Windows 10 Edition Beta v0.12.0

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v0.12.0^[1] is the first version of the Windows 10 Edition Beta released on July 29, 2015.^[2] The Pocket Edition equivalent was being developed at the same time and would not be released until v0.12.1 due to obstacles in development.^[3]

This section lists additions since v0.11.0, despite the fact that it was never released for Windows 10 Edition.

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Anvils

• Used for repairing and combining enchanted items as well as for renaming any item/block at the cost of experience levels
• Tools can also be repaired using one piece of their material
• Enchantments that are the same are upgraded by one level as long as they are both the same level and the higher level exists
• Conflicting enchantments will be removed and only the first one will be kept
• Becomes damaged from using and dropping it - Damage persists in inventory and splits up into 3 categories: Anvil, Slightly Damaged Anvil & Very Damaged Anvil
• Can be placed in 4 orientations, but can't be moved by pistons
• Experience level cost depends on enchantment levels & rarities, whether the item will be renamed and whether the item has been used with an anvil before - Maximum experience level cost is 39 levels, unless in Creative mode
  • For a more detailed explanation of how enchantments are combined using the anvil, see the Anvil mechanics page
• Is affected by gravity and does 1 heart of damage to mobs and players it falls on per block it fell, excluding the first one - Players killed by a falling anvil cause the death message "Player was squashed by a falling anvil" to appear in the chat
• Version exclusive: Furnaces and Brewing stands do not show custom name in their GUIs.

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Brewing stands

• Used to brew potions.
• Version exclusive: Custom name does not appear in GUI.

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Mob heads

• Wither skeleton skull has a chance of dropping when a wither skeleton is killed by a player
• Also exist for creepers, zombies, skeletons, and players
• Can be put on the ground in 16 orientations and hung on walls
• Can be worn
• Using external editors or mods player skulls can be assigned to specific players - They then have a tooltip "Player's Head"
  • Add the NBT tag "SkullOwner" -> (player name) on the skull items.
• Version exclusive: Inventory icons are not 3-D.
• Cannot be worn.

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Flower Pots

• Lets players plant all kinds of saplings, mushrooms, flowers, cacti, dead shrubs and ferns ^[4]
• Using pick block on it gives the potted plant
• Right-click it with something to plant it, hit it to get both backs

Soul sands

• Generates in nether

Nether brick fences and Nether brick slabs

• Decoratives

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Nether quartz ore

• Drops 1 nether quartz item when mined.
• Can be smelted in a furnace to obtain nether quartz.
• Can be legitimately obtained with Silk Touch enchantment.
• Drop more when mined with Fortune enchantment.

Glass bottles

• Used for making potions

Potions and Splash potions

• Can be obtained by brewing

Golden carrots

• Golden carrots can be crafted with a carrot surrounded by 8 gold nuggets
• Restore 6 (👁 🍗
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Nether warts

• Can be used for brewing.

Glistering melons

• Used for making potions

Golden apples

• Gives some effects ​^{[more information needed]}

Enchanted golden apples

• When eat, gives the effect following:
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    Regeneration IV (0:30)
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    Resistance (5:00)
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    Fire Resistance (5:00)
• Glows like enchanted tools.

Rabbit's feet

• Brewed to make a Potion of Leaping.
• Creative only

Blaze rods

• Drops from blazes.
• Ingredient to brewing potions.

Blaze powders

• Can be used to craft eyes of ender and magma cream.
• Ingredient for brewing potions.
• Crafted from blaze rods.

Ghast tears

• Drops from ghasts.
• Ingredient for brewing potions.

Spider eyes

• Drop from spiders.
• Ingredient for brewing negative potions.

Fermented spider eyes

• Ingredient for brewing potions.
• Makes negative versions of potions.

Poisonous potatoes

• Rarely drop potato plant
• Restores 2 (👁 🍗
  ) hunger and have a chance to poison the player

• Spawn eggs:
  • Ghast
  • Blaze
  • Ocelot
• Glowstone dust
• Gunpowder
• Redstone dust (brewing only)
• Slimeball
• Sugar
• Magma cream
• Apple
• Coal
• Charcoal
• Iron ingot
• Gold ingot
• Emerald
• Diamond
• Raw porkchop
• Cooked porkchop
• Steak
• Raw chicken
• Cooked chicken
• Baked potato
• Bread
• String
• Stick
• Beetroot
• Beetroot soup
• Mushroom soup
• Boats:
  • Spruce, birch, jungle, acacia, and dark oak variants
• Leather armor
• Chain armor
• Iron armor
• Gold armor
• Diamond armor

The Nether

• Infinite in size, like in Java Edition.
• Nether portals can also be up to 23×23 in size
• All items previously obtained through the Nether reactor are now available through their normal means.

Nether fortress

• Generates in the Nether.
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  Blazes and wither skeleton spawn here.

Iron golems

• Occasionally spawns in villages.
• Attack zombies and other hostile mobs.
• Can be spawned by placing 4 iron blocks and pumpkins in a specific pattern.

