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{{Infobox version
| title = Minecraft Beta 1.3
| image = Beta 1.3.png
| image2 = Beta 1.3 menu.png
| edition = java
| type = 
| date = February 22, 2011
| clientdl = [https://archive.org/download/Minecraft-JE-Beta/b1.3-1/b1.3-1.jar Original client]
([https://archive.org/download/Minecraft-JE-Beta/b1.3-1/b1.3-1.json .json])<br>
[https://vault.omniarchive.uk/archive/java/client-beta/b1.3/b1.3-1733.jar First reupload client] <br>
{{dl|e19cfb3a2043f185c44237ef05eac80e8ad2d8e7|client|title=Second reupload client}}
({{dl|4bb25e224116e7e06e08f0edaea49320b5ecf591|json|name=b1.3b}})
| serverdl = [https://files.betacraft.uk/server-archive/beta/b1.3-1647.jar Original server]<br>
[https://files.betacraft.uk/server-archive/beta/b1.3-1731.jar Reupload server]
([https://files.betacraft.uk/server-archive/beta/b1.3-1731.exe .exe])
| prevparent = Beta 1.2
| prev = Beta 1.2_02
| next = Beta 1.3_01
| nextparent = Beta 1.4
| java_manual = 6
}}
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'''Beta 1.3''' is a version of [[Java Edition Beta]] released on February 22, 2011,<ref>[[wordofnotch:3446675806|Minecraft Beta 1.3]] – The Word of Notch, February 22, 2011</ref> which added [[redstone repeater]]s, [[bed]]s, three types of [[slab]]s, and a new [[splash]] screen, notably among other changes and fixes, the world save format was changed from [[Java Edition Alpha level format|Alpha level format]] to [[Region file format|McRegion]].

Beta 1.3 was uploaded at 17:13 UTC, this version contained debug code that spawns the player with 64 [[torch]]es, a [[diamond pickaxe]], a [[diamond shovel]], a [[diamond axe]], and 64 [[bed]]s upon creating a new world. 
Beta 1.3 was reuploaded at 17:33 UTC to remove the debug code that the player spawns with items, listed above in a new world.<ref>{{tweet|notch|40102558051733504|Err, yes... as USUAL, we managed to release it with debug item spawning code in it. Re-download. :D}}</ref> Beta 1.3 was then reuploaded again at 17:50 UTC<ref>[[notchtweet:40106503478181888|"@dw_edwin Try again now. Restart the client so it loads the new update.. Does it work any better?"]] @notch (Markus Persson) on X (formerly Twitter), February 22, 2011</ref> to fix a crash bug when opening the world menu without a saves folder. This last version is listed in the launcher as '''Beta 1.3b''' (''old_beta b1.3b'').

== Additions ==
{{Additions table
|Cobblestone Slab
|Petrified Oak Slab
|Seamless Stone Slab
|Sandstone Slab
|Smooth Stone
|Red Bed
|Redstone Repeater
|Painting Skull On Fire
}}

=== Blocks ===
; [[File:Red Bed JE1 BE1.png|32px]] [[Bed]]s
* Crafted from wooden planks and wool.
** Different colors of wool can be interchanged to make a bed.

; [[File:Redstone Repeater JE1.png|32px]] [[Redstone repeater]]
* Crafted from stone and redstone.
* Allows for redstone to be powered further.

; [[Slab]]s
* [[File:Cobblestone Slab JE1 BE1.png|32px]] [[Cobblestone slab]]
** Takes over the old recipe for the stone slab (smooth stone slab).
** Crafted from cobblestone.
* [[File:Oak Slab (centered) JE1.png|32px]] [[Petrified Oak Slab|Wooden slab]]
** Have to be mined with a pickaxe to collect, were not affected by fire, and had stronger blast resistance than wood planks, like cobblestone slabs.
** Crafted from wooden planks.
* [[File:Sandstone Slab (centered) JE1.png|32px]] [[Sandstone slab]]
** Crafted from sandstone.

=== Non-mob entities ===
; New [[painting]]
* "Skull On Fire" [[File:Burning Skull Painting JE2 BE1.png|128px]] 
** Code to make this painting display was added in [[Beta 1.2_01]], but the texture itself was not added until this version, resulting in [[Java Edition placeholder texture uses|the use]] of the [[Placeholder texture#Texture atlas blank spaces|painting placeholder texture]].

=== Command format ===
; {{cmd|whitelist}}
* Added whitelisting to multiplayer servers.
** Can turn on/off the whitelist.
** Can add/remove players from the whitelist.
** Can give a list of whitelisted players and reload that list.

=== Textures ===
; [[File:Crying Obsidian (texture) JE0 BE0.png|32px]] [[Crying obsidian]]
* Added a texture for crying obsidian to {{mono|[[terrain.png]]}}.
** Texture went unused and removed in [[Beta 1.5]], but re-added in [[20w10a]] via the [[Programmer Art]] [[Resource Pack]].

=== General ===
[[File:Loading Screen JE3.png|thumb|right|Loading screen added in this version.]]
; [[Lighting]]
* Smooth lighting engine added with the help of MrMessiah.

