Minecraft:Pocket Edition v0.8.0 alpha build 1

v0.8.0 alpha build 1 (labelled v0.8.0 alpha in-game and 0.8.0_test1 internally) is the first build version for v0.8.0 alpha and the first ever build compiled in 2013. It was never officially released to the public; however, the client was uploaded on Google Play. There are two uploads that are functionally identical.

Since this version contains commands, which would not be officially added to the game until Minecraft:v0.16.0 alpha, it is likely to be a Minecraft:developer build.

Additions

Blocks

Template:AnimateTemplate:AnimateTemplate:Animate Minecraft:Wood planks, Minecraft:slabs, and Minecraft:stairs

• Added spruce, birch, and jungle varieties.
• Each one can only be crafted with their respective wood type.
• Jungle variants do not have associated crafting recipes and are unobtainable in Survival mode.

File:Block of Coal JE2 BE1.png Minecraft:Block of coal

• Can be crafted with nine Minecraft:coal.
• Can be used as fuel in a furnace, smelting up to 80 items.

Template:Animate Minecraft:Carpets

• Thin blocks that can be used as decoration.
• Are unobtainable in Survival mode.

File:Cobblestone Wall (EWU) BE1.png Minecraft:Walls

• Decorative blocks that can be used to create boundaries.
• Comes in cobblestone and mossy cobblestone variants.
• Cobblestone walls can be crafted with six cobblestone.
• Mossy cobblestone walls are unobtainable in Survival mode.

File:Hay Bale (UD) JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Hay bales

• Decorative, flammable blocks that serve as compact storage of Minecraft:wheat.
• Can be crafted with nine wheat.

File:Iron Bars (EW) JE1.png Minecraft:Iron bars

• Serve a similar purpose to Minecraft:glass panes.
• Can be crafted with six iron ingots.

File:Carved Pumpkin (S) JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Pumpkins

• Fruit blocks that grow from fully-grown pumpkin stems.
• Can be crafted into jack o'lanterns, pumpkin pie, or pumpkin seeds.

File:Jack o'Lantern (S) JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Jack o'lanterns

• Solid blocks that provide light.
• Can be crafted with a pumpkin and a torch.

File:Rail (NS) JE1.png Minecraft:Rails

• Serves as a decorative block due to Minecraft:minecarts not being added.
• Is unobtainable in Survival mode.

File:Powered Powered Rail (NS) JE2 BE2.png Minecraft:Powered rails

• Serves as a decorative block due to minecarts not being added.
• Is unobtainable in Survival mode.

Crops

• File:Carrots Age 7 JE6 BE1.png Minecraft:Carrot crops
• File:Potatoes Age 7 JE6 BE1.png Minecraft:Potato crops
• File:Stem Age 7 JE2.png Minecraft:Pumpkin stems

File:Jungle Log (UD) BE1.png Jungle wood

• Serves as a decorative block.
• Is unobtainable in Survival mode.

File:Jungle Leaves BE1.png Minecraft:Jungle leaves

• Serve as a decorative block.
• Are unobtainable in Survival mode.

File:Fern BE1.png Minecraft:Ferns

• Aesthetic plants that have the same characteristics as Minecraft:grass.
• Are unobtainable in Survival mode.

File:Dead Bush JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Dead bushes

• Aesthetic plants that can only be placed on sand.
• Are unobtainable in Survival mode.

File:Sponge JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Sponges

• Currently serve no purpose.
• Are unobtainable in Survival mode.

Template:AnimateMinecraft:Bark

• Currently serves no purpose.
• Is not available through normal means and can only be obtained via Template:Cmd.

Items

File:Pumpkin Seeds JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Pumpkin seeds

• Obtained from the Minecraft:nether reactor.

File:Redstone Dust JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Redstone

• Drops from redstone ore when mined with an iron or diamond pickaxe.
• Can be used to craft clocks and compasses.

Minecraft:Foods

• File:Carrot JE2 BE1.png Minecraft:Carrots
  • Restore Template:Hp when eaten.
• File:Potato JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Potatoes
  • Restore Template:Hp when eaten.
• File:Pumpkin Pie JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Pumpkin pie
  • Restores Template:Hp when eaten.
• File:Baked Potato JE2 BE1.png Minecraft:Baked potatoes
  • Restore Template:Hp when eaten.

Gameplay

Minecraft:Breeding

• Feeding animals their respective food items makes them enter "love mode."
  • Hearts come out of animals while in love mode.
• When two animals of the same species are in love mode, they pathfind toward each other and produce a baby animal.

