Minecraft 1.0 has finally been released with the advent of Minecon. Come hear about some of the new features here and learn some basic things you can do.
Minecraft has had a ton of changes since its last non-testing candidate. We’re going to give some basic advice to those who are only playing the main version:
- Endermen are not very hard to kill if you keep your eyes on them. Just rush them down and smash them. You can also put vines on your house to keep them from grabbing blocks. Be sure to collect all their Pearls. You will need them for “The End”.
- Don’t waste Ender Pearls by throwing them.
- To breed two animals, simply give them some wheat until you have two animals of the same type in love move. They should shortly produce a baby.
- Don’t panic when you see Blazes in the nether, just make sure not to get surrounded by them.
- You can combine two of the same weapon or tool to repair them.
- Blaze Rods can be found in the Nether from Blazes. They have several uses including brewing stands and being ground into powder. The powder can be mixed with Ender Pearls to make the Eye of the Ender.
- Nether Wart can be grown to make an Awkward Potion when combined with a bottle of water. You combine these at a brewing stand. Brewing Stands require 3 cobblestone along the bottom with 1 Blaze Rod in the middle.
- Some potions can damage you, so be careful.
- To make an enchantment table you need a Book, Obsidian and Diamond:
- Put bookshelves near your enchantment table to get stronger enchantments.
- The seed “gimmeabreak” still works, it still spawns you in a village.
- The seed “Dovahkiin” spawns you in a rocky world similar to Skyrim. You may remember the name from the game. We also found a village very close to spawn.
- The seed “Notch” spawns you on a map with some impressive landscapes.
Second, here is the full list to changes to Minecraft since the last non-testing release:
- Achievements such as “The End.”
- Glowstone now counts as the “glass” type.
- Players only drop limited experience.
- Enderman have reduced abilities to grab blocks.
- Some texture changes, like ones on the Monster Spawner.
- Ghasts have fireballs that look different.
- You get a score upon dying based on your exp.
- Lava now makes stone when it hits water from above.
- Hitting F5 lets you change the camera.
- Ender Pearls now let you teleport when thrown.
- Golden Apples now glow purple.
- Fences don’t block you from moving into their space and they also connect to solid blocks.
- There is a slight delay between jumps when holding down the jump button. This means that the player no longer bounces between ceiling and floor in two-block-high spaces.
- Labels for items have a blue border.
- There are now random loot chests in Strongholds.
- Blocking now moves the player’s arm.
- Weapon and tool damage has been nerfed.
- There are increased damage enchantments.
- Some mob health has been changed (Sheep, Spiders, Zombies)
- Many blocks mining speeds have been decreased. This is mostly blocks that used to take a long time to mine.
- Redstone Ore
- Iron Doors
- Wooden Door
- Iron Block
- Gold Block
- Diamond Block
- Stone Brick
- Iron Bars
- Furnace
- Dispenser
- Brewing Stand
- Obsidian (from 15 to 10 seconds)
- New Features:
- We already mentioned the various Nether features and The End in previous articles. Go read those if you want to find out about them.
- 9 new Music Discs.
- Finished Biome code and new Biomes.
- Snowy Biomes.
- Swamp Biomes adjusted to appear “swampier.”
- Darker Grass
- Darker Water
- Lily Pads
- Mushroom Biomes.
- Naturally generated Huge Mushrooms.
- New Mushroom Cow, the Mooshroom.
- Mycelium blocks.
- New sound effects,including:
- Minecart sounds.
- Shears sounds.
- Additional Bow sounds.
- Big Slime sounds.
- The true sounds of Endermen and Silverfish.
- Changes in already existing sounds:
- A change in the sound of Rain.
- New sounds for Doors.
- New sounds for the Skeletons’ walk to make them sound more skeleton-y.
- Bow models now appear in third-person larger and in 3D.
- Bows no longer have an infinite number of uses.
- If water or lava is above a ceiling that is a single block thick, particles of water or lava will drip through, provided you are within 13 blocks of the ceiling.
- 6 new mobs:
- Enderdragon(Boss Mob)
- Enderdragon eggs
- Mooshroom Cows.
- NPCs in Villages, as Villager Mobs.
- Snow Golem mob.
- Can be crafted.
- Melts in hot biomes.
- Spreads snow around when it walks.
- Passive, but throws snowballs at enemies.
- At least two new aggressive mobs for the Nether.
- Magma Cube
- Blaze
- Experience (skills) is now enchantments.
- Each Experience Orb is worth one Score Point.
- Animal Breeding.
- Wheat Bundles feed animals and make them come towards you.
- Feeding animals makes them enter “love mode”.
- Hearts will come out of animals while in love mode.
- Breeding will produce Baby Animals. Smaller versions of the parents with large heads that have a faster animation and a higher pitched sound.
- Unlimited Strongholds per map (changed from three).
- New/Improved Armorsystem.
- Increased armor durability.
- Sun and Moon Changes:
- Moon phases.
- Sun and moon now rise in the east.
- Game mechanics changes:
- Hardcore Mode – Locks the difficulty to Hard and forces you to delete your world if you die. The health bar changes appearance to indicate you are playing in Hardcore mode.
- Item Repair
- Potions, Splash Potions, Potion effects, Brewing Stand, and Brewing.
- Enchantment Table, and Enchanting
If you are new to the game, be sure to check out Minecraft.net.
