Old Faithful

What it is

Minecraft beta 1.7.3 as it was meant to work. Old Faithful is Pure Faithful (beta exactly as it was, safe online, faster, and unable to lose your world) plus fixes for beta's own clear mistakes.

• Tools that drop the block on their last use, wooden slabs without a pickaxe, axes and pickaxes fast on their own blocks, a furnace that gives the bucket back.
• Repeaters that work doors and note blocks, and clocks that keep running after the world is reloaded.
• Lighting without dark patches, the sky's colour kept with a chest open, no dots of sky flickering along block edges, and mobs that stay drawn at the edges of the screen while any part of them shows.
• Smoother multiplayer: no ghost blocks or jittering mobs, and players who stay visible after a teleport and see your head turn while you ride.
• A field-of-view slider, Quit Game on the title screen, and every switch in the game, in menus of fixes and changes.

Each fix has a switch in the game's Options, so you can have beta's behaviour back. What players built their game around stays as it was: animals still despawn, boats still break. Still Faithful changes those, as later versions did.

Already playing beta on Fabric? The mods work on their own too: see using them in an existing instance.

Optional mods, each on a switch: More Faithful has them all, on Still Faithful, and the Faithful Library has them on their own, for an Old Faithful instance too.

Privacy

Old Faithful sends nothing to its makers; there's no server of ours. The game talks to Mojang to sign you in, and to the servers you join. On its first start it also fetches beta's own bow and door sounds from an archive of beta's files kept by Modification Station, a community of beta modders; its README says how to turn that off.

For developers

• Source code on GitHub
• All downloads, the mods on their own, and the server