; [[Option]]s
* New graphics setting screen.
** Added "Smooth Lighting" option.

; [[Splash screen]]
* New Mojang logo.

== Changes ==
=== Blocks ===
; [[Cobblestone]]
* No longer used to craft stone slabs.
** Instead, [[stone]] is used to craft them.

; [[Redstone dust]] 
* Gets darker the farther away it is from a source of power.
* Unpowered redstone is purely black now.
* For these changes, they now use a dedicated tint system and new textures:
** [[File:Inactive Redstone Wire (NS) JE2.png|32px]] [[File:Inactive Redstone Wire (EW) JE2.png|32px]] [[File:Inactive Redstone Wire (NE) JE2.png|32px]] [[File:Inactive Redstone Wire (ES) JE2.png|32px]] [[File:Inactive Redstone Wire (SW) JE2.png|32px]] [[File:Inactive Redstone Wire (NW) JE2.png|32px]] [[File:Inactive Redstone Wire (NEW) JE2.png|32px]] [[File:Inactive Redstone Wire (NES) JE2.png|32px]] [[File:Inactive Redstone Wire (ESW) JE2.png|32px]] [[File:Inactive Redstone Wire (NSW) JE2.png|32px]] [[File:Inactive Redstone Wire (NESW) JE2.png|32px]]
** [[File:Active Redstone Wire (NS) JE2.png|32px]] [[File:Active Redstone Wire (EW) JE2.png|32px]] [[File:Active Redstone Wire (NE) JE2.png|32px]] [[File:Active Redstone Wire (ES) JE2.png|32px]] [[File:Active Redstone Wire (SW) JE2.png|32px]] [[File:Active Redstone Wire (NW) JE2.png|32px]] [[File:Active Redstone Wire (NEW) JE2.png|32px]] [[File:Active Redstone Wire (NES) JE2.png|32px]] [[File:Active Redstone Wire (ESW) JE2.png|32px]] [[File:Active Redstone Wire (NSW) JE2.png|32px]] [[File:Active Redstone Wire (NESW) JE2.png|32px]]

; [[Sandstone]] 
* Now found at the bottom of naturally generated [[sand]].
* Mine time for sandstone has been decreased.

; [[Slab]]s
* Breaking a block made of two slabs now drops 2 slabs.
* [[Stone slab]]s are now created by using 3 of the materials.

; [[Stone pressure plate]] & [[wooden pressure plate]]
* Now require two of its materials, instead of 3.

=== Items ===
; [[Gunpowder]]
* Renamed from "Sulphur".

=== Mobs ===
; General
* Fewer passive mobs spawn when on harder difficulties.

; [[Slime]]s
* Now have a higher spawn rate.

; [[Squid]]
* Can no longer be milked.
* Squid now have the ability to move in three dimensions (rather than only along the bottom of the body of [[water]])

=== World creation ===
; [[World]]
* Players can now choose the name of the world before creation.
* Players can now choose the [[seed (world generation)]] of the world before creation.
* More than 5 worlds can now be created at once.
* Delete world message now includes "(A long time!)" after "(world name) will be lost forever!".

=== Gameplay ===
; [[Third person mode]]
* View bobbing now applies while in third person, if enabled.

=== General ===
; [[Control]]s
* {{key|F1}} and {{key|F3}} are now toggled when pressed.
* When {{key|F3}} is toggled on, mobs display their unique entity ID numbers over their heads.
* {{key|F8}} toggles mouse smoothing.

; [[Options]]
* Ability to toggle between classic lighting and "[[Light#Smooth lighting|smooth]]" lighting.
* Scrollbars added in the world selection screen.
* Players can now change the names of existing worlds.
** This doesn't change the world's save id.

; [[Region file format|McRegion]]
* Worlds now use a generic McRegion chunk save format, with a built-in auto conversion.

; [[Texture pack]]s
* Scrollbars added in the texture pack list.

== Fixes ==
; 10 bugs fixed
* When breaking double slabs (one slab placed on another) it now drops two slabs instead of one.
* Wood doesn't burn forever anymore.
* Grassland/sand related biome border fixed (boundaries line up, rather than obviously show chunk borders).
* No longer receiving Java Log error .txt file spam in the minecraft.exe folder when closing the Minecraft client program.
* Players can no longer use the click-release to quickly mine blocks (referred to as "click mining") in multiplayer.
* Players no longer glitch when standing on [[fence]]s in multiplayer.
* Players can no longer milk [[squid]]s.
* When right-clicking on a wooden door while holding a bow or fishing rod, arrows no longer are fired into the door, nor is the fishing hook cast into the door.
* Hostile mobs can now be attacked properly in multiplayer.
* [[Lapis lazuli ore]] now drops 4-8 [[lapis lazuli]] in multiplayer.</onlyinclude>

== Gallery ==
<gallery>
Beta 1.3-1731.png|A screenshot depicting the generation of new sandstone blocks.
b13-1.png|A pre-reupload screenshot, with the debug items.
Beta 1.3 world selection screen.png|The world selection screen in this version.
</gallery>

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

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