Update 0.8.0

Update 0.8.0 was a big update for Minecraft Pocket Edition with a lot of new features, which are listed below. It was released on the Apple App Store and the Amazon Store on December 12th, 2013. Mojang has said that this is the best update as of now. Update 0.8.1 was a small follow-up update only to fix bugs in 0.8.0.

New features
Blocks
 * Birch and Spruce Planks, Slabs and Stairs
 * Block of Coal (Cannot be crafted with Charcoal.)
 * Carpets
 * Only red in Survival
 * All 16 Colors in Creative
 * Cobblestone Walls
 * Hay Bales (Decorational, not for breeding.)
 * Iron Bars
 * Jack O'Lantern
 * Rails
 * Powered Rails (always powered)
 * Tall Grass and Ferns (Grown artificially, will not grow naturally until 0.9.0)


 * Creative Only:
 * Jungle Wood, Leaves, Planks, Slabs and Stairs
 * Sponge
 * Dead Bush (spawns naturally in 0.9.0)
 * Mossy Cobblestone Walls
 * Ice

Crops

 * Beetroots
 * Although Beetroots are a source of red dye, Red Mushrooms will still give red dye when smelted
 * Carrots and Potatoes
 * Rarely dropped from Zombies
 * Pumpkins ( Will not spawn naturally until 0.9.0)

Items

 * Beetroot Seeds
 * Have a 1/15 chance of popping out from Grass when hoed
 * Compasses
 * Minecarts
 * Clocks
 * Pumpkin Seeds (obtained from Nether Reactor.)
 * Redstone
 * Cannot be placed for Redstone Wiring or mechanics but can be used to craft Clock, compasses, and powered rails.
 * Ink Sacs (unobtainable in survival until 0.9.0)
 * Cocoa Beans (unobtainable in survival until 0.9.0)
 * ​Crafted from Orange Dye and an Ink Sac

Foods

 * Beetroots (PE Exclusive Feature)
 * Beetroot Soup (PE Exclusive Feature)
 * Carrots
 * Pumpkin Pie
 * Potatoes

Blocks/Items

 * Bonemeal is nerfed like in the PC Edition
 * Fire and Lava will now ignite TNT
 * Redstone Ore now drops Redstone when mined
 * Sideways pointing Wood Logs
 * New Bow rendering & animated items
 * New Fire effect
 * Remade Painting rendering
 * Thrown Eggs now spawn baby Chickens

Graphics

 * 3D Clouds with new tessellation algorithm
 * Held items are now rendered in 3D, and bob up and down slightly
 * Lighter colored Water, Sky, and Grass
 * Water fades to non-transparent in the distance (iOS only)
 * Mipmaps (iOS only)
 * Refactored most of the rendering to use indexed VBOs
 * Remade Arrow model
 * Inventory is now rendered using cached VBOs
 * New Sky rendering using a triangle fan
 * Separated far and near chunks in two queues for performance reasons
 * Fog only on far chunks
 * Transparency only on near chunks
 * Alpha-test-only layers are hidden in far chunks
 * Lighting
 * Stencil Shadows
 * Dynamic PC-like lighting on entities
 * Ambient light tinting
 * Light direction depends on sunlight direction - affects shadows (exclusive to PE)

Inventory/GUI

 * Creative Inventory Additions
 * Flint and Steel
 * Ice
 * Bedrock
 * Shears
 * Dyes
 * New Creative Inventory, with four item categories
 * Transparent hotbar
 * Tapping the [...] will close the inventory while open.
 * Craftable recipes are shown first in the crafting screen
 * When selecting an item in the inventory it replaces the one in the selected slot
 * Changed the flow of Inventory for the Armor/Crafting screens so that the back button goes back to Inventory

Mobs

 * Breeding
 * Improved Mob AI System (Mobs now swim over deep Water, and Hostile Mobs are now more intelligent, Spiders are much faster.)
 * Animals follow you when holding Wheat (Potatoes, Carrots, and Beetroot for Pigs, Seeds for Chickens)

New defaults and changed options

 * Added far (256) and farthest (400) rendering distances
 * Removed Smooth Lighting option (now always on)
 * Fancy Graphics is now on by default
 * Default rendering distance is now far

Textures

 * Brought all textures from PC
 * New texture atlas and texture generator script
 * Changed textures:
 * Gravel
 * Birch Leaves
 * Lapis Lazuli Block

Video


0.8.0