For a guide about all content in this release and the other releases of 0.3, see Bedrock Edition guides/0.3 releases.
v0.3.0 alpha was a major update to Minecraft: Pocket Edition that was released on April 24, 2012.[1][2] It added notable features, such as crafting, new mobs, blocks, items, and tools as well as other changes and fixes.[3]
v0.3.0 alpha was reuploaded on April 24, 2012 to fix a crash upon launch, and reuploaded again later that day to add more inventory space and a smaller GUI. It also fixed an icon bug.
Additions
Blocks
- Allows the player to craft a larger variety of blocks and items.
- Can be crafted with wooden planks.
- The half-height version of bricks.
- Has a crafting recipe, but is not yet obtainable in Survival mode due to infinite stacks only counting as one of a material.
- The brick variant of stairs.
- Has a crafting recipe, but is not yet obtainable in Survival mode due to infinite stacks only counting as one of a material.
Items
- Used to craft yellow wool.
- Can be crafted with dandelions.
- Obtained by mining lapis lazuli ore with a stone pickaxe.
- Can be used to craft blue wool.
- Unobtainable
- Bone meal
- Cactus green
- Charcoal
- Can be used to craft torches.
- Cocoa beans
- Cyan dye
- Gray dye
- Ink sac
- Light blue dye
- Light gray dye
- Lime dye
- Magenta dye
- Orange dye
- Pink dye
- Purple dye
- Rose red
Mobs
- A common passive mob.
- Does not drop anything when it dies.
- A common passive mob.
- Does not drop anything when it dies.
Gameplay
- New sound effects
- New inventory
- How the player makes blocks and items.
- Crafting menu can be accessed by either tapping the "Craft" button on the upper-left of the inventory, or by tapping on a crafting table.
- Version exclusive: uses the Minecraft Advanced Touch Technology Interface System (MATTIS) crafting system.
- Most tools, excluding shears, now have a limited number of uses based on their tier.
- Wooden tools have 11 uses, and stone tools have 132 uses.
- For most tools, breaking any block counts as 1 use.
- For swords, this counts as 2 uses.
- Hitting a mob currently counts as 0 uses.
Changes
Blocks
- Now drops coal when mined with any pickaxe.
- Now drops itself when mined with a stone pickaxe.
- Now drops 4–9 lapis lazuli when mined with a stone pickaxe.
- Can now be crafted with snowballs.
- Now drop snowballs when broken.
- Now drop snowballs when destroyed with a shovel.
- Now drops its item form when broken.
Items
- Are now used to craft bookshelves.
- Can now be crafted with paper.
- Can now be crafted with wooden planks.
- Is now used to craft books.
- Can now be crafted with sugar cane.
- Can now be used to craft snow blocks.
- Are now used to craft wooden and stone tools, ladders, torches, fences, and fence gates.
- Can now be crafted with wooden planks.
- Can now be crafted with sugar cane.
- Can now be crafted with wooden planks and sticks.
Non-mob entities
- Are now obtainable via an inventory editor.
Gameplay
- All items now need to be gathered, except shears, bricks, and glass.
- The player no longer starts out with the following items in infinite stacks:
- Stone shovel
- Stone pickaxe
- Stone axe
- Stone sword
- Ladder
- Torch
- Wooden door
- Fence
- Fence gate
- Wooden planks
- Wooden stairs
- Cobblestone stairs
- Stone slab
- 13 of the 16 colored wool blocks (excluding white, magenta, and orange)
- Leaves
- Bookshelves
Internal version
The internal version is 0.3.0(3007), and has a size of 6.06 MB.
J-version
v0.3.0j alpha was released on Google Play on an unknown release date. The internal version is 0.3.0(3003), and has a size of 1.84 MB.
