1.7.3 July 13th 2012 Changes that bring Xbox Edition up to date with Beta 1.7.3
1.0.1 Fix Update June 15th 2012
1.0 Beta May 9th 2012
- Added pistons & sticky pistons.
- Added stackable fences.
- Added shears – required to get wool from sheep, and to collect leaf blocks.
- TNT needs flint and steel or redstone to detonate.
- Redstone wire will now connect to a repeater.
- New textures for cobblestone and brick.
- Added Character Skin Selector to allow players to choose their skin from the default skins, or from downloadable Skin Packs.
- Added lighting improvements (backported from Beta 1.8.1 of the computer version) and snow & rain improvements.
- Added a save file cache to improve the speed of displaying the saves list.
- Added ban list functionality to allow players to self-ban from levels they feel contain offensive content.
- Added a ban list section to the How To Play menus.
- Added an option for the host to limit online games to only players in their friends list (no friends of friends).
- Added a seed display to the level load screen (requires existing levels to be saved out again to add the display).
- Changed the tooltip display setting to in-game tooltip display, so that tooltips always display in menus.
- Added the crosshair to the list of things affected by the opacity slider.
- On using the quickselect bar, the opacity of the quickselect, tooltips, splitscreen gamertag display, and crosshair will be set to 80, and will fade back down to the user opacity setting after 6 seconds of no quickselect bar use.
- Added some more Tips & Trivia to the loading/saving screen display.
- Added the new textures for cooked porkchop and dispenser that were added inBeta 1.8 and 1.2.1 respectively.
- Added rigged lines in iron blocks, and minor changes to other ore blocks added in 1.0.0.
- Added optional tutorial for pistons and redstone.
- Added a self-building bridge to the castle using pistons.
- Added some sugar cane, cacti and clay to the world.
- Added a few other things for players to discover.
- Fix for only the host being shown the pop-up when any player attempts to place lava near the spawn point.
- Fixed tooltip for flint and steel.
- Fix for note blocks not showing notes.
- Fix for Leaderboard reads taking too long.
- Fix to block players re-entering a level they have been kicked from, until the level is restarted.
- Fix to stop players being able to join a game when they are not a friend of any player in the game.
- Fix for netherrack re-appearing after being mined.
- Fix for a rare crash on entering the Nether.
- Fix for attacking enemies at a different level not damaging them (e.g. Attacking a pig while it's standing in grass will now hit it).
- Fixed a problem causing some save games not to load.
1.0.1 Fix Update June 15th 2012
- Added an autosave, and the ability to turn autosave off, or set it from 15 minutes up to 2 hours in 15 minute steps.
- Split the sensitivity controls into an in-game sensitivity and an in-menu sensitivity.
- Added an Interface Opacity slider in the settings for plasma screen users.
- Added a gamertag display in splitscreen, and the ability to enable/disable it in the settings.
- Added an option in the settings menu to enable/disable in-game hints.
- Added an option in the settings menu to enable/disable tooltips.
- Added a coordinate display to the in-game map.
- Added new sections in the How To Play on Multiplayer, Sharing Screenshots, and What’s New.
- Added a warning message when attempting to place lava near the spawn area.
- Fix for the leaderboard crash when toggling between filters/leaderboards.
- Fix for server disconnect message appearing when offline or in leaderboards.
- Fix for issue where posting a screenshot to Facebook caused a back out to the main menu.
- Fix for clay generation.
- Fix for ‘Awaiting Approval’ showing all the time on some signs.
- Various crafting menu fixes.
- Fix for being able to stand on sugarcane.
- Fix for intermittent crash on saving.
- Fix for duplication bug with the furnace and dispenser.
- Fix for not being able to place water near the spawn area.
- Fix for intermittent problem on entering the Nether putting the player above the Nether.
- Fix for frame-rate drop around the edge of the world.
- Fix for intermittent problem where some achievements were not being awarded.
- Fix for graphical issue with stairs.
- Fix for issue with enemies spawning inside a house when they shouldn’t.
- Fix for Zombie Pigmen not being counted for leaderboard scores.
- Fix for buckets being taken when crafting cake.
- A Boat can be pushed through solid blocks and appear solid black. While black they cannot be destroyed. You must break the block that it is stuck in to make it return to the proper texture color and breakable.
- Occasional game freezes (in Multiplayer Only?) just prior to auto-save when running game for several hours straight.
- When digging through Sand, some blocks will visually dissapper but will still be there when attempting to dig. When a user digs through the visually missing block to another block different from Sand (Ex. Cobblestone) the game will continue to produce the sound signifying the player is digging through Sand although the user is digging through a different block. This will continue until the user either switches tools or places a block down and then breaks the block that has been placed down.
- Duplication from the dispenser still hasn't been fixed. You can still duplicate it is just more difficult.
- A glitch may occur that makes blocks 'respawn' after being 'broken.' The block makes all visual indications of damage, and the appropriate sounds, but are in truth taking no damage. After the animation for 'breaking' is finished, 'broken' blocks disappear without spawning a pickup item, and then reappear approx. one second later. This glitch also expands to mobs, in that they make sounds and flash red, but do not get knocked back or actually take any damage. However, 'breaking' the blocks still uses up your tools and weapons as normal.
1.0 Beta May 9th 2012
- First release, ported to Xbox as Minecraft Beta 1.6.6
- Beta 1.6.6 PC features
- 1.6.6 PC bugs fixed
- Uses the newer game sounds from "The Sound Update"
- One 1.0.0 feature (face view)
- Tutorial mode added.
- Up to 4 players locally (requires HDTV A/V + HDMI or component cable)
- Up to 8 players online
- Simplified crafting system
- Pouring water from a bucket may cause it to either leave an extra watersource, or leave no water source when pouring the water out, sometimes you can pick up the water source by picking it up in the same spot you have poured it over.
- Crafting a cake does not return the buckets.
- Passive mobs sometimes can't be damaged when they are standing in tall grass.
- Stairs sometimes appear as a full block.
- Spiders will sometimes lose their ability to move when they are hit in tall grass.
- Game crashes whenever 2 (and possibly more) players finishing mining the same block.
- Game crashes whenever a player changes a filter to what might be Worldwide.
- Sugarcane are solid (You can't walk through them).
- Mobs sometimes do not take damage when hit on the legs and your tool's durability is lowered.
- Sometimes the game freezes while saving the world.
- Sometimes the game freezes when a player enters a Nether Portal.
- When you try and save the game when one or more people are in a different dimension, it can crash.
- If you try to join a game from a game invite when you are already in a game, it will sometimes freeze.
- If your saved game is on the cloud and you lose your connection to Xbox Live, the game defaults to player 1 and the hard drive. (Meaning that if you are playing split screen and you are using player 2's world then it will transfer ownership of the world to player 1.)
- Taking a screen shot when not playing an online game (unchecking the online checkbox when loading world) will cause the game to disconnect from the server, losing all unsaved data.
- Sometimes when opening the crafting area and either going through, or quitting the crafting tutorial will cause the game to freeze.