Complete parity list

Rendering & Visuals

Textures, colormaps, and rendering rules restored to match Java Beta 1.7.3.

Feature	Betafied behaviour
Grass colormap	Replaced with Beta's original grass.png colormap, giving biomes their classic muted-green tones.
Foliage colormap	Replaced with Beta's original foliage.png, restoring classic leaf tints across biomes.
Dry foliage colormap	Replaced with Beta's original dry_foliage.png for classic desert foliage tinting.
Sky colour	Temperature-based sky tinting applied per biome, matching Beta's climate-driven sky gradient.
Clouds	Uses the original Beta clouds.png texture on 3D clouds.
Sun texture	Uses the original Beta sun sprite.
Moon texture	Uses Beta's single full-moon sprite without modern moon phases.
Block-breaking crack	All ten crack stages use Beta's original destroy textures (destroy_stage_0 through destroy_stage_9).
Underwater tint	Full-screen blue overlay applied while submerged, recreating Beta's solid water tint.
Classic fog	Restores Beta's view-distance fog in the Overworld.
Dense Nether fog	Restores thick classic red fog throughout the Nether.
Entity lighting	Mobs use classic flat lighting, matching Beta's uniform entity shading.
First-person item holding	Restores Beta's lower, right-aligned hand positioning and swing arc.
Block textures	Beta 1.7.3 textures for cobblestone, gravel, brick, sponges, and other blocks that changed after Beta.
Chest model	Classic single-latch chest model and texture.
Sign texture	Classic sign plank texture restored.
Pumpkin overlay	Classic pumpkin-face overlay texture restored when wearing a carved pumpkin.
Flipbook animation stepping	Animated water, lava, and fire textures disable frame interpolation, producing authentic stepped frame-by-frame animation matching Java Beta 1.7.3 rather than smooth modern blending.
Fast-graphics leaf textures	Leaf textures switch to clean-room opaque black backgrounds in Fast graphics mode, replicating Java Beta's non-transparent leaf canopy rendering.
Leaf shading & ambient occlusion	Leaf blocks feature flatter Beta-style shading with reduced ambient occlusion and directional face shading across bottom and side faces.
Entity blob shadows	Authentic circular dark blob shadows projected under mobs and players, replacing dynamic or absent Bedrock shadows.
Light source face dimming	Torches, glowstone, fire, and lava feature authentic directional face dimming on side faces rather than uniform full-bright faces.
Sand shading & ambient occlusion	Darker sand shading and ambient occlusion tuned to seamlessly match sandstone.
Deterministic texture alignment	Block textures enforce deterministic alignment across all faces, eliminating randomized texture rotations.
Fence directional lighting	Directional lighting is removed from fences to eliminate vertical shading seams.
Sign shadow elimination	Entity shadows are disabled on sign faces to eliminate artificial darkening behind written text.
Classic death screen & camera	Java Beta death sequence featuring the classic red gradient overlay, Game over! title, narrowing 70° FOV camera, player death flop animation, smoke puff, and lethal hit sound, with the HUD visible underneath.

Entity Models

Entity models and textures restored to their Beta 1.7.3 appearance.

• Cow, pig, sheep, chicken: classic low-poly models with Beta UVs and textures.
• Wolf / dog: classic model with red collar when tamed.
• Squid: classic eight-tentacle model and texture.
• Creeper: classic texture without modern charge aura tweaks.
• Skeleton: classic bare-bone model without equipment rendering.
• Zombie: classic player-based model and textures with no equipment rendering.
• Spider: classic geometry and dark brown texture.
• Slime: classic translucent cube; splits into smaller slimes on death.
• Ghast: classic nine-tentacle model and textures.
• Zombie Pigman: classic model holding a golden sword.
• Arrow: classic thin-shaft projectile model.
• Fishing hook: classic hook entity model.
• Snowball: classic projectile model.
• Minecart: classic open-box model, including chest and furnace minecart variants.
• Boat: classic five-plank open boat model.
• Egg: classic thrown egg model.
• Entity blob shadows: authentic circular dark shadows beneath all mobs and players.

