Better than Adventure! 1.7.7.0
Minecraft Beta 1.7.7.0 is an upcoming major update to Main Page, which will be adding new biomes such as the Glacier and Birch Forest, new blocks, new mobs and mob variants, and much more.
Additions
Blocks
Baked Mud
- New decorative block obtained from smelting Mud.
- Not affected by gravity.
Basket
- New container block.
- Collects items that fall onto it.
Chainlink Fence
- New fence-like block crafted from Chainlinks.
- Can be climbed along by players.
Cobbled Permafrost
- New cobblestone variant acquired from mining Permafrost.
Firefly Lanterns
- New decorative light source blocks.
- Comes in 4 colors; Red, Orange, Green and Blue.
Flag
- New customizable decorative block.
Glass Trapdoor
- New transparent trapdoor variant made of Glass.
- Currently has no Tinted Glass variant.
Mud
- New gravity-affected block, similar to Sand and Gravel.
- Found in the Swampland biome.
- Takes longer to fall than the aforementioned blocks.
Permafrost
- New stone/ice variant found in the Glacier biome.
- Cannot melt.
Permafrost Bricks
- New brick variant crafted from Permafrost.
Perma-Ice
- New Ice variant found in the Glacier biome.
- Cannot melt.
- Entities can slide along the block, similarly to regular Ice.
Scorched Grass
- New grass variant found in the Outback biome.
Items
Ice Skates
- New uncraftable boots.
- Found inside structures in the Glacier biome.
Jar
- Used to capture Fireflies.
Steel Fire Striker
- Has higher durability than regular Fire Strikers.
Steel Shears
- Have a higher durability than regular Shears.
Mobs
Firefly
- New ambient mob.
Scorpion
- New hostile mob.
- Drops String when killed.
Snowman
- New hostile mob.
- Spawns in the Permafrost biome.
- Throws snowballs at the player before killing them.
World
Biomes
Birch Forest
- New forest variant filled with tall Birch trees.
Glacier
- New snowy biome, similar to the Tundra.
- Contains Permafrost.
World Types
Debug
- A void world containing the block states of every block in the game.
Empty
- An empty void world containing no blocks.
Changes
- Improved world conversion
- New backgrounds
- Better full-screen handling
- VBOs setting
- More accurate Retro worlds
- Fixed high DPI scaling
- Number key item switching
- Closing inventory no longer drops items
- M1 Mac colour fix
- New splashes
- Repackaged every single class making the game much easier to work with
- Portal blocks now render fullbright
- Armored zombies now have bits of chainmail fly off as they get damaged
- Block tags
- Tinkering with Paradise appearance
- Improved trommel animation
- Blood rain
- Monster mob now takes on player skin when labelled
- Entity nicknames now depth-tested
- New terrain generation pipeline
- /time set dayX
- Ambient occlusion in fullbright
- Mushrooms no longer generate in the Nether
- Cape API from betterthanadventure.net
- Item clumping
- Fog enable/disable setting
- Wind system
- Fixed portal placement
- Auto walk key
- Option to swap mouse buttons
- Removed old mod loader
- Better seasonal sky colour
- Frosted grass in winter
- Trapdoors have side textures
- 3D biome support (not currently used)
- Creative players can reach further
- Improved door selection box
- "/chunk regen" command
- Autosave timer
- Better biome placement logic
- Chat scrollback
- Better text editing