List of Ores Available

Pocket Edition doesn't have that many ore types. Here is a list of ores and what they can be used for.

Coal

Used for: Torches
Colour: Black
Rarity: Common

Coal is used to craft torches and is the most commonly found ore on the game. It is also good for burning things in furnaces as it lasts for a while before being completely burned.

Iron

Used For: Tools, Weapons, Iron Blocks, Shears
Colour: Cream
Rarity: Uncommon

Iron is used to craft hoes, pick axes, axes, shovels, shears and swords. It must be smelted in a furnace before crafting with it.


Gold

Used For: Tools, Weapons, Gold Blocks
Colour: Gold
Rarity: Rare

Gold is used to craft hoes, pick axes, axes, shovels and swords. It must be smelted in a furnace before crafting with it.


Diamond

Used For: Tools, Weapons, Diamond Blocks
Colour: Light Blue
Rarity: Scarce

Diamond is used to craft hoes, pick axes, axes, shovels and swords. It must be smelted in a furnace before crafting with it. Diamond is one of the rarest ores on Minecraft.


Redstone

Used For: Nothing at the moment.
Colour: Red
Rarity: Rare

Redstone currently has no uses on Minecraft Pocket Edition and can't be mined.


Lapis Lazuli

Used For: Creating dyes, Lapis Lazuli blocks
Colour: Blue
Rarity: Scarce

Lapis Lazuli is used to colour wool. It can be mixed with bone meal or other dyes to create secondary dyes.

Things that can Hurt your Minecraft Dude

I'm just going to list all the things that can take health from your dude. Some are things you will already know and some, you may not know or never experienced.

• Skeletons fire arrows at you
• Spiders jump at you (only at night or when provoked)
• Zombies just kinda hit you
• Burning in lava
• Drowning underwater
• Falling from heights
• Getting hit by another dude in multiplayer
• Touching cacti

Don't do/go near any of these and you should be safe. For now.

The Cactus Trap

Step 1: Dig a fairly deep hole (can be any width you want, depending on how many cacti you have) which goes down.

Step 2: Make sure one side of the hole has a in one block higher than the rest (meaning the edge - at the top - of the hole). This is so the victim won't see the hole. If this hole is for mobs, ignore this step.

Step 3: fill the bottom of the hole with cacti.

Step 4: Now just wait until the victim falls to his/her death!

This cactus trap is a simple and easy/quick to make version. Check out Youtube or whatever to find better cactus traps.

New Update coming out in September

Mojang have officially submitted the new update (0.4.0) and it will be out very soon! It's official! Gossip on the iOS Pocket Edition reviews page suggests it'll come out either September or Saturday 25th August 2012.
Here is a list of new features, bug-fixes and more in the update:

New Features

• Chests to store resources.
• Beds to skip the night and set your own spawn point.
• Creepers
• TNT, flint and steel to ignite.
• Peaceful Mode: Basically survival mode WITHOUT monsters and mobs.
• Wheat
• Seeds
• Hoe
• Moss stone (also added to creative mode)
• Redstone (also added to creative mode)
• Foods: Apples, bread, mushroom soup, beef, chicken and pork
• Recipes: Wool can be crafted with string, green wool, stone bricks
• Trap doors
• Red dye can be crafted with red mushrooms
• New dyes (crafted from primary dyes)
• Zombies drop feathers when killed.
• Farming
• White wool now on creative mode

Tweaks

• Days are longer
• Limited the total number of a given monster type
• When using an item, the player's movement speed is decreased

Bug-Fixes

• Mobs could spawn indoors
• Added fall damage for clients
• Players could make other players go far away
• Incorrect bow rendering in third person view (?)
• Missing particles after critical arrows (?)
• Stairs turned back to wooden planks after being mined
• Charging the bow could mine certain blocks (flowers, torches).
• Charging the bow could interact with (but not mine) blocks.
• The game crashed if a player was kill whilst charging a bow.
• Connecting players could still die in creative mode (lava).
• Dark leaves sometimes had a workbench texture (?).
• Incorrect crafting table size for Xperia play.
• Bow didn't take damage when used.
• Non-dark brown tree trunks are now added back to the game (you may need to create a new world).
• Mined doors could leave half of the door.
• Missing spider death sound on iOS

What could be next?

Since this update brings out a lot of things that Xbox and PC Minecraft have, there is not much left to release. Or is there? Some Minecraft PE players don't know much about what you can get on PC and Xbox Minecraft so they don't know what to expect. Here is a list of new things that could be added in a further update:

• Tracks and minecarts (often used for rollercoasters).
• Mobs: mooshroom, ocelot (cat), squid, villager, enderman, wolf (dog), zombiepigman, blaze, cave spider, ghast, magma cube, silverfish, slime, spider jockey, snow golem, iron golem and ender dragon
• New furniture
• Minecarts and Tracks

Images of things that are to be added to the game

*Images will be added soon.*

Wiki posts - Mobs

Here is a list of mobs on Pocket Edition, what they do and things they drop when they die.

Zombies

How they Kill Humans

Zombies will simply take away your lives if you are in their 'hit range'.

Things they Drop

At the moment, zombies don't drop anything.

How they Die

Either they burn in the sunlight or you can kill them yourself.


Spiders

How they Kill Humans

They jump into you.

Things they Drop

• String (required for crafting a bow)

How they Die

They can only die if you kill them yourself.


Skeletons

How they Kill Humans

They have a bow and shoot arrows at you if they see you.

Things they Drop

• Bones (required to craft bone meal to 'fertilize' tree saplings and grow flowers on grass)
• Arrows (used as ammo for the bow)

How they Die

They burn in the sunlight or you can kill them yourself.

More information on the 'Mobs' wiki post will be added soon.

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