Pocket Edition v0.1.0 alpha

v0.1.0 alpha

Edition	Pocket Edition
Release date	Xperia PLAY – August 16, 2011
Version code	Original: 2 Demo: 4 Canada Demo: 2 Touch Prototype: 1
Compilation date	Demo: August 15, 2011 Original: August 16, 2011 "Canada" Demo: August 17, 2011 Touch Prototype: September 27, 2011
Downloads	Original Demo Canada Demo Touch Prototype
Protocol version	Unknown
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v0.1.0 alpha is the first publicly released version of Minecraft: Pocket Edition. It was exclusively released for the Sony Xperia PLAY smartphone/gaming console on August 16, 2011. This is the first ever version released in 2011.

This version was planned to release for other Android devices and a prototype build was made with black touch controls and the same menu from v0.1.1 alpha.

Additions

v0.1.0 alpha block and item additions

General

• Randomized worlds
• Placing and destroying blocks
• Ability to invite and play multiplayer on a world (wireless local area network)
• Save multiplayer worlds for offline use with the "Copy World" button in the pause menu.
• Options for high and low spec phones (Called Fancy Graphics and Lower Graphics Quality, respectively)
• Touch Screen controls and auto-jump. (officially added in 0.1.1)

World generation

Biomes

• Plains
• Desert
• Forest
• Snowy tundra
• Snowy taiga

Terrain features

• Mountains
• Floating islands
• Hollows
• Hills
• Erosions
• Oceans
• Sand and gravel beaches
• Trees
  • Oak
    • Only the small regular variety can generate.
  • Birch
  • Spruce
• Ore blobs
  • Dirt
  • Gravel
  • Gold ore
  • Iron ore
  • Coal ore
  • Diamond ore
  • Redstone ore
  • Lapis lazuli ore
  • Clay
• Water and lava springs
• Random patches
  • Flowers
  • Mushrooms
  • Sugar cane

Entities

• Camera
  • Currently has no use.

Blocks

• Obsidian
• Ladder
  • Works just like pre-Beta 1.5.
• Rose
  • Version exclusive: Has a unique blue texture.
• Dandelion
• Red Mushroom
• Brown Mushroom
• Sugar Cane
• Dirt
• Oak Stairs
• Cobblestone Stairs
• Stone Slabs
• Sand
• Sandstone
• Leaves
  • Oak, spruce and birch types.
• Glass
• Stone
• Cobblestone
• Wooden Planks
• Oak Log
• Block of Gold
• Block of Iron
• Block of Diamond
• Bricks
• Torches
• Light Gray Wool
• Gray Wool
• Brown Wool
• Red Wool
• Yellow Wool
• Green Wool
• Lime Wool
• Cyan Wool
• Light Blue Wool
• Blue Wool
• Purple Wool
• Pink Wool

Unobtainable

• Bedrock
• Spruce Log
• Birch Log
• Coal Ore
• Iron Ore
• Gold Ore
• Diamond Ore
• Redstone Ore
• Lapis Lazuli Ore
• Ice
• Gravel
• Clay
• TNT
• Water
• Lava
• Snow
• Grass Block
• Farmland
• Oak Door
• Iron Door
• Wood Slab
• Cobblestone Slab
• Sandstone Slab
• Invisible Bedrock
  • Uses the top Grass Block texture in the inventory.
• Black Wool
  • A second black wool item with ID 35, likely a placeholder for the yet-to-be-added white wool, can be obtained using external editing. It is identical to the first item but has a separate inventory icon defined in gui_blocks.png.
• Magenta Wool
• Orange Wool
• Fire
  • Fire currently has no texture associated with it, and thus appears invisible.
  • Fire spreading mechanics are very buggy, allowing fire to spread to any block.

Revisions

The apk file for v0.1.0 alpha has different internal versions. Any other differences are currently unknown.

Versions

• Version: 0.1(1), Size: 1.65 MB
• Version: 0.1(2), Size: 1.61 MB
• Version: 0.1(2), Size: 1.60 MB

Demo

The first Pocket Edition demo.

A demo for Alpha 0.1.0 was released exclusively to the Xperia Play on an unknown date.

"Canada" Demo

On August 17, 2011, an APK labeled mcpe01_canada.apk was uploaded to the pe/ directory of assets.minecraft.net. Despite having the same package name as the full release, it is labeled on the main menu as a demo. Further differences from the demo released on Google Play are unknown, as is the reason for its creation and release.

Touch Prototype

The Touch Prototype UI.

On September 27, 2011, an APK labeled minecraftpe.apk was uploaded to the pe/ directory of assets.minecraft.net. The most notable difference between this build and the Google Play release is that it has a prototype of the touch controls that would later be officially implemented in v0.1.1. Unlike official releases, the Java code of the APK file is unobfuscated, suggesting that it might be a debug build.

Additions

• Version exclusive: Adds touchscreen controls
• New UI for touch screen devices.

Bugs

• Fire is invisible, and due to uninitialized memory, can spread to any block, even if not normally flammable
• Stairs are invisible when held
• Stairs are invisible when within a 16×16×16 chunk-aligned area with no other blocks
• The game will crash when an attempt to render an item in the hotbar is made
• TNT will not spawn a primed version of itself in the demo versions (though it tries)
• The pictures taken by a camera will include its smoke particles.