Pocket Edition v0.16.0 alpha/Development versions
This is a list of Pocket Edition v0.16.0 alpha development versions.
v0.16.0 alpha build 1
v0.16.0 alpha build 1[1] (labelled v0.15.90 alpha build 1 in-game and 0.15.90 internally) is the first build version released for v0.16.0, also known as the Boss Update. This build accidentally included several features from Education Edition which were quickly removed or disabled in the next build.
VR bug fixes in this update were later added to v0.15.10.[2]
Additions
General
- Ability to customize keyboard controls.
- Added search tab to creative inventory (Win 10 only).
- Added mouse UI sensitivity slider in VR options (Win 10 Rift only).
- New UI for options menu.
- More options.
- Music option
- Version exclusive: Toggle Crouch.
- Added warning before exiting the game.
Commands
/ability– Because it is an Education Edition feature, it is not available in normal gameplay/clearfixedinv– Version exclusive/clone/deop/execute/fill/gamemode/gamerule/give/help(with alias/?)/kill/list/op/say/setblock/setfixedinvslot– Version exclusive/setworldspawn/spawnpoint/summon/tell(with aliases/msg,/w)/testforblocks/time/toggledownfall/tp(with alias/teleport)/testforblock/weather/wsserver– Version exclusive/xp
World Generation
Blocks
- Sea Lantern
- Prismarine
- Wet Sponge
- Version exclusive
Border block
- A red block that has a block model similar to cobblestone wall.
- Can only be broken using commands.
- Invisible blocks possibly appear on top and bottom of the border block, and they are unbreakable.
- Will break if the border block is broken.
- Can be obtained using
/give.- Obtained item doesn't do anything.
- Can be placed using
/setblock. - Red particles appear on top of the block and fly upwards.
- Version exclusive Chalkboard
Items
- Prismarine Crystals
- Prismarine Shard
- Spawn Eggs
- Version exclusive:
Portfolio
- Can be obtained using commands.
- Has a GUI that doesn't do anything.
Mobs
- Guardian
- Elder Guardian
- Version exclusive: Doesn't have a spawn egg.
- Version exclusive: NPC
- Version exclusive: Agent
- Can't be spawned
Changes
General
- Performance improvements.
- Skin picker no longer shows the silhouette of the skins behind it when choosing a custom skin.
- Tweaked mouse sensitivity for vertical vs. horizontal motion in UI in Rift (Win 10 Rift only).
- Increased maximum view distance for capable GPUs (Win10 and EDU only).
- Tweaked the clock texture, so it has all the correct pixels.
- Old world type option
- Not shown anymore.
- Old worlds created earlier still can be made infinite.
Items
- Bucket
- New sound when using.
- Maps
- Version exclusive: Now have different colors for different biomes.
- Cocoa beans
- No longer has a crafting recipe.
Blocks
- Sponge
- Readded to survival mode.
- Now can absorb water.
- Now uses Java Edition 1.8 texture.
- Bed
- Now have sound when placed.
- Monster eggs
- Added to the Creative inventory.
- Grass Path
- Added sounds when making.
- Furnace
- Better description (Input, Fuel, Result) for devices that do not use controller input.
Mobs
- Squid
- Version exclusive: Added new sounds.
Fixes
From released versions before v0.16.0
- MCPE-9096 – Cannot place beds on top half slabs anymore
- MCPE-9669 – Creative inventory Mundane potion duplicate bug
- MCPE-9846 – Mobs wearing armor drop that armor 100% of the time
- MCPE-10077 – Incorrect sounds on beds
- MCPE-11013 – Autojump allows the player to jump over fences and cobblestone walls
- MCPE-11214 – Player can go through solid block walls and fences using a boat
- MCPE-11241 – Moving fuel into the furnace draws units from the first stack touched instead of from the one the player taps
- MCPE-12922 – Water is invisible when the player reloads the world
- MCPE-13640 – Maps blink red when a player takes damages
- MCPE-13802 – Clocks in item frames have extra pixels
- MCPE-13891 – Hoppers suck item entities only one at a time
- MCPE-13966 – Mobs do not drop spawned equipment
- MCPE-14250 – Beds don't make sounds when placing them
- MCPE-14529 – Boats placed halfway inside a wall shake violently
- MCPE-14648 – Skeletons can shoot arrows without facing the player
- MCPE-14761 – Doors act as tools
- MCPE-14801 – Furnace texture bug
- MCPE-15034 – Villagers get stuck facing 90°
- MCPE-15268 – Blocks are blinking on a piston
- MCPE-15586 – The void below bedrock is a bottomless pit
- MCPE-15594 – Tripwire not triggered by a player in a minecart or pig riding but does for horses and boats
- MCPE-15696 – Lead turn red when the leashed mob getting hit
- MCPE-15983 – Using A Bed Whilst Riding A Horse / Boat, etc. Does Not Dismount Player
- MCPE-16529 – Chest UI is not accessible when mounted on a pig, boat or minecart.
