Pocket Edition v0.8.0 alpha/Development versions
This is a list of Pocket Edition v0.8.0 alpha development versions.
v0.8.0 alpha build 1
v0.8.0 alpha build 1 (labelled v0.8.0 alpha in-game and 0.8.0_test1 internally) is the first build version for v0.8.0 alpha and the first ever build compiled in 2013. It was never officially released to the public; however, the client was uploaded on Google Play. There are two uploads that are functionally identical.
Since this version contains commands, which would not be officially added to the game until v0.16.0 alpha, it is likely to be a developer build.
Additions
Blocks
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- Added spruce, birch, and jungle varieties.
- Each one can only be crafted with their respective wood type.
- Jungle variants do not have associated crafting recipes and are unobtainable in Survival mode.
- Can be crafted with nine coal.
- Can be used as fuel in a furnace, smelting up to 80 items.
- Thin blocks that can be used as decoration.
- Are unobtainable in Survival mode.
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- Decorative blocks that can be used to create boundaries.
- Comes in cobblestone and mossy cobblestone variants.
- Cobblestone walls can be crafted with six cobblestone.
- Mossy cobblestone walls are unobtainable in Survival mode.
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- Decorative, flammable blocks that serve as compact storage of wheat.
- Can be crafted with nine wheat.
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- Serve a similar purpose to glass panes.
- Can be crafted with six iron ingots.
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- Fruit blocks that grow from fully-grown pumpkin stems.
- Can be crafted into jack o'lanterns, pumpkin pie, or pumpkin seeds.
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- Solid blocks that provide light.
- Can be crafted with a pumpkin and a torch.
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- Serves as a decorative block due to minecarts not being added.
- Is unobtainable in Survival mode.
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- Serves as a decorative block due to minecarts not being added.
- Is unobtainable in Survival mode.
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- Serves as a decorative block.
- Is unobtainable in Survival mode.
- Serve as a decorative block.
- Are unobtainable in Survival mode.
- Aesthetic plants that have the same characteristics as grass.
- Are unobtainable in Survival mode.
- Aesthetic plants that can only be placed on sand.
- Are unobtainable in Survival mode.
- Currently serve no purpose.
- Are unobtainable in Survival mode.
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- Is not available through normal means and can only be obtained via
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Items
- Obtained from the nether reactor.
- Drops from redstone ore when mined with an iron or diamond pickaxe.
- Can be used to craft clocks and compasses.
Carrots
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- Restore 3HP
Potatoes
- Restore 1HP when eaten.
- Restore 1HP
Pumpkin pie
- Restores 8HP when eaten.
- Restores 8HP
Baked potatoes
- Restore 5HP when eaten.
- Restore 5HP
Gameplay
- Feeding animals their respective food items makes them enter "love mode."
- Hearts come out of animals while in love mode.
- When two animals of the same species are in love mode, they pathfind toward each other and produce a baby animal.
Command format
General
- While this is the first known version to contain developer commands, they may have been added in an earlier, unreleased build. Later publicly released builds lack all commands, as they were only included in developer versions.
- All of the 11 commands are freely accessible in both Creative and Survival mode.
- No target selectors are available; a player's name has to be entered in order to target them.
- Boolean arguments do not accept strings as valid input. "0" is considered "false" and all other integers are considered "true."
Strikethrough textindicates arguments which the player is unable to specify due to a bug.- Command arguments do not have known names. Unofficial names are provided in the syntax below for readability.
/timeset- Changes the world's game time.
- Syntax:
/timeset <amount: int> - The game time does not change if the daylight cycle is locked.
/timeadd- Adds the specified number of ticks to the world's game time.
- Syntax:
/timeadd <amount: int> - The game time does not change if the daylight cycle is locked.
/timelock- Stops or resumes time.
- Syntax:
/timelock [lock: Boolean]
/timestop- Has seemingly identical functionality to
/timelock, but with different output messages on execution. - Syntax:
/timestop [lock: Boolean]
- Has seemingly identical functionality to
/give/player- Enables or disables the specified ability flag on a player.
- Syntax:
/player <ability: Ability>[value: Boolean]/player <player: target> <ability: Ability> [value: Boolean]- Valid inputs for
abilityarefly,instabuild, andnodamage.
