Minecraft:Pocket Edition v0.12.1 alpha

v0.12.1 alpha is a major update to Template:PE and a minor update to the Template:El Beta that was released over the timeframe of September 4–9, 2015. For Pocket Edition, it adds many new things such as Minecraft:the Nether, Minecraft:brewing, Minecraft:enchanting, Minecraft:hunger, Minecraft:weather, and many more additions which helped to bring it closer to Template:JE, as well other changes and fixes.

The release was initially intended to coincide with the first beta release of Windows 10 Edition on July 29, 2015, when it was announced at Minecraft:MINECON 2015. However, it was delayed due to obstacles in its development in the days leading up to its intended release date, making this the first version of 0.12 for Pocket Edition.<ref name=Delay>Template:Tweet</ref>

Additions

Template:Additions table This section lists additions since v0.11.0 for Pocket Edition. Windows 10 Edition had received many of these in previous updates.

Blocks

File:Enchanting Table JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Enchantment Table

• Template:Version exclusive: The book on the table glows.
• Template:Version exclusive: Custom name does not appear in GUI.

File:Anvil JE2 BE1.png File:Chipped Anvil JE2 BE1.png File:Damaged Anvil JE2 BE1.png Minecraft:Anvils

• All 3 damage types.
• Template:Version exclusive: Minecraft:Furnaces, enchantment tables, and Minecraft:brewing stands with a custom name do not have their custom name in their GUIs.

File:Brewing Stand (empty) BE1.png Minecraft:Brewing stand

• Template:Version exclusive: Custom name does not appear in GUI.

Template:Animate Minecraft:Heads

• Template:Version exclusive: Inventory icons are not 3D.
• The Minecraft:wither cannot yet be created with wither skeleton skulls.
• Cannot be worn.

File:Flower Pot JE1.png Minecraft:Flower Pot

File:Soul Sand JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Soul Sand

File:Nether Brick Fence (EW) JE1.png Minecraft:Nether Brick Fence

File:Nether Brick Slab JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Nether Brick Slab

File:Nether Quartz Ore JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Nether Quartz Ore

Items

File:Glass Bottle JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Glass Bottle

Template:Animate Minecraft:Potion

• Template:Animate Minecraft:Splash Potion

File:Gold Nugget JE2 BE1.png Minecraft:Gold Nugget

File:Golden Carrot JE3 BE1.png Minecraft:Golden Carrot

File:Nether Wart (item) JE2 BE1.png Minecraft:Nether Wart

File:Glistering Melon Slice JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Glistering Melon

File:Golden Apple JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Golden Apple

• File:Enchanted Golden Apple JE1 BE1.gif Minecraft:Enchanted Golden Apple

File:Rabbit's Foot JE2 BE1.png Minecraft:Rabbit's foot

• Can only be obtained in the Minecraft:Creative inventory, as Minecraft:rabbits have not been added yet.

File:Blaze Rod JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Blaze Rod

File:Blaze Powder JE2 BE1.png Minecraft:Blaze Powder

File:Ghast Tear JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Ghast Tear

File:Spider Eye JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Spider Eye

File:Fermented Spider Eye JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Fermented Spider Eye

File:Bottle o' Enchanting JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Bottle o' Enchanting

• Can only be obtained in the Minecraft:Creative inventory, as villager Minecraft:trading has not been added yet.

File:Poisonous Potato JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Poisonous Potato

File:Enchanted Book JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Enchanted Book

Minecraft:Spawn Eggs:

• File:Blaze Spawn Egg JE2 BE1.png Minecraft:Blaze
• File:Ocelot Spawn Egg JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Ocelot
• File:Zombie Villager Spawn Egg JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Zombie Villager

Mobs

File:Iron Golem JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Iron Golem

File:Snow Golem JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Snow Golem

• Minecraft:Java Edition 1.9 feature: The pumpkin can be removed using Minecraft:shears, revealing the face of the snow golem.

File:Ocelot JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Ocelot

Template:Animate Minecraft:Zombie Villager

• Java Edition 1.9 feature: Villagers retain their profession and clothes, which appear tattered, and have a green wart on their noses.
• Template:Animate Baby zombie villagers

File:Blaze JE1 BE1.gif Minecraft:Blaze

File:Wither Skeleton JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Wither skeleton

File:Charged Creeper JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Charged creeper

• Spawned when a lightning bolt strikes a creeper during a thunderstorm.