- MCPE-16649 – NPC Spawn egg does not spawn anything unless used in a monster spawner
Others
- To zoom out maps, the original map needs to be placed in the crafting grid center.
- Fixed crashes on some Android devices.
- Fixed a crash upon world load in Gear VR edition.
- Frame rate no longer affects the sensitivity of mouse and controller turning in-game.
- Fixed a game crash on FireTV that happened after a few minutes of gameplay.
- Fixed a crash that occasionally happened when a player would try to access Realms settings.
- Fixed a connection issue failure with players trying to connect to Realms from Android, Kindle, iOS, or Gear VR.
- Transitioning from Living Room mode to Immersive mode while riding an animal no longer makes the animal look like it's being x-rayed (Win 10 Rift only).
- Boats have shadows
- Fixed a crash when breaking a door near a villager during the night.
- No longer informs the player when they join a game.
- If the player is in a game session where they can't invite friends, the invite friends button won't appear in the pause screen anymore.
- Fixed a rogue pixel on the back of the Cake Maniac skin's head.
- Fixed x-ray effects when hitting a boat in survival.
- Water no longer continues to flow from frozen water source blocks.
- The player can now sprint forever in creative mode.
- Pressing enter opens the chat window.
- Opening the chat window and then quickly typing is no longer an issue- no more lost letters!
- The player won't shake randomly when dismounting a vehicle while they're in a block or closing a trapdoor while standing in its space.
- Fixed the attack range of hostile mobs when they are in a boat.
- Baby mooshrooms no longer freeze when the player tries to use shears on them.
- The player no longer gets immediately dismounted when interacting with horses or pigs while sneaking.
- Fixed a crash when a filled map is selected.
- Fixed a crash when opening a crafting table in Creative mode.
- Fixed some mobs not burning in sunlight.
- Fixed a bug where an Enderman riding in a minecart could activate a stone pressure plate placed next to a diagonal minecart track.
- Mobs that die while riding a minecart get removed from the minecart.
- Blazes attack players based on the host game/server's game mode.
- Skeletons no longer manage to fire arrows from their sides.
- Cursor is now fully visible when drawing back a bow and arrows fly according to where the cursor is pointed. (Gear VR edition & Win 10 Rift only)
- Gray icon representing horse armor & saddle now changes depending on what texture pack the player uses.
- No more floating torches under ceilings.
- Nether wart growth textures were off by one stage- now fixed.
- "Toggle immersive mode" message no longer appears on non-VR platforms.
- Controller input is now recognized in VR even if the VR window does not have windows focus (Win 10 Rift only).
- The player can now see a pig's health.
- Fixed some assorted bugs relating to skin, texture pack & full game purchases not being recognized properly.
- Pressing the Z button to invoke the status effect window now works.
- Fixed an issue where breaking a bed wouldn't reset a player's spawn point.
- When riding a pig/horse, the animal's health now displays correctly when the animal is poisoned.
- Sugar cane can no longer be pulled by sticky pistons.
v0.16.0 alpha build 2
v0.16.0 alpha build 2[3][4] (labelled v0.15.90 alpha build 1 in-game and 0.15.90.1[5] internally) is the second build version released for v0.16.0, also known as the Boss Update. It mainly removes the Education Edition features which were accidentally added in the previous build.
Changed
- Border block, chalkboard, camera and portfolio completely removed
- NPC spawn egg removed from creative inventory.
v0.16.0 alpha build 3
v0.16.0 alpha build 3[6][7] (labelled v0.15.90 alpha build 1 in-game and 0.15.90.2[8] internally) is the third build version released for v0.16.0, also known as the Boss Update.
VR bug fixes in this update were later added to v0.15.10.[9]
Fixes
From released versions before v0.16.0
- MCPE-8424 – When breaking a block in front of me, it breaks the one I'm on.
