Minecraft Beta 1.7.5

Release date	August 20, 2021
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Minecraft Beta 1.7.5 was a major update to Main Page released on August 20, 2021, which added labyrinths, armored zombies, quivers, and much more.

Additions

Blocks

Motion Sensor
- Actives redstone when it views any entity, whether it is the player, mob or item.
- Can only be found in dungeons.

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.
- Used as ammo for the Hand Cannon, or 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.

Golden Arrow
- Arrow that shoots through multiple targets.
- Found in labyrinths and can be crafted with gold and arrows.
- Deals 2 () damage.

Purple Arrow
- Not obtainable, only exists as entity form.
- Fired from the golden quiver, deals 1 (♥) damage.

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 from labyrinth-exclusive mob spawners.
- Wears chainmail armor and sometimes wields an iron sword.
- Drops chainlinks on death.

World generation

Labyrinths
- 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 has a side texture.

Door
- Stacks to 64 now.
Pistons and 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 now 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.

Axes
- Now effective against leaves, breaking them instantly.

Bow
- Position in hand has been changed.

Mobs

Zombie
- Now drops cloth instead of feathers.
Cows
- Buffed leather drop rate from 0-3 to 1-5.
Hostile mob spawning
- Largely been reworked.
- Difficulty now determines the frequency that mobs spawn at.
- On the easy and normal difficulties, mobs now only spawn in complete darkness (light level 4 and below), but in greater numbers.
- As a result, open skies at night are now much safer, while shaded areas such as forests at night are now much deadlier.
- On the hard difficulty, mob spawning follows vanilla rules (light level 8 and below).

Entities

Boats
- No longer break upon block collision.
- Controls and handling have been improved.

Gameplay

Added new achievements.
Shift clicking has been improved.
Portals can be any size and shape.
Slime chunks now drip slime particles from the ceiling.

General

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

Bug fixes

Ore overlays and dirt paths now render properly in old lighting.
Sugarcane can now be placed on sand.
Nerfed moss spreading.
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 User:Skydeckagogo's personal YouTube channel on August 20th, 2021, the same day as the version was released. It is currently unlisted.

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