v0.7.3 alpha was a minor update to Minecraft: Pocket Edition that was released on August 15, 2013.[1] This version changes the daylight cycle and fixed some of the bugs and crashes in v0.7.2.
iOS 4.3 is no longer supported in this version; v0.7.3 requires iOS 5.0 or later. Users running iOS 4.3 will only be able to play older versions of Pocket Edition.[2]
Additions[]
Gameplay[]
- Sun, moon, stars, sunrise and sunset added.
- Improved title screen
- Splashes
- Added 308 splashes. See /Splashes.
- Panorama
- The menu panorama uses seed
2151901553968352745
in Java Edition Beta 1.7.3 at coordinates (61, 75, -68).[3] - Panorama pictures is directly blurred instead of overlay on Java Edition
- The menu panorama uses seed
- Pocket realms improvements:
- Realms can be reset
Blocks and items[]
- Double chests
- When chests are put together, items previously in the left chest appear at the bottom half. Items from the right chest will also appear at the top. This may cause a loss of items.
- Chests now have an open/close animation.
- The player can open chests in creative, but not look inside; they will immediately close.
- Quartz slabs
Changes[]
General[]
- Added more friction when flying in Creative Mode (iOS).
- Stopped building the game with typeinfo enabled (iOS).
- Wooden slab material changed to wood instead of stone. Wooden Slabs stored from before 0.7.3 are tagged as Fake Wood Slab and drop regular wooden slabs when mined.
- When creating a new world, the default name shows "My World".
Mobs[]
- Mobs now light on fire under sunlight.
Fixes[]
- 21 issues fixed
- From released versions before 0.7.0
- MCPE-39 – Wooden slab hard to break with axe
- MCPE-271 – Too long descriptions
- MCPE-312 – Sword freezes chest
- MCPE-439 – Chests rotate when placing a solid block directly in front of them
- MCPE-1664 – Hitting backspace in a sign activates shift on your keyboard.
- MCPE-3989 – Inventory bug when throwing items in hand while in a GUI
- MCPE-4122 – Glowing obsidian can yield resources with an iron pickaxe, but obsidian can only be mined with a diamond one
- From 0.7.0
- MCPE-2680 – Cake takes away buckets along with milk
- MCPE-2950 – Chat freezes
- MCPE-2962 – Typing in chat gets blocked by [DONE] button and capitals
- MCPE-3361 – Items in the crafting table are messed up
- MCPE-3846 – If monsters burn because of sunlight, they have no burn animation.
- MCPE-3988 – Furnace crash bug
- MCPE-4056 – No Fire Animation on Zombies
- MCPE-4403 – GUI circle size is too small
- MCPE-4455 – Repeatedly being logged out of Realms
- From 0.7.1
- MCPE-2608 – No fire animation for night-time mobs when they come in contact with sunlight
- MCPE-4281 – Chests cannot be placed next to other chests
- MCPE-4332 – Armor glitch
- From 0.7.2
References[]
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20130821065119/https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mojang.minecraftpe
- ↑ "We moved to iOS version 5.0 for the 0.7.3 release. We hope this won't cause problems (we have no data on the number of 4.3 devices)." – @jbernhardsson (Johan Bernhardsson) on X, August 7, 2013
- ↑ "BIG NEWS! We have found the SEED of Minecraft's title-screen background PANORAMA!" – u/Tomlacko on Reddit, July 18, 2020
- Unlike on Java Edition, the panorama pictures is blurred directly instead of an overlay on Java Edition