Pocket Edition v0.8.0 alpha/Development versions

This is a list of Pocket Edition v0.8.0 alpha development versions.

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 released for v0.8.0 and the first ever build released 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.

Additions

• Far rendering distance
• New colors and textures
  • New grass color
  • New sky color
  • New water color in the distance
• New blocks
  • Sideways logs
  • Jungle, birch, spruce stairs
  • Jungle slabs
  • Pumpkins
  • Potatoes
  • Carrots
  • Cobblestone wall
  • Iron bars
  • Tall grass, fern and dead bush
  • Hay bale
  • Coal block
  • Carpet
    • With 16 different colors
    • Only the red carpet can be made in Survival mode.
  • Bark blocks
  • Rails and powered rails
  • Rails are unobtainable in Survival mode
  • Sponges
• New items
  • Pumpkin pie
  • Flint and steel, top snow and ice in creative
  • Clock
  • Redstone Dust (can’t be placed)
• Bone meal no longer fully grows crops
• New fire effect
• New bow rendering
• Animated items
• New AI
  • Breeding
  • Tempt animals by holding wheat (potato, carrot or beetroot for pigs)

Changes

• Changed models for furnace, sandstone slabs and leaves.
• Bone meal no longer fully grows crops
• Dynamic lighting on entities, similar to Java Edition.
  • Ambient light tinting
  • Light direction depends on sunlight direction
• New rendering for items in hand
• Transparent hotbar
• When selecting an item in the inventory it replaces the one in the selected slot
• Showing craftable recipes first in the crafting screen
• Remade text formatting (e.g. in chat)
• Stencil shadows
• Added inertia to item in hand and “breathing” idle animation
• Rotating tiles to hide repeating tile patterns
• Water fades to non-transparent in the distance (iOS)
• New defaults and changed options
  • Added far (256) and farthest (400) rendering distances
  • Removed smooth lighting option (now always on)
  • Fancy is now default on
  • Default rendering distance is now far
• Refactored most of the rendering to use indexed VBOs
  • Remade arrow model
  • Inventory is now rendered using cached VBOs
  • New sky rendering using a triangle fan
• Separated far and near chunks in two queues for performance reasons
  • Fog only on far chunks
  • Transparency only on near chunks
  • Alpha-test-only layers are hidden in far chunks
• Made the torch an opaque block
• Mipmaps (iOS only)
• 3D clouds with new tessellation algorithm
• New texture atlas and texture generator script
• Refactored OpenGL usage to avoid costly state leaks (e.g. animals aren’t alpha tested anymore)

Gallery

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  Changed models for furnace, sandstone slabs and leaves.

Fixes

11 issues fixed

From released versions before 0.8.0

• MCPE-28 – Xperia Play Creative Scrolling, PTAB7200 Or Other Tablets Gamepad Small
• MCPE-61 – Water flows downward next to farmland (visual glitch)
• MCPE-347 – Weird textures: Moiré pattern on bricks
• MCPE-992 – Mobs can't move through deep water
• MCPE-1524 – Graphical glitch when looking down above clouds.
• MCPE-2804 – Fire does not ignite tnt
• MCPE-2937 – Chat crash
• MCPE-4140 – breeding
• MCPE-4736 – Spiders Have no abdomen
• MCPE-4887 – Skeletons missing lower part of body.
• MCPE-5411 – Falling in creative at world load

v0.8.0 alpha build 2

v0.8.0 alpha build 2 is the second build and first public build version released for v0.8.0.

Additions

Blocks

Beetroots

Items

Beetroot Seeds Beetroot soup

Entities

Minecarts

General

• Brought most textures from Java Edition (e.g., gravel)
• New creative inventory with tabs

Changes

Leaves

• Side textures are no longer randomly rotated.

Rails

• Are now craftable with six iron ingots and a stick.

Powered rails

• Are now craftable with six gold ingots, a stick, and redstone dust.

Removals

Main menu

• Re-removed "Play on Realms" button.

Options

• Removed "Show craftable recipes first" toggle.
  • Is now always on by default.
• Removed "Smooth lighting" toggle.
  • Is now always on by default.

Fixes

• With the removal of the smooth lighting toggle, the textures of all blocks in a world are no longer randomly rotated when smooth lighting is off.
• Fixed the displayed names of blocks of coal, wood, and wooden slabs.
• Blocks of coal have been given their own numeric ID (173) and no longer override the ID of nether bricks (112).
  • Blocks of coal are no longer listed twice in the creative inventory.
  • Blocks of coal can no longer be crafted with four nether brick items.
  • Nether bricks once again have an associated block and item form.
  • Blocks of coal from build 1 are automatically converted to nether bricks.
• Fixed the icons for all items in the inventory screen frequently becoming invisible.
• Fixed the appearance of clocks and compasses in the inventory.
• Fixed zombies, skeletons, creepers, and zombie pigmen moving significantly faster on land than intended.

v0.8.0 alpha build 3

v0.8.0 alpha build 3 is the second build version released for v0.8.0.

