MCPE 0.8.0 build 2 Changelog

Here is the changelog for the first build of 0.8.0.

Additions

• Far rendering distance
• New colors and textures
  • Brought most textures from pc (e.g. gravel)
  • New grass color
  • New sky color
  • New water color in the distance
• New blocks
  • Sideways logs
  • Jungle, birch, spruce stairs
  • Jungle slabs
  • Pumpkins
  • Potatoes
  • Carrots
  • Beetroots
  • Beetroot Seeds
  • Cobblestone wall
  • Iron bars
  • Tall grass, fern and dead bush
  • Hay bale
  • Coal block
  • Carpet
  • Rails and powered rails
• New items
  • Pumpkin pie
  • Beetroot soup
  • Flint and steel, top snow and ice in creative
  • Clock
  • MinecartsRedstone dust (can’t be placed)
• New creative inventory with tabs
• Bone meal no longer fully grows crops
• New fire effect
• New bow rendering
• Animated items
• New AI
  • Breeding
  • Tempt animals by holding wheat (potato, carrot or beetroot for pigs)

Changes

• Dynamic PC-like lighting on entities
  • Ambient light tinting
  • Light direction depends on sunlight direction
• New rendering for items in hand
• Transparent hotbar
• When selecting an item in the inventory it replaces the one in the selected slot
• Showing craftable recipes first in the crafting screen
• Remade text formatting (e.g. in chat)
• Stencil shadows
• Added inertia to item in hand and “breathing” idle animation
• Rotating tiles to hide repeating tile patterns
• Water fades to non-transparent in the distance (iOS)
• 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
• 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
• Made the torch an opaque block
• Mipmaps (iOS only)
• 3D clouds with new tessellation algorithm
• New texture atlas and texture generator script
• Refactored OpenGL usage to avoid costly state leaks (e.g. animals aren’t alpha tested anymore)

Fixes

11 bugs fixed

• MCPE-28 - Xperia Play Creative Scrolling, PTAB7200 Or Other Tablets Gamepad Small
• MCPE-61 - Water flows downward next to farmland (visual glitch)
• MCPE-347 - Weird textures: Moiré pattern on bricks
• MCPE-992 - Mobs can't move through deep water
• MCPE-1524 - Graphical glitch when looking down above clouds.
• MCPE-2804 - Fire does not ignite tnt
• MCPE-2937 - Chat crash
• MCPE-4140 - breeding
• MCPE-4736 - Spiders Have no abdomen
• MCPE-4887 - Skeletons missing lower part of body.
• MCPE-5411 - Falling in creative at world load