Java Edition Beta 1.7

This page covers a development version that has a major issue under certain conditions.

 

Attempting to push a block that is destroyed by a piston will create block 36 air, which crashes the game when rendered. Upgrading a world rendered unplayable by this bug to Beta 1.7_01 or later allows it to be played again.

Minecraft Beta 1.7

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There is a guide for this update!

 

See Java Edition guides/Beta 1.7 releases for a guide to all of the new features introduced in Beta 1.7 releases.

Beta 1.7 is a version of Java Edition Beta released on June 30, 2011,^[1] which adds pistons and shears among other changes.

Beta 1.7 block and item additions

Pistons

• Can push blocks when powered by redstone.
• Crafted with wooden planks, cobblestone, iron ingot and redstone.

Sticky pistons

• Can push and pull blocks when powered by redstone.
• Crafted with 1 piston and 1 slimeball.

Stone bricks

• The tooltip has been added to the language file (en_US.lang). However, the block itself isn't yet present in the game.

Shears

• Can be used to collect leaves and obtain wool from a sheep without harming it.
• Has 238 uses.
• Crafted with 2 iron ingots placed diagonally.

Silverfish

• Texture was added. However, the mob itself is not yet present in the game.

Bedrock

• Changed hardness from -1, now just defined as an unbreakable block.

Bricks

• Texture changed from .

Cobblestone

• Texture changed from .

Stone slab

• Texture changed from .

Stone stairs

• Texture changed from .

Cobwebs

• Now requires shears or a sword to be broken properly.
• Drops 1 string when destroyed.

Snowy Grass block

• Texture changed from .

Fences

• Texture changed from .
• Can now place any block on the top.

Slabs

• The model of single slabs now uses the bottom half of the full block's texture, changing the look for all slabs from .

Levers

• Texture changed from .

TNT

• Can no longer be primed by hitting it with an empty hand or while holding any item other than a flint and steel.
  • Instead, the block is destroyed and dropped as an item.
  • The old behavior isn't removed completely, and it's hidden behind the data value of 1 which is accessible using map editors.
• It is activated under the influence of powered by redstone.

Sheep

• No longer drop 1-3 wool from punching them.
• They now drop 2-4 when being sheared.
• Now always only drop one wool when killed while not sheared.

Controls

• When pressing F3 in-game, a value ("F") from 0 to 3 appears to indicate direction.

Textures

• The bed and cake side textures have been shifted downward in the terrain.png file.

3 bugs fixed

• Fixed clay generation.
• Squid can now despawn.
• ⇧ Shift+ clicking in a container while having a full inventory no longer crashes the game.

4 bugs reported

• Right-clicking on a sheep causes the game to crash.
• Some blocks crash the game when attempted to be pushed or pulled. This also softlocks the world.
• Pushing a piston onto the same redstone line that is powering the piston causes a crash. This also softlocks the world.
• Powered redstone crashes the game when pulled or pushed by a piston. This also softlocks the world.

An official video documenting some of Beta 1.7's major features was released on Mojang's official YouTube channel on June 30th, 2011. The video was made by Hat Films. Made before Java Edition was officially released (and long before 1.7 came out), the trailer omits “Beta” when referring to the version number.

• 
  Pistons in this version.
• 
  Unlicensed copy of this version.