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Minecraft Pocket Edition for iOS updated w/ skins, fishing, and much more

Mojang today announced a huge update to its popular Minecraft Pocket Edition app for iPhone and iPad. The big focus of the update is access to new free and paid skins for characters (as pictured above):

Skins are the way you change the appearance of your Minecraft character. Instead of looking like Alex or Steve, you can roll with a different vibe, like a butcher, dog, or plumber. Skins are purely cosmetic – they don’t affect the way the game plays or give you any special abilities.

Paid skins are available to purchase in bundles, but users can also upload or create their own as well as find free skins within the game. You’ll get around 20 skins for $0.99/€0.79/£0.79 if you opt for the paid bundles. 

The update also includes other improvements and new features including the ability to fish and a long list of new animals. The full list of what’s new is below:

  • Multiple language support
  • Boats with space for two! Take your pet for a pleasant ride.
  • The ability to throw stuff from boats, including snowballs and eggs
  • Fishing! Now you can fish for fishies!
  • Squids!
  • Spider jockeys!
  • Cave Spiders!
  • Bats!
  • Adorable baby zombies!
  • Weird chicken jockeys!
  • Edible clownfish. Yum!
  • A fancy new World Edit screen so you can rename worlds, change game modes and do other things
  • Creative players can no longer be set on fire. Controversial
  • We’ve stopped cheeky chickens from walking on water
  • Animals can no longer breed without touching each other ooh err
  • Drinking milk now removes mob effects
  • Ridiculous amounts of bug fixes
  • More cool things that you should discover for yourself

You can grab the updated Minecraft Pocket Edition on the App Store soon (it’s submitted to Apple and should arrive any day now).

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Comments

  1. .. (@916253) - 9 years ago

    This article incorrectly states that the update is available today. Pit was submitted today, but not made available.

  2. feonix2014 - 9 years ago

    It is not available on the App Store ?

  3. Barry Spirt - 9 years ago

    Really got that a long time ago on android

    • feonix2014 - 9 years ago

      It’s not out I android either yet. The beta testing is on beta 13 at the moment. Should be ready soon.

  4. plehreh506 - 9 years ago

    Good at omaha minecraft pe is just 10.4 there are not enough stuff for us to play but good now I ready for the update thank you I been waiting too long for 2 year

  5. Isabella Araojo - 9 years ago

    Is it out now?

  6. Justin Hajj - 9 years ago

    When will the update arrive

  7. Justin Hajj - 9 years ago

    jordan you are such a lier u lied to us u are jocking

  8. Justin Hajj - 9 years ago

    if it is comming up than prove it

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