What awaits us in the «Friendly Update» of Minecraft Pocket Edition
I remember the first game I played Minecraft Pocket Edition in the first version of the Android version that it brought with it part of what is the essence of the game created by the mind of Notch. In that first version, the world was more of a small block and we didn’t even have 10% of the objects that we can get today. Being used to exploring dungeons for hours in local games in which they were randomly generated, then collecting those metals and thus finally returning to the castle built between several friends, was a feeling that I knew there would be time to be able to experience it in the pocket version of this great video game.
Today we can already get that gaming experience because Minecraft has been receiving important updates like the one we are waiting for in 0.15, or called as “Friendly Update”. This version is raising a lot of expectations and although it is not ready for deployment yet, Mojang has published today a post where he writes about the things that we can see in this beta version that will soon knock on the door of the Google Play Store so that we open it and go on to download the update to Minecraft Pocket Edition.
What’s new in 0.15
Mojang has taken the time to clarify some of the news, but has left a mysterious good that quotes the name of the update: “Friendly Update”. It has nothing to do with the option of being able to play in Multiplayer games with your Xbox Live friends, since this one names it as it is, so we will let Mojang surprise us; It would not be the first time.
Apart from those online games with Xbox Live friends, we can count on the ropes to catch pets, horses and the option to color the armor for the horses. Another great novelty is the ability to ride little pigs and Xbox achievements present in both the Android and iOS versions. We received new zombies for the desert and skeletons for the tundra biome, so we found a very complete update that touches almost all branches of Minecraft.
All its news
- Mysterious and unspecified kindness (who knows what it is)
- Fixed pistons and pistons
- Observer blocks: new blocks that can detect changes in neighboring blocks
- Xbox Live achievements on both iOS and Android
- Online multiplayer with Xbox Live friends
- Ropes, horses and customizable horse armor in color
- Fiery Charge (new Nether item that is usually fired by the Ghast)
- Piggy mount
- A new interface for the main menu which is on par with Windows 10 Edition
- Arrows can be charged when using potions and cauldron
- Husk Zombies in the Desert
- Stray Skeletons in the tundra (like Husk his clothes are in keeping with the biome)
- Different peoples in the taiga and savanna biome
- Skeleton horse traps
Apart from all these news, a very interesting part of them, Mojang has also dedicated his time to let us know the adjustments to be made to the mechanics of game. Something quite important that usually causes better performance and the change in some of the ways in which we can interact with the environment that surrounds us in Minecraft. The respective bug fixes have also been included, of which I will comment on some of them.
Game adjustments
- Online ******** use less bandwidth now
- Note blocks have more volume
- Walking away from spawn creates fewer problems
- Added more mob eggs in the creative menu
Bug fixes
- Fixed quite a lot of inopportune closings
- Fixed a couple of bugs that caused the world to become corrupted or lost
- Fixed a good number of redstone-related bugs thanks to community suggestions
- Multiplayer out-of-sync fixes
- Nether wart has a distinct visual appearance when planted
- Less flickering when a block is selected
- The glass no longer turns green
- Fixed the generation of chests in dungeons and desert times.
We will remain attentive to the arrival of this major update that brings with it a great set of details.
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