Mojang continues to add features and fix bugs to Minecraft: Pocket Edition. Details on what is coming with the 0.4.0 update in September for the iOS and Android version of the game was released on Tuesday.
The most notable additions for Minecraft: Pocket Edition with the 0.4.0 update is Creepers and TNT to make the game a little more dangerous and explosive. Chests are also finally being added so you can store all of your stuff instead of leaving it laying around. Nights and spawning are made a little easier as well with the addition of beds.
Mojang has submitted the 0.4.0 update to be certified and doesn't have an exact date for the release right now other than to say mid-September. You can see the complete details of the patch below.
New features:
- Chests to store items
- Beds to skip night and setting your spawn point
- Creepers!
- TNT, and flint and steel to ignite
- Food items added: apples, bread, mushroom soup, beef, chicken and pork
- Added recipes: wool from string, green wool and stone bricks
- Added a Peaceful Mode option for survival mode without monsters
- Added wheat, seeds and hoe
- Added moss stone, redstone ore and white wool to creative inventory
- Added trap door
- Red dye can be obtained by cooking red mushroom
- Added several more dyes (combined from primary dyes)
- Zombies now drop feathers
Tweaks:
- Made the day longer
- Limited the total number of a given monster type
- When using an item, the player’s movement speed is decreased
Bug fixes:
- Monsters could spawn indoors
- Added fall damage for clients
- Players could knock each other far away
- Incorrect bow rendering in 3rd person view
- Missing particles after critical arrows
- Stairs reverted back to their basic blocks when destroyed
- Charging the bow could destroy certain blocks (flowers, torches), or interact with blocks
- The game crashed if player was killed while having the bow charged
- Connecting players could die in creative mode
- Dark leaves sometimes had workbench texture
- Wrong crafting table size for Xperia Play
- Bow didn’t take damage when used
- Non-dark brown tree trunks are now added back to the game (you may need to start a new world as host)
- Destroying a door could leave half a door
- Missing spider death sound on iOS
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