0.8.1

Tweaks:

• Charcoal texture changed to 1.6 texture

Bug Fixes: [hide]
MCPE-4495 Liquids not showing up to other players over LAN Realms Forceclosed duplication glitch Baked Potato description Notable Bugs: Infinite Bone Meal Minecarts sometimes spin out of control Baked Potatoes have incorrect name

0.8.0

Additions:

• Blocks:
  • Birch and Spruce Wood Planks, Slabs, and Stairs
  • Block of Coal
  • Carpets
    • All 16 colors in creative mode
    • Only red carpets in survival mode
  • Cobblestone Walls
  • Hay Bales
  • Iron Bars
  • Jack O' Lantern
  • Rails
    • Powered Rails (always powered)
  • Creative-Only:
    • Jungle Wood, Leaves, Wood Planks, Slabs, and Stairs
    • Sponge
    • Dead Bush
    • Mossy Cobblestone Walls
    • Cobwebs
• Crops:
  • Beetroots
    • Although Beetroots will be a source of red dye, Red Mushrooms still will give red dye when smelted.
  • Carrots
    • Rarely dropped from Zombies
  • Potatoes
    • Rarely dropped from Zombies
  • Pumpkins
• Items:
  • Beetroot Seeds
    • Have a 1/15 chance of popping out from grass when hoed
  • Clocks
  • Compasses
  • Minecarts
  • Pumpkin Seeds
    • Obtained from the Nether Reactor like Melon seeds
  • Redstone (cannot be placed as Redstone Dust until 0.9.0)
  • Ink Sac (currently unobtainable in survival mode)
  • Cocoa Beans (crafted from Orange dye and Ink sac)

• Foods:
  • Beetroots
  • Beetroot Soup
  • Carrots
  • Potatoes
  • Pumpkin Pie
  • Baked Potatoes

Tweaks:

• Blocks/Items:
  • Bone Meal
    • Nerfed like in the PC edition
    • Can grow Ferns and Tall Grass in survival and creative
    • Now grows Sugar Cane to maximum height (exclusive to MCPE)
    • Pumpkin and melon stems only grow by one when bone meal is used
    • Flowers now spawn other flowers when Bone Meal is used
  • Fire and lava now ignite TNT.
  • In creative mode, players stop burning as soon as they exit fire/lava
  • Redstone Ore now drops Redstone when mined
  • Sideways pointing wood blocks
  • New bow rendering & animated items
  • New visual effect for burning mobs
  • Remade painting rendering
  • Eating particles are shown to look like the food being eaten rather than random pixels from the food.
  • Thrown eggs now spawn baby chickens
  • Wooden tools can now burn
  • Lava buckets can now be placed in furnace to smelt items (100 items)
  • Improved Signs and Chests synchronization lag in multiplayer
  • Sand and Gravel now spawn resources when falling on torches, etc
  • Flowers
    • Position is now randomized
  • Charcoal is now made when smelting wood
• Graphics:
  • 3D Clouds with new tessellation algorithm
  • Held items are now rendered in 3D, and bob up and down slightly when idle and sway to the side when turning.
  • Lighter colored Water, Sky, and Grass
    • Water fades to non-transparent in the distance (iOS only)
  • Mipmaps (iOS only)
  • Refactored most of the rendering to use indexed VBOs
    • Remade arrow model
    • Inventory is now rendered using cached VBOs
    • New sky rendering using a triangle fan
  • Separated far and near chunks in two queues for performance reasons
    • Fog only on far chunks
    • Transparency only on near chunks
    • Alpha-test-only layers are hidden in far chunks
  • Lighting:
    • Stencil Shadows
    • Dynamic PC-like lighting on entities
    • Ambient light tinting on entities
    • Light direction depends on sunlight direction on entities - affects shadows (exclusive to MCPE)
• Inventory/GUI:
  • Creative Inventory Additions:
    • Flint and Steel
    • Ice
    • Snow (cover)
    • Bedrock
    • Shears
    • Dyes
    • Tall Grass and Ferns
  • New Creative Inventory, with four item categories
  • Hotbar now saves on Creative worlds
  • Items being moved to/from a chest is now correctly rendered.
  • Transparent hotbar
  • Tapping the [...] now closes the inventory while open
  • Craftable recipes are shown first in the crafting screen
  • If there is 99+ of an item in the inventory, it now shows the actual quantity in crafting table, rather than 99+
  • When selecting an item in the inventory it replaces the one in the selected slot
  • Changed the flow of Inventory for the Armor/Crafting screens so that the back button goes back to Inventory
  • Moved Grey Wool in the right inventory slot
  • Ice is not transparent anymore in the hotbar
• Items that are not supposed to be in the game no longer have a red background in the hotbar/inventory
• Mobs:
  • Breeding
  • Improved Mob AI System (Mobs swim over deep water, and hostile mobs are now more intelligent)
  • Baby animals follow the adult animal of thier species
  • Animals follow the player when holding wheat (cows and sheep), seeds (chickens) or Potatoes/Beetroot/Carrots (pigs)
• Sheep when sheared have the color overlay of its wool (iOS only).
• New defaults and changed options:
  • Added far (256) and farthest (400) rendering distances
  • Removed smooth lighting (now always on)
  • Fancy is now default on
  • Default rendering distance is now far
• Textures:
  • Brought all textures from PC
  • New texture atlas and texture generator script

Other:

• New app logo

Bug Fixes:

Notable Bugs:

• There is no animation for picking up items
• When putting a stack of items to/from a chest, one of the items briefly appears to stay in the slot.
• When holding two stacks with different quantities, one being 64, the other appears as a duplicate of the aforementioned stack.
• The circle that appears when destroying blocks unnexpectedly disappears, only reappearing when the game is force closed.
• Igniting a certain amount of TNT in creative occasionally drops recources for blocks that otherwise wouldn't.
• In the inventory, clocks always appears as noon and compasses always points down.
• Beds have white texture underneath.
• Chickens do not follow the player if holding melon seeds.
• No realm support for iOS