Betafied 5.11

Note: Betafied brings Minecraft Beta 1.7.3 to Bedrock Edition. When playing on the Betafied server, you do not need to download this addon — the server handles all packs automatically upon joining. Download below for use in local singleplayer worlds.

5.11 adds mob ground shadow decals, restores Beta 1.7.3 lava damage timing, updates biome foliage tints, and fixes tool mining speeds.

Mobs

• Added authentic circular ground shadow decals beneath Beta mobs.
• Optimized animal hop AI sweeps to evaluate players and mobs across tick slices.

Lava

• Changed lava damage to deal 4 damage every 10 ticks while submerged.
• Added a 15-second fire duration when submerged in lava.
• Added debounce to prevent double damage when native lava damage ticks.

Mining

• Added mining fatigue when breaking redstone ore with a pickaxe.
• Added haste when breaking cobwebs and bamboo with swords.

World & visuals

• Updated all client biome foliage and grass colors to match Beta colormaps.
• Adjusted Overworld and Nether fog start and end distances.
• Fixed death screen overlay flashing on uninitialized forms.

Tooling

• Added scripts/analyze-profile.mjs to parse BDS CPU profiles.

Installation

• New World: Download and open the .mctemplate file to create a ready-to-play Betafied world with packs pre-configured.
• Existing Worlds: Run the .mcaddon file to install both the Behavior Pack and Resource Pack automatically.

No download is needed when playing on the Betafied server.

Betafied 5.10.1

Note: Betafied brings Minecraft Beta 1.7.3 to Bedrock Edition. When playing on the Betafied server, you do not need to download this addon — the server handles all packs automatically upon joining. Download below for use in local singleplayer worlds.

5.10.1 fixes the Nether wearing the Overworld's blue fog.

Nether

• Fixed the Nether's fog staying the Overworld's blue one after a portal crossing.

Installation

• New World: Download and open the .mctemplate file to create a ready-to-play Betafied world with packs pre-configured.
• Existing Worlds: Run the .mcaddon file to install both the Behavior Pack and Resource Pack automatically.

No download is needed when playing on the Betafied server.

Betafied 5.10

Note: Betafied brings Minecraft Beta 1.7.3 to Bedrock Edition. When playing on the Betafied server, you do not need to download this addon — the server handles all packs automatically upon joining. Download below for use in local singleplayer worlds.

5.10 keeps lit Nether portals standing, returns the era's ambience to the Nether, and stops the pack hiding the blocks it cannot remove.

Nether

• Fixed lit Nether portals breaking with their obsidian frames still standing.
• Changed the Nether's biomes to wear Beta's red fog, with none of the Nether Update's ash or spores.
• Removed the Nether Update's ambience and music, leaving the era's cave sounds.
• Removed the loot chests a ruined portal leaves in the Nether.
• Changed the Nether sweep to write whole block types instead of one block at a time.

Blocks

• Fixed dead bushes, cobwebs, monster spawners, repeaters and stone slabs dropping nothing.
• Fixed fast-graphics leaf tiles filling their cut-outs with black instead of the era's flat leaf tone.

Appearance

• Removed the masking that made post-Beta blocks draw nothing.
• Fixed the fire animation painting vanilla's fire frames onto soul fire.

Mobs

• Changed zombie pigmen to drop up to two cooked porkchops.
• Removed the wolf's modern coat variants.

Building

• Fixed the build ceiling blocking cake, slabs, chests and bonemeal at height.

Installation

• New World: Download and open the .mctemplate file to create a ready-to-play Betafied world with packs pre-configured.
• Existing Worlds: Run the .mcaddon file to install both the Behavior Pack and Resource Pack automatically.

No download is needed when playing on the Betafied server.

Betafied 5.9.2

Note: Betafied brings Minecraft Beta 1.7.3 to Bedrock Edition. When playing on the Betafied server, you do not need to download this addon — the server handles all packs automatically upon joining. Download below for use in local singleplayer worlds.

5.9.2 fixes boats breaking against any shore they came near, restores sugar cane, sugar and paper, and makes the world template import again.

Boats

• Fixed boats breaking whenever a block stood beside them.
• Changed the break to the era's condition, a blocked move above 0.15 blocks a tick.
• Changed the boat check to ignore flowing water.
• Changed the boat check from every 10 ticks to every 2.

Sugar cane

• Fixed broken sugar cane dropping nothing.
• Fixed a conversion the game refuses destroying the drop it was converting.
• Changed the sugar and paper recipes to name the cane item.
• Kept stacks of minecraft:reeds as they are.

World template

• Fixed the world template being refused on import.
• Changed the template's base game version to come from the behavior pack being shipped.

Tooling

• Fixed each release posting a second Discord release post.
• Added the release notes to the Discord changelog channel.

Installation

• New World: Download and open the .mctemplate file to create a ready-to-play Betafied world with packs pre-configured.
• Existing Worlds: Run the .mcaddon file to install both the Behavior Pack and Resource Pack automatically.

No download is needed when playing on the Betafied server.

