v0.8.0 alpha was 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.
Additions
Blocks
- Birch and spruce wood planks, slabs and stairs
- Sideways pointing wood blocks
- Block of coal
- Carpets
- Cobblestone walls
- Hay bales
- Iron bars
- Jack o'lanterns
- Bark blocks
- Only obtained from using world editing.
- Rails
- Powered rails (always powered)
- Crops:
- Creative only:
- Now available in the creative inventory:
- Ice
- Snow
- Bedrock
- Tall grass and ferns
Items
- Beetroot seeds
- Have a 1⁄15 chance of popping out from grass when hoed
- Clocks
- Compasses
- Minecarts
- Pumpkin seeds
- Obtained from the nether reactor like melon seeds
- Redstone (cannot be placed as redstone dust yet.)
- Dyes
- Ink sac (currently unobtainable in survival mode)
- Cocoa beans
- Version exclusive: Crafted with orange dye and an ink sac.
- Gray dye
- Light gray dye
- Added to the Creative inventory:
Gameplay
General
- Added far (256 blocks) and farthest (400 blocks) render distances
- Removed smooth lighting (now always on)
- Fancy graphics are now always by default on
- Default render distance is now far
- Update arrow sound
Removed arrow sound | Track |
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Arrow Contact (pre-0.8) |
Changes
Blocks
- Fire and lava now ignite TNT.
- Redstone ore now drops redstone dust when mined
- Remade painting rendering
- Eating particles are shown to look like the food being eaten rather than random pixels from the food.
- The textures of some blocks are randomly rotated, for a more natural effect
- Flowers
- Position on block is now randomized
Items
- Bone Meal
- Now works like in the Java Edition
- Can grow ferns and tall grass in survival and Creative
- Version exclusive: Now grows sugar cane to maximum height
- Pumpkin and melon stems only grow by one when bone meal is used.
- Flowers now spawn other flowers when bone meal is used.
- New bow rendering & animated items
- Wooden tools can now be used as fuel.
- Lava buckets can now be placed in furnace to smelt items (100 items)
Mobs
- Improved AI system (mobs swim over deep water, and hostile mobs are now more intelligent).
- Baby animals follow the adult animal of their species.
- Animals follow the player when holding wheat (cows and sheep), seeds (chickens) or potatoes/beetroot/carrots (pigs).
- Sheep have the color overlay of its wool around its face and when sheared (iOS only).
- Increased speed for spiders
- Version exclusive: New visual effect for burning mobs
Non-mob entities
- Thrown eggs now spawn baby chickens
- Improved signs and chests synchronization lag in multiplayer
- Sand and gravel now spawn resources when falling on torches, etc.
Gameplay
General
- Graphics:
- 3D clouds with new tessellation algorithm
- Held items are now rendered in 3D, and bob up and down slightly when idle and sway to the side when turning.
- Lighter colored water, sky, and grass.
- Water fades to non-transparent in the distance (iOS only)
- Mipmaps (iOS only)
- 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
- Lighting:
- Stencil Shadows
- Dynamic Java lighting on entities
- Ambient light tinting on entities
- Version exclusive: Light direction depends on sunlight direction on entities — affects shadows
- Other:
- Mining speed in Creative mode increases at/near mining distance limit (8 blocks per second).
- New Creative inventory, with four item categories.
- Hotbar now saves on Creative worlds
- Items being moved to/from a chest is now correctly rendered.
- Transparent hotbar
- Tapping the
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now closes the inventory while open. - Craftable recipes are shown first in the crafting screen.
- If there is 99+ of an item in the inventory, it now shows the actual quantity in crafting table, rather than 99+.
- When selecting an item in the inventory, it replaces the one in the selected slot.
- Changed the flow of the inventory for the armor/crafting screens so that the back button goes back to the inventory.
- Moved gray wool to the right inventory slot.
- Ice is not transparent anymore in the hotbar
- Items that are not supposed to be in the game no longer have a red background in the hotbar or inventory.
- Performance
- New app logo
- Textures
- Brought most textures from Java
- New texture atlas and texture generator script
Fixes
- Text no longer cuts off on chat screen.
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-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