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This guide is a simplified overview of all the changes in the Adventure Update: Part I (Java Edition Beta 1.8.x releases), which assumes at least some familiarity with Beta 1.7.x releases and the Adventure Update: Part II (Java Edition 1.0.x releases).

Mobs

New

Name Image Habitat Drops Note
Cave Spider Mineshafts
  • Spawns from monster spawners found in mineshafts.
  • Can poison players.
  • Smaller than normal spiders, letting it fit through 1-block wide spaces.
Enderman Dark environments in the Overworld
  • Ender Pearl (0–1)
  • 5XP (when killed by a player or tamed wolf)
  • If a player "stares" at it, it attacks the player.
  • Has the ability to teleport, and periodically do so while attacking.
  • In this version, it doesn't teleport away before being hit by an arrow.
  • In this version, it burns from daylight.
  • Can pick up most full blocks.
  • It is harmed when in contact with water.
Silverfish Strongholds 5XP (when killed by a player or tamed wolf)
  • Spawns when monster eggs are broken. These can be found in strongholds.
  • Attacking one causes nearby monster eggs to break and spawn other silverfish.
  • Can enter stone, cobblestone or stone brick blocks, turning them into monster eggs.

Changed

Name Image Changed
General
  • Animals no longer despawn which makes it possible to capture them. Breeding, however, has not been implemented yet.
  • Arrows that hit a mob visually "stick" into the mob rather than just disappear.
  • Passive mobs randomly flee if attacked by the player or other mobs (such as wolves).
  • Now drop experience when killed by a player or a tamed wolf.
Chicken
  • Changed bounding box height from 0.4 blocks to 0.7 blocks.
  • Now drops 1 raw chicken.
  • If on fire, it drops cooked chicken instead.
Cow
Pig The snout now protrudes from its head.
Skeleton
  • Now fire arrows slightly slower to be consistent with the change of the bow.
  • Their arrows are shot with more force.
  • They now hold bows more realistically. Previously, it looked like they were holding a regular 3D item.
  • Skeleton arrows originate from about their eyes to the bow, instead of above the head.
Zombie Now drop rotten flesh instead of feathers.

Blocks

New

Name Image Obtaining Tool Required Uses
Stone Bricks
Ingredients Crafting recipe
Stone
Pickaxe Building material.
Mossy
and
Cracked Stone Bricks

Generate in strongholds. They cannot be obtained via crafting or smelting. Pickaxe Building material.
Monster Eggs Stone brick monster eggs generate in strongholds. Any (does not drop any items)
  • Spawn a silverfish when broken.
  • Silverfish can enter regular blocks of stone, cobblestone, or stone bricks and turn them into the respective monster egg variant.
  • In this version, they can only be obtained via commands.
Brick Slabs
and Stairs

Ingredients Crafting recipe
Bricks
Ingredients Crafting recipe
Bricks
Pickaxe Allow players to walk upward without jumping.
Stone Brick Slabs
and Stairs

Ingredients Crafting recipe
Stone Bricks
Ingredients Crafting recipe
Stone Bricks
Pickaxe Allow players to walk upward without jumping.
Glass Pane
Ingredients Crafting recipe
Glass
Pickaxe
  • Can be used as a transparent decorative block.
  • In this version, it drops itself when mined.
Iron Bars
Ingredients Crafting recipe
Iron Ingot
Pickaxe Can be used as a transparent decorative block.
Fence Gate
Ingredients Crafting recipe
Stick +
Oak Planks
Invicon Stick.png: Inventory sprite for Stick in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Stick with description: StickInvicon Oak Planks.png: Inventory sprite for Oak Planks in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Oak Planks with description: Oak PlanksInvicon Stick.png: Inventory sprite for Stick in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Stick with description: StickInvicon Stick.png: Inventory sprite for Stick in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Stick with description: StickInvicon Oak Planks.png: Inventory sprite for Oak Planks in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Oak Planks with description: Oak PlanksInvicon Stick.png: Inventory sprite for Stick in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Stick with description: Stick
Invicon Oak Fence Gate.png: Inventory sprite for Oak Fence Gate in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Oak Fence Gate with description: Oak Fence Gate
 Axe
  • While closed, mobs and players cannot jump over it.
  • In this version, it cannot be opened by redstone signals.
Vines Generates on oak trees in swamps. Shears
  • Can be placed on the side of any block that fills its whole cube and blocks entity movement.
  • It spreads downward and on the sides of nearby blocks.
  • In this version, it cannot be climbed yet.
Mushroom Blocks Can only be found as part of huge mushrooms. Axe
  • Drop mushrooms of the same color.
  • Not obtainable without commands in this version.
Melon and
Pumpkin Stems 		Created by planting the corresponding seeds on farmland. Any Mature stems randomly grow melons or pumpkins on adjacent farmland blocks.
Melon
  • Fully grown melon stems generate a melon on adjacent farmland.
Ingredients Crafting recipe
Melon Slice
Invicon Melon Slice.png: Inventory sprite for Melon Slice in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Melon Slice with description: Melon SliceInvicon Melon Slice.png: Inventory sprite for Melon Slice in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Melon Slice with description: Melon SliceInvicon Melon Slice.png: Inventory sprite for Melon Slice in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Melon Slice with description: Melon SliceInvicon Melon Slice.png: Inventory sprite for Melon Slice in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Melon Slice with description: Melon SliceInvicon Melon Slice.png: Inventory sprite for Melon Slice in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Melon Slice with description: Melon SliceInvicon Melon Slice.png: Inventory sprite for Melon Slice in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Melon Slice with description: Melon SliceInvicon Melon Slice.png: Inventory sprite for Melon Slice in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Melon Slice with description: Melon SliceInvicon Melon Slice.png: Inventory sprite for Melon Slice in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Melon Slice with description: Melon SliceInvicon Melon Slice.png: Inventory sprite for Melon Slice in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Melon Slice with description: Melon Slice
Invicon Melon.png: Inventory sprite for Melon in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Melon with description: Melon
 Sword Drops melon slices when broken.