- MCPE-11796 – Nether Wart only drops one Wart when broken
- MCPE-12279 – Lever, buttons, redstone, etc. can not be placed on monster spawner
- MCPE-14691 – Skins not showing up in skins area
- MCPE-14971 – Skeleton Horses & Zombie Horses Bug
Others
- Removed placeholder art
v0.16.0 alpha build 4
v0.16.0 alpha build 4[10][11] (labelled v0.15.90 alpha build 1 in-game and 0.15.90.7[12] internally) is the fourth build version released for v0.16.0, also known as the Boss Update.
Additions
Mobs
- Wither
- Version exclusive: When its health reaches 50%, it spawns 3–4 wither skeletons.
- Version exclusive: New animation when created and killed.
- Version exclusive: New sounds.
Items
- Nether star
- Version exclusive: Potion of Decay.
- Version exclusive: Splash potion of Decay.
- Version exclusive: Arrow of Decay.
Blocks
- Beacon
- The beam is incorrectly displayed by outside.
- Can be seen correctly by inside.
- Cannot be colored as dyed glass doesn't exist.
- The beam is incorrectly displayed by outside.
Changes
- Tweaked the elder guardian's hitbox.
- Modified natural spawn rates for mobs to where they should be (wither skeleton).
- Fixed performance issues (FPS drop).
- Lots of work on horses.
- Tweaked some UI spacing issues.
- Tweaked some issues with arrows.
- More piston work.
- Disabled the
/clearfixedinv,/setfixedinvslotand/wsservercommands, introduced in build 1.- They can be manually turned back on in files (commands/education.json).
- Removed NPC spawn egg.
- Version exclusive: Creepers and untamed ocelots now have idle sounds. These were removed (at least for creepers) in a later unknown update.
Fixes
From released versions before v0.16.0
- MCPE-5272 – Empty buckets can´t collect water when underwater (Creative only)
- MCPE-7848 – Grass does not grow on dirt under fences or cobblestone walls
- MCPE-8212 – Arrows bounce off tamed [wolves] but not tamed cats
- MCPE-10353 – Some keyboard keys are dead
- MCPE-11583 – Milking a cow (or mooshroom) with a single bucket (or bowl) immediately consumes the milk (or stew, if the player is hungry)
- MCPE-12467 – Nether mobs can die in any bodies of lava
- MCPE-13304 – Double Flower Duplication Bug
- MCPE-13421 – Wolves can be fed with raw and cooked fish
- MCPE-14142 – Strange font behavior (width, size...)
- MCPE-14487 – All mobs take knockback damage from splash potion of harming II
- MCPE-14514 – Creepers are mute when attacked
- MCPE-14521 – Undead/Passive mobs still alive when get hit by tipped arrows of healing/harming
- MCPE-14525 – Horses show open button before fully tamed
- MCPE-14526 – Horse is unrideable while tied to a fence, and ride button is shown
- MCPE-14776 – Holding Flint and Steel when focusing on a Creeper doesn't show ignite button
- MCPE-15052 – Breaking ice creates water source block in the Nether
- MCPE-15086 – Baby horses don't show feed button
- MCPE-15981 – Armor take damage when we break blocks with them
- MCPE-16009 – Trying to tame horse while holding saddle bug.
- MCPE-16160 – Mobs don't burn in sunlight while on soul sand.
- MCPE-16283 – Redstone torch burn/turn off when placed on the side of a piston
- MCPE-16292 – Wither Skeletons and Blazes Do Not Spawn Again in Nether Fortresses
- MCPE-16417 – Inception achievement not unlocking
- MCPE-16743 – Items on the ground are facing the opposite direction
From v0.16.0 development versions
- MCPE-16652 – Cannot Choose Custom Skin or change between Steve and Alex
- MCPE-16653 – Exit Game confirmation incorrectly displaying vr.warning.exitGameWarning
- MCPE-16662 – Logging in to Xbox Live text is behind the settings button
- MCPE-16678 – Sea lantern texture bug
- MCPE-16682 – Everything disappears when opening any GUI
- MCPE-16691 – Water Breathing doesn't increase visibility
- MCPE-16696 – Hoppers duplicating items
- MCPE-16715 – Blank Spawn Egg Crashes Game
- MCPE-16724 – Cannot Sign out of XBL / Switch User in 0.16.0 Menu
- MCPE-16741 –
/gamemodehas incorrect feedback message - MCPE-16743 – Items on the ground are facing the opposite direction
- MCPE-16779 – Changing Gamemode when Flying gives Flight Control Buttons in Survival
- MCPE-16791 – Button13 in controller settings has incorrect name - key.interactwithtoast
- MCPE-16802 – Chat / Text Input Cursor is Misaligned (Too Low)
- MCPE-16826 – Top layer of mob texture is darkened (possibly wrong shadow?)
