Minecraft:Pocket Edition v0.14.0 alpha

v0.14.0 alpha, the first release of the Minecraft:Overworld Update, is a major update to Minecraft:Pocket Edition and the Minecraft:Windows 10 Edition Beta that was released on February 18, 2016. It adds more redstone-related blocks, Minecraft:witch huts, Minecraft:maps, Minecraft:slime blocks, and a redesign of some menu interfaces. The update is the first to receive a name in the history of Pocket Edition.

Additions

Blocks

• Minecraft:Redstone components
  • File:Redstone Comparator (S) JE2 BE1.png Minecraft:Comparators
  • File:Dispenser (S) JE2 BE1.png Minecraft:Dispensers
    • Template:Version exclusive: Custom name does not appear in GUI.
  • File:Trapped Large Chest.gif Double Minecraft:trapped chests
  • File:Dropper (S) JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Droppers
    • Template:Version exclusive: Custom name does not appear in GUI.
  • File:Hopper (D) JE2.png Minecraft:Hoppers
    • Template:Version exclusive: Custom name does not appear in GUI.
  • File:Redstone Repeater (S) BE1.png Minecraft:Repeaters
    • File:Locked Redstone Repeater (S) JE1 BE1.png Locked Minecraft:Repeaters
• New Minecraft:minecart variants
  • File:Minecart with Chest JE3 BE1.png Minecraft:Minecart with chest
    • Template:Version exclusive: Emits smoke when destroyed.
    • Template:Version exclusive: Custom name does not appear in GUI.
  • File:Minecart with TNT JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Minecart with TNT
    • Template:Version exclusive: Emits smoke when destroyed.
  • File:Minecart with Hopper JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Minecart with hopper
    • Template:Version exclusive: Emits smoke when destroyed.
    • Template:Version exclusive: Custom name does not appear in GUI.
• File:Cauldron BE1.png Minecraft:Cauldrons
  • Template:Version exclusive: Minecraft:Water color can be changed by adding Minecraft:dyes.
    • Template:Version exclusive: Colors can be mixed.
  • Template:Version exclusive: Can be used to dye leather armor.
  • Template:Version exclusive: Minecraft:Water bottles can be used to refill Minecraft:water.
  • Template:Version exclusive: Can store Minecraft:potions.
    • Template:Version exclusive: Will make an explosion sound if potions are mixed, and the potions will disappear.
  • Template:Version exclusive: Minecraft:Potions inside Minecraft:cauldrons have a bubbling effect.
  • Buckets can now be filled from a full cauldron.
• File:Red Sandstone JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Red sandstone
  • File:Red Sandstone Stairs JE1 BE1.pngMinecraft:Red sandstone stairs
  • File:Red Sandstone Slab JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Red sandstone slabs
  • File:Chiseled Red Sandstone JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Chiseled red sandstone
  • File:Cut Red Sandstone JE1 BE1.png Smooth red sandstone (renamed to Cut Red Sandstone in 1.9.0)
• File:Slime Block BE1.png Minecraft:Slime blocks

Items

• File:Item Frame (S) JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Item frames
  • Template:Version exclusive: Uses BlockEntity instead of Minecraft:Entity.
  • Template:Version exclusive: Can't be placed in blocks.
  • Uses new Minecraft:sounds.
• File:Map (item) JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Maps
  • Template:Version exclusive: Crafted using nine Minecraft:paper.
  • Template:Version exclusive: Minecraft:Compass must be added through an Minecraft:anvil in order to show the player's position.
  • Template:Version exclusive: Can be cloned using the Minecraft:anvil, instead of the Minecraft:crafting table.
  • Template:Version exclusive: Can be zoomed using the Minecraft:anvil, instead of the Minecraft:crafting table.
  • New texture
  • Now has an interact Minecraft:button
  • Can only be received through inventory editing.
• File:Ender Pearl JE2 BE1.png Minecraft:Ender pearls
  • Can only be obtained through Minecraft:mods.
• Minecraft:Spawn eggs
  • File:Witch Spawn Egg JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Witch spawn egg

Mobs

• File:Witch BE2.png Minecraft:Witches
  • Uses new Minecraft:sounds.
  • When more than 11 blocks from a target and lacking Minecraft:swiftness, 50% chance of drinking a Minecraft:potion of swiftness.
• Template:Version exclusive: Added Minecraft:Camera back.

