Java Edition Classic 0.24_SURVIVAL_TEST

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

Additions[]

Entities[]

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!".

Items[]

Arrows

• Can be shot by pressing Tab ↹.
  • Took 7 shots to kill mobs. Deal 3 damage.

Mobs[]

Creepers

• Are a lot darker than normal.
  • Return to normal when hit.
• Explode on death.
• Deal 2 to 6 damage upon hit and up to 12 × 6 damage upon death in its explosion.^[verify]
• They make melee attacks instead of blowing up near the player.

Pigs

• The first passive mob to be added into the game.

Skeletons

• Deal 1 to 6 damage.

Zombies

• Deal 1 to 7 damage.

Gameplay[]

Survival mode

Score

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

Armor

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

Particles

• Re-added sapling particles, although they are now darker than before.^[verify]

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.

General[]

Options menu

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

Changes[]

Mobs[]

General

• Mobs and players jump back and flash white when taking damage and have a dying animation.
• Enemies fall over when killed.

Human

• Changed skin from to , removing the beard.
• Can no longer be spawned by pressing G.

Gameplay[]

Controls

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

Block outline

• White block selection box removed.
  • As a result of this, saplings and flowers no longer disappear if selected in darkness.

Items[]

Mushrooms

• Brown mushrooms heal 5 when eaten.
• Red mushroom deplete 3 when eaten.
• Mushrooms no longer decay in darkness.

Saplings

• Will now grow into a tree if there is enough space and it is placed on grass.

World generation[]

General

• New level generator.
  • 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]

General[]

Performance

• Faster rendering.

Removed[]

• Removed Creative mode.
• Removed liquid raising, although sand and gravel will still fall through liquids.

Bugs[]

• If a creeper blows up a liquid, the liquid will drop itself.^[1][6]
• Cracking animation only shows on one side of a block.^[7]
• Skeletons can enter 1-block high holes.^[verify]
• Minecraft crashed upon loading for some users.^[8]
• OpenGL invalid value bug.^[9]
• Arrows do not deal damage after flying for more than 1 second.
• Middle-clicking 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 will replace the block type of whatever you are holding, but not its amount.
• Placing a block at the build limit will consume the block, destroying it without placing anything.
• Looking at glass no longer makes glass textures directly behind it disappear.^[verify]
• Walking on the very edge of a block will cause the amount of sounds required to play to build up. Once the player stands on a block, those sounds play every 0.125 seconds.

Gallery[]

• 

  The world flooded with lava by a player.

• 

  A captured pig.

• 

  Mushrooms generated in a cave.

• 

  "Game over!" screen.

• 

  Thumbnail from a dead 0.24st video.

References[]

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