Road to Minecraft 1.0, Day 126: Alpha 1.0.12 and 1.0.13(_01)
Friday. Real date: 13 February 2026 Time machine: 30 July 2010 Recorded playtime: 23 hours, 42 minutes. Alpha 1.0.12 This is a minor update that only tweaks slimes and a few subtle aspects of the game. Slimes now have sounds. I think small slimes still use the same sounds, but in release 1.4.2, medium and big slimes were changed to share the magma cube sound. Big slimes (the ones that hurt) no longer spawn on peaceful. The pause menu's "save and quit to title" button no longer has an incorrect ellipsis (..). Really big stuff here... The game no longer crashes if splashes.txt is empty or missing, instead showing the special splash "missingno." Honestly, I'm not sure why Notch did this; under normal circumstances, the file should never be missing. As a test, splashes.txt is missing in this version... which should've been my first clue that I forgot to change the game version. Yeah, I accidentally played a1.0.11 for a while longer, which I guess isn't...