World generation

• Template:EnvLink
  • Template:Version exclusive: Minecraft:Cauldron contains a random Minecraft:potion.

Gameplay

• Minecraft:Creative mode
  • Added Minecraft:survival Minecraft:inventory tabs and Minecraft:crafting tabs.
  • Added the ability to put on Minecraft:armor in creative.
  • The Minecraft:player now keeps their inventory when changing a world to survival.

General

• Replaced Minecraft:Pocket Edition start screen with new UI.
• Added more Minecraft:Achievements. (Windows 10 Only)
• Added Export button to pause menu. (Windows 10 Only)
  • Button generates a file with suffix .mcworld.
    • Can be imported using the Import button.
• Added Import button to world selection screen (Windows 10 Only)
  • Worlds can now be imported.
    • Can only import worlds from files with suffix .mcworld and must have valid world files in them.
• Minecraft:Items now have an updated rendering system.
• Minecraft:Skin packs
  • Minecraft:Redstone Specialists skin pack.
• Minecraft:Textures
  • Update texture of Minecraft:language button.
    • Looks more like Windows 10 Edition button.
• Minecraft:Settings
  • Change Minecraft:GUI size option.
• New interact buttons
  • Open
    • Used when opening Minecraft:minecarts with chests and Minecraft:minecarts with hoppers.
  • Create map
    • Used when creating Minecraft:maps.

Changes

Blocks

• Minecraft:Trapped chests
  • Will now form a double trapped chest when placed next to each other.
• Minecraft:Pumpkins and Minecraft:mob heads
  • Can now be worn as armor by the player.
• Double Minecraft:flowers
  • Will now spawn their respective items when bonemealed.
• Minecraft:Flowers
  • The hitbox of flowers and similar is not the full block anymore.

Items

• Minecraft:Leather armor
  • Can now be dyed.
• Minecraft:Boats
  • Now appear exactly where the player has clicked/tapped.
• Minecraft:Snowballs
  • Now spawn when breaking snow with a shovel.
• Splash Water Bottle
  • It extinguishes any fire block that it's thrown at, as well as a maximum of five of them in the vicinity.

Mobs

• Baby Minecraft:zombies
  • Template:Version exclusive: Now has a 15% chance of being a jockey. If they want to be a jockey, upon nearing the player or villager, they will check for one of the following to mount before attacking:
    • Adult Minecraft:chicken
    • Adult Minecraft:ocelot
    • Adult Minecraft:wolf
    • Adult Minecraft:zombie
    • Minecraft:Cow
    • Minecraft:Pig
    • Minecraft:Sheep
    • Minecraft:Spider
• Minecraft:Blazes
  • Template:Version exclusive: Now glow in the dark.
• Minecraft:Creepers
  • Are slightly shorter (1.7 blocks tall rather than 1.8).
  • Detection range for players wearing their corresponding Minecraft:mob head adjusted to be 50% of the normal range.
  • Explosions are now much stronger and consistent in power
• Endermen
  • Drop the block they were holding when killed.
• Minecraft:Ghasts
  • Template:Version exclusive: Now have glowing eyes.
• Minecraft:Magma cubes
  • Template:Version exclusive: Cores now glow in the dark.
• Minecraft:Villagers
  • Are slightly taller (1.95 blocks tall rather than 1.8).
  • Will now spawn a witch when struck by Minecraft:lightning.
  • Naturally spawned villagers will now have more variety of professions
• Minecraft:Skeletons
  • Detection range for players wearing their corresponding Minecraft:mob head adjusted to be 50% of the normal range.
  • Are slightly taller (1.99 blocks tall rather than 1.95).
• Minecraft:Zombies
  • Detection range for players wearing their corresponding Minecraft:mob head adjusted to be 50% of the normal range.
• Minecraft:Cows
  • Are slightly taller (1.4 blocks tall rather than 1.3, with babies 0.7 blocks tall rather than 0.65).
• Minecraft:Mooshrooms
  • Are slightly taller (1.4 blocks tall rather than 1.3, with babies 0.7 blocks tall rather than 0.65).
• Minecraft:Squid
  • Template:Version exclusive: Now have bubbling particles.
  • Are slightly smaller (0.8 blocks square rather than 0.95).
• Minecraft:Wither skeletons
  • Are slightly smaller (2.4 blocks tall and 0.7 blocks wide rather than 2.535 blocks tall and 0.72 blocks wide).
• Minecraft:Iron golems
  • Are slightly shorter (2.7 blocks tall rather than 2.9).
• Minecraft:Wolves
  • Are slightly taller (0.85 blocks tall rather than 0.8).

