Pocket Edition v0.4.0 alpha

v0.4.0 alpha was a major update to Minecraft: Pocket Edition that was released on September 6 and 13, 2012. It added notable features such as beds, trapdoors, creepers, new food, and farming items, as well as other changes and fixes. This update was also the first public release for Fire.

Blocks

 * Beds
 * Used to skip the night and set the player's spawn point.
 * Trapdoors
 * Used as a 1×1 barrier that can be opened by hand.
 * Stone bricks
 * Only available in Survival mode.

Items

 * Gunpowder
 * Used to craft TNT.
 * Flint and steel
 * Used to detonate TNT.
 * Hoes
 * Used to till dirt and grass blocks into farmland.
 * Food-related items
 * Apples
 * Bread
 * Mushroom stew
 * Raw beef
 * Steak
 * Raw chicken
 * Cooked chicken
 * Raw porkchop
 * Cooked porkchop
 * Wheat
 * Wheat seeds
 * Dyes
 * Cactus green
 * Cyan dye
 * Lapis lazuli
 * Light blue dye
 * Lime dye
 * Magenta dye
 * Orange dye
 * Pink dye
 * Purple dye
 * : Red dye can be obtained by smelting red mushrooms.
 * Yellow dye can be obtained by dandelions.

Mobs

 * Creepers
 * Hostile mobs that silently approach the player and explode.

Gameplay

 * Difficulty
 * Peaceful difficulty option for Survival that has automatic healing and doesn't spawn monsters.

General

 * Added crafting recipes to some blocks:
 * TNT
 * Chests
 * Wool

Blocks

 * Chests
 * Are now functional in Survival mode, and are able to store other items and blocks in them.
 * Farmland
 * Changed texture from Farmland BE2.png to Farmland JE3 BE3.png.

Items

 * Snowballs
 * Can now be thrown.

Mobs

 * Limited the total number of any given mob type.
 * Animal spawning (being worked on)
 * Zombies
 * Now drop feathers.

World generation

 * Oak trees
 * Now generate with oak wood instead of spruce wood.

Gameplay

 * Daytime is now longer.
 * When using an item, the player’s movement speed is decreased.
 * Creative inventory
 * Additions:
 * Moss stone
 * Oak wood
 * Redstone ore
 * White wool
 * Trapdoor
 * Bed
 * Chest
 * TNT
 * Wheat seeds
 * Bone meal
 * Iron hoe
 * Iron sword
 * Removals:
 * Stone shovel
 * Stone pickaxe
 * Stone axe
 * Shears
 * Stone sword

Fixes
15 bugs fixed


 * Monsters could spawn indoors.
 * Added fall damage for clients.
 * Players could hit each other far away.
 * Incorrect bow rendering in third person view.
 * Missing particles after critical arrows
 * Stairs reverted to their basic blocks when destroyed
 * Charging the bow could destroy certain blocks (flowers, torches), or interact with blocks.
 * The game crashes if the player is killed while having charging a bow.
 * Connecting players could die in Creative mode.
 * Spruce leaves sometimes use the crafting table texture on all sides when dropped as an item or held in the player's hand.
 * Wrong crafting table size for Xperia Play
 * Bow doesn't take damage when used.
 * Non-dark brown tree trunks are now added back to the game (you may need to start a new world as host).
 * Destroying a door could leave half a door.
 * Missing spider death sound on iOS.

J-version
v0.4.0j alpha was released with unknown changes.

Videos
=== Trailer === A trailer for the update was released on September 6, 2012.