Alpha 0.12.1 is an upcoming update to Minecraft Pocket Edition that will be released "soon"[1]. The release was initially intended to coincide with the release of the Windows 10 version on July 29, 2015 but encountered obstacles in its development, forcing it to be delayed.[2]
Additions
General
- Controller and keyboard support
- Can change controls within options
- Options
- Option to reverse the location of the Sneak and Jump button
- The jump button has been moved to the right side of the screen.
- Added a sneaking button in place of where the current jump button is.
- These are the new default controls.
- Added a sneaking button in place of where the current jump button is.
- Option to disable the auto-jump feature
- Added camera mode slider on options (First-person, Third-person, Front third-person)
- FOV option slider[3]
- Particles
angryVillagerlargeexplodehugeexplodeblockdustslimeenchantementtabledropletsnowshovel- Added falling particles.
Gameplay
- Hunger
- Experience
- Weather
- Sprinting and sneaking
- More difficulty modes
- Peaceful
- Easy
- Normal
- Hard
- Animation for switching blocks and items
- Critical hits
- Enchanting
- Brewing
Blocks
- Enchantment table
- Version exclusive: Book on table glows
- Anvils
- All 3 damage types
- Brewing stand
- Mob head
- Inventory icons are not 3D
- Wither cannot yet be created
- Flower pot
- Soul sand
- Nether brick fence
- Nether brick slab
- Nether quartz ore
Items
- Glass bottles
- Potion
- Gold nugget
- Golden carrot
- Nether wart
- Glistering melon
- Golden apple
- Enchanted golden apple
- Rabbit's foot (creative only as rabbits have not been added yet)
- Blaze rod
- Blaze powder
- Ghast tear
- Spider eye
- Fermented spider eye
- Bottle o' enchanting (creative only as villager trading has not been added yet)
- Poisonous potato
- Enchanted books
Creative inventory additions
- Spawn eggs:
- Glowstone dust
- Gunpowder
- Redstone dust (brewing only)
- Slimeball
- Sugar
- Magma cream
- Apple
- Coal
- Charcoal
- Iron ingot
- Gold ingot
- Emerald
- Diamond
- Raw porkchop
- Cooked porkchop
- Steak
- Raw chicken
- Cooked chicken
- Baked potato
- Bread
- String
- Stick
- Beetroot
- Beetroot soup
- Mushroom soup
- Packed ice
- Boats:
- Spruce, birch, jungle, acacia, and dark oak variants
- Leather armor
- Chain armor
- Iron armor
- Gold armor
- Diamond armor
World generation
- The Nether
- Nether portals can also be up to 23x23 in size
- All items previously obtained through the Nether reactor are now available through their normal means.
- Nether fortresses
Mobs
- Iron golems
- Snow golems
- Version exclusive: Shows jack o' lantern as the head if used for building, in place of the pumpkin
- Version exclusive: The pumpkin can be removed using shears, revealing the face of the snow golem
- Ocelots
- Zombie villagers
- PC 1.9 feature: Villagers retain their profession and clothes, which appear tattered, and have green wart on their noses
- Baby zombie villagers
- Blazes
- Wither skeletons
- Charged creepers
- Spawned when a lightning bolt strikes a creeper during a thunderstorm.
Changes
General
- Graphics
- Tinted water - gradient from aqua to dark blue when viewed from a distance
- New explosion particles
- Particles are no longer dark when inside of a block
- Cactus particles are now correct
- Version exclusive: Leaves in snowy taigas now appear frost-covered
- Only uses the leaves coloring shaders when the color for a biome actually changes
- Only samples the lightmap texture for non-transparent pixels
- Scrollbar
- Always visible
- New texture
- The player can now swim in lava
- Updated sounds
- New sound for dying skeletons and wither skeletons
- Digging and walking sounds are now the same as PC.
- Damage sounds changed to that of the PC version
- Fishing rod now makes a less repetitive sound
- Ladders now make sounds when climbing
- Water and lava now make sounds when flowing
- Name tags are visible from farther away now
- New random seed algorithm
- Options
- Third person view switch replaced with a slider bar, with 3 options:
- Option 1 - first person view
- Option 2 - third person view
- Option 3 - frontal face view
- Renamed D-Pad size slider to "Button size"
- Third person view switch replaced with a slider bar, with 3 options:
- Custom server IPs must be unique
- Relocated pause and chat button (survival only)
- Trying to connect to old versions of the game will now show an error message.