World generation

• Minecraft:Mineshafts
  • Will now generate Minecraft:minecarts with chests.
• Minecraft:Villages
  • Increased Minecraft:door to Minecraft:villager ratio in Minecraft:villages.
• Minecraft:Double ferns
  • Now spawn in cold climates all over the Minecraft:world.
• Minecraft:Moss stone boulders
  • Mega Taigas' moss stone boulders are rounder.
• Minecraft:Huge mushrooms
  • No longer spawn in the Minecraft:water around roofed forests.

General

• Graphics/Performance
  • Cleaned up textures.
  • Screenshots are full .png files.
  • Minecraft:Snow, Minecraft:carpet, and Minecraft:slabs now render faster.
  • Improved loading times.
  • Changed inventory button texture.
• Minecraft:Creative mode
  • Minecraft:Chests, Minecraft:anvils, Minecraft:furnaces, Minecraft:droppers, Minecraft:dispensers, Minecraft:brewing stands, Minecraft:enchantment tables, Minecraft:hoppers and Minecraft:crafting tables can now be interacted with by Creative mode players.
  • The Minecraft:player can now pick up 64 of a Minecraft:block in creative by tapping and holding.
• Minecraft:Settings
  • Broadcast to LAN is now grayed out during gameplay to indicate that it can't be changed.
• Updated translations.

