Minecraft Wiki:Issues/Pocket Edition 0.5.0

This page's purpose is to list all the bugs players have come across. They pertain to the unmodified, unhacked game. Most of the single-player bugs also apply to multi-player.

Pocket Edition Version History also contains newer bugs that may not be listed on this page at the moment.

Bugs and feature requests can now be logged at Get Satisfaction: Mojang.

Bug Labels
''Major bugs will be labeled with ! before it. Bugs that can crash Minecraft or a server will be labeled with !! before it. Minor bugs reports will be labeled with x before it. Possible bugs/features that you and the community (on the discussion page) are unsure about will be labeled with ? before on this page.''

Both single and multiplayer Minecraft Pocket Edition (CSP and CMP)

 * x You can place sugarcane on any surface as long as it is submerged in water. If sugarcane is placed next to the original, they will both disappear.
 * wx You cannot place torches on the back of stairs like glass.
 * !! When selecting a world, after selecting a world, if you select back quickly, the game will load behind the menu, and of you try to start a new game, it will crash. This can be fixed by restarting the app.[Tested on iOS only]
 * It is possible to place ladders against the invisible wall on the sides of a map by placing them on the top of a block or of a ladder. One can make the ladder as high as the map and run out his world. (Works with iOS version)
 * wx When you hit a door to break it (with your hand or a block), it makes the noise that it does when it opens, but doesn't
 * ! You can drown in creative.(This Can happen in Both Android and IOS.)

Creative Single Player (CSP)

 * ! When a world is generated, sometimes all the blocks appear completely black. (Tested on Android)
 * ! If you have a block with snow on it, and you place a ladder on it, the ladder will be placed, but it will not be visible. However, if you place another ladder adjacent to it, neither of the blocks will be there.
 * x If you place Wooden Stairs or Stone Stairs above a certain layer, they will not be visible
 * !! Sometimes after the Mojang logo appears or loading any world, the app will display a white screen and it freezes for some seconds, sometimes this will restart the app. [Tested on iOS only]
 * x When placing a block of glass underwater and walk in top of such, it will display weird textures on the block of glass. [Tested on iOS only]
 * x When holding a Torch, Ladder, Cyan Flower and Sugar Cane a white pixel appears above of the item, this happen no matter if you have the fancy graphics and lower graphics quality turned on and off. [Worked on iOS only]
 * x When you place 2 half slabs under water source block, it will disappear.
 * x If you go to the side of a world and pillar to the height limit, you can walk out of the map.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JysAGAjIUs&nomobile=1
 * x In addition to the above bug, (pillar to side of world and getting out), in third person view your character is invisible at this height.
 * x If you put a torch on a block next to the world limiting wall and place another torch on the first one, it will be placed on the map limiting wall.
 * !! The game freezes when loading a world with most it at a low elevation, for example, a flatgrass map with ground level at Y=32.
 * x It is possible to place blocks on top of flowers and mushrooms causing the flower or mushroom to vanish in most cases, it is probably possible to place blocks on other items that you shouldn't normally be able to.
 * x The player can't automatically jump up any transparent block (glass, leaf) ledges.
 * x One half slab can be placed under a block but to place a second, the block above it must be removed.
 * x Both flowers cannot be placed on anything but a dirt or grass block, but if any other block has a thin snow layer on it, it can be placed, destroying the snow layer and putting it on an unusual block (i.e. flower on a diamond block or sand).
 * x Stairs will let through light, just like glass.
 * x Leaves will decay if a log is not nearby when placed by the player.
 * x If you have a cactus plant(any height) and place a door next to it, only the top of the door will be visible.
 * x When trying opening a door by tapping on the window, it will place the block in your outside of the door.

Survival Single Player (SSP)

 * x If you have a stack of blocks bigger than 99, it will still count 99.
 * x Sometimes the hurt sound of mobs won't play.
 * ? If TNT is hacked in with an inventory editor and detonated, ore blocks will drop themselves rather than their normal drop (no drops at the moment).
 * ! Some Zombies don't burn during the daytime.
 * ! Cactus drops disappear if they happen to land on another cactus block that is not broken. (Tested on iOS) Edit: Cactus does this is PC edition too. Not a bug.
 * ! Even though sugarcane is an available block in the Pocket Edition, for some reason it cannot be collected when broken.
 * ! Wool cannot be collected. (Tested on iOS)
 * x If you build a tower to the top of a world's corner, you can walk out of the map. (Tested on both Android and iOS)
 * x You can hit mobs behind glass. (Tested on iOS)
 * x If you have a cactus plant(any height) and place a door next to it, only the top of the door will be visible.
 * x When trying opening a door by tapping on the window, it will place the block in your outside of the door.

Creative Multiplayer (CMP)
saved.
 * ! If a player joins the game, he/she will be disconnected and will not be able to join your world. But he/she still remains in the same data.
 * ! If one joins a game then quits and saves copy of the game the copy will only be of the hosts spawn location, even if evident at the time of connection once disconnected and a copy of the game is saved the area around the spawn will be the only part of the map saved.
 * ! If you save a copy of the world you joined, the copy will not include any of the buildings you built.
 * ! iPhones cannot connect to a Android game (tested with HTC Incredible 2, iPod Touch, and iPad 2) but it works the other way around.
 * ! When you change your skin and another player changes their skin to something different, then the skin that your player has will appear on their character as well (tested in creative and survival with iPad and iPod Touch 4th gen)
 * ! In multiplayer survival people that join your game will not die from cactus and falling.
 * ! In multiplayer joining a word will result in new terrain different from the hosts but any structures built will be there such as if the host spawned on a flat piece of land someone joining could be in the same place but in a cave. Tested on SMP on iPod to Motorola Xoom and Samsung Galaxy SI to Motorola Xoom with Motorola Xoom hosting in both situations.
 * ! In multiplayer, if 2 half slabs are placed on top of each other, it will appear as 3 half slabs to any other players (tested on survival with iPad and iPod Touch 4th gen)
 * Occaisonally, when joining your friend's creative servers, you will not have a health bar or infinity signs next to items, though you may not use the items that you do not have unlimited of in survival (eg. Cobblestone or Wood).
 * Sometimes blocks placed by a server's host will not appear on other player's devices. When that player walks through the blocks, they will take what appears to be suffocation damage until they die or leave the place (on creative). This can be fixed by the host breaking the blocks and replacing them.