For a guide about all content in this release and the other releases of 0.4, see Bedrock Edition guides/0.4 releases.
v0.4.0 alpha was a major update to Minecraft: Pocket Edition that was released on September 6 and 13, 2012. It added notable features such as beds, trapdoors, creepers, new food, and farming items, as well as other changes and fixes.[2] This update was also the first public release for Amazon's Fire devices.
Additions[]
Blocks[]
- Used to skip the night and set the player's spawn point.
- Used as a 1×1 barrier that can be opened by hand.
- Only available in Survival mode.
- Is currently unobtainable.
Items[]
- Used to ignite TNT.
- Used to till dirt and grass blocks into farmland.
- Food-related items
- Apples
- Bread
- Mushroom stew
- Raw beef
- Steak
- Raw chicken
- Cooked chicken
- Raw porkchop
- Cooked porkchop
- Wheat
- Wheat seeds
- Used as a throwable entity.
- Is currently unobtainable.
Gameplay[]
- Peaceful difficulty option for Survival that has automatic health regeneration and doesn't spawn monsters.
General[]
Changes[]
Blocks[]
- Can now be crafted with eight wooden planks.
- Are now functional in Survival mode, and are able to store other items and blocks in them.
Items[]
- Can now be thrown.
- Can now be used to craft TNT.
- Version exclusive: is now obtainable by smelting red mushrooms.
- Can now be crafted into red wool.
- Can now be crafted with rose red and dandelion yellow.
- Can now be crafted into orange wool.
- Can now be crafted with cactus green and bone meal.
- Can now be crafted into lime wool.
- Can now be crafted into green wool.
- Can now be crafted with cactus green and lapis lazuli.
- Can now be crafted into cyan wool.
- Can now be crafted with bone meal and lapis lazuli.
- Can now be crafted into light blue wool.
- Can now be crafted with rose red and lapis lazuli.
- Can now be crafted into purple wool.
- Can now be crafted with rose red, lapis lazuli, and two bone meal.
- Can now be crafted into magenta wool.
- Can now be crafted with rose red and bone meal.
- Can now be crafted into pink wool.
Mobs[]
- Limited the total number of any given mob type.
- Animal spawning (being worked on)[more information needed]
- Now drop feathers.
- Now spawn naturally.
World generation[]
- Now generate with oak logs instead of spruce logs.
Gameplay[]
- Increased the length of the daylight cycle from 14,400 ticks (12 minutes) to 19,200 ticks (16 minutes).
- When using an item, the player’s movement speed is decreased.
- Additions:
- Moss stone
- Oak wood
- Redstone ore
- White wool
- Trapdoor
- Bed
- Chest
- TNT (Due to a bug, TNT is not obtainable until version 0.5.0 alpha)[4]
- Wheat seeds
- Bone meal
- Iron hoe
- Iron sword
- Removals:
General[]
- The game no longer attempts to verify the player's license, allowing devices that do not own Minecraft in their respective app store to play the game.
Fixes[]
15 bugs fixed
- Monsters could spawn indoors.
- Added fall damage for clients.
- Players could hit each other far away.
- Incorrect bow rendering in third person view.
- Missing particles after critical arrows
- Stairs reverted to their basic blocks when destroyed
- Drawing the bow could destroy certain blocks (flowers, torches), or interact with blocks.
- The game crashes if the player is killed while having charging a bow.
- Connecting players could die in Creative mode.
- Spruce leaves sometimes use the crafting table texture on all sides when dropped as an item or held in the player's hand.
- Wrong crafting table size for Xperia Play
- Bow doesn't take damage when used.
- Non-dark brown tree trunks are now added back to the game (you may need to start a new world as host).
- Destroying a door could leave half a door.
- Spider death sound was missing on iOS.
Internal version[]
The internal version is 0.4.0(4005), and has a size of 5.32 MB.
J-version[]
v0.4.0j alpha[5] was released on Google Play on an unknown release date. The internal version is 0.4.0(4000), and the size is 2.16 MB.
Videos[]
Trailer[]
A trailer for the update was released on September 6, 2012.
Minecraft — Pocket Edition 0.4.0 Update! (view on YouTube) |
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References[]
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20120908010754/http://itunes.apple.com:80/us/app/minecraft-pocket-edition/id479516143?mt=8&v0=WWW-NAUS-ITSTOP100&ign-mpt=uo%3D2
- ↑ a b "Minecraft — Pocket Edition 0.4.0 is OUT!" (Archive) – Mojang, September 6, 2012.
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20120917172634/http://www.amazon.com/Mojang-Minecraft-Pocket-Edition/dp/B00992CF6W
- ↑ https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MCPE-17
- ↑ MCPE-19