Java Edition Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3

Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3 is the third pre-release for Java Edition 1.0.0, released on October 6, 2011, which adds five new blocks including the brewing stand and enchantment table, as well as the eye of ender, five baby animal variants, experience levels, the enchantment glint effect, and completed potion mechanics.

The original version of the Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3 was released shortly before 14:57 UTC on October 6 and included a debug feature where players spawned with full stacks of enchantment tables, bookshelves, End portal frames, and End portal blocks in the hotbar.

Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3 was reuploaded at around 15:08 UTC, removing the debug blocks in the hotbar.^[1] Unlike the client, the server for this version was not reuploaded.

Brewing stand

• Used to brew potions.
• Emits light level of 1.
• Crafted with a blaze rod and 3 cobblestone.

Enchantment table

• Used to enchant tools, weapons, and armor with experience points.
• Has no name in the inventory.
• Crafted with books, diamonds, and obsidian.

End portal frame

• Unfinished End portal in strongholds.
  • Broken End portal frame blocks can be repaired with eyes of ender, though nothing further occurs.
• Can be obtained by explosions.
• Gives off a light level of 15.

End portal block

• Has no function.
• Gives off a light level of 15.

End stone texture

• An unused prototype End stone texture was added to terrain.png.

Eye of ender

• Can be used to repair End portal frames.
• Crafted with blaze powder and an ender pearl.

Water bottle

• A glass bottle filled with water.
• A required base ingredient to brew any potion.

Potions

• Mundane Potion
  • It is brewed from redstone dust and water bottle.
  • Has no effect.
• Thick Potion
  • It is brewed from glowstone dust and water bottle.
  • Has no effect.
• Awkward Potion
  • It is brewed from nether wart and water bottle.
  • Has no effect.
• Potion of Swiftness
  • It is brewed from awkward potion and sugar.
  • Provides Speed when used.
• Potion of Slowness
  • It is brewed from potion of Swiftness or Fire Resistance and fermented spider eye.
  • Provides Slowness when used.
• Potion of Strength
  • It is brewed from awkward potion and blaze powder.
  • Provides Strength when used.
• Potion of Weakness
  • It is brewed from fermented spider eye and any base potion or a potion of Strength or Healing.
  • Provides Weakness when used.
• Potion of Poison
  • It is brewed from awkward potion and spider eye.
  • Provides Poison when used.
• Potion of Healing
  • It is brewed from awkward potion and ghast tear.
  • Provides Instant Health when used.
• Potion of Harming
  • It is brewed from fermented spider eye and potion of Poison.
  • Provides Instant Damage when used.
• Potion of Fire Resistance
  • It is brewed from awkward potion and magma cream.
  • Provides Fire Resistance when used.

Baby chicken

• It can be bred by feeding two parents with wheat.

Baby cow

• It can be bred by feeding two parents with wheat.

Baby mooshroom

• It can be bred by feeding two parents with wheat.

Baby pig

• It can be bred by feeding two parents with wheat.

Baby sheep

• It can be bred by feeding two parents with wheat.

Baby wolf

• Baby wolves can only be spawned through map editors and NBT editing.^{[note 1]}

Glass pillars

• Used to mark the location of strongholds.
• Extend from the stone brick of the stronghold to the world's height limit.
• One pillar marks the location of the main stronghold room, and another marks the location of the portal room.

Brewing

• Brewing stands are now used for brewing potions instead of cauldrons.
• Brewing potions with brewing stands currently takes 30 seconds.
• Most duplicate potions were removed (the total possible potions went down from 150 combinations to only 25 different potions in 31 combinations). Some status effects previously available as potions became inaccessible.

Enchanting

• Not fully implemented, as no enchantments exist yet.
• Upon placing an item in the enchantment table's slot, three randomized options appear on the right of the GUI, written in Standard Galactic Alphabet.
  • Armor, axes, flint and steel, hoes, pickaxes, shears, shovels, and swords can be enchanted using an enchantment table.
• Enchanting requires experience levels.
• The maximum enchantment level is 15.
• A glint animation appears on items to show that they are enchanted.
• Enchanted items display "Enchanted!!" on their tooltip, and their name becomes blue.

Bookshelves

• When destroyed, drop 3 books.

Cauldron

• Now assigned with block and item IDs.
• Now only carries water instead of being used to make potions.
• Crafted with iron ingots.

Golden apple

• The rarity of the golden apple has been changed to "Epic", showing a magenta tooltip instead of white.
• Golden apples can now be found in the new stronghold altar chests.

Iron armor

• Can now be found in the new stronghold altar chests.

Pickaxes

• Iron pickaxes can now be found in the new stronghold altar chests.

Swords

• Iron swords can now be found in the new stronghold altar chests.
• The Stone, Iron and Diamond swords now deal less damage:

Material	Stone		Iron		Diamond
	Before	After	Before	After	Before	After
Damage	6HP	5HP	8HP	6HP	10HP	7HP

Texture changes :

Cows

• Texture changed from .

Enderman

• Endermen now have 40HP × 20 health points instead of 20HP × 10.

Mooshroom

• Texture changed from .

Sheep

• Now have 8HP.

Strongholds

• The End portal room was added.
• More randomly placed chests.
• 1×1 glass pillars protruding from ground to sky limit at the location of strongholds.

Experience levels

• Now shown above experience bar.

Hotbar

• Added 64 enchantment tables, bookshelves, End portal frames and End portal blocks to the hotbar.
• This also overwrites part of the default Creative hotbar.
• Hovering over the End portal blocks will crash the game, as there is no display name assigned to them.

Debug screen

• Added pie chart detailing CPU usage.

2 bugs fixed

• Fixed snow golems being able to enter love mode.
• Fixed killing a player with a dispenser from crashing the server.^[2]

• Due to a bug, multiplayer servers generate sky dimension chunks starting in this version. The biome of these chunks is random if saved in multiplayer, however, if they are saved in singleplayer, they change to plains biomes, no matter if snow had generated in the chunks. This was fixed in Beta 1.9 Prerelease 4.

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