Minecraft Beta 1.5 - Release Information

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Beta 1.5 was released today, and clients are now being prompted to update.

For the time being, the Minecraft Addicts server will remain on Beta 1.3. For information on how to roll-back your client, please see this thread.

We will be working very hard to roll out the updated server over the next few days. This may mean that we delay a bit of functionality for the sake of getting the update rolled out, but this will depend entirely on our plugin developers.

As for the new features in Beta 1.5, this is an excerpt from Notch's blog:

Minecraft Beta 1.5, and some thoughts on this blog

(You will need to update your servers as well)

* Weather (rain, snow, thunder)
* Statistics
* Achievements
* Detector rail
* Booster rail
* Performance improvements

More statistics and achievements will be added over time as we develop the game. They’re only stored locally at the moment, but we’ll slowly be rolling out online storing of achievements over time.