Hey
We have now submitted the 0.4.0 update for Minecraft Pocket Edition and we expect it to be released in mid-September. When we get a specific date, we'll of course tell you guys.
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
Now it's back to working on the next version.
// The Minecraft Pocket Edition Team
Good job!!! I love the progress.
Zombies drops feathers? Nostalgia strikes again! I miss Minecraft in its early Beta-stage :(
I don't care that much for the pocket edition but at least its good to know there going updates too