Betafied 5.9.1

Note: Betafied brings Minecraft Beta 1.7.3 to Bedrock Edition. When playing on the Betafied server, you do not need to download this addon — the server handles all packs automatically upon joining. Download below for use in local singleplayer worlds.

5.9.1 removes the Overworld chunk sweep, its biome and feature overrides, and adds the Discord statistics card.

Terrain

• Removed the Overworld chunk sweep, keeping the Nether's.
• Removed the ragged bedrock floor at Y=0 and the fallen-log sweep.
• Removed the 84 Overworld biome definitions.
• Removed the 53 feature overrides and 20 feature rules that suppressed modern decoration.
• Kept Beta's grass, foliage and sky colours.

Tooling

• Added a Discord statistics card with downloads and page views.
• Changed the release post to carry the download total and to be edited in place.
• Added npm run stats to publish both messages by hand.
• Changed the release workflow to publish its post through the statistics tooling.

Releases

• Fixed world template packaging shipping a manifest the game will not list.
• Changed the world icon to come from the pack's own file.

Installation

• New World: Download and open the .mctemplate file to create a ready-to-play Betafied world with packs pre-configured.
• Existing Worlds: Run the .mcaddon file to install both the Behavior Pack and Resource Pack automatically.

No download is needed when playing on the Betafied server.

Betafied 5.9

Note: Betafied brings Minecraft Beta 1.7.3 to Bedrock Edition. When playing on the Betafied server, you do not need to download this addon — the server handles all packs automatically upon joining. Download below for use in local singleplayer worlds.

5.9 restores native sign editing on ground and walls, packages a ready-to-play world template with releases, isolates the death screen UI from other server forms, and ships Beta's grass and foliage colormaps.

Signs

• Replaced custom oak signs with vanilla oak signs to restore the native sign text editor on ground and walls.
• Removed custom sign placement handling that intercepted clicks.
• Changed oak signs in player inventories to stack to one item.
• Changed the build height limit to allow interacting with signs and beds at the world ceiling.

Worlds

• Added a .mctemplate world template package to release builds with behavior and resource packs pre-configured.
• Added release tooling to remove world template assets from previous releases.

Interface

• Changed the death screen UI routing to only match forms titled Game over!, leaving other server forms to standard layouts.
• Changed death screen background wash bindings to prevent affecting third-party forms.

Environment

• Added Beta 1.7.3 grass and foliage colormaps so biomes sample authentic climate tints.
• Changed terrain biomes to use climate-derived grass and foliage tints instead of a single neutral color.
• Removed an unreferenced third-party fog definition.

Installation

• New World: Download and open the .mctemplate file to create a ready-to-play Betafied world with packs pre-configured.
• Existing Worlds: Run the .mcaddon file to install both the Behavior Pack and Resource Pack automatically.

No download is needed when playing on the Betafied server.

Betafied 5.8

Note: Betafied brings Minecraft Beta 1.7.3 to Bedrock Edition. When playing on the Betafied server, you do not need to download this addon — the server handles all packs automatically upon joining. Download below for use in local singleplayer worlds.

5.8 fixes the death loop that sends players without a bed above the world, makes signs writable again, and keeps extended pistons intact.

Respawn

• Fixed players without a bed being stuck in a voiding world.
• Added a world spawn recorded on the world's first join, where a bed-less player now respawns.
• Changed a join position the dimension cannot hold to never become the world spawn.
• Changed a respawn with no bed and no recorded world spawn to leave the player where they died.

Signs

• Fixed clicks on standing and wall signs being swallowed.
• Changed standing signs to face the placing player's rotation, as Beta did.
• Fixed a sign placed against a block being written twice.

Blocks

• Fixed an extended piston losing its head when a chunk loaded.

Tooling

• Fixed the test mock answering a resolved world spawn.

Installation

• New World: Download and open the .mctemplate file to create a ready-to-play Betafied world with packs pre-configured.
• Existing Worlds: Run the .mcaddon file to install both the Behavior Pack and Resource Pack automatically.

No download is needed when playing on the Betafied server.

Betafied 5.7

Note: Betafied brings Minecraft Beta 1.7.3 to Bedrock Edition. When playing on the Betafied server, you do not need to download this addon — the server handles all packs automatically upon joining. Download below for use in local singleplayer worlds.

5.7 adds Beta-style death behavior, adjusts mob movement, and fixes several rendering and item-drop issues.

Death

• Added Beta's death screen with the original gradient and Game over! text.
• Changed the death screen to keep the hotbar, hearts, and crosshair visible behind it.
• Added Beta-style inventory and armor drops on death.
• Changed death drops to use the era's throw behavior and spread around the player.
• Added the player death flop.
• Added the smoke effect after death.
• Added the hurt sound played on a lethal hit.
• Added Beta-style death camera behavior with the field of view narrowing from 70 degrees.
• Changed dead players to spectator mode with movement locked until respawn.
• Changed respawning to face south and restore the normal camera.
• Changed scripted player teleports to suppress the engine's You have been teleported to ... message.
• Removed the permanent player invisibility used by the shadow pack.
• Restored hostile mob targeting of players.
• Restored Bedrock's normal player shadow.
• Fixed players already loaded into a world remaining invisible after updating.

