Pocket Edition Alpha 0.4.0

Alpha 0.4.0

Release date	Android, iOS - September 6, 2012 FireOS - September 13, 2012
◄◄ Alpha 0.3.0 ◄ Alpha 0.3.3 Alpha 0.4.0 rev 2 ► Alpha 0.5.0 ►►

This article is about the Pocket Edition. For other editions, see Version history (disambiguation).

Alpha 0.4.0 added chests, beds, TNT, Creepers, new food and farming items, as well as other changes and fixes.

Additions

Gameplay

• Difficulty
  • Peaceful mode option for Survival without monsters and automatic healing.

Blocks and Items

• Chests (cannot make double chests yet)
• Beds to skip night and set your spawn point
• TNT
• Gunpowder
• Flint and Steel
• Food
  • Apples
  • Bread
  • Mushroom Stew
  • Raw Beef
  • Steak
  • Raw Chicken
  • Cooked Chicken
  • Raw Porkchop
  • Cooked Porkchop
• New crafting recipes
  • Wool
  • Stone Bricks
• Farming
  • Wheat
  • Seeds
  • Hoe (wheat seeds obtained by using hoe on grass blocks)
• Dyes
  • Added cactus green, cyan dye, lapis lazuli, light blue dye, lime dye, magenta dye, orange dye, pink dye and purple dye.
  • Version exclusive: Red dye can be obtained by smelting red mushrooms
  • Yellow dye can be obtained by dandelions

Creative inventory additions

• Moss Stone
• Redstone Ore (unable to be placed)
• White Wool
• Trapdoor

Mobs

• Creepers

Changes

Gameplay

• Lengthened the daytime
• Limited the total number of a given monster type.
• When using an item, the player’s movement speed is decreased.

Blocks and Items

• Snowballs can now be thrown.

Mobs

• Zombies now drop feathers
• Limited the total number of a given monster type.
• Animal spawning (being worked on)

Fixes

15 bugs fixed

• Monsters could spawn indoors.
• Added fall damage for clients.
• Players could hit each other far away.
• Incorrect bow rendering in third person view.
• Missing particles after critical arrows
• Stairs reverted to their basic blocks when destroyed
• Charging the bow could destroy certain blocks (flowers, torches), or interact with blocks.
• The game crashes if the player is killed while having charging a bow.
• Connecting players could die in Creative mode.
• Dark leaves sometimes have crafting table texture.
• Wrong crafting table size for Xperia Play
• Bow doesn'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.