Pocket Edition v0.3.3 alpha

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v0.3.3 alpha is a minor update to Minecraft: Pocket Edition that was released on August 9, 2012.^[1] It added notable features such as new mobs (spiders, creeper and skeletons), new items, as well as other changes and fixes.

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Bow

• A ranged weapon that fires arrows.
• Can be crafted with sticks and strings.

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Flint

• Occasionally drops from gravel.
• Can be used to craft arrows.

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Skeletons

• Undead hostile mobs equipped with a bow.
• Drop 0–2 bones and 0–2 arrows when they die.

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Spiders

• Neutral mobs that have the ability to climb walls.
• Drop 0–2 string when they die.
• The eyes of spiders don't glow.

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Creeper

• Currently does not spawn naturally.
• Hostile mobs that silently approach the player and explode.
• Drop 0–2 gunpowder when they die.

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Lava

• No longer creates fire.

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Arrows

• Now serves as ammunition for bows.
• Can now be crafted with flint, a stick, and a feather.

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Bones

• Can now be crafted into bone meal.

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Bone meal

• Can now be used to grow flowers and roses on grass blocks.
• Can now be used on saplings to make them instantly grow into their respective tree type.

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String

• Can now be used to craft bows.

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Feathers

• Can now be used to craft arrows.

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Wooden tools

• Durability has been increased from 11 uses to 60 uses.

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Chickens

• Now drop 0–2 feathers when they die.

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Dropped items

• Decay time extended to 5 minutes.

Light

• Increased overall brightness.

Fall damage

• A bone breaking​^{[more information needed]} sound is played after falling from large enough heights.

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Hotbar

• The minimum number of inventory slots has been increased to 6 for all devices.

Durability

• Hitting mobs now counts as 1 use for swords and 2 uses for axes, pickaxes, and shovels.

Creative inventory

• Additions:
  • Bow
  • Clay
  • Snow block
  • Oak sapling
  • Spruce sapling
  • Birch sapling

19 bugs fixed

• Fire's spreading mechanics have been disabled as a temporary fix for a bug where fire would spread throughout an entire world after a single flammable block had been set aflame by lava.
• The furnace, block of iron, lapis lazuli block, block of gold, and block of diamond crafting recipes have been corrected.
• Fixed furnace crash bug.
• Sapling/leaves fixes.
• Crafting doors now requires a crafting table.
• Torches can now be placed on fences.
• Dandelion yellow dye no longer appears as an egg in MATTIS or the hotbar.
• A bug where cactus and door placed next to each other would remove the bottom door block (and top one if a 2 level cactus).
• Attempting to mine invisible bedrock no longer produces breaking particles.
• Stairs now block light.
• Some sounds that are missing can now be heard: cow hurt sound, the sound when you break glass/ice.
• A bug where fence gate would not appear in the user’s hand but in the world.
• If the player stands on a slab and creates another one, the player falls through both slabs.
• Swords (and other tools) now take damage from attacking mobs.
• Golden tools are no longer more resistant than wooden tools.
• The rear end texture is upside down on some animals.
• The D-pad on iPad no longer/rarely intersects with the item slots.
• A block's placement rules are no longer ignored if the block is placed on/in water, lava, fire, or snow layers.
• Blocks placed on snow are no longer duplicated in multiplayer.

v0.3.3j alpha was released on Google Play on an unknown release date. The internal version is 0.3.3(3030), and has a size of 2.06 MB.