Pocket Edition v0.9.0 alpha
v0.9.0 alpha
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There is a guide for this update!See Bedrock Edition guides/0.9 releases for a guide to all of the new features introduced in 0.9 releases.
v0.9.0 alpha is a major update to Minecraft: Pocket Edition that was released on July 10, 2014. It adds new blocks, mobs, generated structures, infinite worlds as well as other features, changes, and fixes.
Additions
Blocks
- Can hold several mobs
- The type of mob spawner can be changed using a spawn egg
- Is available in the creative inventory
- Can be used as decorative block only
- Cannot be activated
- Can be mined with an Iron or better pickaxe
- Made with 9 emeralds
- Can be made by putting a normal Clay Block in a furnace
- Available in all 16 colors
- Only available in creative mode
- Generates naturally in Badlands. Can be smelted into glass
- Generates naturally on Mushroom Island
- Generates naturally in Mega Taiga
- Naturally generated in Ice Spikes
- Generates naturally in Savanna and Giant Taiga
- A building material. Can be mined using any pickaxe
- A building material. Can be mined using any pickaxe
- A building material. Can be mined using any pickaxe
- A building material. Can be mined using any pickaxe
- A building material. Can be mined using any pickaxe
- A building material. Can be mined using any pickaxe
Acacia wood, planks, slabs, stairs, leaves and sapling
- Decorative block
Dark Oak wood, planks, slabs, stairs, leaves and sapling
- Decorative block
- Grow into the jungle tree
- Replaces the Rose (at the time, exclusive to the MCPE)
Blue Orchid, Allium, Azure Bluet, Oxeye Daisy, Sunflower, Lilac, Rose Bush, Peony
- Generates on grass in various biomes
- Available in all 4 colors
- Generate naturally in swamps
- Generate naturally in jungles
- Will be generated naturally
- Can be generated by using bone meal on fern
Items
- Restores 1HP
- Obtanied by mining an emerald ore block
- Added Mooshroom, Creeper, Enderman, Silverfish, Skeleton, Slime, Spider, Villager, Zombie, Zombie Pigman and Wolf spawn eggs.
Mobs
- Do not drop Ender pearls
- Do not drop slimeballs.
- Can be tamed using a bone.
- Changed AI.
World generation
Port of Minecraft Java Edition world generation as of Java Edition 1.8, allowing for new generated structures and biomes
- Generated structures:
- Villages
- Houses have brown carpet tables, instead of pressure plate tables.
- Caves
- Lava pools
- Rivers
- Mineshafts
- Includes spider spawners rather than cave spider spawners due to lack of poison effects[2]
- Huge Mushrooms
- Can be up to 13 blocks tall[3]
- Forest rocks
- Strongholds
- Hard to find as Eyes of Ender have not yet been implemented.
- Has increased chance to spawn under villages.
- Ice patch
- Ice spike
- Dungeons
- Desert well
- Trees:
- Jungle tree (small and large)
- Dark oak tree
- Acacia tree
- Fallen trees
- 2×2 spruce trees
- Oak trees (swamp variant with vines and large oak variants)
- Naturally generated blocks (blocks that already existed in the game, but now spawn naturally):
- Tall Grass
- Dead Bushes
- Ferns
- Mossy Cobblestone
- Jungle Wood
- Jungle Leaves
- Melon
- Pumpkins
- Structure specific
- Stone Bricks
- Cracked Stone Bricks
- Mossy Stone Bricks
- Stone Bricks Stairs
- Stone Slabs
- Iron Bars
- Torches
- Rails
- Powered Rails
- Oak Wood Planks
- Fences
- Chests
- Cobblestone
- Glass Panes
- Cobblestone Stairs
- Oak Stairs
- Bookshelves
- Black Wool
- Brown Carpet
- Farmland
- Carrots
- Wheat Crops
- Potatoes
- Furnaces
- Crafting Tables
- Cobweb
- Villages
- Biomes:
- All biomes as of Java Edition 1.7.2. Those that exceed the 128-block height limit are shrunk to fit in it.
- Jungles
- Mesa
- Roofed Forests
- Savannas
- Extreme Hills
- Mushroom Islands
- Flower Forest
- Mega Taiga
- Mega Spruce Taiga
- Swampland
- Deep ocean
- All biomes as of Java Edition 1.7.2. Those that exceed the 128-block height limit are shrunk to fit in it.
Gameplay
Hotbar
- Interact button
- Located above the hotbar.
- Current actions:
- Ignite button for creepers
- Shear button for sheep
- Milk button for cows
- Tame button to tame animals.
- Ability to set it to 512-block (32 chunks)
- Available for certain supported devices only
Advanced World Options
- Option to select the world's type
- Old
- 256×256
- Flat
- Infinite and by default generates with the Classic Superflat and can only be changed by editing the options.txt file.[4]
- Infinite
- Reliable playing size is 65,536×65,536 (+32,767 to -32,767)
- After going past ±32,767, distance effects start to take appear.[5] The "jitteriness" gradually increases when the distance from the center is increased every power of 2, as well as frequency of crashes and other glitches such as distorted block models.
