Java Edition Beta 1.5

Beta 1.5 is a version of Java Edition Beta released on April 19, 2011, which added statistics and achievements, new types of rails and saplings, and cobwebs among other changes and fixes.
== Additions ==
=== Blocks ===
; Birch Sapling
* Grows into birch trees.
; Cobweb
* Unobtainable in the game without inventory editing until Beta 1.8.
; Detector Rail
* Crafted with 1 stone pressure plate, 6 iron ingots and 1 redstone dust.
* Used to detect minecarts on top of it; when activated, they produce redstone power.
; Powered Rail
* Crafted with 1 stick, 6 gold ingots and 1 redstone dust.
* Needs to be powered by redstone.
* Transmits redstone signal to 8 powered rails far.
; Spruce Sapling
* Grows into spruce trees.
===Mobs===
; Charged Creepers
* When struck by a lightning bolt, they now become a charged creeper, and have a much more powerful explosion.
; Pigs
* When struck by a lighting bolt they now become zombie pigmen.
===Non-mob entities===
; Lightning Bolt
* May strike during thunderstorms, creating fire and dealing damage around it.
===Gameplay===
; Achievements
* Are now transferred between worlds.
; Weather
* Added natural occurring rain, snowfalls, and thunderstorms.
===General===
; Controls
* + clicking on something in a chest will immediately move the selected item(s) into the player's inventory and vice-versa.
; Options
* Ability to change GUI size (Small, Normal, Large, Auto).
* Advanced OpenGL (Occlusion Culling: doesn't render blocks that the player can't "see", helps performance in cards that support it).
; Statistics
* Are now transferred between worlds.
==Changes==
===Blocks===
; Bed
*Sleeping in thunderstorms is now possible, even in daytime.
; Crying obsidian
*Texture has now been removed from .
; Fire
*Now spreads much slower than before.
; Grass Blocks
*When using fancy graphics, the sides now use the same color as the top (example of a grass block in Alpha 1.2.0: ).
; Ladders
*Its crafting recipe now produces 2 ladders to offset the fix of the staggered-ladder exploit.
; Saplings
*Can now serve as fuel in furnaces.
**Have the same smelting time as sticks.
; Redstone Wire
*Fully off redstone wire is no longer black.
*Several changes in redstone wire rendering
**Due this change, it no longer appears stretched when travelling vertically up a block. However, it still appears offset.
===Items===
; General
*Dropped items in flowing water move faster than before.
; Redstone Dust
*Can now be placed on snow.
===Mobs===
; Pigs
*When killed by burning, now drop cooked porkchops upon death.
; Wolves
*Now more common, even in non-taiga/forest biomes.
===World generation===
; Birch and spruce trees
*Now drop birch saplings and spruce saplings, respectively.
===General===
; Controls
*Pressing will switch between input boxes.
* + no longer creates a 36450×17700 pixel screenshot.
; Performance
*Huge performance improvements for old and slow computers.
==Fixes==
;15 bugs fixed
*Players are only 'on' a ladder (can climb it/fall slowly) if the lower half is in the ladder block, rather than any part of the player.
**It is no longer possible to climb with a one-block gap in a ladder, or a ladder that starts at eye level.
*On fancy graphics, the sides of grass blocks are now biome-specific and match the shade on the top.
*Player movement through water has been fixed to previous speed.
*Wolves' pathfinding now has a better understanding of doors. They will go through doors most of the time, but will sometimes get stuck on the 3-pixel thickness of the door.
*The lighting on portals and ice has been fixed when using smooth lighting.
*Stairs are no longer transparent to light.
*On multiplayer, the health of wolves are now synchronized between server and client, causing wolves to only whimper when low on health, as opposed to all of the time.
*Redstone in off state is red again.
*Fixed saplings occasionally growing trees that stretch to world limit.
*Crops hit with water now drop seeds and wheat, as opposed to just wheat.
*Moving minecarts will continue to move if the world is closed.
*The Mojang logo is the correct size when the client is maximized.
*The exploit to make chests three or more side by side by placing a water source and placing a chest in that source has been fixed.
* + doesn't attempt to create massive .tga screenshots, which are more than 1GB in size, anymore.
*Sugar cane can no longer be placed on any block that is not dirt.</onlyinclude>
==Gallery==
Beta 1.5 Achievements.png|The achievement UI with the first achievement completed.
File:Statistics UI Beta 1.5.png|The statistics UI
== References ==
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