Changed

Name Image Changed
Chest
  • Chests now have a unique block model.
  • Now play an animation and make sounds when opened or closed.
Grass and Fern Can be collected with shears.
Leaves Leaves placed by players no longer decay.
Moss Stone Changed texture.
Stone Pressure Plate and
Wooden Pressure Plate 		Can now be placed on fences.

Items

New

Name Image Obtaining Uses
Raw Chicken Obtained by killing chickens.
  • Restores 2 (🍗) and 1.2 saturation.
  • Has a 30% chance of inflicting the Hunger effect.
Cooked Chicken
Ingredients Smelting recipe
Raw Chicken +
Any fuel
Invicon Raw Chicken.png: Inventory sprite for Raw Chicken in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Raw Chicken with description: Raw Chicken
Invicon Coal.png: Inventory sprite for Coal in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Coal with description: CoalInvicon Charcoal.png: Inventory sprite for Charcoal in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Charcoal with description: CharcoalInvicon Oak Log.png: Inventory sprite for Oak Log in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Oak Log with description: LogInvicon Oak Planks.png: Inventory sprite for Oak Planks in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Oak Planks with description: Overworld PlanksInvicon Lava Bucket.png: Inventory sprite for Lava Bucket in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Lava Bucket with description: Lava BucketInvicon Block of Coal.png: Inventory sprite for Block of Coal in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Block of Coal with description: Block of Coal
Invicon Cooked Chicken.png: Inventory sprite for Cooked Chicken in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Cooked Chicken with description: Cooked Chicken
 Restores 6 (🍗🍗🍗) and 7.2 saturation.
Raw Beef Obtained by killing cows. Restores 3 (🍖🍗) and 1.8 saturation.
Steak
Ingredients Smelting recipe
Raw Beef +
Any fuel
Invicon Raw Beef.png: Inventory sprite for Raw Beef in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Raw Beef with description: Raw Beef
Invicon Coal.png: Inventory sprite for Coal in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Coal with description: CoalInvicon Charcoal.png: Inventory sprite for Charcoal in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Charcoal with description: CharcoalInvicon Oak Log.png: Inventory sprite for Oak Log in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Oak Log with description: LogInvicon Oak Planks.png: Inventory sprite for Oak Planks in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Oak Planks with description: Overworld PlanksInvicon Lava Bucket.png: Inventory sprite for Lava Bucket in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Lava Bucket with description: Lava BucketInvicon Block of Coal.png: Inventory sprite for Block of Coal in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Block of Coal with description: Block of Coal
Invicon Steak.png: Inventory sprite for Steak in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Steak with description: Steak
 Restores 8 (🍗🍗🍗🍗) and 12.8 saturation.
Ender Pearl Obtained by killing endermen. In this version, it has no uses and cannot be thrown.
Melon Seeds
Ingredients Crafting recipe
Melon Slice
  • Found in mineshaft chests.
 Can be planted on farmland to grow melons.
Melon Slice Obtained by breaking melons. Restores 2 (🍗) and 1.2 saturation.
Pumpkin Seeds
Ingredients Crafting recipe
Pumpkin
  • Found in mineshaft chests.
 Can be planted on farmland to grow pumpkins.
Rotten Flesh Restores 4 (🍗🍗) and 0.8 saturation.

