Pocket Edition v0.8.0 alpha

v0.8.0 alpha is a major update to Minecraft: Pocket Edition that was released on December 12, 2013. It added new blocks, items, crops, and other features, as well as some changes and fixes.

v0.8.0 alpha

Edition	Pocket Edition
Release date	December 12, 2013
Version code	Original: 500800010 Gingerbread: 300800010 x86: 700800010
Compilation date	December 11, 2013
Development versions	Builds (8) (View all)
Downloads	Original Gingerbread x86
Protocol version	Unknown
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Additions

v0.8.0 alpha block and item additions

Blocks

Wood planks, slabs, and stairs

• Added spruce, birch, and jungle varieties.
• Each one can only be crafted with their respective wood type.
• Jungle variants are unobtainable in Survival mode.

Block of coal

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

Carpets

• Thin blocks that can be used as decoration.
• Red carpets can be crafted with two red wool blocks.
• The other 15 colors are unobtainable in Survival mode.

Cobblestone 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.

Hay bales

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

Iron bars

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

Pumpkins

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

Jack o'lanterns

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

Rails

• Non-solid blocks that provide a path along which minecarts can travel.
• Can be crafted with iron ingots and a stick.

Powered rails

• A type of rail that increases the velocity of moving minecarts.
• Can be crafted with gold ingots, a stick, and redstone dust.

Crops

• Beetroot crops
• Carrot crops
• Potato crops
• Pumpkin stems

Jungle wood

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

Jungle leaves

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

Ferns

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

Dead bushes

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

Sponges

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

Bark

• Currently serves no purpose.
• Is not yet obtainable.
• Only obtainable trough world editors

Items

Beetroot seeds

• Have a ¹⁄₁₅ chance of popping out from grass when tilled.

Minecarts

• Train-like vehicle entities that run on rails.
• Can be crafted with five iron ingots.

Pumpkin seeds

• Obtained from the nether reactor.

Redstone

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

Foods

• Beetroots
  • Restore 1HP when eaten.
• Beetroot soup
  • Restores 8HP when eaten.
• Carrots
  • Restore 3HP when eaten.
• Potatoes
  • Restore 1HP when eaten.
• Pumpkin pie
  • Restores 8HP when eaten.
• Baked potatoes
  • Restore 5HP when eaten.

Gameplay

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.

General

Mipmaps (iOS only)

• Blocks far away from the player have lower resolution textures to make textures smoother at a further distance.

Options

• Added far (8 chunks) and farthest (12¹⁄₂ chunks) render distances.

Changes

Blocks

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

Wood

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

Paintings

• Rendering has been remade.

TNT

• Can now be ignited by fire and lava.

Lava

• Now creates stone when it flows vertically into water.

Redstone ore

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

Signs and chests

• Improved synchronization lag in multiplayer.

Chests

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

Flowers

• Position on the block is now randomized.

Saplings

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

Grass block

• Changed texture from to .
• Inventory icon changed from to .

Oak leaves

• Changed texture from to .

Birch leaves

• Changed texture from to .

Oak sapling

• Changed texture from to .

Wool

• Changed textures from to .

Sandstone

• Changed texture from to .

Gravel

• Changed texture from to .

Lapis lazuli block

• Changed texture from to .

Grass

• Changed texture from to .

info_update

• Changed texture from to .

info_update2

• Changed texture from to .

reserved6

• Changed texture from to .

Ice

• Inventory icon changed from to .

Items

Bone meal

• Now works like in Java Edition.
• Can grow ferns and grass in Survival and Creative.
• Pumpkin and melon stems only grow by one when bone meal is used.
• Flowers now spawn other flowers when bone meal is used.
• Grows sugar cane to maximum height.

Eating particles

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

Bowls and wooden tools (except axes)

• Can now be used as furnace fuel, smelting 1 item each.

Lava buckets

• Can now be used as furnace fuel, smelting up to 100 items.

Magenta dye

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

Gray dye

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

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.

Cocoa beans

• Can now be crafted with orange dye and an ink sac, or with dandelion yellow, rose red, and an ink sac.
  • Is still unobtainable in Survival mode due to ink sacs not being obtainable.
• Changed texture from to .

