Minecraft 0.12.1 build 1 [Beta]

Test version Minecraft v0.12.1 alpha build 1 for Android brings a major update: the Nether, weather, hunger, experience, enchanting, brewing, many new mobs and blocks, as well as cross-platform play with Windows 10 and controller support.

New Features

• General
  • Cross-platform play for up to five players between Pocket Edition and Windows 10.
  • Controller and keyboard support.
    • Can change controls in options.
  • Options
    • Exclusive to this version: option to swap the positions of the Sneak and Jump buttons.
    • The jump button has been moved to the right side of the screen.
      • A sneak button has been added in place of the old jump button.
    • These are the new default controls.
    • Option to disable auto-jump.
  • Particles
    • angryVillager.
    • largeexplode.
    • hugeexplode.
    • blockdust.
    • slime.
    • enchantementtable.
    • droplet.
    • snowshovel.
    • Added falling particles.
• Gameplay
  • Hunger.
  • Experience.
  • Weather.
    • Rain.
    • Snowfall.
    • Thunderstorm.
  • Sprinting.
  • Sneaking.
    • Toggled by double-tapping the sneak button.
    • Previously only available on the Xperia PLAY gaming console.
  • More difficulty modes.
    • Peaceful.
    • Easy.
    • Normal.
    • Hard.
  • Animation for switching blocks and items.
  • Critical hits.
  • Enchanting.
  • Brewing.
  • Item repair.
• Blocks
  • Enchantment tables.
    • Exclusive to this version: book on the table glows.
    • Exclusive to this version: currently can only be crafted in the Stonecutter.
  • Anvils.
    • All 3 damage types.
  • Brewing stands.
  • Mob heads.
    • Inventory icons are not 3D.
    • The Wither cannot yet be created.
  • Flower pots.
  • Soul sand.
  • Nether brick fence.
  • Nether quartz ore.
• Items
  • Glass bottles.
  • Potions.
    • Splash potions.
  • Golden carrots.
  • Nether wart.
  • Glistering melons.
  • Golden apples.
  • Enchanted golden apples.
  • Rabbit's foot (creative only as rabbits have not been added yet).
  • Blaze rods.
  • Blaze powder.
  • Ghast tears.
  • Spider eyes.
  • Gold nuggets.
  • Fermented spider eyes.
  • Bottles o' enchanting (creative only as trading has not been added yet).
  • Poisonous potatoes.
  • Enchanted books.
  • Spawn eggs.
    • Zombie villagers.
    • Ocelots.
    • Blazes.
• Creative inventory additions
  • Packed ice.
  • Spawn eggs:
    • Ghast.
    • Blaze.
    • Ocelot.
  • Glowstone dust.
  • Gunpowder.
  • Redstone dust (brewing only).
  • Slimeballs.
  • Sugar.
  • Magma cream.
  • Apples.
  • Coal.
  • Charcoal.
  • Iron ingot.
  • Gold ingot.
  • Emeralds.
  • Diamonds.
  • Raw porkchop.
  • Cooked porkchop.
  • Steak.
  • Raw chicken.
  • Cooked chicken.
  • Baked potato.
  • Bread.
  • String.
  • Beetroot.
  • Beetroot soup.
  • Mushroom soup.
  • Boats:
    • Early feature from 1.9: spruce, birch, jungle, acacia, and dark oak variants.
  • Leather armor.
  • Iron armor.
  • Gold armor.
  • Diamond armor.
• World generation
  • The Nether.
    • Nether portals can be up to 23x23 in size, like in Java Edition.
    • All items previously obtained through the Nether reactor are now available through their normal means.
  • Nether fortresses.
• Mobs
  • Iron golems.
  • Snow golems.
  • Ocelots.
  • Zombie villagers.
    • Early feature from 1.9: villagers retain their profession and clothes, which appear tattered.
  • Blazes.
  • Wither skeletons.

Changes

• General
  • Changed game logo.
  • Graphics.
    • Tinted water - gradient from aqua to dark blue when viewed from a distance.

