About this wiki

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This is a reference for Minecraft Beta 1.7.3, released on 8 July 2011.

Scope

The wiki documents the game as Beta 1.7.3 behaves. It is written for people playing and modding that version today, so:

  • There are no version history sections. A page describes how something works now, in 1.7.3, and nothing else.
  • There is no edition split. Beta 1.7.3 is a single Java release.
  • Statements about behaviour should be checkable against the 1.7.3 client or server, not against a later version or a memory of one.

Research pages are the exception to the brevity of the rest. Each is a long-form record of one investigation: the question, the method, the evidence for every claim, the dead ends and what is still open. They may describe techniques from later versions, as the prior work that suggested a line of inquiry.

Where the data comes from

Block and item IDs, hardness, blast resistance, light levels, sprites, biome colours and every crafting and smelting recipe are extracted directly from the Beta 1.7.3 client jar by the scripts in tools/extract/. They are not typed in by hand.

That means infoboxes, recipe grids and the Data values tables are correct by construction, and a page never has to restate a number the game already knows. Prose is the part humans and language models write.

See also