Command format

General

• While this is the first known version to contain Minecraft:developer commands, they may have been added in an earlier, unreleased build. Later publicly released builds lack all commands, as they were only included in developer versions.
• All of the 11 commands are freely accessible in both Creative and Survival mode.
• No Minecraft:target selectors are available; a player's name has to be entered in order to target them.
• Boolean arguments do not accept strings as valid input. "0" is considered "false" and all other integers are considered "true."
• Strikethrough text indicates arguments which the player is unable to specify due to a bug.
• Command arguments do not have known names. Unofficial names are provided in the syntax below for readability.

Minecraft:Commands

• Template:Cmd
  • Changes the world's game time.
  • Syntax: Template:Cmd
  • The game time does not change if the daylight cycle is locked.
• Template:Cmd
  • Adds the specified number of ticks to the world's game time.
  • Syntax: Template:Cmd
  • The game time does not change if the daylight cycle is locked.
• Template:Cmd
  • Stops or resumes time.
  • Syntax: Template:Cmd
• Template:Cmd
  • Has seemingly identical functionality to Template:Cmd, but with different output messages on execution.
  • Syntax: Template:Cmd
• Template:Cmd
  • Gives a specified amount of a certain item to a player.
  • Syntax:
    • Template:Cmd
    • Template:Cmd
    • itemName accepts both numeric IDs and in-game displayed names as valid input.
• Template:Cmd
  • Enables or disables the specified ability flag on a player.
  • Syntax:
    • Template:Cmd
    • Template:Cmd
    • Valid inputs for ability are Template:Code.
• Template:Cmd
  • Changes a player's health to the specified value.
  • Syntax: Template:Cmd
• Template:Cmd
  • Provides the X, Y, and Z coordinates of a player.
  • Syntax: Template:Cmd
• Template:Cmd
  • Provides the health of a player.
  • Syntax: Template:Cmd
• Template:Cmd
  • Teleports the player.
  • Syntax: Template:Cmd
    • All integers are accepted for coordinates, though values above the 32-bit integer limit overflow and loop back around. Tilde and carat notation are not accepted as valid inputs.
• Template:Cmd
  • Clears a player's inventory.
  • Syntax: Template:Cmd
  • The command name must be capitalized as specified in order for it to execute.
  • This command always fails if no target player is specified, despite that argument being optional.

General

Minecraft:Settings

• Added far (8 Minecraft:chunks) and farthest (12Template:Frac chunks) render distances.

Changes

Blocks

• The textures of some blocks are now randomly rotated, for a more natural effect. This includes:
  • Minecraft:Grass blocks (top and bottom sides only)
  • Minecraft:Dirt
  • Minecraft:Bedrock
  • Minecraft:Sand
  • Minecraft:Leaves
  • Minecraft:Sponges
  • Minecraft:TNT (top and bottom sides only)
  • Minecraft:Obsidian
  • Minecraft:Snow blocks
  • Minecraft:Snow layers
  • Minecraft:Clay
  • Minecraft:Netherrack
  • Minecraft:Glowstone
  • Minecraft:Sandstone (top and bottom sides only)
  • Minecraft:Blocks of coal

Wood

• Is now rotatable, with the wood placed with the inner side facing the player.

Minecraft:TNT

• Can now be ignited by Minecraft:fire and Minecraft:lava.

Minecraft:Redstone ore

• Now drops Minecraft:redstone dust when mined with an iron or diamond pickaxe.

Minecraft:Signs and Minecraft:chests

• Improved synchronization lag in Minecraft:multiplayer.

Minecraft:Chests

• Items being moved to/from a chest is now correctly rendered.

Minecraft:Saplings

• Can now be used as furnace fuel, smelting 0.5 items each.

Minecraft:Torches

• Have been made an opaque block.
  • This change has no known effect on gameplay or the block's appearance.

Minecraft:Grass block

• Changed texture from File:Grass Block BE3.png to File:Grass Block BE4.png.
• Inventory icon changed from File:Grass Block (item) BE3.png to File:Grass Block BE4.png.

Minecraft:Oak leaves

• Changed texture from File:Oak Leaves BE3.png to File:Oak Leaves JE3 BE4.png.

Minecraft:Birch leaves

• Changed texture from File:Birch Leaves BE1.png to File:Birch Leaves JE1 BE2.png.

Minecraft:Oak sapling

• Changed texture from File:Oak Sapling (texture) JE3 BE1.png to File:Oak Sapling (texture) JE4 BE2.png.