Gameplay
- Controls
- Flight controls are now slightly smaller
- Chat
- The player can now use the chat while in a bed.
- Slight jump delay when jumping in a small space
- Blocks can now be placed underneath player while sneaking
World generation
- Now spawn with only wheat + one other crop instead of all crops.
- Now spawn with beetroot crops.
- Will now spawn iron golems
Blocks
- Uncraftable
- Removed from the crafting menu and the creative inventory.
- Still provides drops when broken (3 diamonds and 6 iron ingots)
- Only obtainable via inventory editing.
- Centered the result name in the furnace
- Version exclusive: Builds up multiple layers naturally through snowfall
- Version exclusive: Are now affected by gravity
- Breaking crops will now always drop seeds
- Version exclusive: Now appears brighter
- Now prevents fall damage
- When in the Nether, now flows like on PC
- Can now be used to make water bottles
- Can now be stacked up to 64
- Crafting now produces 3 doors rather than 1.
- New texture:
- Can now be placed horizontally
- Now has a chance to drop sticks when broken
- Now rotate based on the direction they were placed
- Can now be placed on bottom and top side of a block
Items
- New inventory icons
- Now include paddles
- Different boat types' items now are their respective color
- All rotten foods
- Beetroot crops can be obtained from village farms
- Beetroot seeds can no longer be obtained by tilling grass blocks
- Seeds can no longer be obtained by tilling grass blocks
- Now use the updated crafting recipe including leather
- Mobs spawned from renamed eggs have the name of the egg and the names will appear in death messages.
- Zombie spawn eggs now have a chance to spawn zombie villagers
Mobs
- All mobs
- Burning mobs have a sizzling particle effect once extinguished
- Mobs now drop experience when killed
- Now wears different armor and can hold items
- Now drops weapons and armor rarely
- Can now break down doors
- Drops its head if killed by a charged creeper
- Now able to detect the player up to 40 blocks.
- Now wears different armor and can hold items
- Improved accuracy
- Now drops weapons and armor rarely
- Can turn into a wither skeleton if spawned in the nether
- Drops its head if killed by a charged creeper
- Death sound changed to that of PC
- Now turn into charged creepers when struck by lightning
- Run away from ocelots (wild and tamed variants)
- Now have particles when jumping
- Now spawn in the Nether
- Magma cubes now split when killed
- Now neutral rather than hostile
- Now spawns in the Nether
- Now wears armor and can hold items
- Now drops swords and armor rarely
- Now drops gold nuggets
- Have a chance to spawn with enchanted swords
- Can now open and close doors
- Can now harvest crops
- Can now breed
- Now has angry particles if attacked by the player
- Now always become zombie villagers in Hard difficulty
- Now have a walking sound
- Now drops spider eyes
- Now has a walking sound
- Now drops spider eyes
- Now spawns in the Nether
- Now drops ghast tears
- Now makes sounds and noises
- Increased size of hitbox
- Now turns into zombie pigman when struck by lightning
- Tamed wolves now attack target when it was hit with a bow
- No longer makes sounds while moving
Planned additions
Gameplay
- Possibly in-game music
- May be downloadable only as a free in-app purchase on Android, iOS, and Windows devices[4]
Fixes
72 bugs fixed
- Touchpad implementation fixed on the Sony Xperia Play
From released versions before 0.12.1
- MCPE-3671 – You can't get out of lava[5]
- MCPE-4202 - Sounds on Android devices are incorrect
- MCPE-5200 - Bug while mining/breaking blocks (Touch and Split Controls)
- MCPE-5541 - cant place pillar quartz blocks sideways
- MCPE-6263 - Bow don't have particles in full charge.
- MCPE-6806 - Automatic Flying Bug
- MCPE-6854 - Auto jump not working with carpet
- MCPE-6882 - Finger free mining bug.
- MCPE-6886 - Wrong Crops Sound
- MCPE-6998 - When tapping the leftmost box in hotbar while walking forward, you walk backwards-left a bit.
