Road to Minecraft 1.0, Day 115: Alpha 1.0.6(_01) and 1.0.7 (Seecret Friday Update 5)
Monday. Read date: 2 February 2026 Time machine: 19 July 2010 Recorded playtime: 22 hours, 24 minutes. I have fallen a bit behind again. I played 1.0.6, then skipped to 1.0.7. The thing is, 1.0.6_01 added and changed a few notable things, but then 1.0.6_02, 1.0.6_03, and 1.0.7 were all minor releases (Notch does not understand semantic versioning at all). Therefore, for the sake of catching up a bit, I deemed it unnecessary to play all the minor in-between versions, and figured we could explore the changes from 1.0.6_01 from within 1.0.7. Alpha 1.0.6 1.0.6 was the 5th Seecret Friday Update, meaning, once again, Notch did not officially announce the changes to this version, and left the players to find them on their own. Cactus has been added, which generates naturally on any sand (in new terrain, of course). There's no purpose in it for right now, except that it can hurt the player. Boats have also been added, and they're even more annoying than you remember, because they br...
