Minecraft:Windows 10 Edition Beta v0.12.0
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v0.12.0<ref>Template:Tweet</ref> is the first version of the Minecraft:Windows 10 Edition Beta released on July 29, 2015.<ref>Template:Tweet</ref> The Minecraft:Pocket Edition equivalent was being developed at the same time and would not be released until v0.12.1 due to obstacles in development.<ref name=Delay>Template:Tweet</ref>
Additions
This section lists additions since v0.11.0, despite the fact that it was never released for Windows 10 Edition.
Blocks
- Used for repairing and combining enchanted items as well as for renaming any item/block at the cost of experience levels
- Tools can also be repaired using one piece of their material
- Enchantments that are the same are upgraded by one level as long as they are both the same level and the higher level exists
- Conflicting enchantments will be removed and only the first one will be kept
- Becomes damaged from using and dropping it - Damage persists in inventory and splits up into 3 categories: Anvil, Slightly Damaged Anvil & Very Damaged Anvil
- Can be placed in 4 orientations, but can't be moved by pistons
- Experience level cost depends on enchantment levels & rarities, whether the item will be renamed and whether the item has been used with an anvil before - Maximum experience level cost is 39 levels, unless in Creative mode
- For a more detailed explanation of how enchantments are combined using the anvil, see the Minecraft:Anvil mechanics page
- Is affected by gravity and does 1 heart of damage to mobs and players it falls on per block it fell, excluding the first one - Players killed by a falling anvil cause the death message "Player was squashed by a falling anvil" to appear in the chat
- Template:Version exclusive: Minecraft:Furnaces and Minecraft:Brewing stands do not show custom name in their GUIs.
- File:Brewing Stand (empty) JE1 BE1.pngFile:Brewing Stand (item) JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Brewing stands
- Used to brew potions.
- Template:Version exclusive: Custom name does not appear in GUI.
- Wither skeleton skull has a chance of dropping when a wither skeleton is killed by a player
- Also exist for creepers, zombies, skeletons, and players
- Can be put on the ground in 16 orientations and hung on walls
- Can be worn
- Using external editors or mods player skulls can be assigned to specific players - They then have a tooltip "Player's Head"
- Add the NBT tag "SkullOwner" -> (player name) on the skull items.
- Template:Version exclusive: Minecraft:Inventory icons are not 3-D.
- Cannot be worn.
- Lets players plant all kinds of Minecraft:saplings, Minecraft:mushrooms, Minecraft:flowers, Minecraft:cacti, Minecraft:dead shrubs and Minecraft:ferns <ref>Template:Tweet</ref>
- Using pick block on it gives the potted plant
- Right-click it with something to plant it, hit it to get both backs
- Generates in Minecraft:nether
- Decoratives
- Drops 1 nether quartz item when mined.
- Can be smelted in a furnace to obtain nether quartz.
- Can be legitimately obtained with Silk Touch enchantment.
- Drop more when mined with Fortune enchantment.
Items
- Used for making potions
- Can be obtained by brewing
- Golden carrots can be crafted with a carrot surrounded by 8 Minecraft:gold nuggets
- Restore Template:Hunger hunger
- Can be used for brewing.
- Used for making potions
- Gives some effects Template:Info needed
- When eat, gives the effect following:
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- Glows like enchanted tools.
- Brewed to make a Potion of Leaping.
- Creative only
- Drops from Minecraft:blazes.
- Ingredient to brewing potions.
- Can be used to craft Minecraft:eyes of ender and magma cream.
- Ingredient for brewing potions.
- Crafted from Minecraft:blaze rods.
- Drops from Minecraft:ghasts.
- Ingredient for brewing potions.
- Drop from spiders.
- Ingredient for brewing negative potions.
- Ingredient for brewing potions.
- Makes negative versions of potions.
- Rarely drop potato plant
- Restores Template:Hunger hunger and have a chance to Minecraft:poison the Minecraft:player
Creative inventory additions
- Minecraft:Spawn eggs:
- Minecraft:Glowstone dust
- Minecraft:Gunpowder
- Minecraft:Redstone dust (brewing only)
- 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:Boats:
- Spruce, birch, jungle, acacia, and dark oak variants
- Minecraft:Leather armor
- Minecraft:Chain armor
- Minecraft:Iron armor
- Minecraft:Gold armor
- Minecraft:Diamond armor
World generation
- Infinite in size, like in Java Edition.
- 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.
- Generates in Minecraft:the Nether.
- File:Blaze JE1 BE1.png File:Wither Skeleton JE1 BE1.png Blazes and wither skeleton spawn here.
Mobs
- Occasionally spawns in Minecraft:villages.
- Attack Minecraft:zombies and other hostile mobs.
- Can be spawned by placing 4 Minecraft:iron blocks and Minecraft:pumpkins in a specific pattern.
