Mojang announced Monday that it has finished its work on the 0.6.0 update for "Minecraft: Pocket Edition" on iOS and Android devices. The developer shared all the new block, features, tweaks and fixes that are coming when it is released in the next week or two.
The latest build for the portable edition of "Minecraft" started out small but Mojang made it bigger by adding several new features like signs, armor, baby animals and fancy clouds. There are many new blocks as well including Netherrack, Nether Brick, Block of Quartz, Smooth Stone Brick variants and Sandstone variants. Note though that some of these will only be available in Creative Mode.
The virtual D-pad has been improved as well to make it easier to move around plus there are other tweaks for slabs and the Nether Reactor too.
One notable update is that 0.6.0 will require Android 2.3 or higher going forward. Previous versions will still work but Android owners on 2.2 earlier will need to upgrade their devices to keep up future "Minecraft" updates.
Here's the list of changes that Mojang submitted to Apple and Google for the "Minecraft: Pocket Edition." Expect a release in the next week or two.
New features:
- Signs
- Armor
- Baby animals
- Fancy clouds
- Improved D-pad
- Stonecutter for crafting stone blocks
- Sheep can be colored with dyes
- New block types: Netherrack, Nether Brick, Block of Quartz with 2 variants (pillar and chiseled), mossy/cracked Smooth Stone Brick variants (creative only), chiseled/smooth Sandstone variants
- New stairs: Nether Brick, Sandstone, Smooth Stone Brick, Quartz
- New slabs: Sandstone
- New item: Nether Brick (smelted from netherrack and crafted into nether brick tile)
- Upside-down stairs, corner stairs
- Slabs can be placed in up position (needs testing on small screens)
- Sand and Gravel are affected by gravity
Tweaks:
- Recipes for crafting slabs give 6 slabs instead of 3 (as in PC version)
- Nether Reactor spawns Netherrack blocks instead of Obsidian
- The fog and sky color have changed
- The Nether Reactor now spawns more items
- Cows drop Leather
Bug fixes:
- Melons had several bugs where they would spawn too fast and where they shouldn’t
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Via: Mojang
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