/health- Changes a player's health to the specified value.
- Syntax:
/health <amount: int>
/getpos- Provides the X, Y, and Z coordinates of a player.
- Syntax:
/getpos [player: target]
/gethealth- Provides the health of a player.
- Syntax:
/gethealth [player: target]
/tp- Teleports the player.
- Syntax:
/tp <destination: x y z>- All integers are accepted for coordinates, though values above the 32-bit integer limit overflow and loop back around. Tilde and carat notation are not accepted as valid inputs.
/clearInventory- Clears a player's inventory.
- Syntax:
/clearInventory [player: target] - The command name must be capitalized as specified in order for it to execute.
- This command always fails if no target player is specified, despite that argument being optional.
General
- Added far (8 chunks) and farthest (121⁄2 chunks) render distances.
Changes
Blocks
- The textures of some blocks are now randomly rotated, for a more natural effect. This includes:
- Grass blocks (top and bottom sides only)
- Dirt
- Bedrock
- Sand
- Leaves
- Sponges
- TNT (top and bottom sides only)
- Obsidian
- Snow blocks
- Snow layers
- Clay
- Netherrack
- Glowstone
- Sandstone (top and bottom sides only)
- Blocks of coal
- Is now rotatable, with the wood placed with the inner side facing the player.
- Now drops redstone dust when mined with an iron or diamond pickaxe.
- Improved synchronization lag in multiplayer.
- Items being moved to/from a chest is now correctly rendered.
- Can now be used as furnace fuel, smelting 0.5 items each.
- Have been made an opaque block.
- This change has no known effect on gameplay or the block's appearance.
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Items
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- Are shown to look like the food being eaten rather than random pixels from the food.
- No longer fully grows crops when applied to them.
- Can now additionally be crafted with pink dye and purple dye, or with lapis lazuli, rose red, and pink dye.
- Can now be crafted with bone meal and an ink sac.
- Is still unobtainable in Survival mode due to ink sacs not being obtainable.
- Can now be crafted with bone meal and gray dye, or with two bone meal and an ink sac.
- Is still unobtainable in Survival mode due to ink sacs and gray dye not being obtainable.
- Can now be crafted with orange dye and an ink sac, or with dandelion yellow, rose red, and an ink sac.
- Is still unobtainable in Survival mode due to ink sacs not being obtainable.
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- Can now be crafted with iron ingots and redstone dust.
- Have updated sounds.
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Mobs
All mobs
- New visual effect for burning mobs.
- Follow the player when holding wheat (cows and sheep), seeds (chickens), or potatoes/carrots (pigs).
- Baby animals
- Now follow adult animals of their species.
- Now move faster.
Gameplay
- Craftable recipes are now shown first in the crafting screen.
- If there is 99+ of an item in the inventory, the actual quantity is now shown in the list of craftable items, rather than 99+.
- Changed the flow of the inventory for the armor/crafting screens so that the back button goes back to the inventory.
- Items that are not supposed to be obtainable no longer have a red background.
- Removed the Xperia Play variant.
- Cannot be navigated with the Xperia Play controller.
- Is now transparent.
- When selecting an item in the inventory, it replaces the one in the selected hotbar slot instead of placing it in the leftmost slot and shifting everything to the right.
- Tapping the inventory button now closes the inventory while open.
- Items that are not supposed to be obtainable no longer have a red background.
- The hotbar is now saved when exiting a world.
- Mining speed increases at/near mining distance limit (8 blocks per second).
General
- Are now 3D.
- Have a new tessellation algorithm.
- Smooth lighting is now always on, and can no longer be disabled.
- Fancy graphics are now on by default.
Graphics
- Held items are now rendered in 3D, and bob up and down slightly when idle and sway to the side when turning.
- Lighter colored sky that changes slightly depending on the biome.
- Refactored most of the rendering to use indexed VBOs.
- Remade the arrow model.
- Inventory is now rendered using cached VBOs.
- New sky rendering using a triangle fan.
- Separated far and near chunks into two queues for performance reasons.
- Fog only on far chunks.
- Transparency only on near chunks.
- Alpha-test-only layers are hidden in far chunks.
