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
General
- Realms[verify]
- Requires logging in to Microsoft Xbox Live account
- Title screen
- Realms button
- Replaces the location of the Options button
- Realms button
- Options button
- Is now an icon
- Achievements for iOS and Android
- Version exclusive: More achievements.
- Online multiplayer with Xbox Live friends
- New UI for the main menu, shared with the Windows 10 Edition
Gameplay
- Pig riding
- Version exclusive: New sound when accelerates.
- Interact buttons
- Boost, used when riding a pig with a carrot on a stick.
- Name, used for name mobs using name tags.
Blocks
- Pistons and sticky pistons
- Version exclusive: New animation; piston arm is visibly thicker at the bottom.
- Version exclusive: Can push block entities such as chests.
- Version exclusive: Block entities that stick to walls (such as levers) can now be placed on pistons or sticky pistons.
- Observer
- BUD Block
Items
- Raw mutton
- Cooked mutton
- Fire charges
- Spawn eggs
- Name tags
- Leads
- Carrot on a stick
- Tipped arrows
- Version exclusive: Made with potion cauldrons.
- Version exclusive: Leather horse armor
- Can be dyed using cauldron.
Mobs
World generation
- New taiga and savanna village types
- Jungle temple[verify]
Changes
- Title screen
- Options button is now an icon, moved to the bottom-right of the screen, next to the Languages button
- New scroll bar[1]
- Version exclusive: Experience bar is visible in Creative.
- Online play uses less bandwidth now
- Note blocks are a lot louder now
Fixes
- Fixed a lot of crashes!
- Fixed a couple of bugs causing data to be lost or world corruption.
- A whole bunch of redstone fixes from the community feedback.
- Lots of multiplayer desynchronization fixes.
- Less flickering of the block selection highlight!
- Glass doesn’t become green anymore.
- Fixed chests generation in dungeons and desert temples.
- Walking far from spawn generates a lot less jittering now.
- MCPE-14238 – Fences and Cobblestone Wall placed in Item Frames are invisible.
- MCPE-12960 – Nether Wart block has wrong shape when placed at Soul Sand.
- MCPE-12394 – Cobblestone wall are connected to sideways fence gate.
- MCPE-11703 – Incorrect position when fence gate is opened.
- MCPE-12961 – Paintings not adhered to the wall.
- MCPE-11500 – Note Block's audio is too low.
Planned additions
- Possibly command blocks[2]
- If added, they will have slightly different commands due to limitations.[3]
- Possibly resource packs[2]
- Possibly commands[2]
Planned changes
References
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<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namednewinv - ↑ 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
- ↑ "@Endergamer643 They're going to be similar but not compatible, PC commands are too tied to PC's internals unfortunately." – @_tomcc (Tommaso Checchi) on X, March 29, 2016
- ↑ "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
- ↑ "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