The long-awaited 1.5 Redstone Update for Minecraft was officially released to the PC on Wednesday following weeks of snapshot previews.
The update should automatically download the next time you fire up the Minecraft launcher on your PC. The reason this update has the "Redstone" moniker is because it primarily focuses on new ways players can use the in-game substance to create new gadgets and contraptions using new blocks like the comparator and daylight sensor. That's not all though as Mojang has also refreshed the lighting, improved the game performance and made dangerous mobs even more dangerous.
Other highlights include a new Quartz block that can be found in the Nether plus a new way for Minecraft to handle custom textures, TNT that can be put in minecarts, a new scoreboard system, and the hopper, dispenser and dropper blocks.
As you can guess, this is a huge update for Minecraft with many changes and new features. You can check out the complete changelog below or check out a nice summary video created by FromTheFarLands in our video gallery.
- Added Redstone Comparator (used in Redstone logic)
- Added Hopper (collects items and moves them to containers)
- Added Dropper (similar to Dispensers, but always drops the item)
- Added Activator Rail (activates TNT Minecarts)
- Added Daylight Sensor
- Added Trapped Chest
- Added Weighed Pressure Plate
- Added Block of Redstone
- Added Nether Brick (item)
- Added Nether Quartz and ore
- Added Block of Quartz, with half blocks and chiseled variants
- New command: /scoreboard
- New command: /effect
- Containers and mobs can have custom names
- Inventory management has been changed, for example you can drag-place items over slots
- Texture packs now have separate images for each block and item, and can have animations
- Nether Quartz Ore now spawns in the Nether
- Smooth lighting now has three settings (none, minimal, maximum)
- More detailed death messages
- Some hostile mobs now are harder in Hard difficulty
- Many, many, bug fixes
- Removed Herobrine
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