Minecraft:Wool

• Changed textures from File:Beta color spectrum.png to File:1.2.4 color spectrum.png.

Minecraft:White Wool

• Can now be crafted with white wool and bone meal.

Minecraft:Furnace

• Changed texture from File:Furnace (S) JE2 BE1.png to File:Furnace (S) BE0.8.0-b1.png.

Minecraft:Gravel

• Changed texture from File:Gravel JE3 BE2.png to File:Gravel JE4 BE3.png.

Minecraft:Lapis lazuli block

• Changed texture from File:Block of Lapis Lazuli JE1 BE1.png to File:Block of Lapis Lazuli JE2 BE2.png.

Minecraft:Sandstone

• Changed texture from File:Sandstone JE1 BE1.png to File:Sandstone JE2 BE2.png.

Minecraft:Sandstone slab

• Changed texture from File:Sandstone Slab JE2 BE2.png to File:Sandstone Slab BE3.png.

Minecraft:Grass

• Changed texture from File:Grass BE1.png to File:Grass JE2 BE2.png.

Minecraft:info_update

• Changed texture from File:Info update BE2.png to File:Info update BE1.png.

Minecraft:info_update2

• Changed texture from File:Info update2 BE1.png to File:Info update BE1.png.

Minecraft:reserved6

• Changed texture from File:Stone JE4.png to File:Reserved6 BE1.png.

Minecraft:Ice

• Changed texture from File:Ice BE2.png to File:Ice (item) JE1 BE1.png.
• Inventory icon changed from Template:Font to File:Ice JE1.png.

Items

File:Eating Steve.png Eating Minecraft:particles

• Are shown to look like the food being eaten rather than random pixels from the food.

Minecraft:Bone meal

• No longer fully grows crops when applied to them.

Minecraft:Magenta dye

• Can now additionally be crafted with Minecraft:pink dye and Minecraft:purple dye, or with Minecraft:lapis lazuli, Minecraft:rose red, and pink dye.

Minecraft:Gray dye

• Can now be crafted with Minecraft:bone meal and an Minecraft:ink sac.
  • Is still unobtainable in Survival mode due to ink sacs not being obtainable.

Minecraft:Light gray dye

• Can now be crafted with bone meal and gray dye, or with two bone meal and an ink sac.
  • Is still unobtainable in Survival mode due to ink sacs and gray dye not being obtainable.

Minecraft:Cocoa beans

• Can now be crafted with Minecraft:orange dye and an ink sac, or with Minecraft:dandelion yellow, rose red, and an ink sac.
  • Is still unobtainable in Survival mode due to ink sacs not being obtainable.
• Changed texture from File:Cocoa Beans JE1 BE1.png to File:Cocoa Beans JE3 BE2.png.

Minecraft:Bow

• New rendering and animated items.
• Changed texture from File:Bow JE2 BE1.png to File:Bow BE2.png.

Minecraft:Leather armor

• Changed textures from File:Leather Cap (item) JE1 BE1.pngFile:Leather Tunic (item) JE1 BE1.pngFile:Leather Pants (item) JE1 BE1.pngFile:Leather Boots (item) JE1 BE1.png to File:Leather Cap (item) JE3 BE2.pngFile:Leather Tunic (item) JE3 BE2.pngFile:Leather Pants (item) JE3 BE2.pngFile:Leather Boots (item) JE3 BE2.png.

Minecraft:Apple

• Changed texture from File:Apple JE1 BE1.png to File:Apple JE2 BE2.png.

Minecraft:Bread

• Changed texture from File:Bread JE1 BE1.png to File:Bread JE2 BE2.png.

Minecraft:Raw porkchop

• Changed texture from File:Raw Porkchop JE1 BE1.png to File:Raw Porkchop JE2 BE2.png.

Minecraft:Cooked porkchop

• Changed texture from File:Cooked Porkchop JE2 BE1.png to File:Cooked Porkchop JE3 BE2.png.

Minecraft:Raw chicken

• Changed texture from File:Raw Chicken JE1 BE1.png to File:Raw Chicken JE2 BE2.png.

Minecraft:Cooked chicken

• Changed texture from File:Cooked Chicken JE1 BE1.png to File:Cooked Chicken JE2 BE2.png.

Minecraft:Raw beef

• Changed texture from File:Raw Beef JE1 BE1.png to File:Raw Beef JE3 BE2.png.

Minecraft:Steak

• Changed texture from File:Steak JE1 BE1.png to File:Steak JE3 BE2.png.

