Pocket Edition v0.7.3 alpha

v0.7.3 alpha

Edition	Pocket Edition
Release date	August 15, 2013
Downloads	Google Play: Original Gingerbread x86
Protocol version	11
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v0.7.3 alpha is a minor update to Minecraft: Pocket Edition that was released on August 15, 2013. This version adds support for the daylight cycle and Splashes, and fixes some of the bugs and crashes in v0.7.2.

Support for iOS 4.3 was dropped with this version, with iOS 5.0 now being the minimum supported version. Users running iOS 4.3 can still play v0.7.2 and earlier.

Additions

Gameplay

• Sun, moon, stars, sunrise and sunset added.
• Improved title screen
• Splashes
  • Added 308 splashes. See /Splashes.
• Panorama
  • The menu panorama uses seed 2151901553968352745 in Java Edition Beta 1.7.3 at coordinates (61, 75, -68).
  • Panorama pictures is directly blurred instead of overlay on Java Edition
• Pocket realms improvements:
  • Realms can be reset

Blocks

• Double chests
  • When chests are put together, items previously in the left chest appear at the bottom half. Items from the right chest will also appear at the top. This may cause a loss of items.
  • Chests now have an open/close animation.
  • The player can open chests in creative, but not look inside; they will immediately close.
• Quartz slabs

Changes

General

• Added more friction when flying in Creative Mode (iOS).
• Stopped building the game with typeinfo enabled (iOS).
• Wooden slab material changed to wood instead of stone. Wooden Slabs stored from before 0.7.3 are tagged as Fake Wood Slab and drop regular wooden slabs when mined.
• When creating a new world, the default name shows "My World".

Mobs

• Mobs now light on fire under sunlight.

Fixes

21 issues fixed

From released versions before 0.7.0

• MCPE-39 – Wooden slab hard to break with axe
• MCPE-271 – Too long descriptions
• MCPE-312 – Sword freezes chest
• MCPE-439 – Chests rotate when placing a solid block directly in front of them
• MCPE-1664 – Hitting backspace in a sign activates shift on your keyboard.
• MCPE-3989 – Inventory bug when throwing items in hand while in a GUI
• MCPE-4122 – Glowing obsidian can yield resources with an iron pickaxe, but obsidian can only be mined with a diamond one

From 0.7.0

• MCPE-2680 – Cake takes away buckets along with milk
• MCPE-2950 – Chat freezes
• MCPE-2962 – Typing in chat gets blocked by [DONE] button and capitals
• MCPE-3361 – Items in the crafting table are messed up
• MCPE-3846 – If monsters burn because of sunlight, they have no burn animation.
• MCPE-3988 – Furnace crash bug
• MCPE-4056 – No Fire Animation on Zombies
• MCPE-4403 – GUI circle size is too small
• MCPE-4455 – Repeatedly being logged out of Realms

From 0.7.1

• MCPE-2608 – No fire animation for night-time mobs when they come in contact with sunlight
• MCPE-4281 – Chests cannot be placed next to other chests
• MCPE-4332 – Armor glitch

From 0.7.2

• MCPE-4557 – No text below the version
• MCPE-4634 – Non-realms world creation glitch

Gallery

Screenshots

Some of new splashes exclusive to this version.

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  "Mostly harmless!Pretty!"

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  "Now supports"

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  "From the streets of S"

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  No splash

Development images

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  Chests and double chests.

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  A preview of an old world.