Changes: Pocket Edition v0.12.1 alpha

Revision as of 07:04, 31 August 2015

Alpha 0.12.1 is an upcoming update to Minecraft Pocket Edition. The release was initially intended to coincide with the release of the Windows 10 version on July 29, 2015 but encountered obstacles in its development, forcing it to be delayed.^[1]

Additions

General

Controller and keyboard support
- Can change controls within options
Options
- Option to reverse the location of the Sneak and Jump button
- The jump button has been moved to the right side of the screen.
  - Added a sneaking button in place of where the current jump button is.
    - These are the new default controls.
- Option to disable the auto-jump feature
- Added camera mode slider on options (First-person, Third-person, Front third-person)
- FOV option slider^[2]
Particles
- angryVillager
- largeexplode
- hugeexplode
- blockdust
- slime
- enchantementtable
- droplet
- snowshovel
- Added falling particles.

Gameplay

Hunger
Experience
Weather
- Rain
- Snowfall
- Thunderstorm
Sprinting and sneaking
More difficulty modes
- Peaceful
- Easy
- Normal
- Hard
Animation for switching items.
Critical hits
Enchanting
Brewing

World generation

The Nether
- Nether portals can also be up to 23x23 in size
- All items previously obtained through the Nether reactor are now available through their normal means.
Nether fortresses

Mobs

Iron golems
Snow golems
- Version exclusive: Shows jack o' lantern as the head if used for building, in place of the pumpkin
- Version exclusive: The pumpkin can be removed using shears, revealing the face of the snow golem
Ocelots
Zombie villagers
- PC 1.9 feature: Villagers retain their profession and clothes, which appear tattered, and have green wart on their noses
- Baby zombie villagers
Blazes
Wither skeletons
Charged creepers
- Spawned when a lightning bolt strikes a creeper during a thunderstorm.

Changes

General

Graphics
- Tinted water - gradient from aqua to dark blue when viewed from a distance
- New explosion particles
- Particles are no longer dark when inside of a block
- Cactus particles are now correct
- Version exclusive: Leaves in snowy taigas now appear frost-covered
- Only uses the leaves coloring shaders when the color for a biome actually changes
- Only samples the lightmap texture for non-transparent pixels
Scrollbar
- Always visible
- New texture
The player can now swim in lava
Updated sounds
- New sound for dying skeletons and wither skeletons
- Digging and walking sounds are now the same as PC.
- Damage sounds changed to that of the PC version
- Fishing rod now makes a less repetitive sound
- Ladders now make sounds when climbing
- Water and lava now make sounds when flowing
Name tags are visible from farther away now
New random seed algorithm
Options
- Third person view switch replaced with a slider bar, with 3 options:
  - Option 1 - first person view
  - Option 2 - third person view
  - Option 3 - frontal face view
- Renamed D-Pad size slider to "Button size"
Custom server IPs must be unique
Relocated pause and chat button ^{(survival only)}
Trying to connect to old versions of the game will now show an error message.

Gameplay

Controls
- Flight controls are now slightly smaller
Chat
- The player can now use the chat while in a bed.
Slight jump delay when jumping in a small space
Blocks can now be placed underneath player while sneaking

World generation

Villages

Now spawn with only wheat + one other crop instead of all crops.
Now spawn with beetroot crops.
Will now spawn iron golems

Blocks

Nether reactor

Uncraftable
Removed from the crafting menu and the creative inventory.
Still provides drops when broken (3 diamonds and 6 iron ingots)
Only obtainable via inventory editing.

Furnace

Centered the result name in the furnace

Snow layer

Version exclusive: Builds up multiple layers naturally through snowfall
Version exclusive: Are now affected by gravity

Crops

Breaking crops will now always drop seeds

Lava

Version exclusive: Now appears brighter
Now prevents fall damage
When in the Nether, now flows like on PC

Water

Can now be used to make water bottles

Door

Can now be stacked up to 64
Crafting now produces 3 doors rather than 1.