Minecraft:Coal and Minecraft:charcoal

• Changed texture from File:Coal JE2 BE1.png to File:Coal JE3 BE2.png.

Minecraft:Clocks

• Changed texture from File:Clock (texture) JE1 BE1.png to File:Clock JE2 BE2.gif.
• Inventory icon changed from Template:Font to File:Clock (inventory) BE1.png.
• Now display the current position of the sun and moon.
• Can now be crafted with gold ingots and redstone dust.

Minecraft:Compasses

• Changed texture from File:Compass (texture) JE1 BE1.png to File:Compass JE2 BE2.gif.
• Inventory icon changed from Template:Font to File:Compass (inventory) BE1.png.
• Now point to the world spawn point.
• Can now be crafted with iron ingots and redstone dust.

Minecraft:Arrows

• Have updated sounds.

Removed arrow sound	Track
Arrow Contact (pre-0.8)	File:Arrow Old.ogg

Mobs

All Minecraft:mobs

• New visual effect for burning mobs.

Minecraft:Zombies

• Now rarely drop Minecraft:carrots and Minecraft:potatoes.

Minecraft:AI

• System has been improved.
  • Minecraft:Mobs can now swim over deep Minecraft:water.
  • Hostile mobs are now more intelligent.

Minecraft:Animals

• Follow the player when holding Minecraft:wheat (Minecraft:cows and Minecraft:sheep), seeds (Minecraft:chickens), or Minecraft:potatoes/Minecraft:carrots (Minecraft:pigs).
• Minecraft:Baby animals
  • Now follow adult animals of their species.

Minecraft:Spiders

• Now move faster.

Gameplay

Minecraft:Crafting

• Craftable recipes are now shown first in the crafting screen.
• If there is 99+ of an item in the inventory, the actual quantity is now shown in the list of craftable items, rather than 99+.

Minecraft:Inventory

• Changed the flow of the inventory for the armor/crafting screens so that the back button goes back to the inventory.
• Items that are not supposed to be obtainable no longer have a red background.
• Removed the Xperia Play variant.
• Cannot be navigated with the Xperia Play controller.

Minecraft:Hotbar

• Is now transparent.
• When selecting an item in the inventory, it replaces the one in the selected hotbar slot instead of placing it in the leftmost slot and shifting everything to the right.
• Tapping the inventory button now closes the inventory while open.
• Items that are not supposed to be obtainable no longer have a red background.

Minecraft:Creative

• The Minecraft:hotbar is now saved when exiting a world.
• Mining speed increases at/near mining distance limit (8 blocks per second).

General

Minecraft:Clouds

• Are now 3D.
• Have a new tessellation algorithm.

Minecraft:Options

• Smooth lighting is now always on, and can no longer be disabled.
• Fancy graphics are now on by default.

Graphics

• Held items are now rendered in 3D, and bob up and down slightly when idle and sway to the side when turning.
• Lighter colored Minecraft:sky that changes slightly depending on the biome.
• Refactored most of the rendering to use indexed VBOs.
  • Remade the arrow model.
  • Minecraft:Inventory is now rendered using cached VBOs.
  • New sky rendering using a triangle fan.
• Separated far and near chunks into two queues for performance reasons.
  • Fog only on far chunks.
  • Transparency only on near chunks.
  • Alpha-test-only layers are hidden in far chunks.

Minecraft:Lighting

• All entities now produce circular stencil shadows on blocks below them.
• Lighting on entities is now dynamic and is no longer the same light level on all sides.
• Lighting on each entity is now tinted based on how much sky light and block light is on it.
• Light direction on entities now depends on the position of the sun. This does not affect stencil shadows.
• All lighting changes are only visible when fancy graphics is turned on.

Textures

• Block textures are now generated with Minecraft:terrain-opaque.png instead of Minecraft:terrain.png.
• Item textures are now generated with Minecraft:items-opaque.png instead of Minecraft:items.png.
• Inventory icons are now generated with their respective texture atlases instead of Minecraft:gui_blocks.png.

Other

• Remade text formatting (e.g. in Minecraft:chat).
• Refactored OpenGL usage to avoid costly state leaks (e.g. animals are not alpha tested anymore).

Gallery

• Changed models for furnace, sandstone slabs, and leaves.
  Changed models for furnace, sandstone slabs, and leaves.
• An example of the glitched clock and compass textures appearing in the creative inventory.
  An example of the glitched clock and compass textures appearing in the creative inventory.
• This build has an option for smooth lighting, although disabling it causes texture rotation to break.
  This build has an option for smooth lighting, although disabling it causes texture rotation to break.