Board Thread:News and Announcements (ADMINS ONLY)/@comment-5916519-20131128170020

The developers are hard working on the new feautureas for 0.8.0. This is getting the biggest update of mcpe, yet.

The developers started a big test group for Android to find out big bugs and that they can fix the bugs before they release it. They want to add more beta testers to the group but they can't add more at the moment. If you want to be a beta tester you need a Android device with the full version of Minecraft if you have them you can request to join here.

Here is the full list of the changes:

Additions:

New Blocks: - Birch and Spruce Planks, Slabs and Stairs - Block of Coal - Carpets - only red in Survival - all 16 Colors in creative - Cobblestone Walls - Hay Bales - Iron Bars - Jack O'Lantern - Rails - Powered Rails(always powered) - Creative Only: - Jungle Wood, Leaves, Wooden Planks, Slabs and Stairs - Sponge - Tall Grass and Ferns - Dead Bush - Mossy Cobblestone Walls - Snow(cover) - Ice

Crops: - Beetroots - Although Beetroots will be a source of red dye, Red Mushrooms still will give red dye when smelted - Carrots - Rarely dropped from Zombies - Potatoes - Rarely dropped from Zombies - Pumpkins

Items: - Beetroot seeds - Have a 1/15 chance of popping out from grass when hoed - Clocks - Compasses - Minecarts - Pumpkin seeds - Redstone (can't placed until after 0.9.0, but can used to craft) Foods: - Beetroots - Beetroot Soup - Carrots - Potatoes - Pumkin Pie

Tweaks:

Blocks/Items: - Bone Meal is nerfed like in the PC edition - Fire and lava will now ignite TNT - Redstone Ore now drops Redstone when mined - Sideways pointing wood blocks - New bow rendering & animated items - New fire effect - Remade painting rendering - Thrown eggs now spawn small chicken


 * The rest of the Changelog comes tomorrow.

It's planned to submit it next or over next weeks that it comes for Christmas.

David. 