Minecraft Enters Beta

The Internet’s premiere block stacking simulator entered Beta today, including the premiere of server-side inventory storage. Also you can throw eggs, how exciting is that. Here’s a list of all the updates taken directly from The Word of Notch.

• Working server-side inventory! Finally! (And as a result of that, a whole pile of bugs and issues got fixed)
• Made SMP servers save chunks way less often in most cases. Chunks don’t resave if they got saved in the last 30 seconds
• Moving too far away from a container, or having it blow up, closes the inventory screen
• Fixed /kill
• Introduced leaf decay again. It acts differently from before
• You can now throw eggs
• On a whim, added super exclusive clan cloaks for Mojang Employees
• .. and something else, which is even more rare