Version Title/Number
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Date of Addition
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Additions Summary
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1.5_02 (Server only update) |
April 20, 2011 |
Bug Fixes:
- Game no longer crashes from "internal server error" created by bugs in 1.5_01's Server in SMP
- Players no longer get the "dirt screen" when taking something out of the Crafting Table
New Bugs:
- In SMP sometimes when placing signs it crashes the server.
- If you are riding a minecart stopped on an unpowered Powered Rail, you will be unable to get out.
- Placing Rails in North/South direction, followed by placing a piece of rails on the side (and thus making a curve) results in no curve.
- "Outside" rain sound still plays when under a glass shelter. In addition, Wolves under a glass roof during rain will be perpetually stuck in the "shaking" animation (confirmed for multiplayer, unknown for SP)
- During rain in SMP, the server may disconnect you if you attempt to place or destroy blocks.
- While above the clouds, it continues to rain or snow.
- Sitting Tamed wolves that were tamed before 1.5_01 and are pushed into water or water runs over them will start to jump in place, keeping the sitting stance, and are no longer able to be told to stand, thus continuing to do this until hit, which will cause them to attack you until death on either side. This can be fixed by closing and reopening minecraft, or killing the wolves off and taming new ones.
- Holding down shift while crafting something in your crafting table doesn't allow you to craft anything until you release shift.
- If you are killed while having the chest GUI open and you transfer items from the chest to your inventory after you are killed, those items will be lost.
- Minecarts on fire can no longer be put out by nearby water.
- When a Powered Rail is placed next to a block and redstone is placed both on top of the block and leading away from the block to a redstone torch on the ground, and then the redstone on top of the block, the redstone leading away from the block, and the redstone torch on the ground are removed (in that order), the Powered Rail will remain powered without any power source.
- Placing redstone torches on top of blocks that have a Powered Rail coming away from them only seems to affect the proper number of Powered Rails if the Powered Rails have been placed prior to the redstone torch. If any Powered Rails are removed with the torch still on the block, this behavior persists.
- When smooth lighting is off, Stairs will have dark shadows atop the cut portion of the block.
- In SMP games, rain often appears to be client side. Sometimes it rains client side when there is no rain on the server, and sometimes server side rain stops but on the client side it continues. In these cases reconnecting will reset the client to the proper weather.
- Thunder clapping can be heard inside deep caves (even at bedrock level).
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1.5_01 |
April 20, 2011 |
Bug Fixes:
- Blocks can now be placed on Snow.
- Rain no longer goes through translucent blocks.
- Light does not go through stair blocks anymore, however if you did this in a previous update, unless the stairs are destroyed or a block adjacent is built or destroyed it will still work.
- Pumpkins are no longer worn backwards.
- Pumpkin and Jack-O-Lantern inventory texture is now fixed. Before, it was backwards. However, all pumpkins and jack-o-lanterns that were placed on the map before the update are backwards.
- Game no longer crashes when rails are placed next to detector rails, or vice versa.
- Wolves are less common than in 1.5 (but more common than in 1.4).
- Blocks cannot be replaced into furnaces, thus fixing the statistic glitch.
- If Minecraft detects a broken save file, it will attempt to recover the world.
New Bugs:
- Many different activities will crash SMP with an "internal server error".
- On some servers if a block is placed on a snow block, the action will be immediately reversed and the snow block will return and the placed block will be added back to your inventory. (May only happen when snowing)
- Rain and Snow now fall through Water.
- Minecart Tracks of all types' placement behaves unexpectedly, not properly orienting after placement. (Curves don't work, slopes don't work, etc.) However if the corner is replaced, it will work.
- Placing blocks and/or mining, digging and/or harvesting resources with a texture pack installed rarely causes the game to crash to desktop in SSP.
- If you have a single wolf it rarely will turn into a wild wolf after you save your game. This can be fixed by taming a second wolf.
- Water does not change to Ice while snowing. Most likely related to the fix, "Rain no longer goes through translucent blocks."
