First 30 days

Mine blocks started development on June the 13th 2011. This page shows the change-logs for the first three weeks.

1.4.34 can be played here: zanzlanz.com/MineBlocksOld

First 3 Weeks of the Development of Mine Blocks

Day 21

• Programmable keys
• Added options menu in game

Day 20

• Health increases slower (half a heart every 10 seconds)
• Oranges and apples give 3 hearts
• Jumping is a little higher
• Added rain sound loops
• Rain may seep through leaves
• Added bricks
• Added clay
• Snow blocks form in 1x1 areas while it snows
• Puddles form in 1x1 areas while it rains
• Trees regrow slower
• Rope can dangle from the cieling
• It gets darker while it's raining
• Fixed a acid/lava hurt glitch
• Weather is now random

Day 19

• Fixed another oven glitch
• Added rain
• Added snow
• Made thunder sounds in storms
• Made moss form in rain

Day 18

• Bamboo can replace sticks in the crafting table
• Bamboo
• Rope
• Water, lava, and acid will pick up flowers, saplings, and torches!
• Unstackable items won't stack when picked up
• Befe (Major lag fix)
• TNT saves it's state
• TNT destroys more blocks
• Beds are bouncy!

Day 17

• Fixed scroll wheel
• TNT

Day 16

• Music
• Beds
• Fixed pause deleting inventory items
• Volume select
• Doors make sounds
• Added clouds
• Fixed doors, and ladders

Day 15

• Snow blocks > Ice
• Snow balls > snow block
• Shovel makes snow > snow balls
• Snow biomes
• When exiting the inventory, the items that don't save get dropped
• Buckets
• 4 glass shards = glass

Day 14

• You can select an inventory item with the scroll wheel
• Moved inventory key from E to CONTROL
• Fixed redstone drops
• You don't have to let go of the mouse to mine another block
• Drops try to find an open spot to slide to
• OFFICIAL TESTING RELEASED
• Less fall damage
• Fixed furnaces giving 2 for the first item
• Pumpkins are less clumped together and aren't placed on beaches
• Pumpkins are placable

Day 13

• Iron, gold, and diamond blocks
• Added version history ;)
• It checks with you before deleting a world
• Chests
• If you're underwater, mining speed slows down
• Mines don't remove flowers, wood, leaves, cacti, seaweed, nor coral when generating
• Cacti and seaweed don't leave drops if they were placed wrong by the generator
• Added a hurt animation
• Ladders
• Drops will time out if they exist for too long (5 minutes)
• Drops have physics
• Made deserts more rare, and water at a lower altitude
• Changed the glass texture

Day 12

• Coral
• Loading screen and title screen
• An "a" is added to a world name if it already exists.
• If the seed number is empty, another random seed is picked
• Jack-o'-Lanterns' lights go out when they are mined
• Flowers, nor pumpkins are in the desert
• Flowers
• Seaweed
• Pause screen (press Esc)
• Ocean works
• Smelting: Cobblestone > Rock
• Smelting: Sand > Glass
• Smelter
• Tools appear in your hand when you mine
• It gets darker the farther underwater you are

Day 11

• Doors
• Shovels
• Axes
• Tools disintegrate when they are worn out
• Tool damage
• Other pickaxes
• Made stone drop only with certain tools, as with coal, iron, and other things
• Wooden pickaxe
• Tree's grow even if they are off the screen
• Made grass calculation more random
• If your selector leaves a block while you're mining, it stops mining
• The block sounds repeat when mining a block, and the mining animation continues
• Fixed spawning
• The saved games drop down shows you the seed number

Day 10

• Shift-clicking will also be used to dynamically change the state of objects
• Tool tips in the inventory tell you what you have stored
• Can't mine coal, iron ore, diamond, gold ore, redstone ore, or obsidian without tools
• Added a block-decaying speed
• Wooden pickaxe recipe
• Crafting table
• Drown damage
• Underwater sound loop
• Sounds play when a block is placed
• Lights disappear when they leave the screen
• Made sounds' volumes not interfere with each other
• Saves every 20 seconds, water is calculated slower, and day/night is twice as long

Day 9

• Added a time schedule (gets dark at night)
• You can't place a block on yourself
• You cannot replace a block
• Torches stick to walls
• World generation loading bar
• Random seeds
• Torches light up
• Crafting: Added torch recipe
• Crafting: Added a new script and made a stick recipe
• Crafting: Wood = 4 wooden planks
• You can walk through saplings
• Grass grows under saplings
• Tree's can be planted

Day 8

• 1/10 chance on getting a sapling when the leaves die
• Apple and orange trees
• Cacti grow
• Lava and acid hurt you
• Water moving sound
• Hurt sounds
• Cacti will disapear if they aren't on sand or have a block next them
• Cacti drain your health
• Health and fall damage
• Walking, falling, and mining animations
• Grass
• Placing items replaces liquids
• Sand makes a sound
• Item count decreases when placed, item disappears when item count is zero
• Placing items
• Number keys will select a item from the mini-inventory
• Corrupted portion of the world don't crash
• Panning and volume

Day 7

• Stepping sounds
• Items in inventory are movable
• Lava and acid have physics
• Obsidian, and cobblestone
• Water has physics
• You can't mine while paused
• Sand burns in acid and lava
• Ability to save and name worlds
• Made jumping 2 blocks high
• Saving and loading
• Blocks are saved and disappear when they leave the screen
• Sand falls
• Can swim in liquids, and can target blocks in liquids
• Mini-inventory
• You cannot mine bedrock nor liquids
• Inventory
• Popping sound for collecting items
• Block selector selects the right block, is over other blocks, and constantly re-calculates

Day 6

• Fixed dropped items
• Fixed mining