Console Edition upcoming features

This page is about upcoming features that have been announced by Mojang and 4J Studios employees.

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 * style="text-align: center;" valign="center" | Beta 1.8.2 (The Adventure Update)
 * Fifth Update
 * Beta 1.8.1 features.
 * Will be called Beta 1.8.2
 * Creative Mode.
 * Superflat world type
 * Hunger
 * NPC Villages, Abandoned Mineshafts, Strongholds and Ravines
 * 12 Music Discs
 * New Combat Mechanics
 * Chargeable bows
 * Critical hits
 * Sprinting
 * Players can parry with a sword
 * Change name of world.
 * Pressure Plates can now be placed on fences
 * New mobs
 * Endermen
 * Cave spiders
 * Silverfish
 * New Food Items
 * Apples
 * Raw Chicken
 * Cooked Chicken
 * Raw Beef
 * Steak
 * Melons
 * Melon seeds
 * Rotten Flesh
 * Cobwebs
 * Fence Gate
 * Iron bars
 * Glass pane
 * Stone Brick
 * Pumpkin Seed
 * Vines
 * Sponges(Creative only)
 * New biomes
 * Swamp biome
 * Ocean biome
 * Mountain biome
 * River
 * Rivers flow through/in between biomes
 * Mobs don't despawn anymore
 * Passive mobs will randomly flee if attacked by the player or other mobs (such as Cows).
 * Pig has 3D snout.
 * No Enchanting or Experience.
 * No Breeding
 * Death messages
 * Message appears saying who and how the player died
 * Chest has opening and closing animation
 * Skeletons hold full size bow
 * Shears can now collect Tall Grass and Vines
 * Player placed leaf blocks no longer decay
 * Ocean floor now consists of Clay, sand and dirt, this makes clay easier to find
 * Exclusive Superflat option for the Nether
 * Option to turn clouds off
 * Large changes to Tutorial
 * Bonus Chest world option
 * style="text-align: center;" valign="center" | TBA
 * Sixth UpdateThursday September 27 2012
 * Confirmed For the 27 of september
 * style="text-align: center;" valign="center" | 1.2.3
 * Seventh Update
 * 1.2.3 features.
 * TBA.
 * style="text-align: center;" valign="center" | 1.2.3
 * Seventh Update
 * 1.2.3 features.
 * TBA.
 * TBA.