Jens Bergensten who works alongside Notch in developing Minecraft has today seemingly leaked Minecraft beta 1.8.
When he commented that after fixing a bug he might release a jar file for “expert users” a lot of excitement was caused. Of course not as much as when Jens actually released the file, leaking Minecraft beta 1.8 to everyone.
Notch has remarked since that if you do download the ‘leak’ that you should “report bugs, and to feel slightly bad. ;)” but also mentioned that “I am fine with you using it. Make sure you get it from the leaked url we are hosting, though”.
Have you downloaded the ‘leaked’ Minecraft beta 1.8? Personally I think it is more of an early release than a leak, due to it being one of the developers releasing it, but call it what you want Minecraft Beta 1.8 is now out!
Xander
September 9, 2011 at 8:13 PMHow do I install this? D:
Haja
September 9, 2011 at 9:03 PM@Xander, you go to the appdata folder, go into .minectaft, then the bin folder, and replace the jar file with the new one.
Bevalinas
September 9, 2011 at 10:11 PMWhere do you download it from ?
Brandon
September 9, 2011 at 11:05 PMWhere can we download it? Plz Respond
CcStereo
September 10, 2011 at 1:14 AM@Bevalinas @Brandon
http://assets.minecraft.net/1_8-pre/minecraft.jar
dadralord505
September 10, 2011 at 6:29 AMGRRRR! it sucks with this much flipping LAG! GRRRRR
assassin346
September 10, 2011 at 7:12 AMhow do i install it and Linux :( when ever i do it minecraft freezes
djnforce9
September 10, 2011 at 9:01 AMTo be honest, I don’t really want to play it because I’d prefer the more polished version that will be released by Notch later on. I plan to completely restart playing Minecraft from the beginning with all the new gameplay elements available to me. While this probably has most of them in place, I’m also sure it comes with some glaring issues that have likely been (or will be) corrected in the proper v1.8. I’m glad Notch isn’t too peeved about this leak though as sometimes these things can REALLY get a developer mad (and for good reason since this kind of spoils the surprise). He seems to have turned this into a positive thing because now more people are checking for bugs than ever before which may ensure that the final v1.8 will be better than ever.
epicsmiley101
September 10, 2011 at 1:41 PMBug, using the furnace crashes the game
raymond
September 11, 2011 at 12:23 AMtheres a duplication bug