    

  • Relocated pause and chat button in Survival mode.
  • Exclusive to this version: leaves in snowy biomes appear frost-covered during snowfall.
  • Scrollbar.
    • Always visible.
    • New texture.
  • The player can now swim in lava.
  • Sounds.
    • Ladder makes a new sound when climbing.
    • Lava and water now have sounds.
  • Increased daylight cycle length from 19,200 ticks (16 minutes) to 24,000 ticks (20 minutes).
• Mobs
  • Burning mobs have a sizzling particle effect once extinguished.
  • Mobs will now drop experience when killed.
  • Zombies.
    • Zombies now wear different armor and can hold items.
    • Zombies now rarely drop weapons and armor.
  • Skeletons.
    • Skeletons now wear different armor and can hold items.
    • Improved accuracy.
    • Skeletons now rarely drop weapons and armor.
    • Skeletons spawning in the Nether have a chance to spawn as a Wither Skeleton.
  • Slimes.
    • Now have particles when jumping.
    • Now drop slimeballs.
  • Magma cubes.
    • Magma cubes and ghasts now spawn naturally.
    • Magma cubes now split when killed.
  • Zombie pigmen.
    • Zombie pigmen are now neutral.
    • Now spawn in the Nether.
  • Villagers.
    • Can now open and close doors.
    • Can now harvest crops.
    • Can now breed.
    • Now have angry particles if attacked by the player.
• Blocks and items
  • New inventory icons for boats.
    • Now include paddles.
    • Different boat types' items now have their respective color.
  • Nether Reactor blocks exist but are rendered useless.
  • Food now restores hunger instead of health.
  • Snow layers.
    • Exclusive to this version: builds up multiple layers naturally through snowfall.
    • Exclusive to this version: are now affected by gravity.
  • Packed ice: new texture.
  • Dead bushes now drop 0-2 sticks when broken without shears.

Fixed Bugs

• Touchpad implementation fixed on Sony Xperia Play.
• From released versions before 0.12.1:
  • Can't get out of lava.
  • Sounds on Android devices are incorrect.
  • Bug while mining/breaking blocks (Touch and Split Controls).
  • Bow doesn't have particles on full charge.
  • Automatic Flying Bug.
  • Auto jump not working with carpet.
  • Finger free mining bug.
  • Wrong crops sound.
  • When tapping the leftmost box in the hotbar while walking forward, you walk backwards and left a bit.
  • Baby pigs can pass through slabs.
  • Hotbar size decreases when on split controls.
  • Cobblestone generators don't work for other players in Local Server Multiplayer.
  • Painting de_aztec (or Aztec) does not exist in the game.
  • Jungle leaves x-ray bug.
  • Putting out fire in creative mode.
  • Inventory Armor Section Bug!
  • Red Sand Suffocation.
  • Burning fuel icon not decreasing when the world is closed and reopened.
  • Upper slabs cause top leaf texture to disappear.
  • Monster spawners only spawn mobs with data value 0.
  • Mesas generate on top of water bodies in Bryce mesa biomes.
  • Skeleton arrows bounce off.
  • Water and lava disappear when switching view distances.
  • Redstone ore doesn't give off particles.
  • Heavy shading on water blocks at the world border.
  • Mining consecutive redstone ore blocks does not light each block as they are being mined.
  • Lava can tick through walls.
  • Fishing rod and flying glitch.
  • Wrong magma cream name.
  • Magma cubes do not split.
  • Lighting glitch when standing under a door.
  • Block selection overlay is only visible on one side of a texture.
  • Villager professions not showing correctly on client.
  • Mob pathfinding considers the void to be a solid platform.
  • [Tamed wolves] cannot be healed to full health.
  • Falling beyond bedrock into the void.
  • Baby animals can grow up inside fence-type blocks and escape their pen.
  • Skeleton aim is off.
  • Zombies think that slabs are full blocks.
  • Eating raw chicken gives you hunger?
  • Water can turn lava into obsidian from underneath.
  • View bobbing automatically defaults to on after restarting the app.
  • Egg shows snowball particles when thrown.
  • Fishing bobber (bait or lure) burns forever.
  • LAN mid-air glitch.
  • Wrong text when selecting which model to use with your custom skin.
  • Furnaces are facing wrong direction in village blacksmiths.
  • Mobs get stuck atop the border wall.
  • Baby zombie pigmen.
  • Double-tall flowers do not drop items when mined.
  • Carpet duplication when trying to place it where it cannot be placed.
  • Minecarts wrong view when riding down.
  • Baby chickens die in boats.
  • Cobwebs can't be broken by water.
  • After mobs get out of fire, they do not continue to burn.
  • Nether Reactor gives wrong message.
  • Unable to scroll a newly selected language off of the language menu screen.
  • Infinite boat rowing bug.
  • Bow glitch.
  • No 32-bit support.

  

• From 0.11.0 development versions:
  • Not translated into Russian for blocks.
  • Custom skins crash.
  • Wrong death position (video).
• From the current version, hotfixed:
  • Enchanting not in Windows 10 edition.
  • The cat did not have different skin types as on PC.
  • Undeletable worlds.