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Minecraft Versions Review

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In this page I review different Minecraft versions.

Version	What I particularly like	What I particularly dislike
Beta 1.0	Server-Side Inventory Throwable eggs Inventory tooltips	Nothing much has been added as the first Beta release
Beta 1.1	Not much happened	Not much happened
Beta 1.2	Everything	Birch trees drop oak saplings, only oak trees can reproduce
Beta 1.3	Everything except squids no longer milkeable	Squids can no longer be milked
Beta 1.4	Everything	The april fools chest was linked to a joke website which had a dinosaur jumpscare
Beta 1.5	Can change GUI size Different sapling types Achievements	Crying obsidian was removed from terrain.png Ladders with a one block gap cannot be climbed
Beta 1.6	Nether is supported in Multiplayer Mushrooms can spread Can spam click when not aiming at an entity without the 10 ticks delay punishment Tall grass and deadbushes	Fire nerfed a ton
Beta 1.7	Shears because sheeps no longer get sheared upon hitting them TNT needs to be activated with a flint and steel Pistons	Cobblestone changed texture Brick block changed texture
Beta 1.8	Hunger & XP systems Critical hits Sword blocking Sprinting Terrain generator Server list Creative mode More mobs drop food Bow & food animations Glass pane	Infinite oceans No more farlands
1.0	Everything, this is the official release of the game	None
1.1	Spawn eggs Superflat	None
1.2	Jungle Ocelot Iron Golem Anvil file format 256 blocks height limit Extra debug screen items Redstone lamps Crafting slabs and stairs give 6 of them instead of 3 Different wood types (1.2.4)	Dispenser changed texture Subtle wool palette saturation loss (1.2.4)
1.3	Desert temple Emeralds & villager trading Ender Chest No more delay when insta breaking blocks (leaves with shears) in Survival Mode. The maximum enchanting level is now 30 and can be reached with only 15 bookshelves. New Creative Mode inventory GUI Book & Quill Pigs will always drop at least one piece of porkchop Slabs and stairs can be of different wood types and can be upside down	Integrated server in singleplayer Gravel texture changed Cocoa beans item texture changed
1.4	New commands such as /gamerule Potatoes & carrots Anvil Beacon Item Frame Zombies & skeletons can spawn with armor Zombies, skeletons and zombie pigmen have a 25% chance of spawning with a pumpkin on their head during Halloween. Water now completely negates all fall damage (1.4.4)	None
1.5	Quartz and its blocks Hopper	Lava changed texture and can be found as hidden single blocks in the Nether. Blocks textures and items textures are no longer 2 files of all the textures stitched together.
1.6	Horses Carpets Hardened Clay & Stained Clay Name Tag New charcoal texture to differenciate it from regular coal Ability to disable day-night cycle with /gamerule New game launcher You can't break blocks with a sword in creative anymore You now need gold ingots instead of gold nuggets to craft unenchanted golden apples. Natural health regeneration now costs hunger/saturation points.	Texture packs have changed to ressource packs. Sure, it allows you to edit more stuff but the naming convention is quite bad and has changed in 1.7 Baby zombies and baby zombie pigmen spawn naturally (1.6.2)
1.7	Colored glass Key binding for sprint, no need to double tap to sprint anymore. No more infinite oceans New biomes New wood types Usage of multiple ressource packs Items and blocks can be referred by their names, as a result, the naming convention for ressource pack files has changed to be more logical. Can open URLs in chat Netcode rewrite, it's more efficient now I guess Server list icons Server list MOTDs can be on 2 lines Per world/server statistics & achievements	The rose was replaced by poppy Oceans only contain gravel Less caves
1.8	Banners Armor stands A lot of new commands New skin format Sprinting while flying now affects movement speed. Spectator Mode Slime block	Random texture rotations Enchanting needs lapis for the sake of giving lapis an extra use case Diorite, andesite and granite randomly generate in stone Ocean monuments are just here to occupy empty ocean space Can no longer use and break a block at the same time Changed sponge texture Changed fence craft Hurt color changed and does not affect armor anymore Overall the game became a bit too polished F3 became too maximalist
1.9	Improved End dimension Enchanted Golden Apples (or Notch apples) are no longer crafteable and are nerfed Semi-transparent pixels are rendered properly in skin overlay	The Elytra allows you to fly in survival. If you own the item, you are less incentivized to build transportation infrastructure. The new combat system is against the seemingly simple player mechanics. Sword blocking was replaced by shields. End Crystals can be craftable. While its original goal was to resummon the Ender Dragon, it completely changed the PvP meta, albeit that was discovered a bit later. Mending End City loots are too OP
1.10	Magma block Fossils	None
1.11	/gamerule doWeatherCycle Chat message length increased to 256 from 100 Walking no longer consumes hunger	Shulker Boxes allow you to carry 27 times as much items. Totem of Undying Exhaustion (for the hunger bar) is reduced too much
1.12	Beds are a bit bouncy Concrete I guess, looks like stained clay (now called terracotta) but more colorful	Tutorial toasts, originally people browsed to learn more about how to play the game. Recipe book, originally people browsed to learn more about how to play the game. Mixed feelings about the palette change: lime, yellow and light blue wools got their colors altered too much.
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