Update 0.9.0

Update 0.9.0 is an upcoming update for Minecraft Pocket Edition. It has been confirmed to be released in May, and will provide Pocket Edition with a bunch of new and exciting additions. These features are changes or additions most likely/guaranteed to be added in Minecraft 0.9.0. Update Version 0.9.0 will be the last version of Alpha. Johan has released a tweet stating that 0.9.0 has gone into the bug fixing phase. The release will probably be in May.

New Biomes

 * Jungle (confirmed)
 * Roofed Forest (confirmed)
 * Mesa (confirmed)
 * Savannas (confirmed)
 * Taiga (confirmed)
 * Mushroom Island (confirmed)
 * River (confirmed)
 * The Far Biome (If not added, in 0.9.1 instead)

Generated Structures

 * Caves (confirmed) (optional)
 * Lava Pools (confirmed)
 * Abandoned Mineshafts
 * Villages (confirmed)
 * Ravines (confirmed)
 * Strongholds (confirmed)

Passive

 * Villagers (confirmed)
 * Have degraded AI and cannot be traded with
 * Ocelot (confirmed)
 * Mooshrooms (confirmed)

Neutral

 * Wolf (confirmed)
 * Enderman (confirmed)
 * Enderpearls wont be added in 0.9

Hostile

 * Silverfish (confirmed)
 * Slimes (confirmed)
 * Spiders are spawned by leaves, created a higher spawning rate of spiders in forests at night.

New Blocks

 * Diorite, granite, and andesite, in normal and polished versions.
 * Mycelium
 * Hardened Clay and Stained Clay (Up to 16 colors)
 * Red Sand (confirmed, in Mesa and Plateau Biomes)
 * Podzol
 * End stone (possibly)
 * Packed Ice (confirmed)
 * Emerald Ore (confirmed)
 * Mob spawners (confirmed)
 * Fish (food) (possibly)
 * End Portal Frame (confirmed)
 * Does not take you to The End
 * Eyes of Ender (possibly)

Creative Inventory Additions

 * Bone
 * Raw Beef
 * Bowl

Trees

 * Acacia Trees
 * Dark Oak trees
 * Jungle Trees

Plants

 * Vines
 * Double Tall Grass
 * Large Fern
 * Acacia Sapling
 * Jungle Sapling
 * Dark Oak Sapling (Cannot be grown by Bone Meal)
 * Tall Grass (confirmed)

Wood

 * Dark Oak Wood
 * Acacia Wood

Items

 * Cocoa (Can be farmed by using Jungle Wood)

Naturally Generated Blocks

 * Pumpkins
 * Tall Grass
 * Dead Bushes
 * Ferns
 * Stone Bricks
 * Cracked Stone Bricks
 * Mossy Stone Bricks
 * Stone Bricks Stairs
 * Stone Slabs
 * Iron Bars
 * Torches

Flowers

 * Poppy (Will Replace The Rose (Cyan Flower)
 * Blue Orchid
 * Allium
 * Azure Bluet
 * Tulips (Available in all 4 colors)
 * Oxeye Daisy
 * Sun Flower
 * Lilac
 * Rose Bush
 * Peony

Technical Changes

 * Updated inventory and crafting screen
 * Invisible Bedrock Gets Removed If world is changed to infinite
 * New textures for the top, below of birch, spruce and jungle wood
 * Biome-tinted Grass

World Generation

 * Superflat worlds
 * Infinite worlds

Option to select world type

 * Default
 * Superflat
 * Copy existing worlds
 * Option to imput the world's seed

Ability to pick world sizes
All Confirmed
 * Legacy (same as current size)
 * Small
 * Medium
 * LargeGrass_shading.jpg
 * Infinite

Options

 * In-game option to toggle a world's gamemode

Blocks and Items

 * New ways to obtain Nether-related items
 * Gravel no longer falls from spawn
 * Beds no longer restore health

Build 1
In a recent stream that was released of 0.9.0 build 1, we see that cave generation is basically complete. Also there is the new blocks like flowers and diorite. Some bugs are that tree generation appear over water,and that the world starts with the player being short one heart of full health. The stream is here.

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0.9.0