- MCPE-16876 – Guardians sink while attacking with Lazer
- MCPE-16888 – Typing /help 1, or /help 3 doesn't show which page you type in
Others
- Mob steps can be heard again.
- Players can fill buckets while underwater, even in creative.
- Fixed it so that potions of harming will kill mobs rather than just making them drop loot.
- Replaced placeholder with the correct names of items.
- Guardian & elder guardian attack animations are visible again.
- Fixed attribute inconsistencies in mobs & fixed multiple attribute loading bugs (some mobs ran too fast, some mobs had incorrect health, some mobs didn't show the correct health in their health bar.
- Fixed crash after joining a LAN game.
- Fixed randomly breaking boats.
- Monster spawner no longer crashes the game when difficulty is set to peaceful.
- Fixed a crash when a player threw a snowball, egg, or splash potions.
- Zombie pigmen are no longer hostile towards mobs.
- No more diving when riding a horse, pig, or donkey.
- Guardian laser beams change color now.
- Markers on maps now correctly show direction when riding (animal, minecart, etc.)
- Gamerule settings now persist in saved games.
- Fixed issue where some mobs dropped no items.
- Players again spawn in "safe places" during initial world generation.
- Players no longer float above beds while sleeping.
- Fixed crash when server spawns guardians & elder guardians.
- You can hear the laser sound for guardians & elder guardians again.
- Fixed items dropping from mobs incorrectly (not dropping for some, dropping for some that shouldn't have drops)
- Chat window fixed- automatically updates messages when they come in.
- Two zombie villagers no longer spawn when a single villager is turning into a zombie.
- Status effects no longer present after a player's death.
- Nether mobs no longer lose fire resistance.
- Fixed projectiles so they can be shot in directions, not just at targets.
- Invisible players can no longer be seen and attacked by mobs.
- Creepers now make hissing ignition sounds again.
- Iron golem now has an attack animation again.
- Lightning strikes have sounds again.
- Fireballs fixed: Blaze fireballs set blocks on fire & large fireballs are visible again.
- Fixed assorted crashes when loading/importing older worlds.
- Projectiles no longer hurt the player when reflected.
- Iron golems will attack aggressive mobs again to defend villagers and themselves.
- Fixed rare case of mobs spawning without heads.
- Fixed slime spawning size issues.
- Zombie pigmen are again spawning with golden swords.
- Elder guardians now attack the player.
- Player no longer gets disconnected from the Realm after suspending & resuming the device/game.
- Fixed a crash that can occur when a skeleton horse trap is triggered on peaceful.
- Invalid ID blocks no longer cause the game to crash as a result of a hang in chunk rendering.
v0.16.0 alpha build 5
v0.16.0 alpha build 5[13] (labelled 0.15.90.8 internally and v0.15.90.1 alpha build 1 in-game) is the fifth and final build version released for v0.16.0, also known as the Boss Update. This is the final build released in 2016.
Additions
- New command:
/enchant - Added sounds for strays, husks and minecarts.
- Added texture packs from v0.15.7 and v0.15.8 versions.
- Added MineCon skin pack from v0.15.9.
- Added elder guardian spawn egg to the creative inventory.
- Added a texture for the elder guardian spawn egg to be shown instead of an empty spawn egg.
- Added a new button when the player sneaks when a villager is highlighted.
Changes
- Add-ons are now named Behavior Packs.
- Some icons for settings are now colored.
- Re-added Old world type which was removed in build 1
- A chest generates in big houses of cold taiga and ice plains villages.
Fixes
From released versions before v0.16.0
- MCPE-6721 – Clouds go through blocks
- MCPE-7526 – Cloud texture rayed through players and entities
- MCPE-11204 – Attacking and mining with enchanted books applies the book's enchantments
- MCPE-11325 – Inventory count display too centered
- MCPE-11381 – Open doors change to being shut when you reload the world
- MCPE-11490 – Old worlds cannot be set to "always day"
- MCPE-11594 – Can't put out a fire by tap and hold in Survival (but can in Creative)
- MCPE-12171 – Wolf attacks its owner
- MCPE-13846 – Incorrect Breaking Time of Rails
- MCPE-14026 – Comparator based Analog Memory Circuits lose signal OnGameLoad
- MCPE-14101 – Creeper damages terrain in water.
