Alpha 0.15.0, the first release of the Friendly Update[1], is an update to Minecraft: Pocket Edition which added pistons, along with other planned additions and changes.
Additions
General
- Sounds
- Title screen
- Skins button
- Is now an icon
- Skins button
- 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.
- New UI for the skins menu, it has skin selection carousel that is similar to Console Edition.
- Version exclusive: Added eating animation for animals when feeding then.
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.
- Version exclusive: Observer
- BUD Block
Items
- Raw mutton
- Cooked mutton
- Fire charges
- Spawn eggs
- Horse
- Version exclusive: Zombie horse
- Version exclusive: Skeleton horse
- Donkey
- Mule
- Version exclusive: Stray
- Version exclusive: Husk
- Version exclusive: Wither skeleton
- Horse
- Name tags
- Leads
- Carrot on a stick
- Tipped arrows
- Version exclusive: Made with potion cauldrons.
- Horse armor
- Version exclusive: Leather horse armor
Mobs
World generation
- New village types
- Taiga village
- Uses spruce wood instead of oak.
- Savanna village
- Uses acacia wood instead of oak.
- Zombie village
- Version exclusive: Buildings generate with moss stone floors.
- Spawn zombie villagers instead of normal villagers.
- The village generates without any doors or torches.
- Taiga village
- Jungle temple
Changes
General
- Title screen
- New scroll bar
- Online play uses less bandwidth now.
- Note blocks are a lot louder now.
- When players name is Dinnerbone or Grumm, players model change to upside down model.
- Inventory button
- Now is more transparent.
Items
- Shears
- Now lose durability when breaking any kind of blocks.
Blocks
- Trapdoors
- No longer require supporting blocks.
- Paintings
- Now have sounds when placed and broken.
- Nether Reactor Core
- Different texture, still unobtainable
- Rose Bush
- Version exclusive: New texture.
- Peony
- Version exclusive: New texture.
Mobs
- All Mobs
- When named to Dinnerbone make mobs upside-down.
- Skeletons
- Rabbits
- When named to Toast changes their skin.
- Sheep
- Endermen
- Can now rarely spawn in the Nether.
World generation
- Desert temples
- Now generate enchanted books in chests.
Planned additions
General
- Possibly resource packs[2]
- Possibly commands[2]
Planned changes
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.
Trivia
- This is the first Pocket Edition update to receive an official name by Mojang.
- This update also had the shortest amount of development builds to date, with 3 (5 if Realms is included) builds being released in the timespan of only 10 days.
References
- ↑ http://www.mojang.com/2016/06/whats-in-015-the-friendly-update-for-pocket-win-10/
- ↑ a b "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
- ↑ "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