Alpha 0.15.0 is an upcoming update to Minecraft: Pocket Edition with no set release date which added Realms, along with other planned additions and changes.
Additions
- Realms button
- Replaces the old Options button
- Options button
- Is now an icon
- Beside the Languages icon
- Is now an icon
Changes
- Title screen
- Options button is now an icon
- Moved to the bottom-right of the screen, next to the Languages button
- Blocks
- Changed lava texture.
- Version exclusive: New burning player animation.
Planned additions
General
- Possibly Resource Packs[3]
- Possibly Commands[3]
- Options:
- Graphics
- Anti-Aliasing[4]
- Graphics
- Pig Riding[5]
- New interact button: Boost
- Used when riding a pig with a carrot on a stick
- New interact button: Boost
Blocks
Redstone-related blocks
- Possibly Command Blocks[3]
- Pistons and sticky pistons[6]
- Version exclusive: New animation; piston arm is visibly thicker at the bottom.
- Version exclusive: Can push block entities such as chests.[7]
Items
Teaser screenshot of skeleton-like mob
Mobs
Planned changes
General
- Options:
- Removal of animated water option, as the issue causing lag was fixed.[15]
Inventory
- New scroll bar[9]
Teaser screenshot of a new village type
World generation
References
- ↑ a b "We just released Realms MCPE Alpha on Android, it will be free for a while for anyone that helps us test it :) http://mojang.com/2016/04/were-working-on-minecraft-realms-for-pocket-and-win-10/" – @tomcc_ on X, April 13, 2016
- ↑ "People, the 0.15 Alpha is just for Realms, there are no 0.15 features like Pistons! They will come later :)" – @tomcc_ on X, April 13, 2016
- ↑ a b c "Apparently it's out now, we're working on commands, resourcepacks and plugins for Pocket and Windows10 :)" – @_tomcc (Tommaso Checchi) on X, March 29, 2016
- ↑ "Options are popping up, I think somebody asked for this..." – @_tomcc (Tommaso Checchi) on X, March 2, 2016
- ↑ https://mobile.twitter.com/argo_major/status/726928990888292352
- ↑ "For the first tweet in the series "Piston stuff": Animation! More news to come! What do you think?" – @darngeek on X, March 9, 2016
- ↑ "Thank you all so much for the 100K followers! Here is another little teaser: so many possibilities :D" – @darngeek on X, April 11, 2016
- ↑ "I'm more of a beef and chicken kind of guy but I've been told that this isn't baa...d" – @argo_major (Jason Major) on X, March 11, 2016
- ↑ a b c "Hmm. There seems to be something different here..." – @argo_major (Jason Major) on X, April 11, 2016
- ↑ https://twitter.com/argo_major/status/723021445379461125
- ↑ https://twitter.com/argo_major/status/723942013419163652
- ↑ https://twitter.com/argo_major/status/726928990888292352
- ↑ "Today's idea: a NPCComponent you can give to any mob to have a dialog tree with them. I'm getting pretty hype :)" – @_tomcc (Tommaso Checchi) on X, February 19, 2016
- ↑ "What are these? http://i.imgur.com/aN7rBGU.png Based on work by @argo_major, aimed for MCPC 1.10 and MCPE 0.15.0" – @jeb_ (Jens Bergensten) on X, April 11, 2016
- ↑ "GPU Accelerated Animated Textures™ work now, we removed the option entirely because now they're free :)" – @_tomcc (Tommaso Checchi) on X, March 10, 2016
- ↑ "How much would you hate if we made a new world generator with new biomes, but you need to create a new world to get it?" – @_tomcc (Tommaso Checchi) on X, February 19, 2016
- ↑ https://twitter.com/jeb_/status/717703877525692420