World generation

Template:BiomeLink

• Infinite in size, like Template:In.
• Minecraft:Nether portals can also be up to 23×23 in size.
• All items previously obtained through the Minecraft:Nether reactor are now available through their normal means.

Template:EnvLink

Gameplay

File:Hunger.svg File:Hunger.svg File:Hunger.svg File:Hunger.svg File:Hunger.svg File:Hunger.svg File:Hunger.svg File:Hunger.svg File:Hunger.svg Minecraft:Hunger

File:Experience Orb (sprite) Revision 1.gif Minecraft:Experience

Minecraft:Weather

• Rain
• Snowfall
• Thunderstorm

Minecraft:Sprinting

Minecraft:Sneaking

• Toggled by double-tapping the sneak button.
• Was previously exclusive to the Xperia Play.

Minecraft:Difficulty

• Peaceful
• Easy
• Normal
• Hard

Minecraft:Heads-up display

• Added animation for switching between Minecraft:items

Minecraft:Critical hits

Minecraft:Enchanting

Minecraft:Brewing

Minecraft:Item repair

General

• Cross-platform play for up to five players between Pocket Edition and Windows 10.
• Controller and keyboard support
  • Can change controls within options.

Options

• Template:Version exclusive: Option to reverse the Sneak and Jump button's location.
• The jump button has been moved to the right side of the screen.
  • Added a sneaking button in place of where the current jump button is.
    • These are the new default controls.
• Option to disable the auto-jump feature.
• Added camera mode slider on options (First-person, Third-person, Front third-person).
• FOV option slider.<ref>Template:Tweet</ref>

• New interact buttons
  • Feed
    • Used when breeding mobs.
    • The "feed" button previously existed for wolves; now, it exists for all breedable mobs.

Minecraft:Splashes

• Added splashes:
  • "So fresh, so clean!"

Minecraft:Particles

• angryVillager
• largeexplode
• hugeexplode
• blockdust
• slime
• enchantementtable
• droplet
• snowshovel

Changes

This section lists changes since v0.11.0 for Pocket Edition. Windows 10 Edition had received many of these in previous updates.

Blocks

Minecraft:Nether Reactor Core

• Is now uncraftable.
• Removed from the crafting menu and the creative inventory.
• Still provides drops when broken (3 diamonds and 6 iron ingots).
• Only obtainable via inventory editing.
• It no longer functions due to the addition of the nether.

Minecraft:Furnace

• Centered the result name in the furnace.

Minecraft:Snow

• Template:Version exclusive: Builds up multiple layers naturally through snowfall.
• Template:Version exclusive: Are now affected by gravity.

Crops

• Breaking crops will now always drop seeds.

Minecraft:Lava

• Template:Version exclusive: Now appears brighter.
• Now prevents fall damage.
• When in the Nether, it now flows like in Java Edition.

Minecraft:Water

• Improved water climbing against a wall.
• Now makes it harder to break blocks underwater.

Minecraft:Door

• Can now be stacked up to 64.
• Crafting now produces 3 doors rather than 1.

Minecraft:Packed Ice

• New texture: File:Packed Ice JE1 BE2.png

Minecraft:Quartz Pillar

• Can now be placed horizontally.

Minecraft:Dead Bush

• Will now drop anywhere between 0–2 sticks when broken without shears.

Minecraft:End Portal Frame

• Now rotate based on the direction they were placed.

Minecraft:Trapdoor

• Can now be placed on the bottom and top side of a block.

Minecraft:Ladder

• Can now be hung on while sneaking.

Items

Minecraft:Boat

• New inventory icons.
  • Now include paddles.
  • Different boat types' items now are their respective color.

Minecraft:Food

• Now restores Minecraft:hunger instead of Minecraft:health.

Minecraft:Pufferfish

• Now inflicts the following status effects:
  • Template:EffectLink IV (1:00)
  • Template:EffectLink III (0:15)
  • Template:EffectLink (0:15)

Minecraft:Rotten Flesh

• Now inflict the player with Template:EffectLink due to the addition of hunger, rather than Template:EffectLink in 0.11.0.

