Minecraft 1.9 Beta Launcher released + Optifine 1.9

Changes​

Alright, so Mojang released a new beta update. For the bad things we got in Official Release 1.8, Mojang is making up to it. The game needs a new launcher, because most of the physics of the blocks have been change, and MANY new blocks and entities have been added!


These are all the previous (obtainable) blocks that are having a new texture update and a physics update. Here are some of them:

• Furnace Fuel: Cooked items can now depend on the fuels used in the furnace.
• TNT: TNT now can explode when left alone too long.
• Piston: Pistons push higher or lower depending on the strength of the redstone signal.
• Bed: Beds now can set checkpoints during the day, so you don't need to sleep anymore.
• Nether: Breaking obsidian from the Nether portal in the Nether has a 3% chance to summon the Wither boss.
• Command blocks can now embed youtube and imgur content.

Beta Launcher + Exclusive Cape​

Minecraft users can use the 1.9 beta launcher and get an exclusive cape with the 1.9 back on it if they:

• Catch and report 5 or more unsolved bugs.
• Suggest a feature that gets added to the 1.9 beta launcher.

Additionally, there are now 7 game types:

• Survival
• Hardcore
• Creative
• Adventure
• Spectator
• Ultra Hardcore
• Endurance

Ultra Hardcore has new physics:

• Zombies and Skeletons are aggravated in Sunlight.
• Zombies have a chance to go back to life when killed.
• Zombies have a chance to slow you down when you get hit.
• Skeletons have a chance to fire homing arrows.
• Spiders build webs when they die.
• Enderman are immune to water and an enderman teleporting near you deals damage.

Endurance mode is special:

• You get THREE minecraft days to gather resources, and then you are stranded in an infinite night, and light sources only give off 3 levels of light, enough to see but not to protect from monster spawns. Very interesting ideas.

Additionally, there's new blocks I don't want to spoil for you ;).

Here are the links to the article I discovered this on, the optifine link for this launcher, and the launcher itself.

http://optifine.net/adloadx?f=OptiFine_1.9.B_HD_U_A1.jar
https://minecraft.net/download/secret/1.9.B_beta_launcher
https://mojang.com/2015/04/minecraft-1-9-B-is-now-available/



Have fun with it.

 

thx

 

1.9 came out today?

 

*sees title*
*checks Mojangs website*
*nothing there*
*hovers over links*
"Aha they are going to Rick Roll me"
*clicks link sure enough goes to video*

 

HEY. It's not April Fools yet ;)

 

Nice troll lol

 

Some people just want to watch the world burn

 

Nice joke xD
I knew it was a prank after looking at the title lol xD

it is in Australia :3

 

Such Fake..Want 1.9 SUX

 

*looks at thread
*suprised at what it explains
*clicked on website
*rick roll shows up
*WTF fuuuuuuu

 

I hate you

 

Am I the only one who saw this thread and thought it was real until later?
I legit was at school on the forums and I saw this thread and I didn't think it was fake.
I just now, at home, realized that this was a rickroll thread.

Either I didn't read carefully enough or I just didn't click the links, I'm not too sure.
Good one though, you got me.

 

Good thing I read the comments before clicking the link xD

Now, I'm going to click the link. (Because why not.)

 

Do you know that I want to kill you? Jk xD

 

Haha no.
just by hovering over the link I could tell it was a RickRoll

 

Good Try With The Prank But Im Not Stuped

 

I wish it was real...



Also you should have posted this yesterday April Fools Day.

 

Fell for it
God dammit!

 

lel