse
• Hostile mobs perform attack animations.
• Mobs killed by players drop tiny flashing Experience Orbsthat add to your experience bar.
• New Food System.
• There is now a food meter.
• Food no longer heals directly but indirectly: if the food meter is above 90%, heals about every 5 seconds.
• All food (except Mushroom Stew) are now stackable.
• Food takes 1.6 seconds to consume, accompanied with an animation.
• 5 new food items.
• Melon Slices.
• Raw Chicken.
• Raw Beef.
• Cooked Chicken.
• Steak, which hasCooked Porkchop's old texture. Cooked Porkchops' new texture is a tan shade of the same sprite.
• Eating any raw food or Rotten Flesh has a chance to give the player food poisoning which makes the Hunger bar decrease three times as fast.
• New seeds for farming: pumpkin seeds and melon seeds that produce Pumpkins and Melons respectively.
• A new achievement: "Kill a skeleton with an arrow at 50 meters".
• Added Sprinting
• Added Ender Pearl
• Mob changes
• Passive mobs will randomly flee if attacked by the player or other mobs (such as Wolves).
• Zombies drop Rotten Flesh instead of Feathers.
• The snout on pigs now protrude from their head.
• Skeletons now hold full-size bows.
• Player-to-mob damage decreased by half a heart.
• Arrows that hit a mob visually "stick" into the mob rather than just disappear.
• Skeleton arrows originate from about their eyes to the bow, instead of above the head.
• Animals no longer despawn which makes it possible to capture them.
• Shears can now collect Tall Grass and the new Vine
• New improved lighting
• Day/night cycles no longer require chunk updates and is a smooth transition
• The lighting on a block is given a tint based on the most prominent source of light
• Redish from Non-sunlight light sources
• Blue from Moonlight
• Total darkness keeps the same black tint
• Sunlight gives the same white tint
• Non-sky based light now gives a very subtle 'flicker'.
• New Mojang logo splash screen
• Main Menu/Options changes
• The Main Menu's background is now an animated scene.
• The version tag is now displayed on the bottom-left rather than the top-left
• New sliders for Field of View and Brightness
• 4 new entries in control list
• "Attack", "Use Item", and "Pick Block" can now be remapped.
• Player list in SMP, defaults to Tab ↹.
• The 'Multiplayer join screen' has been improved, mainly with aserver list.
• New texture for Moss Stone to match Cobblestone's.
• Improved sunrise and sunset.
• Clouds change color during sunrise and sunset to match the sky color.
• Horizon, specifically haze changes color more vividly during sunset and sunrise.
• New particle effects.
• Performing a critical hit on any mob will cause 'sparks' to fly.
• Explosion particles are now shockwaves instead of smoke.
• Tiny stationary bubble particles can be seen when underwater.
• Fog is now thicker and darker deep underground, and gives off particles. Due to this, the void appears black.
• Changes with debug-view (F3)
• Mobs are no longer visibly labeled with their entity ID
• The world's numeric seed is displayed in a field below player position.
• Changing fog by hotkey now requires debug-view to be open in addition with pressing F.
• ⇧ Shift+Clicking the output item in a crafting square will craft all the items at once, and automatically places them in the inventory.
• The version tag appears in-game again.
• User-placed leaf blocks no longer decay.
• Cloud height raised to the top of the map, so clouds can no longer phase through blocks.
• Cloud movement syncs with the game's time.
• Rain and snow both render faster
• Armor bar moved to above hearts, due to food bar.
• Both Wooden and Stone pressure plates can now be placed on fences.
• Improved chest model with a 3D lock.
• Players with the OP position on a server can switch back and forth between survival and creative mode.^[2]
• The game's coding now allows for mods to more easily change the(map) height.
• Holding the left mouse button with a weapon will now only swing once.
• Holding the right mouse button to place blocks is slightly slower than before.

Bug Fixes:

• The ⇧ Shift+Click crash bug from 1.8pre2 is fixed.
• Fixed Redstone circuits not working after /time set xglitch is now fixed in SMP.
• Destroying boats and minecarts now creates particles.
• Ghast attack sounds are fixed in SMP.
• The Far Landshad been removed; there is now only ocean.^[3]

This was the computer version, and the xbox version will be exactly like this