Pocket Edition v0.4.0 alpha

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

Gameplay

 * Difficulty
 * Peaceful difficulty option for Survival; without monsters and does have automatic healing.

Blocks and Items

 * Chests
 * Cannot make double chests yet
 * Cannot open chests in creative
 * Beds
 * Used to skip the night and set the player's spawn point.
 * TNT
 * Use old explosion sounds from Java Edition.
 * Gunpowder
 * Flint and Steel
 * Food-related items
 * Apples
 * Bread
 * Mushroom Stew
 * Raw Beef
 * Steak
 * Raw Chicken
 * Cooked Chicken
 * Raw Porkchop
 * Cooked Porkchop
 * Wheat
 * Seeds
 * Dyes
 * Added cactus green, cyan dye, lapis lazuli, light blue dye, lime dye, magenta dye, orange dye, pink dye, and purple dye.
 * : Red dye can be obtained by smelting red mushrooms
 * Yellow dye can be obtained by dandelions

General

 * Added crafting recipes to some blocks:
 * Wool
 * Stone Bricks
 * Hoe
 * Wheat seeds are obtained by using hoe on grass blocks


 * Moss Stone
 * Now available in the creative inventory.
 * Redstone Ore
 * Now available in the creative inventory.
 * White Wool
 * Now available in the creative inventory.
 * Trapdoor
 * Now available in the creative inventory.

Mobs

 * Creepers

Gameplay

 * Lengthened the daytime
 * Limited the total number of a given mob type.
 * When using an item, the player’s movement speed is decreased.

Blocks and items

 * Snowballs can now be thrown.
 * The player no longer has infinite bricks, glass and shears.

Mobs

 * Zombies now drop feathers
 * Limited the total number of a given monster type.
 * Animal spawning (being worked on)

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.
 * Dark leaves sometimes have crafting table texture.
 * 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.