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"field": "<ul class=\"hlist\"><li>\n* (link to Pocket Edition v0.12.0 article, displayed as v0.12.0)\n* (link to Pocket Edition v0.12.0.1 article, displayed as v0.12.0.1)\n* (link to Pocket Edition v0.12.1 article, displayed as v0.12.1)\n* (link to Pocket Edition v0.12.2 article, displayed as v0.12.2)\n* (link to Pocket Edition v0.12.3 article, displayed as v0.12.3)</li></ul>",
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"footer": "<span style=\"display:inline-block; padding:0 .4em;\">[[bedrock Edition guides/0.11 releases|◄ 0.11 releases]]</span><span style=\"display:inline-block; padding:0 .4em;\">[[bedrock Edition guides/0.13 releases |0.13 releases ►]]</span>"
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This guide is a simplified overview of all the changes in the Bedrock Edition 0.12.x releases, which assumes at least some familiarity with Bedrock Edition 0.11.x releases.
Mobs
New
Changed
Blocks
New
| Name |
Image |
Obtaining |
Tool Required |
Uses
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| Anvil
|
  
|
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Can be mined with any kind of pickaxe, otherwise no items will be dropped.
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Repair, combine and rename items, keeping/merging enchantments.
|
| Brewing stand
|
|
|
Can be mined with any kind of pickaxe, otherwise no items will be dropped.
|
Brew potions.
|
| Head
|
|
- Wither skeleton has a 2.5% chance of dropping a Wither Skeleton head when killed by a player or a tamed wolf. Each level of Looting enchantment can increase the drop probability by 1%, up to 5.5% of Looting III.
- Skeleton, wither skeleton, zombie and creeper will also drop corresponding creature heads when killed by a charged creeper explosion.
- Player heads cannot be obtained as drops.
|
Can be mined with any tool and drop itself.
|
Decoration.
|
| Flower pot
|
                    
|
|
Can be mined with any tool and drop itself.
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Decoration.
|
| Soul sand
|
|
Generates below the lower bound Y=65.
|
Can be mined with any tool or with bare hands, but a shovel is fastest.
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Plant nether wart.
|
| Nether brick fence
|
|
Generate naturally in nether fortress.
|
Can be mined with any kind of pickaxe, otherwise no items will be dropped.
|
Building material.
|
| Nether brick stairs
|
|
|
Can be mined with any kind of pickaxe, otherwise no items will be dropped.
|
Building material.
|
| Nether quartz ore
|
|
Generate naturally in the Nether.
|
Only drops as a block when mined with a Silk Touch enchanted pickaxe, otherwise drops nether quartz.
|
Source of nether quartz.
|
Changed
| Name |
Image |
Changed
|
| Nether reactor core
|
  
|
- Cannot be crafted.
- Removed from crafting menu and creative mode inventory.
- Can only be obtained by editing the inventory.
- Drops 3 diamonds and 6 iron ingots when broken.
- No longer functional.
|
| Furnace
|
 
|
Center the names of smelted items.
|
| Snow
|
       
|
- Snow usually forms in multiple layers during snowfall.
- Snow is affected by gravity.
|
| Crops
|
Destroying crops will always drop seeds.
|
| Lava
|
|
- Is brighter than Java Edition.
- Now prevents mobs from taking fall damage.
- Now flows up to a radius of 8 in the Nether, matching the Java Edition.
|
| Water
|
 
|
- Improved the effect of climbing up water while leaning against a wall.
- Breaking blocks underwater is harder.
|
| Door
|
|
- Can be stacked up to 64.
- 6 planks can be crafted into 3 doors.
|
| Packed ice
|
|
Texture updated to match the Java Edition.
|
| Quartz pillar
|
  
|
Can now be placed horizontally.
|
| Dead bush
|
|
Drops 0-2 sticks when destroyed without shears.
|
| End portal frame
|
 
|
Will face the player when placed.
|
| Trapdoor
|
|
Can be placed on the top or bottom of the block.
|
| Ladder
|
|
Can now be placed while sneaking.
|
Items
New
Changed
| Name |
Image |
Changed
|
| Boat
|
     
|
- A new icon has been designed for the boat item.
- Now shows paddles on the item sprite.
- Boats can now be made of different wood types.
|
| Food
|
|
Players who eat food will restore their hunger points, but their health points will not be restored immediately.
|
| Pufferfish
|
|
- Now creates the following status effects
|
| Rotten flesh
|
|
Due to the addition of hunger, they now give the player the status effect  Hunger instead of  Poison in 0.11.0.
|
| Beetroot
|
|
- Beet seeds can now be obtained from village farms.
- Beet seeds can no longer be obtained by hoeing.
|
| Seeds
|
|
Seeds can no longer be obtained by hoeing.
|
| Book
|
|
Now crafted using leather.
|
| Spawn egg
|
|
- Creatures spawned from renamed monster eggs will have the same name as the spawn egg, and their names will appear in the death message after death.
- Zombie spawn eggs now have a chance to spawn zombie villagers.
|
| Sword
|
    
|
Can no longer be used to break blocks in creative mode.
|
| Magma cream
|
|
Can now be crafted.
|
Potions
New
Structures
New
| Name |
Image |
Generates |
Chests |
Mobs |
Description
|
| Nether
|
|
New dimensions.
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Same as Java version, unlimited size.
|
| Nether portal
|
|
Man-made
|
No
|
No
|
- Used to enter or leave the Nether.
- The maximum size can be built to 23×23 grids.
- All items previously obtained through Nether reactor can now be obtained through their respective normal channels.
|
| Nether Fortress
|
|
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Huge elevated netherbrick fortresses that spawn in the Nether.
|
Changed
| Name |
Image |
Changed
|
| Village
|
 
|
- Now generates with only one type of wheat + one other crop instead of all one type of crop.
- Now generates with beetroot.
- Now spawns iron golems.
|
Gameplay
New
| Name |
Description
|
| Particle
|
angryVillagerlargeexplodehugeexplodeblockdustslimeenchantementtabledropletsnowshovel
|
| Hunger
|
Eating no longer directly restores HP.
|
| Weather
|
Added rain, snow and thunderstorm weather.
|
| Sprint
|
Activate by double-clicking the arrow keys.
|
| Stealth
|
A new sneak button is added to switch the stealth state. Before this, an Xperia PLAY device was needed to switch.
|
| Brewing
|
Added a complete brewing system.
|
| Difficulty
|
Peaceful, Easy, Normal, Hard
|
| Item repair
|
Use Anvil to perform.
|
| Animation
|
Added animation when switching items in the shortcut bar.
|
Changed
| Name |
Changed
|
| Control
|
- Flight controls are now slightly smaller.
- Slight delay when jumping in tight spaces.
- Players can now place blocks underneath them while sneaking.
- Hand movement animation will be shown every time a block is clicked, not just when placing the block.
|
| Chat
|
- Players can now chat while sleeping on bed.
- Moved the pause and chat buttons to the middle position at the top of the screen.
|
See also
