Pocket Edition v0.7.0 alpha

v0.7.0 alpha was a major update to Minecraft: Pocket Edition that was released on June 5, 2013. It added notable features such as Pocket Edition Realms, buckets and spawn eggs, as well as other changes and fixes.

Blocks

 * Cakes
 * A food block that can be eaten by the player.
 * Can be crafted with three milk buckets, two sugar, one egg, and three wheat.

Items

 * Buckets
 * Can be crafted with iron ingots.
 * Are used to carry water, lava, or milk.
 * Water bucket
 * Places water.
 * Lava bucket
 * Places lava.
 * Milk bucket
 * Can be obtained by using a bucket on a cow.
 * Are used to craft cakes.
 * Spawn eggs
 * Are used to spawn mobs directly.
 * Cannot be obtained in Survival mode.
 * Four type of spawn eggs, each spawning their respective mob:
 * Chicken
 * Sheep
 * Pig
 * Cow
 * Saddles
 * Currently serve no purpose.
 * Are not yet obtainable.

General

 * Pocket Realms (alpha stage)
 * An official subscription-based server hosting service that allows players to create and manage their own private Minecraft servers.
 * World creation enabled from June 10 onwards.
 * Not available on iOS devices.
 * Chat
 * Players can press the Chat button.png button at the top-right of the screen to open the chat and talk with other players.
 * Smooth lighting
 * Blends light levels across block faces and darkens corners using to add semi-realistic shadows and glowing from light sources.
 * Can be toggled off in the options.
 * Options
 * D-pad size
 * Controls the size of the directional buttons as well as circle that appears when destroying blocks.
 * Is a slider that is set all the way right by default.
 * View distance
 * Changes the render distance of the terrain.
 * Is currently limited to a slider with two settings.
 * The leftmost setting sets the render distance to two chunks, and the default rightmost setting sets it to four chunks.
 * Beautiful skies
 * Toggles clouds and sky color.
 * Is on by default.
 * Animated water
 * Toggles water, lava, and fire animations.
 * Is on by default.
 * Smooth lighting
 * Toggles smooth lighting.
 * Is on by default.
 * Hide GUI
 * Makes the heads-up display invisible when toggled on.
 * Is off by default.

Blocks

 * Lava
 * Now lights flammable blocks around it on fire.
 * Now has a flowing animation.
 * Texture has been changed from Lava BE1.png to Lava BE2.png.

Items

 * Flint and steel
 * Can now be used to set fires.
 * Eggs
 * Are now used to craft cakes.
 * Throwing an egg has a chance of spawning an adult chicken.

Mobs

 * Chickens
 * Adult chickens now lay eggs every 5–10 minutes.

General

 * Main menu
 * The background is now a blurred image of a Minecraft world instead of a dirt background.
 * The version number and Mojang copyright are both now in the bottom-left instead of the top and the bottom-right respectively.
 * The Join Game button has been removed.
 * The options button has been moved to the bottom-right.
 * The Start Game button has been renamed to the Play button.
 * Added the Play on Realms button in the middle.
 * Pause menu
 * Server visibility, sound, and third person view are no longer directly controlled from it.
 * An Options button has been added to it.
 * Options
 * Now uses options.txt to store settings.
 * Removed the Lower graphics quality toggle.
 * Is now split into four subsections, with some of them being split into further subsections:
 * Game
 * Name
 * Difficulty
 * Third person view
 * Local server multiplayer
 * Controls
 * Sensitivity
 * Invert Y-Axis
 * Lefty
 * Play with touch
 * Split controls
 * D-Pad size
 * Feedback:
 * Destroy block (vibrate)
 * Graphics
 * View Distance
 * Fancy Graphics
 * Beautiful skies
 * Animated water
 * Experimental:
 * Smooth lighting
 * Hide GUI
 * Sound
 * Sound Volume
 * Not all options are available on all devices.
 * Inventory
 * Connecting players inventory is now saved on server.
 * Creative inventory
 * Additions:
 * Bucket
 * Water bucket
 * Lava bucket
 * Cake
 * Egg
 * Spawn chicken
 * Spawn cow
 * Spawn pig
 * Spawn sheep

v0.6.2 alpha
v0.6.2 alpha was an unreleased development testing version for Pocket Edition v0.7.0 alpha.

Gallery
Development screenshots: