Minecraft Beta 1.7.5

Beta 1.7.6
Release date	August 20, 2021
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Beta 1.7.5 is a major update to Main Page released on August 20, 2021, which adds labyrinths, armored zombies, new items and blocks, and much more.

Additions

Blocks

Motion Sensor

• Allows the player to recycle junk materials like Dirt, Gravel, Sand and Soul Sand into more useful items such as Pebbles, Iron Nuggets, Gold Nuggets and more.
• Powered by fuel.

Items

Hand Cannon

• Found in labyrinths or crafted with oak logs, steel and a bow.
• Shoots explosive charges.
• Needs to be reloaded before firing.

Explosive Charge

• Crafted with string, iron and gunpowder.
• Ammo for the Hand Cannon and can be shot out of dispenser.
• Deals explosive damage and massive knockback.
• Explosion doesn't destroy blocks.

Quiver

• Crafted with leather, string and cloth.
• Equipped on the chestplate slot.
• Can hold 3 stacks of arrows.

Golden Quiver

• Special labyrinth loot that grants the wearer infinite purple arrows.
• Equipped on the chestplate slot.

Arrow

• Arrow that shoots through multiple targets.
• Found in labyrinths and can be crafted with gold and arrows.
• Deals 2 damage or 1 heart.

Purple Arrow

• Not obtainable, only exists as entity form.
• Fired from the golden quiver, deals 1 damage or half a heart.

Cloth

• Drops from zombies.
• Used to craft beds and quivers.

Chainlinks

• Drops from armored zombies and found in labyrinth chests
• Used to repair chain armor

Mobs

Armored Zombie

• Spawns similarly to normal zombies.
• Wears chain armor and sometimes wields an iron sword.
• Drops chainlinks on death.

World

• Slime chunks now have slime particles dripping from cave ceilings.

Structures

Labyrinth

• Giant underground mazes filled with traps.
• Changes types depending on what biome it generates in.
• Contains zombie, spider, skeleton and armored zombie spawners.
• Contains spike traps, spawner rooms and motion detector traps.

Changes

Blocks

Dirt Path

• Now have a side texture.

Wooden Doors, Iron Doors

• Stack to 64 now.

Pistons, Sticky Pistons

• Can now crush blocks when placed in-between obsidian.
• Used to collect blocks that normally break when mined, like ice and glass.

Spikes

• Default position changed to spikes out, redstone retracts the spikes.

Items

Leather Boots

• No longer trample crops when worn.

Chain Armor

• Can be obtained in labyrinths, and be repaired with chainlinks.
• Depending on durability level can craft down into chainlinks.

Tools

• Axes are now effective against leaves.

Bow

• Position in hand has been changed.

Mobs

• Zombies now drop cloth instead of feathers.
• Changed cow leather drop rate from 0-3 to 1-5.
• Re-worked monster spawning, hostile spawning light level is now tied to difficulty, spawning much more frequently at night on hard and normal. They also spawn at a lower light level(max 4 instead of 8).

Entities

Boats

• Boats no longer break on contact with blocks at high speeds.
• Much more controllable than before.

Gameplay

• Added new achievements.
• Shift clicking has been improved.
• Portals can be any size and shape.

General

• Skins have been re-added.
• Redirected game files to .minecraft-bta.

Bugs

To be added.

Fixes

• Ore overlays and dirt paths now render properly in old lighting.
• Sugarcane can now be placed on sand.
• Nerfed moss.
• Blocks can be placed on tall grass.
• Bit depth fix.
• Fixed door redstone behavior.
• Slabs can now be placed on slabs without the block above being empty.
• Bookshelves now drop themselves.
• Mob spawners now render the correct entity in their cage.
• Mobs are more optimized in multiplayer.

Trailer

The official trailer for 1.7.5 was released on Mak's personal YouTube channel on August 20th, 2021, the same day as the version was released. It is currently unlisted.

Gallery

To be added.