Version 0.13.0 of the Minecraft: Pocket Edition and Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition Beta has just been released by Mojang.
The big part of the update adds in Redstone and a whole range of Redstone dependent features. Used as a form of power cabling, Redstone is used to create links between items such as buttons and levels to open and close doors. Players will now be able to craft “Redstone Wires, Redstone Torches, Lamps, Levers, Buttons, Pressure plates, Tripwires, Trapped Chests and Detector Rails.”
These features were all in the regular PC version of Minecraft but until now Pocket Edition and Windows 10 Edition players were unable to use them. Redstone isn’t the only new feature to make the 0.13.0 update! Here is the full changelog, as released by Mojang:
• Cute, fluffy, crop-eating, bunnies
• Desert temples
• New types of wooden doors
• Removed Features
• Stonecutter (RIP)
• Herobrine (RIP)
• Tweaks
• Redstone can be used to control doors, trapdoors, TNT and rails
• Faster boats with improved handling
• Increased item tooltip visibility time in Windows 10 Edition Beta
• Stack count labels now use a bigger and more readable font
• Slimes and Ghasts now actually spawn!
• Hunger restored by food items now match the PC version
• Flowers created by using Bone Meal on Grass now depend on the biome
• Skeletons now run away from Wolves
• Obsidian now breaks in 6.5 seconds rather than 3
• Minecarts now stack on top of each other
• Boats now stack
• Beetroot soup now stacks
• Fixed Curved Rail and Redstone behaviour
• Improved Slime spawning
• Block lag should be significantly reduced. Everything should feel more responsive now
• Updated door textures all over the place
• Even more Ghast and Slime spawning
• Bug fixes
• Mobs no longer suffocate in carpets (because that was kinda cruel)
• Held items now look better in first-person mode
