Road to Minecraft 1.0, Day 111: Alpha 1.0.5(_01)
Thursday. Real date: 29 January 2026 Time machine: 15 July 2010 Recorded playtime: 21 hours, 26 minutes. I just had the realization as I sat down to type this that, frankly, if I had been playing this back in 2010 and had the full force of the game's novelty behind me, I probably would've played it a whole lot more by this point, but that's okay. We're soon to reach the point in the game's life when I find it the most fun, so I'll probably be playing much more at that point. In the meantime, this is... Alpha 1.0.5 Pretty much all the changes relate to winter worlds. Snowballs have been added, and they automatically drop when snow is destroyed by any method other than placing a block on top of it. Speaking of, yes, snow is now replaced when you place a block on it, which wasn't the case before. Snowballs can be used to make snow blocks, just like the modern game, but they require 9 snowballs to craft instead of 4. Snowballs themselves stack up to 64 in this v...