- On Mac, pausing the game and expanding the window (+) as soon as the map is loaded causes a kernel panic, forcing you to restart the computer.
- Saplings do not stack to 64 all the time. (notably the original saplings from planted or rendered during previous versions)
- When using a ladder and placing ladders at the same time, some ladders will appear on a different surface several blocks away.
- If you are killed while having the chest GUI open and you transfer items from the chest to your inventory after you are killed, those items will be lost.
- Sapling particles don't relate to the sapling placed when destroyed (i.e Pine Sapling will show regular sapling particles)
- Levers placed on snow will have the animation like the broken lever: Media:Brokenlever.png The broken lever will point west.
- Sometimes when reeling in a fish, the fish will not be collected and will fly over the top of you.
- Saplings will refuse to grow into trees if any part of the tree's leaves would be in a block that is already occupied with anything except leaves. This results in places where planted saplings will never grow, when they used to be able to.
- Aggressive mobs are unable to jump over blocks when in pursuit of the player [1]
- Thunder can be heard at the bottom of the world, when deep within a cave. (Is this a bug?)
- Sometimes while shift-clicking objects into chests, the shift button always acts held down. In this case, you are not allowed to pick up any items in your inventory. Once you're in a chest, clicking an item in your inventory will quick-drag the item into the chest, even if your shift key is not held down. Restarting Minecraft will fix this problem.
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1.5 |
April 19, 2011 |
- Added Weather.
- Added Statistics and Achievements.
- New Items (Detector rail, Powered Rail, Birch and Pine/Spruce Saplings).
- New Item Web. Cannot be found naturally.
- SHIFT-clicking on something in a chest will immediately move the selected item(s) into your inventory and vice-versa.
- Birch and Pine/Spruce trees now drop Birch and Pine/Spruce saplings, respectively.
- Huge performance improvements for old and slow computers.
- Crafting a ladder now produces 2 ladders.
- If lightning strikes a pig, it becomes a Zombie Pigman.
- If lightning strikes a Creeper, it becomes electrified and will have a much more powerful explosion.
- New settings in options:
- Ability to change GUI size (Small, Normal, Large, Auto).
- Advanced OpenGL (Occlusion Culling: doesn't render blocks that the player can't "see", helps performance in cards that support it).
- Items can now be smelted with Saplings with the same smelting power as Sticks.
- Dropped items in flowing water move faster than before.
- Pigs that die by burning now drop cooked porkchops upon death.
- Redstone dust can be placed on snow.
- Wolves are more common, even in non-taiga/forest biomes.
- Unarmed damage was increased from to .
- Pressing tab will switch between input boxes.
Bug Fixes:
- You are only 'on' a ladder (can climb it/fall slowly) if your lower half is in the ladder block, rather than any part of you. It is no longer possible to climb a one-block gap in a ladder, or a ladder that starts at eye level.
- On fancy graphics, the sides of grass blocks are now biome-specific and match the shade on the top.
- You can now move through flowing water at previous speed.
- Wolves have a better understanding of doors. They will go through doors most of the time, but will sometimes get stuck on the 3 pixel thickness of the door. They will eventually back up for another go at the opened door.
- The lighting on portals and ice has been fixed (previously had triangles on the blocks) when using Smooth Lighting.
- Stairs are no longer transparent.
- On SMP, the health of wolves are now synchronized between server and client, causing wolves to only whimper when low on health, opposed to all of the time.
- Redstone in off state is red again.
- Crops hit with water now drop seeds and wheat, as opposed to just wheat.
- Moving minecarts will continue to move if the world is closed.
- The Mojang logo is the correct size when Minecraft is maximized.(Not on a mac)
- The exploit to make chests three or more side by side by placing a water source and placing a chest in that source has been fixed.
- Shift + F2 doesn't create massive screenshots (more than 1 gigabyte in size) anymore.
