Pocket Edition v0.6.0 alpha

Alpha 0.6.0 added baby animals, clouds, new Nether-related blocks and items as well as other changes and fixes. Android 2.1 and 2.2 are no longer supported; Alpha 0.6.0 requires version Android 2.3 or later. Users running Android 2.1 and 2.2 will only be able to play older versions of Minecraft Pocket Edition.

Gameplay

 * The Sky and Clouds (Appearance varies between fast and slow devices)
 * Improved D-pad
 * Design is more square and less rounded.
 * When in flight mode, there is a "wing" icon on the jump button.

Blocks and Items

 * Signs
 * Netherrack
 * Nether Brick
 * Block of Quartz
 * Chiseled Quartz Block (creative only)
 * Pillar Quartz Block (creative only)
 * Cracked Stone Brick (creative only)
 * Mossy Stone Brick (creative only)
 * Version exclusive : Stonecutter
 * Chiseled Sandstone
 * Smooth Sandstone
 * Stairs:
 * Nether Brick Stairs
 * Version exclusive : Does not block light.
 * Sandstone Stairs
 * Version exclusive : Does not block light.
 * Stone Brick Stairs
 * Version exclusive : Does not block light.
 * Quartz Stairs
 * Version exclusive : Does not block light.
 * Slabs:
 * Sandstone Slab
 * Stone Bricks Slab
 * Armor
 * Applying process is similar to smelting: choose from armor on the left and see a preview of the player on the right.
 * Nether Brick (smelted from netherrack and crafted into nether brick blocks).
 * Nether Quartz
 * Upside-down stairs, corner stairs
 * Slabs can be placed in up position (needs testing on small screens).
 * Sand and gravel are affected by gravity.

Mobs

 * Baby animals
 * Baby animals only spawn in new worlds.

Gameplay

 * The fog and sky color now is blue instead of grizzly blue.
 * When holding a slot in the hotbar, to toss an item out, the frame of the bar turns green as well.
 * (For some Android devices only) The way to go to the pause menu, is to use (<-) instead of (|=|).

Blocks and Items

 * All dyes can be crafted.
 * Recipes for crafting slabs give 6 slabs instead of 3.
 * Nether Reactor spawns Netherrack instead of obsidian.
 * The Nether Reactor now spawns more items.
 * Melons can now be crafted with 9 melon slices.

Mobs

 * Sheep look different.
 * Sheep can be colored with dyes.
 * Cows drop Leather.

Fixes
19 bugs fixed


 * - Still no fix on Tablet (first Galaxy Tab Froyo firmware 2.2) Survival = Creative and Creative = Survival
 * - Doors, trap doors and ladders does not drop correctly in survival when adjacent to destroyed blocks
 * - Blocks placed where ice was don't show up in multiplayer
 * - drowning on water
 * - Other players can't see the hand shaking animation
 * - Two stone bricks in creative menu
 * - No description for Paintings or Glowstone
 * - Watermelons grow back nearly instantly
 * - Watermelon icon red background
 * - Melon seeds have pumpkin seed sprite
 * - Paintings deflect arrows
 * - Cactus can't grow on sand block near water
 * - Charging the bow breaks pictures
 * - 1 melon stem can produce 2-4 melons
 * - Torches when placed underwater do not drop
 * - Paintings cannot be destroyed with L button (Xperia Play)
 * - Wrong sugarcane drop from the reactor and creative mode
 * - pixel disappearing bug