- All entities now produce circular stencil shadows on blocks below them.
- Lighting on entities is now dynamic and is no longer the same light level on all sides.
- Lighting on each entity is now tinted based on how much sky light and block light is on it.
- Light direction on entities now depends on the position of the sun. This does not affect stencil shadows.
- All lighting changes are only visible when fancy graphics is turned on.
Textures
- Block textures are now generated with terrain-opaque.png instead of terrain.png.
- Item textures are now generated with items-opaque.png instead of items.png.
- Inventory icons are now generated with their respective texture atlases instead of gui_blocks.png.
Other
- Remade text formatting (e.g. in chat).
- Refactored OpenGL usage to avoid costly state leaks (e.g. animals are not alpha tested anymore).
Fixes
From released versions before 0.8.0
- MCPE-28 – Xperia Play Creative Scrolling, PTAB7200 Or Other Tablets Gamepad Small
- MCPE-61 – Water flows downward next to farmland (visual glitch)
- MCPE-347 – Weird textures: Moiré pattern on bricks
- MCPE-992 – Mobs can't move through deep water
- MCPE-1524 – Graphical glitch when looking down above clouds.
- MCPE-2804 – Fire does not ignite tnt
- MCPE-2937 – Chat crash
- MCPE-4140 – breeding
- MCPE-4736 – Spiders Have no abdomen
- MCPE-4887 – Skeletons missing lower part of body.
- MCPE-5411 – Falling in creative at world load
Gallery
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This build has an option for smooth lighting, although disabling it causes texture rotation to break.
v0.8.0 alpha build 2
v0.8.0 alpha build 2 is the second build and first public build version released for v0.8.0.
Additions
Blocks
Items
Entities
General
- New creative inventory with tabs
Changes
- Side textures are no longer randomly rotated.
- Are now craftable with six iron ingots and a stick.
- Are now craftable with six gold ingots, a stick, and redstone dust.
Removals
- Re-removed "Play on Realms" button.
- Removed "Show craftable recipes first" toggle.
- Is now always on by default.
- Removed "Smooth lighting" toggle.
- Is now always on by default.
- Removed the commands that were present in v0.8.0 alpha build 1.
Fixes
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The other bugs in the report linked below are not listed here as they were fixed in build 1. MCPE-5592 is not included here as it duplicates MCPE-5572.
From released versions before 0.8.0
- MCPE-5572 – Shooting a bow, throwing eggs/snowballs, and eating require block proximity.
Other
- With the removal of the smooth lighting toggle, the textures of all blocks in a world are no longer randomly rotated when smooth lighting is off.
- Fixed the displayed names of blocks of coal, wood, and wooden slabs.
- Blocks of coal have been given their own numeric ID (173) and no longer override the ID of nether bricks (112).
- Blocks of coal are no longer listed twice in the creative inventory.
- Blocks of coal can no longer be crafted with four nether brick items.
- Nether bricks once again have an associated block and item form.
- Blocks of coal from build 1 are automatically converted to nether bricks.
- Fixed the icons for all items in the inventory screen frequently becoming invisible.
- Fixed the appearance of clocks and compasses in the inventory.
- Fixed zombies, skeletons, creepers, and zombie pigmen moving significantly faster on land than intended.
- Animals now consume five items per second instead of 20 per second when being fed.
- The particles produced by eating food and breaking projectiles are once again affected by gravity.
v0.8.0 alpha build 3
v0.8.0 alpha build 3 is the second build version released for v0.8.0.
Additions
Changes
- Spiders are way slower
- Carrots, potatoes, and beetroot seeds now drop from grass blocks when tilled with a 1/15 chance each
- Remade painting rendering, which was completely forgotten
- Thrown eggs now spawn baby chickens
- Rails are now dropped when the tile they rest on is destroyed
- Changed the flow of Inventory → Armor / Crafting screens so that back goes back to Inventory
Sheep now have the color overlay of their wool around their faces and when sheared.