Player Mechanics

Mechanic	Betafied behaviour
Sprinting	Removed. Players move at Beta's fixed walking speed.
Hunger	Removed. The hunger bar is hidden, hunger never depletes, and sprint-exhaustion does not exist.
Natural regeneration	Disabled. Health only recovers by eating food.
Food healing	Eating food restores health instantly: apple +4, bread +5, cookie +1, raw fish +2, cooked fish +5, golden apple +20 (full heal), raw porkchop +3, cooked porkchop +8, mushroom stew +10.
Eating cap	You cannot eat when already at full health (except golden apples, which can always be eaten).
Offhand slot	Disabled. Items placed in the offhand return to the main inventory immediately.
Experience (XP)	Disabled. The XP bar is hidden, and mobs or smelting do not award experience.
Build height limit	128 blocks (Y=128). Placing blocks at or above Y=128 is prevented.
Dig depth limit	Digging below Y=0 in Survival mode is prevented, matching Beta's bedrock floor.
Log stripping	Stripping logs with an axe is disabled.
Path creation	Creating dirt paths with a shovel is disabled.
Ceiling buttons/levers	Buttons and levers cannot be placed on the underside of blocks.
Bone meal on grass	Spreads short grass without growing post-Beta tall flowers or ferns.
Punch-to-toggle doors	Wooden doors can be opened and closed by punching (left-clicking) them with any held item or bare hands.
Bed-less respawn	Players dying without an active bed respawn at the world spawn recorded on world creation (or at their death position if unrecorded), avoiding void falling death loops, and face south upon respawn.
Death drop scatter	Inventory and armour scatter around the player upon death using classic Beta throw velocity and spread.
Herobrine encounters	Rare atmospheric sightings with an eight-hour minimum cooldown between encounters (averaging approximately once per in-game day).

Combat

Mechanic	Betafied behaviour
Shields	Removed. Shields do not exist in the pack.
Armour protection formula	Armour protection scales linearly with remaining durability: ((points - 1) × durabilityRemaining) ÷ durabilityMax + 1, capped at 20.
Armour point values by slot	Helmet and boots provide 3 points each; chestplate provides 8; leggings provide 6. Values are identical across leather, gold, chain, iron, and diamond.
Armour mitigation formula	Uses Beta's integer remainder accumulation, carrying fractional damage over across successive hits.
Armour durability damage	Armour loses one durability point per hit taken, including falls, fire, and lava.
Armour break sound	Plays the classic random.break sound when a piece shatters.
Post-Beta armour	Netherite and turtle helmets provide zero protection in the damage formula.
Rapid-fire bow	Arrows fire instantly on click with no draw time, matching Beta's bow mechanics.
Enchanting	Removed. No enchanting tables, anvils, or enchanted gear exist.
Potions & brewing	Removed. Brewing stands and potions do not exist.

Block Placement & Mechanics

Block / mechanic	Betafied behaviour
Stairs	Classic four-direction placement only. No upside-down stairs or corner states.
Slabs	Bottom-half placement only. Top slabs cannot be placed.
Double slabs	Placing two matching slabs (stone, cobblestone, sandstone, wooden) on top of each other merges them into an authentic classic double slab block occupying the lower block space.
Wooden slab properties	Wooden slabs use stone-slab break and step sounds and are immune to fire, mirroring Java Beta's stone-derived slab behavior.
Logs	Vertical placement only (no horizontal log rotation).
Fences	Crafted from six sticks (not planks). Connects only to other fences.
Fence gate	Does not exist in Beta 1.7.3.
Doors	Can only be placed on the top face of a solid block, do not stack in inventories, and break into single items when their support is mined.
Double chests	Adjacent chests merge into a 54-slot double chest; chests obey Beta pairing rules (cannot merge with an existing double chest) and cannot open if blocked above.
Farmland trampling (walking)	Walking across farmland has a chance to turn it into dirt. Sneaking prevents trampling.
Farmland jumping	Jumping onto farmland does not trample crops, matching Beta mechanics.
Crop trampling drops	Trampled mature wheat drops wheat and seeds; immature crops drop seeds only.
Mob trampling	Walking mobs trample farmland.
Fence trick	A fence placed directly beneath farmland prevents walking trample from above.
Instant bone meal on wheat	Bone meal instantly grows wheat to full maturity.
Cake	Six-slice cake healing 3 HP per bite. Does not make eating sounds, and cannot be consumed at full health.
Sign placement	Places classic signs only; standing signs turn to match the placing player's orientation (Beta ItemSign), and signs cannot be placed against interactive door or trapdoor hinges.
Extended pistons	Piston heads remain intact and correctly attached across chunk load and unload boundaries without breaking.
Crafting table hardness	Workbench hardness is set to 2.5, matching chests and authentic Beta mining time.
Bedrock floor height	Irregular bedrock layer generated between Y=0 and Y=4.

