Release Date: December 22, 2010
Overview:
Beta 1.1 is a Java Edition Beta release that introduced holiday-themed special events, including festive capes, along with gameplay changes, fixes, and minor block updates. The release experienced multiple rapid reuploads due to a missing font.txt file, which caused in-game text to become invisible.
Additions
General:
- Holiday Capes:
- Players logging in on December 25 received a Christmas-themed cape.
- Players logging in on December 31 received a purple fireworks-themed cape celebrating New Year 2011.
- These capes were temporary server-side changes and did not permanently modify player accounts.
Changes
Blocks:
- Leaves:
- Leaf decay behavior was completely rewritten for improved performance and consistency.
Removals
- Font:
- The
font.txtfile was accidentally removed in the initial release, causing all in-game text to appear invisible.
- The
Fixes
- Resolved frame rate drops in singleplayer mode.
- Fixed an issue where players were disconnected due to excessive multiplayer data spam.
- Corrected an item duplication bug in multiplayer.
- Restored proper handling of fancy characters by separating font resources from the game code.
Gallery
- Images of the modified Beta 1.1 version including the restored
font.txt. - Screenshots showing holiday-themed capes and fixes in-game.
Trivia
- Beta 1.1 had the shortest wait between major updates in Java Edition, released just 2 days after Beta 1.0.
Notes
- The missing font issue could be temporarily fixed if the player manually added
font.txtto the brokenminecraft.jar.