Additions

• Added shears, dyes and bedrock to Creative.

Changes

• Spiders are way slower
• Carrots, potatoes and beetroot seeds now drop from grass blocks when tilled with a 1/15 chance each
• Remade painting rendering, which was completely forgotten
• Thrown eggs now spawn baby chickens
• Rails are now dropped when the tile they rest on is destroyed
• Changed the flow of Inventory → Armor / Crafting screens so that back goes back to Inventory

Fixes

48 issues fixed

From released versions before 0.8.0

• MCPE-5409 – No snow cover in creative

From the previous development version

• MCPE-5727 – Graphics don't properly reload after apps is resumed
• MCPE-5740 – Minecarts crash when they are destroyed
• MCPE-5743 – All wooden slab appears as jungle wooden slab
• MCPE-5745 – spiders are too fast
• MCPE-5750 – Inventory items invisible
• MCPE-5756 – Crash when Minecraft says saving chunks
• MCPE-5757 – when I hit pig the screen messes up
• MCPE-5758 – My world seems stuck at midday
• MCPE-5759 – Black world after throwing eggs!
• MCPE-5765 – The armor gui is really bad, like, its all glitched
• MCPE-5766 – Crash when TNT blows a minecart
• MCPE-5773 – Chests gray out
• MCPE-5777 – Spruce slabs revert to oak
• MCPE-5781 – When you place a sideways wood block, destroy, and pick it up, it shows up as its own item. When you try to craft with it, it crashes the game. (Survival only)
• MCPE-5784 – Sword Corner
• MCPE-5794 – Game goes dark/black screen when hitting mobs
• MCPE-5802 – Sword PNG
• MCPE-5803 – Clouds
• MCPE-5832 – Reloaded Minecart is not rendered
• MCPE-5837 – Unable to open world when left with a moving minecart
• MCPE-5840 – Crash with side ways blocks
• MCPE-5845 – Sign is invisible
• MCPE-5851 – Placing sideways logs then breaking them stay that way
• MCPE-5852 – Armor menu no steve
• MCPE-5853 – CRASH!
• MCPE-5858 – The mobs are moving too slow
• MCPE-5902 – Crafting table graficul glitch
• MCPE-5924 – after the flint and steel run out,when you click it again,it crashes
• MCPE-5933 – Lava on Ice causes crash upon contact with the water.
• MCPE-5962 – Box problems
• MCPE-5979 – Golden shovel appears as diamond shovel
• MCPE-5982 – When you put items in a chest they are invisible
• MCPE-5985 – Thrown eggs are invisible
• MCPE-6005 – World Won't Open after Placing Animals on Minecarts
• MCPE-6018 – When you update from 0.7.6 to 0.8.0 it will delete some worlds
• MCPE-6028 – The game stuck in saving chunks screen
• MCPE-6041 – TExture Mapping glitch
• MCPE-6050 – If you use more than ten times minecart. The eleventh cart will disappear
• MCPE-6055 – TNT crash
• MCPE-6056 – View box shows incorrect armor type

From the current version, hotfixed

• MCPE-5733 – shooting issues

Other

• Fixed sheep not being dyable
• Fixed bedrock having randomly rotated texture
• Paintings have no shadows anymore
• Fixed flint and steel having durability in creative
• Fixed redstone dust color
• Fixed sandstone slab textures

v0.8.0 alpha build 4

v0.8.0 alpha build 4 is the third build version released for v0.8.0 alpha.

Additions

• Added red carpets to the survival crafting menu.
• Added a version watermark to help tell the build from screenshots.

Changes

• Lava and fire now trigger TNT much more aggressively.
• Faster switching from background on Android.
• Potatoes and carrots aren't dropped anymore by tilling grass.
• In creative mode, players stop being on fire as soon as they exit fire or lava.

Fixes

24 issues fixed

From the 0.8.0 development versions

• MCPE-5792 – Liquids not showing up at sight level.
• MCPE-5794 – Game goes dark: black screen when hitting mobs.
• MCPE-5799 – Rendering issue with armor page.
• MCPE-5810 – Sideways logs randomly have the wrong texture.
• MCPE-5816 – Items leave trail on chest UI.
• MCPE-5821 – Two issues related to breeding chickens and pigs.
• MCPE-5862 – Not possible to make carpets in survival mode.
• MCPE-5869 – Minecarts don't ride smoothly going up or down mountains.
• MCPE-5876 – Animals turn black.
• MCPE-5901 – Issue with TNT explosion.
• MCPE-5903 – MCPE 0.8.0 beta build 2 chest issue.
• MCPE-5904 – MCPE 0.8.0 beta build 2 incorrect armor selection.
• MCPE-5924 – After the flint and steel runs out, when you click it again, it crashes.
• MCPE-5940 – An issue related to beds.
• MCPE-5964 – An issue related to eggs.