Packed ice

New texture:

Quartz pillars

Can now be placed horizontally

Dead bush

Now has a chance to drop sticks when broken

End portal frame

Now rotate based on the direction they were placed

Trapdoors

Can now be placed on bottom and top side of a block

Items

Boat

New inventory icons
- Now include paddles
- Different boat types' items now are their respective color

Food

Now restores hunger instead of health

Pufferfish

Now inflicts the following status effects:
- Poison IV (1:00)
- Hunger III (0:15)
- Nausea (0:15)

All rotten foods

Now inflict the player with Hunger due to the addition of hunger, rather than Poison in 0.11.0.

Beetroot

Beetroot crops can be obtained from village farms
Beetroot seeds can no longer be obtained by tilling grass blocks

Seeds

Seeds can no longer be obtained by tilling grass blocks

Book

Now use the updated crafting recipe including leather

Spawn egg

Mobs spawned from renamed eggs have the name of the egg and the names will appear in death messages.
Zombie spawn eggs now have a chance to spawn zombie villagers

Mobs

All mobs

Burning mobs have a sizzling particle effect once extinguished
Mobs now drop experience when killed

Zombie

Now wears different armor and can hold items
Now drops weapons and armor rarely
Can now break down doors
Drops its head if killed by a charged creeper
Now able to detect the player up to 40 blocks.

Skeleton

Now wears different armor and can hold items
Improved accuracy
Now drops weapons and armor rarely
Can turn into a wither skeleton if spawned in the nether
Drops its head if killed by a charged creeper
Death sound changed to that of PC

Creeper

Now turn into charged creepers when struck by lightning
Run away from ocelots (wild and tamed variants)

Slime

Now have particles when jumping

Magma cube

Now spawn in the Nether
Magma cubes now split when killed

Zombie pigman

Now neutral rather than hostile
Now spawns in the Nether
Now wears armor and can hold items
Now drops swords and armor rarely
Now drops gold nuggets
Have a chance to spawn with enchanted swords

Villager

Can now open and close doors
Can now harvest crops
Can now breed
Now has angry particles if attacked by the player
Now always become zombie villagers in Hard difficulty

Spider

Now have a walking sound
Now drops spider eyes

Cave Spider

Now has a walking sound
Now drops spider eyes

Ghast

Now spawns in the Nether
Now drops ghast tears
Now makes sounds and noises
Increased size of hitbox

Pig

Now turns into zombie pigman when struck by lightning

Wolves

Tamed wolves now attack target when it was hit with a bow

Silverfish

No longer makes sounds while moving

Planned additions

Gameplay

Possibly in-game music
- May be downloadable only as a free in-app purchase on Android, iOS, and Windows devices^[3]
Possibly performance improvements^[4]
- Tommasso stated that he may improve the chunk loading system and mob performance.^{[citation needed]}