Tool Quirks & Historical Bugs

Quirk	How it works in Betafied
Swords break wooden stairs faster	Swords break wooden stairs faster than axes, reproducing Beta's tool-speed bug.
Swords break cobwebs fastest	Swords break cobwebs faster than shears or other tools.
Swords break leaves faster	Swords break leaf blocks faster than bare hands or axes.
Swords break wool faster	Swords break wool faster than other tools (useful before acquiring shears).
Swords break pumpkins faster	Swords break pumpkins and jack-o'-lanterns faster than axes.
Redstone ore mining is slow	Mining redstone ore with a pickaxe is intentionally slow, matching Beta speeds.
Stairs drop planks	Breaking wooden stairs drops oak planks instead of the stair block.
Sheep drop wool when punched	Punching a sheep drops 1–3 wool blocks without needing shears.
Bare-hand block speeds	Holding a sword breaks non-tool blocks roughly 15% faster than bare hands.

World Generation

Feature	Betafied behaviour
Biome set	Forest, Plains, Desert, Taiga, and Swampland only, with Rainforest and Seasonal Forest in the climate map. All post-Beta biomes are absent.
Biome temperature / humidity noise	Classic 2D temperature and rainfall noise drives biome placement, producing large, smooth transitions.
Gravel beaches	Classic gravel beaches generate along coastlines alongside sand beaches.
Ocean and river floors	Classic dirt, sand, and gravel underwater floors without modern seagrass or kelp.
Classic trees	Oak and birch trees use classic shapes. Large jungle trees, dark oak, and mangroves do not generate.
Flowers	Only roses and dandelions generate naturally. Modern flowers, tall plants, vines, and glow lichen do not generate.
Fallen trees	Fallen logs do not generate.
Ore: coal	20 attempts per chunk, veins up to 16 blocks, Y=0–128.
Ore: iron	20 attempts per chunk, veins up to 8 blocks, Y=0–64.
Ore: gold	2 attempts per chunk, veins up to 8 blocks, Y=0–32.
Ore: redstone	8 attempts per chunk, veins up to 7 blocks, Y=0–16.
Ore: diamond	1 attempt per chunk, veins up to 7 blocks, Y=0–16.
Ore: lapis lazuli	1 attempt per chunk, veins up to 6 blocks, centred around Y=16 via triangle distribution.
Emerald & copper ore	Generation disabled.
Ore veins in stone only	Ores only generate inside stone, preventing veins from cutting through surface dirt or sand.
Villages	Disabled.
Structures	No post-Beta structures (desert temples, jungle temples, witch huts, etc.) generate.
Nether biomes	Classic netherrack, lava oceans, soul sand, and gravel. Modern Nether biomes, quartz, ancient debris, and post-Beta mobs are absent.
Terrain cleanup	Loaded chunks are scrubbed of modern blocks or features that slip through generation.

