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Pocket Edition received a new update today! If you haven't updated already, please do so. New goodies await!

New features

• Unlimited worlds!
• New culling algorithm
• New culling of clouds
• Tile entities are saved differently
• New falling mechanics for gravel and sand
• New insta ticking of water and lava

New blocks

• Podzol
• Mycelium
• Huge mushroom blocks
• Cocoa
• End portal frame
• Double plants
• More stairs/slabs for new wood types
• New log types (savanna tree and dark oak)
• New leafs (savanna tree)
• Monster egg
• Stained clay
• Waterlily
• New flowers
• Red sand
• Hardened clay
• End stone
• Granite
• Diorite
• Andesite
• Emerald block
• Emerald ore
• New leveldb based saving format
• New entity handling
• New crafting screen
• Remade network code (mostly the same packages but new system).
• New interact button (to make the game easier for new players)

New mobs

• Slimes
• Endermen
• Wolves
• Mooshrooms
• Silverfish

New and updated biomes

• Deserts
• Extreme hills
• Forests
• Redwood taiga
• Roofed forests
• Frozen
• Jungle
• Savanna
• Mesa
• Mushroom island
• Taiga
• Deep ocean
• Swamps

New world feature generation

• Sand
• Boulders
• Ice patch
• Ice spike
• Spike
• Lake
• Double plants
• Ground bushes
• Fancy oaks
• Jungle tree
• Mega jungle tree
• Mega pine tree
• Savanna tree
• Swamp tree
• Huge mushroom
• Tallgrass
• Waterlily
• Vines
• Melons
• Pumpkin
• Dead bush
• Monster rooms
• Desert well
• Fallen logs
• Emerald ore

Tweaks to caves

• Lava at the bottom of caves
• Caves in desert and mesa
• Strongholds
• Villages
• Villagers
• Abandoned mine shafts
• Flat world generation
• Limited world generation
• “New” mob spawning
• Updated light generation
• Grass color for different biomes
• Foliage color for different biomes
• Water color for swamps

New AI

• Spiders
• New leaf rendering
• Added more spawn eggs in Creative Mode
• Added immersive mode for Android
• Added drip particles for water and lava
• Updated create world screen

Tweaks and bug fixes

• Correct name for stairs, slabs and spawn eggs
• Beds no longer gives full health in normal difficulty
• Smooth lighting added for:
• Beds
• Fences
• Walls
• Cobwebs
• Chests
• Leaves
• Smooth lighting removed for:
• Glowstone
• Glass
• Jack ‘o’ lanterns
• Improved performance of TNT
• Prettier clouds
• The fog is darker underground

Known Bugs

• The block highlight flickers (z-fights) when more than 10k blocks distant from spawn
• Changing the view distance while in a world might crash the game
• If players walk too far from each other in multiplayer, they can’t see each other

Known bugs requiring attention

• Multiplayer is a bit fragile. Please test it and report all issues to us!
• The LevelDB save format + upgrading of old maps. Please report any data corruption!
• Crashes in general – uncommon and random crashes might still happen