- Can be crafted by placing two Minecraft:snow blocks vertically and a Minecraft:pumpkin on top.
- Melts in hot Minecraft:biomes.
- Spreads Minecraft:snow around when it walks.
- Passive to the player, but throws Minecraft:snowballs at enemies.
- Can be tamed using raw fish.
- Tamed ocelots will scare off creepers and teleport to the player similarly to tamed wolves.
- Villagers retain their profession and clothes, which appear tattered, and have a green wart on their noses.
- Added baby zombie villagers to
- Hostile Minecraft:Nether mob.
- Flies and throws Minecraft:fireballs at players.
- Immune to Minecraft:fire damage.
- Weak to Minecraft:water and Minecraft:snowballs.
- Carry and rarely drop Stone swords when killed by players.
- Drop bones, coal, and rarely wither skulls.
- Give players Wither effect when hitting them.
- Spawn in Minecraft:nether fortresses.
- Will rarely, depending on difficulty, spawn with the ability to pick up armor, headwear, items, blocks, weapons, and tools - Armor and tools & swords are equipped automatically and will be exchanged for better gear when possible - Items that are picked up will have a 100% chance of dropping after dying - When killed, they drop what they are holding.
- All equipped gear is functional - Swords and tools do more damage on attacks, armor protects the mob.
- Rare tool drops are now damaged
- More advanced gear is more likely to spawn with mobs when playing on harder difficulties and rarely drops when the mob is killed by players
- Spawned when a lightning bolt strikes a creeper during a thunderstorm.
General
- Options
- Controller and keyboard support
- 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.
- Added a sneaking button in place of where the current jump button is.
- Option to disable the auto-jump feature
Gameplay
- New food system.
- Most food items can now be stacked up to 64.
- There is now a food meter.
- Food no longer heals directly, but indirectly: if the food meter is above 90%, heals Template:Healthbar every 4 seconds.
- Food level decreases when sprinting, jumping and when being hurt.
- If the food meter is at 0%, the player starves and loses Template:Healthbar hearts every 4 seconds.
- Rain
- Snowfall
- Thunderstorm
- New way to travel, activated by double-tapping Template:Control.
- Gives the player a boost in speed.
- The player can now jump four blocks horizontally while sprinting.
- Used for careful-necessary travels
- Used for making Minecraft:potions
- Minecraft:Brewing Stand necessary
- Peaceful
- Easy
- Normal
- Hard
- Anvil necessary
- Other
- Animation for switching Minecraft:blocks and Minecraft:items
Changes
This section lists changes from v0.11.0, despite the fact that it was never released for Windows 10 Edition.
Blocks
- The player can now swim in them
- Functionality removed, uncraftable, and removed from the crafting menu. If the player breaks a Nether reactor core, it still drops 3 diamonds and 6 iron ingots.
- Template:Version exclusive: Builds up multiple layers naturally through snowfall
- Template:Version exclusive: Are now affected by gravity
- Template:Version exclusive: Leaves in snowy taigas now appear frost-covered
Items
- Now use the updated crafting recipe, including leather
- Now restore Minecraft:hunger instead of Minecraft:health
Mobs
- Now have particles when jumping
- Will now attack
- Magma cubes and ghasts now spawn naturally
- Magma cubes now split when killed
- Zombie pigmen are now neutral
- Now spawn in the Nether
- Have a new AI
- All Mobs
- Burning mobs have a sizzling particle effect once extinguished
- Hostile mobs will no longer attack while you're in creative mode
- Mobs will now drop Minecraft:experience when killed
Non-mob Entities
- New inventory icons
- Now include paddles
- Different boat types' items now are their respective color
General
- Title screen
- Buttons now have a rocky texture
- Rotating player model with current skin with the player name above is now displayed
- Options button is now beneath the 'play' button to the left
- Button now reads 'options' rather than a wrench icon
- Skin selection tab relocated from options to a button on the title screen to the right of the options button
- Language button now uses the same icon as Java Edition
- Buttons are smaller and make up the current size of the 'play' button
- Graphics
- Tinted water - gradient from aqua to dark blue when viewed from a distance
- Scrollbar
- Always visible
- New texture
- Updated game logo
- Relocated pause and chat button
Gameplay
- Java Edition style survival inventory and crafting UIs
- Keyboard support
- Nine slots in hotbar, rather than 5–7
Options
- 6th view distance option
Fixes
5 bugs fixed
- Touchpad implementation fixed on the Sony Xperia PlayTemplate:Check version
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- Template:Bug – Baby zombie ride the cow
- Template:Bug – Ocelots cannot be tamed when using keyboard and mouse
Gallery
Promotional images
These images were uploaded to the Microsoft Store on the update release.
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Cave
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Library
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Players traveling to a castle.
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Village and pig
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A castle at night
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Players fighting creepers
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The Nether
References
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