Bow

• New rendering and animated items.
• Can now be used as furnace fuel, smelting 1 item each.
• Changed texture from to .

Leather armor

• Changed textures from to .

Apple

• Changed texture from to .

Bread

• Changed texture from to .

Raw porkchop

• Changed texture from to .

Cooked porkchop

• Changed texture from to .

Raw chicken

• Changed texture from to .

Cooked chicken

• Changed texture from to .

Raw beef

• Changed texture from to .

Steak

• Changed texture from to .

Coal and charcoal

• Changed texture from to .

Clocks

• Changed texture from to
• Now display the current position of the sun and moon.
• Can now be crafted with gold ingots and redstone dust.

Compasses

• Changed texture from to
• Now point to the world spawn point.
• Can now be crafted with iron ingots and redstone dust.

Arrows

• Have updated sounds.

Removed arrow sound	Track
Arrow Contact (pre-0.8)

Mobs

All mobs

• New visual effect for burning mobs.

Sheep

• Now have the color overlay of its wool around its face and when sheared.

Zombies

• Now rarely drop carrots and potatoes.

AI

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

Animals

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

Spiders

• Now move faster.

Non-mob entities

Thrown eggs

• Now have a chance of spawning baby chickens instead of adult chickens.

Falling blocks

• Now drop their item form when falling onto blocks they cannot replace, such as torches.

Gameplay

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+.

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.

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.

Creative

• Players stop burning as soon as they exit fire/lava.
• The hotbar is now saved when exiting a world.
• Mining speed increases at/near mining distance limit (8 blocks per second).
• Creative inventory
  • Has been redesigned, and is now split into four different categories.
  • Each category contains the following items, with items added in this update colored purple, items not legitimately accessible before this version colored red, and items previously not available in Creative mode colored orange:

Category 1[show]

• Sugar Canes
• Wheat
• Seeds
• Pumpkin Seeds
• Melon Seeds
• Carrot
• Potato
• Beetroots seeds
• Egg
• Ink Sac
• Gray Dye
• Light Gray Dye
• Bone Meal
• Light Blue Dye
• Orange Dye
• Rose Red
• Lapis Lazuli
• Purple Dye
• Magenta Dye
• Pink Dye
• Cocoa Beans
• Dandelion Yellow
• Lime Dye
• Cactus Green
• Cyan Dye

Category 2[show]

• Rail
• Powered Rail
• Torch
• Bucket
• Water Bucket
• Lava Bucket
• TNT
• Iron Hoe
• Iron Sword
• Bow
• Flint and Steel
• Shears
• Clock
• Compass
• Minecart
• Spawn Chicken
• Spawn Cow
• Spawn Pig
• Spawn Sheep

Category 3[show]

• Cobblestone Wall
• Cobblestone Wall
• Block of Gold
• Block of Iron
• Block of Diamond
• Lapis Lazuli Block
• Block of Coal
• Snow
• Glass
• Glowstone
• Nether Reactor Core
• Ladder
• Sponge
• Glass Pane
• Door
• Trapdoor
• Fence
• Fence Gate
• Iron Bars
• Bed
• Bookshelf
• Painting
• Crafting Table
• Stonecutter
• Chest
• Furnace
• Flower
• Rose
• Mushroom
• Mushroom
• Cactus
• Melon
• Pumpkin
• Jack 'o' Lantern
• Cobweb
• Hay Bale
• Grass
• Fern
• Dead Bush
• Sapling
• Sapling
• Sapling
• Leaves
• Leaves
• Leaves
• Leaves
• Cake
• Sign
• Wool
• Light Gray Wool
• Gray Wool
• Black Wool
• Brown Wool
• Red Wool
• Orange Wool
• Yellow Wool
• Lime Wool
• Green Wool
• Cyan Wool
• Blue Light Wool
• Blue Wool
• Purple Wool
• Magenta Wool
• Pink Wool
• Carpet
• Carpet
• Carpet
• Carpet
• Carpet
• Carpet
• Carpet
• Carpet
• Carpet
• Carpet
• Carpet
• Carpet
• Carpet
• Carpet
• Carpet
• Carpet