Fixes

79 bugs fixed

• Trapped chest does not provide power to redstone repeater.
• All clay types are displayed as gray blocks on the map.
• Double fence gates don’t block users.
• Player is unable to open minecart with chest and minecart with hopper.
• Player can’t close the chest window.
• Crash when a server kicks a player for inactivity.
• Mechanisms are being powered by redstone dust that is not aligned with them.
• Building massive world structures can lead to serious performance issues.
• Crash when a farmer villager runs out of seed to plant.
• Controller’s D-pad is inactive in the brewing stand interface.
• Backgrounds & buttons in Asian languages are too short for longer phrases.
• TNT minecart explosion on the curve does not destroy rail tracks under explosion.
• Fixed most issues with chunks being sent multiple times.
• Fixed server not running at the correct speed.
• Amount of hits required to kill witch doesn’t vary with the weapon.
• Fixed out-of-bounds error in Inventory related to linked slots.
• Player keeps all but armor in their inventory upon death.
• Skeleton heads don’t look hollow from the bottom.
• Fence gates weren’t restoring their open state correctly either. The same pattern was needed as DoorBlock and TrapDoorBlock.
• Character's arms are in weird positions on Kindle and some iPads.
• The player is not able to open the chest when the character stands close to it.
• Items from the bottom half of the double chest disappear when the world is restarted.
• Missing Feed button when holding any kind of meat in front of an untamed wolf.
• Missing Feed button while holding beetroot and potato in front of a pig.
• No sound of swimming underwater.
• Player keeps moving after Player opens inventory screen with controller.
• Slots on anvil not lined up.
• Minecarts do not stack.
• The terrain flickers invisible if too many chunks are updated at the same time.
• Mushroom stew should not be poisonous.
• The darkening underwater effect fails to occur if the user rides a boat into a waterfall.
• Flickering fence texture when it’s put underwater.
• Clay generates instead of gravel.
• It is no longer possible to stack beetroot soup.
• Cannot use colors in chat.
• Mobs stay aggressive after switching back to creative.
• Enderman glitches.
• Fixed door textures.
• Fixed UI scaling issues.
• Previously-saved Minecraft:falling blocks are once again properly loaded in.
• Template:Bug – Animals cannot walk through open doors.
• Template:Bug – You cannot bonemeal 2 high plants.
• Template:Bug – Animals and NPCs despawn randomly.
• Template:Bug – Invert Y-Axis cannot be turned on when using touch controls on any platform but works as expected with controllers.
• Template:Bug – Auto-jump cannot be turned off when using touch controls on any platform but works as expected with controllers.
• Template:Bug – The rain and snow cross the blocks.
• Template:Bug – Korean translation error in 0.11.0 & 0.12.1.
• Template:Bug – Nether portal facing the ocean won't show the water.
• Template:Bug – "Play" button not translating when you selected a different language.
• Template:Bug – The buttons are bigger in cellphones and 7 inches tablet.
• Template:Bug – Tapping D-pad arrows highlights block beneath.
• Template:Bug – Enchantment tables hurt iron golems.
• Template:Bug – Killing then healing peaceful mobs brings them partially back to life.
• Template:Bug – All mobs drop nothing unless killed by the player (or spawned or hurt by the player within 5 min of being killed).
• Template:Bug – Boat doesn't travel for people on LAN.
• Template:Bug – Tamed Wolves display button Sit or Stand instead of Feed when holding Rotten Flesh.
• Template:Bug – GUI Bug (in Japanese).
• Template:Bug – Trapped chests do not combine to form a large trapped chest.
• Template:Bug – Giant mushrooms are no longer spawned in terrain generation.
• Template:Bug – Milking a cow causes players to drink the milk immediately.
• Template:Bug – Lily pads not generating in Swamp biomes.
• Template:Bug – Ghast attack animation does not appear when Ghasts attack.
• Template:Bug – Opening Menu causes the player to stop crouching or sneaking.
• Template:Bug – Iron golem takes damage by a cake.
• Template:Bug – Iron golem get hurt while standing in daylight sensor night/day.
• Template:Bug – Impossible redstone torch clock.
• Template:Bug – [0.13.1] Slim custom skin models are titled "skins.customSlim".
• Template:Bug – [Wolf] collars cannot display colors other than white.
• Template:Bug – [0.13.1] Held items do not move along with the arm.
• Template:Bug – [0.13.1] Player's arms do not move from the idle position when aiming a bow.
• Template:Bug – Inconsistent opaqueness of redstone lamp.
• Template:Bug – Zombie Pigman hat layer is missing.
• Template:Bug – Mushrooms are not converted into giant mushrooms.
• Template:Bug – Zombie villager's left leg is z-fighting something.
• Template:Bug – Fences are not connected to monster spawner.
• Template:Bug – Mooshrooms, cows, pigs, sheep, and chickens don't panic after being attacked by the player.
• Template:Bug – Iron golem suffocates on non-full blocks.
• Template:Bug – No Achievement for Rainbow Collection.
• Template:Bug – Background spinning camera at the language menu does not act the same as the main menu.
• Template:Bug – Translation error Español (España).

Gallery

• File:Pocket Edition Redstone Components.jpg
• File:MCPE Slime Block.png
• File:Xmas Maze.png
• File:MCPE Import World.png
• File:MCPE Map.png
• File:MCPE Grid.png
• File:Pocket Edition Mega Taiga.png
• File:Pocket Edition Tundra.png
• File:Jeb Pocket Edition 0.14.jpg
• File:Pocket Edition v0.14.0 build 1 banner.png
• File:Overworld Update animation.gif