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Other editions with a version "1.3":
 
There is a guide for this update!
 
See Java Edition guides/Beta 1.3 releases for a guide to all of the new features introduced in Beta 1.3 releases.

Beta 1.3 is a version of Java Edition Beta released on February 22, 2011,[1] 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 uploaded at 17:13 UTC, this version contained debug code that spawns the player with 64 torches, a diamond pickaxe, a diamond shovel, a diamond axe, and 64 beds upon respawning or creating a world. Beta 1.3 was reuploaded at 17:33 UTC to remove the debug code that spawns the player with the items listed above, in a new world.[2] Beta 1.3 was then reuploaded again at 17:50 UTC[3] to fix a crash bug when opening the world menu without a saves folder. This last version is listed in the launcher as Beta 1.3b (old_beta b1.3b).

Additions

Beta 1.3 block and item additionsInvicon Cobblestone Slab.png: Inventory sprite for Cobblestone Slab in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Cobblestone Slab with description: Cobblestone SlabInvicon Petrified Oak Slab.png: Inventory sprite for Petrified Oak Slab in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Petrified Oak Slab with description: Petrified Oak SlabInvicon Sandstone Slab.png: Inventory sprite for Sandstone Slab in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Sandstone Slab with description: Sandstone SlabInvicon Smooth Stone.png: Inventory sprite for Smooth Stone in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Smooth Stone with description: Smooth StoneInvicon Red Bed.png: Inventory sprite for Red Bed in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Red Bed with description: Red BedInvicon Redstone Repeater.png: Inventory sprite for Redstone Repeater in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Redstone Repeater with description: Redstone RepeaterInvicon Painting.png: Inventory sprite for Painting in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Painting with description: Painting Skull On Fire Kristoffer Zetterstrand 4x4

