Frostburn Update

Frostburn Update

{
    "title": "Frostburn Update",
    "images": [
        "Frostburn Update.png"
    ],
    "rows": [
        {
            "field": "June 8, 2016",
            "label": "Release date"
        },
        {
            "field": "(link to Java Edition 1.10 article, displayed as Java Edition 1.10)",
            "label": "Version(s)"
        }
    ],
    "invimages": [],
    "footer": "<div .4em\"><span [[Combat Update]]</div>\n\n</div><div .4em\">[[Exploration Update]] <span
}

There is a guide for this update!

 

See Java Edition guides/Frostburn Update for a guide to all of the new features introduced in Frostburn Update.

The Frostburn Update is the name for Java Edition 1.10, a major update released on June 8, 2016. It added some new features such as skeleton/zombie variants in snowy biomes and deserts respectively, polar bears, structure blocks for saving/loading structures in worlds, and an auto-jump feature. The official name for the update, the Frostburn Update, was revealed on June 8, 2016, in a blog post on the Mojang website, the same day the update was released.^[1]

Being the smallest major update, development began shortly after 1.9, the Combat Update, was released, and snapshots began the week after 1.9.3 and 1.9.4 were released, in mid-May. Only 3 snapshots and 2 pre-releases were released for 1.10, between May 18, 2016, and June 8, 2016. Mojang released the first pre-release on June 2, 2016, and the second on June 7, one day before the update was released.

Frostburn Update block and item additions

New blocks

• Bone Block
  • Found underground as part of fossils.
  • Can also be crafted using nine bone meal.
  • Acts as a storage block for bone meal.
• Magma Block
  • Found in the Nether in y-levels between 27 and 36.
  • Can also be crafted using four magma creams.
  • Any players or mobs on the block takes damage every second unless they are sneaking, using Frost Walker, or having the effects of Fire Resistance.
  • Water blocks above the magma block disappear.
• Nether Wart Block
  • Crafted using nine Nether warts.
  • Cannot be crafted back into Nether wart.
• Red Nether Bricks
  • Crafted using two Nether warts and two Nether bricks in a checkerboard pattern.
• Structure Void
  • Only available through commands.
  • Intended to be used by developers for structure development in lieu of barrier blocks.

New items

• Spawn egg:
  • Polar Bear Spawn Egg

New mobs

• Husk
  • Spawns in desert biomes.
  • Behaves similar to a zombie but inflicts Hunger to attacked players.
• Polar Bear
  • Spawns in ice plains, ice mountains, and ice plains spikes as either an adult or a cub.
  • Becomes aggressive if hit or when the player approaches one while a cub is nearby.
  • Swims faster in water compared to the player.
  • Drops raw fish or salmon when killed.
• Stray
  • Spawns in ice plains, ice mountains, and ice plains spikes.
  • Behaves similar to a skeleton but shoots tipped arrows of Slowness instead.

New structures

• Fossil
  • Generates underground in deserts and swamplands.
  • Composed of several bone blocks and coal ore.

Other additions

• The command /teleport.
• Auto jumping

• The time span between the releases of 16w20a and 1.10-pre1 was only 2 weeks, the smallest time between, unusual based on Mojang's history, as 1.8 and 1.9 both took around a year or so to develop.

• 1.10.1 fixed "some of the most annoying reported bugs."
• 1.10.2 was released soon thereafter to fix a crash from 1.10.1.