Minecraft:Pocket Edition v0.9.0 alpha

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v0.9.0 alpha is a major update to Minecraft: Pocket Edition that was released on July 10, 2014. It adds new blocks, mobs, generated structures, infinite worlds as well as other features, changes, and fixes.

Additions

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Blocks

Minecraft:Monster Spawners

Can hold several mobs
The type of mob spawner can be changed using a spawn egg
Is available in the creative inventory

Minecraft:End Portal Frame

Can be used as decorative block only
Cannot be activated

Minecraft:Emerald Ore

Can be mined with an Iron or better pickaxe

Minecraft:Block of Emerald

Made with 9 Minecraft:emeralds

Minecraft:Hardened Clay

Can be made by putting a normal Clay Block in a furnace

Minecraft:Stained Clay

Available in all 16 colors

Minecraft:End Stone

Only available in creative mode

Minecraft:Red Sand

Generates naturally in Badlands. Can be smelted into glass

Minecraft:Mycelium

Generates naturally on Minecraft:Mushroom Island

Minecraft:Podzol

Generates naturally in Minecraft:Mega Taiga

Minecraft:Packed Ice

Naturally generated in Minecraft:Ice Spikes

Minecraft:Grassless Dirt

Generates naturally in Minecraft:Savanna and Giant Taiga

Minecraft:Granite

A building material. Can be mined using any Minecraft:pickaxe

Minecraft:Polished Granite

A building material. Can be mined using any Minecraft:pickaxe

Minecraft:Andesite

A building material. Can be mined using any Minecraft:pickaxe

Minecraft:Polished Andesite

A building material. Can be mined using any Minecraft:pickaxe

Minecraft:Diorite

A building material. Can be mined using any Minecraft:pickaxe

Minecraft:Polished Diorite

A building material. Can be mined using any Minecraft:pickaxe

Acacia wood, bark, planks, slabs, stairs, leaves and sapling

Decorative block

Dark Oak wood, bark, planks, slabs, stairs, leaves and sapling

Decorative block

Minecraft:Jungle Sapling

Grow into the Minecraft:jungle tree

Minecraft:Poppy

Replaces the Minecraft:Rose (at the time, exclusive to MCPE)

Minecraft:Blue Orchid, Minecraft:Allium, Minecraft:Azure Bluet, Minecraft:Oxeye Daisy, Minecraft:Sunflower, Minecraft:Lilac, Minecraft:Rose Bush, Minecraft:Peony

Generates on grass in various biomes

Minecraft:Tulip

Available in all 4 colors

Minecraft:Vines

Generates as part of a dying tree
Generate naturally in Minecraft:Jungle and Minecraft:Swamp.

Minecraft:Lily Pads

Generate naturally in swamps

Minecraft:Cocoa Pods

Generate naturally in jungles

Minecraft:Double Tallgrass

Will be generated naturally
Can be generated by using Minecraft:Bone Meal on Minecraft:Grass

Minecraft:Large Fern

Will be generated naturally
Can be generated by using bone meal on Minecraft:fern

Items

Minecraft:Cookies

Restores Template:Hp

Minecraft:Emerald

Obtanied by mining an Minecraft:emerald ore block

Minecraft:Spawn Eggs<ref>https://itunes.apple.com/en/app/minecraft-pocket-edition/id479516143?mt=8</ref>

Added Minecraft:Mooshroom, Minecraft:Creeper, Minecraft:Enderman, Minecraft:Silverfish, Minecraft:Skeleton, Minecraft:Slime, Minecraft:Spider, Minecraft:Villager, Minecraft:Zombie, Minecraft:Zombie Pigman and Minecraft:Wolf spawn eggs.

Mobs

Minecraft:Endermen

Do not drop Minecraft:Ender pearls

Minecraft:Villagers

Cannot open Minecraft:doors or Minecraft:trade yet.

Minecraft:Slimes

Do not drop Minecraft:slimeballs.

Minecraft:Wolves

Can be tamed using a Minecraft:bone.

Minecraft:Silverfish

Changed AI.

Minecraft:Mooshrooms

World generation

Port of Minecraft Java Edition world generation as of Minecraft:Java Edition 1.8, allowing for new generated structures and biomes

Minecraft:Generated structures:
- Minecraft:Villages
  - Houses have brown carpet tables, instead of Minecraft:pressure plate tables.
- Minecraft:Caves
- Lava pools
- Minecraft:Rivers
- Minecraft:Mineshafts
  - Includes spider spawners rather than cave spider spawners due to lack of poison effects<ref name="spiders">Template:Tweet</ref>
- Minecraft:Huge Mushrooms
  - Can be up to 13 blocks tall<ref>http://www.reddit.com/r/MCPE/comments/288c1n/are_there_supposed_to_be_super_tall_mushrooms/</ref>
- Minecraft:Forest rocks
- Minecraft:Strongholds
  - Hard to find as Minecraft:Eyes of Ender have not yet been implemented.
  - Has increased chance to spawn under villages.
- Ice patch
- Minecraft:Ice spike
- Minecraft:Dungeons
- Minecraft:Desert well
- Minecraft:Trees:
  - Minecraft:Jungle tree (small and large)
  - Minecraft:Dark oak tree
  - Minecraft:Acacia tree
  - Minecraft:Fallen trees
  - 2×2 spruce trees
  - Minecraft:Oak trees (swamp variant with vines and large oak variants)
- Naturally generated blocks (blocks that already existed in the game, but now spawn naturally):
Minecraft:Biomes:
- All biomes as of Minecraft:Java Edition 1.7.2. Those that exceed the 128-block height limit are shrunk to fit in it.
  - Jungles
  - Mesa
  - Roofed Forests
  - Savannas
  - Extreme Hills
  - Mushroom Islands
  - Flower Forest
  - Mega Taiga
  - Mega Spruce Taiga
  - Swampland
  - Deep ocean

Gameplay

Hotbar

Interact button
- Located above the hotbar.
- Current actions:
  - Ignite button for creepers
  - Shear button for sheep
  - Milk button for cows
  - Tame button to tame animals.

