Java Edition Beta 1.3

Beta 1.3^[1] is a version of Java Edition Beta released on February 22, 2011, which added redstone repeaters, beds, three types of slabs, and a new splash screen, notably among other changes and fixes, the world save format was changed from Alpha level format to McRegion.

Beta 1.3 was reuploaded at 17:31 UTC^[2]^{[more information needed]} to remove debug code that spawns the player with 64 torches, a diamond pickaxe, a diamond shovel, a diamond axe, and 64 beds upon creating a new world.^[3] Beta 1.3 was then reuploaded again^[when?], and this last version is listed in the launcher as Beta 1.3b (old_beta b1.3b).

Additions

Blocks

Beds

Crafted from wood planks and wool.

Redstone Repeater

Crafted from stone and redstone.

Slabs

Cobblestone Slab
- Crafted from cobblestone.
Wooden Slab
- Have to be mined with a pickaxe to collect, were not affected by fire, and had stronger blast resistance than wood planks, like cobblestone slabs.
- Crafted from wood planks.
Sandstone Slab
- Crafted from sandstone.

Non-mob entities

New Painting

"Burning Skull"
- Code to make this painting display was added in Beta 1.2_01, but the texture itself was not added until this version, resulting in the use of the painting placeholder texture.

Command format

/whitelist

Added whitelisting to multiplayer servers.
- Can turn on/off the whitelist.
- Can add/remove players from the whitelist.
- Can give a list of whitelisted players and reload that list.

Textures

Crying Obsidian

Added a texture for crying obsidian to terrain.png.
- Texture went unused and removed in Beta 1.5, but re-added in 20w10a via the Programmer Art Resource Pack.

General

Lighting

Smooth lighting engine added with the help of MrMessiah.

Options

New graphics setting screen.
- Added "Smooth Lighting" option.

Splash screen

New Mojang logo.

Changes

Blocks

Redstone Dust

Will get darker the farther away it is from a source of power.
Unpowered redstone is purely black now.
For these changes they now use a dedicated tint system and new textures

Sandstone

Now found at the bottom of naturally generated sand.
Mine time for sandstone has been decreased.

Slabs

Breaking a block made of two slabs now drops 2 slabs.
Stone slabs are now created by using 3 of the materials.

Stone pressure plate & Wooden pressure plate

Now require two of its materials, instead of 3.

Items

Gunpowder

Renamed "Sulphur" to Gunpowder.

Mobs

General

Fewer passive mobs spawn when on harder difficulties.

Slimes

Now have a higher spawn rate.

World generation

Overworld

Players can now choose the name of the world.

Seed

Players can now choose the seed for world generation.
More than 5 worlds can now be created.
Deleting world confirmation changed slightly.

Gameplay

3rd person mode

View bobbing now applies while in third person, if enabled.

General

Controls

F1 and F3 are now toggled when pressed.
When F3 is toggled on, mobs display their unique entity ID numbers over their heads.
F8 toggles mouse smoothing.

Options

Ability to toggle between classic lighting and "smooth" lighting.
Scrollbars added in the world selection screen.
Players can now choose the name of the world when creating a new one.

McRegion

Worlds now use a generic McRegion chunk save format, with a built-in auto conversion.

Texture packs

Scrollbars added in the texture pack list.

Fixes

10 bugs fixed

When breaking double slabs (one slab placed on another) it will now drop two slabs instead of one.
Wood doesn't burn forever anymore.
Grassland/Sand related biome border fixed (Boundaries line up, rather than obviously show chunk borders)
No longer receiving Java Log error .txt file spam in the minecraft.exe folder when closing the Minecraft client program.
Players can no longer use the click-release to quickly mine blocks (referred to as "click mining") in multiplayer.
Players no longer glitch when standing on fences in multiplayer.
Players can no longer milk squids.
When right-clicking on a wooden door while holding a bow or fishing rod, arrows will no longer be fired into the door, nor will the fishing hook be cast into the door.
Hostile mobs can now be attacked properly in multiplayer.
Lapis lazuli ore now drops 4-8 Lapis Lazuli in multiplayer.

Gallery

A screenshot from the first reupload.

References

↑ Minecraft Beta 1.3 – The Word of Notch, February 22, 2011
↑ Timestamp of server.jar
↑ "Err, yes... as USUAL, we managed to release it with debug item spawning code in it. Re-download. :D" – @notch (Markus Persson) on X, February 22, 2011

[1] Minecraft Beta 1.3 – The Word of Notch, February 22, 2011

[2] Timestamp of server.jar

[3] "Err, yes... as USUAL, we managed to release it with debug item spawning code in it. Re-download. :D" – @notch (Markus Persson) on X, February 22, 2011

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