New Bugs:
- Sleeping in Bed will reset the timer for rain/snow and thunderstorms. This means, if you sleep every night the chance to get rain is very very small.
- Sneaking can rarely make it so you can place blocks on the block you're standing on.
- Creepers can make noises of other mobs.
- Sometimes it rains in snow biomes. is this a bug?
- Repetitively putting smeltable items in the furnace counts as a crafting statistic.
- Achievements only work in SMP if you have already completed first achievement in Single Player.
- Achievements will sometimes disappear when you close and re-open the game and can sometimes be restored by closing and re-opening the game again.
- FPS counter shows Chunk Updates instead of FPS, usually while generating new chunks.
- The game will crash if Detector Rails are placed beside normal rails.
- A crash will also occur if a normal rail is placed next to a Detector Rail that is connected to another rail.
- Blocks can't be placed on snow.
- If you change Advanced OpenGL to on and then back again, giant holes will appear that you can see through.
- Jumping off a fence in SMP triggers an anti-flight kick.
- Rain will fall through transparent blocks and stairs, acting as if there is no block there.
- When hitting a grass block the destroying animation is darker on the side than the animation on top of the grass block, though only on fancy graphics.
- Flowing water no longer pushes empty minecarts that fall into it.
- GUI: create new world input boxes misaligned under small and normal settings.
- Sometimes you might not get an achievement even if you do what it requires to get. This can usually be fixed by doing it in another world.
- In Singleplayer, game resumes when 'Achievements' is clicked on the pause menu, instead of remaining paused.
- Riding in a minecart from the south into a corner going from north to west (so it's not connected to the current track) will crash the game. Possibly also true for other directions, yet if you're going in the same corner coming from the east, it will work as usual.
- Weather ambience will stop playing while using fast graphics.
- Destroying a pine or birch sapling releases the particles of a 'normal' sapling.
- Sometimes closing and re-opening the game will reset some or all of your settings to default.
- When jumping from a fence to another fence above the fence you jumped from in SMP, you may be kicked for flying if the server uses a specific plugin.
- If you resize the window (not fullscreen) after typing in the world name and the seed, they both will be reset to "New World" and a blank seed. (with all GUI-scale settings)
- Mob Spawn rates seem to be set detrimentally high. Anecdotal evidence suggests an approximate 10x increase. [2]
- Burning animation may remain on furnace even though all fuel is consumed, all smeltable items are used or the output-field is full.
- Game may crash by doing anything except moving or opening your inventory.
- Mobs that are near a bed may interrupt a player's sleep even if they cannot reach the bed. Most noticeably, beds that were previously safe (could not be reached by mobs) may now allow mobs to spawn into rooms in which they could not normally spawn. [3]
- May be related to Wolf path-finding, "understanding of doors" fix. [4]
- If Smooth Lighting is turned off, the middle of new stair blocks appears black. [5]
- When you open your achievements tree, the sky turns white (Most noticable at night). (?)
- In SMP, deaths are not counted towards statistics.
- When in long underground tunnels, you can see the current sky near the vanishing point of the tunnel. This includes the sun, moon and stars as they move across the sky. [6]
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1.4_01 |
April 5, 2011 |
- Removed the April Fools' joke. However, the locked chests are still obtainable by inventory editing or SMP /give command. They will disappear after a while.
Bug fixes:
- Beds now act as a respawn point as intended.
New bugs:
- Although this has been fixed for most players, in certain cases the bed may still fail to save the default spawn point.
- A glitch is present where using a pickaxe on a Mac could crash the game.
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1.4 |
March 31, 2011 |
- New Minecraft logo (no longer 3D blocks).
- Added wolves that the player can tame, or kill for no loot.
- Added Cookies which heal the player for 0.5 hearts.
- Sleeping in a bed now resets your spawn position, though does not work for most users. Apparently, at the moment the spawn point unintentionally only changes if "Leave bed" is clicked and the function is limited to SMP.[7]
- Sneaking while climbing will hang on to the ladder, thus being a handy cave tool.