Blocks

Beds

  • Crafted from planks and wool.
    • Different colors of wool can be interchanged to make a bed.
Invicon White Wool.png: Inventory sprite for White Wool in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to White Wool with description: White WoolInvicon Light Gray Wool.png: Inventory sprite for Light Gray Wool in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Light Gray Wool with description: Light Gray WoolInvicon Gray Wool.png: Inventory sprite for Gray Wool in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Gray Wool with description: Gray WoolInvicon Black Wool.png: Inventory sprite for Black Wool in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Black Wool with description: Black WoolInvicon Brown Wool.png: Inventory sprite for Brown Wool in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Brown Wool with description: Brown WoolInvicon Red Wool.png: Inventory sprite for Red Wool in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Red Wool with description: Red WoolInvicon Orange Wool.png: Inventory sprite for Orange Wool in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Orange Wool with description: Orange WoolInvicon Yellow Wool.png: Inventory sprite for Yellow Wool in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Yellow Wool with description: Yellow WoolInvicon Lime Wool.png: Inventory sprite for Lime Wool in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Lime Wool with description: Lime WoolInvicon Green Wool.png: Inventory sprite for Green Wool in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Green Wool with description: Green WoolInvicon Cyan Wool.png: Inventory sprite for Cyan Wool in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Cyan Wool with description: Cyan WoolInvicon Light Blue Wool.png: Inventory sprite for Light Blue Wool in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Light Blue Wool with description: Light Blue WoolInvicon Blue Wool.png: Inventory sprite for Blue Wool in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Blue Wool with description: Blue WoolInvicon Purple Wool.png: Inventory sprite for Purple Wool in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Purple Wool with description: Purple WoolInvicon Magenta Wool.png: Inventory sprite for Magenta Wool in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Magenta Wool with description: Magenta WoolInvicon Pink Wool.png: Inventory sprite for Pink Wool in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Pink Wool with description: Pink WoolInvicon White Wool.png: Inventory sprite for White Wool in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to White Wool with description: White WoolInvicon Light Gray Wool.png: Inventory sprite for Light Gray Wool in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Light Gray Wool with description: Light Gray WoolInvicon Gray Wool.png: Inventory sprite for Gray Wool in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Gray Wool with description: Gray WoolInvicon Black Wool.png: Inventory sprite for Black Wool in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Black Wool with description: Black WoolInvicon Brown Wool.png: Inventory sprite for Brown Wool in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Brown Wool with description: Brown WoolInvicon Red Wool.png: Inventory sprite for Red Wool in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Red Wool with description: Red WoolInvicon Orange Wool.png: Inventory sprite for Orange Wool in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Orange Wool with description: Orange WoolInvicon Yellow Wool.png: Inventory sprite for Yellow Wool in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Yellow Wool with description: Yellow WoolInvicon Lime Wool.png: Inventory sprite for Lime Wool in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Lime Wool with description: Lime WoolInvicon Green Wool.png: Inventory sprite for Green Wool in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Green Wool with description: Green WoolInvicon Cyan Wool.png: Inventory sprite for Cyan Wool in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Cyan Wool with description: Cyan WoolInvicon Light Blue Wool.png: Inventory sprite for Light Blue Wool in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Light Blue Wool with description: Light Blue WoolInvicon Blue Wool.png: Inventory sprite for Blue Wool in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Blue Wool with description: Blue WoolInvicon Purple Wool.png: Inventory sprite for Purple Wool in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Purple Wool with description: Purple WoolInvicon Magenta Wool.png: Inventory sprite for Magenta Wool in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Magenta Wool with description: Magenta WoolInvicon Pink Wool.png: Inventory sprite for Pink Wool in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Pink Wool with description: Pink WoolInvicon White Wool.png: Inventory sprite for White Wool in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to White Wool with description: White WoolInvicon Light Gray Wool.png: Inventory sprite for Light Gray Wool in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Light Gray Wool with description: Light Gray WoolInvicon Gray Wool.png: Inventory sprite for Gray Wool in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Gray Wool with description: Gray WoolInvicon Black Wool.png: Inventory sprite for Black Wool in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Black Wool with description: Black WoolInvicon Brown Wool.png: Inventory sprite for Brown Wool in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Brown Wool with description: Brown WoolInvicon Red Wool.png: Inventory sprite for Red Wool in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Red Wool with description: Red WoolInvicon Orange Wool.png: Inventory sprite for Orange Wool in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Orange Wool with description: Orange WoolInvicon Yellow Wool.png: Inventory sprite for Yellow Wool in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Yellow Wool with description: Yellow WoolInvicon Lime Wool.png: Inventory sprite for Lime Wool in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Lime Wool with description: Lime WoolInvicon Green Wool.png: Inventory sprite for Green Wool in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Green Wool with description: Green WoolInvicon Cyan Wool.png: Inventory sprite for Cyan Wool in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Cyan Wool with description: Cyan WoolInvicon Light Blue Wool.png: Inventory sprite for Light Blue Wool in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Light Blue Wool with description: Light Blue WoolInvicon Blue Wool.png: Inventory sprite for Blue Wool in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Blue Wool with description: Blue WoolInvicon Purple Wool.png: Inventory sprite for Purple Wool in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Purple Wool with description: Purple WoolInvicon Magenta Wool.png: Inventory sprite for Magenta Wool in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Magenta Wool with description: Magenta WoolInvicon Pink Wool.png: Inventory sprite for Pink Wool in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Pink Wool with description: Pink WoolInvicon Oak Planks.png: Inventory sprite for Oak Planks in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Oak Planks with description: Oak PlanksInvicon Oak Planks.png: Inventory sprite for Oak Planks in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Oak Planks with description: Oak PlanksInvicon Oak Planks.png: Inventory sprite for Oak Planks in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Oak Planks with description: Oak Planks
Invicon Red Bed.png: Inventory sprite for Red Bed in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Red Bed with description: Red Bed

Redstone repeater

Invicon Redstone Torch.png: Inventory sprite for Redstone Torch in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Redstone Torch with description: Redstone TorchInvicon Redstone Dust.png: Inventory sprite for Redstone Dust in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Redstone Dust with description: Redstone DustInvicon Redstone Torch.png: Inventory sprite for Redstone Torch in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Redstone Torch with description: Redstone TorchInvicon Stone.png: Inventory sprite for Stone in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Stone with description: StoneInvicon Stone.png: Inventory sprite for Stone in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Stone with description: StoneInvicon Stone.png: Inventory sprite for Stone in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Stone with description: Stone
Invicon Redstone Repeater.png: Inventory sprite for Redstone Repeater in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Redstone Repeater with description: Redstone Repeater

Stone slab

  • Takes over the old recipe for the stone slab.
  • Breaking a block made of two slabs now drops 2 slabs.
  • Crafted from cobblestone.
Invicon Cobblestone.png: Inventory sprite for Cobblestone in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Cobblestone with description: CobblestoneInvicon Cobblestone.png: Inventory sprite for Cobblestone in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Cobblestone with description: CobblestoneInvicon Cobblestone.png: Inventory sprite for Cobblestone in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Cobblestone with description: Cobblestone
Invicon Cobblestone Slab.png: Inventory sprite for Cobblestone Slab in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Cobblestone Slab with description: Cobblestone Slab3

