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Does anyone play this? It's actually getting a lot better. The new 0.8.0 Update (that should be released soon) brings many things into the update. But I'm more excited about 0.9.0, because it will bring many biomes and infinite worlds!
Here are the changes for 0.8.0, it should be released before X-mas.
Additions:
Blocks:
Birch and Spruce Wood Planks, Slabs, and Stairs
Block of Coal
Carpets
All 16 colors in creative mode
Only red carpets in survival mode
Cobblestone Walls
Hay Bales
Iron Bars
Jack O' Lantern
Rails
Powered Rails (always powered)
Creative-Only:
Jungle Wood, Leaves, Wood Planks, Slabs, and Stairs
Sponge
Dead Bush
Mossy Cobblestone Walls
Snow (cover)
Cobwebs
Crops:
Beetroots
Although Beetroots will be a source of red dye, Red Mushrooms still will give red dye when smelted. [3]
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 (cannot be placed as Redstone Dust until 0.9.0)
Ink Sac (currently unobtainable in survival mode)
Cocoa Beans (crafted from Orange dye and Inc sac).
Foods:
Beetroots
Beetroot Soup
Carrots
Potatoes
Pumpkin Pie
Baked Potatoes
Tweaks:
Blocks/Items:
Bone Meal
Nerfed like in the PC edition
Can grow Ferns and Tall Grass in survival and creative
Now grows Sugar Cane to maximum height (exclusive to MCPE)
Pumpkin and melon stems only grow by one when bone meal is used
Flowers now spawn other flowers when Bone Meal is used
Fire and lava 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 baby chickens.
Flowers
Position is now randomized
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 MCPE)
Inventory/GUI:
Creative Inventory Additions:
Flint and Steel
Ice
Bedrock
Shears
Dyes
Tall Grass and Ferns
Cobwebs
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 will swim over deep water, and hostile mobs will be more intelligent)
Animals follow you when holding wheat (potato, carrot or beetroot for pigs)
New defaults and changed options:
Added far (256) and farthest (400) rendering distances
Removed smooth lighting (now always on)
Fancy is now default on
Default rendering distance is now far
Textures:
Brought all textures from PC
New texture atlas and texture generator script
Upcoming Features
Additions:
Mobs:
Endermen
Other mobs are confirmed for this version, however it is still unknown which ones will be added.
Generated Structures:
Caves
Possibly a version-exclusive structure to replace the Nether Reactor
World Generation:
World Sizes
Option to toggle world size-including infinite worlds, displaying a warning when selected.
Realms will only be able to be generated with a finite size.
New Biomes:
All the biomes as of PC version 1.7, excluding the more resource-intensive ones such as jungles and roofed forests.
A version-exclusive biome found at the edge of finite worlds
Tall Grass will naturally generate in Survival Mode
Port of Minecraft PC world generation, allowing for generated structures such as villages and caves.
This will only apply to new worlds. Older worlds will still expand/become infinite, but have the prior terrain generation.
Tweaks:
New World Options:
Option to toggle Caves
Option to toggle Tall Grass
Option to toggle different world sizes
Possibly a Superflat option while creating a world
Other:
Possibly full implementation of commands
Removal of the Invisible bedrock barrier in all pre-0.9 worlds