Alpha QoL

About

Minecraft Alpha 1.1.2_01 is an incomplete version. The limitations and constraints on content make this an interesting and fun version to play, but some bugs, glitches, and inconsistencies make this version downright unfair at some points.

While there are existing mods that address these issues, many introduce additional mechanics or major gameplay changes that go beyond the scope of a minimal fix.

This project aims to provide minimal improvement, focused strictly on small quality-of-life fixes without adding any new features, implementing any of the various unused assets, or compromising the vanilla experience, leaving room for player ingenuity to overcome the difficulty.

Features

As of the most recent version:

Additions

• Added XYZ and F Coordinates, World Seed, and a Day Counter to F3 Menu.
• Added an FPS Limiter slider to the options menu to set max framerate more accurately (Replaces the 'Limit FPS' option).
• Added the Inventory Shift-Clicking/Numkey tweaks you are familiar with in modern versions.
• Added a secret method you may be familiar with from Beta to prevent farmland from being trampled.
• Added F1 HUD Visibility Toggle.
• Added Screenshots with F2.
• Added a front-facing third person camera angle.
• Added a new video settings submenu to hold the new graphical options.
• Added an FOV Slider.
• Added a GUI Scale Button.
• Added a V-Sync button.
• Added a Fullscreen Toggle.
• Added a "Quit Game" Button to the main menu.
• Added the ability to toggle the appearance of falling snow to a more unobtrusive texture.
• Added the ability to toggle the "Minecraft Alpha 1.1.2_01" Version Overlay.
• Added Item Tooltips.
• Added F3+G Chunk Border Viewing Toggle.
• Added F3+B Entity Hitbox/Viewpath Viewing Toggle.

Tweaks

• The game will now use your Minecraft Skin, including those of you with Slim Skins.
• The world height limit has been raised to 256.
• You can now use text chat in Singleplayer Worlds.
• You can now swap items of the same kind in the inventory.
• You can no longer accidentally eat food while your health is full.
• Cacti will no longer destroy dropped Cactus items.
• Doubled the durability of all tools and armor.
• Stack sizes of Wooden Doors, Iron Doors, and Signs have been increased to 16.
• Pickaxes, axes, and spades now correctly break their intended blocks.
• Buffed recipe returns for Signs, Fences, and Ladders.
• Clay is now 10% more common.
• Saddled Pigs will now drop their saddle when killed.
• Chickens now have a larger, more accurate hitbox.
• Double slabs now drop both slabs when broken.
• Pressure Plates, Bookshelves, and Stairs now properly drop themselves when broken.
• Made the UI a little bit snappier (by fixing a bug where player inputs were skipped).
• Music now plays more often (Music is still semi-random with intervals of about 10-15 minutes instead of 20-25 minutes).
• Furnaces will now drop their contents when broken.
• Furnaces will not consume the bucket when lava is used as fuel.
• TNT Explosions now drop more blocks.
• Removed the deprecated 'Tutorial World' Button from the Main Menu.
• Throttled Chunk Updates when new chunks are not being rendered to prevent the main thread from overloading
• Replaced the lookup table used to calculate certain values with a smaller, more optimized version.
• Replaced the Random function in certain algorithms with a faster version.
• Generated Chunks are checked for caves in a more optimized circular pattern, rather than a square one.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the Leaf Decay Bug.
• Fixed a bug where Ore Generation is biased towards the positive coordinates.
• Fixed caves being cut off along Chunk Borders.
• Fixed the placement orientation of stairs, furnaces, chests, and double chests.
• Fixed Mob Spawn Behavior, no longer biased towards the southeast of a chunk.
• Fixed Slime Chunk generation.
• Fixed a bug where multiple item shadows would render while Fancy Graphics are enabled.
• Fixed a bug where pressing a movement key and the Inventory key at the same time would cause you to move until the game is paused.
• Fixed a bug where liquids would be placed when interacting with a block.
• Fixed a bug where instantly breakable blocks would be broken open returning to game from pause menu.
• Fixed a bug where your footsteps all play at once after sneaking.
• Fixed a bug where mob shadows would render in a grid after disabling the 3D Anaglyph Setting.
• Fixed the hitbox of stairs.
• Fixed a session.lock bug on OS's with aggressive CPU Schedulers.
• Fixed a crash when placing a Sign on a Cactus.
• Fixed torch placement when snow and a ledge are present.
• Fixed a rare bug where world NBT Data resets upon rejoining a world.
• Fixed a rare bug that caused infinite chunk generation recursion when creating a new world.
• Removed Herobrine.

Installation

Prism Launcher or MultiMC is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

Note: This mod is neither tested nor released with other mods in mind, and most likely WILL break any other mods. I have no plans to create patches for other mods.

Method 1 (Prism/MultiMC)

• Create an instance of Alpha 1.1.2_01 in Prism/MultiMC.
• Select your instance.
• Click Edit > Version > Minecraft > Add to Minecraft.jar
• Select the zip file.

Method 2 (Self Patch)

• Open your version.jar file using an archive editor.
• Delete META-INF then add the mod files from the zip file into it, overwriting existing files when prompted.

Launch the game and enjoy!