Items & Crafting

Item / system	Betafied behaviour
Crafting table	Custom workbench recipe set limited to Beta 1.7.3 items.
Fence recipe	Six sticks in two rows of three.
Book recipe	Three paper in a vertical column, requiring no leather.
Stone button recipe	Crafted with 1 stone. Wooden buttons do not exist.
Mushroom stew recipe	Red mushroom above brown mushroom above bowl, shaped vertical.
Bookshelf recipe	Three paper books in the middle row with wooden planks above and below.
Uncraftable modern items	Fence gates, wooden buttons, iron bars, glass panes, anvils, and brewing stands are uncraftable.
Charcoal	Produced by smelting logs in a furnace; crafts classic torches.
Custom logs as fuel	Log variants burn for 15 seconds in furnaces, matching classic fuel values.
Raw copper drop conversion	Mining copper ore drops cobblestone instead of raw copper.
Terracotta conversion	Any terracotta found in terrain converts to sandstone.
Modern item cleanup	Post-Beta items that enter player inventory are removed or converted.
Post-Beta dye conversion	Modern dyes convert to classic items (bone meal, ink sacs, lapis lazuli, cocoa beans).
Packed and blue ice	Converts to regular ice in inventory.
Post-Beta flower conversion	Modern flower variants convert to roses when picked up.
Nuggets disabled	Gold nugget and iron nugget crafting recipes are disabled.
Cut sandstone disabled	Cut sandstone recipe is disabled; only classic smooth sandstone exists.
Unstackable utility items	Oak signs, buckets, and cakes are unstackable (stack size 1), enforcing authentic Beta inventory management.
Single door crafting yield	Crafting wooden or iron doors yields 1 door per recipe (rather than modern Bedrock's 3 doors).
Inventory 2×2 grid crafting	Basic recipes (logs to planks, torches, sandstone, jack-o'-lanterns, furnace minecarts) craft in the 2×2 player grid; complex recipes are restricted to the 3×3 crafting table.
Bucket mechanics	Empty buckets collect liquid source blocks and milk cows, functioning as authentic single-use liquid carriers without stacking.
Drop conversion splitting	Mined or converted items that exceed maximum stack sizes automatically split into valid stack-sized ground entities.
Raw ore ground conversion	Raw iron and gold dropped on the ground convert into single classic ore blocks (1:1 drop ratio).
Sugar cane drop retention	Sugar cane harvesting preserves item identity during item normalization sweeps.

Mobs

Mob / system	Betafied behaviour
Passive mob panic	Cows, pigs, sheep, and chickens flee and hop erratically when attacked.
Passive mob water hop	Animals hop repeatedly when in water, recreating classic swimming physics.
Sheep punching	Punching a sheep drops 1–3 wool and shears the mob.
Sheep shearing	Shearing drops 1–3 wool.
Dyed sheep death drop	Sheep drop their dyed wool colour on death.
Zombie drops	Zombies drop feathers instead of rotten flesh, matching Beta 1.7.3.
Animal spawn conditions	Classic mob spawning conditions for plains and desert biomes.
Zombie Pigman equipment	Zombie pigmen spawn holding a golden sword.
Mob speeds and hitboxes	Movement speeds and collision dimensions match Beta 1.7.3 values.
Mob movement pacing	All mob walking speeds are scaled down to match Java Beta's slower, deliberate movement pacing.
Creeper chase & attack	Creepers pursue players without dealing melee contact damage; damage is inflicted exclusively via their explosion.
Pig loot tables	Pigs drop a maximum of 2 raw porkchops; saddled pigs drop their saddle on death.
Zombie retaliation	Zombies reliably turn and retaliate against players and hostile attackers.
Wolf mechanics	Modern wolf breeding, collar dyeing, and leashing are disabled, restoring classic tamed dog behavior.
Absent mobs	Endermen, cave spiders, silverfish, blazes, witches, villagers, and iron golems do not exist in the pack.

Inventory & HUD

• Hunger bar and XP progress bar hidden.
• Offhand slot disabled; items placed in it return to the main inventory.
• Classic inventory shift-clicking behavior.
• No armor trim slots, bundle slots, or smithing table interfaces.
• HUD displays Betafied armor ratings rather than Bedrock's modern armor bar.
• Utility items like doors, buckets, signs, and cakes do not stack in inventories or chests.
• The classic red death screen preserves visible hearts, hotbar, and crosshair behind the game-over dialog.

Environment & World Rules

Rule	Betafied behaviour
World height	Building capped at Y=128, matching Beta's world ceiling.
World depth	Bedrock floor at Y=0; digging below is blocked in Survival.
Natural regeneration	Disabled globally.
Nether ice	Ice does not melt in the Nether.
Dimension boundaries	The End dimension does not exist (no strongholds or End portals).
Leaf decay	Decaying leaves drop saplings, but never apples or sticks (apple drops were added in Beta 1.8).
Fishing	Classic fishing hook with Beta-era catch tables.
Nether portal	Nether portals link between the Overworld and the Nether.
World spawn & respawn orientation	Players respawn facing south, anchored to the world spawn recorded on initial world creation.

Architecture Notes

• Background maintenance jobs run with configured tick budgets to prevent stalling.
• Inventory normalization ensures modern items do not persist in player inventories.
• Scrubbing and migration systems are scoped strictly to vanilla identifiers so third-party addons are unaffected.