Pocket Edition version history

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[edit] Alpha

Version Date of Addition Additions Summary
0.2.0 (iOS) February 17, 2012

Survival Update

  • New Game Modes
    • Creative
      • You can fly. Press up or down arrows twice to ascend/descend (Press the jump button twice) to go higher double press and hold forward button(when floating when moving you can not).
    • Survival
  • New Mobs
  • New Blocks
  • New Tools
    • Stone Shovel
    • Stone Pickaxe
    • Stone Axe
    • Stone Sword
    • Shears
      • To shear a sheep, you must touch and hold down on the screen, similar to breaking a block. If you do not, you will simply hurt the sheep and eventually kill it (8 hits).
  • Bugs:
    • When attempting to type in a seed, the virtual keyboard covers up the box you type the seed into and you cannot see what you are typing.
    • White wool is unobtainable.
    • There is no way to get stone blocks in Survival.
    • You can not see the fire when the zombies burning in the day light.
    • You can hit mobs through glass.
    • You can not see fence gates when they are selected.
    • You can hit mobs through doors when looking through the window part of the door.
    • Sugar cane is unobtainable in survival.
    • If you place a ladder on a block with a thin snow layer and with no block behind it, it will appear invisible until a block directly adjacent to it is updated. The ladder will then drop as a collectible item (lighting updates vie torch do apply.
0.2.1 (Android) February 11, 2012
  • This update was still called 0.2.0 Alpha

Bug Fixes :

  • Major bug fix for some phones that crashed while trying to create a new world
0.2.0 (Android) February 11, 2012

Survival Update

  • New Game Modes
    • Creative (All worlds created before alpha 0.2.0 will be in creative)
      • You can fly.Press up or down arrows twice to ascend/descend. (Press the jump button twice)
    • Survival
      • There is no crafting yet
      • Caves have been worked on a little. (zombies get stuck in caves)
      • Some materials (Tools and anything that can not be naturally acquired) are in infinite stacks which is indicated by ∞ (infinity) symbols.
      • When an item you have 0 of is selected your fist is shown.
      • Added Hitpoints Bar same as computer version (health will slowly regenerate, similar to peaceful difficulty in the computer version).
      • Added Air Bar when under water (you can now drown and die)
      • Added Death with options to respawn or go to main menu.
      • Added a day and night cycle with zombies coming out at night.

New Bugs :

  • Game crashes when trying to create a new world on some phones.
  • Sometimes The forward button doesn't work on right handed mode.(Needs Confirmation)
  • Sometimes player can't pickup items.
  • The Trees that grow have a different Wood Block ID (oak) and color than the Wood blocks in your Inventory (pine), thus making it impossible to pick up oak logs.
  • Sugar Cane doesn't drop when smacked.
  • There is no way to get stone blocks in Survival. (Possibly not a bug, but intended as there is no crafting yet.)
  • There is no way to regrow trees in Survival. (Possibly not a bug, but intended as there is no crafting yet.)
  • When you break the bottom block of a Cactus it only gives one Cactus block instead of all that were above it aswell.
  • You cannot place torches on fences.
0.1.3 (iOS) December 14, 2011
  • Fixed bug with opening dialogs after closing the options menu
  • Improvements in network chunk loading
  • Added an "Update game!" block used as placeholder for not yet supported block types
0.1.3 (Android) December 3, 2011
  • Better tablet support
  • Less oversized ingame UI elements
  • Performance improvements, especially in Non-Fancy graphics mode
  • Added cacti to deserts
  • Added Turn Sensitivity setting
  • Improvements in network chunk loading
  • More sounds in J-version

Bug fixes :

  • Fixed a crash bug when connecting to some iOS server maps
  • Fixed blocks placed on snow were added incorrectly in multiplayer

New bugs :

  • When the game tries to generate a world the green "bar" will freeze and not generate a world on some phones. This will crash the game.
0.1.2 (iOS) November 17, 2011
  • iOS exclusive controls.
  • Cacti, Iron ore and other ores can be found in the game files, but are unobtainable.
0.1.2 October 13, 2011
  • Third Person View for all devices
  • Mirrored controls for left handed players
  • In-game sound toggle
  • Help text if license verification fails
0.1.1 October 8, 2011
0.1.1j October 7, 2011
  • First release for all Android devices
  • Auto-Jump Feature
  • Adds touchscreen controls
  • Breaks Xperia Play controls
0.1 August 16, 2011

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