Minecraft:Beetroot

• Beetroot crops can be obtained from village farms.
• Beetroot seeds can no longer be obtained by tilling grass blocks.

Seeds

• Seeds can no longer be obtained by tilling grass blocks.

Minecraft:Book

• Now use the updated crafting recipe, including leather.

Minecraft:Spawn Egg

• Mobs spawned from renamed eggs have the name of the egg, and the names will appear in death messages.
• Zombie spawn eggs now have a chance to spawn zombie villagers.

Minecraft:Swords

• Can no longer break blocks in Creative mode.

Minecraft:Magma cream

• Can now be crafted.

Mobs

Minecraft:Zombie

• Now wears different armor and can hold items.
• Now drops weapons and armor rarely.
• Can now break down doors.
• Drops its head if killed by a Minecraft:charged creeper.
• Now able to detect the player up to 40 blocks.
• Now drops Minecraft:iron ingots.

Minecraft:Skeleton

• Now wears different armor and can hold items.
• Improved accuracy.
• Now drops weapons and armor rarely.
• Can turn into a wither skeleton if spawned in the Nether.
• Drops its skull if killed by a charged creeper.
• Death sound changed to that of Java Edition.

Minecraft:Creeper

• Now turn into charged creepers when struck by lightning.
• Now drops its head when killed by a charged creeper.
• Run away from Minecraft:ocelots (wild and tamed variants).

Minecraft:Enderman

• Now avoids water.

Minecraft:Slime

• Now have particles when jumping.
• Now drop Minecraft:slimeballs.

Minecraft:Magma cube

• Now spawn in the Nether.
• Magma cubes now split when killed.
• Now have particles when jumping.

Minecraft:Zombie pigman

• Now neutral rather than hostile.
• Now spawns in the Nether.
• Now wears armor and can hold items.
• Now drops swords and armor rarely.
• Now drops gold nuggets.
• Have a chance to spawn with enchanted swords.

Minecraft:Villager

• Can now open and close doors.
• Can now harvest crops.
• Can now breed.
• Now has angry particles if attacked by the player.
• Now always become zombie villagers in Hard difficulty.
  • Minecraft:Zombie villagers can be healed using a Minecraft:splash potion of Weakness and a Minecraft:golden apple.

Minecraft:Spider

• Now have a walking sound.
• Now drops spider eyes.

Minecraft:Cave Spider

• Now has a walking sound.
• Now drops spider eyes.

Minecraft:Ghast

• Now spawns in the Nether.
• Now drops a ghast tear when killed.
• Now makes sounds and noises.
• Increased size of hitbox.

Minecraft:Pig

• Now turns into zombie pigman when struck by lightning.

Minecraft:Wolves

• Tamed wolves now attack the target when it was hit with a bow.

Minecraft:Silverfish

• No longer makes sounds while moving.

General

• Burning mobs have a sizzling particle effect once extinguished.
• Mobs now drop Minecraft:experience when killed.
• Improved AI
• Improved pathfinding of mobs inside fences.
• Now seek Minecraft:water and shade when on fire.
• Now avoid lava.

World generation

Minecraft:Villages

• Now spawn with only wheat + one other crop instead of all crops.
• Now spawn with beetroot crops.
• Will now spawn Minecraft:iron golems

Gameplay

Minecraft:Controls

• Flight controls are now slightly smaller.

Minecraft:Chat

• The player can now use the chat while in a Minecraft:bed.
• Slight jump delay when jumping in a small space.

Minecraft:Hotbar

• Hotbar now has 8 slots instead of 5.
• Increased the length of the Minecraft:daylight cycle from 19,200 ticks (16 minutes) to 24,000 ticks (20 minutes).

