Pocket Edition v0.4.0 alpha
v0.4.0 alpha


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| Release date |
Android, iOS - September 6, 2012[1][2] | |||||
| Downloads | ||||||
| Protocol version |
7 | |||||
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Other editions with a version "0.4.0":
There is a guide for this update!
See Bedrock Edition guides/0.4.0 for a guide to all of the new features introduced in 0.4.0.
v0.4.0 alpha is a major update to Minecraft: Pocket Edition that was released on September 6 and 13, 2012. It adds notable features such as beds, trapdoors, creepers, new food, and farming items, as well as other changes and fixes.[2] This update is also the first public release for Amazon's Fire devices.
Additions
Blocks
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- Used to skip the night and set the player's spawn point.
- Used as a 1×1 barrier that can be opened by hand.
- Currently available only in creative inventory.
- Only available in Survival mode.
- Only obtainable through inventory editors.
Items
- Used to ignite TNT.
- Used to till dirt and grass blocks into farmland.
Food-related items
Apples
- Sometimes drops from oak leaves.
- Restores 2HP health.
Bread
- Can be crafted with three wheat
- Restores 2HP health.
Mushroom stew
- Can be crafted with one bowl, one brown mushroom and one red mushroom
- Restores 4HP health.
Raw beef
- Obtained by killing cows
- Restores 1HP health.
Steak
- Obtained by smelting the raw beef in furnace
- Restores 4HP health.
Raw chicken
- Obtained by killing chickens
- Restores 1HP health.
Cooked chicken
- Obtained by smelting the raw chicken in furnace
- Restores 3HP health.
Raw porkchop
- Obtained by killing pigs
- Restores 1HP health.
Cooked porkchop
- Obtained by smelting the raw porkchop in furnace
- Restores 4HP health.
Other Stuff
- Obtained by using a hoe on grass blocks.
- Used to put wheat crops on farmlands.
- Used as a throwable entity.
- Only obtainable through inventory editors.
Gameplay
- Peaceful difficulty option for Survival that has automatic health regeneration and doesn't spawn monsters.
Crafting
- Added crafting or smelting recipes for some block and items:
| Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Bed | Any Wool + Oak Planks |
|
| Stone Bricks | Stone | |
| Flint and Steel | Iron Ingot + Flint |
|
| Every variant of Hoes | Oak Planks or Cobblestone or Iron Ingot or Gold Ingot or Diamond + Stick |
|
| Bread | Wheat | |
| Mushroom Stew | Red Mushroom + Brown Mushroom + Bowl |
|
| TNT | Gunpowder + Sand |
|
| Chests | Oak Planks | |
| White Wool | String | |
| Some new variants of dyed Wool | Any Wool + Rose Red or Orange Dye or Lime Dye or Cactus Green or Cyan Dye or Light Blue Dye or Purple Dye or Magenta Dye or Pink Dye |
|
| Some new Dye variants | Rose Red or Cactus Green or Bone Meal + Dandelion Yellow or Lapis Lazuli |
|
| Magenta Dye | Lapis Lazuli + Rose Red + Bone Meal |
Smelting ingredients
| Name | Ingredients | Smelting recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Stone | Cobblestone + Any fuel |
|
| Raw Beef | Raw Beef + Any fuel |
|
| Raw Chicken | Raw Chicken + Any fuel |
|
| Raw Porkchop | Raw Porkchop + Any fuel |
|
| Rose Red | Red Mushroom + Any fuel |
Changes
Blocks
- Can now be crafted with eight wooden planks.
- Are now functional in Survival mode, and are able to store other items and blocks in them.
- Changed texture from
to
. - Now can be created by tilling a dirt or grass blocks by using hoe.
- Changed texture from
to
.
- Can now be crafted with five gunpowders and four sand.
- Now requires flint and steel to ignite.
Items
- Can now be thrown.
- Can now be used to craft TNT.
- Version exclusive: is now obtainable by smelting red mushrooms.
- Can now be crafted into red wool.
- Can now be crafted with rose red and dandelion yellow.
- Can now be crafted into orange wool.
- Can now be crafted with cactus green and bone meal.
- Can now be crafted into lime wool.
- Can now be crafted into green wool.
- Can now be crafted with cactus green and lapis lazuli.
- Can now be crafted into cyan wool.
- Can now be crafted with bone meal and lapis lazuli.
- Can now be crafted into light blue wool.
- Can now be crafted with rose red and lapis lazuli.
- Can now be crafted into purple wool.
- Can now be crafted with two rose red, lapis lazuli, and bone meal.
- Can now be crafted into magenta wool.
- Can now be crafted with rose red and bone meal.
- Can now be crafted into pink wool.
Mobs
- Limited the total number of any given mob type.
- Animal spawning (being worked on)
- Now drop 0-1 feathers with chance 25℅ when upon death.
- Now spawn naturally.
World generation
- Now generate with oak logs instead of spruce logs.
Gameplay
- Increased the length of the daylight cycle from 14,400 ticks (12 minutes) to 19,200 ticks (16 minutes).
- When using an item, the player’s movement speed is decreased.
- All targetable blocks are now instantly mineable in Creative mode.
- Bedrock is also breakable, allowing for access to the void without external editing.
- Additions:
Moss stone
Oak wood
Redstone ore
White wool
Trapdoor
Bed
Chest
TNT (Android only)[4]
Wheat seeds
Bone meal
Iron hoe
Iron sword
- Removals:
General
- The game no longer attempts to verify the player's license, allowing devices that do not own Minecraft in their respective app store to play the game.
Fixes
15 bugs fixed
- Monsters could spawn indoors.
- Added fall damage for clients.
- Players could hit each other far away.
- Incorrect bow rendering in third person view.
- Missing particles after critical arrows
- Stairs reverted to their basic blocks when destroyed
- Drawing the bow could destroy certain blocks (flowers, torches), or interact with blocks.
- The game crashes if the player is killed while having charging a bow.
- Connecting players could die in Creative mode.
- Spruce leaves sometimes use the crafting table texture on all sides when dropped as an item or held in the player's hand.
- Wrong crafting table size for Xperia Play
- Bow doesn'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.
- Spider death sound was missing on iOS.
Internal version
The internal version is 0.4.0(4005), and has a size of 5.32 MB.
J-version

v0.4.0j alpha[5] was released on Google Play on an unknown release date. The internal version is 0.4.0(4000), and the size is 2.16 MB.
Videos
Trailer
A trailer for the update was released on September 6, 2012.
| Minecraft — Pocket Edition 0.4.0 Update! (view on YouTube) |
|---|
References
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20120908010754/http://itunes.apple.com:80/us/app/minecraft-pocket-edition/id479516143?mt=8&v0=WWW-NAUS-ITSTOP100&ign-mpt=uo%3D2
- ↑ a b "Minecraft — Pocket Edition 0.4.0 is OUT!" (Archive) – Mojang, September 6, 2012.
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20120917172634/http://www.amazon.com/Mojang-Minecraft-Pocket-Edition/dp/B00992CF6W
- ↑ https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MCPE-17
- ↑ MCPE-19