Wooden slab

  • Breaking a block made of two slabs now drops 2 slabs.
  • Crafted from planks.
Invicon Oak Planks.png: Inventory sprite for Oak Planks in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Oak Planks with description: Oak PlanksInvicon Oak Planks.png: Inventory sprite for Oak Planks in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Oak Planks with description: Oak PlanksInvicon Oak Planks.png: Inventory sprite for Oak Planks in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Oak Planks with description: Oak Planks
Invicon Oak Slab.png: Inventory sprite for Oak Slab in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Oak Slab with description: Oak Slab3

Sandstone slab

  • Breaking a block made of two slabs now drops 2 slabs.
  • Crafted from sandstone.
Invicon Sandstone.png: Inventory sprite for Sandstone in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Sandstone with description: SandstoneInvicon Sandstone.png: Inventory sprite for Sandstone in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Sandstone with description: SandstoneInvicon Sandstone.png: Inventory sprite for Sandstone in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Sandstone with description: Sandstone
Invicon Sandstone Slab.png: Inventory sprite for Sandstone Slab in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Sandstone Slab with description: Sandstone Slab3

Seamless stone slab

  • Breaking a block made of two slabs now drops 2 slabs.
  • Unobtainable.

Crying obsidian

Non-mob entities

New painting

Command format

/whitelist

  • Can turn on/off the whitelist.
  • Can add/remove players from the whitelist.
  • Can give a list of whitelisted players and reload that list.

/time

  • Changes or queries the world's game time
  • There types of time involved in this command:
time add <time>
Adds <time> to the in-game daytime.
time set (day|night|noon|midnight)
time set <time>
Sets the daylight cycle time.

General

Loading screen added in this version

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

  • Gets 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.

Stone slabs

  • Are now created by using 3 stone instead of cobblestone.
Invicon Stone.png: Inventory sprite for Stone in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Stone with description: StoneInvicon Stone.png: Inventory sprite for Stone in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Stone with description: StoneInvicon Stone.png: Inventory sprite for Stone in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Stone with description: Stone
Invicon Smooth Stone Slab.png: Inventory sprite for Smooth Stone Slab in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Smooth Stone Slab with description: Smooth Stone Slab3
  • Breaking a block made of two slabs now drops 2 slabs.

Stone pressure plate

  • Now require two of its materials, instead of 3.
Invicon Stone.png: Inventory sprite for Stone in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Stone with description: StoneInvicon Stone.png: Inventory sprite for Stone in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Stone with description: Stone
Invicon Stone Pressure Plate.png: Inventory sprite for Stone Pressure Plate in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Stone Pressure Plate with description: Stone Pressure Plate

Wooden pressure plate

  • Now require two of its materials, instead of 3.
Invicon Oak Planks.png: Inventory sprite for Oak Planks in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Oak Planks with description: Oak PlanksInvicon Oak Planks.png: Inventory sprite for Oak Planks in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Oak Planks with description: Oak Planks
Invicon Oak Pressure Plate.png: Inventory sprite for Oak Pressure Plate in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Oak Pressure Plate with description: Oak Pressure Plate

Items

Gunpowder

  • Renamed from "Sulphur".

Mobs

General

  • Fewer passive mobs spawn when on harder difficulties.

Cows

  • Texture changed from .

Slimes

  • Now spawn again.

Squid

  • Can no longer be milked.
  • Squid now have the ability to move in three dimensions (rather than only along the bottom of the body of water)

World generation

Create New World

  • Players can now choose the name of the world before creation.
  • Players can now choose the world seed before creation.
  • More than 5 worlds can now be created at once.
  • Delete world message now includes "(A long time!)" after "(world name) will be lost forever!".
    • Prior to this, it just says "'<world name>' will be lost forever!".

Gameplay

Third 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

  • Scrollbars added in the world selection screen.
  • Players can now change the names of existing worlds.
    • This doesn't change the world's save id.

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 now drops 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 no longer are fired into the door, nor is the fishing hook cast into the door.
  • Hostile mobs can now be attacked properly in multiplayer.
  • Lapis lazuli ore now drops 4-8 lapis lazuli in multiplayer.
  • A screenshot depicting the generation of new sandstone blocks.
    A screenshot depicting the generation of new sandstone blocks.
  • A pre-reupload screenshot, with the debug items.
    A pre-reupload screenshot, with the debug items.
  • The world selection screen in this version.
    The world selection screen in this version.

Videos

References

  1. ↑ "Minecraft Beta 1.3" (archived) – The Word of Notch, Tumblr, February 22, 2011.
  2. ↑ "Err, yes... as USUAL, we managed to release it with debug item spawning code in it. Re-download. :D" – @notch (Markus Persson) on X (formerly Twitter), February 22, 2011
  3. ↑ "@dw_edwin Try again now. Restart the client so it loads the new update.. Does it work any better?" @notch (Markus Persson) on X (formerly Twitter), February 22, 2011

Sources