Java Edition pre-Classic rd-161348

This page documents a formerly unreleased version.

 

This version was never intended to be released to the public, but it is available in archived copies.

The only archived copy of this version is edited.

 

A copy of this version has been archived. This copy plays correctly; however, it is not a bit-perfect original.
If you believe you have a clean, unedited copy of this version, please post on the talk page.

rd-161348

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rd-161348 is a pre-Classic version made on May 16, 2009, at 11:48 UTC, which adds saplings, makes changes and fixes a bug.^[1] This is the last archived version of pre-Classic.

This version is available in the launcher; however, the copy in the launcher was last modified on August 6, 2013 and contains the terrain.png from Classic 0.0.13a, as well as signature files from 2013, making it technically not original.

This version is duplicated in the launcher, as attempting to play rd-20090515 instead downloads and launches rd-161348.

rd-161348 block and item additions

Saplings^{[note 1]}

• Pressing 6 selects it.
  • It was not on 5, and nothing was on it, as Notch disliked the texture, trying to "hide" it.^[2]

Planks

• Texture changed from .

• Objects in the distance appear a tiny bit darker.^{[verify for Java Edition]}

• The game now runs in windowed mode again.
• Particles now continually face the player.
  • Player facing directly up or down sees the full particle rather than a sliver of the side.

Controls

• The crosshair (+) is made thicker.
• The block preview in the top-right corner of the screen has been flipped.

1 bug fixed

• Fixed rendering glitches where the world became invisible at certain angles.

• The launcher variant of this version uses textures from later versions.^{[note 1]}
• The terrain.png file used in the launcher build of this version is dated May 21, 2009 03:02 UTC+2 (in Sweden) and is bit-for-bit identical to the one used in Classic 0.0.13a.
• The "rd" before the version number stands for RubyDung, a game Notch was working on before Minecraft, whose codebase was later reused for Minecraft.
  • This is the last version to officially use this naming scheme.
• This is the first version that has been duplicated in the launcher.

• 
  All available blocks in the launcher's variant of this version. Note the sapling texture introduced in Classic 0.0.13a.^{[note 1]}
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