Java Edition Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2

Minecraft Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2

Edition	Java Edition
Release date	September 29, 2011
Type	Pre-release
Pre-release for	1.0.0
Downloads	Client (.json) Server
Protocol version	19
Minimum Java version	Java SE 5
◄◄  Beta 1.8.1 1.0.0 1.0.1 ►► ◄  Beta 1.9 Prerelease Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2 Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3 ►

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Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2 is the second pre-release for Java Edition 1.0.0, released on September 29, 2011, which adds cauldrons, potions, animal breeding mechanics, 9 more music discs, Hardcore mode, and the ability to clear potion effects by drinking milk.

Additions

Blocks

Cauldrons

• Are present in the code, but are not assigned to a block ID (and thus are unobtainable without mods).

Items

Blaze Powder

• Crafted from blaze rods.
• Ingredient to brewing potions.

Fermented Spider Eyes

• Ingredient to brewing potions.

Glass Bottles

• First iteration of potions, not yet properly obtainable.

Magma Cream

• Ingredient to brewing potions.

Music Discs

• 9 new music discs were added:
  • 11
  • blocks
  • chirp
  • far
  • mall
  • mellohi
  • stal
  • strad
  • ward

Spider Eyes

• Drop from spiders.
• Ingredient to brewing potions.

Mobs

Breeding

• New system to breed animals.
  • Remains incomplete, as baby mobs aren't introduced yet.

Player breeding a snow golem.

A bug existed where players could breed snow golems. This was patched by the next prerelease.

General

Hardcore mode

• Locks the difficulty to Hard and forces users to delete the world's save data upon death.
• The health bar changes appearance to indicate the game is in Hardcore mode.

Changes

Items

Milk

• Is now drinkable.
• Drinking milk resets all potion effects currently afflicted upon the player.

Gold Nugget

• Now has a tooltip.

Blocks

Glass Pane

• No longer drops as an item when destroyed.

Mobs

Villagers

• No longer have a "TESTIFICATE" label above their head.

Zombies

• Additional armor points were added, making them tougher.

General

Item tooltips

• Now have a pink border.

Jumping

• Removed debug code causing jumping to increase experience.
• Continuous jumping by holding down the jump key is now possible again.

Third person view

• Now renders the front of the player.

Fixes

1 bug fixed

• Client-side double mooshroom bug in multiplayer fixed.

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