* Compressed network traffic more agressively * Seeds are now found in tall grass, using a hoe on the ground no longer works * Severely nerfed fire so it spread slower, and doesn’t spread infinitely * It’s no longer possible to build solid blocks on the top layer of the maps (sorry!) * Disabled Advanced OpenGL until we can fix some bugs with it + Players stuck in walls will slide towards the nearest gap if there is one + Activated dispensers make sounds and trigger particles in multiplayer

+ The record player now supports more than 15 different songs (you can’t get the records yet, though) + Doors make sound for other players in multiplayer + Blocks destroyed by other players in multiplayer now shows the breaking block particle effect + Added allow-nether (set to true or false) in server.properties Sets the radius of terrain updates (in chunks) to send to the players. You can still play the game even if this happens. If the server says “no”, a warning message appears in the client. + The client will ask if the current login is valid.

(N.B.: This will probably cause just about every bug- or exploit-based farming method in use right now to break.) If Notch was able to do this much in the month since 1.5 came out, who knows where the game will be on all-too-distant November 11th, when it goes out of beta?įull change list below: ( Update, 5/26: This list reflects the changes Notch listed upon initial release of Beta 1.6.) This is a much meatier update that Beta 1.4 or Beta 1.5, and while the biggest single change in play is the addition of Nether support to multiplayer (!!!), 1.6 also brings with it craftable maps and hatches, tall grass in some biomes, and a cornucopia of bug fixes. Minecraft creator and glorious and revered leader to us all Notch has revealed the list of changes to Minecraft‘s latest update, Beta 1.6, which will become available sometime later this week.

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