- MCPE-7745 - Acacia and dark oak trees act like ladders
- MCPE-7873 - Baby pigs can pass trough slabs
- MCPE-7880 - Hotbar size decreases when on split controls
- MCPE-7878 - Cobblestone generators don't work for other players in Local Server Multiplayer
- MCPE-7899 - painting
de_aztec(or Aztec) does not exist in the game - MCPE-7901 - jungle leaves x-ray bug
- MCPE-7914 - Putting out fire in creative mode
- MCPE-7917 - Jumping mobs
- MCPE-7921 - Inventory Armor Section Bug!
- MCPE-7925 - Red Sand Suffocation
- MCPE-7951 - 2x2 Jungle trees leaves disapear when you grow them artificially (bonemeal)
- MCPE-7975 - Burning fuel icon not decreasing when the world is closed and reopened
- MCPE-7977 - Upper slabs cause top leaf texture to disappear
- MCPE-7996 - Monster spawners only spawn mobs with data value 0
- MCPE-8000 - Mesas generate on top of water bodies in Bryce mesa biomes
- MCPE-8006 - Skeletons arrows bounce off
- MCPE-8098 - Water and Lava disappear when switching view distances
- MCPE-8146 - Redstone Ore doesn't give off particles.
- MCPE-8149 - Heavy shading on water blocks at the world border
- MCPE-8154 - Mining consecutive redstone ore blocks does not light each block as they are being mined
- MCPE-8166 - Lava can tick through walls
- MCPE-8372 - Fishing rod and flying glitch
- MCPE-8376 - Wrong Magma Cream Name
- MCPE-8377 - Magma Cubes Do Not Split
- MCPE-8392 - Lighting glitch when standing under a door
- MCPE-8412 - Block selection overlay is only visible on one side of a texture
- MCPE-8422 - Villager professions not showing correctly on client
- MCPE-8466 - Mob pathfinding considers the void to be a solid platform
- MCPE-8517 - Dogs (tamed wolves) cannot be healed to full health
- MCPE-8522 - Falling beyond bedrock into void
- MCPE-8572 - Baby animals can grow up in fences-type blocks and escape their pen
- MCPE-8575 - Skeletons Aim is off
- MCPE-8604 - Zombies think that slabs are full blocks
- MCPE-8605 - Eating raw chicken gives you hunger?
- MCPE-8606 - Water can turn lava into obsidian from underneath.
- MCPE-8615 - View Bobbing Automatically defaults to on after restarting the app
- MCPE-8628 - Egg shows snowball particles when thrown
- MCPE-8630 - Fishing bobber (bait or lure) burns forever
- MCPE-8641 - LAN Mid-Air glitch
- MCPE-8654 - Wrong text when selecting which model to use with your custom skin
- MCPE-8665 - Furnaces are facing wrong direction in village blacksmiths
- MCPE-8670 - World crashes on load
- MCPE-8676 - Mobs get stuck atop the border wall
- MCPE-8702 - Baby zombie pigmen
- MCPE-8707 - Double-tall flowers do not drop items when mined
- MCPE-8826 - Chunks near to and of mushroom island biomes do not generate
- MCPE-8853 - Carpet duplication when trying to place it where it cannot be placed
- MCPE-8855 - Minecarts Wrong View when riding it down
- MCPE-8881 - Baby chickens die in boats
- MCPE-8961 - Cobwebs can't be broken by water
- MCPE-8974 - After mobs get out of fire, they do not continue to burn
- MCPE-9062 - Nether Reactor gives wrong message
- MCPE-9073 - Vegetation generates through structures
- MCPE-9150 - Unable to scroll a newly selected language off of the language menu screen
- MCPE-9251 - Infinite Boat Rowing Bug
- MCPE-9254 - Bow glitch
- MCPE-9630 - No 32 bit support
- MCPE-9930 - Lava-Don't stop fall damage
From the 0.11.0 development versions
- MCPE-8333 - Not translate in RU lang for blocks
- MCPE-8359 - Custom Skins Crash
- MCPE-8365 - Wrong death position-VIDEO
References
- ↑ https://twitter.com/_tomcc/status/638327839503335425
- ↑ https://twitter.com/_tomcc/status/623056316274221056
- ↑ https://twitter.com/shoghicp/status/627050586756763648
- ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/MCPE/comments/3ctjj4/tommasso_finished_the_enchantment_table_us_d/cszpr7z/
- ↑ "ctfownv" – u/{{{author}}} on Reddit
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