A two for one special on Minecraft updates today. First up, Minecraft - Pocket Edition was updated to version 0.4.0. The major additions include Creepers, chests, beds, TNT, and much more. The full changelog is at the bottom.
In addition, PC gamers can download and test out the latest snapshot for the PC version of the game. The 12w36a snapshot includes new decoration blocks (heads of mobs, basically), a new Nether mob, and other improvements. You can now also attach a carrot to a stick to guide the pigs around when riding them!
Changelog for both Minecraft - Pocket Edition (0.4.0) and the PC 12w36a snapshot
(Pocket Edition | 12w36a Snapshot)
In addition, PC gamers can download and test out the latest snapshot for the PC version of the game. The 12w36a snapshot includes new decoration blocks (heads of mobs, basically), a new Nether mob, and other improvements. You can now also attach a carrot to a stick to guide the pigs around when riding them!
Changelog for both Minecraft - Pocket Edition (0.4.0) and the PC 12w36a snapshot
Pocket Edition
New features:
Tweaks:
Bug fixes:
PC Snapshot
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
PC Snapshot
- Updated Wither
-- Place 4 pieces of Soulsand in a vertical T-shape and place 3 Wither Skeleton Skulls on top to create it.
-- Drops one Nether Star upon death.
-- When spawned in the Overworld, the sky will get darker.
-- Gives players "Wither II" effect when hitting them - Added Wither Skeleton mob which only shows up in the Nether
-- Gives players "Wither" effect when hitting them
-- Carry and rarely drop Stone swords when killed by players
-- Drops Bones and Coal
-- Has a high chance to spawn from an Skeleton Egg if the player is in the Nether - Added one new painting depicting the creation of a Wither
- Added Carrot on a Stick
-- Used to redirect Pigs
-- Right click to make them run faster - Added Nether Star
-- Used as a crafting ingredient for the Beacon block - Added new decoration blocks
-- Skeleton Skull
-- Wither Skeleton Skull
-- Zombie Head
-- Creeper Head
-- Head
-- Can be used as hats
-- Are dropped very rarely by mobs - Updated the Beacon block, now shows up as Beacon
-- New model and textures
-- Can now be crafted by surrounding a Nether Star with 5 blocks of glass on top of 3 blocks of obsidian - Retextured the Golden Carrot
- Added more Dungeon loot
- Chickens now use Seeds instead Wheat to breed
- Pigs can be bred with Carrots
- Zombies that pick up items will now always drop them after dying.
- Saddled pigs will now always drop saddles on death.
- Minor changes to dyeing
-- Leather armor now uses two overlayed textures, one being the color
-- Minor changes to the leather dyeing - the colors will attempt to maintain intensity and not dilute as much - Carrots and Potatoes can now be found in either Villages or growing in Jungle Biomes.
- The Zombie and Zombie Pigman models and textures have changed (breaking old texture packs)
Notable Bugs (Complete bug list): - When breaking the Beacon block the Particle effect that comes off it still has the old texture.
- If the world is generated before this snapshot hostile mobs can be glitchy and not burn in sunlight.
- Using an invisibility potion while in 3rd person view causes any mob head being worn to not rotate along the Y-axis with the player's head.
- When worn, Heads conflict with the "helmet" portion of a player's skin.
- Mobs(mainly zombies and skeletons) sometimes can walk inside blocks.
- 4x4 pantings (and presumably 4x3 and 4x2) paintings upon upgrade from 1.3.2 have been observed to drop upon block load
(Pocket Edition | 12w36a Snapshot)
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