Java Edition Classic 0.24_SURVIVAL_TEST

0.24_SURVIVAL_TEST

Edition	Java Edition
Release date	September 1, 2009
Downloads	Client not archived No corresponding server
Protocol version	6
Minimum Java version	Java SE 5
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◄◄  0.0.23a Classic 0.24 SURVIVAL TEST 0.25 SURVIVAL TEST ►► ◄  0.0.23a_01 0.24_SURVIVAL_TEST_01 ►

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0.24_SURVIVAL_TEST is a version of Java Edition Classic and the first version of Survival Test, released on September 1, 2009, at 16:54 UTC.

Additions

Mobs

Creepers

• Hostile mob.
• Has 20HP × 10 health points.
• Return to bright when hit.
• Explode on death.
• They make melee attacks.
  • Deal 2HP to 6HP damage upon hit and up to 12HP × 6 damage upon death in its explosion.

Pigs

• Passive mob.
• Has 20HP × 10 health points.
• They wander aimlessly around the world.

Skeletons

• Hostile mob.
• Has 20HP × 10 health points.
• They make melee attacks.
  • Deal 1HP to 6HP damage.
• At this time, skeletons did not shoot arrows, instead, they hit the player directly.

Zombies

• Hostile mob.
• Has 20HP × 10 health points.
• They make melee attacks.
  • Deal 1HP to 6HP damage.

Non-mob entities

Plate armor

• Visual feature only.
• Provides no protection.
• Can only be worn as a helmet or chestplate by zombies and skeletons.

Chain armor

• The model and the texture not used.
• Visual feature only.
• Provides no protection.

Arrows

• Can be shot by pressing Tab ↹.
• Deal 3HP damage.
• Does not deal damage after flying for more than 1 second.

Drops

• Blocks and mobs are now able to drop items:
  • Most blocks drop themselves, with exceptions:
  • Leaves drop saplings (¹⁄₁₀ chance).
  • Grass block drops dirt.
  • Logs drop 3-5 planks.

Player

• Added the player's fist in the lower right corner.

Signs

• Added as an entity.
• Can be spawned by pressing B.
• Cannot be edited.
• Always says: "This is a test of the signs. Each line can be 15 chars!".

Gameplay

Damage

• Mobs and players jump back and flash white when taking damage and have a dying animation.
• Taking damage would cause the player's camera to tilt toward the damage source, acting as a directional damage indicator.
• Enemies fall over when killed.

Damage after falling

• The players and mobs take fall damage after falling more than 3 blocks.
  • At the same time, they take about 1HP damage for every block fallen over their safe fall distance.

Drowning

• The players can drown and has limited breath indicated by bubbles.
• A player who runs out of air underwater begins drowning, taking 2HP damage per second.

Health

• Has 20HP × 10 health points.
• Each heart is 2 health points.
• When the player reaches 0HP health points, they die and are shown a Game over screen with the option to generate a new level.

Particles

• Re-added sapling particles, although they are now darker than before.

Score points

• Added score.
  • Score can only be seen after death.
  • Killing zombies give 100 points.
  • Killing skeletons give 100 points.
  • Killing creepers give 250 points.
  • Killing pigs give 10 points.

Survival mode

• Players can not respawn and the level needed to be restarted.

Changes

Blocks

Dandelion

• No longer decay in darkness.

Roses

• No longer decay in darkness.

Sapling

• Now grows into a tree if there is enough space and it is placed on grass.
• No longer decay in darkness.

Items

Brown Mushrooms

• Heal 5HP when eaten.
• No longer decay in darkness.

Red Mushrooms

• Deplete 3HP when eaten.
• No longer decay in darkness.

Mobs

Mob

• Changed skin from , adding the second layer of hair.
• Can no longer be spawned by pressing G.

World generation

General

• More cliffs.
• Longer and narrower caves.
  • The deeper down in the world, the bigger the caves are.
• A layer of lava now generates above the bedrock layer.

Gameplay

Controls

• Right-click to build and left-click to mine.
• The player can auto-jump again.
• Player reach reduced by 1 block.

General

Options menu

• Bobbing and the "View Bobbing" option added.
• 3D anaglyph added.
• Level size options under "Generate New Level" are now closer together.

Technical

Performance

• Faster rendering.

Removals

Blocks

General

• Liquid raising, although sand and gravel still fall through liquids.

Gameplay

Creative mode

• Removed.

General

Controls

• White block selection box removed.
• Pressing R key no longer sends the player back to spawn point.
• Removed the ability to spawn mobs by pressing G key.

Bugs

11 bugs reported

• If a creeper blows up a liquid, the liquid drops itself.
• Cracking animation only shows on one side of a block.
• Skeletons can enter 1-block high holes.
• Minecraft crashed upon loading for some users.
• OpenGL invalid value bug.
• Arrows do not deal damage after flying for more than 1 second.
• Players cannot damage themselfs with arrows.
• Middle-clicking a block (pick-block) adds it into the player's inventory even when they do not yet have that block.
  • Only works on blocks that could previously be copied.
  • Doing so replaces the block type of whatever you are holding, but not its amount.
• Placing a block at the build limit consumes the block, destroying it without placing anything.
• Looking at glass no longer makes glass textures directly behind it disappear.
• Walking on the very edge of a block causes the amount of sounds required to play to build up. Once the player stands on a block, those sounds play every 0.125 seconds.

Gallery

• 

  The world flooded with lava by a player.

• 

  A captured pig.

• 

  Mushrooms generated in a cave.

• 

  "Game over!" screen.

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  Thumbnail from a dead 0.24st video.

References

• IRC logs on Archive.org; #minecraft.20090901.log. September 1, 2009 (UTC−5).