- Spiders will no longer trample crops and have walking sounds removed.
- Sheep can now spawn in Pink and Brown (however rarely)
- Cocoa Beans can be found in Dungeon chests.
- Wheat grows more quickly compared to 1.3_01
- The new default hotkey for the inventory is 'E'.
- Added new block, Locked Chest, which was an April Fool's gag. It linked to the 'Minecraft Store', but now it has been removed.
- SMP servers can now have a new world seeded with an option in the Server.properties file.
- Lots of infrastructure for Statistics lists and Achievements have been implemented.
- Scale of UI may now be changed in options.txt located in the .minecraft folder.
- On a fresh install, modded blocks are removed from the map. This excludes modded blocks that are placed into chests.[citation needed]
Bug fixes:
- Zombies and Spiders now hurt you in all instances (previously could only hurt you if they were 1 block above your location).
- Client-sided slime spawn on SMP has been fixed.
- Arm no longer swings when you cannot place a block.
- Opening and closing the inventory quickly while swinging no longer removes the character 'swinging' animation, which previously made destroying blocks faster (SMP only).
New bugs:
- If a player hits himself with an arrow, any tamed wolves will attack the player.
- Tamed wolves whimper in SMP regardless of health. This is because client-side health was used instead of synchronizing the health level with the server's. [8]
- Wolves cannot travel through doors. A small hole can be punched out near the door as they are 1x1, thus creating a "doggy-door" until their pathfinding is updated to recognize open doors as a path they can walk through.
- Beds do not act as the spawn point as intended, especially if it changes without reloading the save. In most instances, it is unconfirmed that the spawn point is even changed at all.
- Several light calculation glitches were introduced, which can be seen when destroying or placing a block near tree leaves and other translucent blocks in Fast or Fancy graphics settings, or loading a new chunk that contains overhangs.
- Sometimes torches do not emit light, but can be forced to by placing a light emitting torch near them. If these torches are removed, the light will not go away.
- In SMP, a Monster Spawner that spawns pigs will spawn client side pigs. Like other client-side glitches, they cannot be attacked and upon a re-join, will vanish.
- In SMP, most (If not all) Redstone Pulsars / Blinkers will not work.(The change time command causes all circuits to malfunction. Server mods that affect server time also seem to affect circuits. Strangely enough, in SSP any mods used to change time will not disrupt circuits in any way.)
- Flowing Water will push the player with more force. [9]
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1.3_01 |
February 23, 2011 |
Bug fixes:
- Dependencies on Java 1.6 are gone
- Fixed the recent issues on some Macs in which the game would crash when "Singleplayer" button was clicked on
- Able to connect Client to Minecraft Server 1.3
- Fixed item duplication glitch
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1.3 |
February 22, 2011 |
- New blocks/items (Redstone Repeaters, Beds)
- Added three new half-size blocks (Wooden Slab, Cobblestone Slab, Sandstone Slab)
- Breaking a block made of two slabs now drops 2 slabs.
- Slimes have a higher spawn rate
- New Mojang logo splash screen
- Graphics settings screen
- Ability to toggle between classic lighting and "smooth" lighting
- Worlds now use a generic McRegion chunk save format, with built-in auto conversion
- While starting a new world, players can choose the world's name and seed to generate the world from.
- More than 5 Worlds possible
- Scrollbars added in both the texture pack list, and in the map selection screen
- Added whitelisting to the server. To use, enter “whitelist <cmd>” where cmd is “on”, “off”, “add <player>”, “remove <player>”, “list” or “reload”
- F1 and F3 are now toggled when pressed.
- When F3 is toggled on, mobs display their unique entity ID numbers over their heads.
- F8 toggles mouse smoothing
- In 3rd person mode, character can be visibly seen to bob side to side when you walk (only when View Bobbing is enabled).
- Sandstone is now found at the bottom of naturally generated sand.
