Pocket Edition v0.9.0 alpha build 1

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v0.9.0 alpha build 1

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v0.9.0 alpha build 1 is the first build version released for Pocket Edition v0.9.0 alpha, and the first build released in 2014.

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• Added immersive mode for Android.
  • Only Android 4.4 KitKat.
    • Available on other versions with 3rd party-apps.

• Superflat world type.
• Updated create world screen - now includes Superflat, Infinite and 'old' world types.
• Unlimited worlds.
• New falling mechanics for sand and gravel.
• New insta ticking of water and lava.
• Grass and foliage colors for different biomes.
• Water color for swamps.
• Added more spawn eggs in creative.
• New interact button (to make the game easier for new players).

• Ice patches
• Ice spikes
• Lakes
• Double plants
• Tall Grass
• Trees:
  • Jungle trees (small and large)
  • Mega Jungle trees
  • Mega Spruce trees
  • Acacia trees
  • Version exclusive Fallen trees
  • Version exclusive Oak trees (swamp and large oak variants)
• Huge mushroom
• Forest rock
• Lily pads
• Vines
• Melons
• Pumpkins
• Dead bushes
• Monster rooms
• Desert wells
• Fallen logs and stumps
• Emerald ore
• Caves
  • Lava at the bottom of caves
  • Caves in desert and mesa
• Strongholds
• Villages
• Mineshafts

• Extreme Hills
• Mega Taiga
• Roofed Forest
• Jungle
• Savanna
• Mesa
• Mushroom Island
• Deep Ocean
• Swamp

• Podzol.
• Mycelium.
• Huge mushroom blocks.
• Cocoa.
• End portal frames.
• Double plants.
• Dark Oak and Acacia Wood
  • With their Stairs, Slabs, Planks, and Leaves variants.
• Saplings:
  • Jungle saplings,
  • Acacia saplings,
  • Dark Oak spalings.
• Stained clay (In all its 16 colors).
• Lilypad.
• 12 new Flowers:
  • Blue Orchids
  • Alliums
  • Azure Bluets
  • Tulips (red, orange, white, pink)
  • Oxeye Daisies
  • Sunflowers
  • Lilacs
  • Rose Bushes
  • Peonies.
• Red sand.
• Hardened clay.
• End stone.
• Granite
  • With its polished variant.
• Diorite
  • With its polished variant.
• Andesite
  • With its polished variant.
• Emerald block
  • Emerald Ore.
• Packed Ice.
• Grassless Dirt.

• 6 Spawn eggs:
  • Slimes
  • Endermen
  • Mooshroom
  • Wolf
  • Silverfish
  • Zombie Pigman
• Cookies
• Emeralds

• Slimes.
• Endermen.
• Wolves.
• Mooshrooms.
• Silverfish.
• Villagers
  • Baby villagers.

• Particles:
  • dripWater
  • dripLava

• The version watermark visible in development versions has been moved from the bottom of the screen to the top.
• Prettier clouds
  • New culling of clouds.
  • The fog is darker underground.
• Textures
  • New leaves rendering.
• Inventory/GUI
  • New crafting screen.
  • Stonecutter UI Changed.

• Removed generated structures:
  • Oceans
    • Added as a biome instead
  • Gravel beaches
  • Frozen Oceans
    • Will no longer naturally generate

• Removed biomes:
  • Shrubland
  • Seasonal forest
  • Rainforest
  • Tundra
  • Legacy frozen ocean

• Correct name for stairs, slabs and spawn eggs.
• Beds no longer give full health in normal difficulty.
• Smooth lighting added for:
  • Beds
  • Fences
  • Walls
  • Cobweb
  • Chests
  • Leaves
• Smooth lighting removed for:
  • Glowstone
  • Glass
  • Jack 'o' lanterns
• Improved performance of TNT.

• "New" mob spawning.
• Passive mobs now spawn naturally in creative mode without the use of spawn eggs.
• Tripod cameras have been removed.

• Spiders.
  • Now spawn from leaves, creating a higher amount of spiders in tree-rich biomes at night.
  • Animation is now twice as fast.
  • Improved AI.

• New culling algorithm.^[1][2]
• Tile entities are saved differently.
• New leveldb based saving format.
• New entity handling.
• Updated light generation.
• Remade network code (mostly the same packages but new system).

11 issues fixed

From released versions before 0.9.0

• MCPE-1134 – No sharing/broadcast session on LAN for 2nd generation Kindle Fire.
• MCPE-1796 – Sleeping in Bed Resets Health
• MCPE-6185 – mushrooms dont glow
• MCPE-6589 – Typo
• MCPE-6865 – Inconsistent protocol data types usage
• MCPE-7091 – CompoundTag::putLong has wrong parameter type (should be long long, not long)
• MCPE-7169 – Can't Delete world

From the current version, hotfixed

• MCPE-7354 – There is no Villager Spawn Egg
• MCPE-7463 – Torches
• MCPE-7509 – No villager spawn egg in creative

Others

• Fixed an item duplication glitch that could occur if the game crashed or if the player exited out of Minecraft without saving the world.

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