- Eventually, natural phenomena such as the Stripe Lands and Far Lands occur, making it impossible to continue without using 3rd party tools. [6][7][8]
- Old
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Changes
Blocks
- No longer restores health
Birch, Spruce and Jungle Wood
- Now have separate textures
- Obtainable in survival mode
- No longer falls from spawn
- Now permanently opaque
Jungle Wood Planks
- Can now be crafted
- Now insta-tick
- New rendering
Items
- Can now be obtained in survival
- Saddles
- Can now generate in village blacksmith chests
- Now is craftable
Non-mob entities
- Improved performance
World generation
- No longer generate in maps with the new terrain.
- Generate with different heights and structures.
Old terrain
- Removed for Old world type
- Removed
- No longer generate naturally.
Gameplay
Smooth lighting
- Added for:
- Removed for:
General
- New culling of clouds.
- The fog is darker underground.
Textures
- Support for biome-tinted blocks
World list
- Now displays the storage size of each world.
Crafting screen
- New organized layout for the crafting screen
- Only shows craftable recipes.
Survival inventory
- New layout
View distance
- Now varies from device
Mobs
All mobs
- New spawning algorithm
- Lighter color when the mobs are hurt
Passive mobs
- Now spawn in little groups
- Can spawn naturally in creative mode
- Mechanics changed
- When damaged, zombies have a low chance to spawn more zombies.
- Now spawn from leaves
- Animation is twice as fast.
- Now walk faster.
- No longer float two pixels off the ground.
Other
- The options.txt file now reads the render distance as raw blocks.[9]
- Support for immersive mode (hides the on-screen navigation bar) for devices running Android 4.4 or higher.
- New LevelDB based saving format.
- New entity handling.
- Remade network code (mostly the same packages but new system).
- Tile entities are saved differently.
- New culling algorithm.
- Removed the camera entity
- Updated light generation
- No more client-side messages when a player joins
- "Edit" and "New" buttons no longer appear on the world select menu if "Play with touch" is disabled, making it impossible to create worlds without enabling the option.
- The Xperia Play touchpad can no longer be used to control the camera and crouch. Instead, it is used to move.
- In flight mode, the Xperia Play D-pad up and down buttons are always used to control the altitude, rather than only while the cross button is pressed.
- This requires to use the touchpad to move forwards and backwards during flight.
- Pause menu options on the Xperia Play can be selected with the D-pad and interacted with by pressing the cross button, though the selected option is not highlighted.
Fixes
6 bugs fixed
From released versions before 0.9.0
- Mipmapping makes fire look like a big orange blob[10]
- Minecart in multiplayer problems[11]
- Glitched name and description for baked potatoes
- Crafting signs only giving one unit
- Different wood types convert to same inside furnaces
- Fixed an item duplication glitch that could occur if the game crashed or if the player exited out of Minecraft without saving the world.
Videos
Trailer
A trailer for the update was released on July 4, 2014.
| Minecraft: Pocket Edition 0.9.0 Teaser (view on YouTube) |
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Gallery
Store images
These screenshots were uploaded to store pages on update release.
Tablet
Phone
Development screenshots
References
- ↑ https://itunes.apple.com/en/app/minecraft-pocket-edition/id479516143?mt=8
- ↑ "Done porting mineshafts to MC:PE. Spawning normal spiders for now, as we don't have poison effects in MC:PE yet." – @jeb_ (Jens Bergensten) on X (formerly Twitter), May 12, 2014
- ↑ http://www.reddit.com/r/MCPE/comments/288c1n/are_there_supposed_to_be_super_tall_mushrooms/
- ↑ "Hey modders, what about sand flatworlds? Hint- this is a thing in the next build: 'game_flatworldlayers:[7, 12,12,12]'" – @_tomcc (Tommaso Checchi) on X (formerly Twitter), June 18, 2014
- ↑ https://reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/27pae1//pocket_edition_090_snapshot/ci3sj7v?context=1
- ↑ https://reddit.com/r/MCPE/comments/27woze//welcome_to_the_mcpe_farlands?context=1
- ↑ https://reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/27yjjx//z_900k_i_broke_water?context=1
- ↑ https://reddit.com/r/MCPE/comments/280337//i_found_the_edge_far_lands_in_mcpe?context=1
- ↑ "@aurisrimo in 0.9, options.txt contains the raw distance in blocks (ie. 256), feel free to experiment & destroy your battery life :D" – @_tomcc (Tommaso Checchi) on X (formerly Twitter), January 27, 2014
- ↑ "that’s actually true, will look into it :)" – @_tomcc (Tommaso Checchi) on X (formerly Twitter), January 20, 2014
- ↑ "I will work on them for the next version. :)" – @jbernhardsson (Johan Bernhardsson) on X (formerly Twitter), January 13, 2014