- MCPE-14300 – Game Crash when you run out of air underwater while wearing a respiration enchanted helmet
- MCPE-14452 – Attached block to the full snow layer does not update anymore when shooting some arrows on it
- MCPE-14516 – Interaction button and item display name
- MCPE-14517 – No "Name" button for Snow Golems
- MCPE-14519 – Can place attachable block to head pistons
- MCPE-14530 – Carrot on a stick in hotbar causes other items to show the same title twice
- MCPE-14533 – Broken Wither Name in Death Message
- MCPE-14641 – Messed-up generation of strongholds under villages and closing crashing MCPE
- MCPE-14660 – Can't put chests on donkeys and mules. (No equip button is displayed)
- MCPE-14766 – Nether wart texture doesn't change upon growing
- MCPE-14805 – Piston pushing cauldron with water or potion in it crashes the game
- MCPE-15424 – You can damage your horse with an enchanted sword while riding it
- MCPE-16093 – MCPE Crashes frequently when a minecart is activating a detector rail, and pistons push that detector rail at the same time
- MCPE-16163 – When randomly hearing a pig dying, a crash occurs...
- MCPE-16202 – Horse Bug - Cannot Climb Stairs & Slabs Smoothly
- MCPE-16556 – Brick and nether brick (Items) are not in creative inventory
- MCPE-16750 – Cannot place saddle or armor on a tamed horse
From v0.16.0 development versions
- MCPE-16681 – Export world button option is functionless
From the previous development version
- MCPE-17036 – Beacon Beam Not Rendering Correctly (Black)
- MCPE-17039 – Old World (Finite World) Type Missing from Create New World Options
- MCPE-17062 – Ghast, Blaze & Wither Skeleton now take fire / lava damage.
- MCPE-17069 – Some mobs don't make any sounds or are replaced with 'player hurt' sounds.
- MCPE-17072 – Shear option/sounds are missing/broken.
- MCPE-17075 – Baby horses, when spawned, are tiny small
- MCPE-17076 – Arrow of Decay has the wrong title.
- MCPE-17078 – Jack o'Lantern pumpkin texture bug
- MCPE-17081 – Potions effects get removed when reopening the world
- MCPE-17083 – Wither does not attack mobs
- MCPE-17117 – Baby PigMan Holding Sword Incorrectly
- MCPE-17124 – The mob burning animation is floating away
- MCPE-17182 – Strays shoot normal arrows
- MCPE-17212 – When riding a zombie horse, you get the message action.hint.exit.ZombieHorse
- MCPE-17250 – The name of the tipped arrow of decay is miswritten.
- MCPE-17259 – Ligntning striking pig on peaceful difficulty crashes the game
- MCPE-17280 – Hitting a creeper and backing away no longer prevents the explosion
- MCPE-17295 – Command
/summonlightningbolt delays lightning strike until the world is reloaded - MCPE-17316 – You can shear sheep infinitely without waiting for wool to grow
- MCPE-17320 – Tipped arrows shot into a snow layer continuously apply their effects
Notes and references
- ↑ http://pocketbeta.minecraft.net/2016/08/changelog-what-is-new-in-0160-update.html
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/0/https://www.mojang.com/2016/10/fearsome-fixes-the-spooky-01510-changelog-for-pocket-win-10/
- ↑ http://pocketbeta.minecraft.net/2016/08/notes-for-016-beta-build-1-aka-015901.html
- ↑ https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MCPE/fixforversion/15667
- ↑ http://pocketbeta.minecraft.net/2016/09/0160-beta-build-numbers.html
- ↑ http://pocketbeta.minecraft.net/2016/08/notes-for-revised-revised-0.html
- ↑ https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MCPE/fixforversion/15668
- ↑ http://pocketbeta.minecraft.net/2016/09/0160-beta-build-numbers.html
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/0/https://www.mojang.com/2016/10/fearsome-fixes-the-spooky-01510-changelog-for-pocket-win-10/
- ↑ http://pocketbeta.minecraft.net/2016/09/0160-beta-changelog-build-4-aka-015907.html
- ↑ https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MCPE/fixforversion/15701
- ↑ http://pocketbeta.minecraft.net/2016/09/0160-beta-build-numbers.html
- ↑ https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MCPE/fixforversion/15713