- All pressure plates now require two of its materials, instead of 3. Stone slabs are now created by using 3 of the materials (see specific block pages for further information)
- Mine time for Sandstone decreased.
- Redstone Wire will get darker the farther away it is from a source of power.
- Less passive Mobs when on harder modes.
- Deleting world confirmation changed slightly.
- Sulphur renamed back to Gunpowder
Bug fixes:
- When breaking double slabs (one slab placed on another) it will drop two slabs instead of one.
- Wood and logs don't burn forever anymore.
- Grassland/Sand-related biome border fixed (Boundaries line up, rather than obviously show chunk borders)
- No longer receiving Java Log error .txt file spam in the minecraft.exe folder when closing the Minecraft client program.
- Players can no longer use the click-release to quickly mine blocks (referred to as "click mining"). Note: Only applies to SMP.
- Players no longer glitch when standing on fences in SMP
- Players can no longer milk Squids.
- When right-clicking on a wooden door while holding a bow or fishing rod, arrows will no longer be fired into the door, nor will the fishing hook be cast into the door. (?)
- Hostile mobs can now be attacked properly in SMP
- Lapis Lazuli Ore now drops 4-8 Lapis Lazuli Dyes in SMP
- Bedrock and other blocks cannot be removed by tilling grass or dirt with a hoe and placing seeds anymore.
New Bugs:
- Slimes can be killed, but split into smaller slimes regardless of weapon used. Only one split slime can be damaged, the others are 'ghost' slimes which disappear upon reconnecting.
- The game will occasionally crash if you enter a Nether portal while in a minecart.
- Levers can be placed on the bottom of a block, as long as there is an open space, and a block horizontal to the open space. The lever will act as if placed on the horizontal block, but looks glitched, as shown here: Media:Brokenlever.png
- If someone uses their bed in SMP, other players may get disconnected. (Un-Recognizable Packet ID: 17)
- Wooden Slabs are best mined with pickaxe, not an axe.
- The particle colors for wood and sandstone slabs are gray.
- The particle colors for Redstone Repeaters are the same of pumpkins.
- Zombies and Spiders cannot hurt players unless they are above them or jumping(true in SSP only).
- If debug screen is toggled on in a world and you save and quit to title screen, the graph stays on the screen.
- Lighting bugs on transparent blocks with smooth lighting.
- When a player drowns or is otherwise killed near or in water, all 10 bubbles of the breath bar show up.
- If a redstone torch which is placed on the side of a block receives power, it will turn off permanently and must be manually reset. It will not turn back on.
- Redstone Repeaters may stay on when without turning off when turned on and off repeatedly for a long time. May be the blocks equivalent to a redstone torch burn out.
- Once a redstone torch is burnt out, any torch placed in that position will immediately burn out when given power. Torches will also remain burnt out forever.
- F1 in 3rd person mode no longer switches to front-on view
- No response from Minecraft Server 1.3
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Client/Launcher Update [10] |
February 21, 2011 |
- Updates now voluntary
- Official Links added
- Community Links added
- Command line support added
- Twitter Links added
- Ability to choose Minecraft directory location
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1.2_02 |
January 21, 2011 |
- Skins are now downloaded from Amazon S3 instead of minecraft.net
- Lapis Lazuli Ore now drops 4 - 8 Lapis Lazuli per block mined (increased from 1) on single player only (Minecraft beta servers have not been affected yet).
- Lapis Lazuli Ore can be found at bedrock level.
- Ink Sacks have been re-named to "Ink Sacs".
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1.2_01 |
January 14, 2011 |
- Fixed various blocks acting really weird when placed (rails, torches, and more)
- Optimized performance
- Added a new painting that was not added in version 1.2
- Reduced spawn rates a bit
- Fixed a whole pile of lighting bugs
- No more ghosts at night
- Added a temporary fix to get rid of chunk visibility errors [11]
- Splash text on the Main Menu returned to normal. (No longer constantly shows the quote "Finally beta!")
