A version of Minecraft Infdev was released on March 13, 2010.^[1]

Additions

• Re-implemented the daylight cycle, but its duration is shorter than it was in Indev.
  • One cycle lasts around 8 minutes. Both daytime and nighttime are 4 minutes long.
• Added working lights
• Re-added dynamic lighting.

World boundary

• Now exists at 32,000,000 blocks.
  • The stone wall "far lands" are inaccessible without the use of modification as a result.

Changes

• Faster sky brightness re-calculation.
• The player spawns with more items when creating a new world: 999 glass blocks, 999 planks, 999 torches, 999 pairs of flint and steel, 999 diamond shovels, 999 diamond pickaxes, 999 lava source blocks, and 999 water source blocks.
• Diamond tool durability has been increased from 257 to 513.
• The game now keeps a cyclic buffer of near chunks in memory, so it will no longer run out of memory when players walk for a long distance.
  • However, the game does not yet save anything to the disk, so players lose data from chunks they unload.^[1]
• Pressing F will now reload chunks too instead of just hiding them behind a fog.
  • Fog is now further from the player
  • Fog is now slightly blueish

Removals

Structures

• Obsidian walls.

General

• The test skybox has been removed; the sky now more closely resembles what it is in modern versions.

Distance effects

• Entities now use a double for positioning, rather than a float.
• Fixed a significant bug at high distances that causes chunks to detach and intensely jitter with camera movement.
• The wireframe hitbox for blocks no longer jitters at high distances, and no longer distorts at high distances for certain GPUs.

Fixes

• Fire, gears, torches and crops have a texture when placed.
• Torches can be placed on the sides of blocks again.
• Furnaces have a face.
• Block breaking cracks now show up consistently.

Bugs

• Opening the inventory crashes the game, with an error in the player model rendering.
  • However, you can still access the inventory through a crafting table, as the GUI doesn't render the player.
• Slabs have lighting bugs.
• Sometimes, the game will crash while generating a world, with a java.lang.IllegalArgumentException error being thrown.
• All blocks at the top of the map are unlit. Performing a block update there (placing or breaking a block), the game will freeze.

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