Minecraft Pocket Edition Recieves 0.4.0 Update, Bringing Loads of New Features

If you’ve been waiting to grab Minecraft Pocket edition because it has been missing many of the key features of the main application, now’s your chance to drop by the Play Store and grab the updated version. Minecraft version 0.4.0 brings many of the great features that we’ve been missing, including Chests, beds, creepers, TNT, and much more!

The official 0.4.0 changelog:

New features:
Chests to store items
Beds to skip night and setting your spawn point
Creepers!
TNT, and flint and steel to ignite
Food items added: apples, bread, mushroom soup, beef, chicken and pork
Added recipes: wool from string, green wool and stone bricks
Added a Peaceful Mode option for survival mode without monsters
Added wheat, seeds and hoe
Added moss stone, redstone ore and white wool to creative inventory
Added trap door
Red dye can be obtained by cooking red mushroom
Added several more dyes (combined from primary dyes)
Zombies now drop feathers

Tweaks:
Made the day longer
Limited the total number of a given monster type
When using an item, the player’s movement speed is decreased

Bug fixes:
Monsters could spawn indoors
Added fall damage for clients
Players could knock each other far away
Incorrect bow rendering in 3rd person view
Missing particles after critical arrows
Stairs reverted back to their basic blocks when destroyed
Charging the bow could destroy certain blocks (flowers, torches), or interact with blocks
The game crashed if player was killed while having the bow charged
Connecting players could die in creative mode
Dark leaves sometimes had workbench texture
Wrong crafting table size for Xperia Play
Bow didn’t take damage when used
Non-dark brown tree trunks are now added back to the game (you may need to start a new world as host)
Destroying a door could leave half a door

The team has been doing loads of work making the application work just like the PC version, and they’re getting very close. While the application is growing much closer to it’s desktop counterpart, we’re still missing a few things: one of which is having custom textures, which has to be one of my favorites. While there’s a few workarounds to get that working, it’s nothing like having the real integration for third-party textures. If you’re looking to test out the game, be sure to drop by the Play Store to grab the free version of the app, or purchase the game for $6.99. Game on!

(It would also seem that they fixed some of the bugs related to installation, as I can finally install it on the Note with AOKP!)