Pocket Edition v0.11.0 alpha

Alpha 0.11.0 is an update to Minecraft Pocket Edition that added skins, boats, fishing, new mobs and more.

General

 * Support for more languages.
 * Added new splash text.
 * Death messages
 * Custom kick and ban messages.
 * Fishing
 * Frame rate graph screen.
 * Localisation.
 * Text formatting codes.
 * Show server status and message of the day on server entries screen.


 * Skins
 * Player can choose 'Steve' and 'Alex' models and can apply their own custom skin.
 * The custom skins use the same format as PC, and are applied by selecting a photo from the camera roll.
 * Can be applied via Skin Packs (costs 0.99 each).

Gameplay

 * Options
 * Similar to commands.
 * Rename worlds.
 * Change gamemode.
 * Lock/unlock day cycle.
 * Make old worlds infinite.
 * Added view bobber slider.


 * Status effects
 * Potions won't be added until the Nether is added.
 * Currently, only the following effects can be obtained legitimately:
 * Poison
 * Obtained via eating raw food such as rotten flesh, raw chicken, and pufferfish.
 * Nausea
 * Can only be obtained by eating a pufferfish.
 * Through inventory editing, it is possible to affect the player with all status effects, such as Regeneration, and Absorption, and function correctly.

Blocks and items

 * Block of Redstone
 * Only purpose is to store redstone dust.


 * Boats
 * Contains version exclusive properties
 * Larger in size.
 * Crafting recipe is 5 wood planks and a wooden shovel
 * Color is dependent on the planks used.
 * Sprite color is always the same; doesn't change based on actual boat color.
 * When in boat, two buttons for steering appear. The right button steers to the left, the left button steers to the right. Pressing both buttons moves the boat forward.
 * Are more resistant to damage - when colliding with another block, the boat will not break.
 * Can support two riders, including passive and hostile mobs.
 * Passive and hostile mobs can ride in a boat without the player.


 * Fishing Rods
 * Version exclusive : Cubic Bobber.


 * Grass Path
 * Grass path blocks that are lower than normal grass blocks.
 * To create, tap a grass block with a shovel.
 * Replaces the gravel paths in villages.


 * Magma cream
 * Dropped by magma cubes


 * Foods
 * Raw fish
 * Cooked fish
 * Raw salmon
 * Cooked salmon
 * Clownfish
 * Pufferfish
 * Rotten flesh


 * Creative Inventory Additions
 * Extra tool types
 * Fishing rods
 * Snowballs
 * Spawn eggs
 * Bat
 * Cave spider
 * Magma cube
 * Squid

Mobs

 * Baby zombies
 * Zombies have a 5% chance of spawning as a baby zombie
 * Baby zombies have a 5% chance of spawning as a chicken jockey


 * Bats


 * Cave spiders


 * Ghasts
 * Only available through inventory editing


 * Magma cubes
 * Drop magma cream
 * Only spawn from spawn eggs


 * Spider jockeys
 * Consist of a skeleton riding a spider
 * Can also spawn as a skeleton riding a cave spider


 * Squid
 * Version exclusive : Baby squid
 * Version exclusive : Produces a black cloud of "ink" when attacked.


 * Skeletons
 * Now have improved accuracy


 * Endermen
 * Now teleport away from projectiles

General

 * Limited player names to PC allowed names.
 * Game attempts to repair corrupted worlds


 * Options
 * Added a hide button to the chat screen.
 * Moved the Edit button in the world selection menu from the top right corner to the side of each world, along with a new icon.
 * External button now appears when tapping New rather than Edit.
 * Improved World/IP list.


 * Performance
 * Improved performance when turning.
 * Improved multiplayer bandwidth usage.
 * Improved client/server communication.
 * Improved disconnection messages.
 * Now includes the reason of the kick/ban
 * Improved text rendering.
 * Improved world loading.
 * Improvements to multiplayer spawning.
 * Faster torch placing (less lag).
 * Added server-side checks on games.
 * Non-fancy render mode now works properly.

Gameplay

 * Colored, bold, and italic text in chat and on signs.
 * Third person interactions are only available in front of the player
 * Increased creative mode interaction range
 * Players in creative mode no longer catch on fire or display a burning animation


 * Graphics
 * Added hat layer of pigmen heads, like the PC version.
 * Particle effects, block breaking animations, and sounds from other players are now shown on multiplayer.
 * Updated inventory icon from a Brick block to a chest.

World generation

 * Mineshafts have cave spider spawners.

Blocks and items

 * Stone Bricks
 * Chiseled and mossy stone bricks can now be crafted
 * Cracked stone bricks can now be smelted
 * Milk
 * Drinking it now removes status effects.
 * Armor
 * No longer reduces damage from fire or falls.
 * Grass
 * Grass pixels are now square and tall grass has random height
 * Boats
 * The interact button can be pressed as well as the D-Pad

Mobs

 * Burning mobs will set the player on fire if touched or bumped.
 * Wolves
 * Collars are now dyeable.
 * Now can be fed rotten flesh.
 * Zombie
 * Now drop rotten flesh.
 * Applies the Poison status effect when eaten.