Fixes

72 bugs fixed

Touchpad implementation fixed on the Sony Xperia Play

From released versions before 0.12.1

MCPE-3671 – You can't get out of lava^[5]
MCPE-4202 - Sounds on Android devices are incorrect
MCPE-5200 - Bug while mining/breaking blocks (Touch and Split Controls)
MCPE-5541 - cant place pillar quartz blocks sideways
MCPE-6263 - Bow don't have particles in full charge.
MCPE-6806 - Automatic Flying Bug
MCPE-6854 - Auto jump not working with carpet
MCPE-6882 - Finger free mining bug.
MCPE-6886 - Wrong Crops Sound
MCPE-6998 - When tapping the leftmost box in hotbar while walking forward, you walk backwards-left a bit.
MCPE-7745 - Acacia and dark oak trees act like ladders
MCPE-7873 - Baby pigs can pass trough slabs
MCPE-7880 - Hotbar size decreases when on split controls
MCPE-7878 - Cobblestone generators don't work for other players in Local Server Multiplayer
MCPE-7899 - painting de_aztec (or Aztec) does not exist in the game
MCPE-7901 - jungle leaves x-ray bug
MCPE-7914 - Putting out fire in creative mode
MCPE-7917 - Jumping mobs
MCPE-7921 - Inventory Armor Section Bug!
MCPE-7925 - Red Sand Suffocation
MCPE-7951 - 2x2 Jungle trees leaves disapear when you grow them artificially (bonemeal)
MCPE-7975 - Burning fuel icon not decreasing when the world is closed and reopened
MCPE-7977 - Upper slabs cause top leaf texture to disappear
MCPE-7996 - Monster spawners only spawn mobs with data value 0
MCPE-8000 - Mesas generate on top of water bodies in Bryce mesa biomes
MCPE-8006 - Skeletons arrows bounce off
MCPE-8098 - Water and Lava disappear when switching view distances
MCPE-8146 - Redstone Ore doesn't give off particles.
MCPE-8149 - Heavy shading on water blocks at the world border
MCPE-8154 - Mining consecutive redstone ore blocks does not light each block as they are being mined
MCPE-8166 - Lava can tick through walls
MCPE-8372 - Fishing rod and flying glitch
MCPE-8376 - Wrong Magma Cream Name
MCPE-8377 - Magma Cubes Do Not Split
MCPE-8392 - Lighting glitch when standing under a door
MCPE-8412 - Block selection overlay is only visible on one side of a texture
MCPE-8422 - Villager professions not showing correctly on client
MCPE-8466 - Mob pathfinding considers the void to be a solid platform
MCPE-8517 - Dogs (tamed wolves) cannot be healed to full health
MCPE-8522 - Falling beyond bedrock into void
MCPE-8572 - Baby animals can grow up in fences-type blocks and escape their pen
MCPE-8575 - Skeletons Aim is off
MCPE-8604 - Zombies think that slabs are full blocks
MCPE-8605 - Eating raw chicken gives you hunger?
MCPE-8606 - Water can turn lava into obsidian from underneath.
MCPE-8615 - View Bobbing Automatically defaults to on after restarting the app
MCPE-8628 - Egg shows snowball particles when thrown
MCPE-8630 - Fishing bobber (bait or lure) burns forever
MCPE-8641 - LAN Mid-Air glitch
MCPE-8654 - Wrong text when selecting which model to use with your custom skin
MCPE-8665 - Furnaces are facing wrong direction in village blacksmiths
MCPE-8670 - World crashes on load
MCPE-8676 - Mobs get stuck atop the border wall
MCPE-8702 - Baby zombie pigmen
MCPE-8707 - Double-tall flowers do not drop items when mined
MCPE-8826 - Chunks near to and of mushroom island biomes do not generate
MCPE-8853 - Carpet duplication when trying to place it where it cannot be placed
MCPE-8855 - Minecarts Wrong View when riding it down
MCPE-8881 - Baby chickens die in boats
MCPE-8961 - Cobwebs can't be broken by water
MCPE-8974 - After mobs get out of fire, they do not continue to burn
MCPE-9062 - Nether Reactor gives wrong message
MCPE-9073 - Vegetation generates through structures
MCPE-9150 - Unable to scroll a newly selected language off of the language menu screen
MCPE-9251 - Infinite Boat Rowing Bug
MCPE-9254 - Bow glitch
MCPE-9630 - No 32 bit support
MCPE-9930 - Lava-Don't stop fall damage

From the 0.11.0 development versions

MCPE-8333 - Not translate in RU lang for blocks
MCPE-8359 - Custom Skins Crash
MCPE-8365 - Wrong death position-VIDEO

References

[Delay-1] ttps://twitter.com/_tomcc/status/623056316274221056

[2] ttps://twitter.com/shoghicp/status/627050586756763648

[3] ttps://www.reddit.com/r/MCPE/comments/3ctjj4/tommasso_finished_the_enchantment_table_us_d/cszpr7z/

[4] ttps://twitter.com/_tomcc/status/629821898575216641

[5] "ctfownv" – u/{{{author}}} on Reddit

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 === Items ===
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Changes: Pocket Edition v0.12.1 alpha

Revision as of 07:04, 31 August 2015

Additions

General

Gameplay

Blocks

Items

Creative inventory additions

World generation

Mobs

Changes

General

Gameplay

World generation

Blocks

Items

Mobs

Planned additions

Gameplay

Fixes

References