Java Edition Beta 1.9 Prerelease 4
Minecraft Beta 1.9 Prerelease 4
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| Release date |
October 13, 2011 | ||||||
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| Downloads |
Original client
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20 | ||||||
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Other editions with a version "1.9-pre4":
Beta 1.9 Prerelease 4 is the fourth pre-release for Java Edition 1.0.0, released on October 13, 2011.[1] It adds the End dimension, the ender dragon, and moon phases. It also completes the enchanting mechanics, changes fluid placement using buckets, and fixes some bugs.
This version was reuploaded to fix the version number not being updated from the previous pre-release, and the server was reuploaded twice.[2][3]
Additions
Blocks
- The white cobblestone texture introduced in the previous pre-release (
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) was changed, and this overhauled version is used by end stone.
Items
- Used to brew potions of Healing.
- Crafted with gold nugget and melon slice.
Splash Water Bottle- Splash Awkward Potion
- Splash Mundane Potion
- Splash Thick Potion
Potion of Swiftness
Potion of Slowness
Potion of Strength
Potion of Weakness
Potion of Healing
Potion of Harming
Potion of Regeneration
Potion of Fire Resistance
Potion of Poison
Mobs
- The dragon can pass through all blocks and destroys most of them.
- Present in the code, but unfinished and not normally accessible without mods.
World generation
- New dimension, accessible through the End portal.
- One island floating in a black void.
- Endermen spawn here.
- The ender dragon does not spawn yet.
- A single obsidian platform appears in the center of the island.
- Generate in the End.
Gameplay
- Now fully implemented.
- The maximum enchantment level of the enchantment table is now 50.
- Enchanted items' tooltips now display their enchantments instead of "Enchanted!!".
- Added 17 enchantments.
| Name | Summary | Incompatible with |
Max Level |
Items |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aqua Affinity | Removes the mining speed reduction that occurs when underwater. | I | 
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| Bane of Arthropods | Increases damage to arthropod mobs. | Smite, Sharpness | V | 
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| Blast Protection | Reduces damage from explosions. | Protection, Fire Protection, Projectile Protection | IV |   
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| Efficiency | Increases mining efficiency. | V |   
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| Feather Falling | Reduces fall damage. | IV |
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| Fire Aspect | Sets targets on fire. | II |
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| Fire Protection | Reduces fire damage and burning time. | Protection, Blast Protection, Projectile Protection | IV |
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| Fortune | Chance to receive more item drops from certain blocks. | III |
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| Knockback | Increases melee knockback. | II |
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| Looting | Chance to receive more item drops from certain mobs. | III |
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| Projectile Protection | Reduces damage from projectiles. | Protection, Blast Protection, Fire Protection | IV |
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| Protection | Reduces most forms of damage. | Blast Protection, Fire Protection, Projectile Protection | IV |
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| Respiration | Extends underwater breathing time. | III |
| |
| Sharpness | Increases melee damage. | Bane of Arthropods, Smite | V |
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| Silk Touch | Certain blocks that would otherwise drop different items or nothing will drop themselves instead. | I |
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| Smite | Increases damage dealt against undead mobs. | Bane of Arthropods, Sharpness | V |
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| Unbreaking | Gives a chance for items to ignore durability loss, effectively increasing their durability. | III |
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General
- Added
magicCrit,spell,instantSpell, andmobSpell.
- New settings:
debugenable-queryenable-rconquery.portrcon.passwordrcon.port
Changes
Blocks
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- Now named "Enchantment Table" in the inventory.
- Enchantment tables now require bookshelves to get maximum enchantments, up to level 50 with 30 bookshelves.
- Hoes, flint and steel, and shears can no longer be enchanted using an enchantment table.
- When an entity makes contact with it, they teleport into the End or back to the Overworld respectively now.
- At most 12 eyes of ender to activate.
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- Redesigned graphically.
- Now emits light level of 1
Items
- Added ability to use with right click to locate a stronghold.
- Now used for potions of Regeneration.
- Placing fluids lava with a bucket treats other fluid source blocks like solid blocks, allowing the player to place them on top of each other without an adjacent wall.
- Placing fluids water with a bucket treats other fluid source blocks like solid blocks, allowing the player to place them on top of each other without an adjacent wall.
Mobs
- Cave spiders are now immune to the Poison status effect.
- Cave spiders are now considered arthropods.
- Endermen used to burn in sunlight, but as of this update, they instead randomly teleport around until they find a dark spot or despawn eventually. This makes it extremely hard to get close enough to kill them during daytime.
- Cave spiders are now immune to the Poison status effect.
- Cave spiders are now considered arthropods.
Gameplay
- Added a swirl particle, emitted by players with status effects.
- Now rise in the east and set in the west, based on the top of maps being north, and are round.
- The moon now has multiple phases, somewhat akin to the real Moon.
- Removed, and was replaced by the End.
General
- The player can reload the texture pack by pressing F3 + T.
- All bottom textures of the skin are flipped horizontally.
Version number
- Is no longer displayed, unless F3 is pressed.
Removals
World generation
- No longer generate to mark the position of strongholds.
Fixes
5 bugs fixed
- Enchanting is now server-side instead of being only a client-side change.
- Fixed ⇧ Shift + click crash bug with enchanting tables and brewing stands.
- Critical hits now appear in multiplayer.
- Glass towers stretching to the top of the map no longer appear over strongholds.
- Fixed all minecart with furnace bugs, except the lighting bug.
Gallery
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Inside the base. -
Another room inside. -
125 coal in a furnace. -
The Sun as it appeared in this version. -
Diamond Sword enchanted with Feather Falling I.
Videos
References
- ↑ "Beta 1.9 pre-4! assets.minecraft.net/1_9-pre4/minecraft.jar (and minecraft_server). PS. @notch's dragon is not available yet!" – @jeb_ (Jens Bergensten) on X (formerly Twitter), October 13, 2011
- ↑ "Ah gahd why do I always forget something? I forgot to change the version number.... The real version will be up shortly" – @jeb_ (Jens Bergensten) on X (formerly Twitter), October 13, 2011
- ↑ "Pre-release 4 with correct version number: http://assets.minecraft.net/1_9-pre4/minecraft.jar (same URL as before)" – @jeb_ (Jens Bergensten) on X (formerly Twitter), October 13, 2011
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