- Slimes were re-added to the game with a very low spawn rate [12]
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1.2 |
January 13, 2011 |
- New addition charcoal
- Note Blocks (right click to tune, trigger to play)
- 15 wool dyes
- A new passive water-dwelling mob (Squid), which drops the new item Ink sac
- New tree types (Birch, Pine)
- Reeds retconned into sugar canes. They still make paper.
- A bunch of new crafting recipes
- One secret useful block (Dispenser)
- One secret pretty block (Lapis Lazuli)
- Cake
- Sugar - Crafted from Sugar Cane
- Default furnaces given new look
- Bones added to the drop table, exclusively for skeleton archers.
- Bones can be crafted into Bone Meal.
- New gray, light gray, and black sheep. Drop correspondingly colored wool.
- Tools made out of wood, stone, iron, and possibly diamond have increased durability.
- Gold tools can remove blocks like stone and wood much more quickly than their diamond counterparts, with the same durability and restrictions as before 1.2.
- Sandstone
- Spiders can climb up walls.
- Mob Spawners again show a rotating model inside of what they spawn in single player.
- Wheat Seeds might be harvested more often when plowing grass blocks.
- Included the FastRender mod by Scaevolus [13]. (Source: [14])
- Screenshots can be taken using the F2 key without having to first hold down the F1 key.
- Iron, diamond, and coal are found in larger amounts (at least) in caves.
Bug fixes:
- Paintings work in multiplayer
- Disconnecting while riding no longer keeps the player in the world
- A bunch more state is properly synched in multiplayer
- Included PowerPC color and audio fixes by Scaevolus.
- Fixed a horrible chunk reload loop in singleplayer
- Fixed most lighting bugs in newly generated SMP maps
- Falling sand behaves better in SMP
- Fixed a few crash on load level bugs
- Jack-O-Lantern now has correct tooltip.
- Sheep now visibly lose their wool when hit in SMP.
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1.1_02 |
December 22, 2010 |
- Fixed the chest not opening with empty hands bug.
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1.1_01 |
December 22, 2010 |
- Added a missing font file in the package build.
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1.1 |
December 22, 2010 |
- Fixed “fancy” characters not working in the game by detaching font resources from the code.
- Rewrote leaf decay.
- Fixed FPS drops in single player.
- Fixed players getting spammed with data and getting disconnected in SMP.
- Fixed the item dupe bug in SMP.
- A few special events happened on the following specific days (according to system time):
- On the date of Christmas Eve to Boxing Day:
- The quote on the main menu said, "Merry X-mas!"
- All players wore a Christmas themed cape.
- On the date of New Year's Eve:
- All player wore a purple cape with an 11 on it to celebrate the coming year.
- On the date of New Years Day:
- The quote on the main menu said, "Happy New Year!"
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1.0.2 |
December 21, 2010 |
- Fixed problem where game wouldn't run on Macs plus possibly other unknown fixes.
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1.0_01 |
December 20, 2010 |
- Fixed double chest bug.
- Fixed rare crash on level load bug.
Persistent/New Bugs:
- Frame rate/performance issues not fully fixed [15].
- Disconnects from multiplayer servers due to overflow.
- Crashes after login on GNU/Linux
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1.0 |
December 20, 2010 |
- Working server-side inventory. 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 chest, 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.
- Throwing an egg has a chance of spawning a chicken.
- Added super exclusive clan cloaks for Mojang Employees.
- ...and something else, which is even more rare (DeadMau5 skin only in use on Deadmau5's server).
- Tooltips in inventory - When you mouse over an item, its name appears.
- You can't store things in the inventory crafting fields anymore.
- Dungeons are more common (?)
- New constant splash text on the main menu: "Finally beta!"
New Bugs:
- When looking in a double chest you can't do anything with the two bottom rows in your inventory.
- Players get disconnected after a short while on local Minecraft servers.
- Game starting problem for some people (especially Mac).
- Item duplication bug.
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