Mobs

• Reduced mob walking speeds to better match Beta's pacing.
• Changed all mobs to use the same updated movement-speed baseline.
• Fixed zombies not retaliating when attacked.
• Fixed spiders rendering invisible because their controller could select the invisible material from the old shadow system.
• Changed Herobrine encounters to have a minimum eight-hour delay between sightings.
• Reduced Herobrine encounter frequency so sightings average closer to once per day.

Blocks

• Changed leaves to use flatter Beta-style shading.
• Reduced ambient occlusion on leaf blocks.
• Added Beta-style face shading to the bottom, north/south, and east/west sides of leaves.
• Changed wooden slabs to use stone-slab sounds.
• Removed fire behavior from wooden slabs to match the slab block they were based on.

Drops

• Fixed converted ground-item stacks losing all but the first item when processed by the background sweep.
• Changed raw iron already on the ground to convert into a single iron ore.
• Changed raw gold already on the ground to convert into a single gold ore.
• Changed raw ore conversion to match the one-ore drop produced by a mined Beta ore block.

Tooling

• Added a lint rule limiting inline comment blocks to twelve lines.
• Removed script comments that only repeated what the code already made clear.

Installation

Run the .mcaddon file to install both the Behavior Pack and Resource Pack automatically. No download is needed when playing on the Betafied server.

Betafied 5.6.1

Note: Betafied brings Minecraft Beta 1.7.3 to Bedrock Edition. When playing on the Betafied server, you do not need to download this addon — the server handles all packs automatically upon joining. Download below for use in local singleplayer worlds.

5.6.1 is a small fix-up release for sugar cane, signs, crafting, and mob rendering.

Sugar cane

• Fixed harvested and broken sugar cane being removed during item conversion.
• Changed sugar cane drops to keep their proper item identity instead of disappearing when collected.

Signs

• Fixed signs being placeable against doors and trapdoors in cases where the block itself should handle the interaction.
• Changed door and trapdoor interactions to take priority so unusable signs are not left attached to them.

Crafting

• Restored log-to-plank recipes to the player's 2x2 inventory crafting grid.
• Restored jack-o'-lantern crafting to the 2x2 inventory grid.
• Restored sandstone crafting to the 2x2 inventory grid.
• Restored furnace minecart crafting to the 2x2 inventory grid.
• Fixed recipes that were incorrectly moved to the custom crafting table in 5.6.

Mobs

• Fixed mobs already present in loaded worlds becoming fully invisible.
• Changed existing entities to keep their normal render state when the updated pack is applied.

Tooling

• Added automatic posting of new releases to the project's Discord changelog channel.

Installation

Run the .mcaddon file to install both the Behavior Pack and Resource Pack automatically. No download is needed when playing on the Betafied server.

Betafied 5.6

Note: Betafied brings Minecraft Beta 1.7.3 to Bedrock Edition. When playing on the Betafied server, you do not need to download this addon — the server handles all packs automatically upon joining. Download below for use in local singleplayer worlds.

5.6 restores authentic door mechanics, unstackable utility items, unified crafting recipes, entity blob shadows, and classic visual lighting.

Doors

• Added Beta-style wooden and iron doors that do not stack in inventories or chests.
• Added punch-to-toggle interaction so players can open and close wooden doors by left-clicking.
• Changed wooden and iron door crafting recipes to yield a single door on the crafting table.
• Added Beta placement rules requiring doors to be placed on top faces.
• Changed existing vanilla doors in player inventories to normalize to single items.

Unstackable utilities

• Changed oak signs, buckets, and cakes to be unstackable.
• Added Beta-style sign placement for standing and wall signs.
• Added Beta bucket mechanics so empty buckets scoop liquid source blocks and milk cows.
• Added authentic multi-bite eating mechanics to placed cakes.
• Changed sign, bucket, and cake crafting recipes to produce authentic unstackable items.
• Fixed placed oak signs so they are properly preserved as valid Beta blocks.

Crafting

• Unified all crafting recipes to appear exclusively on the custom crafting table.
• Removed duplicate recipe entries across crafting interfaces.
• Disabled modern post-Beta recipes including nuggets and cut sandstone.

Visual parity

• Added authentic circular entity blob shadows beneath mobs and players.
• Added authentic face dimming to light source blocks like torches, glowstone, fire, and lava.
• Added darker sand shading and ambient occlusion to match sandstone.
• Disabled entity shadow rendering on signs to prevent artificial darkness behind text.
• Disabled directional lighting on fences to eliminate unnatural vertical shading seams.
• Enforced deterministic texture alignment across block faces.
• Disabled frame interpolation on animated water, lava, and fire textures for classic stepped animation.
• Added classic fast-graphics leaf textures with opaque black backgrounds.

Tooling

• Added automated maintenance tooling to clean up accumulated game content logs.

Installation

Run the .mcaddon file to install both the Behavior Pack and Resource Pack automatically. No download is needed when playing on the Betafied server.