Java Edition Classic 0.0.14a

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0.0.14a

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0.0.14a^[1] is a version of Java Edition Classic released on May 27, 2009,^[2] shortly before 22:26 UTC, which added new blocks and changes world generation.^[3]

0.0.14a block and item additions

Coal ore

• Can be found in amounts ranging from roughly 10 to 30 in the deposit.

Iron ore

• Can be found in amounts ranging from roughly 10 to 30 in the deposit.

Gold ore

• Can be found in amounts ranging from roughly 10 to 30 in the deposit.

Gravel

• Affected by gravity.
  • If placed above any number of air blocks, the gravel immediately appears at the bottom.

Leaves

• Generated as a part of trees.

Wood

• Generated as a part of trees.

Sand

• Affected by gravity.
  • If placed above any number of air blocks, the sand immediately appears at the bottom.

Trees

• Made of logs and leaves.

Worlds

• Improved level format, now supporting the ability to save entities to levels.
  • There is now a cap of 256 mobs that can exist in a world.

Controls

•  Middle Mouse Button block picking support.
  • Only picks blocks that number keys can select.
• Holding down a mouse button allows for auto-building or breaking a block every 0.25 seconds.

Clouds

• Added clouds.

Fog

• Distance fog, rather than blank areas, now controls render distance.
  • The fog only gets applied on lit surfaces. Blocks in the shade appear as they would in previous versions.
• Distance fog rendering is now linear instead of exponential.

Create New World

• Ability to choose level size.

Cobblestone

• Changed the texture from .

Planks

• Changed the texture from .

Water

• Flows faster.^[4]
• Now flows from world border.
• Shows its texture when selected to place.^{[verify for Java Edition]}

Controls

• The player always spawns at the same place when pressing R to respawn, unless this spawn is underwater.^[5]

2 bugs reported

• Saved levels do not load properly.^[6][7]
• Clicking "Return to Game" while in build mode places a block.^[8]

• Many features implemented in 0.0.14a have, erroneously, been cited by Mojang as being implemented in version 0.0.14a_01.^[9]

• IRC logs, #minecraft.20090528.log (May 28, 2009, UTC+2)