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Alpha 0.15.0, the first release of the Friendly Update[1], is an update to Minecraft: Pocket Edition which added pistons, realms, and other additions and changes.

Additions

General

  • Sounds
  • Title screen
  • Achievements for iOS and Android
  • Resource packs
    • Some resource packs aren't complete.
    • In the game and in the options menu, they are refered to as texture packs, but in the game, when you manage the available resource packs from the options menu, there are options to move them around and select multiple resource packs, like in the PC version. Also, in the files, there is a folder called resource_packs, where the resource pack files are stored.
  • 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 them.

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.
    • Leash, used for leashing a mob with a lead.
    • Take Picture, used for taking pictures with a camera (currently not available in game, but in the files).

Blocks

Items

Mobs

World generation

Changes

General

  • Title screen
  • New scroll bar
  • Online play uses less bandwidth now.
  • Note blocks are a lot louder now.
  • When player's name is Dinnerbone or Grumm, player's model change to upside down model.
  • Drops iOS 7 support; iOS 8 or later required
  • 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 due to bug switching its texture with the Plastic resource pack (if you use the Plastic resource pack, the original texture is then shown on the block). It is still unobtainable.
  • Rose Bush
    • Version exclusive: New texture.
  • Peony
    • Version exclusive: New texture.

Mobs

World generation

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

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