Minecraft 0.9.0

Minecraft 0.9.0 Alpha for Android — one of the largest updates, adding new blocks and items, world generation changes, technical improvements, and bug fixes.

Changes

• Interactive action button (shearing sheep, milking cows, taming animals, etc.).
• Beds no longer restore health.
• New wood and leaf textures.
• Carpets now available in Survival.
• Gravel now generates correctly.
• Water and lava now update instantly.
• New lighting and anti-aliasing effects.
• Immersive mode support for Android 4.4+ (hides navigation buttons).
• World generation system ported from Java Edition 1.8.
• New biomes: savanna, mesa, flower forest, mega taiga, jungle, and more.
• New structures: villages, mineshafts, strongholds, caves, giant mushrooms, desert wells, and more.
• New tree types: acacia, dark oak, large oaks, and jungle trees.
• New world types: Old (256×256), Flat, Infinite.
• Villagers added (no trading, don’t open doors).
• Endermen don’t drop pearls, slimes don’t drop slime, but wolves were added (tameable with bones).
• Mushrooms now generate in the world.
• Zombies can “siege” and summon new zombies when attacking.
• Spiders have faster animation and can spawn in leaves.
• Creepers move faster and stand correctly on the ground.
• Improved mob spawning (groups, new algorithms).
• Monster spawner (Creative only, mob type can be changed with spawn egg).
• End portal frame (decorative block, not functional).
• Emerald ore and block.
• Hardened clay (terracotta) and dyed variants (16 colors).
• New decorative blocks: granite, diorite, andesite, and polished variants.
• Mycelium, podzol, packed ice, coarse dirt, red sand.
• Acacia and dark oak (logs, planks, slabs, stairs, leaves, saplings).
• New flowers: blue orchid, allium, tulips (4 colors), daisy, sunflower, lilac, rose bush, peony, and more.
• Tall grass, ferns, vines, lily pads, cocoa beans.
• Cookies, emerald (as an item).
• Spawn eggs for most mobs (villager, wolf, slime, spider, skeleton, zombie, creeper, enderman, etc.).

Bug Fixes

6 bugs fixed.

• Fixed mipmapping bug (fire looked like an orange blob).
• Fixed minecart multiplayer issues.
• Baked potato now has the correct name and description.
• Signs now craft in the correct quantity.
• Different wood types now smelt properly in furnaces.
• Fixed duplication bug when exiting or crashing the game.

Technical Changes

• Improved TNT explosion performance.
• New save system based on LevelDB.
• Reworked networking code (new packet system).
• Updated lighting and generation algorithms.
• Camera entity removed.
• Tile entities now saved with a new system.
• Optimizations for Xperia Play and other devices.