Fixes
From released versions before 0.8.0
- MCPE-5409 – No snow cover in creative
From the previous development version
- MCPE-5727 – Graphics don't properly reload after apps is resumed
- MCPE-5740 – Minecarts crash when they are destroyed
- MCPE-5743 – All wooden slab appears as jungle wooden slab
- MCPE-5745 – spiders are too fast
- MCPE-5750 – Inventory items invisible
- MCPE-5756 – Crash when Minecraft says saving chunks
- MCPE-5757 – when I hit pig the screen messes up
- MCPE-5758 – My world seems stuck at midday
- MCPE-5759 – Black world after throwing eggs!
- MCPE-5765 – The armor gui is really bad, like, its all glitched
- MCPE-5766 – Crash when TNT blows a minecart
- MCPE-5773 – Chests gray out
- MCPE-5777 – Spruce slabs revert to oak
- MCPE-5781 – When you place a sideways wood block, destroy, and pick it up, it shows up as its own item. When you try to craft with it, it crashes the game. (Survival only)
- MCPE-5784 – Sword Corner
- MCPE-5794 – Game goes dark/black screen when hitting mobs
- MCPE-5802 – Sword PNG
- MCPE-5803 – Clouds
- MCPE-5832 – Reloaded Minecart is not rendered
- MCPE-5837 – Unable to open world when left with a moving minecart
- MCPE-5840 – Crash with side ways blocks
- MCPE-5845 – Sign is invisible
- MCPE-5851 – Placing sideways logs then breaking them stay that way
- MCPE-5852 – Armor menu no steve
- MCPE-5853 – CRASH!
- MCPE-5858 – The mobs are moving too slow
- MCPE-5902 – Crafting table graficul glitch
- MCPE-5924 – after the flint and steel run out,when you click it again,it crashes
- MCPE-5933 – Lava on Ice causes crash upon contact with the water.
- MCPE-5962 – Box problems
- MCPE-5979 – Golden shovel appears as diamond shovel
- MCPE-5982 – When you put items in a chest they are invisible
- MCPE-5985 – Thrown eggs are invisible
- MCPE-6005 – World Won't Open after Placing Animals on Minecarts
- MCPE-6018 – When you update from 0.7.6 to 0.8.0 it will delete some worlds
- MCPE-6028 – The game stuck in saving chunks screen
- MCPE-6041 – TExture Mapping glitch
- MCPE-6050 – If you use more than ten times minecart. The eleventh cart will disappear
- MCPE-6055 – TNT crash
- MCPE-6056 – View box shows incorrect armor type
From the current version, hotfixed
- MCPE-5733 – shooting issues
Other
- Fixed sheep not being dyable.
- Fixed bedrock having randomly rotated texture.
- Paintings have no shadows anymore.
- Fixed flint and steel having durability in Creative.
- The particles produced by lit redstone ore are once again tinted red.
- Fixed sandstone slab textures.
v0.8.0 alpha build 4
v0.8.0 alpha build 4 is the third build version released for v0.8.0 alpha.
Additions
- Added red carpets to the survival crafting menu.
- Added a version watermark to help tell the build from screenshots.
Changes
- Lava and fire now trigger TNT much more aggressively.
- Faster switching from background on Android.
- Potatoes and carrots aren't dropped anymore by tilling grass.
- In creative mode, players stop being on fire as soon as they exit fire or lava.
Fixes
From the 0.8.0 development versions
- MCPE-5792 – Liquids not showing up at sight level.
- MCPE-5794 – Game goes dark: black screen when hitting mobs.
- MCPE-5799 – Rendering issue with armor page.
- MCPE-5810 – Sideways logs randomly have the wrong texture.
- MCPE-5816 – Items leave trail on chest UI.
- MCPE-5821 – Two issues related to breeding chickens and pigs.
- MCPE-5862 – Not possible to make carpets in survival mode.
- MCPE-5869 – Minecarts don't ride smoothly going up or down mountains.
- MCPE-5876 – Animals turn black.
- MCPE-5901 – Issue with TNT explosion.
- MCPE-5903 – MCPE 0.8.0 beta build 2 chest issue.
- MCPE-5904 – MCPE 0.8.0 beta build 2 incorrect armor selection.
- MCPE-5924 – After the flint and steel runs out, when you click it again, it crashes.
- MCPE-5940 – An issue related to beds.
- MCPE-5964 – An issue related to eggs.