Changed

Name Image Changed
Food
  • Eating food now restores hunger instead of health.
  • All food items (except mushroom stew) are now stackable.
  • Now takes 1.6 seconds to consume, accompanied with an animation.
Bow
  • Behavior has been overhauled; it needs to be charged in order to fire.
    • Arrows from bows now deal damage in accordance with the charging time.
Golden Apple
  • Now restores 10 (🍗🍗🍗🍗🍗) hunger instead of 20HP❤️ × 10 health.
  • Now gives the player the Regeneration status effect for 30 seconds.
Mushroom Stew Now restores 8 (🍗🍗🍗🍗) hunger instead of 10HP❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ health.
Shears Can now collect grass and vines.

Non-mob entities

New

Name Image Creation Drops Note
Experience orbs Can be obtained by gathering experience orbs from defeating mobs and players. Adds to the player's total experience when collected.

Structures and terrain features

New

Name Image Generates Chests Mobs Description
Village No None Clusters of buildings made from oak wood and cobblestone connected by pathways. Villages are uninhabited, as villagers have not been implemented yet.
Huge Mushrooms Grown by players by using bone meal on small mushrooms. No None The giant forms of mushrooms.
Ravine Underground No None Long and tall cracks that carve a large empty space into the earth.
Mineshaft Underground Chests are randomly scattered throughout the structure. Cave spiders from spawners, other monsters from natural spawning. Maze-like tunnel systems filled with wooden supports and minecart rails.
Stronghold Underground Chests can be found in multiple different types of rooms. Silverfish from monster eggs, other monsters from natural spawning.
  • Large subterranean fortresses made from stone bricks and other materials.
  • In this version, the End portal room hasn't been implemented yet.

Biomes

An entirely new terrain generator has been added. Biomes are generally larger and more distinct, and the terrain is overall flatter (with the exception of extreme hills).

New

Name Image Description Structures
Forest Very similar to beta forests.
Plains Larger than before. Villages
Desert Larger than before.
Swamp A flat biome with vine-covered trees and large shallow lakes. Oak trees
Extreme hills A biome with bluish grass and very tall mountains. Oak trees
Taiga A cold forest with spruce trees. Snow does not generate. Spruce trees
River A long and thin canal of water.
Ocean
  • Large bodies of water now generate as a proper biome.
  • Deeper and vaster than before.
  • Floor is now made up of sand, dirt, and clay.
  • Clay is now more commonly found due to this.

Gameplay

New

Name Description
Creative mode A new game mode in which the player can fly, cannot take damage, can break any block instantly, and has an inventory containing an infinite supply of most blocks and items.
Flying A new ability available in Creative mode, activated by double-tapping the jump key.
Sprinting Double-tapping the forward key allows you to move faster at the cost of losing hunger.
Hunger Food no longer instantly heals, but instead fills up a hunger bar. When at least 9 of the 10 "shanks" are filled, health slowly regenerates. Sprinting and regenerating health drains hunger.
Experience Killing mobs gives you experience points. Experience doesn't have a use yet.
Effects Temporary alterations that can affect mobs and players. Most of these are unobtainable, except for:

Changed

Name Description
Controls
  • Holding  Left Mouse Button with a weapon now only swings once.
  • Holding  Right Mouse Button to place blocks is slightly slower than before.
  • ⇧ Shift+clicking the output item in a crafting square crafts all the items at once, and automatically places them in the inventory.
  • Player list in multiplayer, defaults to ↹ Tab.
Clouds
  • Height raised to the top of the map.
  • Can no longer phase through blocks.
  • Movement now syncs with the game's time.
Damage Unarmed damage has been decreased from 2HP❤️ to 1HP💔 (reverting to the behavior from before Beta 1.5).
Daylight cycle
  • No longer requires chunk updates and is a smooth transition.
  • A few tweaks to sunrise and sunset.
Farming Changed to be less volatile.
HUD
  • Armor bar moved to above hearts, due to addition of the hunger bar.
  • The version tag is shown outside of the debug screen again.
Lighting
  • Implemented dynamic lighting; the brightness color on a block is given a tint based on the most prominent source of light.
  • Block light sources (such as torches or lava) emit a yellow-orange light, while skylight has a blue tint during nights.
  • Ambient light value for the Overworld has been changed from 0.05 to 0.0.
Multiplayer The 'Multiplayer join screen' has been improved, mainly with a server list.
Weather Rain and snow now render faster.

Achievements

Icon Achievement In-game description Parent Actual requirements (if different) Identifier
Sniper DuelKill a skeleton with an arrow from more than 50 metersMonster Hunter——

See also

Sources