Snow golems

• Can be crafted by placing two snow blocks vertically and a pumpkin on top.
• Melts in hot biomes.
• Spreads snow around when it walks.
• Passive to the player, but throws snowballs at enemies.

Ocelots

• Can be tamed using raw fish.
  • Tamed ocelots will scare off creepers and teleport to the player similarly to tamed wolves.

Zombie villagers

• Villagers retain their profession and clothes, which appear tattered, and have a green wart on their noses.
• Added baby zombie villagers to

Blazes

• Hostile Nether mob.
• Flies and throws fireballs at players.
• Immune to fire damage.
• Weak to water and snowballs.

Wither skeletons

• Carry and rarely drop Stone swords when killed by players.
• Drop bones, coal, and rarely wither skulls.
• Give players Wither effect when hitting them.
• Spawn in nether fortresses.
• Will rarely, depending on difficulty, spawn with the ability to pick up armor, headwear, items, blocks, weapons, and tools - Armor and tools & swords are equipped automatically and will be exchanged for better gear when possible - Items that are picked up will have a 100% chance of dropping after dying - When killed, they drop what they are holding.
• All equipped gear is functional - Swords and tools do more damage on attacks, armor protects the mob.
• Rare tool drops are now damaged
• More advanced gear is more likely to spawn with mobs when playing on harder difficulties and rarely drops when the mob is killed by players

Charged creepers

• Spawned when a lightning bolt strikes a creeper during a thunderstorm.

Options

• Controller and keyboard support
• Version exclusive: Option to reverse the Sneak and Jump button's location.
• The jump button has been moved to the right side of the screen.
  • Added a sneaking button in place of where the current jump button is.
    • These are the new default controls.
• Option to disable the auto-jump feature

Hunger

• New food system.
  • Most food items can now be stacked up to 64.
  • There is now a food meter.
  • Food no longer heals directly, but indirectly: if the food meter is above 90%, heals 👁 💔
    every 4 seconds.
  • Food level decreases when sprinting, jumping and when being hurt.
  • If the food meter is at 0%, the player starves and loses 👁 💔
    hearts every 4 seconds.

Weather

• Rain
• Snowfall
• Thunderstorm

Sprinting

• New way to travel, activated by double-tapping forward.
• Gives the player a boost in speed.
• The player can now jump four blocks horizontally while sprinting.

Sneaking

• Used for careful-necessary travels

Brewing

• Used for making potions
• Brewing Stand necessary

Difficulty

• Peaceful
• Easy
• Normal
• Hard

Item repair

• Anvil necessary

Other

• Animation for switching blocks and items

This section lists changes from v0.11.0, despite the fact that it was never released for Windows 10 Edition.

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Lava

• The player can now swim in them

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Nether Reactor

• Functionality removed, uncraftable, and removed from the crafting menu. If the player breaks a Nether reactor core, it still drops 3 diamonds and 6 iron ingots.

Snow layer

• Version exclusive: Builds up multiple layers naturally through snowfall
• Version exclusive: Are now affected by gravity

Leaves

• Version exclusive: Leaves in snowy taigas now appear frost-covered

Book

• Now use the updated crafting recipe, including leather

Food

• Now restore hunger instead of health

Slime

• Now have particles when jumping
• Will now attack

Magma cube

• Magma cubes and ghasts now spawn naturally
• Magma cubes now split when killed

Zombie pigmen

• Zombie pigmen are now neutral
• Now spawn in the Nether

Villagers

• Have a new AI

All Mobs

• Burning mobs have a sizzling particle effect once extinguished
• Hostile mobs will no longer attack while you're in creative mode
• Mobs will now drop experience when killed

Boat

• New inventory icons
  • Now include paddles
  • Different boat types' items now are their respective color

Title screen

• Buttons now have a rocky texture
• Rotating player model with current skin with the player name above is now displayed
• Options button is now beneath the 'play' button to the left
  • Button now reads 'options' rather than a wrench icon
• Skin selection tab relocated from options to a button on the title screen to the right of the options button
• Language button now uses the same icon as Java Edition
• Buttons are smaller and make up the current size of the 'play' button

Graphics

• • Tinted water - gradient from aqua to dark blue when viewed from a distance

Scrollbar

• Always visible
• New texture

• Updated game logo
• Relocated pause and chat button

• Java Edition style survival inventory and crafting UIs
• Keyboard support
• Nine slots in hotbar, rather than 5–7

• 6th view distance option

5 bugs fixed

• Touchpad implementation fixed on the Sony Xperia Play^{[is this the correct version?]}
• MCPE-3671 – You can't get out of lava^[5]
• MCPE-8750 – Unable to enter new text upon removing formatting^[6]
• MCPE-8956 – Baby zombie ride the cow
• MCPE-9561 – Ocelots cannot be tamed when using keyboard and mouse

These images were uploaded to the Microsoft Store on the update release.

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