Minecraft Beta 1.7.3 Wiki

From the Minecraft Beta 1.7.3 Wiki

Welcome to the Minecraft Beta 1.7.3 Wiki, a reference for the version released on 8 July 2011 and still the most-played build of the Beta era.

Everything here describes the game as it behaves in Beta 1.7.3. There are no version histories and no notes about later releases: if a page says a block has a hardness of 2, that is what the 1.7.3 jar does.

Start here

  • Blocks — every placeable block, with hardness, blast resistance and IDs
  • Items — tools, food, materials and everything else in the inventory
  • Entities — mobs, the player, and everything else in the world that is not a block
  • Mining — how blocks break, what tools change, and what drops
  • Crafting — how the crafting grid works, and every recipe
  • Smelting — the furnace, fuels and smelting recipes
  • Mob Spawning — where mobs appear, and what stops them
  • World Generation — how biomes, terrain, caves, ores and features are built

Reference

The wiki's data comes straight out of the game. Block IDs, hardness values, sprites and recipes are read from the Beta 1.7.3 client jar rather than typed in by hand, so they are correct by construction.