Java Edition Classic 0.0.14a/Development

This page documents unreleased versions.

 

While there is proof of these versions' existence, they were never released to the public.

Several unreleased development versions of the game labeled 0.0.14a were developed from May 23 to May 25, 2009. They show in-development features later included in 0.0.14a and later releases.

Word of Notch post,Rotab's IRC logs, May 25, 2009

• General
  • Added clouds.
  • New textures for cobblestone and planks.
• Blocks
  • Added:
    • Sand and gravel.
      • They fall to the ground when placed.^[1]
    • Coal, iron and gold ore.
    • Logs and leaves.
• Terrain
  • New terrain generator.
  • Added trees, beaches of sand and gravel and naturally spawning ore veins.

Word of Notch post, YouTube video (reupload), Rotab's IRC logs, May 26, 2009

• General
  • Added fog when changing render distance, replacing the old empty chunk system.
  • Online saving temporarily disabled.
  • Grass side texture has been changed and is now one block shorter.
• Levels
  • The player can now select world sizes: "Small", "Normal" and "Huge".
• Blocks
  • Water
    • Now flows faster than before.
    • Now flows from world border.
    • The player can now select and build with water.^[2]
      • Was disabled in the final release.

Word of Notch post, YouTube video (reupload)

• General
  • Online level saving re-enabled.
  • Reverted the grass side texture back to the original.
• Blocks
  • Vertex and color offset tests.
    • Vertex offsets cause "wavy" blocks, making the world look more realistic.
    • Color offsets cause every block to be a slightly different color.
    • Was later removed from release as Notch didn't like the idea.

• Respawning when pressing R worked just like in 0.0.13a_03 and prior, as this was not changed until the public release of 0.0.14a.
• The mouse features (auto breaking/building when  Left Mouse Button is held down,  Scroll Wheel block picking support and pick-block with  Middle Mouse Button) were all added on May 27, 2009 for the full release of 0.0.14a.

• 
  A screenshot of the offset test.
• 
  A screenshot of 0.0.14a-dev1 posted on Notch's blog.
• 
  A closer look of the trees, screenshot of 0.0.14a-dev1 made on May 23, 2009.
• 
  The top face of the tree trunk in 0.0.14a-dev1.

• IRC logs, #minecraft.20090525.log (May 25, 2009, UTC+2).
• IRC logs, #minecraft.20090526.log (May 26, 2009, UTC+2).