Other
- Fixed a crash in the "Manage Realms" section.
- Added baked potato description.
- Added charcoal description.
- Fixed typo in iron bars description.
- Fixed arrow smoke being very fast when the arrow is stuck.
- Fixed top cactus texture.
- Fixed crash when picking up an arrow on fire.
- Fixed the bad graphics bug.
- Removed one bone meal from the creative inventory.
v0.8.0 alpha build 5
v0.8.0 alpha build 5 is the fourth build version released for Alpha 0.8.0.
Changes
Blocks
- Position on the block is now randomized.
Items
- Now works like in Java Edition.
- Can grow ferns and grass in Survival and Creative.
- Pumpkin and melon stems only grow by one when bone meal is used.
- Flowers now spawn other flowers when bone meal is used.
- Version exclusive: Grows sugar cane to maximum height.
Non-mob entities
- Now ride smoother.
Fixes
From the 0.8.0 development versions
- MCPE-5730 - Extreme Lag underwater
- MCPE-5808 - Water can't break carpet
- MCPE-5817 - Falling sand causes dropped item discoloration
- MCPE-5822 - Creepers move too slowly
- MCPE-5834 - Stairs turn upside down when placed on snow
- MCPE-5897 - Igniting TNT in creative crashes the game
- MCPE-5899 - Placing a wooden slab automatically changes it to a jungle wood slab
- MCPE-5934 - The player gets stuck in a lava lake if it is deeper than two blocks.
- MCPE-5935 - Tools appear upside-down in third-person view
- MCPE-5947 - you fall when you destroy the minecart
- MCPE-5977 - visual glitch in furnace
- MCPE-5997 - while under water the rest of water is transparent .
- MCPE-6063 - Bone meal appears twice in the creative inventory
- MCPE-6133 - Mobs don't spawn at night
From the previous development version
- MCPE-6120 - Shadows appear below signs when placed on the side of a block
- MCPE-6124 - When breaking birch slab I get an oak slab
v0.8.0 alpha build 6
v0.8.0 alpha build 6 is the fifth build version released for 0.8.0.
Additions
Fixes
1 bug fixed
- Can write on Android 4.3 a
v0.8.0 alpha build 7
v0.8.0 alpha build 7 is the sixth build version released for 0.8.0.
Changes
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Items
- Can now be used as fuel in a furnace, smelting 1 item each.
Non-mob entities
- The UI message "Tap Jump to leave the minecart" now appears when a minecart has been boarded.
- The left, right, and down buttons on the d-pad are no longer visible when riding a minecart.
Gameplay
- Light gray wool's inventory slot has been moved to be in between white wool and gray wool.
- Performance has been improved.
Fixes
10 bugs fixed
- Fixed text input on Android.
- Fixed spruce and birch leaves being swapped.
- Fixed furnace side texture.
- Fixed sandstone slab side texture.
- Fixed red hurt overlay on skeletons and chickens.
- Fixed an artifact over the flame in the furnace screen.
- TNT doesn’t send you into orbit anymore.
- Fixed armor slots having no health bar.
- Fixed autojumping while in minecarts.
- Fixed falling into the ground when exiting a minecart that’s on rails.
v0.8.0 alpha build 8
v0.8.0 alpha build 8 is the seventh and final build version released for 0.8.0, as well as the final build released in 2013.
Changes
- Now drop their item form when falling onto blocks they cannot replace, such as torches.
- All wool and carpet variants are now sorted based on their color rather than their block data.
Fixes
From the 0.8.0 development versions
- MCPE-5987 – Light gray wool is not in correct place.
- MCPE-5994 – Minecart stuck after certain depth (underground level near bedrock).
- MCPE-6035 – What I expected to happen was for the light gray wool to be with the other wool in the creative inventory what actually happened was the light gray wool was separated from the other wool.
- MCPE-6194 – Birch and spruce textures.
- MCPE-6242 – Explosions are too powerful.
- MCPE-6312 – TNT blows me out of the world.
- MCPE-6337 – Tile Entities are not correctly sent in multiplayer.
Other
- Fixed double chests becoming unpaired.
- Added back hurt and fire color overlay for mobs.
- The chest inventory now refreshes when two players change the content at the same time.