Minecraft:Render distance

Ability to set it to 512-block (32 chunks)
- Available for certain supported devices only

Advanced World Options

Option to select the world's type
- Minecraft:Old
  - 256×256
- Flat
  - Infinite and by default generates with the Classic Superflat and can only be changed by editing the options.txt file.<ref>Template:Tweet</ref>
- Infinite
  - Reliable playing size is 65,536×65,536 (+32,767 to -32,767)
  - After going past ±32,767, distance effects start to take appear.<ref>Template:Reddit</ref> The "jitteriness" gradually increases when the distance from the center is increased every power of 2, as well as frequency of crashes and other glitches such as distorted block models.
  - Eventually, natural phenomena such as the Minecraft:Stripe Lands and Minecraft:Far Lands occur, making it impossible to continue without using 3rd party tools. <ref>Template:Reddit</ref><ref>Template:Reddit</ref><ref>Template:Reddit</ref>

Taming

Minecraft:Zombie sieges

Minecraft:Particles

dripWater
dripLava

Changes

Blocks

Minecraft:Bed

No longer restores health

Birch, Spruce and Jungle Wood

Now have separate textures

Minecraft:Carpets

Obtainable in survival mode

Minecraft:Gravel

No longer falls from spawn

Minecraft:Jungle Leaves

Now permanently opaque

Jungle Wood Planks

Can now be crafted

Minecraft:Lava and Minecraft:Water

Now insta-tick

Minecraft:Leaves

New rendering

Items

Minecraft:Gray dye and Minecraft:light gray dye

Can now be obtained in survival

Minecraft:Saddles
Can now generate in village blacksmith chests

Minecraft:Snow

Now is craftable

Non-mob entities

Minecraft:TNT Minecraft:explosion

Improved performance

World generation

Cold-en oak trees

No longer generate in maps with the new terrain.

Minecraft:Oak trees

Generate with different heights and structures.

Old terrain

Removed for Minecraft:Old world type

Minecraft:Gravel Beaches

Removed

Minecraft:Frozen Oceans

No longer generate naturally.

Gameplay

Smooth lighting

Added for:
Removed for:

General

Minecraft:Clouds

New culling of clouds.
The fog is darker underground.

Textures

Support for biome-tinted blocks

World list

Now displays the storage size of each world.

Crafting screen

New organized layout for the crafting screen
- Only shows craftable recipes.

Survival inventory

New layout

View distance

Now varies from device

Mobs

All mobs

New spawning algorithm
Lighter color when the mobs are hurt

Passive mobs

Now spawn in little groups
Can spawn naturally in creative mode

Minecraft:Zombies

Mechanics changed
When damaged, zombies have a low chance to spawn more zombies.

Minecraft:Spiders

Now spawn from leaves
Animation is twice as fast.

Minecraft:Creepers

Now walk faster.
No longer float two pixels off the ground.

Other

The Minecraft:options.txt file now reads the render distance as raw blocks.<ref>Template:Tweet</ref>
Support for immersive mode (hides the on-screen navigation bar) for devices running Android 4.4 or higher.
New LevelDB based saving format.
New entity handling.
Remade network code (mostly the same packages but new system).
Tile entities are saved differently.
New culling algorithm.
Removed the Minecraft:camera entity
Updated light generation
No more client-side messages when a player joins
"Edit" and "New" buttons no longer appear on the world select menu if "Play with touch" is disabled, making it impossible to create worlds without enabling the option.
The Xperia Play touchpad can no longer be used to control the camera and Minecraft:crouch. Instead, it is used to move.
In flight mode, the Xperia Play D-pad up and down buttons are always used to control the altitude, rather than only while the cross button is pressed.
- This requires to use the touchpad to move forwards and backwards during flight.
Pause menu options on the Xperia Play can be selected with the D-pad and interacted with by pressing the cross button, though the selected option is not highlighted.

Fixes

6 bugs fixed

From released versions before 0.9.0

Mipmapping makes fire look like a big orange blob<ref>Template:Tweet</ref>
Minecart in multiplayer problems<ref>Template:Tweet</ref>
Glitched name and description for Minecraft:baked potatoes
Crafting Minecraft:signs only giving one unit
Different wood types convert to same inside furnaces
Fixed an item duplication glitch that could occur if the game crashed or if the player exited out of Minecraft without saving the world.

Videos

Trailer

A trailer for the update was released on July 4, 2014. Template:CV

Gallery

Store images

These screenshots were uploaded to store pages on update release.

Tablet

Phone

Development screenshots

References

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Navigation

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