Java Edition Classic 0.24 SURVIVAL TEST

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0.24_SURVIVAL_TEST

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0.24_SURVIVAL_TEST^[1] is a version of Java Edition Classic and the first version of Survival Test, released on September 1, 2009,^[2] at 16:54 UTC.^[3]

Creepers

• Hostile mob.
• Has 20HP × 10 health points.
• Flashes when at low health
• Returns to full brightness when hit.
• Explodes on death, dealing damage and destroying the blocks around it and dropping them as items.
• Pursues and attacks the player, dealing melee damage.
  • Deals 2HP to 6HP when attacking and up to 12HP × 6 when exploding on death.^{[verify for Java Edition]}

Pigs

• Passive mob.
• Has 20HP × 10 health points.
• Wanders aimlessly around the world.

Skeletons

• Hostile mob.
• Has 20HP × 10 health points.
• Pursues and attacks the player, dealing melee damage.
  • Deals 1HP to 6HP damage.
• At the time, skeletons did not shoot arrows, instead, they attack the player directly.

Zombies

• Hostile mob.
• Has 20HP × 10 health points.
• Pursues and attacks the player, dealing melee damage.
  • Deals 1HP to 6HP damage.

Plate armor

• Visual feature only.
• Provides no protection.
• Can only be worn as a helmet or chestplate by zombies and skeletons.

Chain armor

• The model and texture are not used.
• Visual feature only.
• Provides no protection.

Arrows

• Can be shot by pressing ↹ Tab.
• Deals 3HP damage.
• Does not deal damage after flying for more than 1 second.

Drops

• Blocks and mobs are now able to drop items:
  • Most blocks drop themselves, with exceptions:
  • Leaves drop saplings (¹⁄₁₀ chance).
  • Grass block drops dirt.
  • Logs drop 3-5 planks.

Player

• Added the player's fist in the lower right corner.

Signs^[4]

• Added as an entity.
• Can be spawned by pressing B.
• Cannot be edited.
• Always says: "This is a test of the signs. Each line can be 15 chars!".

Damage

• Mobs and players jump back and flash white when taking damage and have a dying animation.
• Taking damage causes the player's camera to tilt towards the damage source, acting as a directional damage indicator.
• Enemies fall over when killed.

Damage after falling

• The players and mobs take fall damage after falling more than 3 blocks.
  • At the same time, they take about 1HP damage for every block fallen over their safe fall distance.

Drowning

• The player can drown and has limited breath indicated by bubbles.
• A player who runs out of air underwater begins drowning, taking 2HP damage per second.

Health

• Has 20HP × 10 health points.
• Each heart is 2 health points.
• When the player reaches 0HP health points, they die and are shown a "Game over!" screen with the option to generate a new level.

Particles

• Re-added sapling particles, although they are now darker than before.^{[verify for Java Edition]}

Score points

• Added score.
  • Score can only be seen after death.
  • Killing zombies gives 100 points.
  • Killing skeletons gives 100 points.
  • Killing creepers gives 250 points.
  • Killing pigs gives 10 points.

Survival mode

• Players can not respawn and the level needed to be restarted.

Dandelion

• No longer decays in darkness.

Grass block

• Now drops dirt when destroyed.

Lava

• Now deals damage.

Rose

• No longer decays in darkness.

Sapling

• Now grows into a tree if there is enough space and if it's placed on grass.
• No longer decays in darkness.

Brown mushroom

• Heals 5HP when eaten.
• No longer decays in darkness.
• Now will decay if not on stone, cobblestone, or gravel. Previously they had to be on dirt or grass blocks.

Red mushroom

• Depletes 3HP when eaten.
• No longer decays in darkness.
• Now will decay if not on stone, cobblestone, or gravel. Previously they had to be on dirt or grass blocks.

Mob

• Texture changed from , adding a second layer of hair.
• Can no longer be spawned by pressing G.

General

• More cliffs.
• Longer and narrower caves.
  • The deeper down in the world, the bigger the caves are.
• A layer of lava now generates above the bedrock layer.^[5]

Controls

•  Right Mouse Button to build and  Left Mouse Button to mine.
• The player can auto-jump again.
• Player reach reduced by 1 block.

Sky

• Changed color from
   #7FCCFF to
   #99CCFF.

Options menu

• Bobbing and the "View Bobbing" option added.
• Anaglyph 3D added.
• Level size options under "Generate New Level" are now closer together.

Camera

• The camera's pivot point has been slightly shifted forward.

Performance

• Faster rendering.

General

• Liquid raising. Sand and gravel now fall through liquids instead of sitting on top of them.

Creative mode

• Removed temporarily.

Controls

• White block selection box removed.
• Pressing R key no longer sends the player back to spawn point.
• Removed the ability to spawn mobs by pressing G key.

11 bugs reported

• If a creeper blows up a liquid, the liquid drops itself.^[1][6]
• Cracking animation only shows on one side of a block.^[7]
• Skeletons can enter 1-block high holes.^{[verify for Java Edition]}
• Minecraft crashes upon loading for some users.^[8]
• OpenGL invalid value bug.^[9]
• Arrows do not deal damage after flying for more than 1 second.
• Players cannot damage themselves with arrows.
• Using  Middle Mouse Button on a block (pick-block) adds it into the player's inventory even when they do not yet have that block.^[10]
  • Only works on blocks that could previously be copied.^[11]
  • Doing so replaces the block type of whatever you are holding, but not its amount.
• Placing a block at the build limit consumes the block, destroying it without placing anything.
• Looking at glass no longer makes glass textures directly behind it disappear.^{[verify for Java Edition]}
• Walking on the very edge of a block causes the amount of sounds required to play to build up. Once the player stands on a block, a stepping sound attempts to play every tick. This was not fixed until Beta 1.8.

• 
  The world flooded with lava by a player
• 
  A cornered pig
• 
  Mushrooms generated in a cave
• 
  "Game over!" screen
• 
  Thumbnail from a lost 0.24 SURVIVAL TEST video

• IRC logs on Archive.org; #minecraft.20090901.log. September 1, 2009 (UTC−5).