Minecraft:Creative inventory

• A lot of items that already exist in the game have been added to the creative inventory. This includes the following:
  • Minecraft:Glowstone Dust
  • Minecraft:Gunpowder
  • Minecraft:Redstone Dust
    • Not yet placeable.
  • Minecraft:Slimeball
  • Minecraft:Sugar
  • Minecraft:Magma Cream
  • Minecraft:Apple
  • Minecraft:Coal
  • Minecraft:Charcoal
  • Minecraft:Iron Ingot
  • Minecraft:Gold Ingot
  • Minecraft:Emerald
  • Minecraft:Diamond
  • Minecraft:Raw Porkchop
  • Minecraft:Cooked Porkchop
  • Minecraft:Steak
  • Minecraft:Raw chicken
  • Minecraft:Cooked Chicken
  • Minecraft:Baked Potato
  • Minecraft:Bread
  • Minecraft:String
  • Minecraft:Stick
  • Minecraft:Beetroot
  • Minecraft:Beetroot Soup
  • Minecraft:Mushroom Soup
  • Minecraft:Packed ice
  • Minecraft:Boats:
    • Spruce, birch, jungle, acacia, and dark oak variants.
  • Minecraft:Leather Armor
  • Minecraft:Chain Armor
  • Minecraft:Iron Armor
  • Minecraft:Gold Armor
  • Minecraft:Diamond Armor

General

• Blocks can now be placed underneath the player while sneaking.
• When tapping a block, the moving hand animation is displayed every time, not just when placing a block.

General

• Changed app icon.
• Graphics
  • Tinted Minecraft:water - gradient from aqua to dark blue when viewed from a distance.
  • New explosion Minecraft:particles.
  • Particles are no longer dark when inside of a block.
  • Template:Version exclusive: Minecraft:Leaves in snowy Minecraft:taigas now appear frost-covered.
• Only uses the leaves coloring shaders when the color for a biome actually changes.
• Only samples the lightmap texture for non-transparent pixels.
• Scrollbar
  • Always visible.
  • New texture.
• The player can now swim in Minecraft:lava.
• Updated Minecraft:sounds
  • Changed the volume of some sounds.
  • Updated the sound engine, which supports multiple sounds at once, and fixed pitch and volume issues for android versions.
  • New sound for dying Minecraft:skeletons and Minecraft:wither skeletons.
  • Digging and walking sounds are now the same as in Java Edition.
  • Minecraft:Explosion and item throwing sounds changed.
  • Minecraft:Damage sounds changed to that of the Java Edition tick instead of the masculine (oof) Minecraft:sound.
  • Minecraft:Fishing rod now makes a less repetitive sound.
  • Minecraft:Ladders now make sounds when climbing.
  • Water and lava now make sounds when flowing.
• Name tags are visible from farther away now.
• New random seed algorithm.
• Better ordering on chunk scheduling.

Options

• Third person view switch replaced with a slider bar, with 3 options:
  • Option 1 - first-person view
  • Option 2 - third-person view
  • Option 3 - frontal face view
• Renamed D-Pad size slider to "Button size".

• Custom server IPs must be unique.
• Relocated pause and chat button to the top middle of the screen. (survival only)
• Trying to connect to old versions of the game, like 0.11 or under, will show an error message.
• Xperia Play support removed.
  • The addition of generic controller support was supposed to fix previous issues, but instead completely broke it.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/MCPE/comments/2sx5dv/comment/cntue59/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button</ref><ref>https://bugs-legacy.mojang.com/browse/MCPE-10638</ref>
  • The D-pad continues to work with the generic support.
  • "Play with touch" option removed as it's no longer relevant.

Fixes

This section lists bug fixes since v0.11.0 for Pocket Edition. Windows 10 Edition had received many of these in previous updates.