Fixes
108 bugs fixed


 * Fixed tame wolves
 * Fixed the block break feedback circle disappearing on suspend
 * Fixed crashes while saving world
 * Fixed crashes on armor screen
 * Fixed crashes on furnace screen
 * Fixed world not being saved
 * Fixed world crash when unknown blocks are present
 * Fixed trees growing on the client
 * Fixed desert wells and special biomes (Birch Forest M, Birch Forest Hills M, Extreme Hills M, Extreme Hills+ M) not generating
 * Fixed issue with connecting to local games
 * Chat now creates more lines for a single phrase if long enough
 * Fixed emerald ore floating
 * Fixed emerald ore generating in place of monster eggs
 * Fixed picking up items not having an animation
 * – Destroying the core before it cools down causes forever night
 * – Jumping while approaching slabs
 * – Weird gravity animation when the sand or gravel falls to the fence door or fence gate... (Happens on Survival and Creative)
 * – Realms error message: "public/m/ does not exist."
 * – Crash when items are removed from furnace.
 * – Creative items glitching to different items
 * – Sandstone Stairs have the incorrect name.
 * – Sand/gravel falling when placed on top of torches
 * – 3 blocks deep of water...
 * – Changing name in-game options (Survival and Creative)
 * – Light blue wool/carpet has incorrect name
 * – Can't craft quartz stairs in the Stonecutter
 * – Duplicate of a Player after a crash (Tested in Realms)
 * – No item pick up animation
 * – Had duplicate amounts of dirt in my toolbar
 * – Getting stuck in the void after dying
 * – Even when bed is destroyed, you will spawn at the bed's location.
 * – Wooden Axe can't be used as fuel in a furnace
 * – Can't back out of Restricted Site page without allowing website
 * – Water level doesn't go down.
 * – Zombie pigman does not have a helmet
 * – Auto mining block
 * – Water overlap(?) ladder
 * – Carrots and Beetroots Grow Extremely Slow
 * – Duplicate of a consumable item in use shows up in the hotbar
 * – Day and night in creative mode
 * – Unable/refuses to connect while connected with Wi-Fi Direct
 * – Naturally generated stationary lava doesn't update
 * – Light in closed rooms
 * – Bedrock is breakable in Survival mode
 * – Bone Meal Bug
 * – Block collecting animation
 * – world does not generate and closes out of minecraft pocket edition
 * – Lava
 * – Glass bug with mobs
 * – Sign shadow makes it hard to read the text
 * – Stone Walls In Water
 * - Blocks don't render/weird glitchy geometry on Android 2.3.3
 * – Fence attempts to connect to the gate
 * – Mossy Cobblestone Wall item name incorrect
 * – No fall damage for guests
 * – Birch Planks aren't flammable
 * – Failed Sapling Growth Still Replaces Grass with Dirt
 * – Feeding Wolves and animals in survival duplicates the food
 * – Duplication glitch
 * – Can not create a new world
 * – Grass does not grow under or past Fences
 * – Grass blocks under water and under lava
 * – Mobs on minecart do everything at double speed
 * – Action button (ignite, tame, ...) can be use far away from the mob
 * – Sand falls through torch
 * – Sand glitch
 * – Cocoa Beans won't grow at all
 * – Furnace glitch transfer oak planks to birch or any type
 * – Game crashes when pressing 'Quit to title'
 * – At (x,0,y), top of the texture of the block shows whereas the sides are invisible
 * – door duplication glitch
 * – Tapping the login to realms button opens unexitable 'not found' page
 * – Double tall blocks deletes any type of block
 * – Water does not function properly on transparent blocks
 * – It won't cause an update when silverfish break out of monster eggs.
 * – Iron bars don't connect to glass panes.
 * – Acacia and Dark Oak Stairs do NOT burn
 * – Beetroot seeds not spelled correctly
 * – Minecarts disappear after saving
 * – Space is replaced with "game_difficulty" text in username bar
 * – No flames on player's 3rd person view (CREATIVE ONLY)
 * – Glowing blocks at (x,127,z)
 * – The player gets damaged when connecting to survival servers
 * – No sound on multiplayer when host player is breaking or putting blocks
 * – Mobs can breed when separated
 * – Loss of seed generation of the world
 * – portions of buildings gone or world's not saved
 * – Bedrock does not spawn beneath mesas
 * – Emerald generation, happens after caves generation
 * – Not Saving After I Play
 * – water does not flow when creating a new world
 * – Chickens walk on water
 * – Compass leads secondary player to different point from primary player
 * – Beds display light level zero when covered by a block
 * – Unequipped armor causes a crash when dying with the armor tab open
 * – Entities invisible when at/above the build height
 * – MCPE does not check world names for impermissible characters
 * – Usernames starting with "/" used as command
 * – Can click invisible cancel button during world generation
 * – Arrows bounce off wolves and dogs
 * – You do not catch on fire from mobs which are on fire
 * – Crash when quitting to title whilst opening a chest
 * – When red sand falls onto a torch, it changes to white sand
 * – Naturally spawned lava has no blast resistance below a certain level
 * – Losing multiple items after crash
 * – Underground lightning is affected by sunrise/sunset
 * – Item duplication from hotbar in survival mode
 * – Invisible bottom layer