Category 4[show]

• Cobblestone
• Stone Bricks
• Stone Bricks
• Stone Bricks
• Moss Stone
• Oak Planks
• Spruce Planks
• Birch Planks
• Jungle Planks
• Bricks
• Stone
• Dirt
• Grass Block
• Clay
• Sandstone
• Sandstone
• Sandstone
• Sand
• Gravel
• Oak Wood
• Spruce Wood
• Birch Wood
• Jungle Wood
• Nether Brick
• Netherrack
• Bedrock
• Stone Stairs
• Oak Stairs
• Spruce Stairs
• Birch Stairs
• Jungle Stairs
• Brick Stairs
• Sand Stone Stairs
• Stone Brick Stairs
• Nether Brick Stairs
• Quartz Stairs
• Stone Slab
• Cobblestone Slab
• Oak Wooden Slab
• Spruce Wooden Slab
• Birch Wooden Slab
• Jungle Wooden Slab
• Bricks Slab
• Sandstone Slab
• Stone Brick Slab
• Quartz Slab
• Block of Quartz
• Pillar Quartz Block
• Chiseled Quartz Block
• Coal Ore
• Iron Ore
• Gold Ore
• Diamond Ore
• Lapis Lazuli Ore
• Redstone Ore
• Obsidian
• Ice
• Snow

General

• The icon has gained the iOS gloss effect if installed on iOS 5 and iOS 6.

Clouds

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

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 sky that changes slightly depending on the biome.
  • Water fades to non-transparent in the distance (iOS only).
• Refactored most of the rendering to use indexed VBOs.
  • Remade the arrow model.
  • 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.

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

Fixes

32 issues fixed

From released versions before 0.8.0

• MCPE-40 – You can never run away from mobs
• MCPE-169 – Saplings aren't Fuel
• MCPE-728 – Wrong dark leaves texture
• MCPE-1068 – White line appear in pocket edition
• MCPE-1353 – Stonecutter, Quartz Block, Melon (Block) and Melon Seeds show wrong description
• MCPE-1772 – Player jumps too early by glass pane
• MCPE-2904 – Chicken egg bug
• MCPE-3358 – TNT does not work in creative
• MCPE-3890 – Different wood logs make the same wooden planks
• MCPE-4118 – Bad inventory GUI on Retina display
• MCPE-4231 – Automatic egg/ snowball throwing
• MCPE-4338 – Mobs draw distance greater than stone. Creates x-ray vision
• MCPE-4379 – Animals stay in water
• MCPE-4508 – Creative inventory
• MCPE-4821 – Shearing a sheep gives you less wool
• MCPE-4935 – Creative items glitching to different items
• MCPE-5294 – Wooden tools cannot be used as fuel
• MCPE-5408 – No bedrock in creative inventory
• MCPE-5495 – Bow bug
• MCPE-5572 – Shooting a bow, throwing eggs/snowballs, eating needs block proximity
• MCPE-5588 – TNT dissolving
• MCPE-5592 – Bow firing bug / annoyance
• MCPE-5600 – Bow and Arrow issue
• MCPE-5634 – Your own arrow can't hurt you
• MCPE-5671 – Bow problem in Creative Multiplayer
• MCPE-6201 – Can't pass Y:31 in Minecart

From the 0.8.0 development versions

• MCPE-5811 – Suffocation doesn't show up properly
• MCPE-6015 – Minecart does not show anything but a weird shape
• MCPE-6065 – Minecarts going uphill
• MCPE-6096 – Cannot touch Minecarts in 3rd person
• MCPE-6157 – Upward Rail Glitch

Other

• Text no longer cuts off on chat screen.

Gallery

Store images

These screenshots were uploaded to store pages on update release.

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Development images

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  Walls

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  Rotated logs

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  Pumpkins and melons

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  Potatoes and carrots

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  Mipmapped water

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  Smooth edges shader

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  New sky color

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  New grass color

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  Clock

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  Glowing eyes