71 bugs fixed

From released versions before 0.12.1

• Template:Bug – You can't get out of lava<ref>Template:Reddit</ref>
• Template:Bug - Sounds on Android devices are incorrect
• Template:Bug - Bug while mining/breaking blocks (Touch and Split Controls)
• Template:Bug - Can't place pillar quartz blocks sideways
• Template:Bug - Bows don't have particles in full charge.
• Template:Bug - Automatic Flying Bug
• Template:Bug - Auto jump doesn't work with carpet
• Template:Bug - Finger free mining bug.
• Template:Bug - Wrong Crops Sound
• Template:Bug - When tapping the leftmost box in hotbar while walking forward, you walk backward-left a bit.
• Template:Bug - Acacia and dark oak trees act like ladders
• Template:Bug - Baby pigs can pass through slabs
• Template:Bug - Hotbar size decreases when on split controls
• Template:Bug - Cobblestone generators don't work for other players in Local Server Multiplayer
• Template:Bug - painting de_aztec (or Aztec) does not exist in the game
• Template:Bug - jungle leaves x-ray bug
• Template:Bug - Putting out fire in creative mode
• Template:Bug - Jumping mobs
• Template:Bug - Inventory Armor Section Bug!
• Template:Bug - Red Sand Suffocation
• Template:Bug - 2x2 Jungle trees leaves disappear when you grow them artificially (bonemeal)
• Template:Bug - Burning fuel icon not decreasing when the world is closed and reopened
• Template:Bug - Upper slabs cause top leaf texture to disappear
• Template:Bug - Monster spawners only spawn mobs with data value 0
• Template:Bug - Mesas generate on top of water bodies in Bryce mesa biomes
• Template:Bug - Skeletons arrows bounce off
• Template:Bug - Water and Lava disappear when switching view distances
• Template:Bug - Redstone Ore doesn't give off particles.
• Template:Bug - Heavy shading on water blocks at the world border
• Template:Bug - Mining consecutive redstone ore blocks does not light each block as they are being mined
• Template:Bug - Lava can tick through walls
• Template:Bug - Fishing rod and flying glitch
• Template:Bug - Wrong Magma Cream Name
• Template:Bug - Magma Cubes Do Not Split
• Template:Bug - Lighting glitch when standing under a door
• Template:Bug - Block selection overlay is only visible on one side of a texture
• Template:Bug - Villager professions not showing correctly on client
• Template:Bug - Mob pathfinding considers the void to be a solid platform
• Template:Bug - [Wolves] cannot be healed to full health
• Template:Bug - Falling beyond bedrock into void
• Template:Bug - Baby animals can grow up in fences-type blocks and escape their pen
• Template:Bug - Skeletons Aim is off
• Template:Bug - Zombies think that slabs are full blocks
• Template:Bug - Eating raw chicken gives you hunger?
• Template:Bug - Water can turn lava into obsidian from underneath.
• Template:Bug - View Bobbing Automatically defaults to on after restarting the app
• Template:Bug - Egg shows snowball particles when thrown
• Template:Bug - Fishing bobber (bait or lure) burns forever
• Template:Bug - LAN Mid-Air glitch
• Template:Bug - Wrong text when selecting which model to use with your custom skin
• Template:Bug - Furnaces are facing wrong direction in village blacksmiths
• Template:Bug - World crashes on load
• Template:Bug - Mobs get stuck atop the border wall
• Template:Bug - Baby zombie pigmen
• Template:Bug - Double-tall flowers do not drop items when mined
• Template:Bug - Chunks near to and of mushroom island biomes do not generate
• Template:Bug - Carpet duplication when trying to place it where it cannot be placed
• Template:Bug - Minecarts Wrong View when riding it down
• Template:Bug - Baby chickens die in boats
• Template:Bug - Cobwebs can't be broken by water
• Template:Bug - After mobs get out of fire, they do not continue to burn
• Template:Bug - Nether Reactor gives wrong message
• Template:Bug - Vegetation generates through structures
• Template:Bug - Unable to scroll a newly selected language off of the language menu screen
• Template:Bug - Infinite Boat Rowing Bug
• Template:Bug - Bow glitch
• Template:Bug - No 32-bit support
• Template:Bug - Lava-Don't stop fall damage

From the 0.11.0 development versions

• Template:Bug - Not translate in RU lang for blocks
• Template:Bug - Custom Skins Crash
• Template:Bug - Wrong death position-VIDEO

Gallery

Promotional images

These images were uploaded to the store pages on the update release.

• Zombie in a swamp
  Zombie in a swamp
• Enchantment table
  Enchantment table
• Enchantment table in Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition Beta
  Enchantment table in Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition Beta
• The Nether
  The Nether
• Nether portal
  Nether portal
• Iron golem
  Iron golem
• Ocelots
  Ocelots
• A player-built mineshaft in a cave
  A player-built mineshaft in a cave
• Multiplayer
  Multiplayer

Development images

• Enchanting interface
  Enchanting interface
• 2 enchanting tables and enchanted iron pickaxes
  2 enchanting tables and enchanted iron pickaxes
• New control interface
  New control interface
• Toggle for swapping jumping and sneaking
  Toggle for swapping jumping and sneaking
• The Nether and an enchanted book
  The Nether and an enchanted book