Other

• Fixed a crash in the "Manage Realms" section.
• Added baked potato description.
• Added charcoal description.
• Fixed typo in iron bars description.
• Fixed arrow smoke being very fast when the arrow is stuck.
• Fixed top cactus texture.
• Fixed crash when picking up an arrow on fire.
• Fixed the bad graphics bug.
• Removed one bone meal from the creative inventory.

v0.8.0 alpha build 5

v0.8.0 alpha build 5 is the fourth build version released for Alpha 0.8.0.

Changes

Blocks

Lava

• Now creates stone when it flows vertically into water.

Flowers

• Position on the block is now randomized.

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.
• Version exclusive: Grows sugar cane to maximum height.

Non-mob entities

Minecarts

• Now ride smoother.

Fixes

16 bugs fixed

From the 0.8.0 development versions

• MCPE-5730 - Extreme Lag underwater
• MCPE-5808 - Water can't break carpet
• MCPE-5817 - Falling sand causes dropped item discoloration
• MCPE-5822 - Creepers move too slowly
• MCPE-5834 - Stairs turn upside down when placed on snow
• MCPE-5897 - Igniting TNT in creative crashes the game
• MCPE-5899 - Placing a wooden slab automatically changes it to a jungle wood slab
• MCPE-5934 - The player gets stuck in a lava lake if it is deeper than two blocks.
• MCPE-5935 - Tools appear upside-down in third-person view
• MCPE-5947 - you fall when you destroy the minecart
• MCPE-5977 - visual glitch in furnace
• MCPE-5997 - while under water the rest of water is transparent .
• MCPE-6063 - Bone meal appears twice in the creative inventory
• MCPE-6133 - Mobs don't spawn at night

From the previous development version

• MCPE-6120 - Shadows appear below signs when placed on the side of a block
• MCPE-6124 - When breaking birch slab I get an oak slab

v0.8.0 alpha build 6

v0.8.0 alpha build 6 is the fifth build version released for 0.8.0.

Additions

• Added cobwebs to Creative mode

Fixes

1 bug fixed

• Can write on Android 4.3 a

v0.8.0 alpha build 7

v0.8.0 alpha build 7 is the sixth build version released for 0.8.0.

Changes

Blocks

Ice

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

Powered rail

• Inventory icon changed from to .

Items

Bows, bowls, and wooden tools

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

Non-mob entities

Minecarts

• The UI message "Tap Jump to leave the minecart" now appears when a minecart has been boarded.
• The left, right, and down buttons on the d-pad are no longer visible when riding a minecart.

Gameplay

Creative inventory

• Light gray wool's inventory slot has been moved to be in between white wool and gray wool.

AI

• Performance has been improved.

Fixes

10 bugs fixed

• Fixed text input on Android.
• Fixed spruce and birch leaves being swapped.
• Fixed furnace side texture.
• Fixed sandstone slab side texture.
• Fixed red hurt overlay on skeletons and chickens.
• Fixed an artifact over the flame in the furnace screen.
• TNT doesn’t send you into orbit anymore.
• Fixed armor slots having no health bar.
• Fixed autojumping while in minecarts.
• Fixed falling into the ground when exiting a minecart that’s on rails.

v0.8.0 alpha build 8

v0.8.0 alpha build 8 is the seventh and final build version released for 0.8.0, as well as the final build released in 2013.

Changes

Falling blocks

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

Creative inventory

• All wool and carpet variants are now sorted based on their color rather than their block data.

Fixes

10 issues fixed

From the 0.8.0 development versions

• MCPE-5987 – Light gray wool is not in correct place.
• MCPE-5994 – Minecart stuck after certain depth (underground level near bedrock).
• MCPE-6035 – What I expected to happen was for the light gray wool to be with the other wool in the creative inventory what actually happened was the light gray wool was separated from the other wool.
• MCPE-6194 – Birch and spruce textures.
• MCPE-6242 – Explosions are too powerful.
• MCPE-6312 – TNT blows me out of the world.
• MCPE-6337 – Tile Entities are not correctly sent in multiplayer.

Other

• Fixed double chests becoming unpaired.
• Added back hurt and fire color overlay for mobs.
• The chest inventory now refreshes when two players change the content at the same time.